The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1922, Page 24

Hi ee IE y “ySfier and Lyles of “Shuffft Along” About Plays By BIDE ARIE LOFR, « well-known Eng- Glebe Theatre, London. will minke her first appearance in the ‘United Btates at the Hudson Theatre oB Jan. 80 in “The Voice from the Minaret,” a play by Robert Hichens. She will be supported by an English company. A. H. Woods will direct ber engagement here. Miss Lohr bas completed recently a five-months’ four of Canada. She may put on one @f two other plays during her stay in Bow York. “THE GREAT LOVER” AGAIN. “Leo Ditrichstein has decided to go Wack to “The Great Lover.” He will begin a tour in that play on Jan. 80 § Detroit and his route will take him te the Pacific Coast He will close MMe engagement in “Face Value” at the 49th Street. Theatre at the end of mext week. TO OFFER “GHOSTS.” A special matinee of “Ghosts” will be given by Mary Shaw and Everett tterfield on Jan. 27 at the Broad- ‘Theatre under the auspices of the American Birth Control League. Besides Miss Shaw and Mr. Butter- field, the cast will include Arthur Shaw, Piward Poland and Marton Allen. AS LEIGHTON SEES IT. “How's the show business through - @ut the land?” we asked of Victor Laighton, of the Brianger Booking @ffices yesterday. “It's fine for the shows the public wants,” he replied, “but bad for the others, The difference between this ena other recent seasons ts that the | Public is letting the shows it don’t) want alone a little harder than in the | | MI@S COHAN IN A PLAY. | Georeette Cohan, in private life | Mrs. Souther, is to have the principal pole in a comedy by her father which fhe will produce in the near future | Miss Cohan hasn't appeared on the Stage since she assisted her mother Bthel Levey, in the latter's vaude ville work about a year ago. Mr./ Gohan will stage also two companics | te present “The O’Brien Girl” on tour. | “FABLES” REHEARSING. Frank Fay's “Fables,” a musical | @how that rehearsed a couple of | weeks one time and then was forced fmto retirement because of a lack of funds, is at it again. Harry L. Cort and Players DUDLEY JUST LIKE US! ery bad memory for faces. Yesterday a young woman ap- proached us on the platform of subway station and asked for infor- | mation as to how to reach a down- town address. | niet always, he train at Eighth Street and then we both entered a car, We read the back page of The Evening World until Eighth Street was reached and then we suddenly remembered the young woman. Impulsively (we're very impulsive) we said to her: We, big-hearted and “This is where you get off.” Turn- | ing around, frowning, the lady we had addressed replied: “Say, you let me alone or I'll show you where YOU get off.” Shucks! It wasn't the same at all. lady FOR THE FUND. Jane Wheatley is to have a good role in a playlet called “Mrs. Bellis, by Noel Leslie, at the Actors’ Fund benefit matineé at the Century Fri day. ‘The cast will include also such well known people H. Cooper- Ciitfe, Florence Eldridge, Maude Les le, and Theresa Maxwell Frank Reichor is staging the playle: tok her to get off | Conover. | a poe Over THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY cyaece ‘en? IM sorry. But %u HAN NO ACCOUNT HERE - you LL HAVE MO BE IDENTIFIED — has undertaken to see it through this time. Herbert Corthel! and Bernard Granville will have the chief comedy Foles. This one showed considerable Bromise defore the smash came. CARLE FOR “TANGERINE.” Richard Carle will assume the @hief comedy role in “Tangerine” be ‘fore the end of the week. This role was played first in New York by ee Haxzard and then by Hansford ison. WALTER GOING ABROAD. Eugene Walter, playwright, is go- ‘mg to Europe next month. He plans to produce several of his plays in London and will act as a represen- tative for A. H. Woods also. Mr. ‘Woods, it is said, has promised to go with him, but nobody ever knows what A. H. Woods is going to do. He has been known to board a ship for Europe and come back from ‘Quarantine on a tug. So! MRS. CASTLE DOES THINGS. | Mrs. Irene Castle went out to the Bronx Zoo yesterday, escorted by ‘Walter Kingsley, the Keith publicity purveyor, She adopted Libbe, the baby hippopotamus, gave Libbte a Perfumed bawth, dances! with the ehimpanzee and did a one-step on the back of a turtle 300 years old. | Mr, Kingsley was both amazed and| Gelighted. PILCER FINDS CHANGES. .. Harry Piloer, who arrived from Burope recently to appear in ‘Pins and Needles,’ wes abroad six years, and he says he finds New York very Breatly changed. ~ “"'d hardly know the old town, he, ‘The fronts of what were Sseutiful buildings have been cut up little stores, and the gayety seems e. Ewen the people seem to lost their spirit.. They are so now."" «Harry, he loves who was born here, the old town anyway. oO. K., eh, Gossip. ‘Thirty-one of her neighbors in Buf- saw Katie Cornell in “A Bill Divorcement” last night. Dm ‘The pirates in “Captain Aj lejack” ; “eta be grape juiced and ined by __.8kefman in Greenwich Village written a new musical’ piece Which 1s to be produced. 4, Al Jolson has put a new song called “Ain't Love Grané?" in ‘‘Bombo.”* B. D. De Silva wrote it. * Elsie Janis worked very hard at her pening performance at the Gaiety picotey night, but her mother, in a » Worked just as hard. Bert Levy of the Hippodrome will the cover for the programme the Big Brothers’ benefit show at Bhe Hip Feb. 5. ": Miubert Druce has been engaged by ward Goovmnan for “The Pigeon. is to L> played at the Grecn- ‘wich Village Theatre. * While playing at Keith's, recently Houdini called on | t Harding and offered his ad- vice as to how to get out of jails) ‘ané other tight places. i ke Broadway hears that Marcus Loew Wash- | * KATINKA # SO THAT BUTLER We FIRED WANTS A REFERENCE, EH — WELL, TLL SEND ONE THAT'LL KNOCK HIM FLATTER THAN oe RHYMED PROPOSALS Three young men who aspire to the Joys and woes of married life have written us accepting the hand of Rose of New York. E. C. Farrell has this to say: In answer, dear Rose, To your plea, I propose. I'm just the right chap, you'll agree, I'm not the wild kind, With frivolous mind, But sensible, sawe, as you'll see. My looks? I'm right there, So, Rose, give a care, Now, please don't look sideways at me, Then Joe A. of Hoboken, bids for Rose's hand as follows: Oh, twillowy miss, Who loves so to kiss, I'm penning this Une So you can be mine. Invite me some day, A visit to pay You're to have and to hold One who dares to be bold. is negotiating with Doraldina to make a tour of the Loew theatres in Greater New York. Clare Kummer, whose “fhe Moun- <2 How Come. “Tom — “ou NEVER COME UP FoR DINNER ABAN BY IDENTIFIED a doe ! COME ouT Here | HELP ME with THis car STARTER WON'T TURN “The IT'S So, coup! {- NOTHIN’ Doin’ , ~T WourDN'T COME OUT “ieRE FoR A MILLION Dowars! “Wo COLD! AN EARFULL OF ‘Theatre, ts writing the book, lyrtes and musio for a musical comedy. F. Ziegteld jr, having started Will Rogers off in the touring ‘Midnight Frolic’ in Philadelphia, has gone to Chicago to smooth out little dissen- sion in “The Follies” which arose over the position of Vera Michalena in the show. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. And we thought Will H. Hays was going to prove one of the Nation's really great men. OURS 18 A HARD LIFE. ‘Charles Kirschner writes us to ask ff we would call a marine on duty at &@ 6ub-station of the Post Office a submarine. Just thought you might like to know. FOOLISHMENT. A dog was barking up a tree. “I wonder why,” said sweet Marie, Just then a squirrel went: “Whee kerpool!” And scared the girl) @he darned old fool! FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, “The King intends to make Las- telles a Peer.” “He'll have won't be a wedding. to appear or there HIS START. (From the Kansse Oy Joumal) Grafter, how 414 you begin tain Man” is at Maxine Elliott's 5 a baby,” growled the great man, like every one ee . WHAT 1 WROTE SO SHE'LL KNow ENOUGH To BEHAVE) |Jimson, who aNd = THE hs Dow TH’ COOKIN’ me Eve — WHO “LD You “Hat ? wily SoMsTHine ON YOu TS stow TAAT YOu RE WHo YOU SAY YOu ARE. DEAR SIR:~ THis MAN HAS BEEN AND (S AS RELIABLE AS THE GUARANTEE ON A SIX DOLLAR XMAS FOOTING IT. TMSON lived at Highgate and owned a flock of carrier pigeons of which he was tmmensely proud. His pride led to such continued boast- Ing that !t bored Dis friends, One of these friends, Tom Smith by name, told him one day: ‘Tm taking a trip up to Car- lisla next week, and I'm willing to bet you a fiver that I can take one of your blooming pigeens up there and turn tt loose and you will never see it again.” The bet was made, and Tom smtih, having arrived within two miles of Carlisle, clipped the pigeon's wings and threw the helpless bird out of the window, A fortnight later he re- turned to Highgate and asked Jimsen for the five-pound note. “You haven't won it,” remonstrated guessed the trick that had been played. ‘That pigeon came home.” “He did!” exclaimed Tom, thor- oughly incredulous. “Yes,” ceplied Jimson. “But, my HAVE 1 Got To SIT HERe® AND WAIT FOR THIS “Thing STaRt ITSELF? 5 Al LOOKS wat way T'we~ {Wm POWERLESS T'HELP! ‘Steve MoocH® Did! ust FoR © LiL WHILE -" Moocr” Ave oa — Peay h eat F Mud ti Lid fA 0 KewsxiON That YOU Lazy-Good-FOR-NOTHING THING! IF YOU pot Quer WHATEVER You'RE DOING AND GET )THIs CAP: STARTED You WON'T HAVE ANY DINNER — 'M GoING % MARKET WAS STAYIN’ WITH SOMETHING ON ME “TS stow I'M MARY MIKXUP ace RIGHT -4LL RIGHT. us! TH HE HAD GTAYED A LiL aN I Guese WIFE THOUGHT But Who Would She Be if She Lost It? SEE? Tve cor A More ON my | SHOULDER — AT GWING BACK-TALK, He's GoT THE VOCABULARY OF A DANIEL WEBSTER - (J BUT WHEN IT COMES To WORK HE SHRINKS UP LIKE A WHO GAVE To You ? word, , his feet were sort!"—N. 0. States. MADE SURE HE WAS DEAD. HE enterprising company in the ah Soudan had decided to lay a railway into the wilds and of course, many blacks were employed in its construction. One day the telegraph clerk at the nearest civilized spot received a tele- gram from the foreman of the rail- way constructors: “White boss dead. him “Yes,"" wired back the clerk, “But first make sure that he is quite dead. Will send another white boss to- morrow."" A few hours later another telegram came from the foreman Shall I bury “Burled boss. Made sure he was quite dead. Hit him on the, head with a large shovel."’—Tit-Bits, ie NO FAULT OF THE CHICKENS. NOLE JOSH was comfortably U lighting his pipe in the living room one evening when Aunt Maria wlanced up from her knitting “Josh,” she remarked, “do you know that next Sunday will be the twenty- fifth anniversary of our wedding?” , “You dow't say 00, Maria!” reapond- and smiled a cheery @beaugh surprised wel- > come. Gradually | the emile broadened into a grin and) finally he laughed outright Ivan Gorgonovitch's companions ed Uncle Josh, pulling vigorously on ‘his corncob pipe. “What about it?” “Nothing,” anewered Aunt Maria, “only I thought maybe we ought to kill them two Rhode Island Red chickens.” “But, Marta," demanded Uncle Josh, “how can you blame them two Rhode Island Reds for what hap- pened twenty-five years ago?”—San| Francisco Star. ———————_—_—_ WHEN ANARCHIST WELCOMED KING. VAN GORGONOVITCH, the man whose anarchistic writings and ut- terances had stirred up millions of persons against royalty and the Divine Right theory and who was credited with having sown the first seeds of the Russian revo- lution, met the King face to face looked on with mixed emotions show- ing on their flerce countenances, Two of them frowned their disapproval; one sneered incredulously and a |to anything, fourth exyessed amusement in a blasphemous utterances. But fan Gorgonovitch, the terrible Anarchist, paid no heed to them. His whole at- tention was given to the King. There | was adoration in his eyes. Ivan Gorgonovitch had just filled a coyal flush and there were eighty-five Amertean dollars in the pot—. B. Birdsall In Judge. ~—>— DESCRIPTION FITS HIM. HARLIDS GIBSON tells us of @ C down-and-out who came into the railroad office with a tale of woe, not long ago, and tried to work him for transportation out of town, “I came to Cleveland with good Prospects three months ago,” ex- plained the unfortunate one. ‘I thought I could land a good position with a certain company on account of the work I'd done in my own town on their line. But they didn't know anything about me, and they turned me down. I took my letters of intro- duction to another firm; same result. I was some pumpkins at home, but they gouidn't see mo here. 1 didn't have "0 pull, Then I tried the rail roads. I useter work in the deepo. back there, But in Cleveland, they didn’t seem to think that amounted wack Now ailroader as I said, I use Could I git a pass “My dear man, son kindly, “the law allows us to « passes to nobody, There's no excep | tion—nobody !"* “That's me!” cried the derelict “Gimme the pass!""—~Cleveland Plain Dealer, Old Beefsteak! { DISCIPLINE. Registering excitement, horror o1 ‘| anything else as shown on the screet doesn't “go” at all In the navy. James Young, directing Katherine MacDonald in ‘The Infidel,” learneé | this conclusively down in the engine room of the destroyer O'Bannon turned over to the director as a back- ground for sume exciting scenes, | A tense moment arrived. Order came from above to put every engine at 1ull speed ahead," It was done. Young, at the small end of a gian megaphone ted shouting: “Show sc ep! This is supposee to be & great moment! Show se excitement! Get all excited!" “Listen, om ( upted on of the navy ly subbin as movie ac cited in this ma MEBBE sO! Stor in charge departinen far off ithe munin family with ot x Persons realize AY bs) Rern, “the aifference to will When 4 roll of flime will cost 41 ter instead of the $40 it costs rev "And then when telegraphs Photographs is perfected and''~ But mebhe by that tine seme will have invented an autemaWe lit that will lay three minute ' poached, tried or sevambled tues which will be cheaper too. HOW DRY THEY ARE! William Christy Cabonne aa q can't believe a garage man, no matte ® garage recently,y tion had affected hy “It's knock kwered the anto mat have lotta fobs wrecks and pullin’ mud where they an ised t hom haulin folks out of th: had been driven b, teering hands: now « will concluded t] SAWBONES. Lloyd Whitlock started out to be a doctor. The lure of the tootlights soot Proved too strong, however, and he went on the stage. From the speal he drifted into movies, and now! he’s playing the role of a surgeon it “Domestic Relations,"* i His surgical study y come it handy when the director orders ar episode cut out THE SAME. Chic Sale was asked recently wha'| situations were absolutely necessary for @ screen success. “Surprise,” he answered, ‘is the ; first. Injured dignity for the comedy, second, and third and last—some oni in trouble."* “How about love?"’ we shot back. |. “That's covered in the third classt-2, fication,”’ he answered, donning an¢ other make-up. | FADEINS. Hallelujah note: Te handsome young _ le mowed the lip-muff he was cult between pictures Mona Kingsley is back in New Yor} after completing an important part 1@) “The Dust TIlower.’ She, we by Neve, played the flower ‘while Goldwyn put up the Dust 4 Joseph M. Schenck was born of! Christmas Day. He gets both birtl]) day and Christmas gifts together. H suys he doesn't mind as much now a | he did when he was a kid. h Max Abramson, New York write iy titling the ‘‘Soul Saver,"’ a Dorothf, Phillips production. He did as muc ! for Jackie Coogan in ‘*My Boy."’ Guy Bates Post has started hi first film venture. It is a screening o his big speaky success, “The Mas! querader.” Thomas H. Ince’s latest, “Ski Deep,"’ is in the final stages’ of edi ing. Epidermis seems to play a leac ing part in several films these days There's “Skin Deer," ‘Brothers Us der Their Skins,"" “The @&kin Gi and the slaves in “The Quem Bheba."” Former President Wiison's ‘favorit movie actress” 13 being explotted |her press agent. But that doesw maks us like her work. Once used a tooth e recommended | the King of Spain, but we didn M for all the royar boosts e \ nest Lubitsech. the “Grith iy returned “home on /' Washington yesterday, uf) a three week's stay In America ing and siving movie advice Buster Keaton has Anished *C Fred Ni end will of Anita Slewast, Bee! t)