The New York Clipper (December 1916)

66 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER December 20, 1916 HARRY K. MORTON & ZELLA RUSSELL STARS BURLESQUE REVIEW Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to All Our Friends In and Out of the Profession PARODIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS Little Orphant Playwright has come to oar bouse to stay. To wash the cups an' saucers up, an' write another play; An' dream about her royalties, an' talk of Broadway days. An' tell us all the things she did when she was writin' plays. An' all us other children when the supper things is done, We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun , A-Iistenin' to the hard luck tales the playwright tells about, An' the orful things 'at git you, Ef you Don't Watch Out! Once there was a dramatist who couldn't pay his rent. An' when he tried to write a play without a single cent The landlord heard him holler, an' the boarders heard him bawl, An' when they turned the light up high, be wasn't there at all. They searched bis little third-floor-back, an' looked into bis press; — They-searched the-radiator tube, an' everywhere, I guess; Thev even took the carpet up, an' searched the water spout— But the Loan Sharks alius git yon Ef you . .. - : Don'tf >.' : .-.•... £j. Watch '•*•' >Y--V- ; -' . .-• ''°, n *lyu, .'".'" • But little Orphant. Playwright says when the blaze is blue,.,, " .',. An' you are all discouraged-like, an' feelin' that way, t«o; An' all the world seems cruel, an' you don't know where to go, i An' all yore corns are-achin, an' yore heart is full o' woe, Ton better mind the managers, an' heed the critic's sneer, ■ An' gc an' see th£ actor folk that come from far an* near; An' help the starvin' playwrights that you hear so much about. Or the DRAMA BUG 11 git yon. Ef you Don't Watch _ Oat! E. C. R. A GOOD-CHEER MESSAGE ^ WATERSON, BERLIN 1& SNYDER'S " Chicago Office: 81W. Randolph St. FRANK CLARK Western Professional Manager,. says: ' I'm proud, because I'm managing the livest staff of real pluggers ever assembled under one roof. My best to all. FLO JACOBSON ',-. _ Wishes all her friends, and friends of Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Chicago, the merriest kind of a Christmas and the Hap- piest sort of a New Year. LILLIAN SNYDER Ted's popular- sister, at the Busy Corner Music Store, takes pleasure, hi .wishing. her friends the best the world affords. MARK F.MORRIS Chicago's Peerless Act-getter, wants his friends to know he's sincere in wishing, them a more than Happy New Year. . -■'.,>.■ LUCKY WILBER Says: "I'm batting 990'for W.. B. & S. What's the use of wish- ing my friends good luck, when everybody knows they're bound to have it?" RAYMOND MIDGLEY Producer, is the boy who "puts on:the numbers" for the Chicago office—also for some pi the livest wires in Burlesque. Tbos. R. Confare & Son . Are responsible for . some of those "eleventh hour"- arrange- ments. "Give us a lead-sheet at 10:30 and we'll have an orchestra- , ,tion ready by 11." Office, Schiller Building. HARRY FOSTER Doesn't want to take any credit away from the other good pianists on the staff, but, there's a difference! "Much good luck to manyl" ,_ LEW BUTLER & CLARENCE JENNINGS The record-smashing boosting team, who popularize songs almost as quickly as they're written, want their friends to know they're living. "If we could get all the Nation's good singers in one room and let them hear us put over a song, the number'd be a big hit in less than five minutes 1** HARRY KELLY "I made ten thousand friends through last year's greetings. If ten thousand more want me to play for them, after reading this, it won't make me madl" RUBE BENNETT That quartette arranger. Ask any quartette, duo or trio. 6th year with Waterson, Berlin ft Snyder Co., Chicago. "Merry Christmas" from DAYE PEYTON (Staff music arranger), with Waterson, Berlin ft Snyder. Pri- vate sanctum, 145 N. Clark St., Chicago. CY PLUNKETT The tall, spare Manager of Budweiser Inn, who makes his headquarters with W. B. & S., be- cause he finds wonderful charac- ter songs there, wishes good to everybody. ARTHUR CHAPLIN Can play piano and Charlie can't—that*s the only difference between the two greatest come- dians the world contains. MORTON HARRIS & LOGAN SIZEMORE The Incomparable Duo, making songs hum on the road, wish their big-town pals no end of lock.