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THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1922 | Always Prefers the Lesser Evil! f MY Car ED ~ fe aut cur AN GEY Ft — arr! About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY ID you ever attend a Clown Nixtt D entertainment at the National RHYMED PROPOSALS |! Vaudeville Artists’ Club, in Weat 46th Street? We were present| Arthur C. of Brooklyn doesn't he- et one Tuesday hight, or yesterday |leve it fair that Buster should get f the: A a lot of fun was all the girls in the world. Sv he's sth they digbenripeh Dheegecth add out with a plea for the hand of “Jyr- tacorked. It was Bert Levy's night, / tie Jane, who recently wrote a rhyme and the handsome cartoonist of “Get | saying she would admire to be Mrs. Together” had prepared « fine enter-| Buster. This is what Art pens. tainment for his guests, who packed | Although you wrote for Buster, ‘the big assembly room. Bert is an ex- You've drawn my interest too. pert master of ceremonies, and many | You're looking for a feller, | ‘®@ bon mot rolled over that pointed) J want a girl like you. Deard during the evening. George M.| I’m big and strong, not fat, Cohan wag present and received an| I dance, but don't excel; ovation. He mounted the stage and| Care naught for things like that, YD BETTER NoT TAKE “TH RISK ~ RoaDs ARE “TOO SLIPPERY AN' I'D SKID sure — {LL sToP BY FOR ED AND we'Li Go I'M GAD YoU STOPPED MN Joe = Twas Just wistin’ 1 HAD {at be DAWGONNED UF i'm SOMEBODY "} DRIVE NH WITH MES GONNA Have MY Tee TH SHAKEN LOOSE RIDING Ww. HAT CAN OF His tt! made @ brief address. Future correspondence more till! “This,” said George, “is a fine club. tell. nd, belteve me, I Know clubs. I — wught to. I've been thrown out of QUIET, OSCAR; HUSH! ” The Albany Evening Journal re- ib," Gnough to know them. This club,” he/ Joy printed a headline reading, wontinued, “is the only one I know of |x-Governor Smith to Be Hung in fhat keeps its politics where politics | Oi." The joke of it is the fact that @aght to be kept—out on the elde- | hanging was long ago discarded in| walk.” New York State. | After his “T thank you” the crowd Potned in singing the choruses of @ | tsumber of Cohan songs. i ‘Willie Collier led Sam Bernard out en the stage and spoke freely. He ‘nmounced that Sam will be out of Screening By DON ALLE “The Music Box Revue” for several SOD Loom LIKE aaa Pere Piha ae | ‘weeks because of illness and too much SomeETHIN’ TH ° ay i H GOT THE MONEY < CAT DAAGGED A DIVORCE “LUKE “ouLL NEVER ‘roalth, Sam didn't look well, and, GET ANGTHER Ben Turpin, he of the spiral opties wonfidentially, we think his collars WIFE LIKE | Now appearing in Sennett's “Bright ¢ | Byes," drifted into a strange bank on are choking him to death. We noticed Ms Adam's apple particularly and it appeared to have had all the cider equeezed out of it. Frank Moproe, assisted by two ladies from ‘’Thank-U,” presented a playlet and It was indeed entertaining. Frank, in a curtain speech, sald it was nice to offet a playlet with no thought of booking or box office. Of course, he added, ft was understood that if any vaudeville managers pres- ent wanted it—but that's another story. The sketch was O. K. ' Cyril Keightley, attired in @ dress | suit, evidently his own, recited a Kip- Lower Broadway recently. He had a jlarge check which he wished ¢om- verted into cash. No one about the bank knew bim and it looked rather dubious for Ben, until he switched@his eyes into higi( out of neutral and did his famous sereen fall. | “Now do you know who I am?* jasked Ben, his wrongfocus eyes just radiating confidence, | No’ disappointed the teller, “I | have no idea who you are, but hefés . ith telling effect. It a Thttcne about Disty Dore, who killed |tho money—you've earned it." By the blue-eyed Dane. Really, Kipling | = : | himself couldn't have done better, SMOKE UP. Two little girls, sisters, dan ———— ; : y iMMINY @ | Priscilla Dean, who has been spends | bE acral Apter ghee tac S ihe Bale wit mary? IF I prop ing weeks trying to tame a lot of ' | or White, and they were very good. You'RE peavy ¢ WH >. ’ 7 5 ying 3 It was announced that Marty Sampter : Dont You Pur Your OLL SHE ‘Le ‘Bur “Wild Honey" in oa film of that was thelr manager. We'd suggest = LITTLE BRoTHER on wT Drop | name, will have as her next starring Pity Be cettaeas ta jaar foesd = THE SLED AND CARRY THE Baar. He |part ane of the most picturesque bare-leg numbers. As a curtain ' ‘ | characters ever created—tigaretre m feed YouR. Dore 2 § MONIT! |“Under Two Flage.”” speech he might say the line we wrote for Ethel Barrymore years ago: “That's all there is—this isn’t Owen, Moore."* ‘There were other good acts on the | When Universal flashed the an- |nouncement yesterday to the effect ‘that negotiations had been ¢om- pleted whereby that company was to | pee ary the seats ao produce the Ouida masterpiece is | ioldaie' allegra ar batrepa Mt a caused quite a sensation among the sll ers sane You jee standing army, of movie folk along | go on to White Plains and sleep on a Broadway. i | stool In a White House cafe, an eat-' “‘At's what T call a real part," : | ing place on wheels, Every once in a! mused one of the “At Liberties. | ‘while you have to devour an egg “What?" asked another. | sandwich or a piece of pie to pay for one Prissy Dean's gonna,play, . ' your accommodations. At 6.37 A. M. Two Flags'—Cigarete—f you catch a train for home, and when| it? hi | you arriy it your domicile, your wife! | muttered the over, “l'd j asks: lk more'’n a mile to see Priscilla heve you BEEN all play a Camel.” ; might?’ You attempt to convince her—but ——— — HAIR RAISING. Ne why go into that! This story is about HELLO, THis PST! Te HIM Yep Tve Gor) [SEND ME*TWo OF COURSE y SILLY, Cecil 2) Dei Milles thesmovle:direas | { + aa N,. V. A. Clown Night. You FeRDIE —) To COME OVER ANYTHING CASES OF SCOTC tor, spends his off hours hunting bre | HORRORS, ROBERTA! RIGHT Away ¢ A CASE OF ‘GIN -",]|. || AGAINST THE LAW : Rasa cae nae recat eye Ge aaa : SOME’ VERMOUTH]|ABSINTHE 2) ) To SELL ; % zine he describes a thrillins Pe ‘We're very sorry to have to an- bear hunt in which he plu Bounce it, but Roberta Arnold = q lead, The bear doing the directing, { peared in the first act of “The First | In describing a breath-catching Ti. Year” at the Little Theatre last night leldent, De Mille writes The situ@es) k with a hole in one of her © ckings. jtion made my hair stand on end,"" t : i | Knowing Cecil and realizing that This news comes from Joe Drum, press agent and cheer leader for the a failure this sea- son, all we can opine is that it must have been SOME “situation.” We bow, however, to his accuracy in ts. ing ‘end’ instead of ‘‘ends."* his show. “It was an accident,” explained Joe Si ever the phone. “Please tell the pub- Ue it won't occur again.” “How big was the hole?” we asked, ‘wishing to get all the details. “About as big as a half-dollar.” \ “You mean as big as a half-dollar often looks to you, or” —— But Joe hung up the receiver, evi- fently slightly peeved. We are deter- mined to learn all the facts, however, ~ nd we shall assign our special cor- respondent, Jefferson Shrewsbury Nutt, to cover it—the -tory, not the REELIN’ 'EM OFF. Hugh Wiley an@ Octavus Roy Cohen could polish up heir darky dla- lects at Universal City, where 500 0f the Negro 400" are acting in ‘With Stanley in Africa."’ ‘Their costumes, ‘tis said, would make Gunga Din's uniform look like an arctic explorers wardrobe. Hundreds of film fans have written hole. “per, with “drop-itin” air, (Ad, | atricals. Did you ever see a bunch fen pee NN TERE ie cet” | CAB DIZ Comiegiog Lag: MARINE that ub.) L oe 1) of English c girls? on ame tumbling|1ee Moran return to black face, Lee a BY WAY OF DIVERSION. | Phil Kramer of No. 939 icone ee ee 4 8 9 bf an nh.” said th tor-mina. [rath of fay "'Hla ae colin, but aN | te i a lumph,” sa! @ master-mind.|rather play ‘‘Hamlet.’* ” ° Hew dear to my heart are the Gossip. | Avenue, the Bronx, wants the whole THEY NEVER FORGET. he Day Ss Good Stories “That seems to be simple enough. A| House Peters is gonna ask Czar scenes in the subway, when fond Milam. Garaae (Atl the) cherie des | world to know of the deception of **s Daye Ferguson appenred in a plain case. These two joy riders|Hays if he won't put marines im recollections present them to | written a book called “Men I Have |Ce't#in sirh” Look: sketch called ‘‘Alimony" at the Re- |found their radiator getting hot while |Movie houses to prevent title-readers view; the scramble, the jamble, | Loved.” | One rainy day I met a girl, (eee aeeeee ceeonlly,. Ie waa allt NO HERO TO HOUSEKEEPER. | KNEW HER WHEN— ninvoyest ne i Ha alg nanan reid ier Mul Peg ee 1 : 4 . | about a man who 1 4 ; \1 rie - ougl \ x the Me dear old hub-bubway; each Galina Kopernak will have the And she was a deceiver, postal card signed ea areeecche|| PARSE Aa PAY ae ba! NSOPHISTICATED Aunt se hae it ees tough arene ue “The Duck Hunter" they shot 19,4383 fad in the ride that my memory | Principal role in “Montmur agel| She telephoned and asked for me, | ferer" reached him yesterday, And Literature to MG, Anatole Amanda, who is visiting ber | yrakes refused to work, The man got feet of film, but not a single duck, - knew... I love.to.go back in my |” AERIS: AANIDY, | But I would not “receiver.” this is what it sald: x . i nieces in the city, recently @C-| panic-stricken and stumbled out of Associated First National, Ine., Srna to Gah’ keetiotk oud recite Leon Errol will introduce the Sub- | “Dear Sir: Permit me to commend | ETance? Josephine during many years! vented them toa social gather-|the car on his dome. The bus kept “KS: ‘What's going to happen tn Be eo ae Mape Way Schottische in the new edition | IU tell you, folks, the reason why, | you on your good act, which I en- was housekeeper | i... on going down the slope and took the Pictures in 19227" We have no Idea a uly, it paine me fo state, | of “The Midnight Froilc.” Laatanne dtaraiichout. |Joyed, I think you'd strike a sympas to the great nov- |" «piq you enjoy yourself?” they|dame along with it. Both of ‘em car- |What's gonna happen “in” ‘em, but my heart bubbles over with keen | Sue MceMunamy has been engaged! 7 went up to her house one night, | thetic chord if you'd ring in some- clist and kept hi8| asked, after the party. ried accident policies and the car was 7°,can guess what's gonna happen indignation, I mise the old |by Haward Goodman tor a role in| ” ‘myat'g now 1 found her out, {ths about the wonderful ‘memories home in such al” “yes, but 1 want to tell you some-|Probably insured, too. I advise both “to” # lot of ‘em If they don’t watch chopper who stood by the gate, | “The Pidgeon | ickle woman! : Sieee ate nae no say of ther perfection of/thing about that Mrs. Umson. companies to suspend payment till /°““iates Urban announced yesterday “Ml The old tleket. chopper; the ay litlam Faversham, who has been | SNE ARENT és [ree eee Pern oRY a comfort—serving,| “What atout Mrs, Umson?” ths driver can prove he wasn't under jinat the series of “Great Authorae gruf hardened chopper; the | to-night. Luis tlece. eae Ma | oor 4 eiagariine cos [for him. ‘This trom war "ot TEP Indeed, aa the} “Just because she hae a iittle|the inftuence."—Lite, _ for Kineto has been completed, A : fear uls Hector has been play- | cer in “Good Morning, Dearie,” reads | "ya eyery “ai model for the|money, she is ashamed of the place arr 4 fl nape Peep BA lee er in "Ci a men e y “d etul reading and rereading of the pump ng chopper who stood | ing the role. high-brow books He thinks Van| “Never! idea) Therese of|Where she was raised. i UNNECESSARY QUESTION. [jist doesn’t disclose the name of this by the gate: “Tangerine” will be 200 perform. | 100n's “Study of Mankind” ie some “Le Ci de| “I'never thought that of her: N eccentric man was anxious to' column's favorite writer To-day things are changed, |a@nces old and Dick Carle will be | Ute Es THONSHT FOR TODAY. | our cre ncanard’=that there was| “Well, she just is, all right.”* get married in a hurry. He ar-| George Fitzmaurice, who has bees Apc se ' thirty years married Monday night,| Nora Bayes will be the headliner at low do the policemen and firemen | °*!¥est “What gives you that !dea?” hs roducing Paramount y : ‘op in a nickels then | jane that just fine? the Winter Garden next week, assist. [Set by the new bing-bang turnatites | Much grief in two hearts when in-| 47 knee her when she was a little rixod with ible Intended: bride | Pere ond who hes Aut ocaned jump my poor stomach against ‘The girls in the ice ballet at the |@4 by George Raseley, tenor, and Dud-|{n the subway? firmity made It necessary some few] oi ang 1 know just where she|outside a clergyman’a house at mid- wre Man From Home" in ltaly—-ti the new stile, I find, when I've | Hippodrome have b sked to bot | ’¥ Wilkinson and Alan Edwards, — years ago for her to be superannu-|\iveq" night and insisted on being married yy hig way to greet the Statuo of eaten ice cream with a pickle, ef- | their hair. Hairpiny have been drop. | “The Nest,” translated trom the _FOOLISHMENT, ated. hs “Of course.” c< | RAMA Shoe t out of bea Mery Mberty again. fects of the bumping remain a | Ping. French of Paul Geraldy by Graco | “Don't'sit in that chair,” saia McGee,| But though she cared so diligently nd it was right here in Ohio, ane Serene fala bos ee SttY | George Meiford has gone to San long while. The stile makes a D. D. H,, appearing at the Colonial, | Gere will open in Stamford to-| To beautiful Annabelle Lee, "\tor his bodily needs the old woman es''—— a the Pet ed laa fay Noueencig ta. Francisco to shoot “The Cat That . fs a former college profes night. It will come to the 48th street a would never admit any very high| ‘Well, at the party this evening I 4 . ; Walked Alone.” We could have noise as the nickel is jingli Be Pp asor, He is She sat, just the same y ie ; |act as witnesses, proceeded to tie tho mete ne nickel # Hinolind | keeping his tdentity @ secret, ‘Theatre Jan. 34. And she answered, “For gh opinion of her master's intellect. ‘“1s| distinctly heard her say several times: | A i yoy” shown him plenty right here in aw rine mn ey The Trisugie Piay: Charles Previn will be musical ai i “For shame? |the master in?” once inaul very |‘You'll have to show me; I'm fro ‘ork. ue Triaugie Players al fs t 2 ing y dj vent the _ ‘ nerves need repair, I start for |aro rehearsing a mason) eOk!Y® | rector for ‘Pins and Needles" at the| YO™ Can't get a rise out of me.” | rede very) Sissourl"—-Youngstown Telegram, | All went well until he asked the Ernest Hi screen player, le ane den dteh a Teheeralh |, Musical comedy | Siuvert, In the press stuff he 1 ate distinguished visitor. > = man: you take this w n to be also a bacteriologist. He's busy t my corpuscles | called “Oh, Ruby.” Wateh for the | Py 4 ie a i ? ” | your lawfully wedded wife ina tou hen ivetrys | te English FROM THE “The master, the master,” grunted ‘O-DAT J reed a bug thi m7 i parade. | ferred to as “an English conducto: CHESTNUT TR . , aeter,” g UP-TO- . f aria Wane ataneny att Re pani ane 2 2 = that will sting tingling, profane in my wish that = io Don't do it, boys, or we'll expose you.| “He's frank ; EE. Josephine contemptuously, “why do & Detective scowied Thi aved at him in astonish- prositeers only The Divisi AP ae * h OF we! se Yo e's fra and outspoken.” 4 ep i HE Grea S BPO WiE® | ment. ove n . 3 the chopper were there. The old | sion wants tine Irie Associ) And, speaking of “Ping and Nee! “He ought to aa you cal] him the master? He is mas- J thouehtrais, fisek and. dill’l Be ican hie veald). sarhet dive‘ net ene tse avian eerie Sicket chopper; the hard-visaged | Gang to Detroit for a SPR SEA AE PASO Fae Eek Aa Ehalieh | Hunen” f eomee= "ter of nothing but his food, and even : t trom the: report uetova|sipose L yanked you out o! bed/at thia mon, Ghe ave ce ttre Cone = ' “ chorus girl of the troupe, says gold-| “What has that pies cesta ; he read from the report be yanked put ; son. She says so herself. Her leads | Shoppor; the pump-working chop- Harland Dixon, the Hell's Bells dan- | dig ure unknown in Li 1 eet at todo with it?” Dut Ne Cap ORY, (BAe when he.liG “went up the hill to draw a pallj hour o' night for?""—Philadelphia ing men, howewer, can’ ri dan- | diggers ure ondon the-| “Iie's a candied man,” (ain his mouth."’--Manchester Guac- Dee ren fel down and broke! Bulletin, of Via tan 1 #20 her polag x . ches = .