Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03
SUNNY SIDE UP

cries the vintner. There's q Bad Time
coming! And he adds:
We know a man who sells
quart of water with little
cheap whisky in it
VERY CHEAP
Morale!
If You really want a highball
buy our, etc.
FNHE animal shops always attract the
L passersby. One window was crowded
with new-hatched chicks, tender yellow
balls Of fluff that cause grizzled buns to
moralize droopingly on the sweetness of
youth and innocence. They the chicks)
were swarming around their feeding pans
like diplomats at the Hotel Crillon In Paris.
TNHEN came Louis Guanissno, the famous
L balloon man, moving along in a blaze
of color, his red and blue and. yellow ball
looms tugging and cleaning in the sunny
air. Louis is a poem to watch, poly
chrome joy to behold. And such graceful
suavity! Here's health and prosperity.
and God bless you," he says, his kindly
rugged face looking down at you; "and
when you want any little balloons
NN A sunny afternoon there are sure to
~ be many browsers picking over the
dusty volumes in the pavement boxes of
that little bookshop near the old archway
above Filbert street. Down the dark alley
that runs under the archway horses stand
munching their nosebags. while big yel-
low coal wagon, lost in the cul-desac. tries
desperately to turn around. The three big
horses clatter and crash on the narrow
paving. A first edition of "Rudder Grange"
for fifteen cents wasn't a bad find. By
prying up a fiyleaf that had been pasted
down I learned that "Uncle George" had
given it to Helen L. Coates for Xmas,
1880"
TYP AT the Arcn street corner is the
~ famous Dumont's MINSTREL, once the
old Dime Museum, where Frank Dumont's
| picture stands in the lobby draped in
black. inside in the quaint old auditorium,
| the interlocutor sits on his throne and
! tosses the traditional jest back and forth
| with the end men, Bennie Franklin and All
| Gibson, clad in their glaring scarlet frock-
coats The old quips about Camden are
| still doing brave service. Then Eddie
| Cassidy comes on in his creamcolored
| duds and sings a ditty about Ireland and
| freedom while he waves the banner with
| the harp. Beneath the japes on prohibi-
| ton there is an undertone Of profound
sadness. Joe Hamilton sings a song which
processes to explain that July 1st will be
harder on the ladies than any one else.
"Good.by, wild Women. Good-by." 1t Is de.
murely called. Joe Hortiz gets Come
| Back to the Farm" over the footlights.
plaintive tenor appeal, in which the
church steeple chimes IA. m) and all the
| audience can hear the cows lowing out in
| Manayunk and Marcus Hook. We are all
| nigh to tears for the little sister gone
astray in the bad mad city; but here come
Burke and Walsh in merry little duo
| about whistle.wetting. I'VE took this coun-
try from the Indians" sings Burke. "We'll
give It back after the LIST of july" replies
Walsh In his dulcet barytone. Then, to
show they really don't care so much, they
wind UP with jovia! bit Of dancing.
DUMoNTs famous timely burlesques'
- still keep pace with the humors of the
town. The Drug Store Telephone Fight
reduces the audience to CHEEKY hysteria
Joe Hamilton or somebody gets Saint Peter
on the wire; the rival demonstrator gets
connected with "the other place." The
problem is whether the Jazzbo Phone Com.
pany or its rival can locate the where
abouts of Mr.. William Goat who dt ap-
pears) is the father of the interlocutor, the
dignified interlocutor In his purple dress
suit, who Is writhing in embarrassed dis
tress on his throne. And then. as we are
already trespassing on the preserve OF the
dramatic editor, comes what the program
lxcalls s'intermission OF several minutes, 4
Hsnabls the ladies 70 powder Their noses"
.'IfY lI y 80CRATES.