The evening world. Newspaper, August 4, 1922, Page 18

Theatrical News and Gossip | By BIDE Good Evening ! DUDLEY WOOO MO TONON Oh, breakfast foods; oh, breakfast foods! T guess I’ve got the habit; Each time a new one comes along I sit right down and grab it I’ve had my fill of Bite-a-chunk, I’ve loaded up on Wheatlets, And Corncob Flakes | cast aside For imitation Meatlets One week | tackled Blasted Rye And then | tried some Oatlets. My wife's complaining bitterly, She says | get her goatlets. Oh, breakfast foods; oh, breakfast foods! Your number e’er increases; I'm going back to ham and eggs And other kindred greases. OBSERVATIONS. The baseball players may form a Qnion. Presume they'll take in the umpires to call the strikes. Joun Tanner of Brighton, Mich, has a beard nine feet long. He is thinking of having it bobbed for soup-cating purposes. “Kills Self With Shot in Pantry.” Newspaper headline. Probably put a bullet in his stomach Los Angeles is to have a new cem- etery. It should prove a paying in- vestment if Hollywood keeps up its Uek. Pickles are selling in Gloucester, N. J., for 10 cents a basket. And they are of the well pimpled variety LAUGHING LENA. (Girlsealways rebuke men who try to Mirt with you.—Betts.) Lena took a newspaper and pretended sho was reading. Her glance was really on Dearing, the barber, who had obtained a dimmy and was trying to open a box of ginger snaps. It ap- peared he was intent on stgal- ing a snap. “LI believe,” said Lena to her- eelf, “that man is Red Mike, who robbed the Fashion Cafe of its hash last week.” Lady Hotchkiss had her eye on Dearing also. But she had the impression he was trying to release something from the box, like a rat or a three-horned toad. Her husband having died within the week, she was jolly and playful, and, stealing up be hind Dearing, she yelled: “Boo!” Dearing sprang to his feet and Tushed about the room. He didn’t, appear to have considered the matter of destination. + This, of course, angered Lena, “When you get there, please let mo know,” she said. Dearing stopped. He became normal again and a crafty look came into his eyes. “Who ‘Booed’ me?” manded. Grocer Hoskins did not want his store to figure in the news- - papers as a trouble hole, so he gave the barber a good nickel cigar and patted him on the back. “You're perfectly fascinating, Mr. Dearing,” he said. The society ladies applauded, As they stood grouped about the pickle barrel they made a pretty he de if POEMS \italttineiciiaeineateiinsiieesataiteni Arnold D. M., a New Yorker by birth and by golly, writes us he'd like to marry Laughing Lena, but that, since he cannot, he will de- scribe a substitute. Look: I'd like to meet a little girt, Who'd set my heart all in a whirl. And she must have a lovely form That far transcends September Morn, With eyes of blue and hair of red, To look at her would settle my head. I'm straight and dark and siz feet tall; Not painful to look at me at all. Shekels few, 'tis painfully true, But what I have you're welcome to. So where are you, oh, mythic queen? Come be my little coffee bean. sight. It is true one had a hare- lip, but her nature was so sunny. Dearing noticed the hit he was making and took off both his shoes. He had been a dancer in his youth, like Pavlowa, and now he was to reveal his se- cret. It was not pleasing to Lena. “He she yelled. Archibald thought of the de- livery horse. “He has plenty of hay,” the society favorite replied. Love shone from Archibald’s eyes and he gazed fondly at Lena “I wonder will she wed me?” he mused At that point the Postmaster entered the store. “I am the happy daddy of triplets,” he announced. Lena drew her automatic. (To Be Continued. NUTT’S DOPE. J Jefferson Shrewsbury Nutt, special correspondent of this column, wants to write us a story about Sir Thomas Lipton. A letter just in from Bogash, O., where Mr. Nutt is stopping for the summer, says “Dear Dud, | and the wife were on a ferryboat to-day and heard a deckhand saying Sir Thomas Lipton, the great Englishman, is figuring on coming to this coun- try to try for the golf cup. He is the fellow who manufactures golf tees at Shamrock, Eng. He may come here in a special barque and a joke about him being an old sea dog could be hooked on this part. Why not let | and the interview him? | would say to him, Sir Thomas, do you think you can beat Hagen?” And he would likely ask, ‘Hagen who? Ah, then I'd get my chance. I'd say, ‘Haig and Haig.’ Get it? Later the wife could re- cite to him her new Chinese poem called ‘On the Links With Chinks.’ the Oh, we'd get a A fellow just came in and asked me for $11 I've owed him quite a while. | told him I'd write you and get it. Better ship it along and apply it account. Bosworth slipped an egg into Walker Hitt’s hip pocket to-day and then tripped Hitt up. Much excitement but could learn noth- ing—dJeff.” AND NOW PERMIT US to inform you that the clothes a lawyer wears are not necessarily @ law suit, ND still they come, the new A producers! The latest to take off his coat and go to work to earn a million is Bert French, hereto- fore a director of musical numbers. Mr. French {s producing a play called “The Torchbearers,” by George Kelly. It is a comedy that tells a story of the Uttle theatre movement. In the cast are Mary Boland, Allison Skipworth, Helen Lowell, Arthur Shaw, Rose- mary King and others. The play will Bop off at Asbury Park on Aug. 14, A NEW SHUBERT PIECE. ‘The Messrs. Shubert will produce a musical comedy called “Sally, Irene and Mary” on Aug. 21, out of the city, Eddie Dowling and Cyrus Wood are the authors concerned, the lyrics are by Raymond Klages and the mu- gic has been supplied by J. Fred (Coots. We have an idea that, by the filme the show comes to New York, "Bue Dear” will have to be added to the title. ANOTHER FOR’ BOSTON. “Love and Kisses,” a musical com- @ty, tried out recently by Schwab and Kusell, will re-open tn Stamford to- wight, going from that gity to Bos- fou with Broadway in the offing. In ! About Plays and Players the cast are Eddie Buzzell, Helen Ford, Bertee Beaumont, Louise Allen, Russell Mack, Eleanor Dawn, Alan Edwards, Amelia Summerville, Dolly Lewis, Walter F. Jones, Valdene and Dorothy Smith, Helene Henri French Coyne and “SUEZ” CAST COMPLETE. A. H. Woods has completed the cast of “East of Suez," the new Somerset Maugham play which he will produce. It includes Eldridge, Basil Rathbone, Geoffrey Lang, Gypsy O'Brien, Lucille La Verne and Nathaniel Sack, Rehear- sals will begin Aug. 7 and the open- ing will take place at the Woods Theatre, Atlantic City, on Aug. 28. Florence GOSSIP. Bath tubs have been put in ihe Winter Garden dressing rooms for the girls to splash about in. Irene Castle will return to Kelth Vaudeville this fall with an assort- ment of new dances. Morn to Midnight,’ now at the Frazeo Theatre, will close Its engago- ment to-morrow evening. Elizabeth Kent, aged five |" visited MISTER JINKS ~ Hay FUNNY Lookin MAN WITH TH! BAGGY PANTS WaNTs -r'see L- “1 YA —HE sez IT's 'mpemranT cerns, ~~ BAGGY PANTS —?_2—? ‘ wo IS HE ? — <4 0 4 I know! renow! \T'S THAT DAWGONNE AUTO {MGoNMA Gwe. That Guy A BAWLING OuT HE'LL SALESMAN AGAIN! “THAT BIRD | NEEDS 4 Lit’ —TABASCO 1! oy REMEMBER (IF HE Lives ‘ $s TBE A minuion ! ~~ THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY 'N, ¥. Ewe. World, INSURED ' N'eveRYIHIN' t NOW “THAT WeVe SY'SAN THAT 1 Got A CAR ye Porc Covers Yessirt OUR OWN- TLL STEP _ { OUT AN' GeT (T FIRE Teo : “Back ey MY HAMMER ? 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THERE'S THE YOUNG DOCTOR SIMS THAT WAS JUST MO \N NEXT DOOR= HE'S WONDERFUL “ -DAY. Pop Kent of “Good Morning, Dearto,""| rice Costello of movie fame, haa| decorated and renovated and is now|at Bamboo Isle, The first will start A THOUGHT FOR TO back stage yesterday Joined the cast of “Scandals.” very happy. at 7.00 and the other at 10 Hie “atiaa: Sas Morea! ® AACR 08 Marcia Byron and William Shelley Iden Payne ha written a play Jack Donohue, Marjorie Gateson, The Strolling Players will present Pp palalliai have joined the cast of "Lights Out ‘|ealled “Dolly Jordan,’ which may|Jay Gould and Clarence Nordstrom | Tle," by Eugene O'Neill, e FOOLISHMENT. which Mra, Henry RB, Harria now has| see the light of the foots soon will be seen in “Molly, Darling.” | Fourth Mra. Phillipa,” by Carl Glick, | | 4 eg the maiden’s tooth in rehearsal Daniel, Frohman has enaused the| Beginning to-night there will betwoland ‘The Knave of ffearts,"" by I And hurt her, too, I fear. Dolores Costello, daughter of Mau-! Lyceum Theatre to be completely, ro: Louise Baundors. aes nightly of “Oh, Joy," "REHEARSING JeanD rN mISSUS WHEN JIRA HER FOR A PRAISE" - ‘toe Is Biind—Aleo Deaf! Let's SEE NOW DAD = WHAT WAS THAT YOU WERE JUST TALKIN’ ABOUT P on! T SHOULD Sey ~WHeRee | OR Four Wears: Pclbihetod SOS Wat ON Youn KNEES AL You AIKES TS mend] BiG Houms 1 Your sTEewnes. Dook Bene = LET some ong Tace 1 Gonna] Said she: “You would not be so mean‘ If Jack were only here.” PUT IT IN THE ACT. Mother—Willie, what are you do- | ing? Willie—I'm playin’ in the stree with anudder little dog.