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sone sie Peas abc Theatrica WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1922 CERTAINLY! wy woud L — Tus’ waar 1 sa — sive , iA NEEDS i ‘ii HIS SHOP FIVE Days ~~ sph ' Car — NOW AN (T Looms Lie Hele | MIXTURE ON ONLY MIKE BURNS aLconoL! The Evening World’s Comics Never—at That Price! Do LiKe 1 DO = WALK | THERE w 4 "TH SOME OF “THaT CHoCE HOOCH OF YouRS ON YOUR HIP AN’ BLIEVE. ME, YOU'LL GeT ACTION! LET HIM KEEP i —— i oe ENRY MYERS, author of “The Have cr “REST OF His sire!) LH VETS J Firet Fifty Years," suggests 3 oe that playrights study music as r jan aid in writing their stage stories. | He says it is an enormous aid. “Having decided to construct my play in the form of seven scenes,” he writes, ‘Il was at first puzzied as to thow I could obtain variety in all | Pempo to the rescue! Why not con- sider tho play as a symphonic suite, ‘tmagine each scene to have its own ‘particular tempo-mark and thus ob- j fain the various moods required? The © ‘pian proved singularly feasible. Thus: | "Beene 1 (a romantic love scene)— © Andante con amore; “Bogne 2 (ardor begins to cool).-~ Moderato; “Scene 3 (they hate each other) Allegro furiso, and so on to the era. Many « play which fails to interest Because its acts are too much alike €ould be vastly improved if they were | ‘#éeonstructed so as to correspond to the movements of a Morart, sonal us } NOW WASN'T THAT NICE? : Some of the chorus girls in Eddie @antor's “Make It Snappy,” which Opens at the Winter Garden to-mor- row night, arc new in New York. Stage Director J. C. Huffman dis. eovered one yesterday who did know how to get from the Century +> the Winter Garden, , He sent a boy @ corner store for a vide to New ork, Which he handed the girl. “Study it,” he said, “ond maybe “learn something, # girl accepted it and went away, 4 imfiutes sho was back with the fountain pen. tograph it for me, Mr. "'ghe said, sweetly. DAWGONED - \F UE CAN UNDERSTAND Har-Hal SIL - SOUR “TIME READIN’ OBdY! WaT A SEYMOUR’S OWN PARTY. “An, interesting theatre party is led to seo “To the Ladies” at the Liberty this afternoon. William ir of the cast is a relative of who will sitend. In the party “be Mrs. Seymour, daughter of EK: 1. Davenport and sister of Fannie Wenport, "Mrs. W.S. Wekert, daugh- and Mrs, Seymour, and her n, and Mrs. R. M. Field, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, pur, Mr Mield Js a grandson of “Montgomery Field, once manager of Boston Museum. Mr. Seymour was A member of the Boston Museum ‘Company forty years ago. Searle ,_ STAGE HANDS TO DANCE. _ The annual entertainment and ball ‘of Theatrical Protective Union, Local ‘No. 1, will be given at the 71st Reg!- ment Armory Saturday evening. Last ear 8,000 people attended the Stage- ‘hands’ ball. LIKE FANNY ¥ FLAPPER S. OUR OWN NOTABLES. YES INDEDD SMITH— His name was Sit Yat Sen Scroggi it he Invariably answered all questions with “Yes indeed” and in that way Acquired his nick-name. it was his habit td interrupt lecturers, preach- ers and streams of profanity with “Fes id and each time he would pyt a fresh stick of gum in his mouth jew vigorously. , All sorts of which rqached his cars would Dring forth “Yes indeed,” especially fhe tobting of the wistie on the Polly- KATINKA wos which ram petween his home town, Muskrat, Okia., and Toothsome| |SOME SWELL BANQUET YoU GIRLS RA T.Must HAVE EATEN THE GIRLS ADMIRED You! Prairie. Rach time @ long blast an-| |OFF — THAT'S THE FIRST. TIME LEVER — | PROPERLY: , ANY WAY: CLOTHES — THey SAID nounced that the train had made the ; Sit? SAW SOUP SERVED AT DN 7) BAD —THAT'S | You ALWAYS COME To rc encnse>the “hove ‘ber would. Bap i Tate END OF A MEAL! W (WHY THe FELLOW emphatically ‘Yes indeed.” He took r is RaNOBERAEEDS oAG0bS Mas seaaneoed especial joy in this because he knew engineer and had often attended social gatherings ‘at his still just south ef Muskrat. Smith died in 1906 and demise came as the result of his habit. Boley Wells had just called Jeff ‘Mason, a veritabie giant, a Nar. Mason @urned and snorted; “So I'm a lar, am ‘T?” “Yes indeed,” said Smith. A blow Dehind the ear ended his career, His jater married the engineer of Pollywog so that she could travel On @ pass. ONE MORE THRILL. {The Rhymed Thrill contest is over, jbut Ray Foster of #7th Street has ‘gent us a thrill verse and begs us to Print it, So we might as well. Look: A-thrill or two in my young life UMN TH'CAR MW | * RIDICULOUS - How “ou CAN weet: ' THRICE WEDDED- ) SENTIMENTAL PIFFLE ~-- ese sieet MARY. COME BacK He WITH MAY SEWING eee AND STOP TAIs NONSENSE T THINK You WERE THE BEST DRESSED THERE — THAT WAIST WITH THOSE IT WOZ SNOW WHITE “TILL SOME SAP SPL’ A BOTTLE OF KETCHUP ON ' Means viothing, more or less. I have so many every day— + More than I could express. | But I remember one I had, » “ThE thril that brought me foy— A thrill that thrilled me thru and Marjorie Rambeau will be starred at Maxine Elliot! Theatre, will be nown as ‘The* Goldfish" instead of ‘Her Three Husbands." Wilton Lackaye will be featured. Bertha Mann and George Lynch A young lady who prefers to be known merely as Katie has sent us her, With music, cards and gossip the time was pass- ing beautifully when one of the invited guests no- “Molly Darling,”” which Moore and Megley will put in the Palace The- atre, Chicago, will have a radiophone feature. ‘The finale of this musical piece will be broadcasted. A sending station jg tying installed. “and his voice Is so low and musical. Do not print my name; he'll know me by the rhyme." And this is the rhyme: 1 will confess my dentist hurt «Walker Whiteside was in a small , town in Michigan recently and he met manager of the local opera house. “How long have you been a thi trical magnate here?"’ asked the of “The Hindu.” around and grieved. tations. the unfeeling child. Ute girl sitting it's all right, thing only the juice bea Nb A SIGNS OF SPLENDOR. N a Richmond household a colored woman by the name of Clarissa comes in occasionally to help by She had been clearing the dinner table one day after a plentiful repast, which, among other delicacies, included a huge watermelon, and as she passed through the doorway, car- rying in each hand a well-filled can of the glistening melon the lady of the effort to find out how shocked the old man might be, asked: did you Jike the balloon fea- cause I didn't lose any- '—Chicago News. “Well, father, “All right as far plied the old boy. working the stunt out home at the next spelling bee, but I'm going to put sneeze powder m figuring on correspondent who has suffered the same sort of loss. But this one has found a ray of 21> thru, & poem of provocation on the sub- | pave been added to the cast of “Whis- THERE FOR A PURPOSE. Now comes another When Dot said: “It's a boy.” Jeet of the dentist. pering Wires,” Kate Molauriy' play Mi'tswiteton’ toe: com me an if on vl a few _ I think I have the handsomest whist a be produced by the Messrs. pvter yagt R, ples to] humor In the affair. A THEATRICAL MAGNATE. dentist in the world,” she writes, y Atter the tragedy the household sat Several mem bers said nice things of the departed. Then the cook burst into loud lamen- DIDN'T LOSE ALL. ITTLE JACKIE was spending a holiday in the country and was highly entertained by everything he saw in the barn and farmyard. ticed the hostess's “Why are you crying, Katy house and asked: You used to es Scuse me, Mis’ Alice, but would -all mind ef I carried home one of Screenings By DON | PRINCE DECLINED. Prince Mohammed All Torahim, fa.° vorite nephew of the King of Egypt, but no kin to an Egyptian cigarett turned the camera crank out in the Goldwyn studios recently during the filming of a couple of scenes. But that's not the only thing he “turned.” He turned down a job of fered him by the casting director. In declining to become a movie “star'’ the Prince said: “I have enough things to clutter up my mind already—why add work to the list?" SOME SERVICE. Telephone service has become so bu out in Hollywood that the iatest fad among movie players is trying to in vent a phrase that will adequateiy show the contempt in which they hold the “hello”? folks. Thousands of phrases have been in- vented and given voice, but Screen- ings doesn’t believe in using that sort of language, even if the United States mails would stand for it, but one lit- tle bit of repartee dgfted in yester- day. It seems some one asked Richard Dix to goM the other afternoon. ‘Can't go, thanks,”’ answered Dick, “I've got to make a telephone cail this afternoon." REELISM. Matt Moore, who plays an eccen- tric country editor in “Her Maa,"’ was posing for some shots in a big newspaper office yesterday. Clad in his hick outfit Matt strolled into the composing room and crossed the visibility of a crusty old proof reader. The proofreader squinted an turned away in disgust. “That's one of those movie news- Paper guys," he muttered. ‘They never get a reporter right in the pictures. Gosh! I'd like to read proot on some of these journalistic pictures. wow!" PASSES AWAY. Bill Guthrie is wearing a mourning band these days. His \pet lynx, “Vixen,” bought a one-way ticket tu the Happy Hunting Ggound and up ‘and died, Bil ghthered “Vixen” in when it was a pup, or Kitten, or a whelp, or a colt, or a calf, or a cyguct, of a fledging, or an infant, or whatever a baby lynx is called, and intended ta make a movie star of him. But close confinement and an. counter with a pet rabbit undoing of “Vixen. Bill hopes he will Anyway, when B'rer I with him he was ina fai in pieces. CHAMPIONS THE FLAPS. Despite the loud and echoing ou cry against the flapper, Licy Fox, !n spiration Picture: yer, declare yesterday the America pper wai the most perfect bit of femininity the world, “And I know,” declared the actres “for I have seen flappers flap s, flip in London and flop in Ber he young American girl to-day has assumed a pose of signifying the spirit of the day—freedom. Her sophistry is for outside appearances only. Inside she is the same sweet pure-minded girl that her grand. mother was, She has self-agsuran though. That is a”by-product of the times.” Oh, well! Let's let it go at that FADE INS. Rita Weiman, author of “Tix Acquittal,"’ several short stories ani many Paramount s¢rtpts, is spending a vacation in Warnersville, Pa. She says that’s all she can spend there Armed with 500 chocolate covere¢ ice cream pies, Alfred Green, direc tor, went to an amusement park yes. terday to shoot several kid scencs Did the kids in the park respond’ Well, Al says he got some of the be pictures ever taken. There are thirteen letters in bara La Marr’s name and only five different kinds. J. E. D. Meador say that’s a record. We'll take his wor for it, Two girls who wanted to see It Ingram sent in word that “two : hags of twenty wanted jobs." ‘'M be Hag and Hag,"’ muttered Ite« “Send them in."’ Robert Edeson played the part Col. Sapt. in the ‘Prisoner of Zendi: Wut says it has not Sapt his moy enthusiasm, Whoa! Florence Dixon was worrled yeste day when ‘Her Master's Voice’ w missing. Her director had misplace:) his megaphone. * Henry E. Wilkinson has been pointed roving representative for Cen tury Comedies. His first port wil be Chicago, If he survives, he'll tour the world in the interest of tle Julius Sterm Corporation. Jack Henderson, the jrate schovl master in “Some Class," was ap . 1 ‘ \ 1 ‘ 1 © B ® 6 gt ©« aw~swre kick poor Toto out of the kitchen every time he came in.” While pulling out my tooth, Byt I just smiled right in his eyes. I'm telling you the truth. I did not rant or shed a tear, Nor was I even grim. I had a lovely time because ¥ Gossip. I'm deep in love with him. FOOLISHMENT. Wil you Mtn my knee?” Spencer and Thomas Will- | === | There was @ young woman named} «No, thank you," said the little fame will be in “Bronx Express.”" ing at 10.80, ‘The public performance Heater, one demurely, “I mustn't,”" | ph Shea has engaged Edwin|Will be the following Tuesday after-| Who said to a lad who caressed her; igi t, my pears I don’t under- to direct the production of |B00n at the Longacre. “It's certainly grand, . ie heen LR meek re- Stairs.” The cast of “Just Because” is at| rpjg polding my hand. ly, ‘I’ve got to sit still and hide th r the Polo Grounds to-day at the invi- i : p t! ie the Eagle will stagé ‘‘Her Tem-|tation of the Giants. ton McGraw | But a kiss? Ah, 7 don't think it's best }hole in this chair,""—Ch 0 Herald. Husband, * the new comedy A.|team and the Robins will see the show ter.” ecancate «cena produce. at Earl Carroll's Theatre to-night. Puen LG WHY THE COOK weprT, Sheridan is making a bust of} Bertha Kalish will be seen to-mor- HESTNUT TREE, FEW weeks ago somebody sent ‘Keane im her role in “'The/row afternoon at the Irving Place pi bled re ati me iver and us a heartfelt screed about how ” ‘Theatre in ‘The Child of the World, Freed vol, think: Vit go over and) < & somebody had poisoned his dog. ¥. U. actors will have afPY Perets Hirschbein. The play is|%° Disws bl *| We printed it. (And, by the way, a somnia. lot of our friends though ot “The. First Year’ [ins directed by Gustay Blum Wite--Why mot take one of ldog that had been polencu out { overwhelmed us with condolences.) on @ chair where she had been all the evening. Going up to he! the good lady said: “Well, my dear, you are a good, quiet little girl, speakie actor long before the movies were thought of. / Tod Browning, directing Priscilla Dean in “Under Two Flags,” hax petitioned the Los Angeles Chambe of Commerce to furnish the brand of weather advertised in their efreulars. So far 99 per cent. of the days hay: been punctuated with rain. ® Barbara Bedford has just finishe| acting in “Out of the Frozen North” with Frank Mayo, Reginald Denny is hitting 1,000 1: the film authors’ league. He he written two screen stories and so! | both of them Pete Morrison, trainer of “Quecnir the equine movie star, was the t man to furnish trick horses for in motion pictures. Phat was in ti day of the real flicker drama, There will soon be another “By au! with von Stroheim” film turned loore by Universal. The name is a secret, iv dem cans?"’ “No, Clarissa,"’-was the reply, ‘but what on earth do you want with it? You don’t keep pigs or chickens, do you?" “‘Lawd, no, Mis’ Alice, I don’t keep no animals, What I wants to do 's jest to make dem neighbors of mine jealous. Dey don’t never have sich Zarbage as dis a-settin’ outside dere front steps!’’—Harper's Magazine. The old red hen's cackle to announce that she had laid an egg was a never-fail- ing source of de- light. He always wanted some one to get the egg im- mediately. One day he was allowed the privi- lege of going all by himself to A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAy. Contributed.) He who watches the clock is al- ways one of the hands, no years,"” came the reply. We stars have visited your city ‘that time?” , Pe You're the first," said the man- ‘ “Up to now T've only run 4 Hin-the-slot machines. “Heaven forgive me for it!'' sobbed the cook. “Sure, he was a fine dog. Many's the plate he has saved me from havin’ to wash!""—Cleyeland Plain Dealer. pe GOT AN IDEA. A YOUNG New York man was visited by his country father, As @ special treat he piloted the old man to a lively cabaret. The fun was fast and furious, and cul- dan: rl fetch the treasure. winnie’ 1p & tn: Aut Ae where In a few minutes he came running toy balloons were thrown from thelyocx excitedly, but his eagerness was stage to the audience. The spectators|too great. He tripped and fell. batted them about, and finally one In a minute his hands and blouse burst and covered the people in the]were smeared with yellow as he vicinity with flour, and pandemonium | clutched bits of broken shell reigned. Fverybody tried to avoid the} But be came up smiling to his bursting balloons and to send them | mother. along to neighbors. “Oh, mummie,"’ he cried, as he held ‘After it was all over, the son, inan[up the fragments, ‘1 had a full, but Si ll WHY PROLONG THE AGONY? 66 T7\O you think I shall live until I'm ninety, doctor?” - “How old are you now?" “Porty."* “Do you drink, ave you ahy vic “No. I don’t drink, I never gamble, T 1duthe smoking; in fact, I haven't any vicg “Well, good heavens, what do you ‘want to live another fifty years for?” —Kansus City Star. gamble, smoke, or of any kind?”