The evening world. Newspaper, June 21, 1922, Page 28

and Players By BIDE DUDLEY EORGE C. TYLER, aided and abetted by George 8. Kauf- } man and Mare Connelly, i# Planning something unique, not to Bay wtartiing, foz tue Punch and Judy, | Theatre early next November. Mr. " Byler has arranged to take possession ‘of thin little house on 49th Street and the entertainment will consist of Bketches and musical numbers, the i task of preparing and directing the Programmes being in the hands of ‘Messrs. Kaufman and Connelly. Among those who will contribute to the early bills, besides the authors of “Duley” and ‘To the Ladies," are George Ade, Harry Leon Wilson, Hey- ‘wood Broun, Franklin P. Adams, 5 Dorothy Parker, Robert C, Benchley, ; Montague Glass, Eugene O'Neill, f Booth Tarkington and Arthur H. Samuels. t ‘The new group has not yet found a k Bame to its liking but has tentatively adopted The Forty-Niners, ine first Bill will be produced not later than Nov. 6. The work of new writers t will be sought and given every chance ff avaiable at all, No one will be too young, old or obscure to obtain a hearing. The Forty-Niners say they will try anything once. And now comes the most interesting feature of the plan—authors of sketches will be Ymyited to act in their own plays, if they dare. q ANOTHER HOPWOOD PLAY. Wagenhals & Kemper have put in § Fehearsal a new comedy by Avery Hopwood called “Why Men Leave J Home.” It will be given a prelimi- | mary try-out on the road. CHERRY HAS A SONG. Charles Cherry of “The Dover Q Road” has never yet sung in public, ; but he cannot say he has never had the chance. Yesterday he received @ letter reading: 2 “Dear Mr. Cherry—I am sending i you a copy of my song, “Ida From Idaho, words and music, and you i have my permission to sing it in your i fact in "The Dover Road.’ You have 4 ‘ ‘been playing this act quite some time and I thought you might want to change it. You einging my song tn your act would knock ‘em dead. Don't overlook this one, kid.” "Ida From Idaho!’" mused Mr. @herry on receiving the song. “That's @arrying things too far. A BENEFIT SUNDAY. * Doris Keane, Chairman of the “Million Cans of Milk Cafnpaign’” of the American Committee for Relief oft Russian Children, announces that i the Beechwood Players from Frank A. Vanderlip's Scarboro Theatre, under the direction of Henry Stil!- man, will give a benefit performance of “Sava” by Andreyev at the Earl Carroll Theatre Sunday evening. MANICURE MAMIE, (A story that will melt « heart of stone.) Mamie laughed and snapped her fingers. Love was in her heart. “Isn't it a beautiful day?" murmured. Policeman O'Toole came running UP, stivking his beard. "No remarks!"’ he . He thought she was preparing to shoot oraps. } The silence that followed was omi- ous. And why should it not be under the circumstances? ‘At that moment the Woodmen of the World came marching around the @orner carrying axes. Not a sound wwas heard; not a funeral note. "We have marched a block with these axes," said the Captain, a tall man, yet not unfat. The words fell @n the ears of Angelo, the bootblack. “Must be a chopping block,’’ he @aid. Angelo was not a joker by pe. #0 Policeman O'Toole kicked good. Blodgett kissed Mamie gently. “Ah, my pretty one!" he cooed, jwan, you!"’ she replied. ‘Twas the answer of true love. Blodgett's words might have sounded sweet had he not been a tobacco chewer. Darkness began to gather. Even- tide, with all its grandeur, was arriv- img and the lovers, seated on the curbstone, were entranced. Suddenly fireworks were seen. i was Raymond Hitcheeck’s “Pin Wheel,” with Mr, Hitchcock disguised as Roman Candle, carrying the pins. The End. BHE HAS A TENDER HEART. Alice Cavanaugh, a very attractive Young woman who is to be seen here goon in ‘Bue, Dear," saw a little White dog chasing a cat on 69th Street yesterday. Being tender- she the PUNCHED — AN’ KATINKA Is OE, THAT Man 1S OUT “THERE TO SEE THE @aR —nurRy! 1 1 uns arrain OW BOY. I WAS AFRAID HE WOULDN'T Siow UP! ial IY DECIDED Vato] Ye Go To" BarrLe Beach’ with | ME INSTEAD OF THe “MOUNTAINS ”— LET6 Go DOWN AND Ger “HERE Quick ENOUGH Bai ss a ss ec Gosy , HE'S A STUPID Lookin’ HICK — IF I CAN'T SELL HIM “The OLD WRECK MY NAME'S.. Mup ! ‘Cope. 922 (N.Y. Eve. World) By Prose Pub Co eu WANTED TO Go ) THe “MOUNTAINS” So BAD do — WHY Dip You Give IN AND “AGREE To ‘Yo “BATTLE BEACH” WITH ME - — DUST 7 PLEME SOUR LITTLE WEIE HUH ? aR cow CHEWING BOY! WHAT A LUCKY FIND! ~ A COMMUTATION TcKET WITH ONLY: THREE TRIPS Gum? FERDIE 1S SUCH A DARLIN'- HE GoES To SO MUCH MAIL (T BACK To HE WHEN Y'GET THER! WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1922 )'D LINE “To ASK You A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT “THIS CAR , IF You DON'T TICKET The Evening World’s Comics weit WHAT IS Your WISHING T% SELL IN THe FirsT PLACE — REASON FOR This car? “Wo “TeKee . “THs e MOUNTAINS ‘ THis COMMUTATION EXPIRED FROM H THERE 2 MIXKUPS THAT ‘3 Abu RIGHT, inreeeuPT Yue ELDERS 4s MucH AS YOU WANT Te . Bod BasserT BROOK LYN Dont Bortee TS Com YouR HAIR REFoRE You come To THE TAME ~ -LoReAINE SMITH: W649 ET. NN: SEND 4 MERRY MIXUP 3 MARY MIKUP. ——— OPENED THAT PARCEL ER IF T KNEW wuz A BOMB POEMS OF PREFERENCE | Danny Goldberg of No, 118th Street has his eye on that vel- vet-lined oyster-opener, us a rhyme and, if he wins the con- “It's a Boy.” 17 Weet| “Morn to June 26, He has sent} ">* *°: Murphy and Millicent Hanley for The Frazee Theatre Midnight” Theatre Guild production Judge Otto A. Rosalsky and J. 8. will when have this reopens THE DYSPEPTIC'S FAMILY. The Day’s Good Stories bearted she decided to save Kitten. test, he intends to learn how to open oysters with one hand. We never saw an oyster with one hand, but, never- theless, here's Danny's rhyme: I'm not bad looking nor am 1 cute; I'm five foot eight, stilt not a brute. I swim, I dance, amuse and sing; Oh, I do a little of everything. I know what's wrong and know what's right; Admire a girl with an appetite. I like boat rides, especially at dark, But I'm not a kibbo who sits in the park, “Here!"’ she yelled to the dog. “Lat that cat alo Buddenly the cat turned and sent the dog sprawling, after which she @hased him back to their starting Miss Cavanaugh again ran she yelled to the cat. “Let that dog alone!" Just then the dog took after the gat once more, but Miss Cavanaugh quit, She decided they were kidding Gossip. Ellis Baker, daughter of Exith Ellis, has joined the cast of “That Day.” John Hendricks has been added to the cast of “fue, Dear,” opening Tuly 3 at Long Branch, Grace Reals has been engaged for “The Inevitable,” in which Maria Bazzi will make her English-speak- ing debut. zaeee Groody of “Good Morning, has heard that Louise} Yaudeville. Greay, may race soon at Aqueduct. Bam H. Harris has engaged Robert Hattio Darling bas ea Ames, Hortense Alden, John Daly , i I'd uke a girl about flve feet atz, One who's nice and seldom kicks, Now hark, ye girlies, listen for That’ 8 al I ask—I ask no more. to appear in “Joys and Glooms,” which will be a feature of Shubert Unger were the honored guests of a theatre party which saw “Abie's Irish Rose” last night. Jacob Rosen- berg ‘was the host. Paul Roberson, “Taboo,” has joined "Shuffle Along."’ as a football star. Ed Wynn and his “Perfect Fool" company will close their New York engagement at the George M. Cohan Theatre on July 1. Twenty-five choir boys trom the Cathedral of St, John the Divine saw “Blossom Time” last night They chose this attraction because of its Schubert music. Stanley Howlett will replace Harry Irvine as director of the Threshold Playhouse when Mr. Irvine goes on tour, A. H. Woods will arrive in New York from Europe next Friday, He Willie Smith," said the careless young thing, burst- ing into the breakfast room at the early hour of eleven “Why, my dear child!" her robust and en_ neg! a acy I'm gotng to marry exploded parent. recently of the cast of He was once noted yesterday he always thought Muscle Shoals was a gymnasium, FOOLISHMENT. To-day's the longest day Of all the year, And yet it's seemed so short For you were near. The day is always short When I'm with you. My love for you is real— My home-made brew. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “IT want to buy a hat.” is bringing some plays he acquired] [HOw about a fine derby?" over there: But I'm going South, “Vat! You vould go South and miss a chance to vear sooch a fine A THOUGHT FOR TO-pay. $5 derby? Hi Crocker of Wellsville admitted land?’ Vhy not go to Newfound- “One moment. You're going to do no such thing. I don't mind not knowing what he looks like, but I do mind knowing absolutely nothing whatever about him. What do you know?” “Oh, he's all right, mother, I've inquired about his parents and ances- tors, his college and clubs, and,his allowance and salary."" “All of which, my dear, are of no importance whatever,’ answered her mother. ‘‘What I want to know Is, does he ever think or talk bran or yeast or calories or vitamins?" “Oh, mother darling, how could I possibly have overlooked that!" ex- claimed the careless young thing as she hurrig¢d away to telephone Willie. —D. H. B. in Life SUPREME HAPPINESS. HEY were talking about women AL friends. “Do you see Emma often?’’ one inquired. “Oh, yes, other replied “Is she happily married?’ “Is she? I'll say she is. Why, that girl is 50 happily married she has to go to jhe theatre for a good cry.""— Indiag&polis News. quite frequently," the STILLS. Cleo Madison just left New York for the West Coast, where she will play the leading feminine role in the Mayer-Stahl production, ‘The Dan. kerous Age."’ Lewis Btone will play the male lead. Argentine ants have become such a pest that the United States Govern- ment ts making extraordinary efforts to exterminate them. The Urban Movie Chat shows the whol ant elimination process. A slow poison is used which takes ten days to kill an Ain't it lucky the ants are not ant cats? Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, the noted author, breaks into the movies thin week with the following sage sayings: ‘Marriage is a partnership and not a despotism, Partners ig business aim to further their mutual interests. Partners in the home should do like wise." The voice from the press agen: states that Norma Talmadge will soon start work on ‘The Voice From the Minaret."” A bulletin from the cribside of Bus- ter Keaton jr. proves the youngster is not like his famous dad. The baby amiled yesterday. Helen Ferguson, who plays the leading role in Goldwyn’s ‘Hungry Hearts,"’ is justly proud of an auto- graphed copy of the book, given her by Angia Yezierska, the author, The inscriptién reads: To Helen Fergu son, whose compelling sincerity and masterful portrayal of Sara in ‘Hungry Hearts,’ proves her an ar- Ust of the first rank.’’ Edward Pell, who played in “Broken Blossoms'' and “Dream Street’? under Griffith direction, has been engaged for ‘Broken Chains."’ If you can draw, why sit right down and draw a picture for ‘Nero.’ There is a poster contest on and you might as well get in. Mary Carr will next appear in “‘The Custard Cup," which to our way of thinking, sounds much too much like one of those old custard pie comics of the Sennett variety. “Moonshine Valley,"* William Far- num’s next picture, will contain oodles of scenery, a lot of good acting, but very little of the stuff suggested by the title. While William Russell yearns to another big western picture, he he hecome so popular in the polished drama that Fox will keep him in soup- and-fish clothes for a while yet. Shirley Mason doesn’t ride her hobbies very long. Her latest is air- planing and, if she keeps on stunting the way she has started—the open- ing sentence of this paragraph will be truer than ever, The father of Holmes Herbert, the screenite, was a famous minstrel of fifty years ago. Doug Fairbanks sends us word that he is half through with “Robin Hood.” The firet half is alx..ye the hardest. t SPONGED AND PRESSED. Camera work is finished and br | has started on ‘A Tailor Made Man, Charley Ray's next starring release, ‘We suppose that after it leaves the cutting room it will be all mussed ug and will then have to be dry cleaned and pressed before public. it reaches the MARY TIRED. ‘ Five continuous weeks on locatiog shooting scenes for ‘'Tess'’ have what tired Mary Pickford and she’ glad it is all over. Yesterday when she landed back in civilization and was just about to fall into a nice nap she was disturbed by the ringing of the doorbell. The Fairbanks’ Jap being off for the afters noon, Mary answered the summons herself. When she opened the door she faced & book agent who offered her a |: atlas at @ small price. “‘What good is it?’’ she asked. “It has maps of the world,” anv nounced the agent. ‘You can find any location in a minute.’’ “Out!” commanded Mary. ‘I never want to hear the word ‘location’ again.” BREEZY NAME. Ann Forest, who has been engaged to play ‘“‘Nora”’ in “If Winter Comes, very early in her career was playing @ part with a big male star. She was not Ann Forest then, but a) peared under her own name. The star did not think her original name would” do at all for the screen and so sug- gested a change. “But what?" asked the girl. “You are calm and cool,"’ replied the star. ‘You put me in mind of a forest. Why not call yourself ‘A. Forest?’ And she did, amplifying the A ta Ann. @ BUM ENTERTAINMENT, They think so much .of Violet Mersereau up at the Fox studio that every time a horse named after her is entered it receives a heavy play. Abe, one of the office boys, an- nounced the other day that he had played $2 on Violet Mersereau to show. ® sked, “what hap- “Weill,” he wa pened?” “It was the bummest show} ever saw for $2." MORE FISH. Harold Schwartz, assistant director tor Wally Reld, has the champion fish story of the past year. It seems that Harold took a live trout on location because there were no.trout in the stream. Just as he was about to fasten the trout to a line the fish squirmed loose and fell into the water. Harold says he dove in and caught the fish before it could get a good start. If you don't believe this (and we don’t) just look up Harold. In five minutes he'll tell you a bigger one. ITS ORIGIN. Back in the Persian days when Omar was browsing about, which days are brought down to date in the film story, “Omar, The Tentmaker,”’ it was customary to swear everything “py the beard of the Prophet.” In doing research work for the Story, one of the co-authors acci- dentally ran across the origin, he thinks, of one of the meanest words in modern English. He says he found in one of the books this sen- tence: “And, by the beard of the Prophet, tears were rolling down his face." OH! WYNN IN MOVIES, We do not know, but it looks very much as though Ed Wynn, the “Per- fect Fool,” would soon grace or dis- grace the movies with his antics. The tip came to us last night in the form of a note from Frank Keenan, the father-in-law of the “P. F.," who has just landed in Los Angeles after a trip through the Panama Canal, and which was to the effect that he had made all studio arrangements for the taking of pictures of Ed dur- ing his stay in the Far West. ‘We know of no comedian who could teuch Wynn if he really feels funny while posing before the camera, Let's hope the report that he is about to enter the jumping opera is true. ELLA COMES BACK, Remember little Ella Hall? Of course you do, i ‘Well, she's back on the screen. About three years ago Ella mut- tered “I do” before a minister and her home became her stage. Pretty soon along came two other leading players and Ella decided that she would never, never resume screen work. . Now, just to show her two sons what @ regular little actress she is, Ella hes daubed on some movie make-up and ts back with both feet. HONORED. Ralph Lewis, character actor of the screen, has been signally honored Or, to be more exact, he believes he has. Tt seems that a certain scribe who writes of the movies for a Mid-West- ern paper set himself down to his facile typewriter recently and selected the “Ten Most Valuable Persons in Screendom."’ Out of the ten Lewis ts the only actor mentioned, the bal- ce of the list being taken up by directors and producers. But the real snapper in the story is the last line in the selections, This {is left blank by the selector, who re- marks: “To be filled in by the man who thinks he is bigger than any of those listed,"* We ran into 110 actors yesterday and each bad filled im the hast line with bis ows same, conienias