The evening world. Newspaper, July 1, 1922, Page 12

Theatrical New s and Gossip _ SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1922 The Evening World Comics WOMAN CAME AFTER MAN AN’ SHE'S BEEN AFTER HIM Ever SINCE! Good Evening! By BIDE DUDLEY BLANCHE NoT ONLY GETS “He $100 1 ASK FOR THE Car BUT SHE “Tacks ON t 200 MORE AN’ GETS “THAT 'M A MAGNIFICENT Poised ALE ey SPECIMEN OF A FATHEAD! INSTEAD OF HAVIN' “THAT @RAND FEELING OF EXHILERATION OVER GETTIN’ RIDOF THe CaR — — 1 FIND MYSELF WEIGHED DOWN BY THE CONVICTION wo FOOLS IN’ MY HOUSEHOLD. AN’ {'M BOTH oF “em? THERE WAS A MAN IN OUR TOWN, AND HE WAS WISE, OLD DEAR; POEMS OF PREFERENCE. | } © WE JUMPED INTO A BRAMBLE BUSH] ~ ’ WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST FEAR.| Nutty Wanner of Harlem is all AND WHEN THE MAN APPEARED) right. He has entered this contest } bP Mh alla not with the idea of winning ihe ty) WE SAW THE REASON WHY— | veivet-iined oyster opener but rather _ YN GITHER HAND HE HELD A to attract the attention of # certain dame to the fact that he'd like to lead her to the preacher man, Nutt’s QUART OF GOOD, OLD-FASHIONED RYE. : an) i : ling, soctety romance — which he is giving away to his will be held to-morrow afternoon also, | ark, Bombay, Damascus and London,| Larz Hanson (another canny Scot),|'eeks with startling, pS. o; Klein, Al Jones, Max Spiegel, L. pie ae’ Ta rhb filed pf says he. and there will be another Thursday] “ don't know @ thing more about| while mob and other scenes and the hero in “In Self-De,|4nd dabbles on the Jagged edge of a Lawrence Weber, Jack Singer, Henry ations hogan peat pa night. pictures in Europe now than I did] other big effects will be shot on dif- is known as “the Fairbanks|CTime and respectability.” We've! . ani vil; people. “she Shubert interests, Mr. Herk,| Never hurry, never worry, thus un-] And still the Negro shows come. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. to us, ‘because all I saw in the] we don’t know, but the advance} Sorter starts out Ike a lesson in] The Police Glee Club will sing oe "president of the Affiiated Theatre| Becessarily wearing out your God-|Jack Goldberg has one rehearsing at] We heard a girl on the subway this] cinemas abroad were Christie come-| notices sure do savor of the old Bar-| geography, doesn't it? during the showing of Siu aainanaee % given vitality, Terrace Garden and expects to launch |:norning saying she had seen Mar- | dies that I had made months ago." num days! For, if that doesn't Harry Levey told us yesterday|of the Law’ at the George M. Cohar = *’“ Corporation, says the new circuit s {t within a month. As yet he hasn't] jorie Rainbow in ‘The Gold Mine’| What do you mean—‘“forget pic-| sound like a three-ringed circus we|trat owing to the reception of his| Theatre, Criminals are working : should not be looked on as a rival of fe) gunshine ety ag there is} named it. last night. tures’? miss our guess by @ coupla miles, | presentation of ‘Around the World| twenty-four hours a day im alll parts ‘ WArES penny ade f you Took for It, With Burton Holmes" he has de-| of the etty, too. om gra ahnahaey a ib iad — Train yourself to be cheerful, even GossiP. FOOLISHMENT. “MUTTI” WELL NAMED. cided to give us in the fall a travel] They are bragging » lot about nav- i / “ . though there be sorrow in your heart,| Dolly Connolly has joined “The Pin] There was a young lady named Mary,| Robert C. Bruce, who gilds the Iily| yt fooks as though Larry Evans, the| film de luxe called “Our Own United] ing a Chinese junk,in ‘East Is West. f side WHR vandeville, is really more or)” is Wheel Revue’ at Earl Carroll's| Who bit on the seed of a cherry. and perfumes the rose, as far as|scribe, had byllded better than he re-|States."" We, for one, are mighty] The junk we lamp in most films may 7 magne ef © cores. Me calls the iden « \ Theatre, it Ada hah co cae scenics are concerned, is worried. He] alized when he called his first direct] sla! not have the distinction of. being “ * ise OBSERVATIONS LEFT WHEN He Ra~r : eah B ii ITS RIGHT SIDE OF €oer Wh My MIeR daca Yeah Bo! A live wire caused a blaze at the eae 6 Foor PRINTS f ra) ey A “Let Dempsey and Wills fignt. 1| Winter Garden yesterday. No, it Asked his occupation in court recently, Frank L. Hedley of the Interborough said he was editor of the Subway Sun. Come on over, Frank, and wel'll let you run the funny column a while. Treat Her Lovely. If your wife can’t cook don't di- yorce her—eat here and keep her as ® pet.—"What Did You See?" Depart- ment, Evening World. Oh, reader, if your wife can't er0%, Don't, give up in despair. No trip to Reno you should ook To slip the girl the air. Regard. her as a pet, my friend, And happy you will be. And we will join you in the end In good old bankruptcy. , draw no color line—may the beit man ae au «o¥ile circuit. ‘cused exclusively with the regular sea- win.”—Gov. Miller. A pretty fair campaign speech, en, wot? THELMA, THE VAMP. (Lat the dance proceed, though henrts be broken. res K. Harris.) Thelma stood in the pay-line. In her hand was a ticket calling for $14.31, This had come, and merely because she would not marry Benjamin Hur, the noted actor. Ahead of her stood a man with a large stomach. He was eyeing her closely. “Can it be?” he was heard to murmur. The little girl from Kitchikik . Noticed his waist-line and won- » dered * Years seemed to pass in the in- if she were dreaming. terim. The paymaster eyed her also. His gaze was full of meaning. “What is your name, gal” he asked. “I am Thelma,” she* replied, weeping. A shiver swept over the stom- ach of the large man, "Twas not unlike the jellyfish at play. “Thelma!” It brought back memories of his old home town— the town he had not seen since he was run out of it, eighteen years before. “T once knew a girl named Thelma,” he said with a cough that bespoke a world of emotion. ‘Thelma grasped her pay enve- * lope firmly. She feared the man «sao Was a Wall Street, broker. A Violently Thelma tugged at the newcome! gown. Handful by handful she tore it off. “Base deceiver!” she screamed. right. The strange person was John Barrymore, and in his hand he held a photograph of Arthur Hopkins. (To be continued.) Messrs. Shubert are announc- ing the completion of the plans for their next season's vaude- The unit system will be son beginning in September. The cir- qv fuit extends as far west as Omaha yoand south to Louisville, Unit features will be produced by Lew Fields, Joe Galtes, W. B. Friedlander, Arthur Dixon, Mex Marcin, I. H. Herk and fresh and promising field of theatrical ATTRACTIONS ARE FEW. four more attractions closing to-night, there will He about thirty About Plays rhyme follows: 1 do not care for prizes, Unléss they're feminine. So keep your oyster opener But help me get a line On Mary Ellen's fickle heart. She lives up Harlem wuy. Please tell her, Mister Eveniny World, Hef board I'd like to p Request that dame to tab. And if she does, i: gee! Vl make her bake some uppie cake Yor you, dear sir, and me. it. A Pop-Up. Casey Mullen of the ball team says he walked the floor with Casey jr. all last night.—Youngstown (0.) Record. wasn't Eddie Cantor. The Sing Sing Band has been or- dered to play no more. The bass player, a forger, was giving forth false notes. George Broadhurst has dropped his suit against John B. Symon of San Francisco, who dropped George. A Broadway store is advertising a complete bathing outfit for the fair sex for 89 cents. The ocean is thrown in. British Columbia is now selling greosoted fir ties to India. We men- tion this, thinking you might like to know what's going on in the creosot- ed fir tie world. The electric light and gas men played golf at the Oakland Club yes- terday and Bob Livingston turned in a card of six watts up and four cubie feet to go. BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Jim Johnson, my neighbor, never known sight. e as From birth lived in contin him. The glow of the sun- stranger to Jim, He walke with a cane which he taps on the ground. In life, it would seem, little joy he has found. But when disappointment and woe fill my cup, | go to Jim Johnson and Jim cheers me up. Jim hums a crude tune and hi: it with good com- nse—that nothing will matter a hundred years hence. “It'e great to be living and well,” Jim will say. “I thank the Crea- tor for life every day. This thing they call trouble is just a bal- loon.” And then he moves off and willing to quit, and life seems to be just a bottomless pit, re- member Jim Johnson, the man without sight, ai brace and. yo right. AND NOW PERMIT US To suggest that if the Mayor would like to know just what pret it for him, vacant theatres in the Broadway dis- trict. July will see only about a dozen shows running. —A rush of new pro- duetions is expected for August, how- ever. “BE HAPPY,” SAYS JOHN. “Yours Merrily’ John R. Rogers has caused to be printed a treatise entitled “How to Retain Your Youth” month of July in order that the com- pany may have a rest. my name, ODEAR! A HoRRID MAN FLI@TED WH Me THERES HIS HAT HE ~ Nosirt No CAKE- EATER” CAN: Lee Bhubert @nnounces that this musical play MART. SOME ONE “BROKE AY KITCHEN WINDOW- Do yéu KNow WHO THERE. THERE —1F SOMEONE HASNT Gone 4N’ BUSTED MY KiTCHEN WINKOW DON'T SMOKE So MUCH, FERDIE ~ IT's ACIGAR- LIGHTER Some FRIEND SENT ME. ALL Y'GOTTA Do 1S RUB THis LITTLE WHEEL WITH YER WHAT'S THAT THING You've GoT THere ? BAW! 7 Never eFfrects Me- TVE BEEN wiser “Clang!” Grandson Sinnott means when The heodulum wagon was ap- he remarks “Oogle glooble,” he < ; aa . proaching. should get another baby to inter- SN < (TS MARVELLOUS WHAT WONDERFUL THINGS THESE EUROPEANS TURN OUT— woman approached. call a great man. How fine it SMOKING FoR PALM AND THE SPARK THEY'RE SO PRACTICAL = who are you?” demanded | would be if we all used hie plan! ST THROWS IGNITES HE — tag "Twould make this old life very i vA ) % muoh worth the ‘while if we could ™ 5 By qaut “Clair de Lane” came the | just borrow Jim's tune and hie ed reply. smile. Whenever you're worried AW! “THATS RI HHowW- CHILDREN DONT LiKE “6 *TELL ON EACHOTHER Bot- 1 -I-Lie Just eve Yeu @ NICKEL -IF YOU'LL TELL ME Wito BROKE MY WINDOW-| Practical? Yes, Practically Useless! positively will resume its run at the same theatre on Aug. 1. “My Radio Girl," to be produced by Eddie Dowling. Bessie McCoy is to be one of *he stars in the Arthur Pearson Shubert Vaudeville Unit. News from the Coast says Shella Terry, the Keith dancing married Roy Sedley, leading man in her act. Sam H, Harris will produce “It's a Boy” at the Apollo Theatre, At- lantie City, on July 17, A special dancing session will be held at the Terrace Garden Dance Palace on Tuesday, July 4, at which time a preliminary in thé ‘Select Your Dance" popular applause con- test will be a feature. A preliminary Screenings MUSIC EASY FOR HIM. Maurice Holland, who was in “Mar- folaine,” plays the violin and plays it well, although up to six months ago he had never had one in his hands, They wanted a touch of vio- lin, music in the show and he volun- teered to furnish it. In less than three weeks he had learned to play. Mr. Holland is in “Sue, Dear,” which opens a New York engagement at the Times Square Theatre on July 10. “Anybody with an ear for music can learn to play any instrument in a month if he will apply himself,” By DON YOU KNOW ALI Al Christie, supervising director of the Educational Christie Comedies, is back from Europe and already hus- tling toward the land of the prune and the native son. Al took a vacation and swore he wouldn't as much as think of a pic- ture while away. He visited England, Scotland, ‘France and parts of New- ANOTHER NEGRO SHOW. when I left New York," Al whispered “The Inevitable’ will open in As- recently acquired a new dog to appear PUT IT IN THE ACT. “Why is an egg like a colt?’ “Because it is of no use until ft's broken.”* B.D. ‘Montmartre,’ is sailing to-day for a holiday in Europe. Jerome and Herbert, Jere Delaney and Saranoff have been engaged for ing taken by Bruce, are classics, Dut that isn’t the point of this yarn at all, It seems that when a salesman called upon a certain uptown Manhat- tan picture theatre owner and offered him @ effance to exhibit ‘Jenkins and the Mutt” the exhibitor froze right up and dismissed the picture with: “{ don't wanta book any more of those Mutt and Jeff cartoons and"’—— ‘And the salesman told him just ex- actly what we would have told him had we been in the salesman's place. “GANGWAY!"" Stages to the right of them, stages to the left of them, and still not enough to house all the different scenes in Robert Hichens's ‘The Voice from the Minaret.”” ‘Three of the stages alone will be utilized for the sets representing ferent locations, for " writing the screen ‘Money, but ite junk y A MONTH'S VACATION. bury Park on July 10, William Gil-| That she kicked her old dad in a picture to be known as ‘Jenkins| Money, Money." next Educational release in the Sher-| just the same. aM activity. “Blossom Time” will close to-night] more is directing it. And swore at the hired man. Jerry Jand the Mutt. The dog is a good| For, no sooner than it was an-|lock Holmes series, ‘‘Identity’’ may] Metro announced yesterday that it - ean at the Ambassador Theatre for the] John Anthony, recently seen in actor, all righ., and the pictures, be-| nounced that the story was to be|be all right—but we'd rather have a] would soon abolish its scenario staff screened than a big Broadway the- atrical manager wired Larry that he thought it would make a splendid speaky. Baerg@ereed, and ‘‘Money, a f Money, Money’ will probably be seen on a Broadway stage next season. Not to be outdone, the editor of a big magazine has just closed the se- rial rights to run the story in his magazine. If any one should ask Larry how he was making out he could answer: “I'm making"—— Oh, just read over the title again! in “The We don’t know which ¢ set’’ should win the title—but Robert Bruce ought to enter some of his scenics. He used the whole world as a background, The dressing rooms that served the stars of yesteryear out in Hollywood are being torn down along ith the rest of the old Christie studio build- ings, which are being razed to carry out the house-cleaning and rebi plans of the company, Many of stars that were housed in these have fallen long ere this. According to the vivid word- paintings of the P. A., “‘When the Desert Calls," ‘besides being lavish, CUT-BACKS. Pauline Brundius, star of Swedish Biograph productions, has the dis- tinction of being the only woman movie director in Scandinavia Which, in our humble estimation, is SOME distinction! . simply GOT to see that one! “A Case of Identity’ will be the] thoroughbred Chinese, ‘case’ of something else. Norma Talmadge ts the latest to claim “the biggest movie set ever photographed." Her entry, is the big and order all its writing done by clal writers, Now watch @ bunch scenarists drift back into the news- paper game, my <A . . a