The evening world. Newspaper, July 27, 1922, Page 28

Theatrical News and Gossip By BIDE Says Battler Ben, To Slugger Lew: “I'll knock you cold, That’s what I'll do.” Says Slugger Lew, To Battler Ben: "Like h—I you will, Just guess again.” A lot of men Will pay real dough, So they may see This fistic show, It better be A reg'lar fight, If they should stall, Oh boy—good night! Observations. If the strike continues even soft peal will be hard—to get. A horse called Cabbage won a race out West yesterday. Probably by 4 head! The high cost of living is still on the rampage. Maybe it hasn't heard the war is over. That B. R. T. tie-up made a lot of ple go hungry. However, they und séme jain in the subway. Bt..Louis should be overjoyed. It has two fine ball teams and is the -originating point of Czar Gus Thomas, of the stage. A Boston Rhyme. P. B. Fenton of Boston writes us that he has a burning desire to see a rhyme of his printed in this column. We've always wanted a jingle out of # Boston bean, so let's go: Yonn Bull has a well-matured flap- per {Who came to the U. S. to rap her. The natives were dull, Bo her teachings were null, They termed her bizarre, although dapper. On or Off. “Apropos of nothing special,” writes “Glowworm,” “doesn’t it seem to you that Eddie Cantor bears some resemblance to F. P. A.?” LAUGHING LENA. (Tie o dark world, but some happiness Sauist creep 1n.—Will A. Page.) “Ha, ha!” Lena was laughing. “Why this merriment?” asked Grocer Hoskins, who considered laughter piffle. Lady Hotchkis stepped forward ‘and bowed reticently. “Laughter saves the world from gloom,” she said. Lady Hotchkiss was the daughter of an English nobleman, but she never mentioned the fact. : “I doubt it.” Archibald had spoken. Here was another county heard from. This, of course, is merely a slangy figure of speech. No county was heard from. How are you to-day, anyway? At that juncture three hens and a rooster came through the front door. Lady Hotchkiss did not care for barnyardism of this sort and, sniff- fg, she turned abruptly on her fheel and stepped behind the pickle Darrel. - “Poultry,” she said. “Yes,” replied Grocer Hoskins, (with a smile at the hens. Dearing, tne barber, approached the rooster. “Shoo!” was the way he put tt. ‘There was a peculiar toot. No one o report that the theatrical I managers might try to cut the salaries of actors was the sub- Ject of much comment to-day on Broadway. There is no organized movement to this end and probably ‘will be none. Augustus Thomas, the “Landis of the theatrical profes- " gaid he knew of no such plan. “The salary question is a matter for the manager and the actor to settle Between themselves,”’ he said. ‘'Com- petitive bidding for the services of a Player will put his salary up, and there will be such bidding for the best players."” Frank Gillmore of the Equity ex- pressed the same sort of idea. - “Qur organization does not attempt © regulate salaries except in the case @f chorus people, and them we merely Bame « minimum sum,” he said. WSalaries will go up or down as the Managers and players getermine."* The Equity’s publigition, in reply fo A. H. Woods's statement that sal- @ries chould be lower, suggested re- cently that a plan be evolved where- by the player would be paid a certain sur’, considered reasonable, and a per- @entage on the gross receipts after they reach an agreed upon figure. Thus, it was pointed out, if the show made money, the player would profit , Good E About Plays and Players thereby and, at the sume time, be > 1 t vening! DUDLEY { POEMS OF PREFERENCE J A. Franz Blau of Brooklyn, when he found the B. R. T. tieup would keep him from getting home the other night, wrote a rhyme for this department, outlining the girl he'd like to wed. Really, the B. R. T. officials should be censored severely for that accident. Look at this pome: The girl I'd wed must be well-read, And have some education, To art ring true, to music, too, She must have inclination, She need not look so fine, or cook, Nor come from some great sire, A girl with sense—one not too dense, Is all that I desire, As to myself, 'm on the shelf Awaiting harvest’s season, Tve lots of dough; a car, you know, Can keep her within reason, I love to spoon beneath the moon, When all the stars are peeping, Is there a maid who's not afraid To come within my keeping? understood it until Grocer Hoskins explained it came from the Leghorn, Twilight was approdching. It soft- ened Archibald to the point of love- making. He held up one hand. “I feel that I should tell my love,” he said falteringly. “My dear Archibald,” sald Lady Hotchkiss, “you are of a socially elect family and yet you are so com- non.” “Kerblooey!” Grocer Hoskins had expectorated behind the potato barrel. Lena drew her automatic. (To be continued.) Where’s That Note? Joe Mason painted his mail box to-day. He's expecting a note of appreciation from the Postmaster General.—Leesvile (Ark.) Times. So Was He. He was somewhat under the tnflu- ence of hooch, and as he approached the desk in a Broadway hotel, he showed it. “Gotta have a room,” he sald to the clerk. “I'm sorry, but we're full,” came the reply. “So'm I,” sald the inebriated one, “but I ain't shorry.” And then he tacked out. The Way It’s Done. The letters of the alphabet Were put and mixed about Inside a hat; a man then took A good-sized handful out, Then, while securely blindfolded, He placed them in a line, And lo, a Pullman car was named, Was not his method fine? Clara’s Request. Clara is @ portly colored nurse who ysed to care for our baby girl. ‘Last night Clara telephoned us. “Howdy do, Mistah Dudley!” she began “Ah wants to go to a show. Kin you git me tickets?” “What show?” we asked. “That ‘Plantation Revenue,’” sald Clara. AND NOW PERMIT US to inform you that a girl base- ball fan living in Harlem favors the Yankees because they're called the Hugmen. would be giving the manager a chance to avoid loss. A HAPPY CHOICE. The appointment of Augustus Thomas as “head of the theatrical business," ts another subject being widely discussed. The Equity does not deny that when tts agreement with the Producing Managers’ Assoctation expires in the spring of 1924, it may hold out for the acceptance by the managers of the Equity shop idea. At the same time, it does not admit that such Is its plan. We are thoroughly convinced, however, that it is. Wheth- er this will mean a@ fight with the P. M. A. remains to be seen, but the appointment of Mr, Thomas should be a long step in the direction of a lasting peace. He {s a diplomat, a gentleman and a man everybody likes. ‘To our way of thinking he is just the man to guide the managers over rough spots. WANT MISS RAMBEAU, Lee Shubert has received an unusual petition, It is from representatives of the one-night stand managers and it asks that Marjorie Rambeau, in “The Goldfish,” be sent on tour through the smaller towns, Attrac- tions for the road are very scarce, JULY 27, | 1 wisH 1 KNEW Some Guy (T ANY LONGER VE Gotta GET ME ANOTHER CAR. OR “THE OCHIROPODIST'LL GET ALL MY MONEY! “‘opoW! x PITY “TH FooR FELLERS “THAT Have TO WoRK OUT UNDER “THIS BROILIN' HOT iti —OH-0-0-0H! Puew!! DAWGONE (fF “TM GonNA LABOR ON THIS BLISTERIN’ DAY Wily Does repay COME AFTER MONDAY? WHY is M1 tT SATURDAY ALL THe ime @ WHY 1s SUMMER? WHY. - 2 on port ASK so MANY QUESTIONS A WONDERFUL TIME WITH MR, REEVES: HABIT OUT OF IT BESIDES= T SUPPOSE YOU Wi@ BE RIDING ALL THE TIME NOW LCOULD TRUST “THAT HAS AGooD BOWER FOR SALE CITI BOBRAE You'Re DRVING ME DIPPY wit YOUR QUESTIONS — EET our SF His KITCHEN - T CANT STAND Tr wily ae I &ASK so any. QUESTIONS, _ The Evening World Comics | JoE Do You KNOW ANYBODY WHO WANTS Buy A CAR tr NOT A SOUL, ELmeR—} {NOT A Sour OH BO! Loo at Poor OLD FLMER WITH HIS BEAN UNDER “THy'Hood OH , SucH A msERY —-! WOLD THE . WIRE — IT'S MR. NIBLICK” DEAR AT THe “COUNTRY CLUB’ -HE WANTS “Yo KNOW IF You WILL DOIN HIM IN A ROUND OF GoLF! LETS Go ) ANCWER ANOTHER | naar its RouND "NIB. Ik wo HoT 2 , The All-Important’ One! BoBBIE WANTS “To KNOW, KIN HE COME IN AND see HE WANTS “id KNow WHY He CANT come IN AND ASK You SOME MORE QUESTIONS side You ONE MoRE/ — . — QUESTION — No, STUPID! A MovING PicTuRE ee | HAS ADVERTISED FoR AN EMOTIONAL ACTRESS AN’ IM REHEARSING s— FR THE = PEOPLE ARE| so DUMB THEY THINK DEUCE WILL YOU GET A HORSE PF i C) KZ especially those with Broadway runs behind them, and the one-night stand managers feel they ought to get a good show now and then, at their expense, but they enjoyed it hugely, GOSSIP. Richard Bold, tenor, and the Piano 'rio will be with ‘Scandals."* “The Greenwich Village Follies’’ has begun rehearsing at the Park. Al Jolson has returned to Broadway from the country. He meant to stay FRIARS SEE TI hur friends saw Square Thea O'Neill, the comec “SUE, DEAR.” Tine Bobby of fun t night an, had a lot a while up there, but a mosquito bit him. Muriel Stryker, who hurt a leg re- cently while dancing, has returned to the ‘'Follies."* . Basil Rathbone, who was leading man in “The Czarina,"”’ has gone to London to appear in “East of Suez."" Fred Bishop's season at Carlin's Park, Baltimore, has been extended = qian: Seu | 2 | HOW BAB caTS HER HORSE 7) &, four weeks, He ts presenting De Wolf A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. “If that is the case,” Hopper in Gilbert and Sullivan pleces. | Yxcess temperament on the stage| Replied Peter H. Chase, Harry Puck has signed @ contrat | or off never got anybody anywhere. | “Don’t tell it all over, you dub.” to appear in “Tangerine” again next sbi season, ie PUT IT IN THE AC Vaughn De Leath, singer, did an FOOLISHMENT. * . T. ie unusual stunt the other night. She] “The ‘L’ makes more noise than the} ‘' man that will bet Is @ gambler, Aa “Indeed he is.’* Sub, “And a man who won't 1s no bet- One morning sald Andrew McBubdbd.| tor," sang several songs over the radio- phone with her own records, In other words, she sang duets with herself,