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By BIDE the theatrical clubs on Will- fam Wonnelli, tho actor, Feally should be recorded bere. Billy was on a train coming over from Philadelphia recently and happencd ‘fo take a scat next to 4 fellow who Appeared to ho paying close atten- flon to the scenery along the route. Billy knows every telegraph pole be- tween [Philadelphia "i New York and, being tn an amiable mood, he thought perhaps ho could be of ser- vice to his scat-mate by Mentitying fome of the puints of Interest. te ret asked where the man was from. “Philadelphia,” came the reply *But I came ortsinily from the West." Billy toia him about the towns and ‘@ities they, passed throuxh and men- Boned other things of interest to a traveller, As they were passing through Newark ho asked: Ever travel this route before?’ ~ "Oh, yes," replied the man with 6 Fiwn.* brnkeman on this lino four yeu MISS TAYLOR JAN. £3. Laurette Taylor, in her new play, ©The National Anthem,” will begw en engagement at Henry Miller's The- @tre on Monday ovening, Jan, 23. Bille Burke, in “The [otimate Ptrangers,"’ will conclude her run at @hat house on Jan. 21 and go to Phila- @elphia, ‘her first stop on a tour of thr Werger cities. The title of Miss Tay fer’s play. is satirical and has. no ret grence whatever to the national @nthem. In the Taylor company will i» Ralph Morgan, Dodson Mitchel’, Frank M. Thomas, Richie Ling, Rob- @1 fudson, Lillian Kemble-Cooper, Bo Wallace and others. . WE'RE SURPRISED, IDA. “1 have ‘rttten @ rhyme that I fink is wonéstul,” runs a note from ® young woman nemed Ida “It would give me the jay of my life to "Tote ts telling a story around that About Plays and Players DUDLEY lem,"" in the fin modern. mi tle gentle advice?” goes on like Unis: ter at in your column. Do I get ‘the a ‘ cll, Ida, seein’ as how it's you, the joy: £e was a young mir! tromuvnoes, ho prided with jon Mer thoes. © But she dancer bna ww day * Till her feet gove arg Vana just like ice cream they fro-hoes IN HONOR Of sCHOm wt, “The meimury at Frank Ameren to to be honured by vuricus masioa) or- Gartag the woek of Jem | B98. The 275th amniversury of Ms y met yediarday ot the Ambesen- i Thestre where the Rother? mm fica! piece, “Bivewum Ties,” t3 ptay- tax ew! reverted that mooce Glee braticns wood be veal. vosey. eo verter, “rommures vet wyo Theerce, ban 4 new en lis awed ‘uta Tack MoCurdy Mociy, The Yale Viun vil drop in ou fy Wynn next Friday aght to ate 7 he really te “The Perfoct icol."” Sytvin Morhal will have the aay Jee ic. the New Yoru Uys Wormity’e. production of ‘Thank C."" Georges Renavent has bees epeuse Edwurl Goodman for his crogy’ nt “The Pireou * ‘Tho Pewers girls, the elephants aty © Hippo:tronie, have atl learned w oles ttes since Buffrage mao Leo White and Clay Smith, ‘after ‘bt ‘weeks in Shubert vaudevtibs, 1 sall for England to-morrow, Béna Hibbard has been ouguged Ray Gveta for tha cast of sah Attie Freuch Doell."* Six new red-heated girls have ee put in’ “Tho Midnight Frolio’* help Kitty Kelly do a sorrel-\ap bhimmy number, Beatrice and Marcella Swans, faue Curtoll and Vioet Sirathroore re yd be with the new Lean-May- play. ‘The engagement of isle vente and Gatety, begtuning for gave at the y, is limited to six weeks. Lilian Lorraine's broken neck has {tirely healed. So don’t worry when neo her in “The Blue Kitten,” ‘Tho mumbers of the Drama Harry Beresford has returned to deville and will fe be seen in @ etch in the Proctor theatres. William Collier, of ‘"The Music ig Revue,” has written a playlet for w, Friars’ Frolic of Jan. 22. William Harris, jr., announces the inal two weeks of Ina Claire's en- ement in “luebeard’s Eighth Me'' at the Ritz. The subway pirenit will follow, then Chicago, M. Fouad of Constantinople has written Charles Dillingham saying @ n 148 years old, in good heajth, Fires over there and would like te to America and exhibit himsolf et a fair salary. Mr. Dillinghum sn't see any way to give the kid chance. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. And now the ladies of Japan are Br the fox trot. Jazz strange ee? FOOLISHMENT. Love, oh, love, I feet you near, And your presence brings me cheer, When the night ts crear ané dork, And the hound dog starts to bark, Then, oh, love, your praise I sing. (Gosh, ain't this an awful thing?) Dreams of lovet A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Droggist (yell window at pieht)—Who's Man (ho wants pr Mr, Carr, Druggist—Well, take tion filled) next one. BUSTED ROMANCES “I read Joe's linos bemoaning bis Incffective woolng of Nancy, of Har- writes Herminius Vi “The poor fellow evidently is lacking ints in the wooing of a May I offer him a lit- Then Horminius ‘an Dam. Uf you would win your Nancy fair, You simple-minded sap, Just clore four fingera and a thumd And bust her in the map. If this endearment she resents And tries to bité your wrist, Just slap her in the map again, But use the other Ast. Then, {f #he stilt retuctant proves,| Quite gently setze her hair And, holding her in tendrest grip,| (Be careful not to moear) | Relador her until she faints, Till blood and tear drops fall, Then calmly drag her by one teg To wed at Otty Halt, THE Bie L ITTL MEBBE Boo-Hoo! BUT “You DONT Lave me LiKE ‘You GHouLD ! y Breer on tar ‘s A RAT TRAD “Ta CATCH MICE Ch ned 1 See HERE THAT RENTS ARE COMIN’ DOWN FASTER HAN FLOWER POTS IN A WINDSToRM —THOSE LANDLORDS MUSTA HEARD ABOUT THE Bun Food) E le one of manufacturers. our fest in bis’ automobile “What's your came? officer He tolé him. “How do you spell He told him that « “Where do you live?’ “Are you married?” T thought they Detre!t Free Presa swatter, “Good work “Anybody secing you say that you run @ sani ‘Just confidentially,” The Day’s Good. Stories HIS CHANCE FOR REVENGE. orominent The other day the traffic officer in Wyan- dotte stopped him for travelling too asked the “Have you any children?” “What are their names and ages?” “Say.” screamed the manufacturer, “what's the sense of asking me @ jot of fool questions like that?" “Well.” emailed the officer, “I ap- plied at your factory once for @ job and the bird to the office asked me al) those questions and a lot more, were foolish too,” —_——>—___ IMPRESSING THE CUSTOMERS. FTER spectacular chase A which lasted several minutes, the proprietor of the Palace Cafe, “tubles for ladies," overtook a fly and dealt tt a letha! blow with al rd & patron thag would tar: repyed q place.” “qu SAY THis iS FUNNY ‘BouT A FELLER! WHO WAS HELD UP For His BANKROLL, AN THE CROOK WHO Took IT GOT Six YEARS FoR TRYIN’ To PASS COUNTERFEIT BiLLs — proprietor, “that's why 1 did it. I let that fly in on purpose."”—Bir- mingham Age Herald. GOOD ADVICE PORTLY lady had by misake A taken o seat ip a railway coach reserved for smokers, With unconcealed indignation she sew the man next to her iil] his pipe. | “Sin” ehe eaid in frigid tones, “smoking always makes io |! ‘The man calmly Ih hie pipe and puffed comtented!y, and at the sme time replied: “Does i, ma’am? Well advice and give ‘t up, Herald. take my Chicago _— THE SARCASTIC FARMER HENRY FORD sald ai 4 dinner in Dearborn: “The American farmer te the most receptive man tn the world tf you approach llc iuclice! ideas—tractors, say. If you ay him with Ideas of no value, he! to be sarcastic. “ ‘Friend,’ said a college pro to a farmer one summer day, ‘what are you feeding to those hogs? “Corn, said the farmer ' Are you feeding (he cora wet or ary ‘pry’ “ ‘Friend, friend, don’ know the that if you wet the o WHY Dearie — WOT MAKES you | » the hogs comp FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1922 4 alt } ( fis “ IF LGET ‘eR WARMED UP A LITTLE SHE'LL START — A moToR B-BEcAuse souleg NOT VEALOUS LiKe Quen MusBanDs! “THAT ¢ RERE'S A TOUGH CASE ABOUT AN ACTOR BEIN' HELD FoR MURDER CAUSE HE PAID A BILL THAT WU2 FIVE YEARS Old AN THE TAILOR DROPPED DEAD FROM SHE OUGHTA Go with ALL “WAT HoT WATER IN HER — HA-HA- LISSEN “To THis ¢ A MAN WAS TRIED FOR DROPPIN’ A“BRICK ON HiS LANDLORD'S HEAD- THe JURY GAVE HIM A MEDAL AN TWo LOADS OF BRICKS ! COULD “' BATTERY BE RUN DOWN ——? Thien ev' STARTER ~ WoT WATER on TH! MANIFOLD - IN TH'RADIATOR — eying! PRIMED THE MOTOR ~ CRANKED HER “TLL f LOST MY WIND ~.- WHY Sou, AINT NEVER, TWIREATENED MY LIFE ONCE # How COME iy NoR EVEN “TRIED To COMMIT. puicipe! wht Dd nT You JELL Me ITD CATCH BaBies IT SAYS Tor EDISON ‘PULLED SOME MORE QUESTIONS OUTA HIS SLEEVE FOR His HELP To GET HEADACHES OVER— || ONE GUY SAID THE “CHARGE } OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE” WAS SOMETHIN’ ABOUT A 2 GAS BILL, AN — -— NO NEWS IN THE PAPERS AT ALL THESE DAYS— 1 AIN'T SEEN ANYTHING ABOUT A DIVORCE CASE IN WEEKS! will digest ft in halt the time?’ “The farmer laughed. “‘Léok here,’ be said, ‘how much do you think @ hog’s time is worth?” —Detroit Free Pre eae ete YOUTHFUL SHERLOCK HOLMES. TLLIAM MARTIN, aged five, ran into his grandmother's bedroom with a smaD kitten he had picked up in the strem and ntked if t were a “boy cat” or a “girl cat"ag be wanted to give it a name Hits grandmother told him she would find out and that he might keep the ieitten: ‘The next day he burst into the room tm great glee and announced; “1 named ber Mary.” “How did you find out that h was a ‘gir! cat?’ his grandmother asked “Weil” replied Willlam, “) watched her, and she weshed her face, and-she wasbod be? earn and she washed be- inc hee sam, and nobods but a gir cal woukt wash behind her ears"— Harper’s Magazine >_ THE ‘WRONG TEX?. “ E wil) take as our text this W morning," announced the absent-minded clergyman, consulting his memorandum “the sixth and seventh verses of the thirty-first chapter of Proverbs hat his vivacious i the mem- night his papa had velebrating the 4nc1 me tha fel) you quit, the previous | tel! him. 3 cnapter and verse numerals to indi- cate a very different text, the absent- minded clergyman turned to the place | plied the boss. and read aloud these words of Sol- omon: those that be of h him drink and forget tls past poverty, and remember his misery no more,”—| The Argonaut. “eé OW about that medicine you tried?” cause. “Yep, 1 remembe “| figured }t out € right. A had just about run things. reased severity of dry law enforce- nt, had diabolically changed the over. o money b. I see about it," re- Sam, I me “Well, “See about nothin’, yo'll pay mo’ or “Give strong drink unto him e."" t is ready to perish, and wine unto| y hearts, Let Pay more of else? Else what?” Tho boss's eyes flashed, and his tone 8 shar Sam's eyes blinked as he detected ‘anger, and in a soft voice ———_——_- ‘ e I wuck for the COMPLETELY CURED. | Same money udge. » —_—_——S Pant GETTING ACQUAINTED. | NEW foreman took charge of the shop this particular morn-| ing, and many of the men had} | not as yet met him. About the middle | of the forenoon he was making a tour of the bulldings to familiarize him- if with the layout when, on passing) new “Well, you know that] er said {t cured by gettin’ at the thatthe was Breathin’ 6 the cause of that ts, it's only when a hors . small enclosure, he saw two work~| 4. clean pine pune EAS men Inside who were sitting down | because “Well, two doses o' that stuft|smoking. Before he had the oppor- | fightin’, plumb cured my horse of breath. |tunity to speak one of the men said: Hpitealte, “Hello, and what are you doing gets ape around here, stranger?” SAM'S STRIKE. | «pm Dodgen, the new foreman,” COLORED man named sam} the reply. ‘ had worked for his boss about | five years, and in that time fo are we, come in and have a| smoke."—Forbes Magazine. ——————— he His good fortably friend Ben said to him one day | LEARNED HIS VALUATION. “Oh, I | *Now, Sam, you have worked up| ‘TOURIST in Scotland came to a] replied. laces cua mada sour bose Hen, youl 2) cue wer de woave, stormy |. PE" Mr ought to ask for more money, or «1 ' wind was con. | twi You just go up there ai : sae) ie. asked | mes ‘Look here, boss, you pu, Stwnty tmereasing, but he oA ‘Oh, Leone anh to take Tim eros, am tried his friend's advice while latter agreed to do so if the t | MISSION worker OHN J Hitt his tar and, after she had com- | “Where would you like to go? in Mr, Rockefeller,” med, “rist e@line enough to take you there.” He | would wait until he'd taken his cow Later, as they were nearing the op- posite bank, the tourist sald: you tell me why you took the cow over and made me wait?” “Well, low, "ye see the coo wur and I feared th’ wind wud increase 80 the boat might upset on the second trip.”"—Boston Transcript. een “will now," explained the old fel- aluable, WIFELY PRIDE, (Wayaide ‘Tales ) sa while waiting for the occupant of the first floor of a te house to admit him, he chanced to overhear the stairs husband always wore u clean s every Sunday morning. “Well, never cares much abou nent two women conversing ony One remarked that her rt now," respondea the other, Sune that my man hi shirt Saturday afternouns, that's the time he's generally and when he does take his coat off to fight I likes to know he looks nice an’ clean” ———- 5 MORE NEEDED. (Boston Glebe.) D. ROCKEFELLER took a girl in Cleveland ‘to ride in| seated herself, he asked her, | iN | Dix recently from a friend in No DID You Have. “THE “TANK FILLED? Qor2(ny Eoe Word) By Press Pus.Co. Screenings By DUN ALLEN. wow! Pull down them stend. Here's a likker label label. * It was received wow! shades of Voi- what IS a by Ric Cerolina, It needs no introductic Pure mountain corn likker. Bottled in a barn. Made in the backwoods of North Carolina by an old blockader what don't give a dam fer law and Prohibition, Retatied by all high-class boot- leggers at $5 a pint, and worth oy every cent off it rake well and get ready to have a fit before drinking ze Don Clarke and see WRONG “MUG."" Ernest Lubitsch, famous Europea director, was in the hands of th police yesterday. Not that he was urrested or anything like that, but he was making an investigation of Police Headquarters atmon~ phere for his next big picture. He found it. He also found what he terms the ides i" face to use on the screen, but THAT'S where he made a grave mistake. When it was learned that the de ‘erooks, his plainclothes escort threw] |As soon as he saw the second phote {phis and exclaimed, through an in- camera fell on him. South Sea Island romance, whiol Goldwyn is to ce, has bee itched from the Skin" ptain Blackbird directing | time. will Rupe, and then, oh) Paramount scenario for “Ilood at fon as yet untith Will Bailey, who plays the sl! villain in “Up in the Clouds” is rraduate of the real reels, He was i the movies for years. He likes th talkies better, ay “Climbing Mazamas,” title of th | newest Goldwyn Graph rector wanted to study the faces of a pile of photos on the table. ing a “front and side" of Monk F man, Lubitsch went Then he picked up_anothe he disdainfully cast aside Monk's terpreter: “Ah, THAT is the ideal crook face. I must have that picture. It is a typical thug. It is wonderful.” “But that,” stammered one of his escorts, ‘is' a photo of one of our best known detectives.” & was back Im Lubitsch wished he WRONG DATE. that dear Berlin. Colleen Moore rises to state that everything pleasant in her life has started in August. She met D. W Griffith in August. She obtained a contract with Christe in August She went to work for Marshal Neilan in August and ste signed her Gold wyn contract, her biggest yet. in August Geemunetty! We wish Prohibit had sturted !n August. It would give usu fine chance to have a little fun with Colly. A TUFF JOB. Julius Stern, Second Vice President of Universal, has just appointed Zion Myers, his secretury, personal adjutant of Universal City. He has commissiyned him to secure gn ace curate service record ployee there, The ation: will be used in sorting ¢ the employees. raising those who merit raisings, and straightent out those who need straightening out By the ume Zion gets halfway started he'll be about as popular as # prize cat wt a dog show f every em- What do you prefer, y. holly hocks or a blarMet of forget-me nots? FADE-INS. William Christy Cabanne suffere: fractures of four ribs while shootin, “Beyond the Rainbow” at Lake Plact recently. He slipped and a_ heavy He is on th road to recovery. : The working title of Carey Wilson Rupert Hughes ts back nia after a vacation trip to He's busy again writing, ed ures, He'll my Rudolph Valentino has just sign a three-year contract to star wi June Mathis ts bus Penrhyn Stanis! tion will be Sir Gilbert of the Triple Chevron.’ Agnes Ayres will soon be starred if ‘itzimaurice will go to Hawn for his next production don't care,” the little miss ‘Where do you want to eo Rockefel his eye, replied with a | want to go ta| “IT guess you hayen't got gas- the girl ex- 1 Grey nove is the narad of a band of mountain elimnere We thought it was some new kind of plant ‘ Cullen Landis, who will soon bd seen in the lead of “Watch Yous Btep.” hopes to make as many pir tor this vear as he ma 4 Vests, He's a deputy sheriff, you knoy Camera work on “Wildfire.” a Zane Harry Cavey is New Yorking for a while at the Hotel Astor. i ee eS samy