The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1922, Page 8

7 dition to this payment. Open to all readers. MANHATTAN, FIGURES NEVER LIE. : ' NINTH AVENUB AND 42D STREET, just above “Paddy's A Market, I saw @ bareheaded woman who carried a shopping bag 3 érammed full of groceries, She was circling about a letter box, Inspecting it carefully. Presently she stopped, set down her bag, ‘Pulled out the stub of a pencil from somewhere tn her skirts and started setting down a column of figures on the green paint of the Jetter box. Carefully she added them up. She seemed dissatisfied with the total, so she took out every package from the bag and as she returned each she marked a figure on the letter box. The result was compared with the first total. Then, with much muttering and a fiery gleam in her eyes, she trekked back down the street, apparently pro- ‘pared to give battle. If any pushcart man {a reported seriously beaten up I could identify the probable assailant, but I wouJdn't. I, too, have been overcharged, and I had no letter box to verify it—Amy Crossley, No. 322% West 42d Street. CIVIC VIRTUE, BOSTON ROAD, cofner of Charlotte Street, I saw seven boys, each equipped with a big push shovel such as street cleaners use in clearing snow from city streets. They were industrionsly ‘pushing snow from’ the yard of the public school. Fora time I could not account for this youthful ambition ahd display of energy at an apparently self-appointed task. And then I was enlightened. Sud- denly one of the boys yelled to a pal who stood outside the wire enclosed yard, “Hey, Tony, give us a hand, will ya? We wanna play '—Bill Seidel, No. 303 Bast 164th Street. A LITTLE OLD LADY IN CHRISTOPHER STREET. NOTICED an elderly lady who appeared to be in trouble yesterday | while I was cleaning off the sidewalk in front of St. Veronica's Church on Christopher Street. skirt in one hand a safety pin in the other. “God blesd you, my boy,” said she, “would you mind pinning up my skirt? My fingers are all She came up to me holding her thumbs.” Her hands were so cold and numb that she was unable to help herself. She had no gloves. After somo instructions from her I finished the job to her satisfaction, nor did I mind the curious glances cast by some people as they passed, for the old lady showered me with blessings as she left. She told me she had to go up to 125th Street.— James Doherty, No. 23 Grove Street, BROOKLYN. = FOLLIES OF YouTH, I was awakened after midnight this morning by a bolaterous noise, Look- ing througit the window, t enw on the street about twelve boys, none of them more than twenty years of age, and «!) of them Intoxteated. 1 THREE WORDs, 4 large vow came by parcel post to my sister while 1 was calling at hor homo, @ few doors from my own, to-day, and assuming it was a Christmas present opened it, Th the bow was a utiful wreath Ford cam and they became #0 viol made from flowers that grow in |they smashed the radiator and tore the California. It had been sent by a top to shreds. Then they sped away, relativo, and we were admiring the | Jumping on and oft the car and probably beautiful and wauaual Christmas worry! the driver sick for fear they toreath when our eyes fell on a card would t hurt.—Mrs, W. J, McNulty, attached, which read, “For Neil's |No. 686 Leonard Street, Brooklyn, grave.” All the joy loft us, and the —— Christmas cheer died at sight ‘of those few words. Nell waa my sis- ter’s daughter, not long deceased.— THROWING COLD WATER ON THE GAME, ‘ or'e da MeL eRe Cecees When it comes to brilliant ideas, siu- Lenape aor No. 9306 Fourth |donta of Textily High School are in the * ely’ forefront, 1 wos Watching an interest- ~ reve’ i + reanreard ai cau SoULixacpuak ing KAMe of handball in the rear/fard Thursday noon when a barrage of water- filed paper bags began falling on ull aides of me. Many boys were struck by the bags and well splashed, 1. To-duy in Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, 1 sign reading, “Useful Gilts for and among them I «aw a safety razor.—ltold that’ th : Gs wee ‘Trixie Rich, No. 650 Leonard Street, Jaquad” had been te ety, pombing etion.~—-Hyman Brooklyn, THE NEW PLAYS That Villain Lowell Sherman Pursues “The Masked Woman.” By CHARLES DARNTON, EMORIES of Richard Mansfield as the Baron Chevrial may have prompted Lowell Sherman to desert “The Foo!” for “The Masked Woman,” a very, very wicked play taken from the French by Kate Jordan and produced for all it was worth by A, é Viltinge Theatre Saul, No, 4209 16th Avenu H. Woods last night at the Mr, Sherman had a beautiful time ¢——______________ in the best part that has come lis Way since he first cheered her on her way by vowing he would reach out from his grave k to stage vil- Jajny for a living, He was the Baron|and revenge himself, ‘This revenge Tolento, with whiskers, eye-glass,| “#4 Trdlized when be died in the next pous dressiig-gowns and all the] 2° leaving her all his wealth, The Celmininges At finde alge, Ne mcent, woman wan accordingly i obliged to square accounts with her sdemed to be the friend of lis doctor's but hagband tn another emotional scene, but interest in the play died with the Baron. wife, his way with women was ua bad as his liver. Accotdingly he pursued the good woman until she came to his home to prevent him from committing suicide on his fiftieth birthday, But he couldn't even be tyusted to kill himself. As you may suspect, he had no such intention But the Baron did have a Mvely party, It was his charming idea to imyite all the women to whom he had very bad man, and Helen Mackellar bore up bravely as the wife. Holliday played the doctor excellently Jane Houston spread scandal freely, and Ethel Jackson played the pianc so that the Baron might dic to music “The Marked Woman’ tionul interest duly heightened by Mr WO DOLLARS will be paid for each item printed on this page. Checks are mailed daily. The weekly special awards, announced on Saturdays, are in ad- the show window ix but ten inches wide. Quinlam, No, 1041 Tinton Avenue, Bronx. Mr. Sherman was very good as the John has wensa- — A PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS REPORTED FOR READERS OF THE EVENING WORLD BY READERS | OF THE EVENING WORLD : New Program of Awards and Special Prizes FOR THE BEST STORY OF THE WEEK; $50 for the Second in Merit; $25 for the Third. 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Dr. Cous's famots formula, | I was installing somé lights to-day in On Jackson Avenue, near 48th the Tremont Post Of}co when, every once in a while, I saw the’ stamp clerk Enclosed please find check for two (2) dollars which The E “Every day in every way I’m grow- ing bettor and better,” cayght my Street, Corona, I saw seven little tots gcatioulating and talking ex- fent me for a recent contribution but fs morn- | thrust his head thi the window of . “It was SO Santa Claus, hich I now feel I cannot accept fancy to such an extent this morn- | tnt pai ae Fab a ba t pins bata peg pe spare eee inte cause I find 1 t made a serlous| ing that on my way to work I re- |o;°Gnristmas maliers, “All you people shaver. ‘You juat wait till he crror. The flagpol en of i8 the] peated it twenty times per instruc- |with parcels must go to church to-] comes oul,” Al cyes were twrned meth vei Del tiona. Then ‘suddenly 1 did feet |day!” rious were the expressions! forrard an apartment house door, Se harden act better, for there on the sidewalk |with the people receiving this ukase.| ewpectancy written on every Nttle But the clerk joke, for te t vidently enjoyed the little nk his time before point- Ing to a posted notice reading, “Parcel post packages handled clerks in ch acroys the street."—Joseph C. jood, No. 181 Cypress Avenue, Fl Ing, Queens, / It was a $2 Dill. No. 73) Last low @ greenback. Harry Mendlowit 189th Street, Bron face. Then the door opened, and sure enough, out came Santat him- self, dressed up in a wonderful red suit and fur-trimmed hat and swear- ing dig gloves. He hurried to ax automobile (one couldn't blame kins for hurrying in his busy season) and sped away. It was easy to thony Avenue, Bronx, CIGAR BOX,/ I anw to-day at No. 900 Avenue a store which I believe to be smallest in. Bronx Borough. Its CHRISTMAS PRESENT FROM GRANDMA. When 1 got home trom school t { found an odd-looking package Prospect PREMIUM. Its door Is two and one-half feet wide. | had just come for me by parce! post Some real estate fancy the poe ie waar ot pene Altogether, the shop is about (our feet |a Christmas gift from my grandmother, | inducer of those Mttte children. The aute wide, and is occupied by a cigar dealer] who lives in the Catskills, It was a] signboard in 8 had a sign bearing the mame and who has on display in his ten-inch] Christmas tree cut from her own land s painted, “Lota for snig: life/in-] address of @ local toy store ut window four boxes of cigars, atthough| fhe mail carrier sald if was the oniy > policy with every lot."-4™ that did not trouble the worshipping his stock inside Js complete.—John TH, |one delivered on his Adeinide Golden, No. 197 Beach 45th Street,] little ones.—Mre. ‘aring, Miller, No. 784 Kast 179th Street, Bronx.’ Edgemere, Queens. 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Haven't you seen something int See Page Three for stories which received the larger awards. New conte Write to The Evening World about it. ‘Every reader a reporter.”’ é . PION pai rei ae —————__ ae “= 5c cokgp ms = ‘or a couple of ice- can’t think of any other name but} requested to stay all night_ with and wen SUF for a couple over, and eyery Rover he was ever | friends. Nee SRURS acquainted with had fleas. 1f you can — SANTA AT THE FRIARS ofa Ue ‘or tt ‘ 1c. 4 C predencee ves TS emote atta nee A SORR OB ‘ita The Friars will have a Santa Claus 7; or wi Re Tyle w An John Golden recently ol aMa| ot the Monastery on Wednesday eve- By BIDE DUDLEY dam Theatre, New York koa avmsnatic axittes toiny ahand atl cee mes ee pecan will in wis oie ; ——— “eonstrictive eriticism’? of ‘“Spite{personate Santa and all Friars who uN) T is made by the RUSSIANS ROUTE STARTS. ‘ rt? h Madge Kennedy | Wear socks will be requested to hang ae:by The vanguard of the Moscow Art| Corner," in which Madge Kennedy) 100" Soe A Gharles hman Reeribae Theatre, which begins its New York | is starring at the Little Theatre, One that William Gillette wil pe] engagement at the Jolson Theatre on | that came in follows: seen in the near future in a revival Of) jong. sails to-day from Cherbourg] “ ‘Spite Corner’ is a humming soda “Sherlock Holmes" and that the play is in rhearsal. Later a revival ot “Dear Brutus” will be pre ‘of and, with these two plays as his repertqire, on the Berengaria, according to a cable message received by Mortis G The party includes representati fountain at which Bessie is the most effervescent and sparkling drink and all the alluring minor characters are the artistic and administrative stafts sodas and sundae of distinctive fla Mr. Gitletto wilt begin a preliminary! We have their names, but why print| core, Bolle is a, trifi CRN tour in Philadetphia on Jan. 8. Sev-]inem You wouldn't be able to ma-|ragpberry soda. Miss Colli Me eral players who were with Mrdjcunce them, anyway medicinal tang—-ginger and lemon Gillette in these plays in jerasuns — nixtureé K mixed them bad- goon, by wil te wn JULIET IN A BARN put thelr foundations are exeetien Norah Swinburne has been b Bertha Broad, whe played h isya peach melba; his syrup from England to play the two leading | jujier to Walter Hampden's Homeo,| of humap kindness never fermented feminine roles, Others in the ¢ is planning to make a production of | Nuthan is the only near-beer, flat and will ns 2 7 iMdegas iS as peare's love story barn, | unprofitable. As for John Lattimer ing, Leslie Stowe, mS scenery wif be nstese ell, John is a nut in the beginn A Nottie Tilbury will teva aigas si ant lite a an investment in protection nut sundae at the end.” will be On CELEBRATION POSTPONED The celebration of the niversary of the Casino postponed from Dec. 28 to rhis step was taken in or it possible for number of Casino players fo be present TYLER AND THAT DOG fortieth an has beon dan, 0 to make former White Rock sole Rubbers wear any other color sole in all Come in and look through the lar pst jewelry theatrical man wanted to have it rey you about our digni y kinds of hard service 1—so it could vote, we presume Wood RU ot deposit“makes anything selected sours AT ONCE ull yeu PRODUCTS Gaske 38 BUANE BT.N yours AT ONCE--take a full year to pay # I the necessary pap made > i »ekly or monthly payments, on 4 Sherman olt and picturesc wire a the balance in weekly o y pay been “kind,” and apparent; no one}... r and picturesque vile | ot and thon the necessity to: name ALL DEALINGS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL, A sant regrets. They looked like a con- ms came up. Being t ducer of 'M guarantee bond given witiwevery diamond THE W ORLD'S vention, But his guest of guests! 94 yp, 7 CANDY BOUN . | ton of the Movies, Tyler decided purchase, Open Evenings Until 9. a ‘was the doctor's lady, who came tn 7 i DHENE, Merton. He put $1 week buys tl OLPHIA, De Two ban mask and let herself in for « It might have been we @it# bound and gagged the driyer of w ot AK yl petten cut TO sio0e, SOLITAIRES FROM £25.00 Harlem Office spell in the struggle. This put hin hristmus cand to New] “you'll have to. pick Ty vier omy + fs tee LAT CART f down and ul out on the floor and 4 at slerd hrew hin aie You're or ‘ F raise 92 7th Ave dave er hance to wet away hy | ey f0 ied ROYAL Diamonp & Watcx Co, fias Near 125th St. Yelping herself to his key. Knowing|} Hae 4a , di 5 ! A the bud caip. thzes montyp tu ive os baward Loach. tied uate Mi. Ty les lo 4 discousviate mun. be 35 Maiden Lane - 6th Floor BOTEL THERESA Pe ILDING OUT OF TOWN. G-13. OR SEVERAL YEARS I have been attending the Satur vaudeville shows at the Palace Theatre here, and T alw to get a seat in row H, near the centre, which places me back of G-13,-a seat that has been vacant for the past year. This affords me a better view of the stage. Frequently the house is sold out, but G13 is never occupied., Inquiry at the box office elicited the information that it was sold in advance every week. This was puzzling. Last Saturday night the mystery was explained. Mr, F—, who always occupies G-11, came in and placed his overcoat in G-13.- Shartly there after Mr. B— and his wife entered, and occupied seats G15 and 17. Mr. B— also placed bis coat in G-13, and I heard him remark to Mt. F— “Whoever pays for this seat every week must have money. He cer- tainly is kind to us. I wonder who be is,” “He might not be very far away,” replied Mr, and after the show I accused the latter of being the person who always bought but never used the vacant seat. He admitted it, explaining that it was convenient to have as a coatrack and, in the event of a tall or fat person obstructing bis view from the other seat, he could move if he wished without trouble or confuston.— Wm. R, Still, No. 119 Maple Avenue Patchogue, Long Island. HOW WE DUG THE CELLAR. HE MEMBERS of our church had long planned the building of a T Parish Hall, for we had no place in which to hold meetings for social events, but the lack of money always delayed the project. However, we at last started to build, and ia order to save on the labor of digging the excavations the men of the parish volunteered for that work. But the women wanted to do their share also, and much to the surprise of tle men the women gang of laborers appeared in over- alls, some with picks and shovels, and begaa work. There were many blistered hands and aching backs, but it meant a saving of $250 to the church.—Therese M. King, Toms River, N. J. RICHMOND. WORLD-FAMOUS GENTLEMAN PULLS AWFUL BONE. \. SAW A DELIVERY TRUCK to-day deliver a bicycle to my neighbor. | It was bought for “Buddy,” and Santa Claus promised to bring it to him on Christmas Day, but somehow “Buddy” happened to see the truck. His mother could not keep the bicycle away from him. she declared this was all he was going to get for Christmas and that his Christmas, and the family’s, was just spoiled by the way he was acting, but “Buddy” is now riding up and down Greeley Avenue with his new bicycle—Edith Reitz, No. 23 Greeley Avenue, Grant City, S. I. ‘ COASTING. To-day the ground was partly covered with snow, my moth- er sont me out to took for my @mailer sister. 1 was hardly out of doors when I heard a sharp yell: “Hey, Prancis!” and looking around 1 saw my sister with her sled tied behind @ neighbor's bicyole coming down Hamilton Street. And bve- hind her, drawn by the same bi- cycle, wefje scveral offer sieds.— Pena . 87 Hamilton 7 pleton, SHE AIMED AT A HOUSE AOROSS THE WAY. During the snow to-day [saw a young lady form a snowball and let it fly at an elderly man who was passing my She could not have almed bet- ter. The snowball took him right {no the ear. Expecting to see a fiery, fu- rious face turned upon her, I looked eagerly; but the old man turned with a broad grin on his face which ex- pressed silent approval and admiration of the young lady’s marksmanship,— ‘0, 437 Westervelt Avenu 8.1. when Rag) A practical gift that is sure to please. Good coffee isn’t a matter of special skill orof luck with an Electric Percolator, It is the rule, without exception, The continual autorhatic per- ~ colation of the water until-the coffee has reached the strength at which it is wanted, ensures a uniformly fine flavor. Price-$17.50 oF Te Uniten Evectric Licht @ Powrn Company, 130 East 15th Street \_ 89th Street @Broadway M6thStreet SBrowdway