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rd mn | heattical AC\A Rov THURSDAY, » DECEMBER 22, 1921 | 1 Plays By BIDE UBER bas decided ror Jones,” into South Carolina and other States and with him will 4 five or six other negroes who 5) “been appearing in that O'Neill ma. The curtain raiser, “Sup- ’ Desires,” offered by white | Players, will go with “The Emperor | Jones.” It is-not Mr. Klauber’s idea fe offer this prod=stion for negroes gxelusively. Gilpin and his company - Wi play the regular theatres which ‘fhe whites attend. They did very well in St. Louis, which is more or Jess Southern, and this fact, it is aid, made Mr. Klauber decide to Send them South. While the move is _ Gidoubtedly an experiment, it has an ' exeelient chance to prove a winning venture since “The Emperor Jones’ Fated as a first-class Broadway ton. DINAH KEPT COUNT. Dinab; the colored maid of Grace Wastman, the dancer, heard ber mis- fpess taiking of the misfortunes of a Hariem:family recently. © Pwo died a.year ago,” said Miss . “Tuberculosis! Six months Biarrinsins: died.” comment. NUTT’S DOPE. ‘Jefferson Shrewsbury Nutt, specia! gerrespondent of this éolumn, writes ns from Bogash, O., as follows: _“Dear Dud—I and the wite were laughing last night about a joke she ffivented, and we decided to send it to you to brighten up the column. Ghe said it was best for the family to ive Dad socks for Christmas so he ean foot the bills, Get it? If you at it give her credit, but send me ‘eheok. If she makes a rar just {elt her to see me. She's a cute kid but, too shifty witn the Nutt funds here last night burned down “epnréeberculosis, ch?” was Dinah’s| and Players DUDLEY { RHYMED PROPOSALS Phil Pendleton, look a-here! If you really want a red-headed wife, here's your chance. Miss Red-Head of the Bronx stands ready to take the name of Pendleton. We're going to stop printing rhymed proposals very soon now, #0 you'd better stake out a claim while you can. Read what your Sweetie writes, Phil: Think me as bold, Phil, as you may. T've read your plea and want to say The girl you scek you'll find in me, For I'm as red as red can be. Yow! never tire of me, you state, Then it's a bargain; I'm your mate. T think I might as well tell you I'm five feet cight and my eyes aren't blue. So if you mean just what you said "Bout wanting a girl whose hair is red, Send your phone to Dud right away, 'l call you up the next rainy day. THE BIG many! dev Me Some MORE PAPER AND RiaBon # the home of a bootlegger, and the re- ie going around that the firemen it burn while they visited the “Much excitement but can HE LOVES TO TALK. Poiis Robie, the veteran theatrical ‘has been very ill lately. So arogfenrs for three days he umable to talk. er, he recovered his voice. * Doctor,” he said immediately on @iacov his vocal chords would | work again, “get me a recording pho- bern yh” = hy? west bart J, Lewengood, friend an yaician. win ‘want to talk it full of speeches,” Mr. Robie, “so if my voice fe" ‘on me again I can, at least, hear how it sounds.” “@*'Not on your life,” said the dostor. | had a vacation for the past “ME KNEW, ALL RIGHT. “Frank Tinney, who made a flying t#ip-from Buffalo Sunday to seo his family av Foxhurst, Baldwin, L. 1, t.along a flaring~ firefighter’s for his small son. On the the helmet were the letters kid,” yelled a neighbor boy, ‘do them letters on yer helmet Daddy!” replied young Tia- gi like that. Ke AD THE RIGHT IDEA. G jeGill, who is with Ed Wynn im “Whe Perfect Fool," will be seven- | Weert geurs ole on Christmas Day, The ligtlesdancer has made up her mind sto celebrate the double event B. She has invited forty Little from a settlement house to po ite at a Christmas tree party. h child will receive a doll dressid ostume like the one Miss McGQuil in “The Perfect Fool. ‘DOUBTLESS IT OCCURRED, back drop in the bull fight in “The Wild Cat" at the Park § thousands of people seated in bout a big arena. We have it Bh the.word of a youth named Con- a that last night two boys in the | . ie greatly excited over tle with the bull and one of gaid right out: rj Tommy, We should ‘a' spen: & dollar more an’ got a ring- eeat.” mUNd you, we didn't hear this. jwe know young Conway, and hi Gust as truthful a press agent as smeared a mimeograph. Gossip. Ohristmas tree in front of the ome has more than 1,000 col- of Emily Filer Boyle of “Lilies Field,” is sending kisses via utc to all her friends. on Sunwhine has been engaged thur Hammerstein for a role in musical plece, “The Blue Kit- members of the “A Bill of Di- cast are to have a Christ- ‘on the Times Square stage. fia Bassi, an Italian actress, is geen in New York soon in a ‘Play called “My Madonna.’ : Harris has jo'ned the com- “termed by the National Pla: fic. and will be seen in “'Trilb: will reach its 300th per- at the Fulton Theatre on y Rext at a specal matinee. wis, now in “Good Morning very ud of the fact that excelled as Topsy. nklin says she can see no for disarmament now, as the discarded hat-pins during the % + has @ new song in “Bom- Pits called: “ I Walk fat Town I Wish I Could Ride.” . yesterday sgned cov. @ starring dip into vaudeville, beginning at the Garden next week. was host to 250 poor the matinee performance j-U" yesterday, They came Pe) AN YESTERDAY You were “TRY (ING eS Fie oun PEP IN Th’ WING War Counts - “at's sum YOU WOMEN AIN'T Gort y- “Th “TELL ME WOMEN COULD GET ALONG WITHOUT AN’ MUSTACHE CUP-SHE GA/E ME LAST ‘oe Some OMER GETS "EM “us YEAR. You .Eave DEAR THEATRES L WONT Go To YouR SHOWS (Tuouch Trt No THEATRE HATER) "TLL You BREAK wi THe GYP SPECLLATOR v, (TH YOUR PARTNER Visitor From the Michigan} Lumber Country Who Makes Ready - to - Wear Houses Reports Heavy De-| mand for His Product in New York—Food Is Plenti- ful and Everybody Work-| ing in Germany, By Roger Batchelder. ‘ New York's housing problem might appear to be purcly a matter of local interest, yet there is at least one Broadway that has never been iubbed. FOOLISHMENT. A sweet little miss, Nancy Glick, Once knocked out her aunt with a brick. Her mother said; “Dear, You're a genius, I fear, To figure out such a cute trick.” charitable institutions. iT FOR DAY. ‘Upper is O. E. Sovereign of Bay City, Mich., who is staying at the McAlpin, Mr. Sovereign makes ready-cut houses, and just now, he says, he is receiving nearly two hundred letters a day from harried apartment dwellers in) New York who have become pros- pective home builders. “Now that new home dwellings are exempt from taxation," he said, “there is every indication of a big home-building boom in this vicinity next sprng. New York, at any rate, has become the most important ter- ritory for our business. Many letters are received from New York families whose homes have always been apartments, Their inquiries are) sometimes humorous, sometimes pa- thetic, but they prove that modern city life cannot eliminate the inheri- ted desire to ‘own your own home.’ “The factory-puilt house repre- sents a great industry in the United Btates to-day. There are about 250,- 000 ‘such homes in use now—not ‘port- able bungalows,’ but substantial year-around houses of more than| five rooms. The various companies FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. ‘Is your oald this winter?” “Oh, 10. painter gave @ two j@oats last fall.’ £ ee Gee tr engaged in their construction have ey 1981 (N. ¥. Bre. Werld) By Prose Pub. Co. TY His Present AALS HoPe 105 “WE SHoKin’ SET X= Do HER Meo | Hu The —oR A DRESSIN'- GOWN LIKE” WALLY REDS "— ON! IM ALL OF A FLITTER: ea ee = WHERE S Boanie THESE <DAYS 2 WHY DOES NT HE COME OVER AND Van WITH Yoo ZMK PROMISED Yim 4 Lor oF “PRESE NTS JF HE'D BE 4- y Can Get Along W ‘i ithou i 144. ey inh tite ati 30 HE Thins He BETTER Nor PLAY WITH ME Titu AFTER. | CHRISTMAS @ One box car suffices for shipping an average house, complete except the stone foundation and materials for heating, lighting and plumbing.” . “THE SILK SPECIAL.” One feature of the “Romance of man in the Middie West, an occasion-! six jy {ts swift transportation. al visitor here for a fow days at Blwniie it does not have that pre- time, who knows the situation 48|oogence over all else of the United well ag if he were the chairman of 4] Giates mail, it runs a close second local committee of investigation, He] \4 trains’ carrying the precious jmoods are run on passenger schedule by the railroads, So relates James K. Steele, editor of “Japan,” who is at the Belmont from San nelsco. “The bulk of silk coming to this country from the Orient enters the port of San Francisco,” he tells us. “The great value of the precious fabric, the fluctuating market in the Last and the high rates of insurance make time an essential factor in its delivery and command train service which Is extended to few articles of merchandise. “When the Talyo Maru arrived at San Francisco recently it brought thousands of bales of silk, approxi- jmating 800 tons and valued at about $8,000,000, A train of special cara wus waiting at the dock, and as soon ue the vessel was made fast the un- loading began. Within a few hours the cargo was speeding to New York on an express train which had the heht of way over all freights."* oe A SMOKING-CAR STORY. “Not long ago, when I was making a trip In the smoker of a Pullman, the subject turned, as it gone to great lengths in helping otive builders, even to main- 5 departments for landscape and “aterlor decoration. | always does, to Prohibition, ‘There were five of us—a manu- facturer, a woollen salesman, an insurance agent, a dye expert * | | | | | | | and myself," relates Walter '. Thomas of Philadelphia at the McAlpin. “Before we had gone 50 miles, we were all agreed that the present dry regime was a failure. ‘I'll venture to say,’ the manufacturer remarked, ‘that over half of tha men on this train have somethitas tn their grips.” We all nodded affirmatively and took a canvass among oursely ‘The insurance agent and the expert cach had a flask; tne woollen salesman admitted the possession of ‘some darn goud Scotch’ in his bag, and the manu- facturer, while asserting that ho aidn't have a drop with him, de- clared that a case of rye, recently ordered, should be at his house when he returned home. That's the way it goes, Sentiment for liberalism has taken q tremen- dous swing during the past year, and it will not be long before the lawmakers will realize that they have been overzealous in thelr efforts to please the dry forces.” eee PARIS SECOND TO NEW YORK NOW. “{ thought I was a good American when I went to Europe, but I've come back with the feeling that I now rate 100 per cent, plus,” said Mrs, Ray- mond Wells of Burbank, Cal., who is at the Astor after an extensive trip through Europe. “You may think that London and Paris are gay, but they cannot com- pare with your New York. When 1 last night, I simply It is a fairyland, and there I notice that the women here stlil cling to| da skirts, French women | 4 long, but I saw nothing| ebout 7,500 miles from Broadway. » saw Broadway gasped. ig nothing abroad like it. nance. casas dntnsnaanencmenannrenn enters. —————————————— ——<—<—<— in style nor in price that tempted me to buy.” oe 6 Mrs, Wells related two incidents which Impressed her greatly, One was @ lecture in London at which some- jone said, “Phe person who travels can do more for the peace of the world | than any one else by speaking of the good things encountered in countries visited, and forgetting those things |which ‘are not 90 pleasant.” “Again,” she declared, we went to the theatre in London, and on our way home were lost in the dense fog. We asked the way to the hotel of a ‘bobby,’ who replied, ‘Do you want to go straight to your hotel, or would you like to sce London first?’ as GERMAN LUXURIES ABUNDANT. “I could discover no shortage of food, particularly tha luxuries, in Germany,” remarked Sigurd L. Ber- rum of Christiania, Norway, who is at the Pennsylvania, One can get any- thing he wants to cat now, and the prices in hotels and restaurants are very reasonable. ‘The people of the upper classes in the cities seem to be very comfortable, and in the small towns they are even better off. Every- one in Germany is working, and work- ing hard.” Mr, Berrum said that Germans were not willing to discuss the war. They are too busy, he asserted, and have turned all their attention ‘to produc- tom." FARTHEST FROM HOME, The “New Yorker For a Day or 4wo”" who is farthest from home to- is E. Fukat, who ts et the Penn- vania. His home town, Tokio,) is EFFICIENCY. OWDY, GAP!" saluted an acquaintance. “I don't aim to mind nobody's business nor nuthin’ that-a-way, but if it's a fair question, what was coming off at yore place yesterday? As I was angling along past 1 heered you yelling ‘Whoa!’ sorter like you meant it, and I seed you yanking yore brother-in- law around by the nose, it ‘peared like, or the whiskers, or something, and cussing him right sharply whie you done s0, Recollecting that it wasn’t none of my business { went en, but I'm tollable shore I observed you haul off and kick the gent a tine or two.” “Aw, he'd drunk up a bottle of my horse liniment,” ropliod Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, Ark,, “and that was the only way to handle him.”— Kansas City Star. B in Boston about charity, | “Some charities," ho said, “re- mind me of the cold, proud, beautiful |woman, who, glittering with dia- monds, swept forth from a charity ball at dawn, crossed the frosty side. walk and entered her huge limousine. wih: beggar woman whined at the 6é a DANCING FOR THE POGR, ISHOP PENNHURST was talking ow: “Could you give me a trifie for a cup of coffee, lady?’ reproachfully. “ "Good gracious!" she said. ‘Here you have the nerve to ask me for money when I've been toddling for you the whole night through! Home, James,’ "Edinburgh Scotsman, “, Py “The woman looked at the beggar| (om t SOME MEN! ASK THEM “To SEND A MAN WITH SOME. , PEP IN His WING, Screenings By DUN ALLEN, DREAM ON, ED. Edward Laommie, young director of “In the Days of Buffalo Bill,” the film that should make us all kids again, is eating history these days, And some of it doesn’t set at all well, “The other night,” mourns Ed, “f awoke with a shriek. I was dripping cold, dank perspiration, I was like Postum—there was a reason. I had dreamed I was Abe Lincoln anj had | just been assassinated.” WHY THE WIVES? ‘ | Harry Reichenbach, burning mid- night incandescents trying t6 think jup exploitation stunts for the New | York opening of Eric von Stroheim’s \“Foolish Wives," just received his \ first request for a pass. It came from \a man in Wilmington, Del., and went ‘ on to say that the writer had married three women and divorced them «ll “Y've had enough of foolish wives in the real fe and now I want ‘to see what they'd be like in reel Ii!v,” he purrs on. | Harry has already O, Kid the quest, but like the writer, cannot {ure why the man should duck ‘10 foolish aspersion and make the wiv: s bear it all. HEART NOT HUNGRY. Mme. Rose Rosenova, fil from the land of the wild ca | recently sent to California by | play the mother role in “Hungry Hear had a famished 7 cardiac pumping station herself un- aetre confessed thet her o heart was just as hungry as any those in the film and, in fact, wos near the starving poin her daughter was ‘way over In China, That's all over by now, for her daughter popped in from the land of the poppy and rushed into the out- stretched arms of the mother as a very animated Christmas present. y little daughter was a banquet | for my hungry, hungry heart” husked the mother, as great globular Russian tears chased one anoth(r down her twitching checks. And they lived happily ever after STATIC. } “Tears of the Sea," Malcolm Strausa feature, released through Associated First National, will soon start publia showings. It stars Isabelle Savory, | Rupert Hughes is preparing to ‘sit away from California and his “ke« membrance” film, flit to New York, |filt around a little while an’ then jek! filt right back. Some fittter, Rupe. | Harry Carey, Universal ‘star with the Japalac name, has been confin to his home for more than a weet with the grip. Now that Harry has lost his grip he will start work again. Bebe “Daniels has just finished “Nancy, From Nowhere” and 1s, nf- ready deep in. the filming of “N You've Done It” id a Betty Compson is at work on hér fourth starring picture for Paramount. It 1s called “The Noose.” Tho Noota is drawing to a close, as far as fillum- j Ing tn concerned. i] nest Lubitsch, director of “Pax. : ston," “Deception” and “One Arabian Night," js duc In New York to-morrow. from ‘abroad. He will look over tho American film situation—heed and give advice and then—go back home Ss just becauso Have You Heard This One? ; € was a handsome chorus man H and had been rehearsed and rehearsed for his part. ' His heavy stuff was to enter ‘at right) wave his arms and point at the King; then the music would start and all would sing. After: four weeks of hard work he mas~| tered it. The show opened in « one-horse town with @ small stage, scenery and