The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-04-07

/ New York, ApFti 3.--For many year
the problem OF what became of all the
lost pins engaged the attention OF
Spectators, photographers and others
| Stiil the mystery is unsolved. But
such Il fate will not befall the latest
Iuroblem. what has become of all the
beer kegs now in disuse.
I New York has been suffering from a
milk famine and the dairymen and DIS
ltributors. with their tongue in their
Bchcek btandiy declare that II is be-
lcuuse there are not enough milk cans
Ito go around. and they cannot get them
from the factory, so the suggestion has
been made that the old beer kegs be
utilized for this purpose.
| Which prompts Harry Ashford to go
to Shakespeare for a summing up.
! ITO what base uses"
! Oliver Herford. the rhymster. sings:
When all the liquor has run out
How will thin folks then get stout
TO which Pearl Andrews. vaudeville
wit, replies;
Don't worry, DO Many a party
| Although not stout, is ale and hearty!
/ Rachel Barton Butler, the noted play
wri ght whose last stage opus won the
prize at Harvard university, has set
ltled--temporariiy at least-tn New
York Miss Butler may. if she will,
gaze nightly upon the electric lights
over the Fulton theater, which an
nounces that the crowds assembling
in the lobby are there to witness her
play, "Mama's Affair" Besides she IL
about to inaugurate a season Of plays
for children. having herself adapted
j"Alice in Wonderland" and other pop
lular stories for the purpose.
! When the reporters who had tip
that the popular dramatist had culmi-
mated a romance by marriage, they
traced her to Greenwich Village and
!confrmed the rumor. They also con-
armed another rumor, that Miss But
Her has a colored maid who has an UNI
CONSCIOUS sense Of humor.
A book agent approaching the sane
ltum of the playwright was intercepted
by this Amazon.
MAY | see the lady Of the house go
he politely inquired.
she ain't bein' seen right now; she 8
busy" was the answer Whatever YOU
all want. / can tend to it,
The agent prepared for action Have
iyou a Walter Scott in the House, he
Incurred The maid deiiberated mo-
n1ent.
Amt no walter Scott here" she re-
piled.
"Or a Charles Dickens"
To which she made the same reply
, The subsequent replies were in con-
iformity when the names Of William
Shakespeare. Robert Burns and Fent-
more Cooper were mentioned Finally
her patience was exhausted.
Look heah, white man. she insist
4 cd you done got de wrong house
a{p't M holding house
Langdon Mccormick, author and
/ stage wizard, was iunching with some
! friends
Bring us two 15-cent cigars" he or
: dered and mind. ! won't nay mor'
than 50 cents each for them
i Nancy Van Kirk. that clever enter
!taiuer to children who came to Ne"
Il York a short time ago and is now IN
r Indispensable to the happiness OF NOR
people than any woman in this BIZ
lcity, has n fund of amusing stories L
- Itell of her Juvenile audiences. MIS-
Nan Kirk, more than any ehtertaihe
II in public life has achieved the rar
distinction of plumbing the child miro
81 Iacd in her Representations of childre
" she finds every note true 10 IeFf.
when she finishes her entertainment
liz Is privilege long remembered b
her small friends when they come u
land speak with her.
Al the Plaza recently. where she CAV
one OF her entertainments, she sang
story about sailor who slept on III
watch When the affair ended man
n from her audience came up to spe"
u with her One tot wore a worried lool
n and Miss Van Kirk sought to enlighte
her
please show me" she demandat
i.rLa MT 10 81 apn n
- his tick-tick."
- IT suppose" smiled Ruano Bogisla'
= the GYPSY singer: II suppose 1t was al
=, ter hearing an amateur singer murde
n fayorite song that the poet Wrct
To- about how the old songs haunted him
-
=, A popular member OF the compan
" presenting the great spanish drami
a THE Passion Flower" at the Belmor
:. 'theater in New York is Mrs. Charles {
=, Craig, the rotund and happy coined
enne who has created more ncgr
=, "mammies" than any woman on tn
40 American stage.
10 Mrs. Craig enjoys the devotion OF n
ST old necress who serves her as mai
and the only rift in her happiness
~ the fsct that Mrs Craig is not at pr@
y emit nlaving the role of NANNY
II Rather she is acting an emotional rol
ne with Nance ONeil. but the devotion
"a the maid remains unchanged. Cor
E. menting on the virtues of her mistreS
IN she was heard to observe that her sref
d. popularity was due to many cause
n, chiefly because she done got so niue
pussorel magnitude,
4. '.'s' -. . :. =. ~" rs ',''F - e"
er whitford Kane, the Irish actor an
" playwright, is touring the great We'
with Frances Starr in Tiger. Tiger
"a. Nf To aN - q
no Me declares with evident sincerity thu
ii one of the Western music eompani'
,s ss&vertieegi ps sssse. Of rneoaess
al Pleasure Bent. so cents"
in Joy Unconfined. rs cents
Something Awful. 800"