The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-22


 abbreviated attire and Bowery "stu- dentsf' in rented dress suits will point at you and remark: t'Poipe de nut wtd de grass on his chin an de bug house Iid.' In the big ballroom 8 congested mass of persptring human 1 ity will dance the tango and the tur- key trot and in the smaller rooms adjacent champagne bottles will pop merrily. It is all very devilish, and very naughty, this French studens' ball, but a real French student from the Latin quarter would be exceeding ly lonesome.
 Marriage seems to be becoming pop uIar again the stage, since the new est dramatic offerings at metropolis Game The Marriage Market Nearly Married and s''The Bride.''
 David warf1eId will celebrate hie forty-seventh birthday next week. The distinguished actor has revived '"The Auctioneer,'' in which he first played as star some fifteen years ago. Born in San Francisco, sWarheId began his connection with the theater as ush- CT in a playhouse of his native city His first stage appearance was at the Wigwam theater in San Francisco in 1S8. Four years later he came to New York and faced his first metro , politan audience at a cheap music hall in Eighth avenue. At a charity ball game at the Polo Grounds. be- tween actor hines, MT Warheld ap- peared as a Jew peddler and sold pieces of ice as souvenirs of the hap py occasion. He was the "big scream" of the game and his success may be said to date from that day.
 Present indications are that tickets for the Army-Navy football contest in New York next Saturday will be as scarce as the proverbial chicken moIars, and will sell at "fa dubious prices" Already your correspondent has gently but firmly refused to pay 8 hundred dollars for a seat.
 nsidering''-runinates the bright young humorist of New York pa per-"the brand of tobacco on sale in lowed his cigar has no othing to fear if he is able to eat raw cabbage Con sidering that Urbana has one of Americas greatest universities in it's sub urbs, and that the average rah- rah boy is not given to economy in tobacco or anything else, one arrives at the conclusion that what the afore- said wit does not know about Ur- 1 bana would fill the entire 'sU'' volume of an encyclopedia
 A New York woman cake founder has been awarded the contract for the White House wedding cake. It weighs 125 pounds, and among the brandy. rum and sherry. The W. c. T. U. will please take notice. Dr. F. A. Cook the hero of the gumdrop dash to the Pole, has be- come a " vauds.villain; er A; 4, New York Fork Cooke Such is fame!
 
 Miss Grace George, who has been on the stage nearly twenty years will soon be seen in a new comedy, Miss Jennie O'Jones,'' written by Avery Hopwood.
 Chefs of the New York hotels and restaurants are busiiy engaged in pre- pairing menus for the Thanksgiving gorge next week. At the better places a modest little dinner for two, with cocktails and a quart of wine, may be had for ten or twelve dollars. William Elliott will produce Char lotte C5isho1m Cushing's Scotch com edy, kitty MacKay," at Rochester next week, and bring it to New York after three weeks on the road. MT. Elliott is a son-in-1aw of David Belas- co.
 Miss Elsa Ward, Colorado maduro-
 
 din de Danse, was walking along Fifth avenue the other day, wearing a dia- mond circlet on her-ahem!-ank1e. Perhaps-ah, certafn1y,-she wore more than that, but the press agent was not specific. Along came a Great Dane dog, nd-pouf!-snapped off the circlet, quick as wink, and swallow 1 ed it! Honest to goodness!
 '-Big six.'' as Typographical Union I 1r,-~I among the printers, Twill hold its an nual ball next week. What the 1 "prints'' do not know about making a ball a success wouldn't make a stick of 1eaded A8-point-
 A porter at one of New York's fash ionabIe hotels has inherited s7o,OOo but won t, quit his job. What is $70, 600 to the porter of fashionable hotel?
 Br roadway press agents. No longer may they declare. with every appear ance of ver1simil1tude, that actor or actress is the recipient of week ly salary of five or ten thousand dol lars, without bringing down on them the wrath of said star of the stage Uncle Sam has announced that he will collect the income tax on such an nouncements of tremendous salaries. Ouch!
 Roland Burnham NTo1ineux, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death several years ago, but was granted a new trial and acquittedr re- gently took to himself a second wife, Mo1ineux, the son of Gen. Edward Leslie Mo1ineux, was a chemist before he became the central figure in a sensational murder case. After his release he wrote of his experiences in the Sing Sing death house in a book entitled The Room with the Little Door, He has since written several books and plays, his latest effort being a drama of crime @Il- he In de InrndI1cs,ca