The evening world. Newspaper, June 12, 1922, Page 22

heatrical News and Gossi T was a large and enthusiastic crowd that gathered at the Knicker- bocker Theatre last night to see the annual public gambol of the Lambs, and it proved to be an excel jent show. The programme brought together more than 100 stars, some of them in ‘bit’ parts, but all out to feap honors and cash for the club Interesting features were: ‘What Made the Lambs Love Mary," # tab Wid musical comedy by. Joseph Me @arthy and Harry Tierney; “So Thix “Te Russia,’ a satire on the impres- tic drama by Mark Swan, Seveph Santley's satire, ‘Terrific Ter Fahds" “Laughing Water,"’ by George VoHobart; ‘Ten Nights in a Bali teom,"' by Irving Caesar, Anne Cold Wa and Jerome Kern; “Don't For to Remember,”’ by Gene Buck and Stamper; “A Night in Old Paris,” by Glen MacDonough and ‘Hansard Short's one-act skit, ‘Sweet Béarts of the Fold.’ All in all it was Bhow worthy of its source ard it @uccess, both artistically and @riancially, was indeed gratifying to tre Lambs VOGT WRITES. Wadie Vogt, who is appearing in the ion music halls, writes us occ sionally to tell us a story or a jo Hfisclatest communication concerns 4 @ouple of lady gousips. “What do you think of the Smith won girl?” asks one. “Oh, well, er, she's rather a nice Uttie thing, isn’t she?” replies the wexond. “Ye—ss," says the first, “but cat to ‘eat, what do you really think of wer’ DIXEY CHIDES US. ‘The other day we let a press agent put over a story here about a girl who asked a man ff Be'd seen her Picture in the Police Gazette. He fold her he hadn't, as he shaved him- self, Comes Henry E.. Dixey with a note reading: “Dear Dudley—Wilton Lackaye sald the ‘I shave myself’ when I was pliy- ng Bava to his Uncle Tom." Our head is bowed in shame, ANOTHER OLD-TIMER. Bpeaking of old ones, Dixey Hines @ays a lady and her little daughter ‘were seeing “Kempy” at the Belmont recently when the former noticed the @hild was chewing gum and had her feet in the aisle. . “Nellie,” sald the woman, “take @he gum out of your mouth and put your feet in.” IMPORTANT IF TRUE. Jack Edwards advises us that Dr. ‘William EB. Young has been appointed @pecial attending physician for Ful- top Theatre patrons who laugh them- @eives sick or go into hysterics over “Ab! Irish Rose,” at’*that house. Jack says the doctor has had th at- fend several cases of hysteria al- weady. FOR “WHO'S WHO.” A. H. Woods has selected a good @ast for the new farce, ‘‘Who's Who," now in rehearsal. Charles Sue-MacManamy, Ruth Terry, Ru @e Mack, Edna Hibbard, Spencer Charters, Marion Ballou, Eleanor Williams, Peggy Fleanor and Mar- eee” D'Arville, The play is by Walter De Leon. TO STAGE “THAT DAY.” The first play selected for produc- tion by the Belmont Theatre Reper- tory Company is “That Day,” by Dr. Louis K. Anspacher. Richard G. Herndon will cast it soon. CHANGES FOR EMPIRE. ‘The Empire Theatre will be refurn- Mahed and redecorated during the summer. The main floor will be torn out and a new one, after an up-to- te model, installed. New carpets and new seats will be put in, The tage will be equipped with a new @lectric system. MANICURE MAMIE. (We are ting @ new serial ender the above title. It is @ story o Spy eres le to pay the mortgage on el place and at the same time put her brother through the Elmira Reforma- tory. Don't mise a chapter if you like to ‘weep and taugh > Nobody knew her right name. ‘When she appeared at the barber shop end asked for work she said her mame was just Mamie. All she had had-to eat that day was a steak, aiicthéred with onions, some German friend potatoes, a salad and a piece of ple.fony, the boss barber, took pity on her. ‘Bo be made her a manicurist. ‘Hop Blodgett, the Western cowman wasn New York for a brief stay, He washer first customer. Well 1, gal," said Hop, “I'm very risk. Tickle up them fingérs nice and T'll give you $600,000 worth of oll Mamie was astounded. With $500,- 906 she waa sure she could quit work and buy a couple of tickets to “The Music Box Revue.’ “Oh, sii be so glad.”’ Ngarby lurked Angelo, the boot- black. He wore a sinister look, His palm itched for oll stock Mamie did not know of her dan- ger.-Let us hope Angelo had no plan to give her poisoned candy. Could he be that cruel? (To be continued.) CHAN SAYS “GO TO ITI” Channing Pollock is in receipt of a letter from Col. Saville FE. Percy, of theBritigh Rhine forces at Cologne, Permission to pay him a 5 per’ asking cent. royalty for the use of his play, “The Sign on the Door.’ Channing has no horror of money, but, realizing that the German mark is just about as ne@r @ joke as any piece of cash can bee bes decided — bother NEIGHBORS sas ANY FELIK 18 COMING fash ios aS oi. eveeyBony MCE FRESH GossiP pone “eaeae Tat P Ho REASON “T6 CALL ON EAcHoTHeR, Yost nike req - troweverR IN THE ytoPG OF AN EARFULL) “HleY ARE CALLING THERE Gok @ THE BELL! IF (T's) ANYONE FOR T Don'T WANT BD 1 — TELL ‘em You'RE THE MADAM AND FIND JOE’S CAR “+ -t- at te OH Jimminy! Wve Gor AN ited! \LL MAKE “Ti'WIEE So SORE ON “HAT : CAR SHELL LET ME SELL IY — uHy AN WITH “THE ABLE ASSISTANCE OF DIDN'T AY BRAIN “THINK OF “THis BEFORE ? ————— Fs SHE ALWAYS MANES OUT THE A STUNT “THat'LL KNOCK HER For A GOUPLA Goacs tt = > mat (Fol 1928 (N. Y. Eva. World) By Prose dive. K NeW. On! vou NEIGHBOR * 2: A CELLAR! MR GABBY ~ | NEXT Door eo Lue OuGHTA Be SITNN’ Pretty’ OT HERE Now ' onl-mi- Yes — AuiT oT FINE MARY Ss THE ETS ONE OF THE HER DADDY MARY L00Ks _ , JusT Awe sPnL - So THERE Aeaed A “THinG WELL, I KNOW You'LL BE It IS WONDERFUL VACUM CLEANER, OUT WHAT THEY Wi a | POEMS OF PREFERENCE “T notice,’ writes Rose, “that all the boys who have entered your con- test for the velvet-lined oyster-opener bak for short gins, nd it's not ‘fair. What'll we tall girls do? Help us, dear editor! They say the lean and lanky girls make the most sensible I wish some one would make a plea That would include big pirls like me. T’'m tall and slim and all that's grand, I'd like to think I'm in demand. I'm not just pleading for myself, sbe seid, “mother willl a. tor a lot who're om the shelf. his bankers with any. He has writ- ten the Colonel to go ahead and use the play without royalty, This in apite of the possibility of his corral- ing enough dough to get a hatr-cit. This is Italian week at Proctor's 126th Street, All the acts are Itallan Fortune Gallo is to become a pro- Cissie Loftus, now in London, is a, MEAN THAT \ ( You KNow Hm To SPEAK To Yead- FELIK Is FACE on HER I .ove anmats @ FINE Looking MAN ~ HAW-HAW- So 1S BEN TURPIN g DAD - SHE LE IE LAUGHING + ste Complications Set In! | {Now LISTEN ~ 2 ~ MY WIFE'S DEAD SET SURE! Jus’ As SOON as CHECKS FOR EXPENSES oN Tiy'car —] |_| AGAINST ME SELLING MY @aR — you . GCTTA HELP ME QHANGE HER MIND — MIKE THE MECHANIC I'Lt FRAME uP MAKE OUT A HORRIBLE BILL FoR Laso® AN' PARTS AN’ ADJUSTMENTS AN! MATERIALS N'EVERYTHING AND SEND I(t IN ~SEE?P et PAID ON “T'BILL I SENT Y LAST MONTH I Dont THink Z T Look ame LA MY PoP Arter (ZZ Abe = GO So IT Won't SAY HE Looks LIKE A Goar Sena Z an / ter nomt YZ GY NO —- SOME SAP WHO Fl KATINKA— _ fe WANTED To MAKE ONE A BEGGAR? OF wa $01 PEOPLE ARE SO DUMB THEY THINK THAT WASH 1S HUNG IN SCOTLAND | YARD: coming to America to appear in Keith vaudeville. It is announced that all the seats at the Palace now wear pajamas Sylvia Field, just through with “Welcome Stranger,"’ has taken the role of Annabelle West in ‘The Cat A NEW MARK, amd the Canary." A WELL dressed man dropped into The winners of the Actors’ Golf the Coulee Chale Rent rultned, Tournament will regeive their cups hin tired eyes between the acta of Good Morning, | + : ; wives. Here's my plea’: Dearle,"* at the Globe to-night. Repo ont anaaie In all the poems I've read so far, Kansas City is to have « repertory | +My eyes are going back on me. It seems to me that short girls star, | Company backed by the citizens of the} “Aan right,’ answered the doctor.|take anoth town. Lester Lonergan may be the} «what style have director. “Me? you been wearing?" I've never worn spectacles in my Ife, Never needed them be- A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAy, Loe me Hie ta inan 2 y mistake; you'll pardon me, bu Pde! Bane Ses a matttt | 1 Judged from the mark on your nose man, that he is digging another well} that you were accustomed to using 7 them —Wellaville Optic on his farm.—Wellaville Opti “Oh! That mark? I get that from drinking hooch out of fruit jars.’— FOOLISHMENT, Judge. He went and bought a new straw hat, Neat day by accident he sat Upon it and he mashed it fat, time?" TALKING AND FLYING. r Orbs WRIGHT, at a dinner P’ man. in Dayton, was reproached for The man was pained, not taking up the challenge of He had to buy another one the Smithsonian Institute that it was To shade his features from the sun, rare ae Wrighiee Ray pe Ten minutes after this was done, “The trouble with you, Orville,” GOSSIP. doer. He wil! put on a drama soon, Gee, how it rained! sald a banker, “is that you are too Felicia Sorel and Margaret Petit, ae taciturn. You don't assert yourself have boon engages for “The! nom THE CHESTNUT TREE. enough You should press-agentize pus Al Reeves, comedian, has entered “How does the water get in the] “My dear friend,’ Oryille Wright Keith vaudeville, Hie is assisted by | watermelon?” anawered, “the best talker and the four girls and a banjo op plant the seed ia the| worst flyer among the birds is the parrot.""—Detroit Pree Press, ferald. { The Day’s Good Stories USING DAD'S LANGUAGE. OBBY'S mother was anxious to B know whether he had obeyed her injunctions apd behaved like a Uttle gentleman at the party. sured her that he had, “When Mrs, Brown asked me ‘No, thanks. “Did she ask you again?" “Yes, und I told her I had en¢ But after a while she handed over cake and asked me “And what “T said what pa always says her to take the darned stuff away Boston Transcript a HIS STOPPING POINT. asked a friend “Paid the florist?” uite impossible.’ yhat about your motoring bil hey’re still sending it in.” f you can't living,’ exclaimed his friend in gust, “why don't you be decent enough “And then run bil?" retorted th ear chap, there's @ limit STILLS. woman for William Russell in his ‘Theodore Roberts yesterday pre-|next Fox picture now called “The sented Agnes Ayres with a wire-| Crusader.” haired fox terrier pup. Now she] They named a race horse after doesn't know whether to call the] Violet Mersereau. The first time out Purp Kiki Ayres Roberts or Kiki] the horse ran the wrong way. It cost Roberts Ayres. Ain't that a turrible| Violet some real money, too. predicament? Dustin Farnum has been pried Betsy Ann Lisle (who doesn't wear) away from gis racing motorboat long that sort of stockings) has won more] enough to start work on ‘Oath beauty contests than any other movie] Bound." Norman Selby (remember actress. And she's only five, too.| the Kid?) and Maurice Flynn are also Fact! Celebrated her birthday yes-]in the cast terduy When Rupert Hughes announced Claire Windsor, the blond beauty,}the name of his next picture as has bobbed her hair. Claire received] “Gimmie a certain Broadway ¢! so many requests for locks of her! owner took exceptions to Rupe hair that—Aw, rats! It's too hot for] tangled way oF spelling Jimmy that kind of story. ti Goldwyn is sure up-to-date. In an] paul in Goldw: they have a radio outfit instead of aljike a good choice. phonograph. “The Snitching Hour" is the punning title of a picture starring Arthur Housman, Vitagraph special deliveries Screen-| 0", ings to the effect that Bill Duncan, | 0c” | famed one of their actors, has a well-broken fire @gine as a pet. No one ever got THAT way on pre-Volstead stuff. tor’ on the screen, a fe Real Indians were needed in sev-) YOM? for it. We eral scénes in ‘To Have and To}, The Pili : has beoome Ben a t made a raid on} Dreams Mich means tha: Bh dee eenetas He Keaton has chosen the latter as a Schulte and United Cigar Stores. Phot diane capture One title for his latest laughtivity. Following a short yacation, Shirley] ‘The Dangerous Age’ has Mason is at work again. She is busy|chosen as the name for the next Stahl- shooting scenes for “The Little] Mayer production for Virst Nattenal. Teacher.’ Alan Forrest ts her It was written by Frances Irene Reels ing moa certainly some bird of a name for a Helen Ferguson wilt be the ding writer for tho reels, The Evening World's Comic areth Hughes will play Brother n's production of Sir interior scene In “Broken Chains") Hal) Caine's ‘The Christian.” Looks Watterson Rothacker, whose labora- § do all of Chaplin's developing, has figured that in “The Kid’ alone 20,000,000,000 images of Chaplin have started to figure it out ourself, but broke the naught figure on our peck machine, Anyway, we'll take his TOUCHING, One of the most touchitig trib ever received by Richard Barthel: arrived last night. It was from @ property man who worked tn th same stock company with the star i Ottawa some time ago. 4 It read: “I always knew you would be ¢ great screen actor, Aren't you glad you took my advice? Times are hart Can you lend me $267"" ANSWERS. ADMIRATION (sounds Jike tht name of a cigar doesn’t it?)—Prae tically all producing companies hayt their own writers, but they will buy a screen story if it is enough. Haven't the name of thd player you wish on file. Sorry! JACK PERRY—Why don't you your pet squirrel to Bén Turpin? does a lot of nut-stuff. BILL RICE—Goldwyn would be yot best bet. Call on ‘em at No. $i Fifth Avenue. % C. W. LINK—You don’t know hi grateful we are. Letters like yor are far and’ few between. ‘ “ELTINGE FAN''—Julian, Bltini is, we believe, unattached fust as far as movie contracts go. just played the Palace Theatre, Mary hattan, in vaudeville. WRITER—If you have, as you @ "wonderful name for a pict why pot write a story to St it? It heb been done, you know. ‘ X. ¥. ZED—You are right, David Wark Griffith is from the heart the Blue Grass-District of Kentuc! Yesterday he saidshe wished he wad still” there, HE WHO LAUGHS. Lamped a couple of fair laughs if the latest “Toptes of the Day’? re lease. Mebbe you won't Iike ‘em, but let@y try ‘em ont: Teacher—Clarice, cam you decline hug? Clarice—Why, teacher, do! Worth another? Old Lady—Son, ogn you tell me the way toa bank? Boy—Yes, for a quarter. CG L—Isn't that a mighty high I never rate? Boy—Not for a bank director. @ (Qtiick, boy! ring down that cur tain!) COLD AND @ruet. Wes Barry says he's candidate for the job of leading man for Annette Kellermann. ; It seems that in one of the scene in "From Rags to Riches,” in which the Freckle Emperor is being stari there is a bath tub. Wes, accordii to the script, is called upon to take @ high dive into the tub. He did. Aftes he had plunged in he plunged righ? out again. Harry Rapf, producer af the picture, had slipped a Jot of shaved ice into the tub and Wes doesn’t Itke the cold ‘That's the best bit of acting youl ever did!'* + nounced Rapf, after thé camera ha: recorded Wesley's last¥ exit from tly iced aqua, ‘If I'm gonna do water stuft® puffed Wes, ‘I'm gonna get a job witl Kellermann.” WEATHER HELPS. One of the many, many things th worries a directar while on location @ strange town is the keeping tra of his actors and nfechanicia’ Many of those working on a@ pict are wont to atray far, far away wh evening shadows fall, and it's a ha matter to round some of them up. Chilly weather down Balboa, Caf way came to the rescue of Ceo Fitzmayrice last week while ho shooting scenes in a big costume pif] ture. A yery hot spell preceried the loca: tion date and most of the folks onl brought the lightest of clothing. came the frigid evenings. 80 cold was it,.in fact, that most every of in the company dressed in seventeenth century costumes. As a result, it wasn't hard work for Fitzmaurice to pick out members of his compan from the rest of those in town, A man wearing a leather jerkin or a palr of cowhide trousers couldn't very well hide away from his boss, even if he wanted to. FACTORY OPENS. Larry Semon has opened a nem factory. The outpht of the new plant, which was erected by Vitgraph, will be fun, For a long time Larry has cravé¢ plant all higiown and was not sat- isfled with the rubber-plant that sits in his front window. So Vitagraph gave the order an@ soon work wes started on the new fun fagtory and. from pow on all of Larry's comedies will be made under his own directt It j@ said Larry is drawing down, $1,000,000 a year now. Wes'a time when the only things Larry could draw were his breath and some b cartoons for a New York paper, BuC gue times have changed. ! OH! Ray Smallwood and the ‘Queen of the Moulin Rouge" cast took @ jaunt up into Canada recently, The trip was scheduled to last four da It lasted fifteen, And so, when the troupers re- turned they noticed almost every one around the studio sniffling, appare.rte ly with colds. took some fine ‘shot mused Smallwood. He no t interest.on the part of ti sniffling ones, “And we brought b' some of the finest ‘stitls'’ He could get no further. thirst-maddened stay neck. "one of them begged, tantalize us, If you brought back avy shots and any stills, fer the lovam!'.@ give us a drink!” q But Ray was talking picturese and, didn't mean what they meant at al at all,