The Washington herald., 1918-05-03

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York. May 2.-Jove mods.
And SO it is that a tailor may let
his needle slip. Hence the con-
sternation Of Maclyn Arbuckle.
actor. who was pricked by the pen
of an advertising agent whose pen
slipped. Maclyn Arbuckle is a
whole-souled fellow. not given to
ErOuches. But when the advertis-
ing agent of Max Marx. a Broadway
tailor. said: style Is Shelley Hull
making love; lack OF style is Maclyn
Arbuckle making anything"-well,
Arbuckle was slightly peeved.
Mr.. Arbuckle is the originator of
the famous line Nobody loves a fat
man''-but he is not slovenly
dressed. He dresses we'll and in
good taste. The whole thing was
a slip of the pen. So the actor sued
the tailor. 1t was then that Judge
Hal Corbett-the original Judge
Priest of Twins Cobb's fancy-was
drawn into the case as a peace
maker. He is sort of a Ee-incar-
mated Solomnn since he came from
Paducah. KY. to Broadway.
At the Irwin Cobb dinner. he said:
Irwin Cobb and Marc klaw come
from Paducah. The difference be-
tween them is that Marc Klaw can
go back. Mr.. Klaw come to New
York and organized a big corpora
ton: Mr.. Cobb came to New York.
i but did not organize a big corpora
tion. He has one. Glancing down
on 1T one day he conceived the title
of his lecture: What Saw At the
! 'FRONT.'"
Well. anyway. Judge Corbet; was
a friend OF both the tailor and the
actor. He invited them to lunch.
The three reasonable. good-natured.
fair-minded men talked it over.
Marx told Arbuckle that he re-
gretted the slip of the pen. Arhuckle
replied that he didn't desire to get
money in such a way, and that he
would gladly accept Marks apology.
Judge Corbett slapped them both on
/ the back and congratulated them.
Then the three went out to a pair Of
nearby swinging doors. From which
: it is to be determined that when good
/ fellows get together IL Is always fair
weather. But Broadway tsilors will
be mighty careful in the future re-
ferrinG to any actor as a shoddy
dresser.
Lincoln ]. Carter, who used to thrill
US in the old days with his mclo-
dramas, has landed on Broadway
! with a rip snorting bowler called An
American Ace" Carter was response
Bile for those old favorites-"The Tor
nado," Under the Dome" The
Heart Of Chicago and others-but he
never got a Broadway audience.
His new play is packing a Broad
way theater. II is a mechanical play
full of bombing planes. shrapuel. gas
bombs and powder can be detected a
block away. So much noise is made
that theaters in the neighborhood ex-
: plain to their audiences that the Ger
mans are not coming, it is Just one OF
Carters melodramas exploding.
: The leading role is played by the
son OF DIR. Frank Crane, the writer Of
newspaper sermonettes. Carter writes
his play around his mechanic effects
which he introduces himself. He does
not claim to be playwright but he
pleads guilty to being a mechanic.
| The idle son OF a rich New Yorker
/ decided that his son must 20 to work.
The father acquired his wealth by
hunting for oil down In Kentucky and
is self made. In his ultimatum to the
leisure-lovinG son he told him TO have
on his desk the next morning the pro-
fessions, he would like to follow-and
the father would select the one for
which he thought the son best suited.
Here is the list the son turned in:
Hammock demonstration, Night
watchman at police headquarters.
Floorwaiker in bird store. Head
waiter in the Automat. Director OF
the vacation bureau at Sing Sing
Ringmaster at merry-go-round.
Window cleaner in Grants tomb and
cheer leader in the hall Of fame.