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E D I T O R I A L F O R E W O R D to the 1 9 1 1 N U M B E R
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S pre tend we’ re in 1 9 1 1 ; s l ipp ing off tw en ty- five years
J u s t as if they had neve r been .
I m agine , p lease , for the sake of the i l lu s ion,that the se page s of
ST AG E were w r itten,i l lu s trated
,and sen t to pre ss—no t in Ju ly ,
1 936,bu t in Ju ly ,
1 9 1 1 ; and that they are pre sen ted to you in the
mannerwh ich ST AG E wou ld have emp loyed had i t ex isted at that tim e .
H ere again are M au de Adam s as C han t ecler,and M in
n ie M addern Fiske as M rs . Bumpstead- L eigh , E thel
Barrym ore in T he T w elv e P ou nd L ook and Alice - Sit
By- T he - F ire ; and J ohn D rew and M ary Boland, L eo
D it richstein and J ohn M ason,hlargu erit e C lark and
L au ra N elson H all, and oh,how m any others !
And here on ce m ore are the m u sicals : w ith E mm a T ren
t ini in N augh ty M ariet ta ; w ith C hrist ie M acD onald in
T he Spring M aid,w ith H az el D aw n in T he P ink
L ady ; and M adam e Sherry , T he Slim P rin cess,T he
G irland the K aiser,T h e Balkan P rincess
,T he Z iegfeld
F allies—and m any others .
M u sic had it s G olden Year : w ith C aru so,Scot t i
,Slezak
,
D idu r,D estinn
,Frem stad
,G adski
,G arden
,H om er
,
G lu ck,and Farrar—and M ahler
,T oscan in i
,G at t i
C asaz za,and Andreas D ippel. And in con cert s and re
citals : Sem brich , Kubelik,H ofm an n
,Schum an n - H eink
,
M elba,M cC orm ack ; and D am rosch and Stokow ski.
I t w as the heyday of vau dev ille : w ith—to nam e bu t a
few—E va T angu ay , Vesta T illey , N at Wills,H arry
H oudini,G ert ru de H offm an
,the L loyd Sisters
, J oe
J ackson . And w hat a galax y they all w ere—at the
O ld C olon ial and all arou nd the circu it !
I t w as a v ery prodigy of a year .
R ecall in m em ory : M art in ’s D elm on ico
’s
Sherry’s C hu rchill’s M u rray
’s Bu stanoby
’s
theWaldorf . the H olland H ou se the H offm an
H ou se the Astor R oof J ack’s the B rev oort
and the L afayet te . Who of u s can rem em ber,or ev er
knew,all of the fine restau ran t s and the hot els w here w e
u sed to go to dine and w ine—and som e t im es dance ? For
t hat w as the year of A le x ander ’s R ag tim e Band,w hen
the tow n w en t dan ce -m ad , an d w hen R ector’s
'
at m id
n ight becam e the Balm oral C lub,and R e isenw eber’s
,
T he Society of U n ited Friends .
I n all of the reckless ac t iv it ies of these Afte r- D ark
hou rs there w as su btly prophesied the desperat e days
to be born in the w ar to com e .
I t w as indeed a v ery prodigy of a year . A dear,dead
,bu t
gay and gallan t year .
E D I T O R and PU BL I SH E R
T his issu e in you r hands is an at t empt to recaptu re in
pictu re and te x t,and in idiom and fact
,the glam or of
After- D ark en tertainm en t as it w as know n to N ew
Yorkers tw en ty- fiv e years ago .
We,the editors
,have had a rare good tim e in fashion ing
this m agaz in e for you . I t has been a v ast and laboriou s
task of research,on e in w hich w e are indebted to the
N ew York Public L ibrary and the pic tu re collections of
the M essrs . C u lv er,D av is
,Brow n
,and Se ton .
And w e are indebt ed,too
,to the collaborat ion of those
adv ert isers w ho have en tered en thu siast ically and w hole
heart edly in to the task of recaptu ring the m em ories of
long ago .
We hope that you w illhav e as m u ch fu n in reading these
pages as w e hav e had in m aking them—n early as in t/ch
Th is is the t ime of year, of course,w hen B roadway skips off into h ighj inks and t ired-business-man al lurements ; or e lse j ust stands stock st i l land catches its breath before the re
turn engagements and v igorou s re
hearsal schedu les of Augu st . M ost
of the managers are scou t ing for
new fal l att ract ions in other lands,
or are shu t up in stu ffy offices plann ing even richer and more excit ingenchan tmen ts for the com ing year.
E x cept for a last price less g l impseof the D iv ine Sarah and the Sothernand Mar low e return engagement
(wh ich , by the way, did not reach
the boards u n t i l July 3 and thenc losed after one performance ) th isJune has been l ike most of the othersA new Ziegfeld Follies ; a couple ofsummer mu sicals
,G i lbert and Sul
livan and a scant peppering of halfbakea dramas
,w h ich s lunk off to
the st icks almost before they hadgained a bow ing acquaintance w iththe G ay Wh ite Way.
Mme . Bernhardt pau sed, betweenher triumphan t trans-cont inental tou rand embarking for home, for on lyfou r performances at the G lobe ;fou r performances
,how ever, w h ich
w i l l remain u nforgettable theatreex periences in the hearts of N ew
York'
s playgoers . T he first bi l l wasMaeterl inck'
s Sister Beatrice and
André T heu riet’
s ] ean Marie ; two
plays of her repertory in wh ich Mme .
Bernhardt never before had appear
ed in N ew York . After a tour wh ichwou ld have exhau sted the energiesof even the most v igorous of ou r
iu n ior stars, the great tragedienneseemed even younger, more al i ve
,
su rer in her match less art than she
did in D ecember,when she played
her fou r-w eek engagement here .
She no longer seemed rooted to one
spot on the stage ; and, when she
moved abou t,did not appear to need
the support of chairs and tab les as
she had before .
H er staging of the M aeterl inckplay is part icu larly interest ing : w i ththe great doors of the convent upstage cen ter ; the chape l , where oc
curs the m irac le of the flow ers, on
the right ; and the doors of the
c loister on the left . T he tempo and
in tensity of her performance risein an exqu isite crescendo. I n the
first act,S ister Beatrice , already torn
w i th doubts abou t her worldly lovefor Prince Bellidor, stands at the
feet of the Virgin ; her voice the
soft ly modu lated tones of a young
girl . When the Prince comes her
voice v ibrates w ith a woman'
s pas
sion .When , as theVirgin , she comes
down to take S ister Beatrice ’
s placeamong the nuns
,her voice, her face,
S T AG E is published mon th ly at 50 E ast 42 S t . . N ew York , N .
J ohn H an rahan , P residen t ; Ralf Coy kend al l . B u sm ess M anage r ; H . J .
a y ear . 3Se a copy ; fore ign , a y ear. E n t ered as second c lassmat te r April 5, 1 935 at the Post C flice , N ew York , N . Y. , u nder the Act of M arch 3rd, 1 8 79.
S t ree t , N ew Yo rk .P r in ted in the U . S . A . S u bsc r ipt ion pr ice : domes t i c ,
her gestures take on a sub l ime gentleness and hum i l ity wh ich beggardescript ion .
I n jean Marie, ev ident ly pu t intothe repertory to give prom inence toher young and talented leading man
,
Lou T e l legen ,Mme . Bernhardt
played, w ith complete simpl icity andunpretent ious pathos, the w ife,T herese, who so touch ing ly sacrificeslove for du ty . H er La D ame au x
Camelias ; the feverish gaiety, therest less l ightness of the first scene ;the voice wh ich st i l l me l ts the heartas her Jamais
,jamais !” rings
through the garden at N eu i l ly ; thewh ite exal tat ion of the death scene
need no further comment here.
N or does her La Femme ! w ithits own incomparab le death scene .
I t is m iracu lou s, too,to see how the
L’
Aiglon of th is woman of six tyfive has deepened and gained sub
tlety and stature w i th the years. One,now
,m ight almost con sider it her
greatest part—e x cept for Phedre .
H er playing in the Racine c lassicw i l l always remain
, of course, the
h ighest fl ight of her gen ius ; herspeak ing of that hu shed and por
tentons l ine to Oenone,
scarce lybreath ing the words, "
I t is thou whohas named him
, one of the actingm irac les of all t ime .
B u t, to get back to L’
Az'
glon , one
cannot better e lucidate this grow thin concept and performance than byquot ing a few l ines of the superb
rev iew of H . T . Parker, the bri l l iant
young crit ic of the B oston T ranscript,w ritten afterMme . Bernhardt ’s playing of the E ag let there . Once,w rites M r. Parker, “
w ith the fu l lpower of the theatre thrusting acrossthe foot l ights to assured effect, Mme.
Bernhardt ’ s prince l ing flung the
cande labra into the disi l lu sion ingm irror. A wavering hand fl ings itnow ou t of a spirit that wavers because it has begun to see itse lf.
T hese are the finer sensibi l it ies, th isis the finer attun ing of Mme . Bern
hardt’
s acting now . Once she acted
in the theatre, for the theatre , bythe ways of the theatre . N ow
she acts ou t of insight, to beau ty.
T he spirit not the substance of her
personages concerns her ; the sub
l imat ion and not the show s of act ingstimu lates her. She began in soph isticated theatrical power ; and she is
ending in spiritual ized simpl icity .
N o more gigant ic stride from the
subl ime to the ridicu lous was ever
taken w ith in the wal ls of one theatre than the one between the c lassic austerities of the great Frenchwoman
'
s repertory and T he Red
Rose, that riot of girls, gigg les, and
garters, wh ich opened at the G lobethree days after Mme . Bernhardtdid. H ere is a typical Valeska Surattshow ; centered around the su ltry,sinuous personal ity of its star ; a
co lorfu l and rather off-co lorproduct ion w ith not great dist inct ion bu tample entertainment qual ity for
warm -w eather audiences . T he Stu~dent G l ide, a Gri zz ly Bear dancerou tine, and M en, M en , M en are the
two best numbers in it . Bu t the
dressing undressing rather t e
mains the h igh point of the even ing .
And here again M iss Suratt stealsthe honors ; appearing in a series offlam ing and sumptuous costumes,
cunn ing ly con tri ved to display hersuperb figu re to best advantage .
T he new edit ion ofM r. Z iegfe ld’
s
Follies, al though not as rich in
c levermaterialas some of the othershave been , adds up to a gorgeou s
and amu sing even ing ’
s entertainment . The revu e has two acts and
th irteen scenes, the best of wh ich areE verywife, a lampoon of the season
’
s
successfu l moral ity play, E verywoman , wh ich was first produced at
the Lambs’ Gambo l earl ier in the
season ; two spright ly parodies on
Pinafore and The Pink Lady ; a de
lirious ex travaganza cal led N ew
Year’
s E ve on the Barbary Coast ;and an ingen iou s pony bal let inwh ich Li l l ian Lorraine and half a
dozen girl s are moun ted on wooden
pon ies and sw ing ou t over the audience as they ride and s ing .
E ven in compet it ion w ith BessieM cCoy, Fann ie Brice, Leon E rro l
,
Wal ter Percival,T he D o l ly S isters,
and M iss Lorraine, Bert W i l l iamsmakes the prime hit of the even ing .
The audience can not get enough ofhim : As N obody in the E veryw ife
skit ; singing Woodman Spare T hatT ree, the latest su ccess of the town ’
s
favorite song wri ter, I rv ing Berl in ;playing his famous pantom im icpoker hand ; singing H armony.
Bessie M ccoy has a new dance
not to be compared w ith the Yama
Yama of happy memory, bu t st i l l anex h i larating and com ic affair -cal ledT ad
’
s D affydils, in wh ich she leadseight gir ls in Yama- l ike gambols.
H er best song, by the way, is Take
Care, Little Girl. Fann ie Brice, thatnew Follies favorite
,lacks first -rate
material th is year ; but she can sti l lmake ex cruciating ly funny faces .
T hat Chilly Man gives l itt le oppor
tunity for her robust coon -shou ting style ; bu t she scores h i larious lyin a Yiddisha part in the Pinaforetravesty. T he D o l ly Sisters are abou tas u sual
,and they bring down the
hou se w ith their Siamese dance .
George Wh i te, a young man we l lY .
,by S tage Publishin Compan
worth watch ing, dances w ith themand dances we l l . T he who le show is
set w ith M r. Z iegfe ld’
s accustomed
lav ishness and taste ; and the girls,of course
,are the handsomest on
B roadway. And j u st for good measu re
,
"
Ziggy" has thrown in a cab
aret w ith all of his stars act ing as
en tertainers.
As we en1oy Shakespeare even whenthe thermometer stands at a hundredand four
,w e w ere m ight i ly disap
pointed at the sudden dem ise of the
Sothern -Marlowe return engage
ment . Rumor has it that the who leidea was Lee Shubert ’ s ; that ne itherof the em inent Shakespearean stars
thought it w ise to play N ew York in
midsummer. Bu t being u nder con
tract they had to subm it to theirmanager
’
s decision . T he combinat ionof a part icu larly scorch ing n ightand the ho l iday, however, sett led thematter. And
,after one performance ,
the engagement—a planned reper
tory of M acheth, T he T aming of theShrew , H amlet, T he M erchant ofVenice, Romeo and ] aliet, and
Twelfth N ight—was cal led off. T he
excuse gi ven to the press was thatM iss Marlow e had co l lapsed fromthe heat . T he real reason obv iou s lywas no hox oflice . Immediate ly thetwo sailed for London
,where
,again
rumor has it,that happy event
,
wh ich all of America has been ex
pecting since Virgin ia H arned ob
tained her di vorce over a year ago,
w i l l take place .
I n spite of the weather and the
laggard sensibi l it ies of N ew York’
s
playgoers, however, B roadway on
the n ight of Ju ly 3rd did have theopportun ity of seeing the SothernMarlowe M acbeth once more th isseason . T h is is a brave product ion ;and
,al though it lacks greatness,
earns ably the dist ingu ished place itho lds in the ir repertory. Sothern ,
real iz ing his physical l im itat ions forthe role
,makes his Th ane of Cawdor
a mental crim inal ; a man of nervesand feverish emot ions. Banquo ’
s
ghost, for instance, brings him in a
pan ic to the floor. As always M r.
Sothern u ses his talent and his finevocal equ ipment inte l l igent ly ; M issMarlow e ’
s Lady Macbeth remainscharm ing . She almost has a sense of
humor ; and a thri l l ing lesson in thelanguage is de l i vered every t ime she
u tters it . N ance O'
N eil, in our
opin ion ,however
,is the on ly fright
ening and completely real LadyMacbeth of these times . And now we
w ish th is splendid pair of players ahearty "
Bon Voyage , and awaitthe ir return in the fal l w ith h ighanticipation .
y I n c . , 50 E ast 42ndonohoe , Vice-P res . Adv . M gr .
As a Man ThinksBy Augu stus T homas . Produ ced bythe Messrs . Shubert . W i th JohnMason , Chrystal H em e , Wal ter H ale ,John Flood, Charlotte l ves . Staged byM r. T homas . Matinees Wed .
, Sat . ,at even ings at N AZ IMOvA
'
s 39T H ST . , 39th near B'
way.
Schedu led to t e-open Aug . 1 4 .
M r. Mason retu rns in the ro le of the
physician in whose eyes the law s of“
hu
man i ty transcend all racial pre judice . A
seriou s drama which invo lves the quest ion of moral responsibi l ity betw een the
sexes as M r. T homas sees it ; ChrystalH erne demonstrates it ; and M r. Mason
so lves it to the satisfaction of all invo lved.
E x cuse Me
By Rupert H ughes. Produced byH enry W . Savage . W i th John West
ley , Anne M u rdock, James Lackaye .
Staged by G eorge Marion . MatineesW ed .
, Sat . , at even ings atG A I E
‘
I‘
Y ,B
’
w ay at 46th . Schedu led toreopen August 1 4 .
T his riotou s, ro l l icking farce set on a
Pu l lman train in which the young Lochinvar comes ou t of the w est , woos, and
w ins, bu t retu rns so qu ickly that he for
gets the w edding l icense, is ably acted byM r. W est ley and M iss M u rdock ; whi leM r. Lackaye, as the min ister w ho turns
his co l lar around, neat ly steals the show .
Bu t then,in this train load of laughs
there are so many m in isters—thoughnone to jo in M r. West ley and M iss M u r
dock in ho ly matrimony—that one of
them is almost su re to steal the show ;al though it is real ly the porter, W i l l is P.
Sw eatnam,who comes ou t ahead.
Get -Rich-QuickWallingfordBy G eorge M . Cohan from the nove lby G eorge Rando lph Chester. Pro
duced by Cohan and H arris . W ithH ale H ami l ton ,
E dw ard E l l is, G ran t
M i tche l l , Frances R ing . Staged bySamu e l Forrest . Mat inees Sat .E ven ings at G E O RG E M . C0
H AN , Broadway at 43rd. Opened September 1 9, 1 9 1 0.
T he special air-coo l ing system at G eorge
M . Cohan'
s theatre isn ’
t the on ly reason
why this is the on ly drama w ithou t mu sicto su rvive the summer. M r. H am i l tonas the successfu l J . Ru fu s Wal l ingfordsu ccessfu l in this instance in bu siness,both shady and respectable , and in love ,compl ete l y respectable—con tinu es to en
chan t w i th his ebu l l ience . Frances Ringas Fanny Jasper, the secretary, and Pu r
ne l l Pratt as the energet ic new spaper re
porter, C l in t H arkins, con t inue to bei rresistible . M r. Cohan seems to have
hit the nai l—or rather the tack—on the
head w i th this one .
MUSICALS
He Came From Milwaukee
Book by Mark Swan and EdwardMadden . Music by Ben Je rome andLou is A . H i rsch . Produced by theMessrs . Shu bert . W i th Sam Bernard
and N e l la Bergen . Matinees Wed.,
Sat . , even ings at CAS IN O ,
B'
way and 39th . Schedu led to reopen
Aug . 2 1 , and close Sept . 2 .
M r. Bernard as H erman von Schne l lenvein is the in trepid M ilwaukian who, in
the manner typical of the much-cartooned
ru sticns in nrhe, finds that he has bittenoff more than he can swal low when heleaves his placid l i tt le ham let to becomeinvo l ved in love and po l i tics abroad .
M r. Bernard is deft in this pleasing l i tt lecomedy, which is not too heavy for summer theatregoing .
The Hen Peeks
Book by G len MacD onough , A . Baldw in S loane . M u sic by E . Ray G oe tz.
Produced by Lew Fie lds . W i th LewFie lds, Sam Watson , M rs . Sam Wat
son , E the l Johnson ,B lossom See ley,Law rence Wheat , Vernon Cast le .
Staged by N ed Waybu rn . MatineesWed.
, Sat . , even ingsBROADWAY,
B'
way at 4 lst S t. Sebed
u led to reopen Ju ly 31 .
T he sly M r. Fie lds, as M r. H enderson
Peck, ably escapes from his henpeckingw ife who tracks him to the barber shop,
in a comedy in which it is proved thatyou can
'
t tame the shrew by runn ingaway from her ; even if you do l ive inthe coun try . T he gracefu l sing ing and
dancing of E the l Johnson and Law renceWheat provides a come ly backgrou nd forthe hi lari ty sponsored by M r. Fie lds.
The Pink LadyBook and lyrics by C . M . S . Mc
Lellan . M u sic by I van Cary l l . Adapted from the comedy Le Satyre byG eorges Berr and M arce l G u ille
maud . Produced by K law and E rlanger. W i th H aze l D aw n, A lma
Francis, Frank Lalor, W i l l iam E l l iott,Lou ise Ke l ley , A l ice H egeman , JohnE . Young , A l ice D ovey . Staged byH erbert G resham and Ju l ian M it
che l l . Matinees Wed. and Sat . E ve
mings at N EW AMST E RDAM ,
42nd Street , W est of Broadway .
Opened M arch 1 3, 1 9 1 1 .
T his racy and g l i ttering comedy of song ,
scen ic effect,and costume con t inues to
stand up against the w eather, despite thefact that M iss D awn is a l i tt le langu idabou t it all. For those who are sti l l ofthe opin ion that musical show s shou ldhave plo ts, there is a compl ication abou t
a you ng phi landerer trying to get some
one to impersonate a non -existen t friend,
bu t Lou ise Ke l ley sing ing D onny D id,
D onny D idn’
t is mu ch more importan t .The Red Rose
Book and lyrics by H arry B . and Robert B . Sm i th . M u sic by Robert H ood
Bowers . Produced by Lee H arrison .
W i th Valeska Su ratt, Wal lace Mc
Cu tcheon ,E rnest Lambart
,John D aly
M u rphy, Flavio Arcaro , John E . H az
zard,and A lexander C lark. Staged
by R . H . Bu rnside and Jack Mason .
Matinees Wed. and Sat . at
even ings at G LO BE , B roadwayat 46th . Opened June 22, 1 9 1 1 .
T he something abou t the American (M r.
McCu tcheon ) w ho wan ts to marry an
artist's mode l (La Su ratt ) , bu t who issupposed to marry an American heiresswho wan ts to marry an E ng l ishman , play
much all right ju st as they are . Bu t whenthey start sing ing Come Along , Ma
Cherie and when they go in to the M en,
M en , M en number w e l l , La Su ratthas that certain something !
Maggie PepperCharles K lein ’
s play abou t a departmen t store fai ry godmother. T he cast
is headed by Rose Stah l and includesFrederick T ruesde l l and Beverly Sitgreaves. (HARR IS . Schedu led to open
Aug .
ing n ight ly under the stars at the G lobe Oedipus Rexis the kind of en tertainmen t that w i l l satisfy summer audiences . M iss Su ratt andthe six E ng l ish rosebuds in the skinfitting tights she designed for them—as
we l l as the e laborate decor - are pretty
John E . Kellard’
s production of theSophoc les drama w i th Aubrey Boucicau lt , Li l l ian K ingsbu ry, and Arthu rG oodsal l . ( I RVIN G PLACE . Schedu ledto open Aug .
Hamlet , Macbeth, The Merchant of
Venice
T he Shakespearean repertory produced
by John E . Ke l lard w i th M r. Ke l lardin the tit le ro les supported by E ricB l ind
,Li l l ian Kingsbury, Aubrey
Boucicau l t, V io la Fortescue , Lou isD ean
,Charles James, Agnes H eron .
( I RVIN G PLACE . T o open Aug .
COME GONE
The Spring Maid
Book and lyrics by H arry B . and Rob
ert B . Smi th. M usic by H ein rich Re inhardt . From D ie Sprndel/ee by Ju l iu sWilhelm and A . M . W i l lner. Pro
duced by Lou is F. Werba and M ark
A . Luescher. W i th Christie MacD on
ald,W i l l iam Bu rress
,E lg ie Bowen ,
T om M cN aughton . Staged by G eorge
Marion . Matinees W ed., Sat . ,
even ings L IB E RT Y,west of
B'
way . Schedu led to t e-open Aug . 1 4 .
T his nostalgic l itt le comedy against a
me lodic and regal background bringsChristie MacD onald w i th her charm ingvoice and lyric manner as the PrincessBozena back to the Liberty . A rich andlavish production of the comedy thathas for so long charmed the G ermans,
w ith the addi tion of the w i tty and hu
morous M r. M cN aughton , funny man
supreme .
ZiegfeldFollies of 1 91 1
Words and lyrics by G eorge V . Ho
bart . M u sic by M au rice Levi and Raymond H ubbe l l . Produced by F lorenzZiegfe ld. W ith Bess ie M ccoy , Li ll ian Lorraine, Bert W i l l iams, G eorgeWhite, Leon E rro l
,T he D o l ly Sis
ters, Fann ie Brice, C lara Palmer, VeraMaxwe l l , Katherine D aly . Staged byJu l ian M i tche l l
,G u s Sohlke, andJack Mason . N o matinees ; even ings
at JARD IN DE PAR IS , at0p the
N ew York T heatre . Opened June 26,1 9 1 1 .
Fann ie Brice takes a part in tearing apart
Pinafore, and that shou ld be enoughfor you , bu t it isn ’
t enough for M r. Z iegfe ld. T wo hou rs of mu sical ex travaganza
, high l ighted by T ad'
s D affydils w i thM iss M cCoy as chief D affy ; a travestyon T he Pink Lady ; and a cabaret of the
Barbary Coast w i th the D o l ly Sisters ;in terrupted by an en l ighten ing one-acter
,
E veryw ife, announced by M r. W i l l iams.
M r. W i l l iams, by the way, threatens towalk away w i th the show
,and is only
preven ted from doing so by Li l l ian Lorraine
,Leon E rro l
,and a comparative
newcomer, G eorge Whi te .
TOO LATE FOR REVIEW
A Gentleman of Leisure
John Stapleton and P . G . Wodehou sehave tu rned ou t an ingen iou s comedyon the Raffles-J immy Valentine pattern and W i l l iam A . Brady is producing it w i th D oug las Fairbanks as
the amateur cracksman in love w iththe po l ice commissioner's daughter,played by Ru th Shepley . O thers in thecast are G eorge Fawcett and Arthu rLaceby . (PLAYH OU SE . Schedu led to
open Aug .
The RealThing
Catherine Chisho lm Cushing has
w ri tten a comedy abou t a w ife who
is losing her hu sband becau se she
pays too much attention to her hou seand chi ldren . T his is set aright bythe interven tion of her w idow ed sis
ter, bu t you w i l l have to see Mau rice
Campbe l l ’ s product ion w i th H en rie tta Crosman ,
M inn ie D upree , A lbertBrow n, and Frank M i l ls to find ou t
how . (MA! IN E E LL IOT T . Schedu ledto open Aug .
The Girlof My Dreams
A mu sical comedy by W i lbu r N esbi tand O tto H aurbach ,
music by KarlH oschna, a comedy abou t three hatsand a jealou s Frenchman w ith a mystef lons cane which turns in to a sword.
Produced by Joseph M . G aites. Lei laM cI n tyre and John H yams have, weu nderstand
,some very good songs,
among which are O -o-h ! Mayhe I t’
s a
Rohher .
’ and I Am Ready to Quit andBe G ood ( this latter w i th the Bachelor Boys ) . T he stag ing is by FrankSm i thson . (CR IT E R ION . Schedu led to
open Aug .
The Siren
A V iennese Operetta in the Broad
way sty le by Leo Stein and A . M .
W i l lner w ith mu sic by Leo Fall; theE nglish version by H arry B . Sm i th .
Produced by Charles Frohman . W i thD onald Brian and Ju l ia Sanderson ,
bring ing back the ir fine sing ing and
dancing in T he Wal tz Caprice and
Wal lflower numbers—Frank Mou lao ,
and E the l Ke l ly . ( PLAYH OU S E .
Schedu led to open Aug .
PinaforeA co lorfu l and sparkl ing revival of thisu nfortunate ly dated comedy by G i lbertand Su l l ivan , produced, coinciden tal ly ,on the date ofW . S . G i lbert 's death . An
exce l len t cast supported the lavish production at the Casino,
which inc ludedH enry E . D ixey as Sir Joseph Porter,Lou ise G unn ing as Josephine , MarieCahi l l as Bu t tercup, G eorge MacFarlane
as Captain Corcoran ,A l ice Brady as
H ebe, Arthu r A ldridge as Ralph Rackstraw , and D e Wo lf H opper as D ickD eadeye. (Opened May 29. C losed Ju lyMacbeth
A presen tation of Macbeth w i th E . H .
Sothern and Ju l ia Marlow e . T he two
weeks engagemen t at the Broadw ay T he
atre which was to have inc luded T heT aming of the Shrew, H amlet , T he M er
chant oi Venice, Romeo and juliet , and
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T welfth N ight was abrupt ly cu t shortow ing to the weather. (Opened Ju ly 3.
C losed Ju lyMadame Sarah Bernhardt
A retu rn engagemen t of the D ivine Sarahin five performances at the G lobe . T he
plays presen ted w ere J ean Marie by
Andre T heu riet ; Sister Beatrice by Mau r
ice Maeterl inck ; La Femme ! by A lexandre B isson ; La D ame au x Camelias
by A lexander D umas , fils ; and L’Aiglon
by Edmu nd Rostand. (Opened June 1 9.
C losed JuneVARIETY
The American Roof (260W. 42nd)W eek beg inn ing Ju ly 30, Jermon and
Walker ( sis ter act ) and V i lmos Wes
tony , the foreign pian ist, playing T annhauser, E very Little M ovement, and Alex
ander’
s Ragtime Band. Week beginn ingAug . 6, Marie Sparrow in popu lar songs,D orothy de Sche l le, M u sical H odges,
M l le . Palerma. W eek beg inn ing Aug .
1 3, Maude T iffany (O ceana Roll) , Arl ing tou and H ester,
eccen tric dancers,
Anderson and G ou ld ( colored act ) .
Week beginn ing Aug . 20,Marie D orr
in Impersonat ion s, D e H aven and Sid
ney, and Po lk and Po lk ( equ i l ibrists ) .
W eek beg inn ing Aug . 27 , the D e Faye
sisters (ban joists ) and N at Carr, H e
brew comedian . E ven ing performances
at
Columbia Burlesque
(B’
way and 47th)T he M erry Whirl. Book by D on Roth .
M u sic by Leo E dw ards . Produ ced by
C l iff G ordon and Bobby N orth . W ithJames C . M orton , Frank M oore,and
M i ldred E laine . Staged by J . H erbert
Mack and Jack Mason . Week beg inn ingAug . 1 4
,the T rocodero Bu rlesqu ers in
Sw eeney'
s Vacation ,and Frank T inney .
W eek beg inn ing Aug . 2 1 , T he Majest iesin Rogue de la M ode . W eek beg inn ingAug . 28 , T he Big G aiety Company inA Florida E nchan tmen t . Matinee and
even ing performances dai ly .
T he M erry Whirl, the mu s ical comedywhich closed after so short a run at the
N ew York T heatre in 1 9 1 0,has now
found its own leve l at a Variety hou se .
M r. M orton as the c lock w ho comes tol ife in the M agic Ring part of the comedyand Spike M cCarthy in the Paris skitand M r. Moore as snowman and D an
M cCorm ick, are so rou tine as to need noin troduction to anyone who has been once
to Brighton Beach . T he new version con
tains Alex ander's Ragtime Band—an
o ther hit by the pro l ific I rving Berl in .
Folies Bergere(46th Street west of B
’
way)H e l l
, by Reyno ld Wo l f, G aby, by H arry
B . and Robert B . Sm ith are the two
revues w i th which the Bal let, T emptation
, by A lfredo Cu rti , make up the fi rstpart of the even ing '
s en tertainmen t . T he
cast inc ludes Ada Lew is, Kath leenC l ifford, I na C laire, W . C . G ordon
,Les l ie Leigh, O tis H arlan,T aylor
H o lmes, G race La Ru e, O lga Petrova
,
and Les Marquards ; the D al las D ipD ancers provide supper and cabaret eu
tertainmen t . Beginn ing Augus t 1 8 , the
en tertainmen t w i l l be augmen ted by a
m idn ight performance , H ello Paris, byN ed Waybu rn w i th H arry Pi lcer, MarieE arle , E di th Rose , Bessie G ray . E ven ings,the restau ran t opens at the Cu rtaingoes up at I n term ission ,
to
to supper and cab
aret . T ues . , T hu rs , Sat . matinees. Open
for l uncheon at the cu rtain goes
up at On Satu rdays, there is a spe
cial o’
clock in term ission for tea.
Hammerstein’
s Roof
(42nd and Broadway)T he Suffragette Farm w i th the twen ty
pretty farmerettes w i l l remain as a per
manen t fix tu re of this variety palacethroughou t Augu st . T hey w i l l be aug
men ted the w eek beg inn ing Ju ly 31 byRu th St . D en is in Radha, T he H induT emple D ance ; G us E dwards
'
FifteenSchoo lboys and G irls . Week beginn ingAug . 7 , Ru th St . D en is in her l issomCobra and N au tch dances ; W i l l Rogers(w i thou t his rope ) ; and Kranz and
H yman . Week beg inn ing Aug . 2 1 , Ste l laMayhew w i l l be the headl iner and the
program w i l l be rounded ou t by Ada
O verton Walker's company in Paris ByN ight ; Be l le Baker
,Kit Carson , andLes l ie and Brady . W eek beginn ing Aug .
28 , T he Apple of Paris, Consu l theG reat, T empest and Sunshine . M otionpictu re scenes, and the regu lar Su ndayconcerts w i l l con t inue to be a featu re of
the hou se. M atinees dai ly ; even ingsto midn ight .Keith and Proctor’s FifthAvenueTheatre
Week beg inn ing Ju ly 3 1 5t, Valerie Bergere does the honors . W eek of Aug . 7 ,
N at W i l ls, the_H appy T ramp,
shareshonors w ith La T i tcomb, the S ing ingE questrienne , fo l low ed by that in im itableteam G al lagher and Shean in T he Battle of Bay Rum ,
and H ermany’
s trainedan imals . W eek beg inn ing Aug . 1 4
,
Charley Ross and Mabe l Fen ton head thebi l l in Ju st Like a M an
,fo l low ed by
Audrey Maple , F letcher and N orton , and
Bert Fitzg ibbons . W eek beg inn ing Aug .
2 1,Char ley R ichman in At the Fire E s
cape . W eek beg inn ing Aug . 28 , Emma
Carus in her endearing and ingen iou sact
, U p and D ow n B roadway ; Porter J .White in T he Beggar ; and Roehm ’
s nov
el Ath letic G irl s in fencing ,w rest l ing ,
and jugg l ing tu rns. M atinee and even ingperformances dai ly .
Hurtig and Seamon’
s
(West 1 25th St.)T he w eek of Aug . 2 1 , M orton and
M oore w i l l bring the T he M erry Whirlto this theatre for one week. Matinee and
even ing performances dai ly.
Murray HillTheatre
(4zud and Lex ington)Opens Aug . 2 1
,w ith B i l ly Watson and
T he G i rls from H appy land ; Week be
g inn ing Aug . 28 , T he Passing Parade,
produ ced by G ordon and N orth ofM erry
Whirl renown .
Winter Garden(50th St . and B
’
way)G ertrude H offman presenting La Saisondes Ballets Ru sses . D irected by M orrisG est and F . Ray Comstock. W ith G ertrude H offman , T heodore Kos loff , LydiaLopokova, M aria Baldina, A lexanderVolinine
, Jan Zolewsky, A lexis Bugalow ,
M l le . Cochin ,
“
N ico las Salanikow in
C leopatra, Les Sy lphides . Scheherazade .
Staged by T heodore Kos loff. MatineesT ues. , T hu rs . at even ings at
T wo choreographic dramas and a roman
tic reve lry threaten to set a new dance
sty le in America, bu t it is all a l i tt levague—as vague as some of M r. Stravin
sky'
s mu sic.
OUT OF TOWN
The Palisades Amusement Park(Opp. l30th St . Ferry)T he last three w eeks of the Aborn OperaCompany
'
s musical comedies w i l l be as
fo l low s : Ju ly 3 1 , Sergeant Kit ty ; Aug . 7 ,
T he Red Feather ; Aug . 1 4 , T he Belle ofN ew York, starring M iss G race E l l swo rth .
Henderson’
s (Coney I sland)
W eek beg inn ing Ju ly 3 1 , Ada OvertonWalker in her Impersonations ; Jewe l l 'sMann ikins ; Week beginn ing Aug . 7 , a
new two-show po l icy w i th the Spissel
Brothers (acrobats ) and the Kauffman
Brothers (blackface comedians ) . Week
beg inn ing Aug . 1 4,Be l le Baker in a song
and dance act and G u s E dwards’ Kou n
try K ids ; W eek beginn ing Aug . 2 1,
M inn ie Amato and Company in T he
Sew ers of Paris w ith Apache dances ;
H oward and H oward ; W eek beginningAug . 28 , G u s E dw ards
’
H igh F lyers and
Les M arqu ards . Mat inees dai ly, and be
g inn ing Aug . 7 ,tw o even ing perform
ances at and
PROMI SED AND HOPED FOR
VARIETY
The Colonial
T his popu lar house w i l l reopen abou t
September first w i th Ame l ia B ingham in
her Big Momen ts from G reat P lays, theFlying Martins
,and Chip and Marble
in a new D u tch play let en ti t led I n O ldEdam . T hey w i l l be fo l lowed by thathi larious farce in which Bi l l ie Reevestakes the part of the original drunk, inFred Karno '
s N ight in an E ng l ish M u sicH al l
,C larice Vance (probably sing ing
O ceana Roll) , and Charl ie Chase in a
mono logu e . I rene Frankl in , it is said,has
a new song , I Want to he a Janitor’
s
Child, and w i l l appear w i th it some timein September w ith B i l ly's T ombstones
and the ever popu lar Six M u sical Cu ttys .
McI n tyre and H eath, the blackface come
dians who made a hit in N ew York lastseason ,
w i l l conclude the mon th.
Columbia Burlesque
D u ring the mon th of September, Mana
ger J . H erbert Mack w i l l presen t T heG inger G irls, T he H oneymoon G irls,and T he Qu een of Bohemia in a mix
tu re of song ,vaudevi l le
, and sketch.
Winter GardenG ertrude Hoffman w i l l con tinue to pre
sen t La Saison des Ballets Russes u n ti lSeptember 1 1 , when the M u sical Revu e
of 1 91 1 w i l l retu rn for a week. T he week
of September 1 8 this theatre w i l l be darkin preparation for the grand t e-Openingon September 26 w ith the long -awai tedLe D ehu t de Chichine in the Revue o}Revues, a spectacu lar mu sical vehic lewhich w i l l include M l le . D eslys, M l le .
Rasch, Frank T inney, and the Messrs .
E dgard Chate l and Vermandares.
Brighton BeachMusic HallU nder the managemen t of the ubiqu itousD oc B reed, the mon th ’
s schedu le is as
fo l low s : W eek beg inn ing Ju ly 31 ,
G eorge E vans, Consu l the G reat . Week
beg inn ing Aug . 6, G u s E dw ards’
H ighFlyers. Week beginn ing Aug . 1 4, E va
T anguay ( I D on’
t Care ) ; Bert Levy ;Horton and Co . Week beg inn ing Aug .
2 1 , E va T anguay is the on ly headl inerdoing her ow n version of Salome.
Matinees dai ly at even ings atThe New Brighton Theatre
(Brighton Beach, Ocean P’
kway)
Week beg inn ing Ju ly 3 1 , the on ly sum
mer vaudevi l le appearance of Li l l ianRu sse l l w i l l be at the theatre on the same
bi l l w i th G al lagher and Shean . Week be
g inn ing Aug . 7 , Princess Rajah in her
un iqu e dances ; and Bud Fisher presen ting cartoon i l lu strations of Mu tt andJeff . Week beg inn ing Aug . 1 4
,the de
lectable Ste l la Mayhew , T empest and
Sunshine, Leo Carri l lo ; H oward and
H oward. W eek beg inn ing Aug . 2 1, Ar
bu ckle and Co . ; C larice Vance . W eek
beg inn ing Aug . 28 , Frank T inney is theon ly announced star. M at inees dai ly ;even ings at
Morrison's (Rockaway)
Patsy M orrison has planned a varied program for the summer including Carriede Mar and M l le . D azie , H oward and
H oward,Bert Levy , H ayes and Johnson
du ring the w eek of Augu st 1 3 ; T he
Four Mortons, Consu l the G reat , the
Son of So lomon ,the Vassar G irls, the
Cou rtenay Sisters, and Al and Fanny du ring the week of August 20. And August
27 brings the M illership S isters in song
and dance , Fe l i x and Caire , and M in
thorne and Abbot Worthly . Matinees at
even ings at
The Orpheum
Reports have it that Leon E rrol , late of
the Follies, is staging Summer Breezes
for this circu i t, bu t N ew York w i l l probably not see it un ti l some time in the w inter. T his hou se w i l l reopen w ith E veryw ife , the Follies
’travesty on E very
woman, and C larice Vance . For the sec
ond w eek in September, D rew , Barrymore
and Company w i l l head the bi l l w i ththeir popu lar in terpretations ; C l iff G ordon , and Salerno w i l l also appear, to be
fo l low ed by B i l l ie Reeves in his souse”
sketch w ith the Ryan and Richfield Com
pany presen ting H onor Among T hieves,Frank T inney, and Smith and Campbe l l in M r. Pifflepaff. T he Apple of Paris,Frank Fogarty ( the I rish song and dance
man ) , and the Bathing G irls ; and I reneFrank l in ,
Bert Les l ie, and T rovato ,the
I tal ian tenor, w ill be head l iners on the
n ext two bi l ls .
Keith and Proctor’s Fifth AvenueFor September Charlotte Parry and
Company w i l l bring their I n to the Light ,a new play let in the dark, to this hou se .
A lso T he Fou r Mortons ; Ame l ia B ingham in Big Momen ts from G reat P lays,Frank T inney, Smith and Campbe l l w i tha brand new ski t en t it led M r. PifllepafT,the G reat H oward
,and the T hree Whi te
Kuhns . Li l l ian Russe l l w i l l make an ap
pearance here the latter part of the
mon th,as w i l l Wal ter C . Ke l ly (T heV irg in ia Judge ) , E d Wynn ,
and M rs .
G ene H ughes in a new comedy, You th.
T hey w i l l be fo l low ed by Magg ie C l ineappearing on the same bi l l w i th Pau lD ickey and Company in a new sketchabou t co l lege hazing,
en ti t led T he ComeBack. H oudin i , home from his visit toE ng land, w i l l round ou t the mon th .
Hammerstein’
s
E arly in September the Roof is schedu ledto close ; and the regu lar theatre w i l l reopen w i th ao all-star program featu ringCarter D e H aven
,Bert Les l ie in H ogan
the Pain ter,the G ordon Brothers and
the Kangaroo ,the Kauflmann Brothers,Lyons and Yosca in ragtime .numbers,
and the Fo ley Brothers. O ther programsduring the mon th w i l l inc lude I rvingBerl in sing ing a number of his ow n
songs—T he M ysterious Rag, Alex ander’s
Ragtime Band, and Ephraim—CharlesR ichman and Company, Fie lds andLew is, Frank T inney , and Jew e l l ’sM ann ikins, H erman Lieb in his versionof the comedy, D ope, W i l lard Simms,the hoop-rol l ing K ratons, Frank Fogarty,
the I rish m ime, Mon tgomery and Moore,
W i l l iam Rock and Maude Fu l ton in a
cabaret act . Van H oven and Charles Semon are schedu led to appear the latterpart of the mon th.
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cheery com fort . Part ly it is ach ieved by the spac ious ,bright room s
,so co lorfu l ly and tastefu l ly decorated ; part ly
by the suave and friendly service express ing the Bever lyway of mak ing guests happy . You
’ l l find th is charm rc
flected again in the Restauran t and the Duplex Cocktai lLounge T he Bever ly is located in the smart E ast Fift iesw ithin easy walk ing distance of theatres and mid-town
bus iness . S ing le rooms,unfurn ished
,from $800 a year .
Furn ished, from $85 a mon th . Two-room apartmen ts
unfurn ished,from a year ; furn ished, from $ 1 50 a
mon th. Many have terraces—all are equ ipped w ith servingpantr ies , e l ec tr ic refr igerators and generous c losets—fullhotel service inc l uded. T ran s ien t—s ing le w ith bath and
shower, $4 and $5. Doub l e, $6, $7 . Su ites—l iving room ,
bedroom and bath—from $8 . Mus ic during the cocktai lhour
,dinner and after the theatre .
U J V d v o o o o ’ l l ) ‘
the opening of this in ternationally famou s hotel in 1 897 , it
has play ed a part in the social life of the community unequalled
by any other public establishment . T he list of its patrons during the last
decade includes the names of practically ev ery notable here and abroad.
I ts decorat ions and appoin tmen ts ; its modern comfort s and qu iet elegance ;
its cu isine and service (under the inspiration of w orldf renow ned chefs
and restaurateu rs) and the high standards that prevail throughou t ev ery
other department of its v ast organization hav e made its name ev ery
w here synonymous w ith fine liv ing.
For particulars inquire of
R eprodu ced from an advertisemen t of T he Waldorf-Astoria H otel published in 1 91 1
0 T he Starl ight Roof, two hu ndred feet above ParkAvenue , has a movable ceil ing so that it can be opened
directly to the sky.
0 World-w ide radio reception ! T he Waldorf-Astoria isthe first ho tel in this cou ntry to ofier in every room pro
gram s broadcast from every important land on the g lobe .
0 T he tw in T owers of T he Waldorf is a separate
comm u n ity of homes . Exc lu sive privacy and yet
all the advan tages of the greatest of transient hote ls.
0 Air-conditioned G rand Bal lroom ! With movablestage , fu ll theatre -size movietone and techn ico lor appa
ratu s, perfect acou stics, and a magn ificen t concert organ .
Tw e n ty-fiv e y e ars crgo The Waldorf w as a bril
lian t cen ter of New York'
s social life , as it is to
day . The Waldorf like New York chang e s ,
bu t, today as then , pe rvading the pala tial s tru c
tu re is the abiding spirit of ge n u ine hospitality .
R eprodu ced from advert isemen ts pu blishe d in 1 91 1
NEWYORK PU B L I C L I BRARYChez Mouquin, from the painting by William Glackens.
DINING and AFTER-DARK DIVERTISSEMENTS(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 25)
restau rant special izes in steaks
sea food. T he chef here has a
trick of making the best friedpotatoes w e
'
ve tasted. Six th Ave . at
45th St .
Browne’s Chop H ou se
Ladies are not al low ed w ith in thesacred down - stairs precinct of th ishearty estab l ishment . I t is noted for
its ales and E ng l ish mu tton chops,and its fine co l lect ion of old prints,and is one of the favorite gatheringplaces of journal ists, musicians, andthe sport ing fratern ity . N ot so longago after the opera we saw such a
diversified group as Acton D av ies,Robert Winsmore , D eems T ay lor,Scott i , and
"
H onest” John Ke l ly
against the smal l bar. Broadway op
posite the M etropo l itan Opera
H ouse .
Cafe Bou lev ardT h is is an ideal spot for those
who l ike to ex plore ou t of the way
places. T he restau rant has lots of local co lor, strange faces, w ines, and
foods, to say noth ing of romant icgypsy music. Make every effort to
get a table upstairs on the outsidebalcony. T here is a fine v iew of St .
M arks from here . Second Ave . and
loth Street .
Cafe de L’Opera
L ouis M artin ’s)
Lou is M artin ’
s very, very opu lentand pretentious lobster palace donein a sort of rococo Assyrian sty le of
arch itecture with all kinds of bizarreand expensive looking decorat ions .
Adm ission was not perm itted whenit first opened un less one were in
dinner c lothes, bu t N ew Yorkers
don’
t l ike the law laid down to themand there seems to be a truce at present
,wh ich we hope w i l l resu l t in fu l l
v ictory for the customers. You’ l l see
plenty of show g ir ls, ou t -of-town
buyers, and famou s Broadway characters in the main din ing room
downstairs . U pstairs there ’
s music,dancing, and a cabaret . T he th irdfloor is a Japanese tea-room and
above are several floors of banquetrooms and private din ing rooms.
Come prepared to spend a t idy sum ,
in retu rn for very l itt le as far as foodand service are concerned. Maybe
you’ l l th ink the sights are worth it .
Broadway and 4 2nd St .
Casino in the Park
T he ci ty’
s on ly Park restau rant
and longcpatron ized by t
he best peo
ple . Sun ay afternoons is the best
t ime to v isit th is attract i ve place forthen it is most fash ionable, thoughSaturday l uncheon is also a favoritet ime w ith the carriage trade . H ire a
v ictoria at the 59th Street P laza and
dri ve through‘ the Park before dining . Central Park.
Cav anaugh’s
A most ex ce l lent fam i ly restaurantwhere you may be sure of good food,
especial ly chops, steaks, and fish of
all kinds . T here is mu sic here, both
vocal and instrumental . 2 58 West
23rd St .
Chu rchill’s
E x - Captain - of -
po l ice Chu rch i l lru ns th is gay place w here everybodydoing the tow n seem s to foregatherin the late hou rs. Just now you
’ l lhear M aurice Lev i and his orchestraandM iss E l izabeth Spencer, vocal ist .
Qu ite ex pensi ve, w ith a w i ld,sporty
crowd. Broadw ay and 49th St .
C larern on t I nn
A fash ionab le ou tdoor din ingspot and one of the most att ract i verestauran ts in the E ast . I ts spaciousdin ing verandas and lawns over lookthe H udson and
,on a hot summ er
n ight , it ’s hard to get a tab le . GeorgeM . Cohan u sed it not so long ago
as a scene in his T he T alh of N ew
York . Th e indoor rooms are notab lefor the fine co l lect ion of E ng l ish l ifeetch ings by D endy Sad ler wh ichadorn the wal l y —said to be bette r
than the famou s M ary land C lub collect ion in Bal timore. Riverside D ri veat 1 24th St .
College’
I nn
A crowded,noisy place m uch fre
quented by u ndergraduates on ho l iday. Fisichelli
’
s Symphonique O r
chestra furn ishes the mu sic . D on’
t
m iss I Love My Wife, Bu t Oh YouKid, as sung byM cFayden ,
M cG u ire ,and La Pear l . T he food’
s indifferent,
bu t nobody seems to care . B roadw ayat 4 lst St .
D elm onico’s
One of N ew York’
s very u l traplaces and an inst itu t ion in the sociall ife of the comm un ity . T he name haslong bee n synonymous w ith the bestin w ining and din ing . T he phrase,"
a coo l bott le and a bird” is identified w ith th is famous restau rant . E x
pensi ve, and no one w ou ld th ink of
din ing here sans even ing clothes .
45th St . and Fifth Av e .
D orlon ’s
An est imab le chop and oysterhou se w here the fam i ly w i l l be qu itesafe from cabaret vu lgarity . 23rd St .
and Madison Square .
E ngel’s Chop H ou se
Combinat ion lamb chops, We lshrarebits, and pickled beets are som e
of the w e ll-known item s on the
menu of th is restau ran t . T he cheeses,too
, here are equal ly popular as canbe attested by the receipted bi l l sfor th is produ ct w h ich are postedmon th ly on the w all near the bar.
35th St . east of Six th Ave .
Fau st ’s
T h is C ircle restau rant—w i th the
s ign of the Red D evi l ou t frontis a pretty feverish spot w ith a fast
Broadway crowd in a sordid sett ingof crowded tables and rose l ights .
A tango orchestra and a number ofentertainers add to the hect ic at
mosphere of the place . D on’
t takea chance on anyth ing more than a
sandw ich . Broadw ay and 59th St .
F leischnw nn’s Vien na
G ardens
On a summer morn ing you ’ l l seea numbe r of dist ingu ished residentsof the ne ighborhood having breakfast ou tside ar the hedge-enc losedsidewalk tables under the aw n ings.
T h is restau ran t is noted for its am
brosial coffee,its ro l ls and sweet
bu tter. I ts proprietor is noted for hisph i lanthropy, for it was he who
establ ished "
the bread l ine”—gi v ingaway bread and coffee n ight ly to thehundreds of needy in the district .
Broadway and 1 1 th S t .
F olles B ergere
H enry B . H arris and Jesse Laskyare backing th is theatre restau ran t
the first of its k ind to be done on
such an e laborate scale and qu ite a
nove l ty. Your t icket ent it les you to a seat at a tab le from
to 1 1 (dinner ex tra) . N o food
is served during the show w h ichgoes on abou t 8—so you have to
get there early. At the supper showlater there ’
s a cover charge ofT he show itse lf is l ike ly to be qu itecntertaining w ith bal lets, good or
chestra and such perform ers as GraceLa Rue dom inat ing the bi l l . Whether N ew Yorkers w i l l take to it ornot is an open quest ion . O u r opin ionis in the negat i ve . 2 1 0West 46th St .
F orty fiv e Seconds
from Broadway
T h is is Joe Adam ’
s low ce i l ingedresort~a favorite w ith youngsterswho th ink they're seeing l ife . An
orchestra plays loud and incessant ly,and early in the morn ing there are
songs and rec itations . One of thelatter, I ’d Rather B e a Lobster than
a Cheap Shate, Anyday, comes
around 2 A . M . I t’
s supposed to
make you go on buying. 44th St .
east of Broadw ay.
G ilsey H ou se
Across the street from D aly’
s
Th eatre, the bar and grill of th is
hote l are favorite gossip spots for
the theatrical and sport ing profess ions . B roadway and 29th St .
G otham
T he impressi ve and lux u riou sRenaissance Room here has becom e
one of the most exc lu s i ve din ing and
supping places on the Avenue . I t
can boast the patronage of the As
tors,the Rh ine landers
,Col. Rooseve l t
,George and H erbert Pratt
, anda score of other dist ingu ished names.
Fifth Ave . at 55th St .
H ealy’s
E veryth ing that goes on e l sew herein town seems to go on here in th islandmark of a restau ran t . D anc ing isnow a feature of the place and the
n ew H ungarian W isteria G len is se taside for those who w ish to w rigg lethrough the new dances . H azyN atzy and his band fu rn ish the
mu sic . T he barroom here is a great
gathering place for the sport ingfratern ity and there are all sorts of
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it ho lds a u n i qu e place in the esteem of urbane trave lers and diners-ou r;
throughou t the w or ld its nam e has becom e a hou seho ld word express ing highrefinem en t in cuisine and service. Social N ew York bestows it s approval oneach of the Ritz -Car l ton din ing rooms in it s accepted season , and upon the two
R itz bars. Sing le room s are six to e ight do l lars ; doub le room s,e ight to t en ;
su ites , twe l ve and up ; special rates for ex tended stays . Albert J . Keller, Presiden t .
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,that this has repeatedly o ccu rred in the sphere of you r
ow n observatio n . And,in the sam e con n ec tion
,o ther in teresting phen om
ena hav e m an ifested them selv es w hich bespeak u niv ersal satisfac tio n .
A Seem in g C on tradic tion
\Vhat could be more significant , for
instance,than
'
the seem ing con tra
diction oi these two facts :
First,that Cadillac owners alm ost
nev er change .
Second,that a majority of each year
’s
buyers hav e nev er owned a Cadillac
before .
T his is literally true .
I f you’ll stop and think
,can you recall
a single Cadillac owner who trans
ferred his allegiance to som e other
car ?
And yet , we know ,aswe hav e said
,that
most of this year’s Cadillac buyers
hav e nev er owned a Cadillac before .
T h e E x plan ation
What is the ex planation ?
T he Very pleasing one that the Cadil
lac buyer gets m ore than a season’s
Som e E veryday Recordsof the
N EW YORK—75 Cadil lac “T hirty u sers drove
their“T hirty
”cars an aggregate of
m i les at a total expense for m echan ical repairsof averaging 7 1 cen ts per car for the
season .
DAYT ON—SO Cad i l lac owners drove their cars
an aggregate of m iles at a total repaircost of on ly or an average of bu t 1 2 cen tsper car for the season .
I N D I AN APO L I S—66 Cadil lac u sers drove theircars an aggregate of m i les . T ota l repair cos t , averag ing per car .
N E T T O T AL—1 91 cars m i les—costAverage cost of 69 cen ts each or less
than 1 6 cents for each thousand m iles .
u se ou t of his car—that most of last year’s Cadillac buyers
are driv ing the same car this year.
Speaking broadly , Cadillac cars do not deteriorate .
I f they are sold at the end of a season , they are sold for a high
price . I f they be ex changed, the ex change is u sually gen erou s.
T o u r in g C ar, D em i-T on n eau and Ro adster (Cou pe $ 2250. L im ou sin e $3000 )
Prices in c l u de th e fo l low in g e q u ipm e n t—Bosch magn eto and D elco ig n it ion s y s tem s . O ne pair gas lamps and gen erator . One pair s ide oil lamps and tail lamp. op e horn and set Of t00 15Pump and repair kit for tires . (so-m ile season and t rip S tandard speedomet er, robe ra i l , fu l l foot ra i l in tonneau and ha l f foot rail in front . T i re holders .
Cadillac M otor Car Com pan y , D etroit , M ichigan(L icen sed U nder S e lden Paten t )
R eproduced from an advertisemen t of Cadillac M otor Car Company published in 1 91 1
L ast year’s Cadillacs are in actual de
m and this year, in addition to the
demand for the 1 9 1 1 Cadillac. T his
year’s sales will eat up each day
’s
production as fast as completed and
shipped.
l
G ather all these facts together and
they will spell their own ex plana
t ion . And that ex planation 1 s :
Stan dardization
T he Cadillac does not deteriorate be
cau se of the high state of standard
ization which ex ists in each part and
in the union of all the parts. T hat is
why so many Cadillac owners u se
their car a second season and a third
and a fou rth and con tinuously . T hat
is also why so many who hav e owned
cars.
of a higher price buy the
Cadillac—a case of equal efficiencyand greater economy . T hat
,too
,is
why so large a proportion of new
buyers choose the Cadillac. T hat 1 3 why the Cadillac owner
says—“I f I had 1 t to do ov er again , I wouldbuy aCadillac.
”
Standardization—Perfect alignmen t of all the parts. Con
sequen t removal of friction . T he economy that results
therefrom . T hat is the en tire story of the success of last
year’s Cadillac
,the Cadillacs of the years before, and the
m agnificen t Cadillac of 1 9 1 1 .
banqu ets and beef steak part ies .
Broadway and 66th St .
H ofhrau H ou se
Janssen ’
s perfect German restau
ran t carries on the best cu l inary and
drinking tradit ion of the Vater land .
B ig carved casks of sherry and port
line the wal l s . T he beers here are
unsurpassed. T he old German cus
tom of ringing a be l l every t ime a
new keg is tapped is strict ly oh
served. T he food is what you wou ldcommand in any of the first c lassrestau ran ts of Germany. Broadwayand 30th St .
H olland H ou se
At the cocktai l hou r the bar hereis thronged w ith the town ’
s notab les .
I ts popu larity is du e in part, no
doubt,to the handsome and com
fortable appointments of the room,
bu t the fact that here are served thebest and largest cocktai l s is no mean
point . T he restau ran t is also a favorite w ith the smart se t
,the food being
of the very best . N ote the importedD e lft -handled cu t l ery. Fifth Ave .
and 3oth St .
I mperial H ot el
-T h is old hote l had a repu tat ionas one of the c ity’
s best hoste l rieseven before the Waldorf-Astoriaw as bu i l t . I t sti l l ranks among thebest of the more gentee l places . D inn er in the Palm Room where there
The bar of theWaldorf-Astoria at the cocktailhour
presents a vital cross - section of metropolitan life .
(CONTlNUED FROM PAGE 29)
is music is someth ing you shou ldn ’
t
m iss . Broadway and 32nd St .
J ack’s
T he most famou s of the city’
s all
n ight places where sooner or lateryou
’ l l see everybody you know . Col
lege boys, actors, lawyers, po l it icians,bankers, newspaper men—everyw alk of life is represented heren ight ly either at dinner or in the earlymorn ing after the rest of the placesin town have c losed. Jack D u nstan is
the am iab le and handsom e host andhe ru les his estab l ishment w ith aniron hand. T here ’
s rare ly trouble inJack'
s bu t shou ld a customer get
obstreperous, the w e l l trained flyingwedge of waiters w i l l see that hemeets the sidewalk at lightn ingspeed. Si xth Ave . and 44 .
J oel’s
A very pictu resqu e n ight placerun by a very in terest ing and amu s
ing character. (Joe l , w e hear, hasjust fin ished a book on psycho logy. )H ere
,m i xed up w ith M ex ican revo
lu tionists and Broadway charactersof various shades
, you’ l l general ly
find a group of new spaper men
around the 0 . H enry tab le : FrankWard O
’
M alley, H eywood Broun,
C l ive Weed, or an equ al ly w itty as
sortment . Adding fu rther to the at
mosphere of the place is the LadyO rchestra—a n ice looking ensembl ethat plays as we l l as it can . Forty
first Street,West of Seven th Aven ue .
DRAWI NG BY WAL LACE MOR GAN
DINING and AFTER-DARK DIVERTISSEMENTS
come every n ight , and keep the irprivate pew ter mugs and longchurch -warden pipes hanging alongthe smoke stained w al l s . 3oth St . j ustE ast of S i xth Ave .
Knicherhocher H otel
An appeal ing summer din ingplace here is the open
-air terrace on
the second floorover looking 42nd St .
T heGri l l downstairs is equal lyattract i ve and ispreferab le ifyou ’
re lookingfor someth ing a l itt le gayer. T he Bar
,
where you can al so dine,is
,how ever
,
the place to go at cocktail t ime if youw ish to see a typical cross-sect ion of
Gotham . T he handsome Max field
Parrish King Co le paint ing over ithas long been the talk of the tow n
as have the creaking tables of “
freelunch "
laden down w ith every con
ceivable de l icacy and ru led over bytwo w h ite-capped chefs. T h is important hote l
,under the direct ion ofJames B . Regan ,
is playfu l ly knownalong the Great Wh ite Way as the
Forty- second Street Cou ntry C lub .
Broadway and 4a St .
Keene’s Chop H ou se
Once a part of the Lambs’
C lub,
th is importan t eating place may not
be overlooked by men who like the irchops and steak served in the old
E ng l ish manner in an atmospherethat m ight be London . T he wal ls arel ined w ith old and rare playbi l l s,pictures of sport ing events
,actors
and actresses of other days . I n the taproom you may play checkers
, chess,and dom inoes and sip the best of imported ales . Many of the cu stomers
L afayetteN owhere e lse in the city w i l l you
find a cafe so complete ly and genu
inely French as the one in th is hote lwh ich many know as
“
O ld M ar
t in ’
s”
. T here are marble top tab leson wh ich you may play bagate l l e,cards
,chess
, or dom inoes wh i le yousip you r aperit if or after dinner coffee ; a rack w ith all the importan tforeign new spapers and even a
"
Ma
dame”at the cash desk . T he main
din ing room in the rear serves thebest French lu ncheons and dinnersin town
,and the w ine l ist is u nsu r
passed. The owners of the Brevoort
around th e corn er are also the proprietors of th is most agreeab le hote l .U n i vers ity P lace and 9th St .
Lit tle H u ngary
St irring gypsy music,foreign
dishes,three kinds of w ine served
w ith the dinner (you press you r g lassagainst mou ths of long necked
,inverted bott les to fi l l it ) , and flam ing
pu nch are some of the u nusual artractions of th is w e l l know n E ast
Side restaurant wh ich, to j udge bythe hu ndreds of au tographed photoson the wal ls, has been v isited by all
(Continued on Page 38)
ADVE RT IS E ME NT
T H E CE LE BRATE D ORGAN IN T H E HOTE L ASTORGRAND BALLROOM
A n I n visible O rgan an d Som e o f th e D e t ails W hich G o T ow ards I ts C on stru ction
m u s ic o f the spheres may seem an old, old my thto most people , bu t there is a modern in stance r ighthere in N ew York to—day wh ich is l ike ly to rou se ju st
as m uch wonder and amazemen t as the old story of the sweet
sounds w h ich it was the priv i lege of the gods alone to hear . I f
y ou doubt th is statement drop in to a certain w e l l -known hote lon T imes Square and try to fo l low to its sou rce the sw eet ly ins istent m u s ic wh ich w i l l come to your ears . T ry to fathom the
r ich notes w h ich hav e an orchestral vo lum e and var iat ion in toneco lor , and find if you can the magn ificen t organ from which them u s ic fal ls l ike an env e loping v e i l , from above , and ro l l s and
v ibrates from u nderneath . I t is a my stery and yet not a my stery ,
for w hen the l ight s brighten and a c lose in spect ion can be made
of the balcony frescoes in the east and west gal ler ies of the greatballroom
, forests o f pipes may be dim ly perce ived—an organ
wh ich is a creat ion of rea l gen iu s .
T h i s organ ,so c leverly and art i st ical ly arranged as to be prac
t ica l ly in v is ible ,is one of the latest addi t ions to the grand bal l
room o f the H ote l Astor, and is u sed for concerts , dances and
whenever an orchestral organ can be u t i l i zed . Perhaps now heree l se in the wor ld can an organ be found w h ich w i l l surpass it forvariety of tone co lors , and superb blending of v oices .
T he in strum en t has one hundred and two stops of vary ingt imbre and w ide ly di ffer ing power . T he main organ occupieslarge chambers on the east and west gal leries , w i th ch imes in the
north sect ion . Another organ in the O ranger ie balcony hundredso f feet away may be play ed as an echo o f the main organ , or
R eproduced from an adv ertisemen t of
36
M r. Leo B . R igg s
indiv idual ly as a support and en r ichm en t of the O rangerie or
chestra. E ach organ may be played independen t ly of the otheror in conjunct ion w ith each other, a feature of organ con strue
t ion never be fore attempted. T he m u s ic ro l l may a l so be ut i l i zed.
T he in terior of the great organ is a labyr in th of thou sands of
pipes , cables, magnets, armatu res , pneumat ic tubes and otherdetai l s of construct ion . One hundred and n ineteen m i les of in
sulated w ir ing is u sed. T he pipes range in length from th irty - two
feet to less than hal f an inch . T here are one hundred and th irtyn ine cables , each con tain ing from th irty - two to a hundred w ires ,and in all one thou sand, six hundred and forty
- three e lectricmagnets are necessary . By mean s of the b lowers of five and
twen ty horse -
power respect ive ly , air is compressed into greatair chests under the pipes, w here ten t im es the am oun t of com
pressed air of any other sy stem o f organ construct ion may be
readi ly stored. T hese chests may be entered w hen the organ is
be ing played and the mechan ism may be observed in actualoperat ion .
T he concert of the M ozart Soc iety , the Kn e ise l Quartette ,the U n iversity G lee C lub, the Mende l ssohn S oc iety and otherwe l l -know n mu s ical ev ent s are schedu led for the grand bal l roomduring the com ing season .
T he abov e pictu re shows M r . R iggs, the tal en ted organ ist o f thehote l , on the stage of the grand bal l room seated at one of the mov
able con so les or play ing boards . T hese con so les hav e fou r keyboards ormanual s andare connectedw ith the organ i tse l f by mean s
o f a seven hundred w ire cable one hundred and fi fty feet long .
H otel Astor published in 1 91 1
N EW YORK PUBL IC L I BRARYHeight of the supper hour at Sherry
’
s.
DINING and AFTER-DARK DIVERTISSEMENTS(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 35)
sorts of prom inent people , from barroom on the B roadway side.
Co lone l Rooseve l t down . 257 E ast B roadway and 33rd St .
H ouston St .
M artiniqu e H otel
T h is was, unt i l recen t ly, a hote lwh ich catered large ly to permanentresidents and one of the first to havea din ing room on the top floor. T he
present changes inc lude a large gri l l ,a red and go ld din ing room on the
street leve l , and a handsome marbl eR eprodu ced from an advert isemen t published in 1 91 1
L ac/t ows
T h is is one of the o ldest estab
lished restaurants of the c ity speciali z ing in beer (it ’s one of the few
places that knows how to keep it ) ,German dishes of all k inds and
steaks that rival any E ng l ish Chophouse in town . You’
ll see many G er
man fam ilies, of course, din ing here,
bu t not so long ago it also became
the Conversat ion Corner for a bri lliant group of literati headed byJames H uneker. T here's a good or
chestra that plays just the right , sentimentalbeermu sic. Ask forGeorge,the Oberke l lner. 1 1 0 E ast 1 4th St .
M artin’s
T he ou tdoor terrace tab les on theFifth Avenue side are very popu larth is season at luncheon and dinner.
T he Cafe, however, cont inues to bethe ch ief attraction of th is notablerestaurant . I t is crowded w ith the
town’
s smartest and gayest at all
hou rs. You may dine here also ifyou are not in the mood for the
formal ity of the other rooms. T he
Cafe is genu ine ly French and carrieson all the old French cafe tradit ionsdown to the stacking of saucers on
your table after each round of drinks .
Lou is, brother of proprietor JamesB . Martin
,has ju st opened a new
place of his own uptown, the Cafe
de L’
Opera—wh ich is someth ing
e lse again . Fifth Ave . and 26th St .
M andarin CafeWhen Broadway shu ts down for
the n ight , late uptowners often meetin s lumm ing part ies in th is veryatmospheric Ch inatown place run byJimmy Kelly, former l ightw eightbox ing champion and ex -manager of
N iggerM ike. T here isgoodCh inese,American ,
and I tal ian cookery, and
y0u’
ll hear " P iano” D ozey and his
orchestra"
rag"
the scale . I rving Berlin
,whose Alex ander’s Rag T ime
Band is sw eeping the town w as oneof the singing waiters here, not solong ago . T he resort is open all
n ight . 1 1 1 D oyer St .
H ot elM GAlpt'
n
Local social ites and many ou t-of
tow ners patron ize the w e l l knownSkyscraper D in ing Room of th ispopu lar H ote l—said to be the h ighest roof garden in the city . You
'l lsee many of the younger set here at
dinner and after the play, for thefact that no dancing is perm ittedseems to insure its respectabi l ityamong the reign ing dowagers. T he
famous H orseshoe Bar downstairs,how ever, con tinues to be crowded
w ith Broadway ce lebrities. At its
open ing, a very gay event , it was
D iamond Jim Brady who purchasedthe first bott le of champagne—forLi l l ian Russe l l . Broadway at 34th St .
M onqain’s
Kniekerboc/eer Cot tage)A branch of the we l l known
downtown restau rant and anotherone of the town
’
s eat ing places thatis tru ly French . U pstairs are largedin ing rooms and music, bu t themost interest ing spot to lunch or
dine is in the cafe dow nstairs . Manydistingu ished artists and'w riters have
made th is the ir even ing meetingplace. At the sou th tab le on the Six thAvenue side you
’ l l general ly see
such masters of the bru sh and
needle as Joseph Penne l l (don ’
t let
his unkempt appearance troub leyou ) , Ch i lde H assam , and theirfriends . T he cu isine here and the
w ines are the best . Si x th Ave . and
28 th St .
M array’s
T he latest nove l ty in places thathave ant icipated the pub l ic’
s desireto dance at all hours to the new"
rag”music. T he trappings are
Roman—or c lose to it—and lowl ights and hanging garlands set off
the tabl es wh ich are arranged at
various leve ls around a revo l v ingdance floor. D inner is served, bu t
the gayest t ime is late in the eve
n ing . T he bu i lding stands on the
site of Mol ly Riorden'
s famous
establ ishment . T ab le d'hote dinnersupper 7 5C. 42nd St . near
Broadw ay.
N afvarre H otel
T he Gri l l and the roof garden
restaurant are good laces to v isitafter the play. Some 0 the special t iesyou shou ld try are ce lery broi l andgri l led oysters ; bone less shad ; lobster a la N avarre ; crab flakes a la
D enver. T here is mu sic for dancing .
7 th Ave . and 38 th St .
B ROWN
T he N et/terland
I f you w ish to dine in a very t e
fined and decorous atmosphere, therestaurant of th is P laza hote l shou ldsatisfy your caprice . Fifth Ave . and
59th St .’
Pabst
N oted, of cou rse, for its beer and
its German cooking . T he large cres
cen t bar is one of the most popu laron the circ le . T he uptow n branch( 1 25th Street ) is equal ly famous.
P laza
An ex treme ly attracti ve summer
garden opened here th is season and
din ing on its terrace has becomequ ite the th ing. T h is magn ificentPark hote l is also a great rendezvousof the younger set, espec ial ly at
luncheon and tea-t ime . Fifth Av e .
and 59th St .
R ector’s
N o one can say he has seen the
after-dark world of the city u nt i l hehas v isited th is restaurant—thetown
’
s greatest g ift to spenders,bon -v ivants, and chorus girls . Rec
tor’
s, for variou s legal reasons, isknown as the Balmoral C lub after
c losing hou r. Broadway betwee
43rd and 44th Sts .
(Continued on Page 40)
Midnight on the HotelAstor Roof.
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calls
are renewing a definite
preference for America’
s
Interesting literature
sent on request.
I f .
Address Dept. S-8 6
Pleasant Valley Wine Co.
Rheims, N. Y.
CHAMPAGNE
produced by our own precise Vintner’
s artistry
and the old traditional method of slow fer
mentation in the bottle.
”GreatWestern I S the
only American champagne to win gold medals
in France, Austria andBelgium. I t also -won the
coveted Diplome d’
Honneur in Paris.
OUr choice at any price is Great Western"
is again being overheard wherever quality is
apparent.
R ED RAVEN
splits , everywhere 1 5C
R eprodu ced from advert isemen ts
pu blisher] in 1 0 1 1
DINING and AFTER-DARK DIVERTISSEMENTS(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 39)
R eisenweber ’s
T he gayest and naughtiest placeon the C irc le, w ith music, and a
cabaret show that is start l ing to saythe l east . Married men on an ou tingw i l l be g lad to know that the l itt lem idn ight number in wh ich the
chorus sprayed perfume on the cus
tomers has been e l im inated by popular request . After the legal c losinghou r it is know n to the in itiated as
the Society of U n ited Friends . 58 th
St . and Seventh Ave .
R itz - Carlton
Associated w ith the famous E uropean hote l system , th is recent addit ion to the long l ist of ou tstandingcity hoste lries is abou t the last w ordin sumptuous appointments . I t has“
caught on”defin ite ly w ith the
town'
s fash ionab les and its impressi ve din ing rooms are crowded w iththe best people during lu ncheon ,
dinner,and after the play. Leading
fore ign chefs and directors of longCon t inental ex perience assu re th ishote l a permanent place in the smartl ife of M anhattan . Madison Ave . at
46th St .
R oger’s
Another of the town ’
s better chophou ses w ith someth ing of the same
atmosphere as its ri val , Jack’
s dow n
the avenue”though not qu ite such afavorite w ith the Broadway crowd.
4 5th St . and Six th Ave .
S t . R egis
T h is comparat i ve ly new hote l umder the management of the w e l lknow n restau rateu r, Rudo lph H ahn ,
is abou t as lux u riou s aplace the towncan boast . T he cu isine and serv ice areabove crit icism and the generalscheme of decorat ion is handsomeand appeal ing . T he St . Regis was
known - for some t ime as"
the housewh ich cou ldn ’
t have a bar —due tothe fact of its prox im ity to a church .
T h is was straightened ou t a wh i leago and now it has one of the finestand most frequ ented in the city. 55th
St . and Fifth Ave .
Sav oy
Luncheon or dinner in the restanrant ou the Fifth Avenu e side are
de l ightfu l occasions these torridtimes. Reserve a table at one of thelarge w indow s overlooking the Park .
Fifth Ave . and 59th St .
Sc/t efiel H alle
A fine old German restaurant
where you may hear the good mu sicof R igo’
s gypsy orchestra and en joyan inex pensi ve dinner. T ry the im
ported Ku lmbacher beer. T here are
bow l ing al leys downstairs whereladies are perm i tted to try their ski l l .T h ird Ave . and 1 7 th St .
Slzanley’s
T h is new Shan ley restau rant has
become,since its open ing a short
wh i le ago, one of the very l i ve lyn ight places along the Fort ies . N ot
T errace G ardens
T he open air terrace above the
street where l ight German operas
are sung from a special ly constructedstage is a un ique place to v isit thesem idsummer n ights. I t is a pleasantescape from the noise and smoke of
the cabarets ju st to sit, sip beer, andl isten . 58 th St . between Lex ingtonand 3rd Ave .
qu i te on a par w ith its i l lustriousneighbor, Rectors, it neverthe lessfurn ishes those who l ike to get
about after-dark w ith lenty of en
tertainment . You can draince the new
dances here and there is a fast cabaret . D inner, served from 6 to 9,
is
after the theatre suppers
and —bu t the gaiety ofthe place w i l l probab ly make youspend a lot more . Broadway between
43rd and 44th Sts .
Sberry’s
T here is l itt le doubt that th isrestau rant—toney (w e beg to say)to the last degree—has as much tooffer in the way of appointments,perfect ion of cu isine and serv ice as
any to be found in the capitals of
E urope . T hough din ing at Sherry’
s
on Sunday n ights has long been thehabit of the loan): monde,the variou s
rooms here are equal ly popu lar on
weekdays du ring luncheon ,tea
,and
supper. 44th St . and Fifth Av e .
Sm ith and M cN eil’s
I f you l ike to go s lumm ing in thedawn you
’ l l find a v is it to th is downtown restau rant an amusing ex peri
ence . I ts patrons are the farmers and
truck dri vers who arri ve in the earlymorn ing hou rs to de l iver their produce at the Wash ington Market
,a
short distance away . Y0u'
ll see all
sorts of interesting characters and berem inded of that co lorfu l morn ingyou spent at Les H al les, the marketsof Paris. 1 99 Wash ington St .
U n ter—den - L ina’en
An ou tdoor German beer garden~known to many as Stillgebauer
’
s
where you sit at l i tt le tab les ar
ranged around pebb led paths, drinkex ce l lent beer and hear mu sic of theShine Little G low Worm variety .
Broadway and 93rd St .
T he Waldorf—AstoriaT he ch ief attraction of th is mostimportant of N ew York hote ls at
th is season is, of course, the roof
where e ither at dinner or later youmay be sure to find Society en joyingthe setting and the orchestral music.
T he other departmen ts of th is hote lare too numerous to ment ion in detai l and are known throughout thecoun try : Peacock A l ley ; the mainrestau rant
,w ith w indow s overlook
ing Fifth Avenue, and, of cou rse, the
Bar. T he latter has represented—and
sti l l represents—a phase of American social l ife no fu tu re h istorianthe city may overlook . T he l ist of itspatrons inc ludes, since its open ing
FORD Mode l T famed for its serv ice on all the highw ay s
simple design , sam e heat-treatedVanadium S tee l Construc tion ,
Of course'
y ou ex pec t us to be en
of'
Fo rd Model . T , we are biased in
FORD ModelT CommercialRoadsterDe troit, Michigan. .U . S . A.
Bran ch e s and De ale rs in All Principal Cities
R eprodu ced fro m an advertisemen t of Ford M otor Company published in 1 91 1
42
S o w e propo se that when yo u are con s ide ring the
pu rchase o f a mo to r car, that you inve s t igate fo r
you rse l f, by talking w ith owne rs o f Ford Mode l '
I’
cars- they are all around you—o r w rite them fo r
t heir opinions and expe rience w i th this sat is fyingc ar. Ca l l o n any Fo rd deal er and he w ill direc tyou to Fo rd ow ne rs, or w rite u s direc t and we w il lsend you the names and addre sses . T his is an ca si
and dependab le way to sat is fy you rse l f as to the
re l iabi l i ty o f eve ry c laim we make for Ford Model
T . T hen have the Ford dealer g ive yo u a r
prac t ical
demon stration . T ake a ride and see how simple itis to drive , how pe rfec t the con t ro l and how sm oo th
Fo rd Mode l T"
run s .
_W
'
e te l l you frank ly Ford Mode l T is be tter todaythan ever be fo re . because wh i le there have been no
changes in de tail , in de sign and cons truc t ion o f the
car. I t has been pos sib le to refine certain featu res
and add certain conven ience s .
T he inc reased demand has led natu ral ly to in
creased m anu fact u ring facil it ies. and this largerproduc tion has given us econom ics through w h ichw e are ab le to reduce the price . wh ile
_
inc reasingthe q ual ity .
-’
e repeat the assu rance that Ford Mode l '
T is
the highe s t q uality car made in the wo r ld. bar none .
I t is made in the mo s t compact and efficient factoryin the world , bar none . H enry Fo rd. the de signer
o f Fo rd cars and the founde r o f the Fo rd Motor
Company , has neve r been mo re act ive and cflic ientin his w ork than at the presen t t ime . H e is con ‘
tinnally moving through the immense plan t here.
there and eve rywhe re , alert. observing . th inking .
do ing -v onc object in view—increase the q ual ity :increase the efiiciency ; increase the se rviceab i l ity of
the car and reduce the price .
T his car w il l bring you all the com fort . luxu ryand speed in riding that an y mo tor car can giveyou ; it bring s y ou a prac t ical se rvice more ex tensivethan any o the r mo tor car can g ive you . I t cosh
you lcs's in purchase price . and it is the cheape st
car in the world to m aintain in ope ration .
H e re'
s the Ford linr
Ford Model T T ou rin g C ar . 4 c y linde rs . 5 passen ge rs .
com ple te ly e qu ipped . seen. F . O . 8 . De troit .
Ford Mod e l T T or do . 4 c linde rs . 2 pu ss-u se rs . com
ple te ly e q u ippe d. F . 0 . 6. D e t ro it .
Ford M bd e l T Comm e rc ial R oad s te r . 6 c y linde rs . Syn
gac rs (remo v able R um b le se at) com ple te ly eq u ippcF . 0 . 8 . D e tro it .
Fo rd Mod el T T Ow n C s'r (L andau le t l. 4 c linde n . 6 pas sen
g e rs . com ple te ly e q u ippe d .m . F . 0 . B . tron .
Ford Mod e l T B e liv e C ar. 4 c y lin de rs . capacit y 750
po u nds m e rchandise . or m os t t ac tic al dcliv c ar 9 "
t he m ark e t . Com ple tely e q u ippc F . O . B .
No Ford cars sold tmeq nb ped.
There have been no m istakes to correc t—no ex pe rim en ts to
try ou t - bu t conv en ien ces hav e been added and a m a rked
redu c tion in price m ade possible throu gh large r produ c tionand added fac tory facilities .
Some of the o rig inal an d e x clu s ive
fea tures which have m ade F OR D
Mode l T the m os t .
papu la r and
servic eable ca r in the wo rld :
Mar v elo u s S imp lic ity in De fi cit—Few part s. bu t
e ve r) part in harmon ) w ith sc ien t ific principle .l be re is no thing supt rfi uou s in Ford de sig n , e t e r)
part has it s spe c ific place m ak ing a cha ssis compac t
c lean cu t, neat . w ith g reat st rengt h .
A Car of Vana d ium St eel ( sc ien t ifical ly heattreated ) , the s t ro ng e s t o f all st ee l s u nde r ten sdc
s t re ss and again s t v ibrat ion and shock .
Ford Mag ne to bu il t in to the mo to r. No w ear
ing su rface s, no m oving w ires . no ign it ion t roub les .
Ford Plane tary T ransmission . .\ lo tor a lway sco nnec ted w ith car. T ransm issio n a lw ay s in g ear ;when the car is run n ing on high speed. the gears
are q u ie t , no c ru nc hing o r s t ripping o f gears .
No Weight on Mo ving Part s. T h is assures
durabilit) . economy and long se rvice .
Ford Spring Su spen sion . T he ax le s are at
tached to the‘
car at t he ext reme po in t o f thespring s, thu s g i u ng the u tmos t flex ib i l i ty , smoo th
ne ss in riding . and least w ear on t i res .
Ford Rear Ax le . N o t ru ss rods . Lo ok at it .no we ight , bu t it s ow n to carry : th ink o f the savmgI ll wear this m ean s to the rear t i re s.
Sm plic it y in Ope ra tion . T he movemen t o f thecar may be co n t ro l led by the fee t , the hands needne ve r be take n from the ste e r ing w hee l .[W Weigh t . Ford Mode l T is the ligh test in
we igh t o f any fo u r cy linde r car in the w orld. size .
p owe r and capac ity conside red . I t has 60 po unds
to the ho rse powe r . I t co st s money to moveweigh t . if w e igh t is an advan tag e in a m o t o r Car,
u by don'
t the make rs o f heavy w e ig ht cars adve rt tSe the fac t ?
Aooou ibility . E ve r) part o f the m e chanism o fFo rd \ l0dc l T is easily acce ssible . T he re ts no thing in tricat i—no th ing co n fu sing . it is as simpleas ABC .
Cheapo“ to Mu m Fo rd Mode l T is an e x
ceeding ly econom ica l car to keep. it goe s fromat) to 28 m ile s o n o ne g a l lon o f gaso l ine . I t isequal ly econom ica l w ith o il and g ive s fromto m ile s on one se t o f t ire s .
Ford Service for - Ford O wne r. is a featu rew hich m u s t no t be fo rgo t te n . N o m at te r w he re
you are , w ith yo u r Fo rd car . if acc ide n t and t roubleoc cu rs. ) o u are su re to find imm ediat e se rvic ef ight at hand. ( h e r fo u r tho u sand individua l de a lU S , ea ch one earn ing a snp plv o f Fo rd part s ins tock all t
l
hc t im e, each o ne anx iou s and prom pt
to as s i st l o rd o n n c r s . Fo rd se rv ice fo r Fo rdow ne rs is an exc lu sive ad t an tage . I t is a wo rldW ide advan tag t .\ o niat t t r w he re vo tt go . theFo rd dea le r is the re w aitw g fo r y .o n
No Ford Ca r. A t e So ld U neq uipped.
) on buy a Mode l T ) ou g e t a w ho le car .
“We wo u ld l ike to have y ou w rit e fo r o u r serie so f books. il lu s t rated and fu llv de sc ript ix e o f thevariou s feat u re s o f Ford Mod e l T cars . S end fo rthe se ries . I t n ou t co s t ) ou any thing .
De troit, Michigan, U . S . A.
FORD Mode l T Tou ring C4 C y lind e rs . 5 Passe n g e rs T w o 6-in c h G oo Lam p s. G e ne ra to r
C om ple t e ly eq u ip p ed as fo llow: T h re e O il Lam ps
E l k -union T op . S pe e dome te r Ho rn a nd T oo lsA u tom a tic B ran W in dsh ie ld fl . Ford Ma g n e to bu ilt in to
T h is ap le nd id T ou rin g Co r fo rm o. F . 0 . 8 . D e troit
R eprodu ced from an advertisemen t of F ord M otor Company pu blished in 1 91 1
191 1 Section
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The Girl on the Cover
Miss Billie Burke is scheduled to appear under Mr. Charles
Frohman’
s aegis in the new play from the French entitledT he Ru n away . The play was writ ten by Pierre Veber and
Henride Gorsse , and adapted by MichaelMorton. The Opening
date is tentatively set for the 9th of October, at the Lyceum,
and co-starring with Miss Burke will be the Messrs. Henry0 0 0
Miller, Junior, andC.Aubrey Smith. From theCulverCollection.
J O H N H AN RAH AN
E ditor
F RA N K A . E AT ON R U T H WOOD B U RY SE D GW I C K
Ar t D irec tor T heatre
PicturesNow Showing
Radio Highlights
Dining andDancing’
Round the Town
Summer Theatres Promise
We Went to the Play 2
The Show is On! 4
Dining andAfter-Dark Divertissements 25
Maude Adams. A photograph 46
The 1 910- 1 91 1 Dramatic Season inReview. ByBurnsMan tle 47
As aMan Thinks. A photograph 49
A Letter to David Belasco fromWilliam C deMille 55
ASplendidSeason in OurMusicalStage. By Deems Tay lor 56
Players inVacation Season. Photographs 61
Stage Asides 62
The Season in Music. By Marion M. D. Marty n 63
WhitherAre We Drifting? By Clzarles Hanson Tawneillustrations by WallaceMorgan
Manhattan. APoem. By Charles Hanson Towne
Revivals of the Season. Photographs
The Future of the Theatre. ByHeywood Broan
Everywoman. ACondensation ofWalter Browne’s ModernMorality Play
The Part ofYouth. ByPatricia Collinge
The Future ofVaudeville. By Newman l evy
The Composer ofAlex ander’
s Rag time Band.
By I rving Berlin as toldtoRussel Crouse
The Theatre as It Seems to Me.
An interview withSamH. Harris. By [0 1 mPeter Toolzey 82
Futures That Loom Large. Photographs 83
Promised and HopedFor 84
Fashions. ByMarie Harrison 92
AFashion Forecast forAutumn. By Edna Woolman Chase 98
Paris Fashion Letter. ByKat/rleen Howard 102
Shopping for Society ’s Smart Set andStageland’
s Stars.
ByMarion Tay lor
Gambling, Smoking, andSwearing. By Caroline Daer
Fashion’s Decree forMen. ByHarfordPowel
An Interview with D.W. Griffith ofBiograph.
By LeonardHall
The Future ofPictures . ByPauline Gale
1 936 Section
FIN E FU R S,if you w ill s top to think of it
,shou ld be
bou ght from collectors of pelt s w ho do thei r ow n des ign ingand m aking of coat s
,and on thei r ow n prem i ses . Fu r s
are on e lu x u r y that you bu y blindly u nles s you bu yfrom acknow ledged ex pert s . O u r fu r s are of this sor t
each garm en t su perv i sed from the t im e ou r Mr. H .
Leon ard S imm on s choo ses the pelt s u n t il one of
ou r ow n w orkers sn ips the thread that at taches
the label. Perhaps that i s w hy sm art w om en are
according Saks Fifth Av enu e both in New
for the fines t Fu r s . Sbetebed : Coat of superb
Russian natural grey broadtail selet ted by
M r. Simmons on bis last tripabroad. We
doubt ifyoii willfind size/7pelts elsewbere
C U LV E R
T he calendar te l ls us—handy th ings , calendars —that w e have come to the close of an
other theatrical season . T he re w i l l , of cou rse,be sporad ic product ion s of plays th rough thesummer . N ew York expands in popu larity asa summer resort . What i s often facet iou slyreferred to as the
“
tou ri st trade becomesincreasingly importan t to the more alert producers of plays . Steamsh ip agen ts are con
v inced th i s summer of 1 9 1 1 w i l l see manytou rist records broken . T herefore, those of
you who expect to remain in the ci ty du ringthe heated term may hope to be variou s ly entertained in the playhou ses .H ow eve r, ou r concern of the momen t i s
w i th the past rather than w i th the fu tu re .
"
T he past,at least , i s secu re, shou ted Web
ster . We know what w e have seen,and though
w e have not been al together pleased w ithwhat w e have seen ,
at least the measu re of
Ou r di sappoin tmen t has been no greater than ,
shal l I say, shou ld have been an t icipated ?Activi ty in the local fie ld of dramat ic en
terprise has been ,and cont inu es to be, almost
fran t ic, w rote ou r frequent ly queru lou s bu tkeen ly observing col league , W i l l iam W in ter,of the T ribune , in a recen t magaz ine art icledevoted to the drama.
”
Play after play hasbeen produced
,and almost every play has
fai led .
T hat,I ins i st
,i s a pessimist ic view . I t i s
true that probably seventy - fiv e per cen t of the
CU LV E R
produced plays have resu lted in fai lu refinancial fai lu re
,at least—bu t that percen tage
is no h igher than i t always has been nor,I
am incl ined to be l ieve,any h igher than it
w ill be for some years to come . N atu ral ly thepercentage of fai lu re w i l l decrease w i th the
years . A younger and more progress ive groupof play producers i s gradual ly moving intothe pictu re . G eorge C . T yler
,who for so long
has been the producing gen iu s of L iebler andCompany, i s th inking of striking ou t for himsel f . W in th rop Ames
,so ably represen ting
the best brain s of the Back Bay distr ict of
Boston , far from discou raged by the fai lu reof the N ew T heatre
,i s already looking for
ward to the erect ion and di rect ion of his ow n
theatre . H en ry B . H arri s and his you ngerbrother
,W i l l iam
,are qu ite certain to do big
th ings in the theatre of the fu tu re . T he new
Au thors ’ Produc ing Company, in wh ich bothE dgar and Arch Se lw yn ,
and the i r dappe ryou ng associate, C rosby G aige
,are in terested ,
i s a hopefu l in fu s ion of new b lood in the
theatre . Joe W eber and Lew Fie lds , no longerpartners in fun
,are now managerial r ivals in
earnest . Lou i sW erba,M ark Lu esche r
,A lfred
Aaron s , Wagenhals and Kemper—all you ngand all eager—shou ld con t ribu te magn ifi
cen tly to the theatre du ring the next quarte rcen tu ry . By 1 935- 36 the American theatreshou ld lead the wor ld .
I n our arti st ic pride w e have su ffered one
major defeat in 1 91 0- 1 1 . T h i s w illbe the lastseason of the long aw ai ted and loudly heralded N ew T heatre . Afte r two season s of
struggle it i s u nderstood that the backers ofthat enterpri se have w ithdraw n the i r supportand the T emple to Art erected w i th suchelat ion and heralded w i th such joy in Central Park West a year ago is to pass to otherhands and
,it may be, to othe r u ses . Sic transit
gloria as the saying is .T he N ew T heatre en te rprise
,as w e be
latedly know ,was a fai lu re from its incept ion .
U nderw ri tten as it w as by ou r foremost patron s of art and " big bu s iness , the prevai ling sent imen t in its creat ion sprang from a
Mrs. Fiske , Kathlene MacDonell, andFlorine Arnoldin the delightfulnew comedy entitled Mrs.Bumpstead-Leigh.
”In thissceneMissArnoldis callingMissMacDonell
“aviper—avenomousviper!”
bel ief that money can accomplish anyth ing .
Pu t enough money back of an en terprise and
i t i s bound to succeed ! T hat i s you r capital i st ’ sidea. Wel l , the N ew T heatre represents someth ing l ike ten mil l ion s of dollars invested,and i s a fai lu re !T here are, natu ral ly, many reasons ad
vanced as the cau se of fai lu re . T he theatrewas too large ; the drama demands intimacy.T he acou st ics w ere fau lty ; the drama mu st beheard . T he supply of native dramas was inadequate ; on ly one native play, E dward Sheldon 's T be N igger, was produced the firstseason . T he company w as large but inelastic.
Whenever any of the great parts was to becast i t became necessary to cal l in gu es t stars .Bu t the true cau se, the basic cau se of fai lu re,w as undoubted ly that wh ich affl icts any theatre, large or smal l , subsid ized or strugglingthe fai lu re of the promoters to producedramas that appealed to enough playgoersto guarantee the support of the en terprise .
W inthrop Ames and his associate producers, the Messrs . Shubert ; M r. John Corbin , l i terary adviser, and the others who wereclose to thi s first attempt to establ i sh a N a
tional theatre in America may garner somesat i sfaction from the fact that the i r secondseason w as better than thei r first . At least onecommercial ly successfu l production
,that of
Mau rice Maeterlinck's Tbe B/ae Bird, hascome through w i th a cash profit th i s season .
After a successfu l in i tial run at the paren thou se the M aeterl inck fantasy was transferredto the Majest ic T heatre , where i t con tinued .
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I mu st make a note to w ri te M r. Amesand ask him if
,after the transfer
, he sti l l hadtrouble w i th the l i ttle unborn ch i ldren of
the cas t sneaking away to smoke thei rcigarettes . I have heard they w ere a cau seof great distress to the firemen engaged topatrol the magnificent distances back stage .
Among other N ew T heatre productionsthat may be men tioned w i th some degreeof in terest, if not en thu s iasm
,is that of
Joseph ine Preston Peabody ’ s The Piper, a
worthy poetic drama founded on the PiedPiper of H amel in legend
,wh ich
,although
perhaps a bi t lofty in qual i ty for the crowd,
deserved a place in the repertory of an Art
theatre. Mary Au stin ’ s T be Arrow Maker
was dignified and poetic, bu t too crude to surv ive . Arthu r W ing P inero’ s T be s inder
bolt had all the v i rtues of the "
w el l madeplay, bu t lacked sympathy . I l legit imacy issti l l an unpleasan t theme, even in our progressive theatre
,and th i s is the story of an
i l legitimate daughter who inherited a for
tune from her father after the family haddone its best to keep i t from her.
T he Mary Magdalene of M aeter l inck maybe sai d to have been compounded of a l i ttleimpressive verse and a good deal of " tinse land heroics, as has been w ritten of it .
M i ss O lga N ethersole'
s attempt to bringus the heaving techn i que of the Continentaldrama
,touched w i th a lasciviou sness that
nearly ki l led dear M r. W inter , proved l ittleto the l iking of N ew T heatre patrons .
Aside from the departed and departingglor ies of our first subs idized theatre, theseason offered several good plays . T he bestof them was probably Augu stu s T homas ’As a Man Tbinbs, a v igorou s d iscu ssion of
the double standard of moral i ty that is beginn ing to irri tate many citizens—especial lyedi tors . M r. T homas, as is a frequen t custom w i th him
,tr ied the play in the form of
a one-act sketch in a Lambs ’ C lub G amboland later expanded i t . I t is a better play thanwas th i s au thor ’ s T be H arvest Moon, and
not so good a play as his Tbe Wit t /ying H our,
wh ich represen ted other T homas forays into '
the strange world of the metaphysicians . M r.
T homas i s becoming a good deal of a preacher in the theatre, and playgoers normal ly resent being preached to . T hanks to his stronglydeveloped dramatic sense he made us l ike theYou can
’ t shoot—that—gun , you can’ t pu l l
that tr igger !” bu siness and the"
a gu i ltythought i s as criminal as a gu i l ty deed” of
T be Witcbing H oar. H e tr ied hold ing us
w i th the ev i ls of implanting w icked suggestions in a girl ’ s mind in T he H arvest M oon .
N ow he wou ld remind us in As aMan T binbs
that “ there is a double standard of moral i tybecau se on the golden basis of woman 'sv i rtue rests the wel fare of the world .
Like T homas or not,he is the on ly
dramati st among us who has the cou rage toexperiment in new fields . H e shou ld havebeen a preacher . O r an actor . Or a pol i tician .
As he stands he is all three in one, and the
mixtu re i s confus ing . On ly as an after-dinner
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speaker i s he an unqual ified success . H e savesthe banquet promoter ’ s coffee . H e keeps theguests awake w i thou t i t .Charles K le in 's T be Gamblers mu st also
be placed near the top of any l i st of the sea
son ’ s ou tstanding plays . L ike M r. T homas,M r. K le in i s defin itely an actor ’ s dramati st,a playw right w i th a feel ing for effective (andfrequen tly hackneyed ) theatrical situations .I f he lacks T homas ’ in terest in psychologicalexplorat ion he stil l is a good workman . H is
T be Gamblers is more sentimen tal thanmoral , deal ing w i th a banker ’ s misappropriation of funds, his effort to save himsel f fromthe prosecu t ion of a D i str ict Attorney whoi s both a personal and an official enemy, andhis second meeting w i th the prosecu tor ’ sw i fe
,w i th whom formerly he was in love .
M r. G eorge N ash was a forcefu l banker,Charles Stevenson a stubborn prosecu tor, anda good deal of in terest centered abou t thatattractive young leading woman ,
M i ss JaneCow l
,who promises to do sti l l better th ings
in the fu tu re .
T wo of the better comedies of the seasonwere Leo D itrichstein ’
s H erman Bahr adaptation—M r. D itrichstein is always fool ing w i th
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one adaptation or another—cal led T be Concert, wh ich ran practical ly allw in ter , and thelively G et -Ricb-Qaick Wallingford wh ichthat amazing young man, G eorge M . Cohan ,
sci ssored ou t of a ser ies of stor ies byG eorgeRandolph Chester . M r. Cohan ,
having practical ly ex hau sted his in terest in the song anddance show ,
is evidently set on a career thatshal l involve a certain amoun t of " straight”drama. T he idea of M r. Coban ’s goingstraigh t is someth ing at wh ich to marvel .What may be described as his first step on
the new road is a firm step . Wallingford wasone of the real h its of the year .We shal l include in this l is t of favorites
also a comedy from the pen of that hardworking E nglish dramat i st, Lou i s N apoleonParker, who gave up mu sical in struction and
compos i t ion to tu rn out spotty p lays w i thastounding rapidity . T his is M r. Parker ’ ssl ightly anemic but sti l l amu sing PomanderWalk. Its cast included an amiable pair inG eorge G i ddens and Lennox Paw le, ‘
and
that sometime w r i ter of drama, T . WigneyPercyval, who sounds as though he shou ld bequ i te a comic fel low w i th a monocle .
I hear M i ss M aude Adams was personal ly
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qu i te w el l p leased w i th her appearance inthe Rostand Cbanteeler, a un ique and novelex h ibi tion . N ot many of her devoted follow ing shared her enthu s iasm . Among thosedisappoin ted
,it may be reasonably inferred ,
was M r. Charles Frohman,whom the fun
of seeing his favorite star bedecked in feathersand taught to crow cost a pretty penny . I t
w as, in fact, a bad season for M r. Frohman ,
despi te his canny care in first having a peekat his pu rchases on the stage in London .
John D rew ’ s appearances in W . SomersetMaugham ’ s Smitb have not brought e i ther theu sual acclaim or the u sual receipts—broughtl i ttle or noth ing
,in fact
,except some addi
tional atten tion to that confiden t, pretty , andvery blonde young leading woman named
Mary Boland .
T he Frohman production of the comedySuzanne, w i th Ju l ian L
’
E strange and B i l l ieBu rke
,though it held ou t for sixty- fou r per
formances, was far from a successfu l v entu re . Practical ly on ly M r. J . M . Barrie’ s oneacter , Tbe Twelve-Pound Look, saved M i ssE the l Barrymore ’ s season in Alice-Sit -by
- tbe
Fire, in which she essayed a character muchtoo old for her ; a character, in fact, wh ich
M r. Barrie in tended to be played by no lessan actress than M i ss E l len T erry
,for whom
it was w ri tten . M r. Frohman i s reported as
be ing qu i te di scouraged at the momen t . Losing his fai th in sex as a motive force in drama(he recen tly tol d in terviewers that he was
through w i th all“
sex -problem plays ) M r.
Frohman has su ffered fai lu re w i th a fai rlywholesome repertory. T h i s wou ld seem to
leave the pu dgy one e i ther up a tree or ou t
on a l imb or in some such u ncomfortableposi tion .
Speaking of sex,did you see that the
Mayor of Boston had banned E ugeneWalter ’ sT be E asiest Way, despi te i ts moral lesson ?E viden t ly the prevai l ing Codfish bel ieves w i thM r. W in ter that "
T be E asiest Way no moreteaches anyth ing than an open sew er does .C . F . might start a search for another
Rebeeca of Sunnybrook Farm,which idol of
the simple played more than two hundredperformances w i th M abe l T aliaferro ’
s s isterE dith ( "M abel ’ s sugar
,E di th ’ s spice
,the
fel low said ) as the sunbonneted heroine .
T here i s a pin t- size fel low in th i s cast thatmay amoun t to someth ing some day. H is
name i s E rnest T ruex .
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A good deal has been spoken and w r i ttenrecently abou t a general playgoers oppos itionto thinking in the theatre . T here is proofenough that the an ti - th inkers had pretty nearly a free field th i s season .
"
T he plays thathav e added to the N ation ’ s fund of dra
matic art have been exceedingly few ,con
trasted w i th the quan ti ty of rubbish that hasl i ttered the stage since the opening of the
season last Augu st,Lou i s V. D efoe w rote
recen tly in the M orning World.
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W ll,M argaret Mayo ’ s Baby Mine, wh ich
ran for nearl y three hundred performances,and two l ightw e ight comedies that managedto play for near ly two hu ndred performanceseach w ere probably in M r. D efoe ’ s thought .T hese w ere Ph i l ip Bartholomae
’
s Overnigbt,wh ich separated two new ly marr ied couplesand had the w rong bride pai red w i th the
w rong and very timid groom ; and RupertH ughes ’ E x cuse M e
,wh ich ex tracted
‘
a lot
of laughter from the humors of travel ing at
express speed in a Pu l lman coach . JamesForbes, whose Cborus Lady is sti l l w ell remembered , got a lot of fun ou t of
“
the“
ad
ventu res of recogn izable subu rban ites in T be
Commu ters, and E dgar Selw yn dramat izeda board ing hou se to comedy advantage in
T be Country Boy . T hese last two stayed on
for fiv e mon ths each .
On the other hand W inchel l Smith ’ s adaptation of F. Anstey
’
s Love Among tbe
Lions, w i th a cast wh ich inclu ded E rnestStal lard
,Jane Oaker , and A . E . M atthew s
,
a young E ngl ish comedian whose qu ietmethods made an immediate impress ion
,
was a fai lu re . 80 was a second Anstey piece,T be Brass B ottle, despi te the help i t got fromR ichard B en nett, M rs. T homas Wh i ffen , and
a pretty ingenu e from the w est named IreneFenw ick . Robert H . D av i s
,the esteemed edi
tor of M unsey’
s M agazine, tr ied his ’prentice hand w ith Tbe Family. It lasted sevenperformances, w i th Ju l ie H erne
,T homas
M e ighan ,and Mabel Bert in the cast
,bu t
gave promise that M r. D avis,shou ld he de
ci de to go on playw ri ting,may one day.
inakea name for h imsel f .T wo that l ingered for a mon th
,though a
l i ttle u ncertain ly, w ere Seven Sisters, wh ichE di th E l l i s adapted from the H ungarian and
D an iel Frohman produ ced w i th Lau retteT aylor, a comparat ive new comer to B road
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way, Shel ley H u l l,and Char les Cherry in the ar ises
,can this sort of th ing indicate a de
cast,and Tbe D ictator, wh ich R ichard H ard veloping in terest in underwor ld drama and
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created i t when the play was first tr ied inCh icago . M rs . Fi ske cont inues to bite off herwords sharply, a habi t that exasperates theFiskeites who do not hear and del ights thosewho do .
Wal ter B row ne ’ s E verywoman , the modernmoral i ty play, at least made u se of all the
tr icks know n to the stage and found a con
siderable public ready to swal low i ts obv iou shomi let ics . I t also had Lau ra N elson H al l
,
Patricia Col l inge,Sarah Cowe l l Le Moyne,
E dw ard Mackey, and Freder ick D e Bel levi lle to give i t w eight and character . Ju lesE ckert G oodman gave Emma D unn a chance
to play M ot/oer w i th all the tremolo stopsworking .
T here was a good deal of foot tapping at
various mu sical comedy events . C . M . S .
M cLellan’
s T be Pink Lady took up w hereT be M erry Widow left off
,with H aze l
D awn (born H aze l T ou t in Ogden , U tah )scor ing a huge hit . A lma Franci s and Will iam E l l iott were in the company w ith her
,
bu t no one paid much atten tion to them .
Chri stie M acD onald,the most fasc inating of
light-opera prima donnas,was happy in
Harry B . and Robert B . Smith ’ s SpringMaid,
w i th mu sic by H einr ich Reinhardt,and
a T hree T rees number by T om McN aughtonthat caught the town . N augbty Marietta, w i tha book by R ida Johnson Young
,a score by
the dependable Victor H erbert,and a flu te
l ike soprano i ssu ing from the throat of a miteof a prima donna
, Emma T rentini, also
sti rred up a good deal of exci temen t .T be Girl and tbe Kaiser w i th Lu lu G laser
and H arry Connor ; Alma, Wbere D o You
Live ?, a s imple someth ing bu t vastly popu lar,wh ich G eorge V. H obart w rested from the
French and JoeWeber produced w ith CharlesB igelow
,the comic, and K i tty G ordon ; H e
Came from M ilwaukee,w i th Sam Bernard
and Lou i s H arr ison ; T be E cbo, by a coupleof bright young Columbia boys
,Wil liam Le
Baron and D eems T aylor ; T be G irl in tbe
T rain , aLeo Fal l operetta, and Tbe G irlin tbeTax i, w i th Carter D eH aven—the assortmentwas abou t as u sual
,and mostly abou t as du l l .
T here w ere reports from the w est thatCh icago sti l l had hope of becoming a producing center and was proud of i ts native playw rights ; of Joseph M edi l l Patterson , the
you thfu l publ isher who su spended a new spaper career to w ri te social drama
,and al
ready has D ope, Tbe Fourtb E state, A Little
B rotber of tbe Ric/7 , and By-Produ cts to his
cred it ; of Arthu r Jerome E ddy, for his G reatI obn Ganton ; ofW i l l iam Anthony M cG uire
for T bc H cigbts ; of G eorge BarrMcCu tcheon
for Brewster’
s M illions, and so on .
Some progress has been made w i th the
law to cu rb ticket specu lation , bu t not much ,
thanks to the interference of Senator T imSu l l ivan
,who gets the specs released as
fast as the pol ice bring them in .
Stati stical ly there w ere 89 new plays produced
,as against 1 02 last season ; 37 new
mu sical comedies as against 26 ; 67 revival sas against 38 a year ago ; 1 7 Shakespeareanprodu ctions against 1 3. T he grand total was2 1 5 new en tertainments , a gain of 22 over lastseason—if i t can be cal led a gain .
Ou r col league, the est imable James M et
cal fe of Life, est imates that a s ix mi l l ion dollar subs idy w i l l be necessary to rev ive and
su stain the N ational T heatre . .You may leaveyou r donations at th i s office
,or send them
direct to the w r i ter .
We see here the deft scene inW. Somerset Maugham’
s“Smith, wherein John Drew, as the reformedwast
rel, returns to Mayfair and boldly asserts his passion for Smith, the parlormaid, played by Mary Boland. LC U LV ER
M err iewold Park, N . Y .
Ju ly 25th 1 9 1 1
M r. D avid Belasco,
Belasco T heatre, N . Y .
My dear G uv ’
nor :I haven ’ t w r i tten you before th i s becau se
I knew you had been spending you r daysand n ights at poor G u ss ie's s ide . I know howdearly you loved you r l i tt le daughter and
what a blow th i s has been to you .
I have been th inking of those old days,more than twen ty years ago,
when w e l ivedacross the street from you on Waver ly Placeand you and Father w ere w rit ing M en and
Women . Remember how the l ittle deM illeboys played w i th the l i ttle Belasco gir ls ? Itseems a long time from 1 890 to 1 9 1 1 .
I wonder i f you remember that th i s i s mybi rthday as wel l as you r ow n ,
and how in the
old days you u sed to give me toys ? N ow
you aregiving me my second Belasco production . Judging from the tryou ts in Wash ingtonand Balt imore T he Woman looks to me l ikea better bet than T be Warrens ofVirginiabu t you never can tel l abou t N ew York .
We all missed you at the Wash ingtonopen ing
,although
,of cou rse, we u nderstood
why you couldn 't be there ; bu t w i th B i l lD ean on the stage and Ben Roeder in fron teveryth ing w en t smoothly and the audiencegave it a really good recept ion .
Pres iden t T aft was in a box , occupying a
special chai r b ig enough to accommodate hisd ignity
,and I got the thr i l l of my you ng
l ife when he sen t for me after the final cu rtain and told me how mu ch he liked the play.
I w i sh you had been there to get you r shareof the pres ident ial praise .
Incidental ly,I alm ost d ied at the end of
the first act . When M ark gives Wanda hisphone number
,
"
Plaza 1 00 1,
and the audience real izes for the first t ime that the w omanthe pol iticians are going to sacr ifice i s thew i fe of one and the daughter of the other ,I ex pected a bu rst of applau se as they gotthe drama of the s ituation . Instead there w asa dead si lence wh i le the cu rtain was fal l ing,then a buzz fol low ed by a grow ing laughwh ich got louder and,
last of all,applau se .
By that time l itt le W i l ly w as qu ite readyfor the fir ing squad . I though t w e had a
G argantuan flop. Bu t,as everyone seemed so
pleased,I came up for air and real i zed that
the aud ience was r ight (as u sual ) that thatwas just the way they should take i t ; not
hav ing met the woman, all they saw was the
plotters fal l ing into the i r own trap and it
pleased and amu sed them . I n the whole two
David Belasco at ‘
work in the privacy of his studio.
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w eeks w e played , every audience gave u s ex
actly the same react ion so w e're r ight ; bu t
for almost a minu te I fe l t l ike a bridegroomat the al tar who has j u st discovered he hasforgotten to w ear his pan ts .I made one change in the th i rd act wh ich
I ’m su re you w i l l l ike . Both D ean and I fe ltthe las t scene between hu sband and w i fe wasant icl imact ic ; they w ere saying more or lessthe same old th ings . We tried changing thel ines bu t it was st i l l no good . T hen I hadone of my rare momen ts of san i ty : I cu t ou tthe whole scene and
,when she faces him to
take her medicine , he speaks the one l ine,
“ Ion ly know I
’
v e got to go on loving you .
Bu siness and exi t .I t worked—and I hope you ’ l l l ike i t .I thought H elen Ware and B i l l Cou rtle igh
w ere both ext remely good as Wanda and
Jim ; bu t D ean te l l s me you ’ re going to pu tM ary N ash and John Cope in the parts whenw e start again . Wel l—you know best .N ow that I ’m so u sed to the play as i t i s,
it’
s hard to real ize that I started i t two yearsago as a veh icle for Frances Starr ; w ith no
story in mind ; on ly the charact er of the
telephone girl , and that w e cal led i t TbeMacbine r ight up to rehearsal time . But you
w ere qu ite right when you final ly decided thatthe ti t le was rotten and sen t me home to
th ink up another .I ’ l l con fess to you nowthat I w en t through
the script s ix t imes before I real ized that thephrase, the woman , occu rs forty t imes inthe first act alone and over a hu ndred timesdu r ing the play . I sti l l have the bright newdime you gave me for bringing that ti tle in .
I saw Jesse Lasky the other day. You knowhe and H arry H arri s have j u st lost thei rsh i rts in that Folies Bergere ou tfit . Jesse isgoing back into vaudevi l le and w anted meto produce a vaudevi lle operetta for himall abou t old Cali forn ia. I was afrai d i twou ld interfere w ith T be Woman , as D ean
says w e start rehearsal s in a couple of w eeks,
so I tu rned the job over to Ceci l who tell sme he and Lasky get along very w el l together .A lso I ran in to G eorge B roadhu rst who
i s fu l l of his new play, Bougbt and Paid For.
H e th inks i t one of the best th ings he ’
s
done yet and expects to bring i t in abou t aw eek after our open ing . H e tel l s me i t ’ sabou t a hu sband who drinks and wan ts tomake love to his w i fe wh i le drunk ; she
doesn ’ t l ike i t and leaves him and he re
forms . Sou nds unpleasan t and me lodramatic,bu t perhaps i t ’ l l go ; you never can tel l .
O h,by the way, you remember that l i tt le
girl , M ary P ickford,who played Betty in
T he Warrens of Virginia ? I met her againa few w eeks ago and the poor kid i s actual lyth inking of taking up mov ing pictu res ser iously. She says she can make a fai r ly goodl iv ing at i t
,bu t i t does seem a shame . After
all she can’ t be more than seven teen and I
remember what fai th you had in her fu tu re ;that appeal ing personal i ty of hers wou ld goa long w ay in the theatre
,and now she ’ s
throw ing her whole career in the ash -can and
bu rying herse lf in a cheap form of amu sement wh ich hasn ’ t a single poin t that I cansee to recommend i t . T here w i l l never beany real money in those gal loping tin typesand certain ly no one can expect them to de
velop into anyth ing wh ich cou l d , by the
w i ldest stretch of imaginat ion , be cal led art .
I pleaded w i th her not to waste her professional l i fe and the opportu n ity the stagegives her to be know n to thou sands of people, bu t she ’ s rather a stubborn l i ttle th ingfor such a youngster and says she know swhat she’ s doing .
So I suppose w e ’ l l have to say goodby tol i ttle M ary Pickford . She
’ l l never be heardof again
,and I feel terr ibly sor ry for her.
I n a few w eeks now w e’ l l be rehearsing
and i t w i l l certain ly fee l good to w ork w i th'
you again in the theatre .
U nt i l then,my best to youYou r friend and pupil ,W ILL IAM C . DEM I LL E
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There was a time , and not so very long ago,
when i t looked as i f N ew York ’
s“
G reatWhi te Way
”had better change i ts name to
"
T he American Prater” and be done w i th i t .For the terrific success of Franz Lehar ’ s T beM erry Widow,
wh ich opened here fou r yearsago, brought abou t a flood of Viennese operettas that threaten ed to render the E ngl ishand American brands extinct . Any col lect ionof words and mu s ic that bore the Made inVienna label was su re of a production on
B roadway . I n fact,there i s a wel l au thenti
cated report that one so -cal led Viennese operetta that opened—and closed—he re lastseason had never been seen by the Au striancapi tal at all. H ear ing that a prominen tAmerican theatrical manager was abou t tovis it the i r native ci ty, its au thor and com
poser,having a few thou sand kronen to
gamble w i th, h i red a cast
,an orchestra, some
second -hand scenery, and an audience . T heythen produced the i r brain ch i ld for one performance on ly
,solely for the bedazzlemen t
of the American visi tor,who
,see ing the the
atre jammed to the doors by an apparentlyriotou sly enthu siast ic publ ic, promptly boughtthe American rights to the piece ; and scoredan equal ly prompt fai lu re .
The world-famous line of beau tifulgirls in the 1 91 1 edition of The ZiegfeldFollies.
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T hat marked the flood tide of the Viennese craze, how ever . O f the ten successfu lmu s ical comedies now runn ing on B roadway, on ly one i s a Viennese importation .
T here w i l l be others . T wo or three, in fact,are al ready announced for next season . Bu t
the ru sh i s over . T here w i l l never be an
other M erry Widow or Chocolate Soldier.
T h i s season 's importation,by the way,
T be Spring M aid, at the L iberty, introducesboth a new composer and a new firm of
producers . T he composer i s H e in rich Re inhardt, who
,to j udge from the score of
T be Spring Maid, i s destined to have as suc
cessfu l a career on th i s s ide of the Atlan ticas he has had in his native G ermany . T he
book, by the way, has been adapted from the
original by the old re l iable team of H arryB . and Robert B . Smith ( they are not re
lated ) . T he producers,Werba and Lu escher ,
are _two you ng men who,up to a few months
ago, fol low ed the humble cal l ing of theatri
cal press agen t . T hey acqu i red T be SpringMaid after it had been rejected by severalof the establ ished producers
,rai sed the
money,somehow
,to put it on—and have
made the i r fortunes . T he star of the piece i sone of N ew York ’ s favori tes
, Chr istie Mac
D onald .
T he most importan t native production i sVictor H erbert ’ s N augbty Marietta, wh ichopened at the N ew York T heatre lastN ovember and is sti l l runn ing . I t marks there-entry of O scar H ammerste in as a producerof mu sical comedy . Many a sympathetic tearhas been shed over the col lapse of the daun tless O scar and his Manhattan G rand OperaCompany ; bu t wh i le the arti stic loss to N ew
York was a heavy one,the impresario ’ s
financial d i saster has probably been overestimated . I t i s no secret that the Metropol i tan bought him off, and wh i le the exact
By DEEMS
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Orvil le Harrold and Emma Trentini in “Naughty Mariet ta. Mr.
Harrold is singing“l
’
n Falling in Love With Someone."in which
he takes and sustains a high E flat , creating a veritable furor.
one of the fi
CU LV E RValeska Suratt in one of the reallydramatic moments in “
The RedRose .
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tresses, G race G eorge . M i ss B rady made a
second appearance later in the season in an
e laborate revival of H . M . S . Pinafore thatincluded such i l lu striou s performers as H enryD ixey
,Marie Cahi l l, and L ou ise G unning .
G uessing the' fu tu re of a newcomer ' is a
hazardous bu s iness, bu t it is reasonably safeto predict that l i tt le M i ss B rady wil l neverbe another
‘
M arie Cah i l l .T he third
‘
of ou r E nglish composers isLesl ie S tewart . H is new score
,wh i le i t has
the unmistakable Stewart touch ,w il l hard ly
efface the memories of Floradora and
H avana. For once, in fact , the book of a
mu sical comedy is more important than t hemu s ic, the book in qu estion be ing that ofT be Slim Princess, at Charles D i l l ingham ’ sG lobe T heatre . Its au thor i s H en ry B lossom ,
who had the luck to have a story by GeorgeAde upon wh ich to base i t, and a cast thatincludes E ls ie Jan is
, Joe Caw thorn,
and
W i l l iam Pruette to play i t to the h i l t . I ncidentally, one notes w i th in terest that thetop admiss ion price to the presen t G lobeoffering has dropped back to two dol lars .Last year, you may remember, when M r.
D i l l ingham opened the G lobe T heatre w ithT be Old T own, in wh ich M i ss Jan i s and
M r. Caw thorn supported Mon tgomery and
Stone, the expense of his cast w as such thathe fel t con strained to rai se his top admissionprice to two-fifty. T he case was exceptional ,one admits (Mon tgomery and Stone
,i t i s
rumored,were be ing paid a thou sand dollars
a week apiece, and Jan i s and Caw thorn e ighthundred ) , and the exper imen t
,for once,
succeeded . Bu t for the average mu s ical comedy such a lofty pr ice w ou ld be disastrou s .T he remain ing mu sical offerings need not
detain u s long . One was Jumping Jupiter,wh ich
,despite a score by Kar l H oschna, owed
what success i t had largely to the presence of
Flossie Hope , Johnny Ford , and Li l l ian Lopokova—all dancers, you observe . Wh ich w i l lgive you a good idea of what the producer ,M r. D i l l ingham , thought of the book and
mu s ic . T h is i s, perhaps, as good a p lace as
any to announce that the au thors of T ko
E cbo, u ndismayed by the i r temporary set~back , have all bu t completed a new offering ,I n Old N ew Amsterdam ,
wh ich,they con
fidently expect, w i l l appear on Broadwaynext season .
LeBaron,by th e way, has some sketches
and lyrics in the summer show runn ing at theFol ies Bergere T heatre . T h i s new structu re,on Forty - sixth Street, ju st opposi te the
G lobe, i s an innovation in theatrical entertainment
,be ing the nearest th ing to an
E nglish mu sic hal l ever seen in N ew York .
T he lower floor , instead of being fi lled w i throw s of seats, is occupied by chai rs and tables,and the spectators are inv i ted to eat
, drink,and smoke wh i le the show i s going on . T he
show i tsel f is a sort of glorified vau dev i l leen tertainmen t, more or less topical in natu re—what the French wou ld cal l a revue .
M i ss I na C lai re,by the way, can be seen
at the Fol ies Bergere . T h i s you thfu l en tertainer
,who attracted conside rable atten tion
in lumping lupiter, seems we l l on her wayto stardom . She is promised for the fal l ina new piece w i th a score by Lionel Monckton
,
the composer of last season ’ s del ightfu l TbeArcadians . M i ss C lai re ’ s veh icle w i l l be cal led T be Quaker Girl, and she w i l l be secondedprobably by the in imi table C l i fton C raw ford .
T he coming season promises another starof somewhat d ifferen t cal iber, the much -discu ssed G aby D eslys, whose escapades w i thyoung M anuel
,the ex -K ing of Portugal
,have
made her as well known -
as President T aft .M ademoi sel leD eslys w i l l make her firstAmer
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ican appearance some time in the early fal l,in
a new W in ter G arden show—not alone,we
hasten to add, as the cast w i l l also includeFrank T inney, M l le . Rasch , and H arry Jol son .
O ther" offerings, less certain bu t nevertheless promised , for next season
,include an
other Lehar work, Gypsy Love. I t w i l l starMargueri te Sylva, who is known as a bri l l ian tCarmen , but i s an u nknown quan ti ty as re?
gards mu sical comedy ; a new H erbert p iece,T he E nchantress, w i th the E ngli sh star, K i ttyG ordon ; another Karl H oschna score
, T be
G irl ofMy D reams, w i th a book by W i lbu rN esbit and O tto H auerbach ; and, of cou rse,another of R . H . Bu rnside ’ s colossal ex
travaganzas at the H ippodrome . T h i s one
w i l l be cal led Around tbe World . Let us
tru st that i t wil l run longer than eighty days .T he trend of bu i ld ing uptownward seems ,
so far, to have affected the theatres veryl i ttle . D aly's, on T w en ty-n inth Street
,the
Manhattan ,the Savoy, and the H erald Square,
on T h i rty- fou rth—all are doing a flou rish ingbu siness . T he Knickerbocker
, the B roadway,and the N ew Amsterdam are sti l l the centerof the theatrical world T rue
, the Park( former ly the M ajestic) , on Columbu s Circle, i s prospering, bu t i t has had the luckto have hou sed a ser ies of resounding suc
cesses,including T be Wizard of Oz and
Babes in T oyland, ever since i t was bu i lt .T he Park is a l ittle ahead of i ts time
,perhaps ;
bu t the theatr ical district wil l inevi tably moveuptown . I n the e ighties i t was below Fou rteen th Street ; in the n ineties
,between Fou r
teenth and T wen ty-e ighth . Later, its northernboundaries moved up to Forty- second . N ow
they are, rough ly, Forty -e ighth . Is i t not logical to assume that in another twen ty yearsthe district wil l extend as far north as Six
tieth , or even Seventy- second ?
z—ALB E RT DAV IS0 7 " S R PHOTOGRAP lls—C U LV ER
to advertise articles to the theatregoing public. Visi tors to T be PinkLady, we are su re, w i l l not soon forget the aroma that pervades thetheatre between Acts T wo and T hree at every pe rformance . A note
in the program explain s that this effu lgence of pungence i s a greatspray of Lazell’s Bocadia perfume, and i t i s certain ly a most charmingw ay of acquain ting the nostri ls of the audience w i th the exqu is i teodor of th i s fine scent . We compl iment the M essrs . Lazell on the i ringenu i ty
, and we exu lt w i th them at the notion of those adoringswains in the aud ience whose thoughts, wh i le they gaze at M i ss H azelD awn
,soar to new heights on the clouds of Lazell’s Bocadia.
rights to these pictu res and he promises to exh ibi t them in th i s countrynext season . I t is sai d in the ecstatic Paris press that the pictu resreproduce the voices of the actors as they perform on the screen and
the i l lu sion is so l i fe- l ike that i t is difficu l t not to bel ieve that agenu ine performance is taking place . T his i l lu sion i s the combinedtriumph of the photograph and the graphophone .
cessful B roadway plays for pictu re subj ects .N ew York is to be made the center of operations of th i s w ar
between the stage producers of B roadway and the motion pictu remakers of Astor ia and Cal i forn ia. A legal move w i l l be made to
restrict the use of a film that i s practical ly a copy of a big B roadwaysuccess of the past season .
Bravo to the managers ! T h i s shame less thievery has gone farenough . I f the pictu re manu factu rers wan t to use B roadway plots ,let them pay for them !We concede that they can not pay the price sthat our repu table playw r ights are u sed to
, bu t an adju stmen t of a
few hundred dol lars,in l ieu of regu lar royalties
,shou ld sati sfy all
part ies conce rned .
the Maeterl incks on the i r recen t v i s i t to these shores,and we found
Mme . Maeterl inck to be a creatu re as fragi le and as fine as a M ingvase . She i s the perfect partner for that rare gen iu s she cal l s mate .
She not on ly cooks every morse l her hu sband eats and supervises thehou sehold , bu t al so finds time to serve as his inspi ration . She understands how to respond to her hu sband ’ s every mood .
"
She i s the otherhal f of my sou l , ” says M . M aeterl inck .
We asked Mme . Maeterl inck for the secret of her matrimon ialsuccess . H er answer was to pu l l ou t
,w i th a regal flou ri sh remin i scen t
of her art in the theatre, the set of ru les wh ich she cal l s her Codefor W ives . Certain excerpts from it may prove of value to ou r
femin ine readers ?N ever al low h i re l ings to tend y0u r hu sband in what concerns
his bodi ly wel fare .
N AT H AN , the young and v i tuperativeSmart Set, has cal led Tbe D eepPurple
ever seen . We agree com
be D eepPurple was a strong ,
along B roadway are passing along a new
overheard .
au thor met a manager fr iend of his .
thor says : “ I see you gave B l inks a part inplay . I thought you w ere not very good fr iends .
MAN AG E R : T hat ’ s all right . H e gets mobbed in the last act by abunch of supers !”AU T H O R : B u t that ’ s all stage play .
MAN AG E R :"
N ot th i s time . I have selected tbese supers fromamong his cred i tors !(Rather typical , w e wou ld say, of the atti tude of more than one
manager towards his actors . )
esteemed cri t ic of Life, is the leastw i th M i ss M aude Adams and herrole in Cbantecler. M r. M etcalfe
s argument against
M i ss Adams,says M r. Metcalfe, was shrewd from a bu s iness point
of view, but d isastrou s from any artistic point of v iew rumors
are abroad that M r. Charles Frohman i s contemplating a spectacu larproduction of King Lear with M i ss Adams in the ti tle part . "T here are dozens of johnn ies of the stage door who wil l have
M r. Metcal fe ’ s scalp for the impl ication .
See that his clothes ‘
are ready each day and befitting the seasonof the year .
"When you r husband is in a bad temper,don ’ t develop simi lar
symptoms ; but when he i s merry, imi tate him plenti fu l ly .
D on’ t fondle him before meal t ime—kisses to a hungry man are
as soap bubbles to a parched throat .U se you r tongue on ly in agreement ; disapproval i s best expressed
w i th the eyes ." I f you r hu sband has the gou t
,don ’ t insi st on walking .
If you w i sh to convince him that you are a better actress thanBernhardt, and a spr ight l ier dancer than Pavlowa
,show him that
you are a better cook than E scoffier .A w i fe ’ s du tie s are
,among others
, to smooth over domest ic tiffs—a man neve r admi ts that he i s in the w rong—and to have an eye
for the w eek after next .Final ly
,never lose s ight of the fact, in making all these sacrifices ,
i f a man supports the family, woman is his superior in far moreways than he i s hers .
M izner,i ts co-au thor
,a personal i ty who col lects friends as the lode
stone col lects vagran t fi l ings and an au thor of melodrama w i thou tpeer, i s to be awarded all the encomiums of press and publ ic for a
worthy contribu tion to the season . H is words are match less gemsof w it .
H owever,one particu lar jewe l from the fert i le pen of M r. M izner
fai led to charm the first - n igh t N ew York audience as it indubitablycharmed the first-n ight Ch icago audience . We refer to that portion of
the dialogue where in one of the characters in the play, the hero,
addressed an officer of the law .
Being a detective, he sai d to the officer, I don 't suppose youbel ieve there ’ s any such thing as an honest man ?
T he officer cogi tated for a momen t and then replied,N ot in
N ew York .
Strange to say, N ew York audiences w ere very host i le to th i s l ine .
Ch icago audiences w ere uproariou sly in favor of i t .
Arturo Toscanini
T he final B ravo has been shou ted over anextraordinary mus ical season ,
marked by thepresence of great art i sts in bew i lde ring num
bers,and by the increas ingly di st ingu i shed
con tr ibu t ion s of the tw o bri ll ian t new comersto the M etropol itan from La Scala. At the
end of thei r th i rd year, Signor G att i -Casazza
and M aestro T oscan in i have more than j u stified the predict ions of the few pe rson s w hoknew the i r worth w hen they arrived here
,
strangers , such a short t ime ago . M ark on lythe daring departu re of the opera season ’ sopen ing n ight
,last N ovembe r fou rteen th ,
w hen,in stead of a trad it ional Aida or T ravi
ata , M ae stro T oscan in i offered a rendi t ion of
G lu ck ’ s A rmide , never before heard at the
M etropol itan . T he fel icity of cast ing and the
tru ly magn ificen t s inging w ere w orthy of thesuperb di rect ion they rece ived ,and of the pain staking perfect ion of detai l wh ich goes so
far,it i s wh i spered , in th i s
conductor ’ s hands,that he
supervi ses even the costumesand make - up of the art i sts inhis production s .T he t i t le role in th e first
nove lty of a season now mem
orably fu l l of nove l t ies w as
sung by Madame .Fremstad,
w ho has se ldom, i f eve r , beenheard in a characte r izat ionbette r su i ted to her u n iqu edramat ic temperamen t . Ren
aud w as sung by the indispen sable and ev ei- inspi redCaru so, A lma G luck len t hercrystal line classic sty le to the
two lyric ,parts of Lu cinde and
U n Plai si r,Lou ise H omer w as
strikingly su ccessfu l as H ate,
and the remain ing roles fe l lto such exce l len t sopranos as
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The four men responsible for
Toscanini, Gatti-Casazza, and Geraldine Farrar
By MARIONM. D. MARTYN
Mesdames Rappold and Sparkes . Caru so sangthe formal
, exacting mu s ic in the French inw h ich he has not h i the rto been at home and
,
much to the su rpri se of an enormou s au dience and many j ud iciou s crit ics , coveredh imse l f w ith
,i f not glory
,at least voci fe rou s
approbat ion . T he w hole product ion w as an
e loquen t real izat ion of the uncompromisingstandard of excel lence that has held sw ay in
the opera hou se u nder the new regime . I t
d id not in any w ay ou tdo the vivid—indeed,
bloodcu rdl ing—drama of the O rfeo, revivedlast year and repeated five times th is yearw i th the same incomparable cast of H omer
,
G adski,and G l uck ; bu t i t con t inued a pro
cedu re that may long be remembered in localmu s ical annals—the revival of dead c lass ics by T oscan in i insuch a manner that they
The Girl of the GoldenWest”—Gatti-Casazza, Belasco, Toscanini, andPuccini.
Gustav Mahler
be l ie the i r numerou s years of desue tude .
U ndoubted ly the ou tstanding nove l ty of
th is,and of many other, season s , and one that
redou nded to the great cred it of the M e tropol itan ,
w as the world premiere of Pucc in i ’ snew est ope ra, La Fanciu lla delWest . For th i sno pain s w e re spared and no opportu n it iesmissed . G iacomo Puccin i came from Italy,and D avid Belasco from Forty- fou rth St reet ,to sanct ion the do ings . T he H eaven ly Quartet ,as the in imi tab le combinat ion of D estinn
,
Caruso ,Amato
,and T oscan in i has al ready
been dubbed (one w onders i f they w i l lach ieve immortal ity commen su rate w i th the i rco l lect ive n ickname ) , departed from the
famil iar it ies of Aida and G ioconda to sing thenew mu s ic as on ly they can ,
and M adameD estin n w as part icu larly happy in a role
whose s tu rdy and rugged backgrou nd seemed most su i tableto her substan t ial personal i ty .Caru so as u sual was raptu rou sly (and j u st ly) applauded ,and the orchestra played w iththe new fire and prec i s ion thathas marked its w ork since theadven t of its exact ing con
du ctor . Indeed , in the case of
th i s n ew opera,th i s part icu lar
observer tends to specu lateupon the exact amoun t of
vi tal i ty contribu ted to the
score by the extraord inary conducting;
"
and thu s to ve rgetow ard the su spicion that
,
w i thou t such direct ion ,i t might
not in the fu tu re ho ld its own
w i th B u tterfly, Bobern e, and
T osca. O n ly time,as the c l ichéhas i t
,w i l l te l l .
N ot on ly in the Ital ian departm en t of the reperto i re
,bu t
in the G e rman and French as
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w el l, Signor G att i provided his publ ic w i th
premieres possible on ly to his u nparal leledresou rces . E ighteen days after the AmericanWest had run riot on the stage of the M etropol i tan
,Fai ryland superseded i t in the form
of Ko'
nigskinder, H umperdinck’
s new operafor ch i ldren ,
and for that majori ty of grownups to whom such ch i ldi shness as H iinsel undG retel i s of prime mu sical importance . Sel
dom has a new part come so exqu i s i tely toreal ization as the G oose-G i r l of Ko'nigskinderin the hands of G erald ine Farrar . G one w erethe coquetries of Manon
,the griefs of Bu t
terfly, and the fe l in i t ies of T osca, in the pathosand sw eetne ss of the ragged ch i ld who sangthe lovely mu sic w i th genu ine tenderness,and acted w i th touch ing real i sm . Real i sm
,in
fact, wen t so far in the detai l s of th i s production as to introduce to the stage of the
M etropol itan a flock of l ive geese, wh ichmu st have requ i red rather more energetic attent ion from some protesting stagehand thanfrom the poet ic mai den who fictitiously had
them in charge . Al fred H ertz conducted th ischarming work, in the presence of the com
poser who honored the occasion w i th his presence
,and the cast supporting M i ss Farrar
included H ermann Jadlowker, O tto G ori tz ,Adamo D idar
,and the versati le Lou i se H omer
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as T heW i tch . One of the most interesting departu res of the season was Madame Homer ’ srel inqu ishmen t of H umperdinck
’
s more famou s W i tch ,
in Hansel and G retel, to the
splendid tenor and mime , A lbert Re i ss, whoimbu ed i t w ith much bri l lian t venom .
T he th i rd novelty of the year was D ukas ’new opera, Ariane et Barbe -Bleue, sung inFrench under Mae stro T oscan in i ’ s d i rectionby M i ss Farrar and a splendid new arti st, theFrench basso Leon Roth ier, as Barbe-B leue .
(On D ecember ten th , Monsieu r Rothier madea debu t as Meph i stopheles wh ich augu redw el l for a secu re n iche in the company ’ s roster. H e i s a worthy successor, in style and
mu siciansh ip , to his great predecessors andcompatr iots , Mau rel and Plangon . ) D ukas ’score
,to an adaptation of Maeterl inck ’ s l i
bretto,fe l l short of finding complete favor
w i th a press , whose dean described some of
the mus ic as"
excruc iating dissonance” ; bu t,molded by the hands of T oscan in i
,i t ach ieved
a clari ty i t cou ld not otherwise have en joyed .
Among the very great experiences left u sto con template and treasu re in memory as theaftermath of the rich operatic season mu stbe included the T ristan and the M eistersinger,
each conducted fou r times by T oscan ini in
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such manner as to imprint them indel ibly .
T hree times w e w ere given the opportun ityto hear—and to see
,for her aston i sh ingly
v i tal and impassioned acting i s a rare th ing—the Isolde of O l ive Fremstad , an Isolde -so
tower ingly commanding and magn ificent thatthe mind cannot project a greater . T h i s daring statement is made in fu l l cogn izance of
the M etropol i tan ’ s own tradit ion s of the
opera ; of the al ready legendary days whenLi l l i Lehmann and Jean de Reszke sang i tunder Franz Schalk and establ i shed what posterity mu st accept as the greatest of all t enditions . H owever, though w emay wel l bel ievethat Isolde has found no vocal protagon i stequal or superior to the immortal Li l l i , andthough Johanna G adski
’
s one performanceth i s season was magn ificen tly sung, w e sti l ldo not see how any woman cou l d emotionallyand h i str ion ical ly proj ect the formidable partw i th more fire, grandeu r, and passion thanFremstad . T h i s impersonation rece ived suchsupport (perhaps such inspi ration ) from the
leader in the pi t that soprano and conductorqu i te ou tstripped the remainder of the castall of whom
,however
,sang w i th the scrupulou s mu s ician sh i p exacted of them by the
conductor . I n D ie M eistersinger, T oscan in iwas again . blessed w i th the superb voices on
H ere i t i s the second week in Ju ly, 1 9 1 1 ,and I
’
ve ju st come back from my first tripabroad . I thought l i ttle old N ew York wou ldlook rather sad and drab to me after thebou levards of Paris and the cosmopol i tanflavor of London . Bu t it doesn ’ t . Oh ,
no !Thi si s a great town . We’ re ge tting on . We
’ remarch ing . We
’ve taken ou r tip from the Old
World, and w e know a th ing or two now that
w e didn ’ t at the beginn ing of th i s cen tu ry .
Particu larly in our n ight l i fe along the glittering lane of B roadway .We
’ re way off from su ch dubiou s exci temen ts as slumming part ies down on the
Bowery,s i tting in N ight Cou rts in even ing
dress to hear sen tence passed on the saddaughters of joy who walk our streets sti l l , andwho,l ike the poor
,w i l l
,I fear
,always be w i th u s.
We w ant gayer even ings,and w e
’ re gettingthem .
I know how qu iet and sedate ou r restanran ts u sed to be ; bu t now we
’ re getting Continental supper places . Why, G eorge Rector's i s now the Balmoral C lub—he cal ls i tthat in order to get around the midn ight closing hou r (clever man l ) . And Bustanoby, upin Columbu s C i rcle , i s cal l ing his place theD omino C lub ; and Rei senweber, right acrossfrom him
,has labeled his spot the Associat ion
of U n i ted Friends—for the same reason .
I have seen the T u rkey T rot,the Maxixe,
and the T ango, and there ’ s another wh i r lcoming in that they cal l the Bunny H ug .Well
,
wel l What next,I wonder . W i l l some of the
Pu ri ty Leagu es get after u s, daredevi ls thatw e
're coming to be ! I hope not . We’ve j u st
By CHARLES HANSON TOWNE
gone E u ropean ,that ’ s all. Why, down at the
Cafe Martin, in that glow ing, golden room
on the B roadway side, w i th its ye l low cur
tains and the seats around the wal l , the wai tersnow pile up the sau cers, Paris fash ion ,
one
for each drink ; and we young blades pretendwe
’
ve always been u sed to it . H ow Gal l ic wefegl
'ink
such su rrou ndings ! I took Amy therethe first evening I got ashore, and who shou ldsi t near us bu t L i l l ian Ru ssel l , l ike a beau tiful lamp lighting up the whole room .
.
Amy and I had dined at Mou qu ims , on
two sonnets I ’d found a check for from the1 Smart Set . Sort of n ice that two l ines pai dfor the pou let, particu larly as Mau rice, myfavorite wai ter, had wh i spered to me, w i ththat k indness for wh ich he is famou s, "
One
portion wil l be enough for two,si r !” (H e
know s that poets are born ,not pai d . ) And
the salad came ou t of anoth er l ine, and the
soup and cheese and dessert were paid for,and ou r w ine ; and sti l l I had fou rteen l ines
smore—or seven dol lars—to spare . So it was
over to Martin ’ s w e w en t, then ,for a masa
grand of coffee and yel low chartreu se to topoff w i th . I cou ldn ’ t afford to go to theseplaces i f I depended enti rely on my salarydown at the dear old Bu tterick Bu i ldingwhere we earn our bread and bu tterick, as
w e ed itors laugh ingly say. Lord , no ! I t's thequatrains and lyrics one sel ls that make an
occas ional round of n ight l i fe poss ible .
T h i s year has been a swe l l one in the
theatre . Amy and I saw a lot of good show sbefore I went to E u rope on six hundred dol
66
lars for six whole w eeks ! R ight after theN ew . Year came in we wen t to the open ingof a comedy cal led Over N igbt . I rememberwhat G eorge Broadhu rst had told me in T he
Lambs abou t i t . I t seems they ’d cal led himin to fix it up, and he sai d , wonder ofwonders
,there wasn ’ t a th ing to be done to
it—no stage carpenter ing was necessary at
all; yet i t was by a whol ly unknown youngw ri ter named Ph i l ip Bartholomae . Scenes laidon a boat . Sort of naughty . M ight shock someof the pru des—l ike the Bunny H ug . M ighteven shock old A lan D ale . Bu t Margaret Lawrence saved i t from vu lgari ty . I wonderedwhat young Bartholomae wou ld do next . T heworld was his oyster after that open ing performance .
Afterwards,Amy and I w en t to the Cafe
ides Beaux Arts on the corner of FortiethStreet and S ixth Avenue, and Anna H eldwas there in a big pictu re hat, and when she
rol led her eyes—gee ! it was l ike see ing herplay for noth ing . And I fe lt l ike a real man
abou t town when Jacqu es Bustanoby cameover to our table, and suggested ch icken a la
K ing and a bottle of Beaune, i t be ing a cold,
bi tter night.N ew York may remind some people of a
gawky red-headed boy who needs a hai rcu t,bu t i sn ’ t yet ready for a shave, bu t not me.
His clothes don ’ t qu i te fit, but he
’ l l learn .
Yes, he’ l l learn . E veryth ing ’ s pu sh ing up
town . T iffany ’ s moved long ago,and so did
B ren tano’ s . Who'd ever have guessed thatMadison Square wou ld pu t U n ion Square inthe shade ? Bu t sti l l we all go dow n town to
the Lafayette where the Frenchmen playdominoes . You can play a game or tw o wh i leyou r dinner i s be ing prepared , s ip your
aperi ti f, and then lounge into the big room,
bow ing to all you r friends , and s i t dow n toabou t the best squab and salad and cheeseand C repe Su zette to be found anywhere inthe world . And what a w ine cel lar !I l ike the chop -hou ses in our tow n
B rowne ’ s, over on Broadway
,opposi te the
Me tropol itan—a hangou t that Acton D aviesfrequents . And E nge l ’ s and Keene ’ s
,where
w e all have long clay pipes w i th our nameson them
,and where you run in to all you r
cron ies , and the cream ale i s wonderfu l , foaming to the brim . I t ’ s great to go to these placesafter the theatre for a Welsh rarebit and a
w ee n ightcap . When I go ou t stag, I alwayslike the H offman H ou se bar, w i th i ts naughtyBougureau pain tings . Makes us lads feel sortof w icked to pu t ou r feet on the rai l , pu shback our derbies
, and pretend,for a brief
t ime , that w e ’ re real men of the w orld !A l i tt le wh i le ago they opened a restau rant,
j u st a few steps down from the s idewalk,cal led M u rray's . D im l ights . M ysteriou s . Becoming . T he w omen of middle age
—and
over—loved i t . T he young ones d idn ’ t care,
for they shone in any l ight . Bu t i t proved a
th r i l l ing place to go, w ith a dance floor sosmal l and int imate that when i t w as crow ded—as i t always was—the dancers cou ld scarcelymove . T hey w ere l ike stationary figu res engraved on a pin
-head . E veryone tr ied to getin at the supper hou r ; any overflow w en t toChu rch i l l ’ s, up B roadway, or to e i ther of thetwo Shanley restau ran ts
,wh ich have never lost
the i r popu lari ty . Bu t restau ran ts are a gooddeal l ike photographers . T hey have the i r l i ttlehou r, they are fash ionable for a wh i le
, and
then they van i sh . M u rray ’ s i s sli pping,j u st
l ike any other spot in ou r town that becomesa sudden rendezvou s for everybody . Its demisei s inevi table in a fickle place l ike N ew York ;but wh i le it lastsWe have the Fol ies Bergere in the same
w ay. Li ttle tables all around,where you can
dine before the stage performance begin s,and
stay on and sup afterwards,ti l l all hou rs . I t
has coziness ; i t i s what the G erman s w ou ldcal l gemiitlicb ; and everybody flocked there
for a time ; for N ew Yorkers are li ke sheep ,and always w i l l be . G eorge Jean N athan ,
who
tel ls me he wan ts to become a great dramacritic, w as the first person to take me there,and w e did fee l importan t in ou r opera-hatsand tai l -coats, w i th gold -headed sticks dangling from our w r ists as we en tered th i sswanky place . Bu t N ew York i s getting coldto it , after a few brief months . I wonder why.
Maybe i t i s becau se the tables take up too
much room,and that the coming and going
of the wai ters, w i th trays of drinks , interruptone
’ s en joymen t of the happen ings on the
stage .
B u t I know why the Cafe de l’
Operai s changing i ts name to Lou i s M artin ’ s—for asi l ly reason you ’d never guess . I ts gi lt doors ,its advance notices
,i ts bal lyhoo
,startled
the length of B roadway,and w e all said ,
”
N ow,here ’ s someth ing that w i l l cau se even
the jaded w ine agen ts and Society , i tself, tostand on tiptoe and l i ft thei r eyebrow s .Bu t somehow it 'appealed on ly to the choru sgir l and show -gi r l type, and they came at
first in hordes w i th the i r dapper you ngswains
,pu sh ing the i r way in to the exclu s ion
of any other e lemen t . And then—they stopped coming . Why ? Becau se not one chorinein a thou sand cou ld ask her beau to take herthere becau se she cou ldn ’ t pronounce Cafede lOpera ! She
’ d say, the Opera, youknow
,and find hersel f at the M etropol i tan .
T he French language got in her way and
crow ded her ou t of the very place where she
wan ted to be . C razy, bu t true . And downcome those gi lt s igns . Strange place, thisB roadway of ou rs .Amy l ikes the Waldorf-Astoria at T h i r tyfou rth Street and Fi fth Avenue w ith i ts Peacock A l ley . U sed to be a farm on th i s veryspot
,the legend ru n s . I don ’ t doubt i t . T he
whole wor ld goes by in an endless process ion—senators
,capi tal i sts
,brokers
,ladies (and
some not qu i te that ) , rich mine owners, gamblers
,actors
,s ingers, and the jeunesse dorée
of the town . I t is fun to watch the con tinuou sparade ; and we youngsters have always beenfond of the bar, part icu lar ly on Satu rday afternoons
,when all the
"
characters” drop in ,
and the glasses cl ink, and the old oak wal ls
DRAWINGS BYWALLACE MORGAN
resound w i th mirth . What stories are toldhere, in the very heart of our metropol i s !And
they're sti l l tel l ing abou t the B radley-M artinBal l
,of happy memory
,wh ich was given
under th i s old roof . N ew York has knownbetter and more expensive parties s ince ; bu tsomehow everyth ing dates from that famou sfunction ,
when preachers rai led in the i r pulpi ts against its extravagance,almost having
apoplexy wh i le they shrieked the i r invect ivesand disfavor . T hey forgot to how many people such an affai r gave employmen t .We u sed to have a great gambl ing hou se
in N ew York—Canfield’
s, w here the top-hat
fel low s w en t, after passing, not one Cerberu s ,bu t two or three . But Canfield had to shu tdown . T he B ron ze D oor wh ich he ran j u stwest of the Waldorf -Astoria
,on T h i rty- th i rd
Street, has been reopened by Frank Farre l lin th i s year of 1 91 1 , and dim forms , sometimes w i th a flash of whi te shi rtfron t exposed
,
NEW YORK PUB L I C L IBRARY
may be seen pass ing th rough those equal lyheavy and impos ing portals when the hou ri s late . I
’
ve never crossed the threshold of
such a place ; i t wou ld frighten the l ikes ofme
,w i th on ly a few damp bi lls clu tched in
my damp , young hands .T hey opened the St . Regis H otel several
years back, and i t had a pretty poor start ; forword was wh i spered around town that i t wasto be the most exclu s ive and expens ive caravansery on the whole continen t . E ven the
mill ionai res were scared away . Bu t my friendBaron R gave a dinner there one eve
n ing ; and as a round dozen of u s en teredthe main ,
much bedecked din ing room,we
fou nd ou rse lves the on ly party there ; and
forty waiters, eager for someth ing to do,
leaped to serve u s. I t w as fu nny, and tragicl ike more people on the stage than in the
audience . We felt l ike royalty, eating in sol
emn state,w i th a low ,
invisible orchestraspi ll ing i ts golden sounds from a lofty m instrel gal lery . E ven yet, N ew Yorkers are
timid abou t giving dinners at the St . Regis ;bu t the prices have come dow n . T hey had to !
A bright domain of laughter and gaiety . Delmonico’
s—the favorite of socialites. I
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Bu t i f you don ’ t feel l ike a place such as
th i s,or you can
’ t afford it,there are plenty
of con trasts that w ill su i t you r pocketbook .
I often take Amy to Li'ichow ’
s, on E ast Fou rteenth Street, “ down where the Wu rzbergerflow s,” and where you can see whole G ermanfami l ies si tting in sol id and stol i d comfortaroun d the i r tables, making a seidel of beerlast the en ti re even ing . T hey l isten,
as Amyand I do, too, to the strain s of the Viennesewal tzes, and the roar and rumble of Man
hattan i s forgotten ; B roadway is a dreamstreet, and romance and sen timen t seem to
converge in th i s ancien t, vau lted room,and
you are lost in the rosy sweetness of the past .It ’ s not N ew York . I t
'
s Alt H eidelberg.
And so i t i s at the T errace G arden ,on
E ast Fi fty -eighth Street . T here we go on
moon l i t summer n ights,for incomparable
lobsters and steins of beer, and the brass bandplays a tune by Strau ss, and the l i ttle threadedl ights of blue and red and gold drape themselves above u s as we si t at our table on the
grave l floor and th ink of the beau ti fu l blueD anube or the ru ined castles on the Rh ine .
You catch the sen timen tal i ty of the G ermansin these places, and the low thunder of theE levated doesn ’ t h inder you r thoughts . I ndeed , it comes as a sooth ing sound , l ike a far .
refrain . Ju st the place to go,after hearing a
mu s ical play l ike T be Balkan Princess .
We l ike the Kn ickerbocker H ote l,on T imes
Square . G ay parties there all the time,and
in the overflow ing bar there ’ s that famou sK ing Cole pain ting by Max field Parrish
,
abou t wh ich everyone has his l ittle joke .
Can’ t tel l i t here ; bu t every male in the ci ty
has heard i t . A long the R ialto,the hotels are
always fil led w i th w el l known actors and
actresses . You 'l l see D onald B r ian ,of M erry
Widow fame,or John D rew or D el la Fox or
Lu lu G laser or C i ssie Loftu s, who does thoseclever imi tat ions in vaudev i l le .
Over at the Astor they opened , a wh i leback , a roof garden ,
and the l ights of the townglow around and beneath you , tw inkl ing,w inking like glow worms in those new flash
ing electric signs they ’ re beginn ing to pu t upeverywhere . N ew York ’ s a beau t i fu l hel l atn ight . And one th inks of false fr iendships,the un true love, the cru shed hopes in such a
place . We’ l l come to use ou r rooftops more
and more,as time w ears on ,
I th ink . T hey canbe made in to veritable gardens ; and what ifsome of the flowers are made of papiermaché ? Aren ’ t hal f the people ju st‘ as u n
real ? H ow can you tel l fal se from true ?And speaking of eating ou t of doors, I
spoke to Jacques Bu stanoby abou t sidewalkcafes, and several years ago he nervou sly pu tou t a few tables up at his Beaux Arts Cafe,w i th a low hedge to
,half conceal them .
A few brave cu stomers ven tu red to dine thereone summer even ing—Amy and I were twoof them ; and allw en t w el l for a wh i le in ou r
Parisian retreat. T hen some l i ttle hoodlums,gu ttersnipes, discovered our vague forms beh ind the arras . Pebbles w ere soon showeredover u s
,fol low ed by rough, j eer ing cries, and
Amy ’ s organdy dress was spattered w i th soup,my wh i te sh i rt was spotted w i th H ol landai sesauce , and w e actual ly had to dash to cover .Jacqu es took away the tables after that . N ew
York i sn ’ t ready, for all its appropriate cli
mate, for al fresco d in ing . I f you cal l i t that,as I d id the other day, some dumbbe l l w illth ink you ’ re al luding to a dancer at the H ippodrome . Ju st l ike a choru s gi r l Charl ie D illingham told me of, who thought manuallabor was a Span iard .
BROWN
You have to go to C laremont, ju st beyondG ran t ’ s T omb, i f you want to d ine under thestars . T he Pali sades begin there , and you can
take a fiacre , or r ide on you r bicycle, and getthere in decen t season before dark ; bu t nowthat the au tomobi les are coming in in suchnumbers , you can arr ive in a j iffy . T he l ightsalong the N ew Jersey shore w ink and gleamand sh ine, the air i s l ike champagne on a
June n ight , and you 'l l see the tal ly-ho peoplethere —Society w i th a capi tal S .
I t ’ s almost as easy, though , to get to Man
hattan Beach dow n on Long Is land when theseason begins, l i sten to the band , and eat alongthe boardwalk ,
watch ing Pain 's fireworksthe greatest pyrotechn ical d isplay anywhere .
T hey u sed to have l igh t Operas at the seas idetheatre there—D e Wol f H opper in T be B eggar Studen t , for instance, s inging,
"
I n a momen t of raptu re,A transport of bl iss ,
On her l i ly-wh i te shou lderI plan ted a kiss !"
in his deep , booming voice, the w aves playing him a sort of accompan iment . You ’d see
the pretty gir ls w i th the i r pu ffed s leeves andfri ll s and Chatelaine bags—probably get tingall the i r h in ts from the latest numbe r of
Vogue . And the dudes trying to fl i rt w iththem , tw i r l ing thei r canes, smi l ing w icked lyabove the i r h igh choker col lars .T h i s fal l I ’m going to give a l itt le beefsteak din ner up at H ealey ’ s on S ixty - s ix thStreet and Columbu s Avenu e, r ight underthe E levated road . Amy hates to pu t on a
pape r cap—i t ’ s a sort of tradit ion , thoughand of cou rse she looks stunn ing in i t . I ’ l lask Avery H opw ood , that com ing youngdramat i st who ’ s having su ch phenomenal success, the O l iver H erfords
,G eorge N athan
,
Christie M acdonald , T heodosia Garri son ,
whose poetry i s in every magazine,the D ana
G ibsons, CarolynWe lls,L loyd O sbou rne, and
Frank Crow ninshield. I t ’ l l look l ike a tableof con tents of the Smart Set, and the w it, asw e l l as the w ine
,w i l l flow . I t was H erford
who sai d to me,on ly the other n ight, when
I was on my way to B rooklyn to play euch refor some local charity , "
I n the midst of l i few e are in B rooklyn !”We may allgo to Ch inatow n afterwards in one of those big bu sses .I hardly know where w e
’ l l end up. You’ re
young on ly once—no, that ’ s not a bon mot
of O l iver 's ! I f I attr ibu ted i t to him he’
d sayI ’ d severed his jocu lar ve in .
Martin s LaVie Parisienne”inNewYork. inl
S EYON
Jack’s—mecca for collegians of allages.CU LV E R
And I w an t to give a party where w e all
u sed to go so much—dow n at the old CafeBou levard on Second Avenue . T hey give youa grand dol lar table d ’
hote w i th w ine at e ightycen ts a bottle, and on Sunday even ings, inparticu lar, everyone i s there, and they haveto pu t extra tables ou t in the hal l . I l ike L i ttleH ungary
,too
,w i th i ts gri l l down stai rs, and
the big kegs set in the wal l , ou t of wh ichyou can draw you r Rh ine w ine the whole even ing, i f you w i sh, at a specified sum . You
can’ t get tight—nobody does that ! you j u st
get what Jack London cal ls j ingled .
”
Amy l ikes Jack 's , over on S ixth Avenue,where w e often drop in after a play when Ican afford i t
,for a col d bott le and a hot bird
—a terr ible ex travagance for me . T he checkmoun ts up to abou t s ix dol lars . You see the
col lege boys there, dow n from N ew H aven
or Pr inceton on Satu rday n ights . T hey wererow die r once upon a time than they are now .
G ett ing more civi l ized . Why, after a T hanksgiving footbal l game they u sed to tr0 0p inw i th ch rysanthemums in the i r bu ttonholes ,match ing the i r tou sled heads , and Jack had
to have flying w edges of w aiters, or bouncers
,to pu t some of them ou t when they
became too obstreperou s . Same th ing w ou ldhappen at Rogers ’ , too,
in the next block ,and at Bu rn s'. D av i d Belasco often has supper at one of these places , after he ’
s beenrehearsing his company all day. You can see
his mane of wh i te hai r through the w indow .
I think he l ikes to have people stare at him .
Oh , one of these days I ’ l l be able,I hope,
to go to Sherry's and D e lmon ico ’ s . I go now
on ly when I ’m taken by some r ich and lordlyfriends—can
't stand the prices yet . I glanceat them, and w onder . Bu t how pleasant bothplaces are
,w ith thei r soft
,th ick
,red carpets
in to wh ich you r prou d feet s ink, and the
rosy lamps on the tables , and the mirrors , andthe hum of the distan t mu sic
,and the fl i rta
tions going on all around you ,and each old
N ew Yorker—the genu ine article—lookingl ike a w el l fed Strasbou rg goose, or a leangrayhound , according to type .
N ew York ! I t ’ s a city w e love—and sometimes hate . Bu t mostly w e love it , s i ren tow nthat i t i s !
Louise Gunning ,ArthurAldridge in “Pinafore .
DAV I S
DAV I S
Left to right : Milton Sills , Chrys talHerne , Charles Richman, Florence Roberts, Mrs. Le Moyne, and Effingham Pinto in Diplomacy . iL"(f T
“n
Rim . a t:
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A t the end of every season i t i s pertinen tnot on ly to take stock of what has been donebu t to try and see the trend of th ings theatrical. T he best prophet i s the man who has
most close ly obse rved and analyzed the pastand the immediate presen t . Such a study doesnot s impl i fy th ings for the crystal gazer .B roadway l ikes so many differen t th ings thatit i s not going to be easy to say what Americaw i l l take to i ts heart in the years to come .
Perhaps i t w i l l be safer to comment on theth ings w h ich the publ ic does not l ike . Su relythe season has proved one th ing beyond dispu te—~the theatre be longs to the man (or the
woman ) who has a story to tel l and to himalone . T he day of the preacher is done .
T hrough su ffer ing and agony th i s generationhas come to the same deci s ion w h ich everygenerat ion has reached in its own good time—art and propaganda are two separate th ingsand never the twain shal l meet . Barrie w i l lbe remembered when Shaw has been gatheredto his fathers and forgotten becau se the l i ttleScot know s that what a man does i s a dealmore in teresting than what a man th inks . O fc0 u rse i t wou ld be rash to say that the problem play has had i ts day and flow n never toretu rn . T wo Women and As a Man T binks
stand in the way of any such theory . And for
that matte r, so does E veryw oman . As amatter
of fact,I th ink that Walter B rowne ’ s ingeni
ous modern izat ion of the old moral ity formis probably a s ignpost point ing ou t the direc4tion in wh ich our theatre i s to travel in the
years to come . U n less I am very much mistaken , fantasy i s going to ru le the Americantheatre . T he playhou se w i l l be l iteral ly all
that the name impl ies . M u te M aeter l inck sw i l l become articu late, and somewhere in
Amer ica a baby Barr ie i s trying to pu t histoe in his cheek and not qu ite succeeding . H e
w i l l in time . Perhaps the leadersh ip of our
drama w i l l pass to E dward Knoblauch whoseplay T be Faun i s so poetical ly imagined .
Whether for good or i l l, the real i sts have
had thei r inn ing and scored no run s,no h its,
and many errors . N or can it be ju st ly as
serted that the attempt to make our theatrea photograph gal lery has fai led becau se of
any lack of seriou s minded spectators . Su re lyT be Blue Bird has cal led forth the h ighestmen tal effort upon the part of i ts audiences .Real i sm has fai led not becau se it has shockedus
, bu t becau se it has committed the unfor
givable sin . I t has bored u s . W e w i l l fol lowno more those who w i sh to show u s the
m ud and the sl ime rather than the rose wh ichsprings from j u st such soi l .After all, ou r ways are not the ways of the
By HEYWOOD BROUN
hal l . T he cel lar can be left to Ibsen and all
his gloomy prophets . Wh i le art shou ld neverknow bou ndaries or be harassed by protectivetariffs it seems to me that the season wh ichhas ju st passed con st i tu tes a declarat ion of
theatr ical independence . Admitt ing the ski lful touch of Some rset Maugham in Smitb
,I
sti l l con tend that our native au thors are qu i tecapable of ach ieving the l ight and w el l madeplay . Indeed we may be w i se enough to learnthat dramatic th ings can happen even in the
humdrum town s . G eorge Coban ’ s G et -RicbQuick Wallingford has a qual i ty wh ich belongs to us alone . And why shou ldn ’ t w elook in to our l ives ? T he dest iny of Americal ies w i th in ou r own borders . T he quarrel s ofE u rope are no concern of ou rs . T he i r eco
nomic problems cannot greatly in teres t u s.
Whether the in tel lectual s l ike i t or not,the
fact remain s that the average Amer ican is
more in te rested when the G ian ts w in a dou
ble -header than when a French cabinet fal l s .
world . Ou r ways are the ways of peace and
beau ty and the abu ndan t l i fe . I f democracyw ere sti l l to be won the re migh t be morepatience w i th those who w i sh to use the stageas a stepladder from wh ich to ran t of woeand destruction , bu t w e l ive in an era in
wh ich Jonah i s sti l l in the bel ly of the whaleand w e can afford to eat
,drink
,and be merry .
We can also afford to th ink . T he lofty ph i losophy of the Belgian sage i s timely in a
world given perhaps to some sl ight excess ofcreatu re comforts . Bu t we have had ou r warnings and w e have heeded them . Ou rs i s notthe perfect state. N obody w ou ld be foolenough to make any such assert ion . T he poorare sti l l w i th u s . Corrupt pol i ticians are not
unknow n . Inequal i ties of wealth exist hereand there . Bu t at least the door of opportun i tyi s w i de open . T he man of determinat ion can
always force his way to the top i f onl y hepossesses the tal i sman of character . Whyshou l d w e not look up into the skies anddraw in to ou r imagin ings the c0u rses of thestars ? H ere too is confl ict, and
, if not hate
and love, at least attract ion and repu ls ion .
T h ink not that Chan tecler was addle -pated .
Perhaps he did not actual ly charm the sun
up from beh ind the r im of the h i l l s w i th hismorn ing song, bu t so i t seemed to him . And
ou t of fai th ,men and barnyard fow l can
bu i ld themselves fine castles fit for dai ly occupancy.
I t i s the function of the theatre to sti r thepu lses by bringing romance back in to ou r
l ives . I n some smal l way the very triumphsof ou r civi l ization are cr ippl ing . We have
conquered the elemen ts and made natu re ourslave instead of a tyran t . T he ru le of reasonhas superseded trial by combat
,and I tru st
that no sane man wou ld have i t otherw i se .
And sti l l someth ing of the old savagery andlu st for batt le i s w i th us yet . We no longerl ive by the sw ord and even less do w e peri shby it . Bu t we have a hankering to see bladesflash in the sun and l i sten to the thri l lingnotes of bugles . Why shou ldn ’ t w e have ou r
cake of carnage and eat the bread of peace ?T he theatre i s poten tial ly the modern makerof miracles . I t can command the Red Sea
obligingly to divide and let the modern man
pass dry shod through a sea of troubles . I nthe face of danger and of angu i sh we are
fortunate enough to be able to say, I t ’ s on lya play .
For my ow n taste th e draw ing room has
been too much w i th u s du r ing the seasonwh ich has j u st past . I hope that in the sea
sons wh ich lie ahead the playw r ights w i l ldi scover other chambers in the hou se . T hereare the pantry and the ki tchen and the servan ts ’
Since, in a somewhat ind i rect way, the
theatre reflects the social and pol i tical structu re of the day, we w ou ld be w i se to pin ou r
hopes upon a nat ive drama wh ich i s whol lyAmer ican in origin and po in t of view . We
cannot l ive by taking in each other ’ s p laysor wash ing . T he American play i s a playabou t an ind iv i dual . Cal l him Sam B row n or
T om Smith . I t does not matter . Certainforeign playw rights have tr ied to deal w i thman in the mass . You r character becomes asymbol . T h i s one i s Capi tal and th i s one isLabor and a th i rd , I suppose, i s the Spi ri t ofB ri ti sh Sh ipbu i ld ing . All of th i s makes forbad drama. For the pu rposes of the theatre
,
confl ict mu st be between very smal l groupsor ind ivi dual s . You can w r ite a play abou tCain and Abe l bu t you cannot dramat ize theBattle of Jericho. And th i s I th ink i s theanswer to those who wan t to w ri te plays abou tlabor and pol i tics and economics . I t simplycan
’ t be done . T hese th ings are in tere stingenough in the debating forum or in the pagesof new spapers . T hey do not belong on the
stage . T hey are not dramatic.
A fter all the C reator i s a great dramati st,
and when he saved the w orld in the face of
the flood he preserved all l iv ing species inretai l lots . T hey w en t in to the ark two by two .
T hey were male and they w ere female . T hat i sthe endu r ing confl ict in the theatre . N oth ingcan change th i s fundamental fact wh ich w i l lbe the an imating force of all drama as longas civ i lization can endu re . From the beginn ing we w ere created male and female . T hati s all that any dramatist needs to know . H is
on ly concern i s to poin t ou t wh ich is wh ich .
A Condensation of Walter Browne ’
s Modern Morality Play
CAN T ICLE'
I
T be light of early dawn illun/ines an ar
tistically furnisbed room in E veryw oman ’ sbouse . N obody, as bandsome as be tbinks
bin/self, and a better actor tban be is willing
to admit , is discovered .
"
G ood friends , and I have many suchWho treat me w el l and love me much ,
T o introduce myself I first make bold.
I ’m N obody .
I ask you r patience for ou r play,Let N obody you r j udgmen t sway,For N obody know s what is j u st and fai r,I f i t offend , mine be the blame ;And i f i t please you , j u st the sameI promise you that nobody w i l l care .
I n troop E verywoman’
s tbree band
maidens, You th , Beau ty, and M odesty, dan cing and singingBorn of a sunbeam's pu ri tyBeau ty, You th , and Modesty ,T hree l ittle W insome mai den s w e,E ach of sun sh ine savors .L inked in a chain of roses
,see
Beau ty, You th , and M odestyWou ldn 't you l ike to kiss all three ?K i sses go by favors .Presen tly E verywoman awakes and appears,
tbrowing kisses tbrougb tbe door"
Fairwell, sweet dreamland fai r ies, fare yew el l .
For see . I am a woman ! and to beA woman meaneth flower , star, QueenAnd more , much more, besidesH a ! T here ye are !
Welcome, sweet compan ion s mine . Mostlovingly E verywoman greets yeHappy witb ber bandmaidens, E very
woman flouts N obody, wbo answers”
E veryw oman,there shal l come a time whenthou
,
D eserted by You th,forsaken by Beau ty
,and
w i th M odestyForgotten ,
shalt know that N obody i s thyfriend .
Later, looking into ber mirror E verywoman finds Flattery wbo tells ber tbat be
is tbe H erald of King Love tbe First .
"
Love longs for thee !” be tells ber. Oh,
E verywoman ,therefore go
O ut into the world and seek him . Seek thyK ing .
M odesty en treats ber to wait for Love at
borne ; bu t sbe is abou t to start on ber quest
accompanied by You tb and B eau ty wben
T ru th , disguised as an old witcb, appears"
Li sten ! E verywoman longs for Love . Love i sborn of T ru th .
I have a son
EVIERYWOMAN : A son,thou ! Is he a dwarf
,
then ? M i sshapen ! C rippled ! T he gnarledand crazy offspring of a w i tch ? Love i s aking, god l ike in his man ly perfection . Be
gone ! When I have need of thee, I ’ l l cometo thee . Come
,sw eet compan ions . Where
fore shou ld w e heed the croaking of a w i tch ?Flattery i s shapely and wel l formed , whatthen of the K ing whom he se rves ?”
CANT I CLE I I
On tbe stage of a M etropolitan T beatre are
Stu ff and B lu ff, wbo witb tbe aid ofPu ff, tbe
press agent, bave made E verywoman a star.
T bey decide to sendM odesty away and You tb
and Beau ty protest tbat tbey will go, too .
ST U FF : You th and Beauty . N ay, bu t w e
mu st have ye, at least, in the choru s . We
n eed ye, bu t not you r rebel l iou s friend ; soperforce, we mu st rob ye of you r compan ion .
D imples,Cu rves, Shape, all-away w i thM odesty !
E verywoman comes in witb Wealth, tbc
multi-millionaire, and W i tless, tbe beir to a
D ukedom . Wben tbey bave gone sbe con
fesses to ber new bandmaiden , Conscience,tbat altbougb famous and admired, sbe bas
not yet found Love .
H ast seen the actor,Passion ? H ast noted
how
H e gazes on thee ? asks You tb .
EVE RYWOMAN :"
T rue . Why, then ,
My quest i s o'
er. Wel l favored , i s he not ?
H e bears h imsel f right royal ly .
(Passion enters . H e is a conventionalactor,
of fine pbysique . H e wears a bigbwayman’
s
mask. )YO U T H : T hat ’ s true
,Bu t
'ti s for thee to
j udge . H ast feltEmbarrassmen t in his presence ?EVE RYWOMAN :
“Why, yes . My heartLeaps upward at his voice . H is l ightest touchAwakens strange emotions—longings , yearn
ings,
unknown . Comesthat ?
H i therto Love l ike
Everywoman , Wal ter B row ne ’ s in spi ringand beau ti fu l modern moral i ty play, one
of the noblest theatr ic ven tu res of the 1 9 1 01 1 season ,
has been rece ived w i th almostun iversal cr it ical acclaim . Seldom since the
early days of the n ineteenth cen tu ry haverhetoric so decorat ive and cadences so spaciou sfal len from a dramati st ’ s pen . T o get in all
i ts fu lness,the r ich flavor and melody of
the poetry, w e suggest that you read th i scondensation of the play aloud .
FLAT T E RY : K ing Love the Fi rst awaitsthee
E VE RYW OMAN :"
Sir Flattery w i l t thou leadmy sou l , en raptu red ,
Lead me to the place where Love i sfound ?
(Kneels before Flattery in attitude ofprayer.
T ru tb enters at window witb K ing Lovedressed in yeoman
’
s attire . )T RU T H : Behold , my son ,
K ing Love , see !At Flattery's feet she knee ls . T hou art too
late . She i s lost . E verywomanWho yields to Flattery is lost to thee, true
Love .
PASSION : E verywoman come forth ! Whyh ide
At the approach Of Passion ?EVE RYWOMAN (T imidly) Art thou indeed
K ing Love ?(Passion stoops and kisses E verywoman )PASSION :
“ I am thy K ing .
T hou art the Qu een of Love .
E VE RYWOMAN :"
Ah ! Found at last !At last the arms of Love enci rcle me ,And free ly thu s doth E verywoman yie ldT he tr ibu te of her womanhood .
(Kisses Passion )Ah
,
’ ti s sweet .T o hear the voice of Flattery . T o be acclaimedA v ictor in the wars wh ich woman wage .
Sw eet are awoman 's triumphs Bu t how sw eet,
H ow doubly sw eet, when she i s vanqu i shed !When
She su rrende rs to the pow er , the prowess, theinvincible force .
T he noble strength Of Love , the conquerer !Love, I am th ine !E verywoman
,fare thee w e l l !
Some in truder D ids ’ t thou not
hear ?(Vision of M odesty disappears )EVE RYWOMAN :
“
T i s Modesty .
M odesty again warn s me . And as she sighsFarewel l
,there bu rn on my l ips Passion ’ s
ki sses .K i sses I craved . Ye G ods ! I have forgotten
M odesty !Away ! I doubt thee . Fear thee now
Show me thy face . T hou’ l t not ? T hu s then
I tearT hy mask away (Sbe tears tbe mask from
'
Passion’
s face )Pass ion
,I know thee
,now
Away ! Begone ! (Passion cringes 0 17)T hu s the stain of Passion 's ki ssShal l E verywoman su ffer when M odesty hath
left her.
MODE ST Y :
PASSION
CAN T ICLE I I I
Beau ty is sinking fast and E verywoman
tells Conscience to tend ber. Wealtb discovers
tbat E verywoman is still seeking for Love,and believing tbat Love is dead,
be decides
to impersonate bim and so win E verywoman .
WE ALT H ofiers ber“
A place in Fi fth Avenue ; a yacht ;A N ewport cottage ; a baron ial hal lI n E ngland ; horses, au tos
,diamonds
,gems
T o shame an E astern poten tate . From Paris,
G own s . Pear ls from the O rien t A boxE ach season at the opera.
E verywoman is abou t to accept bim wben
sbe discovers tbat be does not want ber witb
ou t You tb and B eau ty :
Ah ! N ow thy mask i s Off,know thee , Wealth .
T hou’
rt not a K ing . T hou hast no throne toOffer .
T hou'
rt bu t a Su ltan v i le,who
,w i th rich gi fts ,
Wou ldst E verywoman ,and You th , and
Beau ty, and all suchAs pleased thee for a l i ttle while, w i thal ,
sbe cries . I
By PATRICIA COLLINGE
M iss Patricia C ge tel/s in ber own words
tbe story of tbe successfulmoralityplay wbicb
played last season at tbe Lyric T beatre . M iss
Collinge, a newcomer to tbe tbealre, played
[be part of You tb in tbe drama.
E verywoman i s the most w onderfu l p layI ever saw or imagined , and I am very, veryhappy to have played in it . I t i s a very difficu lt play to describe because i t i s al legor ical .T here i s a play cal led E veryman and i t i s l ikethat except i t i s abou t a woman . E veryoneplays an attr ibu te instead of a person and
there i s one cal led N obody who comes before the cu rtain and explains what they are
doing . I t i s also in blank verse . T here are
a great many attr ibu tes l i ke Chari ty and Conscience and G reed and Passion and manyother things including Love . E verywoman ,
who i s played by M i ss Lau ra N elson H al l ,i s j u st a young gi rl when the play begins .She has th ree fr iends, You th , Beau ty, and
Modesty, and a handmaiden , Conscience, although she does not have Conscience u n ti lthe second act . M i ss Au rora Piatt plays Beauty and M i ss Ju l iette D ay is Modesty . I amYou th . M i ss W i lda Bennett is Conscience .
Wel l,E verywoman tel l s u s that she wan ts
to find Love, and You th and Beau ty are del ighted
, bu t Modesty i s not ; bu t we laughat her
,and we wonder where Love can be
found and then Flatte ry appears in E verywoman ’ s mi rror and that is a wonderfu leffect . Fi rst you see E verywoman ’ s reflect ion ,
and then they do someth ing to the l ights andsudden ly there i s M r. Frank Lacy who i sFlattery and he tel ls E verywoman to seekLove in the theatre
,and then w e are terr ibly
ex ci ted , except Modesty . And then T ru thappears and T ru th i s M rs . Sarah Cow el l LeM oyne and she i s wonderfu l . We are supposed to be afraid of her and we real ly arebecau se she i s very impress ive and she has
very wonderfu l blue eyes that seem to look Patricia Collmge as Youth "1 Walterr ight through you . She speaks so beau ti fu lly Browne
's morality play ,
“Everywoman.
”
and she i s d ressed l ike aW i tch and she tel lsE verywoman to wai t for Love at home and
then she says, "
I have a son . And everyn ight when she says that i t makes me feelvery quee r and I almost cry, bu t I can ’ t becau se w e are supposed to laugh at her and
flaun t her, bu t that i s hard to do becau seher eyes look at u s so .
Wel l , then N obody comes on and that isM r. H . Cooper C l i ffe and he i s dressed in a
robe and always has a green l ight on him
and he warns E verywoman that i f she flauntsT ru th the time w i l l come when N obody w i l lbe her friend . I t i s so difficu l t to describebut we are supposed to be afraid of N obody
,
and yet i t real ly mean s that we are not afraidof anybody . Wh i le M odesty i s not afraid ofN obody wh ich real ly means that she i s afraidof everybody . We l l then the next act i s theT heatre and E verywoman has become a Starand Wealth i s w i th her. Wealth i s M r.
Frederic de Bel levi l le and he i s very wonderful and looks j u st l ike Wealth even at t e
hearsal. E verywoman has not yet found Love .
T hen there i s a scene where she loses Mod
CU LVE R
esty, who is stolen from her in the T heatre,bu t You th and Beau ty are sti l l w i th her. I n
fact the manager B luff says he wou ldn ’ t haveE ve rywoman w i thou t them . I t i s all symbolic, you see . And then E verywoman meetsPass ion and he sings to her on a rock and healmost makes her be l ieve that he i s Lovebu t M odesty appears on the rock and warnsE ve rywoman
,and then E verywoman tears the
Mask from the face of Pass ion and bids himbegone and that i s a wonderfu l scene ; andM i ss Lau ra N el son H al l i s wonderfu l in itthe way she says, Passion I know theenow . T bou art not Love
,the K ing . T hou
’
rt
but a Vi le Pretender and then a longspeech and then she says, "
G et T hee G one,
and Passion covers his face w i th his cloakand almost crawls off. I can
’ t describe i t,bu t i t i s wonderfu l .
Then the next act is a supper given for
E verywoman by Weal th and everyth ing isgold . E verywoman en ters w i th Wealth and
Lord.
W i tle ss who i s M r. H ubert O sborne,and
You th comes in w i th Age and G reed and
E nvy and many others and there is a Revel,
and Beau ty is very ti red and E verywomanpu ts her in the hands of Conscience , and
then there i s the most wonderfu l scene whereE verywoman stands on the table and s ingsand we all join in shou ting a choru s wh ichi s Be -el-zeebub. Be -el-zeebub,
”and it is
terrible,and then sudden ly we stop and
E verywoman hears the voice of Conscience .
And that i s very we i rd . M i ss Bennett has a
lovely, sw eet voice and she sings a queer refrain abou t “
S ing hey, sing ho for my Ladyeand it makes you feel all cold . T hen E verywoman begs everyone to go home and thenwhen she i s alone she finds that Beau ty isdead . And that i s dreadfu l . T hen Wealth
retu rns and tries to make E verywoman bel ieve that be i s Love the K ing bu t she
sends him away l ike Pass ion ,and tu rns to
her M i rror for comfort at Beau ty's deathbut sees T ru th and gives a terrible shriekand hu rls a champagne bottle through the
M i rror and that i s the end of the act .I t i s a wonderfu l scene bu t very dangerou s
as M i ss H al l i s so carried away that shedoesn ’ t always aim straight w ith the bottleand once she nearly ki l led a stage -hand .
We l l , the next scene is N ew Year ’ s E ve on
B roadway and I never saw such a scene . I t
real ly looks l ike a stree t w i th crowds of people and Vice all in green l ike a snake . And
then E verywoman comes on in rags w i th no
one left bu t You th . I try to make E veryw omancome home and I say that T ru th was rightand I say, H er voice was ever sweet, and
I always think of M rs. Le Moyne saying, " Ihave a son
”when I say i t . Bu t E verywoman
says, N o, she i s going to find Wealth
again ,and then T ru th passes disgu ised as a
beggar asking for Chari ty . T here is wonderfu lmu sic for that . We l l
,E verywoman spu rn s
T ru th and then I look up and there i s T imecome to take me away
,and th i s is the scene
I love best . M r. Barry M axw el l plays T ime,
and he i s qu i te old real ly, but he makes up tolook even olde r, and he carries a lantern and
the stage i s very dark and I look up to him
and the lan tern sh ines on me,and I beg him
to let me stay w i th E verywoman bu t he j u ststands there and so I have to go w i th him .
I fol low him in to the dark w ings and sometimes it fee ls as though I had real ly d ied .
T hen E verywoman meets Wealth,and he
spu rns her for Vice and she cries ou t and
N obody answers,and then at last E very
woman recogn i zes T ru th and when she doe sT ru th becomes beau ti fu l and leads E verywoman towards the Chu rch and E verywomangoes w i th her cal l ing ou t
,
“
Chari ty,Chari ty
for E verywoman I ask . And the snow fal l sand the organ peal s ou t and the l ight streamsfrom the chu rch and you ju st cry and cryand cry. We l l , then the play is nearly overexcept that E verywoman retu rns home and
finds Love the K ing on the hearthrug,and
he is the son of T ru th,and when she finds
him Modes ty retu rn s to her. And I am not
in that scene because I am dead bu t I alwayswai t to watch it because i t i s so beau ti fu land I cannot bear to leave ti l l i t i s over .We l l, that is all I can tel l abou t E very
woman . I th ink it is a very wonderfu l playand that I am very lucky to be in i t . I t i swhat I always thought the theatre wou ldbe l ike and I wou ld l ike to be in it forever .E veryone e lse in the company loves i t too,
though I th ink I love i t most . I asked M rs.
Le Moyne i f she had ever seen a play qu i tel ike it and she said
,no
,she never had. It w i l l
be wonderfu l to remember in the years tocome when I am old
,and I have been trying
to th ink what I w i l l remember best, and Ialways th ink of a blue scarf that M rs . Le
Moyne u sed to w ear at rehearsals that matched her eyes and the way she said " I have a
son , and I th ink that I w i l l remember that .
DAV ISWILLS
VVheo I was a boy, in the good old daysof T ony Pastor ’ s and Koster and B ial ’ s ,Vaudevi l le u sed to be cal led by the stu rdyAmerican name of Variety . N ow they havedressed it up w i th modern tr immings and
have given i t a fancy French title, but byany nam e i t sti l l remains America’ s mostcharacteristic and permanen t con tr ibu tion to
the art of entertainmen t .I t hardly seems like two years s ince T eddy
Roosevelt left the Wh i te H ouse and reti redto what may technical ly be called Pr ivateLi fe. Whatever e lse may be h i story ’ s ju dgmen t of the one and on ly Roosevelt, it w i l lhave to admit that he put on a grand show .
H is infinite var iety , his vigorou s staccato quali ty
, his abrupt tran si t ions from humor to
Mc INTYRE HEATH
By NEWMAN LEVY
F fl
DAV IS
DAV I S
MARIONDAV IS
acrobat ics are the essence of good vaudevi l le .
For seven years he gave us the type of'
en
tertainment that our national temperamen tcraves ; now all is qu iet once more along thePotomac, and vaudev i l le is back again in thehands of the professionals .I am no prophet, but one thing seems
certain,and that is that vau dev i l le w i l l '
al
ways be w ith u s if for no other reason thani ts cheapness . I n these difiicult times thereare few people who care to pay two dol larsfor an orchestra seat at a musical show . Bel
lamy,in Looking Backward, predicts that the
time w ill come when by mere ly tu rn ing a
handle w e w i l l be able to bring mu s ic,lec
tu res,and other en tertainm en t in to ourhomes .
Bu t that is j u st a pleas ing and improbablefantasy of an imaginative au thor . I n th i sw or ld of real i ty i f w e w an t convenien t, in
expens ive entertainmen t w e have to go ou t
and get i t, and it i s impossible to imagine anyth ing that can be a substitute for vaudevi l le .
I n my you th the re was a charm and simplicity abou t vaudev i l le that seems to be disappear ing. We no longer have w ith u s thosefascinating arti sts
,O ld H oss H oey, the la
m ented Charl ie Case who u sed to talk abou this father
,Bonn ie T hornton ,
and those del ightfu l importation s from E ngland
,Vesta
T i lley,A lice Lloyd , Vesta Victoria, and the
in imi table A lbert Cheval ie r . I suppose as w e
grow older the past becomes more glamorou s,bu t it is hard to bel ieve that those who are
performing today are qu i te as grand as thosewe saw when w e were young . G eorge M .
Cohan,for instance, has grow n in statu re as
VALERI E B TUCKER
cmc x salnc
O I N E R P NOYOGRM’ N S DAV I S
VANDERBILT
VESTA T ILLEY
OTHER PHOT OGRAPHS DAV IS
DAV I SSchools to see these d istressing performances .T he tit les of some of the songs that these
young folks are compel led to hear also il lu strate th i s grow th of indecency . I f fathers andmothers real ized that the i r sixteen -year -olddaughters
,in stead of imbibing the chaste
moral lessons of Caesar ’ s G al l ic Wars, are
being pol lu ted every Monday afternoon bysuch suggestive songs as Wben I Woke UpT bis M orning, Sbe was G one and I Love
My Wife, But 0 b, You Kid they wou ld beshocked into immediate action .
‘Itmaybe a digress ion , bu t i t i s my bel ief thatthe unwoman ly an tics of the suffragettes havemuch to do w i th this grow ing laxi ty. Somewit recently proposed the toast “
T o the
Ladies ! Once ou r superiors,now our equals .”
So long as women were con ten t to remainin the sphere for wh ich natu re obviou sly in
DAV IStended them,
the stage,wh ich after all is bu t
a reflection of cu rren t manners, con tinued tobe clean and wholesome . At H amm erstein ’ sRoof, th i s summer, they have a Su ffragetteFarm where twen ty come ly farmerettes clad inoveral ls ci rcu late abou t the place, s ing songs,and converse w i th the spectators . T h i s performance
,however pleasan t i t might be at
a stag party,is giving undue publ ici ty and
encou ragemen t to harridan s who cal l themse lves Femin i sts
, bu t who might be describedw i th greater accu racy as U m-Femin i sts .A reaction ,
however,is beginn ing to set in .
I n Ch icago the au thori ties have banned theperformance of those recen t innovations
,T he
G r izzly Bear and the T exas T ommy,two
dances wh ich , happi ly, I have never seen . Itwou ld be wel l i f our local official s wou ld paysimi lar attention to the dance B lossom Seeley
recen tly introduced , cal led , I bel ieve, the
T u rkey T rot . T o i l lu strate th i s pern iciou s influence, I recently heard a young n iece ofmine—she is barely seven teen—s inging, E verybody ’ s D oing It
,D oingWhat ? T u rkey T rot !”
T here is enough talen t, I am su re,to
enable the producers to put on good show sand stil l keep them clean . Beaumont ’ s Pon ies ,that phenomenal dog, T he G reat Spot, and
Con su l, the almost human monkey, can be
w i tnessed with en tertainmen t and profit byspectators of any age and any sex . Bud Fi sher,Bert Levy
,and Rouble Simms
,those inimi
table cartoon i sts, have acts that are beyondreproach . T he great H oudini i s always a
treat, and G us E dwards ’ Schoolboys and
Schoolgi r ls can be coun ted on for clean ,
pleasan t en tertainmen t .A brief men tion of some of the acts that
have appeared th i s season w i l l explain the
reason for vaudev i l le ’ s endu r ing popu lari ty .
by IRVING BERLINas told to RusselCrouse
Come on and hear, come on and hear
T he invi tat ion i s unnecessary . You justc an’
t
help hearing Alexander’s Ragtime Band thesedays . Pianos in every home blare it forth and
pianolas echo it . Barrel organ s pick it up at
the fron t door and carry it down the street .M essenger boys wh i stle i t . Scrubwomen humit and sw i sh thei r brushes through soapy w ater to i ts pecu l iar beat .E ven stai d society has taken it up. Swaying
shou lders and snapping fingers aren ’ t ou t ofplace in the far from dign ified atmosphereof the cabaret when the bird i s hot and thebottle is cold
, bu t when they reach R iversideD rive and demu re debu tantes "
want to hearthe Swanee R iver p layed in ragtime " i t i ssomething to th ink abou t .
Is the wor ld going ragtime crazy ? Reformers w i l l te l l you that the pathway to H adesis already crowded w i th swaying figu res . T heswaying figu res w i l l tel l you they ’ re going theother way. T ime w i l l tel l .But where did it come from—th i s song
that has America " ragging ?"T he answer to that question is the story of
the H oratio A lger of T in Pan Al ley—Irv ingBerl in . N ot many years ago he w as sel l ingpapers in the shadow of B rooklyn B ridge intrue H oratio A lger fash ion . T h ree years agohe was a singing wai ter in Ch inatown , gladto gather up the coins that tipsy revelers threwin the sawdust at his feet . T oday he i s s i ttingon top of a s inging w orld—a s inging worldthat i s singing his song .
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T omorrow ? Wel l tomorrow w i l l have to
tel l i ts own story . At the momen t ragtimere igns supreme . Bu t don ’ t forget that the bicycle wh ich
,ten years ago,
was you r companion everywhere i s now ru sting in the coal shed .
I rving Berl in i sn ’ t so easy to find, even ina world wh ich i s s inging his song and his
prai ses . T in Pan A l ley i s easy to find. All you
have to do is cock an ear on B roadway andw end you r way to the center of jangling noi se .
On West T h i rty-e ighth Street, next doo rto a famou s cabaret, is the T ed Snyder M u s icCompany, wh ich publ i shed Alex ander’s Ragtime Band and sudden ly fou nd itsel f swampedw i th orders . As you make you r way up threefl ights of stai rs the noi se grow s louder , andopen ing a door, you find you rself in bedlam .
A young lady who i s mostly blond hai r andchew ing gum,
both of wh ich came from the
corner drug store, and who cal ls everybody" dearie
,greets you .
"
M r. Bol l in , she repeats . Su re he woikshere . Bu t he ain 't in yet . G otta come backlate r .T w elve o
’
clock noon and H oratio A lgeri sn ’ t at his oflice yet ! You find ou t later thati t i sn ’ t unu sual . T h i s young man who had
tu rned the wor ld topsy - tu rvy l ives in a topsytu rvy wor l d of his own . H e r i ses at two o
’
clock,
'goes to work at three, and sometimesdoesn ’ t
.
stop un ti l five o ’
clock in the morn ing .
At three o ’
clock we cl imbed the d ingy stepsagain ,
this time adding a fou rth fl ight andarriving in fron t of a door, the glass panel ofwh ich bore the name “ Irv ing Ber l in in gi ltletters so new they j umped ou t to meet you .
We pau sed in fron t of the door to catch ou r
breath . Fou r fl ights aren 't easy for one who
has trained on Sw eet Caporal s . Ask dad, heknow s ! From w i th in came the fain t tinklingsounds of a piano. We l i stened . Perhaps w ew ere hear ing the song that wou ld succeedAlex ander
’
s Ragtime Band. Sudden ly the ma
sic,if i t cou ld be cal led that
,stopped . We
knocked .
Come in ,sai d a h igh, th in voice .
A young man as th in as the voice swunground on a piano stool at the sound of the
open ing door and looked up.
I beg you r pardon ,w e sai d . When w i l l
M r. Berl in be in“ I ’m M r. Berl in
,he sai d , almost apolo
gizing for making so bold as to cal l h imselfmi ste r .For a moment, w e thought i t mu st be an
office boy ’ s idea of a joke . Irv ing Ber l in i stwen ty- th ree
,bu t looks e ighteen . H is sl ight
figu re and his nervou s gestu res are boyish inthe extreme. H is black cu rly hai r moun ts upin to a pompadou r . On ly his eyes are grow nup—they are black and bu rning and stare at
you from a face that has become sal low underthe midn ight oil in stead of ruddy under thenoon -day sun .
D on't let me in terrupt, we said , especi
al ly if you ’ re w r i ting another song hit .H e smi led and got up from the battered
piano .
" I w ri te fou r or five songs a day, bu t i ttakes a long time to te l l whether they ’ re goingto be song hits .
“
You mean you didn ’ t know the minu teyou w rote Alex ander’s Ragtime Band thateverybody wou ld be s inging it ?”T h i s t ime he laughed .
An Interview With SAMH. HARRIS
Sam H . H arris,partner of that ebu l l ien t and
many~sided gen iu s , G eorge M . Cohan ,in the
most successfu l of the you nger producing By J OII I I Peter Tooheyfirms , sat in his offices in the new ly erectedFi tzgerald Bu i ld ing at B roadway and Fortythi rd Street the other day and wondered whyanyone bothered to interview him abou t thetheatre . Shy, reticen t, and sel f-eflacing in hismodesty , he expressed the fee l ing that theprope r person to talk for the firm was M r.
Cohan .
” I ’m sti l l taking lessons, he remarked .
G eorge i s the one who know s all the an
swet s . H e’
s been in the theatre s ince ch i ldhood . I on ly started a few years ago .
T he interv iewer ventu red the suggestionthat perhaps M r. H arris migh t l ike to talkabou t the contrast between his previou s experience as a manager of fighters (he was
the one who nu rsed the redoubtable T erryM cGovern in to fame ) and his presen t activityas a theatr ical producer .
"
H ow abou t the con trast between fightersand actors he asked .
“
D id you find as muchtemperament in the ring as in the theatre ?"M r. H afris
’ dark eyes tw inkled , and he
reached in to the capacious h umidor on his
desk for a fresh cigar .” I t's funny—you r br inging that up, he
remarked .
" I remember a few years backwhen I decided to go in w i th G eorge on
Little [obnny [ones I met B i l l B rady on the
stree t . ‘
B i l l,
’ I said, ‘
I’
m going to fol low you rlead . I ’m going to qu i t the fight game for thetheatre .
’
.
'Qu i t the fight game ? ’
he answered .
'
Say, fe l low , you aren ’ t qu i tting it—you ’ rej u st gett ing in to it deeper than ever . ’ We l l
,
I guess B i l l was right . You meet more temperament in a w eek in the theatre than youdo in a l i fetime w i th the fighters . I ’m de
veloping a system,though ,
that I th ink i sgoing to w ork ou t all right in the years to
George M. Cohan and Sam H. Harris.
’
All right—I lose a buck .
’
T hat ’ s all he said . H e w ent on his ways inging . I don ’ t know of any actor who wou ld
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come, if I keep on producing plays and dealing w i th actors .
T he idea i s to meet ’
em half way. D on’ t
blow up and hit the cei l ing and tu rn a coupleof back somersau lts when some star handsyou an ou trageou s demand or refu ses to goalong w i th you on some sens ible proposition .
T ake the matter under adv i sement, as the
lawyers say. Let’
em cool down . D on’ t try to
treat them as you wou ld a bu siness man on
a straigh t bu siness propos i t ion . T hey aren ’ tbu s iness people. They ’ve got someth ing otherpeople haven ’ t got, and you ’
ve got to remember that. I f they weren ’ t emotional and highstrung and temperamental
'
they wou ldn ’ t besuccessfu l actors—they wou ldn ’ t get someth ing across the foot lights that gets in to thehearts of the people ou t in fron t and gives’
em that lump in the th roat . You can’ t treat
D ave Warfield the same way you ’ d treat areal -estate promoter or a stock-broker .We had a gi rl w i th us a season or two
ago—Lau rette T aylor . She ’ s j u st abou t the
most temperamen tal person you 'd be able tomeet in a day ’s—no
,I ’ l l make i t a week—ln
a week ’ s walk . She’ s Iri sh and contrary and
fu l l of the dev i l , bu t she ’ s going to be one ofthe greates t actresses of her time . Watch her.
T he point i s that you can’ t treat her l ike you
wou ld an ordinary person . You’
ve got to kidher along, pu t up w i th her l i ttle wh ims andnotions . Most of these th ings that actors saythey mu st have or that they won ’ t do soundterribly importan t at first, bu t when you cometo th ink abou t them they aren ’ t real ly important at all.
"
Say—you ’
ve got me going . I was ju stth inking abou t fighters . T hey aren ’ t temperamen tal in the same way that actors are . You
take T erry M cGovern . I remember a l i ttlewh i le ago some of the sports w r i ters had himup in Saratoga for the races as the i r guest .T hey dri fted around to a gambling hou se onen ight and T erry borrowed a dol lar from one
of the boys . H e began playing the whee l andhe ran that dol lar up to someth ing l ike fou rthou sand in a couple of hou rs . I t was j u st l ikesometh ing you ’ d read abou t in a short storyin a magazine . H is friends tried to get himto cash in , bu t he refu sed . T hey argued and
argued w i th him , bu t he w ou ldn 't go along .
G ot a l ittle nasty . Said he was going to run
his stack up to ten thou sand or more .
T he boys gave up and went back to the i rhote l . One of them felt a l i ttle con sciencestricken . T hought they shou ld have u sed forceand made T erry qu i t . He was si tting on the
porch smoking a cigar when he heard thel i ttle fighter humming as he w alked by on
his way home .
'
H ey, T erry, ’ he ye l led .
‘
H ow'd you make
be equal ly carefree and phi losoph ical underci rcumstances l ike that . T hey ’ re not made thatway. I t ’ s probably a good job they aren ’ t .M r. H arri s i s, at the momen t, hav ing thetime of his l i fe w i th his newest toy—theG eorge M . Cohan T heatre in the same bu i lding as his office. M r. Coban ’ s G et -Ricb -QuickWallingford is playing there to capaci tybu siness andMr. H arri s feels the fu tu re of thetheatre l ies north of Forty-second Street .
“
I n the next two or three years all the
theatres be low T h i rty- fou rth Street w i l l e i therbe torn down or ren ted ou t as cheap pictu rehou ses,” he said .
"
T he t ime is coming whenall the first-class hou ses w i l l be on Fortysecond Street or north of i t . And a good manyof them w i l l be owned and operated by theproducers, too. This Wallingford engagement has proved to me that the great th ingi s to have you r own theatre. I ’m sold on the
idea a thou sand per cen t . You can make you rown terms and plan to get in when you wantto get in and you ’ re not dependen t on anybooking oflice . H el lo
,here ’ s G eorge. See i f
he doesn ’ t agree with me .
Young M r. Cohan ,a straw hat set rakish ly
on his head and a s l im cane tucked underhis arm
,had j u st en tered .
I was ju s t talking abou t runn ing ou r owntheatre
,remarked M r. H arr i s . " I said we
l iked the i dea.
Su res t th ing you know ,responded M r.
Cohan .
“We’ l l have another one in a year
or two. We’ l l cal l that one the Sam H . Har
ri s T heatre . Say, I got a title th i s morn ingfor the new show . H ow do you l ike T be Little M illionaire ?
”
Swel l ,” retu rned M r. Harris, but I w i sh
you ’ d w ri te the second act . I th ink we oughtto go in to rehearsal w i th the complete show .
”
“
Li sten,kid
,replied M r. Cohan .
"
T herei sn ’ t going to be any second act un ti l westart rehearsing the first . I t ’ s a new systemI
’
ve worked ou t . We might have to changethe first act and that w ou ld mean changingthe second and—w el l , there i sn ’ t going to beany second act un ti l we see .
M r. H arris shook his head and smi ledqu izz ical ly .
"
T here ’ s that temperamen t th ing, he re
marked to the in terv iewer, bu t you don ’ tsee me argu ing .
W i se l i ttle guy, this H arris fel low , com
men ted M r. Cohan as he prepared to leave .
"
N ever rubs anybody the w rong way, bu t
i f you th ink you can pu t anyth ing importantover on him you ’ re a sucker . H ow abou t dinner at Chu rch i l l ’ s ton ight, Sam ? I
’
ve got a
new song w ri ter I want you to meet . Youngfel low named Ber l in . Pu l ls tunes ou t of a
hat and w ri tes his own words . T hey ’ re lu lu s .Seven o
’
clock and we'l l take in one of the
roofs afterwards .T he door slammed and M r. H arris wasqu iet for a moment .
"
T hat fel low has got more up his sleevethan he real i zes, he remarked slow ly .
"
You’ re going to keep on hearing abou t him
for a long time .
ow ns onu s C U L V E RFred andAdele Astaire
These talented and electricalprodigies havebeenonandoffthevaudeville stage since 1 907 .
Fred is eleven andAdele is not yet thirteen .
FUTURESTHAT LOOM LARGE
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CU LVER DAV IS
DAV IS
C U LV E RDAVIS
Richard Bennet t DAV I S
Marguerite Clark Blanche Ring Flora ZabelleDAV I S C U LV E R C U LV E R
Margaret AnglinDAV I S
Edmund BreeseCU LVER
DavidWarfieldDAV IS
Francis WilsonICULVSR
A fter the almost u nparal leled bri ll iance of
last season i t was to be expected that thesummer managerial annou ncemen ts wou ldcome as someth ing of an an ticl imax . Bu t
such i s not the case . A lmost never have therebeen so many or such substan tial p lan s afootat th i s time of year . A lthough there are
bou nd, of cou rse, to be fai lu res, the season
already seems more than secu re, w i th in
teresting novelties, exce l len t new p lays, and
important revivals . After the lessons the producers learned last season ,
when N ew Yorkrefu sed to swal low a clum sy or stereotypedplay by a foreign au thor s imply becau se i thad been a su ccess in London or Paris
,the
predominance of activ i ty seems to be w i thOu r own dramat i sts—except, of cou rse, in themu s ical -comedy field . Since theM erryWidowdays
,Vienna has been the moti f for a l ion ’ s
share of the mu sicals .T he chal lenge for native plays of super ior
meri t has been answered by every Americandramati st of promise . All of ou r gleaminggalaxy of stars stand ready to give them lifein the theatre . Bu t before we go on to the
fal l promises let u s look for a moment atthe successes of last year wh ich w i l l be on
the boards for some months yet .Maude Adams w i l l tou r in Cbantecler. T he
natu ral demand for th i s play ou ts ide of N ew
York makes any other arrangemen t impossible at presen t . Charles Frohman ,
however ,announces a series of matinees in Manhattanwh ich he cal ls Maude Adams
’Afternoons
witb M . Barrie .
Tbe Blue Bird,E verywoman, N obody
’
s
Widow , T be Concert, As a Man T binks, T be
Boss, T be D eep Purple, Pomander Walk,
and Madame Sberry w i l l also be on the roadw i th thei r original stars and casts . Sam Ber
nard con tinues in H e Came from M ilwaukee,and Law rence D ’
O rsay retu rns to his quaintcharacterization in T be E arl of Pawtu cket .Robert Mante l l w i l l be ou t w ith his Shakespearean repertory un ti l January, when he
plan s to produce Ju stin H untley M cCarthy'
s
Cbarlemagne tbe Conqueror.
And now let u s look at some of the thingswh ich loom over the immediate dramat ic
hori zon . As th i s i ssue of ST AG E comes toyou r hand Rose Stah l i s open ing at the H arri sT heatre in Maggie Pepper, the play in wh ichshe has been tou r ing successfu l ly s ince lastM arch. T he new s is that, in th i s story of a
l i ttle salesgirl who through sheer grit andinnate fineness rises to be the w ife of the
you ng mi l l ionai re owner of the departmentstore, M i ss Stah l does a perfect p iece of act
ing . H ere again are the del iciou s charm and
humor , the cou rage and sweetness, the plainwoman liness that p layed so large a part inthe nationw i de popu lar i ty of Patr icia of Tbe
Cborus Lady, the role M i ss Stah l has playedfor the last seven years .On September fou rth
,as accu rate ly on
schedu le as the coming of Labor D ay and the
red and gold leaves of au tumn,the first gentle
man of the American theatre,John D rew ,
w i l l open his season . H is play th i s year isA Single Man by H erbert H en ry D avis
,who
w rote, you remember, T be M ollusc and
Cousin Kate . A Single Man i s the story ofRobin Worthington ,
bache lor of forty - th ree,who su dden ly deci des to marry for love . Car
rol l M ccomas plays a pretty l i ttle emptyheaded fl i rt, whom he deci des is not too
young for him, al though he may be too old
for her. T hai s Law ton is an in tel lectual s i renw ith matr imon ial lean ings . Mary Boland isa demu re and lovely stenographer to whomhe has been dictating for years, w i thou t noticing her. You may guess for you rsel f whichof the three gets him in the end. T he rumoris that th i s play gives M r. D rew more oppor
tunity than u sual for love making ; and thatmany a w el l bred thri l l l ies in store for N ew
York ’ s fair matineegoers.
I n that same week are due also a sumptu
ous new mu sical spectacle produced by theShuberts at the H ippodrome, cal led Around
tbe World ; Miss jack, a dark-horse mu sicalof no pretension s ; and G eorge B ronson ,
Howard ’ s Snobs, w i th Frank M cI ntyre and
W i l lette Kershaw . D aniel Frohman ’ s firstfal l production is due on the fifth . TbyN eigbbor
’
s Wife, a l ittle comedy abou t twocouples who l ive next door to each other ,w i th Arthu r Byron and Pamela G aythorne .
Julia Sander son Kyrle Bellew Mary Miles Minter De Wolf Hopper Mary ManneringC U LVSR DAV I S DAV I S C U LVE R DAV I SFor early fal l product ion M r. Frohman has
schedu led a charming new Operetta of the
Viennese School,T be Siren , by Leo Stein and
A . M . W i l lner, the mu sic for wh ich was
w ri tten by Leo Fal l,who w i l l be remem
bered as the alumnu s of T be D ollar Princess
and T be G irl in tbe T rain . H e has garneredD onald B r ian of M erry Widow fame and
Ju l ia Sanderson for the Waltz Caprice effectsand Frank Mou lan and W i l l West to act as
comic foi l . I t shou ld add up to a del ightfu leven ing . For the first of the year
,M r. Froh
man promises lovely E the l Barrymore in a
new play by J . M . Barr ie,A Slice of Life,
supported by her dash ing young brotherJohn . I t w i l l be preceded by a rev ival ofCousin Kate
,w i th M i ss Barrymore in the
fel ici tou s ti t le role and M rs. T homas Wh i ffen as M rs . Spencer .T he fal l program of Lieble r and Company
,
of wh ich G eorge T yler i s the active member,
i s short bu t impress ive . I n addition to D israelithey are engaged in prepar ing one of the
greatest theatre spectacles of all time . T h i si s T be Garden of Allab, made from RobertH ichens ’ world - famou s story of the T rappistmonk who married an E ngli sh gir l ; and thenfinal ly repented of his broken vow s and w en tback to the monastery, leav ing her w i th a son
and the death less memory of a great love .
T he h i story of th i s production goes back to1 905 when Mme . N avarro ( that beau ti fu land gi fted lady of the theatre
,M ary Ander
Clara Lipman Molly Pearson Elsie Ferguson Eva Davenport Guy Bates Post
E rnest Lawford Adele Rowland Dus tin Farnum Robert Edeson Tom Meighancot vra ow ns cuw sa DAV I S cot vea
son ) arranged a meeting betw een G eorgeT yler and Robert H ichens . T yler promised a
lavish production ; and H ichen s promised an
adaptat ion of the nove l , if Mme . N avarrowou ld he lp him . T h i s she con sented to do on
condition that she be al lowed to remainanonymou s . E ar ly in 1 908 the first draft w as
sen t to N ew York . And that next summerT yler
,H ichens
,H ugh Ford , d i rector , and
E dward Morange,the scen ic artist
,spen t the
summer in the hear t of the Sahara D esert .T hey retu rned w i th real Arabs
,costumes
,and
many properties for creating the i l lu s ion of
the E ast . Mme . N avarro and M r. H ichen sare coming over to he lp stage the play . MaryMannering i s coming ou t of reti remen t toplay D omin i E nfilden . Lew i s Wal ler
,famou s
London leading man,w i l l be Boris Androv
sky, err ing T rappi st monk .
'
T here w i l l be a
real i stic sand storm ; a gorgeou s garden scene,set again st the n ight sky over the desert ; imported Alger ian dancers ; an
'
oasis wh ich isan au then tic copy of Ben i -Mora (B i skra)and wh ich breathes the very spi r i t of A lger ia.
Tbe Garden of Allab w i l l be presented at
the Centu ry T heatre,and N ew York w i l l u h
doubtedly once more be placed tremendou slyin L iebler and Company ’ s debt .Another treat wh ich th i s firm ,
noted for i tsnovelties , has in store for us i s the first N ew
York appearance of the famou s Iri sh Playersof the Abbey T heatre of D ublin . T he storyof th i s great institu tion
,founded by the Fays
and deve loped by Lady G regory andW i l l iamBu tler Yeats, i s too famil iar to need repeating here. I n the repertory
,of cou rse
,w i l l be
several of the plays of that strange and dou rgeniu s
,John M . Synge
,who, bu t for M r.
Yeats and the Abbey, might have died a starving jou rnal i st scribbl ing in a D ubl in slum .
Synge’
s Playboy of tbe Western World w i l lbe in the repertory
,of cou rse . And in th i s
connection i t i s in teresting to remember thatwhen that play w as first produced in D ublin
,
the hot -headed Iri sh audience, con sidering the
hero an insu l t to Ir i sh manhood,took to
caterwau l s,r ioting
,and vegetable throw ing .
T h i s mu st sound l ike a colorfu l exaggerationto the soph i sticated playgoers of ou r greatci ty
, bu t—unbel ievable as i t i s—it happens tobe true .
Liebler and Company w i l l also presentMargaret Anglin in a repertory of severalimportan t plays ; among them A . E . W . M a
son ’ s new comedy,G reen Stockings . T h i s i s
abou t a handsome bachelor gi rl who, ti redof being j ibed abou t her spinsterhood
,in
ven ts ah absen t fiancé j u st for fun ; and theni s a bit nonplu ssed to have him material izeas H . Reeves Smith .
T he Shuberts presen t a meager l i ttle l ist ofa dozen or fifteen dramas
,and at least two
dozen mu sicals . O f cou rse, all of these w i l lnot reach the boards th i s season ; bu t i t i ssafe to say that a good many of them w i l l .T he most in trigu ing ones on the play schedu le
Grace George George Arliss Margaret Sylva Frank Craven Gertrude Elliot tC U LV E R S ET ON DAV I S C U LV E R C U LV E R
are G eorge Bernard Shaw’ s Fanny’
s First
Play ; Baltbazar, by the au thor of Zaza ; FineFeatbers by E ugene Wal ter ; a new comedycal led Sberlock H olmes and Arsene Lupin ;an E dward Sheldon scr ipt ti t led Romance,said to be ambitiou s in theme—it i s thecharming love s tory of a clergyman and an
opera singer in the ’
fifties ; Max Re inhardt ’ scolossal production of Oedipus Rex and his
pan tomime Sumurun for th e Cas ino T heater ;and Bunty Pulls ibe Strings . T h i s comedy byG raham Moffat has had a remarkable successin the H aymarket in London . It i s a quaintl i ttle tale abou t a del ightfu l bu t managingdaugh ter
,Bun ty B iggar (played here by
Mol ly Pearson,the original s lavey, in th i s
country,in T be Passing of tbe T bird Floor
Back) , who straighten s ou t the affai rs of herfather
,her betrothed
,and the en ti re vi l lage
of Lin tiehaugh , where they all l ive . I f the reports from London may be bel ieved , th i s w i l lbe one of the most del ightfu l p roductions ofthe fal l season . Another scr ipt for wh ich theM essrs . Shubert have great hopes i s G eorgeBroadhu rst
’
s B ougbt and Paid For in wh ichCharles R ichman w i l l be starred . T h i s is saidto be a tense domestic drama in wh ich a mi llionaire marries his stenographer, and du ringthe big scene of the play smashes her bedroom door in a drunken and lu stfu l fu ry.Pretty strong fare
, even for our emancipatedcu rren t Broadw ay . Bu t as the tw o are mar
ried, i t can probably be brought w i th in the
Gaby Deslys George M. Cohan Nance O’
Neill Henrietta Crosman
Robt. Warwick Frances Starr William Farnum Raymond HitchcockCULVER DAV IS C U LV ER C U LV E R
bounds of good,i f not impeccable , taste .
At the head of the Shuberts ’ l i st of mu s icals stands T be Kiss Waltz, wh ich theyprophesy w i l l be a second M erry Widow .
I t i s a colorfu l romantic concoct ion fromVienna
,in wh ich the ve lvety-voiced Flora
Zabelle w i l l sing,and dance a sen suou s,
dreamy waltz number w i th that latter-daymatinee i dol
,Robert Warw ick . Adele Row
land and E va D avenport w i l l also be in the
cast, and the production w i ll, of cou rse
, be
lav i sh ly set . T he brothers Shubert have alsoanother su rpri se in store . T hey have at lastsucceeded in persuading the lovely and
glamorou s Gaby D eslys to leave the Bou levards of Pari s and come to N ew York to
enhance the stage of B roadway ’ s W in terG arden . I t i s rumored that M l le . D eslys w i l l ,in addi tion to a fabu lou s wardrobe, bring w ithher her famou s pear ls bu t not, we fee l su re ,the i r al leged royal donor .H arrison G rey Fi ske has a play on his
agenda wh ich has an interesting history . Iti s Kismet, by E dward Knoblauch . M r. Knoblauch offered his play in vain to all the prominent American managers ; and final ly
,in
despai r,took i t to London where O scar Asche
has produ ced i t with phenomenal success .M r. Fi ske and Klaw and E rlanger now hol dthe Amer ican rights and w i l l soon begin workon a lavish produ ction wh ich w i l l open at
e ither the Kn ickerbocker or the N ew Amsterdam . M r. Fi ske also has a couple of new
scripts under cons ideration for his w i fe : T beN ew Marriage by Langdon M i tchel l ; and theWar of Souls by Pau l H yacinthe, son of the
w el l known French preach er .D avid Belasco w i l l
,as always , be exceed
inglybu sy th i s fal l . H e has W i l l iam deM ille ’
s
T be Woman ,which has been on the road
th i s summer,schedu led for mid-September
presen tation . H e has also a new play ( sti l la deep secret ) for Frances Starr ; one for
N ance O’
N eill,
and a script cal led T be
G overnor’
s Lady by the gi fted playw right ,A l ice B radley . H is chief concern for the sea
son,how ever
,i s his ow n sen sational ly ex perimental d rama,T be Return of Peter G rimm ;
wh ich opened in Boston last January w i thD avid Warfield starred . I n the cast alsoare T homas M eighan
,Janet D unbar
,Joseph
B rennan ,and that clever ch i ld actor
,Percy
H e lton . A lthough the play has been we l l received in the sticks i t sounds l ike a doubtfu ltheme for a hyper - cri tical
,soph i st icated N ew
York au dience . Of cou rse , w e have l istenedw ith respect for three hundred years to the
ghost of H amlet ’ s father,bu t he i s not the
hero of the play . I n Tbe Retu rn of PeterG rimm, as you may have heard , M r. Warfield
plays an old D u tchman who dies at the end
of the first act ; and then retu rn s in the spi ri tto fin i sh his w ork on earth . H ow ever
,know
ing M r. Belasco’ s astu teness as a showman ,
w e wou ld not w ager too much on his inabi lityto presen t the i dea of a substan tial phan tom
William Faversham Kitty Gordon Frank McIntyre Lillian Russell Donald BrianC U LV E R DAV IS DAV IS S E TDN DAV IS
dressed in an old fash ioned frock coat,and
w ith the be loved face of the M u sic M aster tosmi le down upon u s once more.
W i l l iam B rady con tinues w i th his ex peri
men t in repertory at the Playhou se ; two itemsof wh ich w i l l be G race G eorge in M ucb Ado
Abou t N otbing and T be E artb, a new playby James B . Fagan . H e al so has M argueriteC lark under con tract, and an Owen D avisscript for her cal led Wben All tbe World
Was Young.
H en ry B . H arr is has several exci ting th ingsto discu ss . Before long he plans to cal l D ollyM adison and E ls ie Fergu son in from the
road and establ ish them in a N ew York theatre . H e w i l l also presen t E dgar Selwyn inSelw yn ’ s own play, T be Arab. Bu t he is real lymost concerned abou t T be Quaker Girl, a
mu sical wh ich has been hav ing a tr iumphantrun at the Adelph i in London ,
w i th G ertieM i l lar charming all E ngland by the quaintway she sings the haun ting, Quakeri sh, songhit of the show , T bee Loves M e . T he N ew
York cast i s sti l l not deci ded upon ; bu t LucyWeston i s men tioned for the lead . M r. H arri si s also th inking of s ign ing up that pretty anddemu re newcomer
,I na C lai re
,who made
such a hit in vau devi l le a l i ttle wh i le backw i th her impersonation of H arry Lauder . Also for M r. H arris
,M arion Fai rfax i s w ri ting
a play to be ti tled Tbe Talker, and in wh ichhe plans to featu re Pau line Lord
,a compara
tive newcomer,and T u l ly M arshal l .
W i lton Lackaye w i l l be in T be Stranger;Kyrle Bel lew and James K . H ackett have new
plays . M r. H ackett's is T be G rain of D ust
and i s foun ded on D av i d G raham Ph i l l ip ’ snovel . W i l l iam Faversham is reading anotherE dward She ldon script . Robert E deson opensearly in G e lett Bu rgess ’ Cave Man . Viola Allen has commissioned Lou i s N . Parker , of
Pomander Walk and D israeli fame,to w rite
her a new play, the ten tative ti tle of wh ich
i s T be Lady of Coventry. H elen Ware hasG eorge Broadhu rst ’ s T be Price . Franci s Wilson w i l l be appearing in T be Magic Ring ;C lara L ipman has w ri tten her own veh icle
,
I t D epends on tbe Woman ; B lanche Walsh
Emily Stevens Ar thur Byron Douglas Fairbanksoaws cucven CU LVE R
has some th ing new . John Barrymore w i l l appear in a new farce by Anne Caldwe l l andJames O ’
D ea, enti tled U ncle Sam . E dward J.
Bowes has procu red Kindling for his new
leading lady, Margaret I l l ington ; K law and
E rlanger plan to rev ive Ben H ur for R ichardBuh ler ; and John G olden is bu sy w i th the
mu sic for Over tbe River, a mu sical farcewh ich Charles D i l l ingham and Florenz Ziegfeld p lan to produce w i th E ddie Foy, who, i tis said
, has shelved his Shakespearean am
bition s for the time be ing .
That bu stl ing firm of Cohan and H arrisare bu sy w i th T be Little M illionaire, sai d tobe a real Cohan show ,
w i th Cohan dialogu e,Cohan dancing, Cohan settings, and Cohan
ce ler i ty. All the Cohans w i l l be in it, too .
Later on the firm w i l l do Oficer 666, a farceby Augu stin M acH ugh, abou t a mill ionai reglobe trotter who retu rns home to find a
bu rglar has taken his name and i s l iv ing inhis apartmen t . For Raymond H i tchcock and
Sophye Barnard they have procu red a mu s icalcomedy abou t Amer ican v i si tors to the landof the Czars, cal led T be Red Widow, byChann ing Pol lock and Rennold Wol f . T heyalso expect to produce Tbe Only Son byWinchel l Smith ,
a problem play abou t an un
fai thfu l w i fe w ith C lau de G i l l ingwater as
hu sband and O l ive Wyndham as the son ’ s(Wal lace E ddinger ) fiancée . L i l l ian Ru ssel li s trying to make up her mind between T beOpera Ball and H er Majesty M imi. LewFields i s cooking up some h i lar iou s nonsen secal led T be Wife H unters . D e Wolf H opperhas a G i lbe rt 8: Su l l ivan Festival in mind .
K i tty G ordon ’ s fal l veh icle i s fittingly cal ledT be E ncbantress . B lanche R ing is eager abou ta new mu sical named T be Wall Street G irl.
And sti l l w e have on ly ski rted the edges ofthe mu sical season to come . H en ryW . Savageis most concerned abou t an e laborate production of T be Girl of tbe G olden West in E n
gli sh . Bu t he also has Little Boy Blue, w i tha plot wh ich focu ses around the famou sG ain sborough portrai t
,and wh ich is also
schedu led to be another M erry Widow (and
who shou ld know better than M r.
A few of the others he has in mind are T beM illion , for Irene Fenw ick, Somewbere E lse,a mu sical by Avery H opwood
,T be G rape
Girl, T be Prince’s Cbild, Baron -G ood-for
N otbing, T be Summer’
s Folly, and Weepingfosepbine . For Augu st production W i lbu rN esbi t and O tto H auerbach have concocteda book for a Kar l H oschna mu sical
, Tbe Girl
ofMy D reams, in wh ich Le i la McI ntyre and
John H yams w i l l induct choru ses of BachelorBoys and Quaker G i r ls in a tunefu l varietyof song and bal let .Augu st
,too
,promises Cather ine Ch i sholm
Cu sh ing's Tbe Real T bing, a gracefu l l itt lecomedy
,in which H en rietta C rosman as the
w idowed sister teaches the neglected w i fe,M inn ie D upree
,a th ing or two abou t the
ways of men . Wil l iam Col l ier and JamesM on tgomery have w ri tten a new play T akeMy Advice . It w i l l be a veh icle for the Coll iers—W i l l iam Col l ier , W i l l iam Col l ier,Jun ior
,H elena Col l ier G arrick
,and T homas
G arr ick w i l l allbe in the cast, and Lew Fieldswil l produce i t . D reyfu s -Fel lner Companyare rehears ing a mu s ical , T be Tbree Romeos,
in wh ich W i l l iam D an forth and a newcomerby the name of Peggy Wood , w i l l appear .A . H . Woods has half a dozen mu s icals
ready for product ion . T he most immediate ofthese are Margueri te Sylva of the goldenvoice, in Franz Lehar ’ s Gypsy Love ; and
Fr i tzi Scheff in T be D ucbess, for wh ich Victor H erbert has w r i tten the mu s ic. M r. Woodsis also presen ting ear ly in the fal l that poignan t play of C iv i l War days , T be LittlestRebel, wh ich has been touch ing Ch icago ’stheatregoers these last mon ths . I n th i s are theFarnums
,W i l l iam and D u stin ,
and that t emarkable ch i l d actress, Mary M i les M inter .I n remoter prospect, O liver Morosco prom
ises G uy Bates Post in R ichardWalton T u l ly ’ sT be Bird of Paradise .
T his i s not,by any means, allof the au tumn
and w in ter production story ; bu t i t i s morethan enough
,we are su re, to convince you
that,i f you love the theatre , you are abou t to
expe rience a del ightfu l and profitable year .
By MARIE L . HARRISONEditor-ia-Chief,
‘
Vogue,"
1 91 1
VVhat a wonderfu l time for Ma
dame and Mademo i se l le ! M ons ieu rw i ll be enchanted by the var iety ofadornment wh ich the so thoughtfu lart i san s of La Bel le France havefash ioned to bedeck his lady !Long
,tight ski rts ; elaborate, bro
caded w raps ; enormou s hats w i l lfascinate him . H igh -buttoned boots ,embroidered stockings , motor and
aviat ion costumes have been spe
cially des igned for th i s year ’ s wardrobe,and all kinds of elaborations
enhance the del ight of femin ineclothes . Cords , fringes , flounces,fu rbe low s all come into the pictu re .
We have a w eal th of new ideasto choose from ,
the beaded si lks ,the embroidered batistes , Frenchmu l l , and broadc loth lend themselves
to the cbic costumes of today . We
even thr i l l when w e see the l in ingsof the coats , more noticeable thanthe coats themselves . As for the
mou rning dresses—what a v i sionthe pretty w idow s w i l l be in thei rlong crepe ve i ls and cl inging frocks ,voluminou s w raps
,fur bordered ,
w i th big match ing mu ffs, in wh ichare carried black -bordered handkerchiefs and gun -metal hand bags .N ewport i s the place to catch the
first w aft of the smart fash ions . T heobserved of all observers w as M i ss
in her cbic tenn i s d ress, a
bodice of batiste w ith a diaphanou sski rt of plai ted voile, w orn over si lkbloomers and no petticoats
,th i s giv
ing her absolu te freedom of movement as she sped abou t the cou rts .T he gir ls envied her the completeemancipation . Copies of th i s sportsdress w i l l su rely be seen on the
cou rts of Forest H i l l s .T he smart femin ine world is ex
c i ted at th i s time of year , as the
French dressmakers lau nch thei rfirst show ings of the mode to come .
M artial et Armand showed some effective w raps of brocade ; one noticeable mode l was of velvet, in dolmanstyle
,almost sleeveless and qu i te
long, the shaw l col lar of satin matching the velvet ; another i s of a beauti fu l qual ity of ch inch i l la, voluminOus in cu t bu t l ight in w e ight, wornover a blue satin gown ,
w ith a
draped ski rt and a long squaretrain ; the on ly ornamen ts, strings ofpear ls .
T he day- t ime coats of Bechoff
D av i d are of zibel ine , velour de
laine, velveteen ,and rough wool s ,
as w e l l as broadcloth ; the model s,qu i te var ied , including a very longcoat, cut w i th raglan sleeves, as w el las the three-quarter length part ofan ensemble, w i th the gown of the
same material .Jenny show ed some afternoon su i ts
that, judging from the“
Ohs and“
Ahs of the audience, created a
sensation . T he most popu lar one
was of dark pu rple broadcloth , a
long straight sk i rt fin i shed w ith twoflat flounces, a narrow panel in front,adorned w i th smal l velvet bow s,from j u st above the flounces to the
w ai st . T he coat cu taway, w i th te
vers and col lar of match ing ve lvet,a h igh - necked batiste blou se, fin
ished in fron t w i th a plai ted jabot .Many were the blou ses shown,
in
batiste, s i lk, crepe, and mousseline,a number of them fin i shed w ith intricate tucks , row s of tiny bu ttons ,insets of lace, and oddly shaped collars . T he hats on the model s wereelaborate , large tu rbans of fur or
velvet, qu ite h igh , or large , low pictu re hats cove red w ith plumes andegrets .
T he smart restau rants are crowdedw ith men and women in even ing
Women are beginning to try the i rw ings . M iss H arr iet Qu inby recen tly received the firs t p i lot ’ s l icense accorded a woman . H er costume wasl ike that worn by men pi lots , w ithhelmet and goggles . Qu i te a crow dwatched the even t . Present weremany femin i sts, who th ink the skyi s the l imi t and anyth ing a man can
do,they can . Among the notables
w ere some very w el l dressed women ,
in tai lored frocks of covert cloth ,
ratine’
,and serge . T he skirts we re
long, abou t fou r inches from the
ground , e i ther box -plai ted all
around or plain back and fron t w i th
dress who have come in to town forfirst n ights
,not on ly to see the plays
but go to the Colon ial where the
best vaudev i l le i s given ,and wh ich
attracts the jeunesse dore’ e whosesartorial effects everyone tu rns to forthe sal ien t featu res of the mode . A
smart model worn by a debu tan te of1 9 1 1 show ed many of the new l inesthat w i l l later become the thing .
T he ski rt was of wh i te satin intricately cut to swathe the figu re, qu i tetight at the knees , and w i th a shorttrain ; the bodice w as of two ma
terials—the lower part of pale yellow ch iffon w i th two poin ts in frontand a smal l square at the back , showing below the rh inestone belt ; theupper bodice of whi te ch i ffon ,
tucked,forming a rou nd decolletage,
edged w i th rh inestones . T he shortsleeves w ere of the yel low ch i ffon .
H er coijfu re was very simple,hai r
softly w aved and drawn to the topof the head w i thou t ornamen ts . T hecostume was fin i shed w i th wh i tesat in sl ippers
,rh inestone buckles ,
and French hee ls .H ats are d ifficu l t ; in thei r se lect ionmuch time shou ld be taken ,
as a
hat makes an impress ion at firstsight
,whereas i t takes some t ime
for the sou l to register ; therefore, itgoes w i thou t saying that the hat
mu st be becoming and the last wordin fash ion . W i th tai lored gown s ofvelour de laine, broadcloth ,
and
other s imi lar mater ials , shown at the
first Par is open ings, large tu rbans,that fitted down on the head , w erew orn ,
w i th velvet br ims tr immedw i th feather banding and uptu rnedbow s of ribbon or taffeta ; also tu rbans Of fu r, w i th a tal l egret heldin place by an ornamen t
,placed di
rectly in front . W ith the elaborateafte rnoon gown s the hats are evenlarger—great d isks of ve lvet trimmed w i th ostrich plumes and com
ing down over the hai r at the s ide ,or cover ing the crown . Paradisefeathers on some effective shapesfol low the l ine of the hat . T he
brims are often irregu lar and fil ledin w i th two- toned ostr ich feathers ,egrets , and othe r fantasies . T hesehats are worn low ,
pu sh ing the hai rover the ears in a becoming manner .
side plaits . T he coats often are cut
away,very much l ike a man 's
,bu t
w i th fancy pockets, , revers, and col
lars . W i th these su i ts w ere wornplain sh i rts with high col lars , inbatiste, l inen ,
or s i lk . T he moreelaborate tailleurs w ere of broadcloth , black faille, or velour de laine,rather d ressy and often w i th longcoats , effectively trimmed w i th intricate braid ing in soutacbe . A Cal lotmode l was in broadcloth w i th a
long skirt,s i lk bod ice to match, and
a fancy three-quarter coat w i th col
lars and cu ffs of s i lk, braided w i thfine gold thread
,also in tr icately
mach ine -s ti tched across the front,wh ich w as held together w i th threelarge bu ttons - the coat cu t aw ayto show part of the ski rt . T he hatwas a tu rban w ith rather a broadbrim trimmed on the left s ide w i thgu l ls w ings .T he afternoon gown s are too adorable
,adorned as they are w i th all
manner of tr immings,to say noth
ing of the corsage bouquets, of
scen ted,artificial flow ers
,and the
cacbe col, of fine batiste, lace- tr immed,
wh ich,worn under the '
coat,
keeps the gown col lar immacu late .
T he pre- season debu tan te teas are
events of sartor ial beau ty , and whatthe mother w ears i s equal ly as important as the gown of the daughter .When the lovely and popu lar
M i ss was in troduced at N ew
port,many w ere the ou tstanding
costumes worn . T he mother ’ s plumcolored ch iffon created a sensation .
T he long skirt was edged w ith fur(Continued on Page 94)
For years we hav e been usin g t his t ruly won derfu l c reamin our Salon . And t he t hin gs it does for thin , dry , t hirst yskins are simply m arve lou s . A few applicat ion s and the
skin looks en tirely diffe ren t . Gon e is all feelin g of t ightn ess. T he skin becomes soft , smooth , pliable . I t t akeson the lus tre and life and healthy glow of you th .
Salon c lien t s hav e spread the word of the effect iv eness
of our D ry Skin M ix tu re . T oday we receiv e orders for it
from all over the coun try an d from abroad . So we hav e
decided t o place it on sale at the bet t er st ores .
D ry Skin M ixture is ev olv ed on an en t irely n ew principle . I t is a blend of four v alu able oils n ev er befo recombined in one cream . I t is alm ost in stan t ly abso rbed .
H ere Dwells You th
B u t it nev er leaves a h in t Of greasy resi du e for i t 'is madewith prac t ical l y n o base at all. T hat is what m akes it solight , able t o refresh th i rst y skin s so swift l y—why itst ext ure is so pleasan t , so diffe ren t from an y thing you haveever applied t o your face .
I f you rs is the kind of skin t hat cann ot stan d heavy ,
greas y c ream s, you w i l l find D ry Skin M ixt ure t he pe rfec tso lu t ion .
D ry skin is m odern woman ’
s greates t beau t y problem .
At least e ight women in e ve r y t en suffer from it . We
earnest ly recomm end t hat you t ry ou r D ry Skin M ixt u re .
I t s result s wil l t ru l y amaze you . I t c os t s on l yPrim rose H ou se , 595 F i fth Avenu e , N ew Yo rk C i ty .
T hese m en are eq u al ly w e l l dressedeq u al ly re fined in appearan c e . T he
differe n c e is that o n e has a bu lg ingbosom shirt , and the o ther w ears the
DO N C H E ST E R , the C lu e t t D ress
Shirt that w il l no t bu lg e .
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FASHIONS(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 92)
and ove r it a matching brocadetunic, cu t back in front to exposethe ski rt . T he V neck and longsleeves were fin i shed w i th du rbesx elace . H er pictu re hat was of plumfaille Frangaz
'
se, l ined w i th a l ightershade—for tr imming, one very tal lplume . (H ats are often worn when
receiving in you r own home, as a
becoming hat often adds style to thecostume . ) T he debu tante wore a
very simple gown of wh i te char
mem e,
ent i rely accord ion -plaited ,the poin ted decolletage, and e lbowsleeves were fin i shed w i th soft foldsof wh i te ch i ffon . O ne of the guestswore a brocaded ch i ffon ve lvet w i than u nderdress of satin most intricately fashioned w ith , side pan
n iers and a short swal low - tai ledtrain
,her hat an enormou s black
velvet tr immed w i th wh i te ostr ichfeathers . H er necklace and earringsw ere of seed pear ls, made in a leftand right design that partly coveredthe lobes of the ears
,from wh ich
hung the long earrings .T he w raps worn over these gowns
w ere charming—one of a lovelyshade of soft red peat: de cygne wasvery recberc/aé, cut three -quarte rlength w i th col lar and cu ffs of fox .
Another was v ery simple,of l ight
w e ight cloth ,the new effect gained
by a w ide stole of sat in worn acrossthe front, crossed at the back and
brought to the front again ,where i t
was fastened , ju st below the wai stl ine
,w i th a large loop and bu tton .
A D recollmodel of r/oarmem e w i thgracefu l ly draped l ines gave styleto the slender figu re of the w earer .N oth ing is more al lu ring than a
pretty woman in the soft c l ingingfolds of a tea gown . One recentlyworn was of chal l is in a pale shadeof blue
,embroi dered w i th tiny pinkrosebuds,the combinat ion of pink
and blue very dainty . Fine laceedged the V n eck and angel sleeves .Another , a ravish ing shade of pink
,
fash ioned in a princess sl ip,was
covered w i th a trail ing gow n of
sheer cream lace—chic beyondwords to describe ; the th i rd was ofsoft i r idescen t taffeta made all in
one w ith a rather fu l l ski rt effect,the low neck and elbow sleeves finished w i th kn i fe-plai ted
,wh ite net .
T he etiquette of mou rning is strictand
, to be cor rectly dressed , nothingmu st be worn that does not con formto the r igid ru les laid down by thespecial i sts . O n ly du l l fin i shed ma
terials of the best qual ity shou ld becons idered . Cheap fabrics in blackare imposs ible . T he gowns are s imply made trimmed w i th bands of
crepe,tucks
,or cording . For the first
six months no wh ite i s worn , ex
cept, perhaps, a l ine of batiste or
chi ffon edging the col lar and cuffs .T he coats are also of du l l mater ial
,
fu rs i f worn,perfectly black . A
w i dow w ears a smal l toque, cove redw i th a crepe vei l
,reach ing to the
wai s t or longer,worn over the face
for the first mon ths . Accessor ies areall black ; the handkerch iefs , blackbordered . For a hu sband or parentdeep mou rn ing i s correct for a year ;
for the fol low ing six mon ths, wh i tei s combined w i th black and crepei s no longer u sed in vei l s or tr imming . For a daughter or son
, sisteror brother, the same dress appl ies .For less close relationsh ips the degree of mou rning is optional . Verydeep mou rn ing is not often worn .
When vei ls are discarded the hatsare made of fel t or si lk, tr immedw i th cre e or du l l gros -
gmz’
n ribbon and lack w ings ; ostrich feathers and velvet shou ld never be worn .
Fu rs shou ld be Persian lamb, lynx,and broadtai l . I f jew el ry is u sed i tshou ld be du l l black, of jet, onyx,or enamel . I n deep mou rn ing ringsare omitted and even earls are not
considered good style by those mostcorrectly dressed . G love s are of
su ede,short mousquetaz
’
re the mostbecoming to the hand ; w alkingboots are of du l l black leather, as
are the other shoes ; the sl ippers areof suede w i th du l l r ibbon bow s orjet buckles . Stockings are black si lk .
Some women have an aversion toblack, and they may w ear pu re wh i tecrepe , charmer/re, car/J emima de soie,and simi lar materials tr immed w i thwhi te crepe . T he shoes, gloves, andother accessories mu st match the
gowns worn and not show a shadeof cream . Su i ts of wh i te Bedfordcord are smart . Remember that wh i temou rn ing i s more conspicuou s andnot so w el l worn in w in ter .
N o wardrobe is complete w i thou tthe latest creations of the French
couturiers who special ize in modernunderwear . A new mode l i s a com
bination of chemise and drawers, inbatiste, embroidered w i th eyelets , atthe neck and knees , through wh ichnarrow ribbon is run . T h i s garmen tfits so perfectly that not a fold isv i sible when worn under the sheerest gowns . N ight dresses to matchare shown ,
w i th elbow sleeves and Vnecks fin i shed w i th eyelet embroidery, fine lace, and big bow s of satinribbon . E very woman who th inksabou t the pe rfection of her in timategarmen ts mu st include w e l l fittingbrafrieref , impeccable corsets
,as
we l l as bed jackets, bou doi r caps,negligees
,and petticoats . H ow w el l
one looks in her gown s depends, toa great exten t
,upon how w e l l the
underthings are made and fitted .
N eckfix ings are an importan t factor in the modes and many are thevarieties . Shadow and maline lace,combined in a deep jabot , fin i shedat the neck l ine w i th narrow blackvelvet r ibbon ,
is a pretty style . Bothwh i te and be ige are u sed ; the lattercombines w el l w i th differen t coloredblou ses and gives a smart touch to a
wh i te si lk w ai st . Batiste, lace, mu l l ,and net fash ion these trifles so nec
essary an addi tion to tai lored gown s .Large feather fan s, variou s hai r ornaments of paradise feathe rs, jewc led bands
,egrets
,and other fan ta
sies are c/J ic accessories for even inggowns . T o wh ich may be addedgold -meshed and beaded bags .
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YE LLOWS T ONE SPE C I ALA L L S I Z E S , F L Y o n B A I T
S ix - strip se lected split bamboo . German sil ver moun tings . So lid cork g rasp.
Solid metal reel seat .frame w ith canvas sack.
Our guarantee :delivered free in U . S .
l hree-
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M oney back if not'
satisfied, charges paid both w ay s .
I f you are a sportsman , fisherman , hunter , camper, canoeis t , ex plorer, prospector, motorist , mou ntain-c l imber, or. m fact , ( lo -any thing out o f doors . youcannot enjoy the possibilities of your chosen hobby w ithou t hav ing; w ith youour Spec ial catalogue on that particu lar sport .We | ) lll) llSll seven catalogs of information
, each one complete in its part icular line . as fol lows :I . T E N T S AN D CAM P OU T F I T S2 . S PO R T SM E N 'S CLOT H I N G . F OOT
W E AR , P E R S ON AL E QU I PM E N T3 . P ACK S AN D P A CK I N G
4 . F I S H I N G'
T ACK L E. 5 . F I R E A R M S . A M MU N I T I ON A
A R M S U N D R I E S0 . b os s7 . W I N T E R S POR T S
l hesc handsome books are more than a mere catalog ue of Sportsmen'
s supplies . T hey are fu l l of information and sugges t ions . T hey are a finalau thority on things you want to know—Where to go. What to wear. Whatto take w ith you . T he book of your favorite sport shou ld be in you r hands .
Some day you w il l suddenly wan t to know 5 0 1 1 1 0“!a about thissport . T his book shou ld be w ithin your reach, as it wil l give the informat ionyou seek . We wan t you to have ir—FRE FL. Fil l ou t the attached couponand send it NO \V.
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R eproduced from an advertisem en t pu blished in 1 91 1
T he first fash ion word for the
au tumn of 1 9 1 1 has been spoken .
All the great hou ses of ParisPoi ret , D oeu illet, D oucet, D recoll,
Redfern ,Mart ial et A rmand , Beer ,
Brand t—have revealed the i r se
crets . Warm though the w eathermay be, i t i s time for u s to take our
minds from ou r fetch ing lingeriedresses w i th thei r lace and em
broidery, the i r pale s i lk sl ips and
ribbon sashes ; to forget our jauntysai lor -col lared racquet dresses and
flower - tr immed , lace - ruffled hats .As though to bridge the gap between summer and w in ter , Paris has
given u s a w ealth of motor cos
rumes . And how importan t they are ,
in these days when motoring hasbecome such a vogue that i t i s anactual fact that women of the fashionable w orld drive the i r ow n electric broughams over the smoothLong Island cou rses and T uxedoPark dr iveways ! For them,
Pari s i smaking steamer rugs into long barrel- shaped coats, w i th deep col larsin back, edged w i th w ide fr inge .
Motor bonnets as deep as a sun
bonnet tie w ith w ide streamers under the ch in ,
and' there are new
enve loping moi st-proof veil s to givethe w earer a del ightfu l sense of se
en t i ty . One all-cover sports coat ofmodish d ist inction i s made of re
v ersible green and mauve satin,handsomely trimm ed w ith cordedsi lk and velvet . 80 strong is the interest in sport that there i s, astou ndingly, one woman av iator ( thoughon ly one ) , M i ss H arriet Qu inby ,who has been given a l icense and
flow n her ow n plane at the G ardenC i ty M eet .T o retu rn to fash ion—su i ts are
another first au tumn need , so let mdescribe one of e legan t refinement .I t i s made of a striped ratiné, w i th a
tr iangu lar panel banded w i th braidat one side of the long straight skirt .Between deep , braided revers coming fu l l to the h ips is a lingerieblou se w i th a h igh -boned
_and em
broidered col lar and a w i de lacejabot dotted w i th tiny black satinbow s . A stove ipe hat of taupefelt w i th a w id
ife velvet band and
buckle , smart h igh -bu ttoned shoes ,and a beaded bag on a tw i sted goldchain complete th i s tailleur.
A second styl ish su i t i s made of
deep blue satin w i th heavy e’ cru lacerevers . T he hat shown w i th it has a
w ealth of marabou on its bow lshaped brim . And let -me warn youhere that you r hats mu st have good ,deep crow ns , coming w el l downover you r ears , i f you are to fee l inthe mode th i s au tumn . E i ther of
these su its w ou ld be perfect cos
tumes to w ear for lunch at the new
hotel on M ad ison Avenu e—theR i tz-Car l ton
,that daring ex periment in hotel l i fe that N ew York
i s watching w i th interest . T he R itz
By EDNA WOOLMAN CHASEManaging Editor, “
Vogue,
Company conducts a chain of hotelsin E u rope and they have importedthe same soft l ights, r ich E asternrugs
,and lei su rely ways . On enter
ing,one can scarcely bel ieve th i s i s
N ew York !Formal clothes w i l l have greatimportance in the coming season ,
wh ich promises to be a gay on e .
T he recent ly announced engagemen t of M i ss M adel ine Force to
Mr. John Jacob Astor has al readybrought abou t plan s for many festivi ties
,as has that of M i ss D orothy
Whitney to M r. W i l lard Straight .T he début of M iss Al ice D rexelw i l l be another importan t reasonfor charming toilettes, and also thatof M i ss H elen T aft, in the Wh i te
1 91 1
H ou se , in Wash ington . T he I n
vestitu re of the Prince of Wales atCarnarvon Castle w i l l mean gaietyin London for smart Amer ican travc lers . A lso, several coming playsforecast an unu sual ly successfu ltheatre season . O ne cal led Boughtand Paid For is rumored to be verydaring ; T he Garden ofAlla/9 is saidto have remarkable sets ; and a mu
sical comedy cal led T he QuakerGirl w i l l have a promising you ngactress named I na C laire playingthe lead . T hen , there w i l l be the
O ctober w edding of M i ss E d ithBrevoort Kane to M r. G eorgeBaker , Jun ior, w i th a flock of partiesin i ts wake, wh ich w i l l probablycreate as much excitemen t as the
important wedding of M i ss Vivian
Paris models of street suits show a new length in coats.The novel use of braid on skirt and jacket distinguishesthe modelat the left , while the pleated frill and vertically
striped panel of the suit at the right are distinctly new.
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u u o ; Q u o i n -c h l n I t 'l l I i J l l l t t l o l ‘ l u I t t e l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l
G ou ld to Lord D eclos last spring .
For all these functions,afternoon
and even ing toilette; mu st be fetching and elegant
,and Pari s has not
disappointed us. T ypical are fou rafternoon costumes . Fi rst, a blacksatin dress w i th a w is of a trainunder an overdress 0 heavy em
broi dered wh i te net, worn w i th a
huge sh i rred velvet hat topped bya tow ering egret . Second
,a mauve
moire’ dress w i th a twelve- inch cu ff
at the hem - l ine,bu ttoned back to
the ski rt . T h i s dress has an eyeletembroidered top cu t l ike a Japanesekimono . T he th i rd costume i s a
royal -blue satin dress w ith a deepvelvet sai lor col lar and a pane l ofw ide velvet r ibbon s fal l ing in backfrom neck - l ine to hem . T he ski rtw i th a short train i s looped up infron t be low the knees and edgedw i th fringe
, on a pleated u nderskirt .And final ly
,for formal recep
tions,a tiered costume alternating
bands of fur,lace, and ve lvet—from
the fur band that forms a tight collar at the neck to the band of velvetj u st clearing the ground . You w i l lfind th i s at J . M . G i dd ing ’ s new
store, and models simi lar to the
other at H enessey’
s,H ol lander ’ s ,
and Ku rzman’
s .
E ven ing clothes have never beenmore tastefu l . T he re i s a modishw rap at one hou se—the low er partof wh i te brocade, the top of heavylace over satin vei led w i th chiffon
and tr immed w i th bands of mink .
Its voluminou s folds might w el lcover a costume des igned to w ear atM rs. Mackay ’ s tableau benefit forthat much -discu ssed fad, WomanSuffrage . One engaging dress i s ofch iffon embroidered w i th bugles ,over wh i te silk w el l dotted w i th ap
pliqued passementerie roses . BouéSceurs has th i s, and i t wou ld makean adorable costume to w ear toAida in wh ich the popu lar tenor ,E nrico Caru so
,fu l ly recovered from
his attack of grippe, w i l l s ing.
Bu t smart though these costumesmay be, i t i s the l ittle th ings thatmake a woman look real ly w el ldressed . So th ink of these detai l swhen you p lan you r au tumn wardrobe : Charlotte Corday hats , deepcrowned and enveloping ; embroidered stockings, openwork in front ;Empire wai stl ines (bu t a l i ttle lowerthan they have been ,
w i th a h int thatwe may actual ly retu rn to nearlynormal wai stl ines in another sea
son ) long stoles of black maraboudotted w i th tu fts of wh i te ostrich ;malines around you r pompadou r bynight, w i th a huge bow at one side ;tapestry sets of hat, muff, and bag,
in be ige,green
,and gold
,trimmed
w i th brown skunk and bouqu ets ofpink satin roses . T hese are the de
tai ls that w i l l make you a wel ld ressed woman of 1 9 1 1 .
Paris, ju ly, 1 9 1 1
I n the mad scramble of the ci ty'sstreets in the French capi tal today,one cannot bu t be impressed by thefact that the women on dress paradeare of two types—those w ho dressin exaggerated styles and those whorefu se to accept freakish extremes .One may, however , always be su rethat the former are not qu i te the
best people, in the right sense of
the word .
W e hasten to tel l you that themode has changed bu t l i ttle . Ski rtsremain scan t, except for even ingw hen they show de l ightfu l , fri l ledruffles
,gathered wai st bands, and
garlands of flowers . M any are
draped,bu t not in the h ideou s
fash ion of our grandmothers ’ day.
T o look w e l l the new ski rt mu st beposi tioned correctly : cu t and hu ngin l ines true w i th the grain of the
material . B ias cu tting i s creeping into the mode , bu t great cau tion shou l dbe u sed in adopt ing i t .T he proper ski rt length i s j u st
show ing the tip of the shoe,though
the new shorter ones wh ich almostreveal tr im ankles are agreeablyadapted to the longer str ide of the
new w oman .
Fabrics are inconce ivably l ight,though su i table for cold w eatherclothes . Serges are heavy and soft
,
some in plai ds wh ich are almostgaudy
,w e regret to note . E ven ing
fabrics were never before so w on
drously w rought . T affeta and satinare on the pinnacle of fash ion !Wool -back sat in w i l l hold i ts ownand shaded satins are r ich and ex
quisite—some shaded in the i r enti re
w idth,some in w ide stripes .
Very heavy plu shes in seal, cara
cul, and astrakhan are much u sedfor coats , often tr immed w i th lace .
Wh ite plu sh for even ing w i l l be verystyl i sh .
Colors are evoking a storm ! Br ickand terra cotta w i l l be good , bu t forhou se and street w ear soft
, neu tralt ints w i l l prevai l
,gaiety be ing con
fined to tr immings and l in ings .Strong O rien tal colorings are seenfor even ing
,w rought in to Japanese
,
E gyptian,and Ch inese des ign s .
Pau l Poi ret i s a dangerou s rebe l !H e i s color mad ! H e combines blueand pu rple, even red and pu rple
,
ach ieving v iolen t,noi sy resu l ts . H is
colors are h i deou s, barbaric ! I n the
opin ion of M r. Worth and of you rPari s corresponden t they are on lyfit for savages . As M r. Worth says
,
are we then to ride on came ls andostriches as the nex t step ?Bu t these daring color ings seem
to be on the point of invadingundergarments and even—corsets .We have al ready heard that certainwomen have adopted corsets of bri ll iant colors , such as emerald green
,
B i shop 's pu rple , tangerine, and
flame . T hey c aim that in the new
corset models , made w i th the d iscrect whole back, lacing down the
front, these gayly colored garmentstrimmed w i th rich lace and vei ledby foamy yards of mom seline deroie , u sed as figu re drapery
,suggest
a molded undercorsage . We quest ion whether American ladies w i l lagree w i th them , and need w e beconce rned w i th the
"
others ?
Our new and keen interest in aviation, originating with
Bleriot’
s channelflight of two years ago, is ex erting an im
portant influence on our present-clay fashions
—one which
our artist has whimsically , but truthfully , here portrayed.
By KATHLEEN HOWARDOne- time Fashion Editor, “
Harper’
s Bazaar
Wh i le on the subject of corse tsthe new ones are the " longest ever,reach ing almost to the knee . But
they admi rably su stain the mu sclesagain st weariness and have great t efinement of ou tl ine . A new bu stform we were priv i leged to glimpsein secret gives a fu l l , shapely bu st .I t is a series of shirred ruffles downto the wai st . I t cannot be detected bysight or touch
,and i s l ight, san i tary,
and refined . I t develops as natu re intended .
B lack and wh i te are seen in real lyqueer combinations for the womanwho prefers to be pecu l iar . We saw
one striking dress of soft, sh in ingwh i te satin w i th a single breadth of
black velvet forming a small trainandmou nting to the shou lder blades .T he fron t of the corsage was a massof lace, satin ,
and ch iffon,hel d by
one great black rose . Another blackrose held the clu ste r fu l lness of theski rt at the knee . For the older woman black and wh i te i s appropriate,whi le her eyes wou ld be dimm ed bythe w earing of glaring colors
,her
complexion th ickened by associationw ith inharmon ies . D o not forgetthat her l ined face is indicative of
w ide r experience,con trasting favor
ably w i th you th ’ s uncertain ty and
immatu ri ty,and she may w e l l be
come a“moon lady” when garbed
in black and wh i te .
More extra hai r w i l l be neededth i s w in ter and tr iple sw i tches andextra puffs mu st be added to fill in
the hol low s under w ide, sweepingbrims . Any good mai l -order housew i l l be happy to send extra hair onapproval i f you l ive in smal le r towns,and w i l l glad ly al low you to retu rn
it i f found u nsu itable in anxiou smomen ts spen t before the mirror .O h clear ! T he hats ! In stead of thecozy l i ttle ones w e u sed to pu l l downsnugly
, the new ones are worn uph igh
,w i th bands and barettes . Bu t
at least pretty faces and hai r are no
longer h i dden , as of yore . W i l lowplumes are passing ou t of favor andnatu ral ostrich feathers are dyed inharmon iou s blends in complementing colors . P lumes are always fashionable and may be u sed w inter andsummer . T he plumed hat worn w i ththe tai lored su i t con tinues to arou sestorms of protest
, bu t even the
severest cri t ic mu st admit that thecharm of a plumed hat l i fts themascu l in e tai lored su i t to the h igherplane of femin in i ty.We saw a smal l toque, not morethan fou rteen inche s across
,w i th a
crow n covered w i th a Venetian lacestretched over wh i te satin . B ronzevelvet was draped round the crownand the whole was redolen t of an
old fash ioned garden w ith i ts clu sterof huge pale - tinted roses gracingthe s ide fron t . Flower toque; are
seen covered w i th gian t s i lk roses indaring i ri s pu rple w i th pink cen ters—the crowns a mass of swirledtu l le . T he roses are sometimes t eplaced by snowball s or hydrangeaswh ich add fou r to e ight inches tothe u sual tw elve inches of the smal ltoque . B rims are w i der than las tyear
,in sweeping l ines .
For the matinee, M i lady w il l weartu rbans of tu l le , often in blackbound w i th strips of diamond and
pear l embroidery and su rmounted byh igh egrets or great bunches of
feathers . T hey come down to the
eyes and cover the hai r, alas ! bu tthey are more merci fu l to the one
who s i ts beh ind than the w idebrimmed hat
,and w e w elcome them .
T he flow er pot shape i s fetch ing .
For the aging woman of fiftyfive w i th bu t l i ttle hai r a smal l
,
close ly fitt ing bonnet i s singu larlyd ign ified . We saw one tr immed w ithblack lace w i red in to flaring w ings
,
bound w i th satin and sew ed w ithsequ ins . A huge garden ia held th i sin place on the bonnet proper
,wh ich
was of black velvet, faced w i th a
sc in ti l lat ing garn i tu re of s anglesand jet, in r ich ly e legan t effect .A gracefu l motoring bonnet was
seen in pale v iolet mousseline de
soie, w ith a fou r inch pu rple border .T wo points of the ve i l hung to theheel s in the back and two to the
wai st in fron t, each tipped w i th pu rple si lk tassels . Sl ip the arms throughthe fron t folds, and off you go !Qu i te in place here i s a beau tyhin t we picked up in the gay Frenchcapital . Let us wh isper i t to you .
It is a new face wax wh ich qu ietsthe nerves, and i f worn wh i le motoring preven ts the strain ing of the
facial mu scles habi tual to add icts ofth i s sport. Being of flesh color i t i snot obse rvable under ch i ffon ve i ling even to the slyest Peeping T ombes ide you .
D ame Fash ion decrees O rien talhai r bands of tu l le and beads foreven ing w ear . M i lky pearls sewn on
pale blue tu l le in fancy des igns,
w i th pearl tasse ls ju st beh ind l i ttleears
,are enchan ting when w orn
across sh in ing,w el l washed hai r .
T he tai lored su i t shou ld have theleast poss ible garn i tu re . A tiny clu ster of moss rosebuds may be wornin the lapel as a concess ion to the
woman ’ s touch . Col lars shou ld not
be fanc i fu l , though long, pointedback col lars w i th revers give the
coats a charmingly w oman ly appearance, so much more feminine thanthe mann i sh, notched col lar . A soft,lacy guimpe or a fetch ing B ru sse lsnet w ai st are D ame Fash ion ’ s favorites w i th th i s garment .Bu tton boots w ith cloth tops are
correct and stockings are in black ortan
,w i th wh i te, pink, or sky for
even ing .
T he r ichness of -fu r-edged stoles,
the middle stri fil led in w ith corded s i lk or chili
a
on in pastel shades ,edged w i th a three- inch ruffle
,when
tw i sted abou t the neck and crossedsoftly over the bosom, can on ly beimagined .
And now for the exci ting l i tt letouches every woman loves ! I t i squ i te the th ing to have you r handbag match you r motoring coat andbonnet . T hey are often in large en
velope shapes of fancy tapestry or
brocade,w i th straps that sl ing the
bag from the shou lders almost tothe heels .Afternoon gown s are adorned
w i th exotic splendors of garden iasor orchids made of satin and velvet,wh i le evening gowns are w reathedand festooned w i th gauze roses oraudaciou s satin berries .N ext month w e shal l tel l you of
the" good time” dresses and rest
robes for M i lady’ s boudoi r w e saw
in naughty,frivolou s Paree !
H E most modern of New York’
s newest
stores is now completed Fifth Av enue
at 38th S t reet .
T he new establishmen t is impressiv e lyspacious and offers ev ery serv ice , comfort
and conv enience that m ode rn store
keeping and modern s tore bu ilding can
dev ise .
Many new depar tments have been added. Ou r magnifi
cent assemblage includes the mos t complete col lection s o f
Women ’ s M is ses ’ suits , cos tumes, w raps ,fu r s , wais t s , mil linery , unde rwear, corset s ,handke rch iefs , neckwear and novel ties .Complete as sor tment s o f ch i ld ren's appareland in fan t s ' layet te s .T he s ty les have been c reated by the lead
ing E u ropean d res s -ar t i s t s and the bes t talent among the American makeT he moderate prices wh ich have madeth i s hou se ’ s popu larity in the pas t w il l bemaintained in the fu tu re .
A co rd ial invitation is extended to everyone to in spec t the new s to re .
FIFT H AVE N U E at 38 th ST R E E T
N EW YORK
R eprodu ced from an advertisemen t of B onw it , T eller {7 Co . pu blished in 1 91 1
By MARION C. TAYLORShopping Editor, “
The Smart Set, 1 91 1
in Disraeli
R eprod uced from on adt 'ert isemen t pu blished in 1 9 1 1
I have heard of all sorts of wonderful conven iences oflered by department stores, and all sorts of
wonderfu l th ings sold by them . Bu t
i t d id su rpri se me a l i ttle the otherday when tol d I might soon buy a
Cu rtiss - type aeroplane j u st as eas i lyas tw o spools of s i lk . N ow I don ’ tsuppose for a momen t that there i sgo ing to be any great ru sh in thatdepartmen t, or any bargain sales inaeroplanes j u st yet . I t is a l i ttle tooearly to expect that . Bu t the fact thata departmen t store is invi ting itspatron s to buy an aeroplane is a
practical example of up- to-next-w eekbu s iness methods in vogue today .
M ore in teresting to most people,except as a scien tific marvel
,i s the
everyday problem of a perfectman icu re . Few people are fortunateenough never to have had the cu ticleof the i r nai ls cu t . Most of u s
,I th ink
,
George Arliss
T h e cu rtain will rise ; and accen ts
fa llU pon min e ear with wonder and
de light ,M y heart will glow with Vision s,
all bedight
With hon est dram a which willm e
en thral.I kn ow the M aster
’s c loak that
G eo rge willwearWill s tand him in good stead, e lseI m istake
T he n oble he igh t o f words that hehath spake .
in cotton or l i s le . T he combination sin Ital ian si lk , wh ich many peoplewho wear corsets in bath ing prefer ,are
B ril lian t colors, certain ly a crazeof th i s season ,
are reflected in the
new hosiery . A beau ti fu l shade of
apple-green si lk show s a w ide wh i teclocking ( three or fou r l ines of
embroidery ) . For hou se w ear w i th a
wh i te costume, there are flesh -colorstockings w i th the same clocks ofapple green . B lack stockings are
beau t i fu l w i th clocks of pu rple,bright blue
,or red—for red sl ip
pers are going to be as popu lar as
real i ze that this i s necessary to a
perfect nai l . Bu t,un fortunate ly, the
practi se of cu tting the cu ticle,i f
once begun , i s practical ly imposs ibleto stop , and a hard and rough skinresu lts . N ow
, how ever , there i s a
qu ick remedy that is almost magical,
i t produces the des i red resu lts so
qu ickly . I t is a l i qu i d ; and if appl iedfai thfu l ly, it w i l l dry up the deadskin so complete ly that there i s nofu rther need for sci ssors . I t i s goingto be a success
,for there has long
been a demand for such a th ing .
I cannot say I have noticed anydist inct innovations in bath ing su i tsthi s season ,
u n less i t be the grow ingtendency toward brighter colors
,and
the gradual doing away of the old
bloomers and the substi tu tion of
tights . T he tights to the knee,to
wear in stead of bloomers, are
N o su rer the spian is fou nd e lsewhere .
T he pagean t , wov’n from an E m
pire’s m ight ,
M u s t tru ly be a pr ide and joy to
her.
Who e lse bu t A r liss weaves thesilv er spe ll
O f pomp and circum stance? You
m u st con cu r.
I t is no t o ft that we , his lis ten ers ,may dwe llWithin the sacred wal ls of H isMajesty
’s de ligh t .—
_PE N E LO PE D E VAU GH AN
e ver du ring the remainder of the
summer season . A sel f - tone em
broi dered si lk, w i th l i sle tops and
soles comes in black,wh i te , tan
,
pink,and sky-blu e at n inety-five
cen ts a pair .Su i ts are always in teresting . Mme .
Paqu in show s one in l inen of a
beau ti fu l warm fuchs ia shade , a
new color th i s season,and a fav
ot i te of hers . T he skirt i s carriedup into one of the new h igh gird lespoin ted at the left side under thebu st
,and has a band of wool
embroi dered flowers looking likeold- fash ioned sampler work . T he
R eprodu ced from advertisemen ts pu blished in 1 91 1
When N atu re had finished pain tingthe flow ers
,co loring the rainbow and
dyeing the plumage of the birds, she
sw ept the co lors from her palette and
mou lded them in to B lack Opals.
T his may be a lit t le fancifu l , bu t it isno ex aggeration of the beau ty and
marve l of these gem s. Some ston es are
as soft in tone as the iris on the neck
of a clove,o thers as rio tou s in co lor
as a D u tch garden in spring .
M arcu s 8 1 Co .
J ewe lers and G o ldsm iths5 th Aven u e and 45th S treet , N ew York
Observations on our present day mores
By CAROLINE DUERWorld-Renowned Authority on E tiquette
Sensational new spapers, when theyhave noth ing sensational to report,are very apt to take a fling at the
w eaknesses and w ickednesses of
strange beings known to them as“ society women who, according tohearsay
,spend thei r time gambling,
smoking,and swearing .
T o us society means our friends ,and the friends of our friends . Letus assume that to the new spapers i tmean s those persons who en tertain,
or are en tertained,most profu se ly
du ring a N ew York season and pro
ceed to inquire into the accu sationsagainst the feminine portion of it .
I t wou ld be absu rd to deny thatwhen the craze for bridge wh i st firstpassed over the commu n i ty, thosewho w ere most interested in the
game thought and talked abou t it agreat deal . Bu t any game wh ich becomes what
,for wan t of a better
word,may be cal led “ fash ionable,
inevi tably excites di scu ssion . T he
ch ief obj ection s u rged against bridgewhist seemed to be that i t confined
its devotees to the hou se and in
volved the losing or the w inn ing ofmoney . G ran ted that certain afternoons and even ings are given up to
the game , and certain sums changehands
,why shou ld it be a more
heinou s offense for women to playat cards than for men ? I f i t is no
disgrace for a young man to play agood game of poker, why shou ld i tbe a crying shame for a young woman to be an adept at bridge wh i st ?T he on ly danger l ies in ex cess .Fu rthermore
,recreation wh ich
trains the mind and memory is not
to be undu ly sneered at . Manywomen play frequently, bu t formodcrate stakes ; many play on ly occa
sionally, and for no stakes at all;
some play constantly and for h ighstakes, bu t they make no secret of i tand nobody is u nder any obl igationto join them un less so disposed .
Smoking and sw earing seem to bethe nex t charges on the l i st . T hereis no old- fash ioned horror abou t thefirst in these days
, but a great many
American men have a fee l ing againstsee ing thei r w ives and s i sters smokein publ ic. A few gi rls make . a fad
of i t, and indu lge, qu i te regu larly, ina pu ff or two afte r lunch and dinner,bu t w i th not one woman in a hun
dred does i t become a fixed habit !T here are some hou ses in N ew Yorkwhere cigarettes are handed to the
w omen,after meal s, as cigars are to
the men ,bu t they are rare ly taken . It
i s the exception ,not th e ru le
,though
it is safe to say that fewer and few erhostesse s wou ld be shocked by it .
T he sw earing accu sation is diflfi
cu l t to con trovert on ly becau se i t isimposs ible to imagine that anybodyhonest ly bel ieves i t . I f w el l bredwomen u se bad language they mu stdo i t privately. T hey might, indeed ,find a preceden t in H arry H otspu r ’ sinvocation to Lady Percy : N ot you rsin good sooth !H eart, you sw ear l ikea comfit -maker ’ s w i fe ! '
I n goodsooth ,
’
and‘
As true as I l ive Sw earm e, Kate, l ike a lady as thou art
,a
good mou th -filling oath and leave‘
in sooth' to Sunday ci tizen s . " Bu t inthese more pol i shed days, the new spapers to the con trary, oaths seemto have been left for the use of"
Sunday cit izen s,
and ladies in general do not garn i sh the i r conversation w i th cu rses and maled iction s .I w i l l not go so far as to affirm
that such w ords as the deuce “
the
dev i l ,” and even damn,
havenever passed the l ips of any woman
who moves in decen t society. T he
charge that i t i s " fash ionable, " or
" smart,to use the violen t expres
sions quoted in the new spapers i stoo ridicu lou s to be worth the trouble of con tradicting .
According to one article, awomani s reported as saying to her hostessthat “ i t was so damned col d she
w ou ld not have left her own hou seto go to any other than the one she
was then in . Wh i le not in the leastdenying the accu racy of the reporter
’
s statemen ts in regard to the particular dinner party he men tions(where, later, the same word “ rattledround the table two or three times,and coffee
,hot as hel l , was served
to one un fortunate lady ) , one mayv en tu re to protest agains t the in troduction of free - tongued females astypes of the ”society w oman .
”
I n every ci ty as large as N ew Yorkthere come together certain ci rcles ofpeople who see more of each otherthan of any other ci rcle of people,though they may all be revol ving inthe same general d i rection . I n each
.of the ci rcles,from th e h ighest to
the lowest, there w i l l always besome person s to whose manners andmoral s exception may be taken ; butto con side r all w omen in societyprofane becau se one w oman saysdamn , or allw omen gamblers be
cau se one boasts of her w inn ings,
i s as absu rd as to say that all menare greedy for fru i t becau se Adamate a forbidden apple .
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( Top to Bot tom)
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HE March of T im e is on the air !
First , a thril ling scen e from a col
lision at sea—fou r m in u tes and ten sec
ouds for this . Now a dramatic debate in
the E ng lish Hou se of Comm ons—threem in u tes , fifty seconds . E very second isvital—for at the report of a Far
E as tern earthqu ake is schedu led !T ime is thevery essence of“TheMarch
of T im e”—of every radio program. I n
fact, wherever in today ’
s wor ld accu rate
tim e is importan t , there you wil l find a
Hamil ton . T he radio direc tor in the control room , the pilot gu iding the gian t
tran sport plane , the engineer of the
stream lin ed express—all of them keepone eye on their trustworthy Hamiltons .
Rem ember that every Ham il ton is
cased in the highest quality platinum ,
so lid gold or go ld fi l led; that eve ryHam il ton con tain s 1 7 or more fin e jewels . How abou t that watch you
’
re wearing today
? I s it dependab ly accurate—asmart accessory ? I f n ot, s ee the Hamilton s your jew e ler is displaying , or writefor our ill u s trated fo lder. Hamilton
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COU RT CS Y OF VOG U E
from Savile Row and Fifth Avenue
By HARFORD POWEL
Sometime Editor, “Harper
’
s Bazaar
R eproduced from advertisem en ts published in 1 91 1
1 08
We m en are being pain ted gayerbi rds than w e shal l stru t !"I t was a Major in the Coldstream
who made this remark to me overa tumbler of shandygaff on D el
mon ico’ s roof—one of the coolestspots in town . T he Major ’ s eye hadbeen caught by the display in a
tai lor ’ s w indow of mater ials forlounge su i ts wh ich u nhappily included brick reds, smoke blues, andsometh ing nearer pu rple than goodtaste al low s . E ver s i tice the Regencyin E ngland , certain tailors have tried
to tempt us into brighter plumage .
’
T is true that on dress parade the
G uardees are gaudy bi rds , bu t on lya bounder has recou rse to gaudinessin mu fti .T he restrain ed distinction of dark
grays and blues is conventional, andthe conven tions w ere establ ished forou r comfort . N o man who
" belongs"w i l l ever become a walking adver
tisement for fabrics that scream,or
for such eccentr ici ties as paddedshou lders
, peg- top trou sers, queerly
placed bu ttons, and so forth . A
T E C LA
PAR IS N E W Y O R K LON DON
1 0 Rue do I n Pai x 398 F i fth Avenue 7 Old Bond St reetN o other B ranches or Agen ts
R eprodu ced from adve rtisemen ts published in 1 91 1
tow n ; we w i l l prefer ou r trou sers tobe fin ished w i thou t pistol pocketsor cuffs ; we w i l l con tinue to demonstrate the neatness of h igh
,white
,
heavi ly starched col lars w i th narrowopen ings in front ; and w e w i l l leavetweeds and homespuns to the
grou se-moors where they be long .
When in doubt,dear country
cou sin, con tinue to patron i ze Poole,H oare
,Lock , et cetera, in London ,
and B el l,B rooks B rothers
,Budd
,
Knox, S later , and j u st a few othersin N ew York w hose labels you see
in the atti re of you r w el l dressedkinsmen in town . I am assuming
,
natu ral ly, that you requ i re you r sacksu i ts, formal clothes, overcoats, hats,sh i rts, boots, and gloves to be cus~tom made from you r measu rements .“
Bu t,
”
you may say," I cannot con
veniently come to London or N ew
York for fittings . Are not the clothiers of Bal timore
,Boston
, or Chi~cago to be tru stedN ow I cannot answ er such a ques
tion from experience, bu t I believethe answer is in a cau tiou s affirmative, provided you know exactlywhat you want . H ere ST AG E i s of theh ighest importance to you . I t is perhaps the on ly magazine which doesnot have to pose some w retchedartist ’ s mode l” in the newest importation from Sav i le Row . Merelytu rn to one of ST AG E ’
s frequ en t photographs of M r. John D rew ( there
is one, for instance, on page 54 of
th i s number ) and bid you r prov incial tai lor copy ex actly what he sees .I f the fel low refu ses to " play thesedu lou s ape
”in reproducing the
precise l ines of M r. D rew 's lou ngesuit—or ofM r. John Mason ’ s equally excel lent dress suit
,show n on
page 49—then by all means I adv i se you to buy ready-made th ings,and tu rn a deaf ear to the blandishments of the coun try or smal l - towntai lor
,w i th his fearfu l style sheet
hanging on the wal l .M r. D rew is
,indeed
, the on lystyle sheet a w el l d ressed man re
qu i res . T he photograph on page 54show s him in a momen t of extremeemotional stress, hav ing j u st sweptthe cap off a parlormai d whom hesuspects (and rightly ) of hav ingbeau ti fu l hai r . B ut you w i l l notethat even in th i s strenuou s momen t,his col lar show s clearly at the backof his neck, and his cufis are displayed evenly at his w rists . T heseare trifles, accord ing to some men .
But they are the " tremendou s trifles”of all good tai loring . T he man who
achieves such d istinction—who is a
snapper-up of all such trifles—is always wel l d ressed
,wel l pressed
,and
i f he so desi res it,w el l caressed .
Wh ich is, I take i t, the moral ofevery good romantic play .Answers to Correspondents
B . J . L .,W ich i ta Fal ls—T he cor
rect costume for the groom at an
afternoon w edding has been de
scribed many times on these pages .Please consu lt the files of ST AG E at
you r local Y . M . C . A . or G range .
T . T . Brockton .—See answ er to
B . J . L . above .
W . R . S . ,N ew York—A King of
E ngland has undoubted influence onfash ion , yet we doubt i f the fad of
having one ’ s trou sers p ressed at the
sides , instead of up and down the
fron t,w i l l become omnipresent in
America.
G . J . R . ,Providence—Inqu iry at
one of N ew York ’ s smartest steamlaundries indicates that pajamas arenow preferred to n ightsh i rts in the
rat io of to 1 . We shou ld advi seyou ,
however, to give vent to you rpersonal preferences in th i s not veryimportan t matter .
A smart shirt for informal evening
dress, with small tucks in front.
R eprodu c t ion of T écla m agaz ine adve r t isem en t , 1 936
Sin ce T écla’
s first adv ertisem en t was pu blished, m ore
than 25 years ago , the T écla tradition has n ev er
chan ged. T he n am e has always been a syn onym for the
fin est of it s kind
W e made ou r w ay to the stud ioof the Amer ican B iograph Com
pany,w hose films have become
noted for the i r good taste and dra
mat ic mi rroring of l i fe , at 1 1 E astFou rteenth Street . T he rooms of
th i s old brow nstone front" w erefi l led w i th bits of scenery, cameras ,and actors w hose names w e w i shw e w ere permi tted to tel l you . I n the
midst of the hu rly- bu rly w e talkedw i th the ch ief d i rector , M r. D avidWark G riffi th , a s lender Ken tuckianw i th the eyes of a dreamer and t hefirm jaw of a man of action ,
who
can make those dreams real it ies .We w ere not su rpri sed to find M r.
G riffi th a fanat ical bel iever in the
great fu tu re of the screen play,as he l ikes to cal l i t .
" I am del ighted that ST AG E i srecogn iz ing the grow ing importanceof the motion pictu re as a new art
for such i t i s , despi te the scofiers,
said M r. G riffi th . T rue, i t i s in itsin fancy , bu t i t has made tremendou sstrides in the past few years , and
i ts progress is on ly beginn ing . T h i sspring M r. C layton H amilton ,
the
dist ingu i shed cri tic, sai d that themot ion pictu re is a more se rviceablestory- tel l ing medium than the stageplay
,ow ing to its greater freedom
in space and time .
What ou tstanding developmen tsdo you anticipate in motion pic
tu res in the fu tu re, M r. G riffi th ?O ur greatest need at present is
better stor ies, sai d the di rector . So
far we have been conten t to film the
most e lemental fragmen ts of humanexperience and conflict . N ow I fee lthat the camera i s ready to pain tlarger canvases . T here is no reasonwhy the motion pictu re shou ld not
tel l a real ly great story in fou r, five ,or even more reels . W i th improvedtechn ical apparatu s and the steadydeve lopmen t of ou r art istic re
sou rces,I expect to se e screen
plays that run an hou r or tw o . As
you know ,w e have recen tly filmed
E noch Arden in two parts , and theVitagraph Company has made AT ale of T wo Cities in three.
”
"
You have recen tly brought you rcompany back from a w in ter insou thern Cal i forn ia
,M r. G r iffith .
W i l l you tel l ou r readers someth ingconcern ing the su i tabi l i ty of that
Sir :We of the real w est are greatly distressed by the antics of theseN ew Jersey you ths who pretend tobe cow boys in w estern pictu res madeback east . T hey moun t the i r steedsfrom the w rong side
,thei r horses
often have bobbed tai ls,and thei r
sadd le equ ipmen t i s far better su i tedto an eastern brid le path than to
riding the range . We even see dow ncast rai l fence s ! Can w e not havew estern pictu res made in the realwest ?T ucson ,
Arizona. G . F. H E SS
An Interview with
By LEONARD HALL
C U LV ERDavidWark Griffith and his cameraman, Billy Bitzer.
coun try formotionpicturepu rposes ?" I found the vicin i ty of Los
Angeles qu ite i deal , sai d M r. G rif
fith . T he cl imate i s equable, therei s a great deal of sun sh ine, and
scen ic backgrounds of every descrip
orrespSylv ia M .
,E rie
,Pa.
—T he num
ber of question s you submit indicates that you are indeed an ardentfol lower of the screen . T hat wasH enry Wal thal l in T he Commandfrom Galilee . T he young lady inKalem
'
s T he Bolted D oor is Al iceJoyce . T he girl to whom you referin Pathe
’ s T he U nseen Complication i s Pearl Wh i te . She lays therole of the professor ’ s daughter .Mabel N ormand was Betty in B ettyB ecomes a M aid, Vi tagraph . Su relyif you w ere the con stan t reader you
tion are w i th in easy reach . You
may remember some qu i te charmingli ttle fisher- folk tales
,such as T he
M ender of N ets, wh ich w e filmedon the shore of the Pacific. Fiveother compan ies
,as you no doubt
profess to be you wou ld know thatB iograph does not make publ ic thenames of its players !Margaret G . , Scran ton ,
Pa.
—We
cannot tel l you whether or not
Mary Pickford and Owen Mooreare real ly in love. We do not desi reto pry into the activi ties of our
player fr iends away from the studio .
We bel ieve that the publ ic receptions for Mau rice Costel lo and
Florence T u rne r are sti l l being held .
Address the Vi tagraph Company,Brooklyn , N . Y .
,for detai ls .
Sir : I have w r itten several scenar ios for motion pictu res . What domot ion pictu res compan ies pay forthese ?
G . B . S .
Cohoes, N . Y .
Ans—We are told that prices forsubmitted scenarios range from five
dol lars to one hundred dol lars . We
shou ld not adv i se you ,as a begin
ner, to expect more than ten dol larsapiece for you r efforts—if, indeed ,you are able to sel l them .
As ou r readers well know,this m agazine is dedicated
to the dev elopm en t of the theatre, m u sic,and the other
high en tertainm en t arts . Bu t it is becom ing increasinglyev iden t to though tful observ ers of the scene theatricalthat the frequ en tly derided motion pictu re is destinedto fill an increasingly important place in the world of
popu lar en tertainm en t . So much so,in fact
,that the
makers of this magaz ine hav e decided to ex plore fu rtherin to the facts and the fu tu re of this young bu t prom isingindustry . Will it becom e an art ? Who knows?We hav e sen t ou r M r . L eonard H allto in terv iew M r .
D av id Wark G riffi th,one of the more ambitiou s of the
younger m en in the indu stry ; and are happy to be priv i
leged to present to you this v ision of the m otion pictu re ’sfu ture—E D .
know ,shared our pleasant ex peri~
ences in Cal i forn ia last w inter . I amseriou sly con sidering establ i sh ing a
permanen t company there,largely
to make ou tdoor pictu res ."
What do you th ink is the ch iefdi fference between acting for the
stage and for the motion pictu re ,M r. G riffi th ? "
E xperience has taught me thatwe are forced to deve lop a new
techn ique of acting before the camera. T he people who come to me
from the theatre u se the qu ick, broadgestu res and movements wh ichthey have employed on the stage,but wh ich appear annoyingly forcedand u nnatu ral an the screen . I amtrying to develop real i sm in pic
tu res by teach ing the value of de
l iberation and repose .
We w ere natu ral ly very cu riou sto know why M r. G riffith does notpermit the names of his B iographplaye rs to be know n to the publ ic.
” I strive to submerge the actor ’ spersonal i ty in the drama he i s playing . O f cou rse
,many of my players
have been lu red away by other compan ies, notably l i ttle M iss P ickford ,a very young actress of great abi l i tyand charm . Bu t those who come tome mu st be con ten t to forego th i spersonal men tion for the good of
the ventu re . I t is a matte r of espritde corps . And of cou rse"—here thedirector ’ s eyes tw inkled—“
if myactors saw thei r names and faces inprin t constant ly, they might demanda great deal more money !”We left the bu sy h ive on Fou r
teenth Street convinced that w e hadmet a strong creative personal i ty . A
dreamer ? U ndoubtedly . A visionary
? Perhaps . Certain ly M r. G r iffi thmay be cal led a practical prophet,who is facing and solving the problems of a new arti stic medium as
they arise .
T he motion pictu re i s , as M r.
G riffith poin ts ou t, in i ts in fancy .
Yet one by one the skept ics are being conv inced of i ts possibi l it ies asa method of tel l ing stories wh ich i sunhampered by the cramping l imitations of the dramatic stage . Whocan tel l to what heights i t mayrise, under the leadersh ip of suchmen as M r. G riffi th , in the nextfew years ?
C U LVERMiss Mary Pickford and Mr. Lionel Barrymore in‘
TheNewYorkHat, nowin the processofproduction.
Chats with three motion-
picture playersand a description of their adventures
in the unreal life of the moving fotos.
By PAULINE GALE
R eprod u ced from. advertisemen ts published in 1 91 1
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I t was not many days ago that M i ssMary Pickford , better known as
"
Lit
tle Mary,
”as she i s dubbed in the
subti tles, remarked to her closestfr iend
,M i ss L inda Arvi dson :
“ I f I remain in the movies I knowI w i l l j u st be ru ined for the stagethe acting is so di fferen t—and I never use my voice. D o you th ink it w i l lhu rt me if I stay in pictu res anylonger ?T he question is a good example
of the worr ies of clever stage peopleat th i s time, who are lu red by thebig salar ies pai d by the pictu re companies
—sometimes as much as fiftydol lars a week—yet are afrai d of
losing thei r popu larity and becomingobscu re so that thei r footl ight ad
mirers may forget them completely .We tu rned to M i ss Mary Fu l ler
of the E dison Stock Company forher opin ion on th i s vital quest ion .
It was at D ecatu r Avenue and
O l iver Street, in the B ronx ,where
the E dison Company is located , thatwe found M i ss Fu l ler, who was resting after a hard day ’ s w ork beforethe camera. She had j u st steppedfrom a th i rty -horsepower au tomo
bi le,in wh ich she had been speed
ing before the camera at the d izzying rate of tw en ty -five mi les perhou r
,and was dressed smartly in a
l inen duster,sports hat w i th green
vei l,and fringed cowboy gloves . H er
face was made up as carefu l ly as
though she w ere acting on the stage,
w i th wh i te powder and her cheeksheavi ly rouged . Lampblack and
grease penci l ou tlined her dark eyes,
wh ich were tired from looking in tothe brigh t sun l ight.
Of cou rse every actress prefersthe theatre to film playing
,becau se
she has a better chance to make a
name for hersel f,” sai d M i ss Fu l ler .”N evertheless
,there is someth ing
fascinating abou t working before thecameras, and many prominen t stageactors work in motion pictu resdu ring slack season
,under another
name, for the money ; bu t it i s notreal ly good for the career of a promising name to do so.
"
My work in pictu res has not beencon tinuou s, added M i ss Fu l ler, confidentially, for I often retu rn foran engagemen t at the theatre to keepmy name before the public. As to
the fu tu re of pictu res ? I bel ieve thereis qu i te a lot ahead for the l i ttlefield of the motion -pictu re player,though not so much dramatical ly .
M ore for educational pu rposes . Forinstance, I firmly bel ieve that everyactress who w i shes to improve herstage techn i que w i l l ow n a movingfoto apparatu s so that she can per
fect her gestu res and study her stagepresence cri tical ly through the cam
era's eye .
We agreed w i th M i ss Fu l ler ’ sstatement hearti ly, and asked abou ther work in variou s pictu res wh ichhave been show ing in the N ickeladeons during the past few mon thsin N ew York and in the West asw el l . T hese are her most recent successes : T he Silent T ongue, Made
leine’
s Rebellion,Five Seconds from
D eath, An I sland Comedy, T he I n
ternational H eartbreaker, T he Love
of Chrysanthemum, T he Sepoy’
s
Wife, E lectra, and T he G irl and theM otorboat . All of these pictu resw ere complete two- ree l affai rs, andw ere elaborate ly staged w i th com
plete set -ups .
Speaking of staging, M i ss Fu l lersaid :
”
I n order to get the proper setting for our W i ld West pictu res,wh ich are very popu lar, w e have totravel over to the Pal i sades region ,
where the rough, h igh cliffs and thew ooded country provide splendidbackgrounds for a ‘Western ’
atmosphere . A great many cow boy pictu resare taken there .
”
We then asked M i ss Fu l ler i f itw ere not tru e that many differen tcompan ies, such as B iograph ,
Kalem,
and Vi tagraph , did not use the samescenery for the i r backgrounds .
“
Oh , yes, smi led M i ss Fu l ler .Somet imes not less than five com
panies, each in a d ifferen t au to,can
be found , drawn up at a certain spotnear Fort Lee , on the Pal i sades , eachawai ting its tu rn for the set-up.
T here i s a N ew Jersey man,who
owns a stagecoach of the Westerntype, who makes a lot of moneyren ting that coach over and over again to be chased by w i ld Ind iansthrough the Fort Lee woods . H e
even takes part in the show,some
times,for noth ing, becau se of the
h igh ren t pai d for the wagon .
Another question interested u s.
T he acting itsel f seemed so very odd,before a camera
,for none of the
words u sed by the actors w ere everheard by the audience . We askedM iss Fu l ler abou t th i s and she had
a ready answerT he hardest th ing for beginners
to overcome in the motion -pictu rebus iness i s sel f-con sc iou sness . T herei s a rigidi ty wh ich show s up re
markably in the photograph ic reproduction .
" I remember one case, when M i ssAnne Schafer, an actress of the E dison Company
,had to jump ou t of
the second - story w indow of a bu rning hou se—an
'
act that has been myjob many times .
I n her first attempt she camedown natu ral ly and spr ingi ly
, bu t a
second time she stiffened up, throughcamera- fright
,so that her whole
frame was ten se,
and when she
struck the ground both her legs w erebroken .
We cou ld eas i ly see what M i ssFu l ler mean t by not becoming con
sciou s of the camera.
H ow do I fee l when I am racingabou t the coun try dressed as a cow
gir l , or a nu rse,or an Egyptian
slave ?” repeated M i ss Fu l ler to our
qu estion . Just abou t the same as
I do when I am on B roadway act ingin a stage play
, she repl ied .
“
T hati s to say, I feel as though I w ereperfectly rid icu lou s !We understood perfectly . T here
is , too much rude jostl ing of thesehard -working people by the j eeringon lookers when a pictu re companygets ready to photograph a set-up.
E ven though the moving pictu res area type of show that caters to the
Broncho Billy Anderson in“Broncho Billy
's Adventure .
C U LVE RAlice Joyce , of the Kalem Stock Co.
R eprodu ced from advert isemen ts published in 1 91 1
ru n
of his many comedy pictu res wh ichare so w el l l iked by the pictu re- showaud iences .T he adven tu res of Sl ippery Sl im
is the first series of pictu res to bemade
, each a separate story dealingw i th the same main characters
,who
resemble M u tt and Jeff in appearance . T he H ank and Lank series w eremade by the same duo—Victor Potel and H enry T odd , who are
,re
spectively, the Long and Short ofi t. Most of the pictu res made in
Cal i forn ia are e i therWestern dramasor comedies , but featu res a thou sandfeet in length
,as to film
,are often
made. The Bad Man’
s Last D eed,T railed to the H ills, T he U nknown
Claim, and T he D esperado, are all
long pictu res of th i s type, featu ringthe leading playe rs of the E ssanayCompany .
M r. Pote l w ri tes u s that insteadof confin ing the activ i ties of the i rcamera to a l imi ted fie ld , the Company roams up and down the Cal
ifornia coun try,taking pictu res
wherever they decide to stop,much
l ike a travel ing stage troupe . N i les,Cal i forn ia
,San D iego
,Los Angeles
,
and San Rafael are the favori teplaces for pictu re making
,and the
company has its own train,w i th a
car equ ipped to take care of the
developing, cu tting,and arranging
of the film after i t has been taken .
E laborate scenes are taken by theaid of an indoor set - up, wh ich i sa large room
,l ike a stage
,made of
boards, and w i th a canvas rol l -topto screen the bri l l ian t sun l ight forthe pu rpose of better photography.T he home office of the E ssanay
Company i s in Ch icago, and the
Western Company,whose leading
comedy player is Victor Potel,in
cludes G . M axwel l Anderson (B ronco Bil ly ) , E dna Fi sher
,M argaret
Josl in ,and Vedah Bertram .
T hough theseWestern players aredoing remarkably wel l in spite of
handicaps of rough ing i t, it i s believed that the mov ing pictu res w i l lcon tinue to be made most successfu lly in N ew York and Pari s, wherethe newest devices of civ i l ization are
at hand, and the stage actors andactresse s are nearby as material todraw from,
i f they can be persuadedto go in to the bus iness of makingmot ion pictures .An interesting note comes from
M r. Potel in California, where hestates :
"
T he doom of the presen t-dayblack -and-white motion pictu re i sbe ing predicted since the opening,at the beginning of th i s year , of theKinemacolor T heatre in Los Ah
ge les,which show s pictu res of flow
ers, birds, and landscapes in natural
colors . T his theatre is located at
B roadway near E ighth Street and i scaus ing a fu ror in the Wes t .T he Kinemacolor T heatre i s the
firs t one to car ry a program cons i sting en tirely of colored pictu res
,and
i t i s be lieved that before long thepresen t-day pictu re w i ll be ou tmod
ed, and nothing bu t colored pictu resshown throughou t E urope and
Am erica .
T he N ew York T heatre Roof, atthis time
,is show ing some colored
pictu res , and the i r recept ion i s highl yfavorable, although the scenes are
difficult to distinguish at times .It w ill be amaz ing when firs t w e
see a full- length, two- reel picture all
a n d T A R
J alma acmallywasbrs out these
washing of lingerie, shea rs : hosiery, gloves, sweatersand hand knits . J alrm leaves them soft and springy as
.
new, saves da ncer'
s bilLs . I n a hand-blown Flash [or the
on : la rge Cylinder, 200washings,
Lord a Taylor. h i s a Conger. McG ucheon'
s,B. A ltman . Abe rcrombie and Fit ch , Milgrirn .
C U LV E RMary Fuller, a popular heroine.
in color . Word i s abou t that th i s w i l lsoon be the case.
As the situation now stands,how
ever,whether the mot ion pictures
are colored or plain, they w ill havea difficult time vying w ith the dignity and fine dramatic ex ce llence of
the stage and vaudeville of today,and actors and actresses alike, whovalue their standing in the w or ld ofart
,w i ll shun this new medium of
ex pression - if i t can thus be named—and c ling to the i r standards of thetheatre
,wh ich w i ll never change .
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an d arise ch eerfully .
T ry a bowl o f K ello gg’
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can bu y foo d .
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—and w e,alas l—are
back in the dog days of 1 936. While you are enjoying you r vacation—at Salzbu rg,
Scandinavia,Bar H arbor
,or the H amptons—the arbiters of our after-dark
en tertainmen t are preparing (w e hope) gal lan t offe rings for the season to
come . I n the mean time here is the show shop of today as it spreads before u s.
T HE SHOW I S ON !
Batt le HymnBy M ichae l Blankfort and M ichae lG old. Produced by the E xperimen talT heatre division of the Federal T heatre Pro ject . With G rover Bu rgess ,Lida MacMillan
,W i l l iam T riest .
S taged by Vincen t Sherman . D ALY'
S ,
63rd Street, east of B'
way . Opened
May 22 .
A play abou t the John B rown of H arper ’ sFerry . E xce l len t ly acted
, bu t too fu l l ofde tail and too deficien t in—of all th ings—excitemen t .
Boy Me e ts G irlBy Be l la and Samu e l Spewack. Pro
duced by G eorge Abbott . W ith Al
lyn Jos lyn ,M i l lard M i tche l l , Joyce
Arl ing ,James MacColl. Staged by
M r. Abbott . E ven ings at mat
inees Wed. and Sat . at CORT ,
48 th St . , east of B'
way . Opened N o
v ember 27 .
A fou r-Jigger pictu re of H o l lywood and
two jack-ia- the-box playw rights who
keep th ings humming . T hey are aidedand abetted by some of Broadway's mosth i larious l ines. All the more fun becau sepeople from H o l lywood say it
'
s not
nearly as farcical as we N ew Yorkersseem to th ink.
C lass of '
29
T he depression class meets its dramatic problems rather better than it met unemploymen t . A me lancho ly theme sin
cerely w ri tten and played.
Dead End
By Sidney K ingsley . Produced byN orman Bel G eddes . W ith T heodoreN ew ton ,
E l speth E ric, B i l ly H alop.
Staged by M r. K ings ley . Even ings at
matinees T hu rs . and Sat . at
BeLAsco , 44th Sr., east of
B'
way. Opened Oct . 28 .
An extraordinarily gripping play abou t a
dead-end street that fringes on capital ism .
Childhood'
s progress from the gu tter toreform school to gangsterdom has been
g iven expert de lineation , and there are
phenomenal performances by a group of
youngsters .
Light s O '
London
A revival of the old me lodrama, done instraight -face sty le w i th real trimmings onthe woodwork
,red coats on the u shers,
and beer all arou nd. An exce l len t diversion for summer n ights.
MulattoBy Langston H ughes . Produ ced byM artin Jones . W i th Phi l ip T ruex,Stuart Beebe . Staged by M r. Jones .
Even ings at mat inees W ed. and
Sat . at AM BASSADOR ,49th Sr. ,
west of B'
way . Opened O ct . 24 .
A serious attempt by the au thor to
dramatize the problems of an old Col
onel'
s unau thorized black brood,treated
w i th undue sensational ism in produ ction .
T he quest ion of . m iscegenat ion is leftright w here it has always been .
Murder in the O ld Red BarnA revival of the 1 840 me lodrama
, pre
sen ted by H arry Bann ister, JohnKrimsky , and Luciu s Beebe . W i thMarianne Cowan , Richard Rauber,and Robert Vivian . Friday, Satu rday,and Sunday evenings at 9, A t lan t icBeach M onday through T hu rsdayevenings . T H E AM E R I CAN M U SIC
H ALL , 1 4 1 E ast 55th St . Opened
February 2 .
H i lariou s ten -twen t-thirt stu ff that per
m i ts “
audiences to hoot and h iss to theirheart
'
s con ten t every n ight . A revival ofthe
"
let you rself go"
movemen t.Pre -Honeymoon
By Anne N icho ls and A lfred Von
Ronkle . Produ ced by M iss N ichols .
W i th Jessie Royce Landis, Sy lviaFie ld, Lou is "Jean H eydt, C lyde Fi l lmore , Mar jorie Peterson . Staged bythe au thors . M atinees Wed. and Sat .
at even ings at LYC E U M ,
45th St . , east of B'
way . Opened
Apri l 3oth .
N o Abraham'
s C e l t ic Rosabe l la.
Three Men on a Ho rseBy John Ceci l H o lm and G eorgeAbbott . Produ ced by A lex Yoke l .W i th Wil l iam Lynn , Sh irley Booth ,
Sam Levene,T eddy H art . Staged by
M r. Abbott . E venings at mat inees W ed. and Sat. at PLAY
H OU SE , 48 th St . , east of B'
way . Open
ed Jan . 20 ,1 935.
S traight , place , and Show in an eightyfur long D erby .
Tobacco Road
By Jack Kirkland, from the nove l byE rskine Caldw el l . Produced by S . H .
G risman . W i th James Barton ,Mar
gare t Wycherly, Sam Byrd. Staged byAn thony Brown . Even ings at
matinees Wed. and Sat . at FOR
R E ST ,49th St . , west of B
’
way . Opened
D ec . 4, 1 933.
T his hardy perennial is going to run in to
its ow n revival .Turpe nt ine
By J . A . Sm i th and Peter More l l .Produced by the N egro T heatre U n i tof the Federal T heatre Pro ject . W i thJ . A . Sm i th, A lberta Perkins
, and
A lonzo Bosan . Staged by EmioBasshe . Even ings on ly. LAFAYE T T E
T H E AT R E , 1 3 1 3t St. and 7 th Ave .
Opened June 26.
A labor strike in the turpen tine camps ofFlorida sets the action . As a play it istoo talky ; as a product ion it is overpopu lated. I ts good momen ts come on lyw hen these talen ted N egro actors are
made to fee l at home . T he chu rch mecrin '
at the very end is worth w ai ting for.
MUSICALS
New Faces of 1936
Sketches most ly by M indret Lord andE verett Marcy . M u sic most ly byA lexander Fogarty and I rving G ra
ham . Produ ced by Leonard Si l lman .
W i th Imogene Coca, Jack Smart,
Bil l ie H aywood, Marion M artin , T om
Ru therford. Staged by N ed M cG u rn
and An ton Bu ndsmann . Even ings at
matinees W ed. and Sat . at
VAN DE RB I LT , 48 th Sr. , east ofB
'
way . Opened May 1 9.
Some of the faces w ere seen two years
ago, bu t they’ re st i l l able to communicate
a lot of fu n and frol ic across the footl ights .
O n Your ToesBy R ichard Rodgers , Lorenz H art
,
G eorge Abbott . Produced by D w ightD eere W iman . W i th Ray Bo lger,T amara G eva, Lue l la G ear
,M on ty
Woo l ley . Staged by Worthing tonM iner and G eorge Balanchine . Mat
ineesWed. and Sat. at even ingsat IM P E R IAL , 4 5th Sr. , west ofB
'
way. Opened Apri l 1 1 .
Bal let bri l l ian tly disposed of by RayBo lger and T amara G eva in a fast-movingsatire on the more seriou s rendi tions ofthe art . M u sic, lyrics, setting , choreogra
phy, all good.
TOO LATE FOR REVIEWThe Nine O
'
c lock RevueT he th i rd edition of the in timaterevu e . T he cast includes A l len Kearns
,
Ru th G arland, N evi l le Westman,
G eorge Lamarr,and Barry O liver .
T he stag ing is by M abe l Row land.
(H E CKSH E R, 1 E ast 1 04 St . Schedu l edto open Ju ly
He lp Yourse lf!O ffering of the Popu lar Price u n i t of
Injunction G ranted
T he first fu l l length produ ction of theLiving N ew spaper u n it of the FederalT heatre Pro ject . T he play is "
a detai led and exact portrayal of the history of American labor in the cou rts
,from the early seven teen th cen tu ry tothe presen t . T he w ri ting was Supervised by Arthu r Aren t , and the staging by Joe Losey . Morris Watson is
the producing director . ( B I LT M ORET H E AT R E . Opened Ju ly
PROMlSED andHOPED FOR
The Ziegfe ld Fo lliesA retu rn of the same edi tion that
closed earl ier in the season becau se of
Fannie Brice ’
s il lness. M iss Brice ,E ve Arden , the Preisser Sisters, and
Stan Kavanagh w i l l be back. T henewcomers include Bobby C lark,G ypsy Rose Lee
,and Cass D ai ley .
(W I N T E R G ARDE N . Schedu led for theend of August . )
D'
oyly C arte Opera C ompany
T he greatest of the G i lbert and Su l l ivan troupes is com ing back for e ightweeks. Some of the old favori tes backin the l ine-up are : Martyn G reen ,
D arre l l Fancou rt, D erek O ldham ,
Sydney G ranvi l le, and Les l ie Rands .
T hey play , of cou rse , the completerepertory . (MART IN B E CK . Schedu ledto open August
P ICT URE S NOW SHOWINGThe Bride Walks O ut
Screenplay by P . J . Wo lfson and Phi lip G . E pste in from an orig inal storyby H oward Emmett Rogers. T he cas tincludes Barbara Stanwyck, G ene Raymond, Robert Young, N ed Sparks,H elen Broderick. An E dward Smal lProduction , directed by Leigh Jasonfor R . K . 0 .
Cheers, the few we can muster forsuch an occasion , go unreservedly to
those val iant players whose names w i l lnot appear on the marquee, bu t whose inheren t bouyancy gives T he Bride Wale;
Ou t moments of true comedy. M iss H el
en Broderick, and the Messrs . RobertYoung and N ed Sparks se t abou t, w i thwe lcome high j inks, to in terrupt the mar
ital setup as establ ished by M r. Raymond
and M iss Stanwyck. I f they didn '
t , everybody wou ld walk ou t .
Early to BedScreen comedy by Arthu r Kober froman original story by Lucien Littlefieldand Chandler Sprague . T he cast in
cludes Char les Rugg les, Mary Boland,
G eorge Barbier, G ai l Patrick, LucienLitt lefie ld. D i rected by N orman Mc
Leod for Paramoun t Pictures .
COME AND GONE
Macbeth
A ten -day revival of the N egro T heatre’
s
produ ction . T he sets,the costumes
,and
the voodoo chan ts made it all u nfor
ge ttable .
(Opened Ju ly 6. C losed Ju lyThe Kick BackA mu rder, a psycho logy professor, a
stamm ering pupil , a meddlesome fe l lowteacher, all invo lved in a w ordy campu s
plo t . G ame cal led on accoun t of Cain 's.(Opened June 22 . C losed Ju ly
urns 8: QED.
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SU N DAYS
Radio C i ty M u sic H al l ,E rno Rapee Conducts ( J ) ;T he Magic Key, Frank B lack Conducts
,guest stars (J ) ; Chau
tanqua Symphony, G eorges BarrereConducts ( J ) ; Cathedral ofthe U nderwor ld (M ) ; Col
umbia Symphony H ou r , H owardBarlow (A ) ; Jack Shilkret'sorchestra, Ramona and T he T h reeJeste rs , in T en-T ime T une; (A ) ;
Benny Rubin ’ sAmateu rs (0 )7 :OO, Jel lo program,
D on Voorheesorchestra, Ryan and N oblette (J ) ;
Frank Crumit, Ju l ia Sanderson ,
H al Kemp ’ s orchestra (A ) ;Major Bow es (E ) T he
Art of Song (0 ) Lud G lu skin ’ s orchestra (A ) G oldmanBand Concerts ( J ) Philadel
ph ia Summer Conce rt O rchestra,Joseph Pasternack Conducting fromFairmoun t Park (A ) Manhat
tan M erry-G o-Rou nd , famou s actsof the American theatre (E )Cornel ia O ti s Skinner ( J ) ;Pau l Whiteman
'
s Mu sical Var ieties(J ) American Album of
Famil iar M u sic,Frank M unn , G us
tav H aenschen'
s orchestra (E )Commun i ty S ing, nation
w i de song fest (A ) ; G uyLombardo (O ) .
M ON DAYS
E asy Aces ( J ) ; RayB lock's orchestra, Jerry Cooper (A )
Kate Smith's band (A )Leo Re i sman ’ s orchestra, Ph i l D uey,E ton Boys (E ) ; Wal lensteinSinfonietta (O ) H ammerste in M u sic H al l (A ) E dgarG uest (J ) Ru ss Morgan ,
Ken
Mu rray,Ph i l Regan (A ) G uy
Lombardo Ben Bern ie(J ) ; Vox Pop (E ) ;FredWaring (A ) E dWynn
,
Lennie H ayton ’ s orchestra (E )Came l Caravan ,
Rupert
H ughes, Benny G oodman ’ s orchestra, N at Shilkret
’
s orchestra (A ) .
W E DN E SDAYS
Racing at SaratogaCavalcade of Amer ica, Harold
Levey ’ s orchestra (A ) ; One
Man’ s Family (E ) ; W i l l ie
and E ugene H oward (J ) ;Bu rn s and A l len
,E ddy D uchin
'
s or
chestra, M i l ton Watson (A )Wayne K ing (E ) ; FrankM unn
,Lucy M on roe
,G u stav H aen
schen'
s orchestra ( J ) ; M u sicBox (O ) Stoopnagle and
Budd (E ) ; Andre Kostelanetz, Kay T hompson ,
Ray H eather~ton
,the Rhythm Singers (A )
You r Song Jubi lee,Jack Arthu r
(A ) ; Symphon ic Strings(O ) ; Carl H off
,You r H it
Parade (E ) ; G ang Bu sters,
Ph i l l ips Lord (A ) .
T H U RSDAYS
FRLDAYS
SAT U RDAYS
Sher lock H olmesSw ing Sess ion , Bunny Berri
gan and his orchestra, guest stars(A ) ; Stadium Symphony
Shel l Chateau ,Smith
Bal lew,Victor Young's orchestra
(E ) ; Freddie R ich, You rH it Parade and Sweepstakes (A ) ;
A . M .,G uy Lombardo (O ) .
T he Charioteers, T ed H us
ing (A ) Voice of Fi restone,M argaret Speaks (E ) ; Abe
Lyman,Bern ice C lair (J ) ;
Pick and Pat, Benny Kreuger'
s or
chestra,Landt trio andWh i te (A )
A . St P . G ypsie s (E ) ;Lux Radio T heatre, w i th famou sstars of the theatre (A ) ;G reater Sinclair M instrel s ( J )E ddy B rown R ichardH imber
’
s orchestra (E )Wayne K ing (A ) ; Con
ten ted program,M organ L . E astman
Conducts (E ) ; M arch of
T ime (A ) ; G uy Lombardo(O ) ; C rosley Fol l ies (O ) .
T U E SDAYS
Frank Parker,Bob H ope
,
Red N ichol s ’ orchestra, T ba A tlantic Family on T our (A ) ;Benny Fie lds (A ) LewisohnStadium broadcast (O ) Portland Symphony orchestra
, Basi lCameron Conducts (A ) ;Rudy Val lee (E ) ; T omorrow 's H eadl iners , variety program(A ) ; Maxw e l l H ou se ShowBoat
,Lanny Ross (E ) B ing
C rosby,Jimmy D orsey's orchestra
,
Bob Bu rns (E ) .
Cities Service Concert, Jess ica D ragonette (E ) ; FlyingRed H orse T avern
,Walter Wool f
K ing,Joan Marsh
,Lenny H ayton ’ s
orchestra,T he Fou r Red Horsemen
(A ) ; Frank'
Fay (J ) ;Carme la Pon se l le, O scar Shaw ,
Vic
tor Arden ’ s orchestra (A) ;H ol lywood H otel
,D ick Powe l l ,
Frances Langford , Raymond Paige ’ sorchestra (A ) ; Fred Waring( I ) Cesare Sodero Conducts(O ) ; C lara, Lu ,
’
n Em (J ) ;Andre Kostelanetz (A )Marion T al ley
,Josef Koest
ner ’ s orchestra (E ) ; E nric
Madriguera orchestra (O ) .
d l/LCLI/l
T he open ing of the new Promenade and Casino on the Park up at the
E ssex H ou se last mon th brought another very handsome al fresco w in ingand din ing spot into bloom on Fi fty-n inth Street . Facing the Park, and
screened by green hedges, are a number of smal l tables making a delightfu lsi dewalk cafe for you r aperi ti f or demi- tasse . T he main room, on a h igherlevel, i s al so open to the street . H ere you may dine and dance to N at B randwynne
’ s fine orchestra. It's an altogether pleasan t place to spend the dog-days .Be low is a l i st of roof-gardens, ou t -door restau ran ts and other d in ing
and dancing places—many of them aircooled. Most are also open Satu rdays and Sundays, bu t we suggest you make su re before you start out .Qu i te a few are l ikely to shu t shop over the weekend du ring Augu st . N ew
York gets more informal every summer,so if you ’ re not in the mood to
dress you won’ t find i t necessary, though in the place s marked you ’ l l
p robably find some summer concession to the conven t ion s .
Amoassador
Ramon Ramos ’ orchestra plays inthe del ightfu l air-cooled gardenshere from cocktai l time ti l l closing,and there is al so en tertain ing mu s icdu ring luncheon . D inner i s to
and supper i s a la carte, w i thno couvert . Park Ave . at 5lst St .
Armando’s
T he ou tdoor rooms of th i s p0pular l i ttle place are open from lu ncheon on . After 1 0 P . M . there i s gayentertainmen t in the dow nstai rs dining room by the Sing-Sing quartette .
Luncheon i s 7 5C, dinner i sand there ’ s never a couvert . 54 E ast55th St .
Arrow/zead I an
A favori te place for ou tdoor dining and dancing . It has eve ryth ingyou can think of as des i rable on a
summer n ight : big trees, flowers, andfoun tains . And the food and the
dance mu sic ( Irv ing Conn ’ s orchestra) are ju st right. D inner i sR iverdale Ave . and 246th St .
H otel Astor
T h i s year the Roof has been en
tirely redecorated and presen ts a
handsome scene . I n addition to the
large covered din ing room whereH al Kemp ’ s orchestra holds forth,
there are all sorts of ou tdoor nooksfor cocktai l s and l iqueu rs . D inner is
and up, and there ’ s a su per
couvert of 7 5 cen ts on week ays ;on Satu rdays and -hol i days .
T imes Square.
Ball
T heodor Szarvas'and Jim M oriar
ty ’ s new place wh ich i s most originalin i ts decorations . T he food is ou t
standing and two good orchestrasplay throughou t the even ing . Lunch
eon cocktai ls,dinner
and supper are served inthese air-cooled rooms where you ’ l lsee some exceptional mu ral s byFranklin H ughes . N o couvert . 1 61E ast 54th St .
Beachcomber Bar
T he Luciu s Beebe-Krimsky-Ban
n ister smart madhou se where therei s ou tlandish fun (in a condi tionedatmosphere ) before and after Mar
der in the Old Red Barn , playing upstairs . Seats at tables for M urder,to 1 4 1 E ast 55th St .
D u ring Augu st, from Fr iday th roughSunday
, the establ i shmen t and showhold forth on Long Island in a red
barn between the Atlant ic Beach and
M erry-G o-Round clubs .
Belle M ean t’
ere
P ierre and Irene , former ly of theMarguery, who run th i s perfect l i ttle restau ran t have ju st in stal led an
air-condi tion ing plant making thei rplace as comfortable as any you ’ l lfind. I n add ition ,
the rooms havebeen en ti re ly redecorated in summerd ress that i s cool and pleasing to
the eye . An ou tstanding cu i sine,a
fine cel lar, and know ing servicemake th i s a spot you shou ldn ’ t forget . Open for luncheon
,cocktai ls
,
and dinner . ! 1 2 E ast 52nd St .
Biltm ore
One of the best of the N ew Yorkroofs where, no matter what theweather , there always seem to be
cool breezes . Ru ss Morgan's orchestra plays here and there is entertainment by Lew is‘~Ju Iian (his sati resare very clever ) and by L inda Lee,whose singing i s del ightfu l . ! Madison Ave . and 43rd St .
H otelB osse t t
N obody shou ld miss the superbv iew of N ew York ’ s sky l ine and
harbor to be had here from the
Marine Roof . I t wou ld be hard toequal i t . I t ’ s on ly a short trip acrossthe bridge to the Bossert, and i t ’ s ani deal place to go for dinner arou nde ight o ’
clock when the skyscrape rsand bridges of lower Manhattan begin to fal l in to impress ive silhou
ettes. Jack A lbin ’ s orchestra playsfor the dance and there are songsby D orothy H ow e and other entertainment by variou s arti sts n ightly .
H icks and M on tagu e Sts . , B rooklyn .
T H E
M O O N L I T
T E R RAC E
ATOP THE B ILTMORE
FO R D I N N E R an d S U PPE R
D AN C IN G
We su ggest reservationsT H E B I LT M O R E
M a d i s o n A v e n u e a t 4 3 r d S t r e e t
J ACK ALB I N’
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DANC INGSE R T
H ot el Brev oort
N oted for many years for its excellent cu i sine, thi s place was one ofthe first in the Vi l lage to offer s idewalk dr inking and din ing . I n spiteof the fact that a number of otherplaces fol lowed su i t
,the Brevoort
remain s, at least for us, the best ofthem all. Fi fth Ave . at E ighth St.
Cav iar
G ood food and rare w ines preceded by the best cav iar you ’ l l findanywhere . D inner i s and you
won’ t mind the lack of dancing and
mu sic. 1 28 West 52 Street .
Chatham Walk
C row ded and amu s ing, this is oneof the gayest of the flowered and
canopied restau ran ts ei ther for
luncheon, cocktai ls , or for dinner .
Vanderbi l t Ave . at 48 th St .
Cog R ouge
T he Joe Moss orchestra and C larence T i sdale's colored tr io continueto be the en tertainmen t featu res ofth i s delightfu l air-cond itioned establishmen t—open from luncheon ti l lclosing . 65 E ast 56th St .
E l Chico
T hree colorfu l show s,w ith real
Span i sh arti sts,are presen ted n ightly
in th i s very Span i sh place . T he foodand w ines are equal ly exotic, bu t ifyou mu st have Amer ican dishes youcan get them here too . D inner isfrom and after 9 P . M . there ’ sa cover charge of on Satu rdays . T orre ’ s orchestra plays for thedance . A new cool ing system assu rescomfort, no matter what the w eatherou tside . 8 0 G rove St.
French Casino
Ju st abou t the best gi rl show in
town . T here are two s‘hows n ight ly,at and w i th dance musicplaying du ring the in termission andlater . D inner begins at and
there ’ s a min imum charge of
after P . M . 7 th Ave . at 50th
Street .
Fifth Av enu e H otel
One of those del ightfu l s idewalkrestau rants where i t i s fun to s itthese days . D inner i s and
and there i s mu sic in the
Amen Corner , audible to diners on
the terrace . Fi fth Ave . at N inth St .
H otel G otham
T he air-condi tioned Alpine G ri l l ,which special izes in a cold bu ffet
,i s
a most agreeable place these days .Luncheon i s from and dinnerfrom $ 1 . 50 . T here ’ s acocktai l loungeupstai rs . Fi fth Ave . at 55th St .
H ollyw ood
A very gay, noi sy show in the bestB roadway manner w i th l i ttle left tothe imagination . After 1 0 P . M .
there ’ s a min imum charge ofon Satu rdays . 1 600 B roadway .
J immy Kelly’s
Jimmy boasts the best cool ing system in town—and i t's easy to bel ieve . T he show and the dance mu
sic, howeve r, have temperatu re . T he
min imum charge i s 1 8 1 Sul
l ivan St .
Kungsholm
T he ou tdoor garden here has beendecorated and landscaped w i th greattaste . You may lunch here (or inthe indoor restau ran t ) , have cocktai ls
,and en joy a remarkable dinner
1 42 E ast 55th St .
L a Cre'
m aillere
U p fou rteen floors, w ith the maindin ing room overlooking Cen tralPark and the smaller ou tdoor cocktail terrace fronting the midtownsky- l ine
,thi s i s one of the places
you ’ l l tu rn to on a hot day. Luncheon
and dinner are served,and
it’
s the best of French cooking . 30
West 59th St .
L aru e
E ddie D av i s' orchestra plays herein the air-cond itioned Fantasy Roomfor dinner and supper dancing and
i t ’ s one of the n icest places you can
v i s i t .‘
Open from luncheon u nti lclosing, w i th aston i shingly ‘ goodfood . N o couvert . 480 Park Ave .
Cafe L ou is ! I V
T h i s .
new place has won highstand ing among the ci ty ’ s spots thatemphas ize good cu i sine . T he establishment i s u nder the di rection of
René D u rand and i s open for luncheon
, cocktai ls,
_
and dinner,when
there i s string mu s ic, bu t no danc1 5 West 49th St .
T he M arguery
Luncheon , cocktai ls , and d innerare served al fresco he re in the ou t
door pavillon . T here ’ s no betterplace in town to make yOu forgetthe heat of summer . ! E ntrance, 27 0Park Ave .
M ascot te
A smal l place, but everyth ingabou t it i s in exce llent taste—and
the service is as smooth and correctas you ’ l l find anywhere . A very finece l lar i s one of the resou rces of the
E ssex H ou se
T he Promenade and the Cas ino onthe Park—two new featu res of th i shotel
,are welcome addition s to the
l ist of N ew York ’ s smart ou tdoord in ing and dancing places . N at
Brandwynne’
s orchestra ( formerlyof the Stork C lub ) plays here n ightlyfor dinner and - supper dancing and
there i s gay en tertainment by Max
ine T appen'
and the three M u s icalRogues .
'
T hese cooln ew rooms, facing Central Park, are open for luncheon , cocktai l s
, din ner,
and
up) ,“
and supper, -a la ‘
carte . 1 60
.C en tral Park Sou th .
Take y ou r cho ice of
Sherry’s
T he Lou i s Sherry Room is closedfor the summer, bu t you may havecocktai ls in the smart Flamingo Barand d ine we l l in the smal l air-conditioned room nearby . 300 Park Ave .
St . M oritz
Ron Perry ’ s orchestra plays on
th i s magn ificently si tuated roofn ight ly for the dance and there i sen joyable entertainment by Charl ieW r ight
,the w izard of the accor
d ion ; and Vanette and Coles,danc
ers . 50 Central Park Sou th .
S t . R egis
T he Viennese Roof here i s ju stabou t the gayest and most popu larof the summer roofs . By way of excellen t en te rtainment you ’ l l find
Pau l G erri ts who does and says allsorts of astounding th ings on rol lerskates ; six beau t i fu l ( real ly ) Albertina Rasch gir ls ; and JacquesFray ’ s l ight-hearted orch estra playing for the dance at d inner and supper. Ju les Lande's orchestra plays atluncheon and cocktai ls . Luncheon i s
dinner weekdays,
Satu rdays ; and the suppercouvert is w eekdays ,
55th St . and Fi fth Ave .
S t ochholm
A super ior and comparatively inexpens ive Sw edish restau rant whereyou ’ l l find amost expan sive smo'rgiishord and many other in teresting na
tive dishes and w ines . Open for
luncheon and dinner . 27 West SlstStreet .
S torh Club
Sherman B i l l ingsley ’ s p lace sti l lcon t inues to be one of the l ive l iestin town
’
at all hou rs every n ight ofthe week . T he large air-cooled rec
tangu lar bar i s crowded from noon
ti l l daw n w ith people you ’ve heardabou t
,and the came ra flash l ights
picking ou t ce lebrities wou ld makea veteran w ince . T he food is topsand the orchestras of Arthu r D ann
and G us Martel provide the best indance mu sic. 3 E as t 53td St .
T he T u scany
For ou tdoor din ing in the mid
town section ,the G arden here i s un
u sually attract ive . T he menu at bothluncheon and d inner i s reasonablypriced and the l iquors are of the
best . 1 20 E ast 39th St .
T wen ty—On e
Jack and Charl ie's wel l knownempor ium continues to draw a raftof celebri tie s at dinner and supper .T he food is more than good , i fsomewhat expens ive , and the l iquorsare the best to be had anywhere .
!
2 1 West 52nd St .
Versailles
Another crow ded , very successfu land attractive air-conditioned placewhere you ’ l l meet all sorts of people,
A I R . C O N D I T I O N E D
the atmosphere is Alpine coo l,crisp,
refreshing . De lightfu lly quain t and qu iet for al
chatty , in timate
And the cocktails l'
Finest anyw here
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encoun ter tw o good dance orchestras and excit ing “
entertainmen t atdinner and supper . D inner is a lacarte and there ’ s a cover charge of
on weekdays ; on Satu rdays . 1 5 1 E ast 5oth St .
Voisin
T here are on ly a few places inthese parts that can approach th i srestauran t ’ s sauces , SOufHés, and sal
ads . E ating here shou ld be made theeven t of the even ing . T he main ,
air
condi t ioned din ing room has beenelaborately decorated , as it alwayshas been in summer , w i th greatbanks of flow ers and bright ly col
ored awn ings . ! 37 5 Park Ave .
T he Waldorf—AstoriaShep Fields and his R ippl ing
Rhythm O rche stra are playing on
the Starl ight Roof at dinner and supper, w i th Bas i l Fomeen and his tangoband alternat ing du ring the lattersession . Raphael (who made such a
hit at the Ru ssian E agle ) performson his midget concert ina and
,earli
er,in the Palm Room from to
G eneral Lodijensky, also of
Ru ssian E agle fame,plays the host
at th i s most attract ive of summerroofs . ! Park Ave . at 5oth St .
Weylin
T he Bar here,where Charl ie
W right and his songs dominate theen tertainmen t
,i s crow ded from cock
tai l time on . At lunch and the cocktai l hour the Fou r Kn ight Caps singand play
,and late r there ’ s also Jack
Fogar ty (who w rote the mu sic forFresh Faces ) at the piano . M adisonAve . at 54th St .
A L it tle Way Ou t of T own
I f you roam around in you r carthese summ er afternoons and ev e
mings,you ’ l l find all sorts of places
for ou tdoor din ing and dancing,
many not far from T imes Square .
H ere for you r gu idance are a few .
Over at th e Jersey end of the
Wash ington Bridge i s Ben M arden ’ snoi sy and opu len t Riviera, a bi t ofB roadway transported to a spot thathas a grand view of the H udson .
Further ou t in Jersey,the re’ s the
Chanticler at M i l lbu rn,a n ice spot
for ou tdoor lu ncheon,cocktai ls
,or
dinner, w i th dance mu sic by G u s
Steck ’ s orchestra. A new place th isyear i s the M on Paris in the Mon
mou th Country C lub, near Rumson ,
N . J . T h i s i s d i rected by G u ido of
the N ew York M on Paris and i squ ite smart and attract ive . BarryW in ton ’ s dance orchestra plays at
dinner and supper . A short distanceaway i s the M onmou th H otel at
Spring Lake Beach ,long a popu lar
place for ou tdoor din ing and dancing bes ide the sea. T he famou s RossFenton Farms, j u st ou ts ide Asbu ryPark
,w i th i ts new Patio on the lake
for ou tdoor din ing and dancing, issometh ing you shou ld take in . G ene
Fosdick ’ s orchestra i s now here w i tha number of other en tertainers .Skipping over to N ew York Stateyou
’ l l find the G len I sland Casino
w i th Charles Barnet ’ s orchestra—an
i deal spot of a summer even ing . I thas an excel len t view of the Sound .
D ow n at Atlant ic Beach ,L . I .
, youshou l d look in on the M erry-G o
Round w ith i ts pr ivate beach ,caba
r'
I as,restau ran t, and dance floor . H ere
al so you ’ l l find the N au tilus B each
Club where th ere are sea bath ingfaci l i ties and dancing every even ingin the new Ch inese G arden ad joining the club hou se . At Coney Islandthe shore dinner at Feltman
’
s i s recommended. And don ’ t fai l to vis i tT ony Sarg ’ s Streets of Paris at LunaPark
,where there are a number of
gay and naughty places to drink,dine
,and dance . O u t at Lynnbrook,
L . I .,on Scranton Avenue , there is
H en r i ’ s renowned establ ishmentnoted for its cu i sine . Lu ncheon is
dinner T he
place has a roof garden and indoorand ou tdoor dance floors . N ot far
off,in G reat N eck, L . I .
,i s the Lake
ville Manor I nn ,another notable
restau rant run by a former partnerof H en ri Charpen t ier . T he PavillonRoyal, in Val ley Stream,
L . I .,on
the M errick Road , a gay spot, hasVincen t Lopez ’ orchestra. At H ampton Bays, L . I . , Canoe Place I nn i sanother charming spot to stop fordinner and dancing or to spend thew eekend . Another new spot i s D onD ickerman
’
s latest ventu re at E astPort Chester
,Conn .
,the Pieces of
E ight Club—ve ry pi ratey
,w i th good
orchestra and en tertainmen t . And ifyou wan t to make merry on the water and see a good deck show
,there’ s
Bobby Sanford ’s ship,the Em ire
State, that w eighs anchor nig tlyfrom the Battery for a cru i se abou thome waters . —I N VE RN E SS
T h e y w h o k n o w s a y“Caviar is, of cou rse , th e spec ial ty of the hou se ,bu t that is on ly an in t ro du ct ion t o a men u and
a ce l lar that are qu ite e xception al . Mu sic an d
en t ert ainmen t w ou l d he su pe r flu ou s h e re , forth is is a place wh e re excellen t foo d an d w in esdom inate u n qu e st ion ed .
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FR E E PARK I NG in a modern garage adj‘
acent to T H E CAVI AR
( 3 01 ,
(Res tau ran t
N I N E T E E N E A S T S I ! T I E T H S T R E E T
T E L E P H O N E R E G E N T 4 - 5 2 2 6
B E R N A R D former ly of the MarignyD E M A R I E chef al so former l y of the Marigny
With the open ings on B roadway w e have plann ed for ear l y and late dinn er
M ode rn A ir Co o lin g
make s it
De lig htfu lly Com fo rtab le
LISTEN TO EL CHICO REVIEWWJ Z-NBC B P M SAT .
COLORADO ton Priestnal,Jean M cKee . Appren tice
group.
ST E AM BOAT SPR IN GS Perry-M ansfield
Summ er School. D rama D irector, Charlo tte Perry . A production of H ohu sai
by G ustav E cks tein ,w i th supervision
by the au thor.
N AN T U CK E T—T he I sland T heatre . Man
ager, M rs . Marguerite James Wang ler.W i l l have plays from West Falmou thon Monday and T uesday even ings eachNOT E : S umm er theatre plans are likely to be temperamen tal and w eek through August 24th .
impromptu . T he information listed here is the most complete andaccu rate which the managers were able to supply at the time this
issue of S T AG E wen t to press .
CON N EC T ICU T
O AK BLU FFS,MART HA
’
S VI N E YARDlvoRYT ON—T /J e I vorj ton Playhou se . D i T he Vineyard Players, Rice Playhouse.rector, M i l ton Stiefe l . T w e lve-w eek
season,w i th ten recen t Broadw ay hi ts
and one tryou t for A lex Yoke l . P layers—D orothy M cN u lty , Matthew
Smith , E rnest W oodward, Percy H el
ton,and Mary O rr.
M ADI SON—T he ] itney Players, directedby A l ice Keating Cheney, w il l maketheir thirteen th annual Summer tou rthrough N ew E ng land and the M iddleWest . I n the repertory arch T he Rivals,London Assu rance, and M u rder in the
Red Barn . Company inc ludes A l iceCheney, E the l Barrymore Co l t , .Mar~jorie Jarecki
,E l izabeth D ew ing , Phy l
lis F lanagan , D oug las Row land, JohnMaroney, Jerry Bowman ,
PendletonH arrison ,
John N ei l l,D en is Plimmer,
M aynard Samsen .
MAD I SON B E ACH—T he Post Road Players . D irector
,Frederick W . Ayer . Pro
duction M anager, Ranney Compton .
T en -w eek season . Po l icy—Cu rren t andrecen t Broadw ay Su ccesses, and one or
two tryou ts. G uest stars appear each
week .
N EW LON DON—T he G riswold SummerT heatre Company, u nder the manage
men t of M argheu rite N orris and JohnN e i lan , opened a season of Broadwaysuccesses on Ju ne 29th . D i rector
,E l
mer Brow n . Performances W ed.
through Sat . , Matinee T hu rs . Aug .
3rd, T hing of Beau ty . Players, SelenaRoy le, E ar le Larimore, M u rie l K irkland, Katharine Co l l ier, E dwardW ing ,
Frankl in D avis,
Co l lette Keesel,T om Bates, John G i lbertson , RobertCorda.
N I AN T Ic—Crescent T heatre, Somerset
Players . D irectors, G regory D eane and
G eorge Sumner . Rotary stock company
playing N ian tic, Westerly , R . I . , and
Fishers I s land, N . Y . Fou r revivalsI t
’
s a Wise Child, I nvitation to a M u r
der, T he Second Man, Post Road .
Fou r new plays —Amateur H ou r byEdmund Fu l ler, T he Comebach byE ssex D ane
, B est of Company by J . N .
G i lchrist,
and For G reater Lu st byWm . H ow ard H arris. G u est stars eachw eek.
N ICH OLS—T he G roup T heatre , Pine
B raoh Club. D i rectors, Chery l C rawford, Lee Strasberg , H aro ld C lu rman .
Schedu le Paradise Lost, Aug . 5th ,followed by three new plays, T he E n
chanted M aze by Pau l G reen ; March
ing Song by John H oward Law son ;and T he Silent Partner by C l iffordOdets .
N ORWALK—T heatre in the Woods, u n
der the managemen t of G reek E vans ,presen ts l ight opera on al ternate Friday even ings . Operas—T he VagabondKing , Chimes of N ormandy , T hePirates of Penzance , Wildflow er .
Madama Bu tterfly . M r. Evans andMme . H en rietta Wakefie ld play leading ro les .
W E ST PO RT—T he Cou ntry Playhou se .
D irecto r, Law rence Langner. Schedu le—W eek of Ju ly 27 , a Shaw play , w ithC laudia M organ ,
McKay Morris,Vio la
Roache ; W eek Aug . 3, T he Would
Be G entleman ,w ith Jimmy Savo .
D E LAWARE
ARD E N—T he Robin H ood T heatre . D irector, T he lma Chandler . Play schedu le—Aug . lst, On Stage ; Aug . 5th-8 th,
H er Cardboard Lover ; Aug . 1 2th-l 5th,Kind Lady ; Aug . 1 9th-22nd
, H er
M aster’
s Voice ; Aug . 26th-29th , Biography ; Sept . 2nd-5th , Personal Appearance . Company includes D u lcy
Cooper, Virg inia Rei l ly , Lau ra Barrett , E dw in Ross, Robert C . Schn i tzer
,
H erbert Fisher, Bige low Sayre .
D I ST R ICT O F COLU M B IA
WASH I N GT ON—T he Roadside T heatre .
D irectors , An ton H ardt, H arro ldWeinberger. Manager, R ichard P. K reyke .
Production schedu le—Ju ly 27 th-Aug .
8 th, Windmills in Manhattan ; Aug .
loth-22nd, Sherloch H olmes ; Aug .
24th-Sept . 5th , Among the M oon
shiners . Sept . 7 th- 1 9th , to be an
nou nced.
I LLIN O I S
C H I CAGO—T he Chicago G roup T heatreSchool of D ramatic Art . D irectors,T . A . Walker , D orothee L . Bates .
T eachers, W il liam B rassee,T . A .
W alker, D orothee L . Bates .
MAI N E
K E N N E BU N KPORT—T he Garrich Players .
U nder the managemen t of D orothyManners, Robert R . Reed and RobertC . Cu rrier . D irector, T heodore St .
John . PerformancesW ed. through Sat .T hu rs . mat inee . Schedu le -Aug . 5 to
8 , T he G host T rain ; Aug . 1 2 - 1 5 ,Seventeen (directed by Booth T arkington ) ; Aug . 1 9- 22 , H igh and D ry ;Aug . 26-29, Sweeney T odd, the D emon
Barber of Fleet Street ; Sept . 1 - 5,Chilvester
’
s H ouse ( new ) . P layersI sabe l H al l in , Les ley D ymell, M iriamCatheron
,Ann D rex il, B etty Carey ,
Leonard T obin , Robert C . Cu rrier,Charles She ldon
,Frank Myer, Rob
ert R . Reed, H arvey Hayes, A lbert
Wade .
O GU N QU lT -Manhattan Repertory T heatre . D irector, W al ter H artw ig . Seasonrun s from June 29th through LaborD ay . Performances every even ing ex
cept Su nday ; matinees on Friday .
Schedu le—Ju ly 27 th-Aug . l st, E den
E nd ; Aug . 3rd- 8 th, E rstwhile Susan ;Aug . l0th - 1 5th ,
M ademoiselle ; Aug .
1 7 th-22nd, N ight of January 1 61h ;
Aug . 24th-29th, Fresh Fields ; Aug .
3lst-Sept . 7 th, to be announced. P layers—Margaret Ang l in , T homas W .
Ross, Ru th G ordon,Robert H aines
,
Frances Starr,Morgan Farley, Flor
ence Reed, Stiano B ragg iotti , E ste l le
Winwood,E dw ard E mery, Margalo
G il lmore , Charlotte Walker, JaneG rey, Rosemary Ames, Li l l ian Foster,Sidney Fox , D aisy Atherton ,
W i lfridSeagram , Joanna Roos , Ru th H am
mond, H ow ard H u l l, Anne Seymou r,
H arry Be l laver .SKOW H E GAN—T he Lahewood T heatre .
D irector, M e lvil l e Bu rke . Productions—M r. Shaddy, by and w i th J . C . N u
gen t ; Apron Strings, w i th MaryRogers ; I rene ; T he Petrified Forest ;T he Queen
’s H usband ; N ight of Jan
uary 1 6th ; I cebou nd ; Kind Lady . N ew
productions—T en M ile Shanty byOw en D avis
,w i th Arthu r Byron ;
H ere We G o by G uy Andros and
N orma M i tche l l ; M r. Shaddy ; Angel,w ith I rene Bordon i ; T wilight Comes
E arly, w ith Jessie Royce Landis , Lou isCalhern ; Man
’
s E nemy ; A T raveler’
s
T ru t h by Phi lo H ig ley ; H alf a H us
band by Arthu r G oodrich ; D ice of theM oon ,
w i th H ardie A lbright and
Martha S leeper ; Breakfast with Vanora ; T he M iller of the D ee ; and a
new play by Sal ly Rand. O n W ednes
days du ring Augu st a series of specialconcert matinees w i l l be presen ted.
Schedu le—Aug . 5th , Corne l ia O tis
Skinner, N ew Program of Modern
FI T C H BU RG—T he
M ARSH FI E LD
M ono logues ; Aug . 1 2th, Yale Puppeteers
,a Sati re on P lays and Players ;
Aug . 1 9th , Wal ter H ampden in Character Sketches . P layers—Arthu r Byron ,
G ran t M i l ls,D onald D i l laway, Ben
Lackland, A . H . Van Bu ren ,
JohnH ammond D ai ley, Charles Lai te ,Keenan Wynn , E lmer H al l , T om
T empest , Martha S leeper, Mary Rogers , Jessam ine N ew combe
,D orothy
Bernard,Kay Kidder, Katherine Keys,
Marjorie Wood,T ookie H un ter . Visi ting players—E d Wynn ,
Jessie RoyceLandis, Lou is Calhern , H ardie A I
bright, I rene Bordon i , Sal ly Rand.
MARYLAN D
D ARBY FARM—D arby Farm T heatre . D irector, S . E . Cochran . Revival of T heSecond M rs . T anqu eray starring E the lBarrymore, fo l low ed by T he OldH omestead. Residen t company and
guest stars .
MASSACH U SE T T S
C E N T E RVI LLE —] ohn C raig Produ ctions,Cape Cod Playhouse . E ight plays w i l lbe presen ted du ring the summer
,in
c luding several new ones . N ew playsnow listed : Cou sin Adelaide I s Psychicby D avid W oodbu ry , Carry M e
Bach by Roger D erby, and G raniteFires by G eorge B ryan t . O ther product ions w i l l be from Mary Young
’
s and
M r. Craig'
s Copley T heatre in Boston .
P layers - Arthu r Stringer, MargaretMayo , Fred Bal lard, Fann ie FrederickHatton
,and M ary Brush W il l iams .
COH ASSE T—T he Sou th Shore Players . D irector, A lexander D ean . T he Americanpremiere of G ordon D avoit
'
s London
drama, T he Laughing Woman, w i thH e len M enken and T on io Se lwart inthe leading ro les, opened the season .
D E N N I S—T he Cape Playhouse . Manager,Raymond M oore . T en -w eek season .
Schedu le—Week of Ju ly 27 th , T amingof the Shrew ,
w i th Peggy Wood and
Rol lo Peters ; Aug . 3rd, to be an
nounced ; Aug . loth,to be announced ;
Aug . 1 7 th ,T he O ld M aid ; Aug . 24th,
T he Circle w ith Florence Reed.
Manhattan Players .
T he Lat e Whalom T heatre . M anagingD i rector
,G uy Palmerton . Plays—Per
sonal Appearance, Fresh Fields, BlindAlley, H er Private Afiair, T he Old
M aid, A Reason for You th, T he SilverCord, I Want a Policeman, S tella
D allas , Springtime for H enry . Residen t Company
—N ancy D uncan,Robert
Perry, Jacqu e l ine Condon ,Frank Lyon ,
E rford G age , Adrienne E arle, EmilySm i ley , Byrd B ruce, G ertrude D ion
Mag i l l , John G ordon , W . 0 . M ac
waters,G uy Palmerton ,
Virgin ia R ichmond. G uest Stars—B lanche R ing ,
G lenn H un ter.G LO U C E ST E R—T he Glou cester T heat re.
D irectors, Florence E vans and Florence Cunn ingham . N ew play everyw eek through Augu st 29th .
H I LLS - T he MarshfieldPlayers, Marshfield H ills T heatre . D i
rectors, C lay ton Priestnal, Arthu r H ol
man .
'
Manager, H aven M . Pow ers .
E ight plays , one each w eek. Product ion Schedu le—Aug . 5th, T he Stars
May Change ; Aug 1 2th,to be an
nounced ; Aug . 1 9th , M r. Pim Passes
By ; Aug . 26th , T wo Fellows and a
G irl. P layers —Ann N orris , Mar jorieWalsh, Su san Pow ers , Eve lyn G reenspan ,
Rose D resser, Edw in G ordon ,
Wm . M endrick, T ileston Perry, C lay
Manag ing D irector, Phidelah R ice . D irector, Robert W ebb Law rence. Professionalcompany g ives seven performances w eekly . A lso studen t performances .
PROVIN C E T OWN—T he Wharf T heatre .
Execu tive Manager, Margaret H ew es .
D irector, Stan ley Pratt . Seven plays ofcurren t and recen t Broadw ay su ccesses,and two tryou ts . Company consists ofN ew York players as supporting cast
for visi t ing stars, and a number of appren tices.
ST OCK BRI DG E—T he B erkshire Playhouse .
D irector, W i l liam M i les . Manager,Fri tzi Stranski. D irector of summerschoo l , F. T heodore C lark. Appren ticegroup. E igh t-w eek season w i th professional company and visi ting stars
g iving seven performances w eekly .
Companyfi Richard H ale,Lew is Mar
tin,E dgar Ken t, G eorge E dmund
,Rob
ert A l len, Whi tner Bisse l l .
M ICH IGAN
AN N ARBOR—M ichigan Repertory Players, T he Laboratory T heatre . D i rector,Valen tine B . W indt . Visi t ing D irec
tors, Whitford Kane, Frederic O .
Crandal l . Production Schedu le—Aug .
5th -8 th, [u no and the Paycoch ; Aug .
1 2th- l 5th, T he Pirates of Penzance ;Aug . 1 8 th, 1 9th, Chalh D u st . Summerschoo l in con junction w ith the theatre .
M I NN E SOT A
D U LU T H—T he Lit tle T heatre of D ulu th .
D i rector, John W ray You ng . Fou rmajor productions run one w eek each .
P lays—Accent on You th, Labu rnum
G rove, Russet Mantle . Publ ic performances close on Aug . 8 th . Appren ticegroup.
N EW HAM PSH IRE
K E E N E—T he Keene Summer T heatre .
D irector , H erbert V . G ellendre . Man
ager, G eorge A . Birse . Season runsthrough Augu st . Schedu le includes atleast one new play , and a production of
either T he Scarlet Letter or T he T ro
W E ST FALM OU T H—T he Old Beach T heatre. D irector
,Lu ther G reene . Associ
ates, John Sirmeyer, Francis Shaw .
M onday and T u esday performances at
N an tucket ; balance of w eek at W est
Falmou th . Schedu le—Augu st 3rd,
Lovers’M eeting ( new , by G ladys H u r l
bu t ) , w i th D orothy Stickney ; Augu st1 2th
, B eyond the T errace ( new , byLawrence Perry ) ; Augu st 26th, T heyKnew What T hey Wanted . T wo otherplays to comple te the season w il l bese lected from Ou r B etters , And So to
B ed, Springtime for H enry, and T w entieth Century . P layers—D oro thy M ac
kaill,D orothy G ish, E ve lyn Varden ,
Margaret D oug lass, Ben Sm i th,and
Jay Fassett .
W E ST FORD—T he Lahe Shore Playhouse ,
Lahe N abnasset t . G eneral D irectors,M r. and M rs . Franklin T rask. Produ cing D irector, Malcolm Lee Beggs . Per
formancesW ed. through Fri. even ings,w i th guest star programs every T u esday even ing . Plays—H ere Com es theB ride ( new ) , H eads Up! ( new ) , H e
Who G ets Slapped, T he CradleSnatchers, Remember the D ay, Amer
ican Very E arly, and others to be an
nou nced. P layers—H e len Carew , Lan
cy Bader, T om Knight, A lan MorrelI ,A l ison H aw ley , Co l in D aw son
,W al
ter Lohr . G u est stars—J . C . N ugen t ,Wal ter H ampden , Corne l ia O tis Skinner
,M i riam Marmein
, Ann Freschmann .
LAK E M AH OPAc—T he M ahopac T he
atre . D irector, Edward Raqu ello . Man
ager, M . E leanor Fi tzgerald. Schedu leto be se lected from the fo l low ingBird in H and, Libel, Co-RespondentU nknown, Up Pops the D evil, T he
T orchbearers, Charlie’
s Aunt , B road
way, H ay Fever, Arms and the Man,
Springtime for H enry .
Locusr VALL EY—T he Red Barn T heatre . D irector, D . A . D oran . Manager,Arthu r H anna. E ight-week season .
Schedu le of new plays includes B etween Covers, by Lowe l l Bren tano and
W i l l iam Jou rdan Rapp ; Seen Bu t N ot
H eard, by Marie Baumer and MartinBerkeley . H arry Wagstaff G ribble and
Arthu r Sircom are schedu led to direct .Appren tice group.
ALDEN BRIDG E—T he Bishop-Lee
School, T he N ell G wyn T heatre . D irector, Em i ly Perry B ishop. Product ion Schedu le—Ju ly Slst , Aug . lst ,Ab,Wilderness ; Aug . 7 th, 8 th ,
Au tumn
Fires ; Aug . 1 4th, 1 5th, T he PetrifiedForest ; Aug . 2 1 5t, 22nd, G ood H ope ;Aug . 28 th ,
29th, N ight of january1 6th. Appren tice group.
M I LLEROOK - T he M illbrook T heatre .
Managers, E dward Massey and Char les
year by the N ew York RepertoryPlayers . I t comprises some tw en ty or
more accredi ted finds of stage andcinema talen t scou ts . Company t e
hearses in N ew York, playing week
ends at Pine H i l l . O ccasional performances in N ew York C i ty .
ROSLYN , LON G I SLAN D—T heatre of theFour Seasons . Manag ing D i rector,Charles H opkins . Even ing performanecs Mon . through Sat . at 9. Schedu le—E ight plays du ring August . Players—G ladys H anson
, Leo Carrol l ,Percy Waram , Mary Morris, E ste l leW inwood, H enry H u l l
,I rene Pu rcel l ,
D amian O'
Flynn , D orothy Stickney,Mary Arbenz, Caro l Stone
,Lou ise
Platt , John Parrish,Ju l ia Johnston ,
Pyron M acG rath
, D oug las M acM u l
en .
SCARBORO U GH -ON -H U DSON—T he Beechwood T heatre. M anager, Pau l L .
Berney . Pol icy Of ten plays, six revivalsand fou r new plays . N ew plays includeT he Wingate Afiair by H erbert Shapiro and N ever T oo Old by M r.
Shapiro and G ay lord K ingston .
S . H oward. T echn ical director; E leanorFarrington . Schedu le—Aug . Sth-8 th,H eadlines ( new ) Aug . 1 2th- 1 5th ,
B erkeley Square ; Aug . 1 9th-22nd, A
Very G ood Young M an ; Aug . 26th
29th, T he Last Picnic (new ) .
M T . K I SCO—T he Westchester Playhouse .
See White Plains, T he'
Ridgeway T he
atre. All shows.on produ ction schedu le
there play here the w eek immediate lyfol low ing . Appren tice group.
N EW ROCH E LLE—T he .N ew RochellePlayhouse . D irectors, Ju l iu s Evans,Joan H athaway . Managers, Mont m
ery Jackson ,Vernon -Worsdale . Per
formances T ues. through Sat . , Wi thSat . mat inee . Schedu le includes Petticoat Fever, M r. Shaddy, Saturday
’
s
Children , and a new mystery play by rJ . C . W i l l iams , By Persons U nknown .
Players—D enn is K ing , W i l l iam C .
Jackson ,Rosamu nd Birchby, E the l
Britton , J . C . N ugen t, Ru th N ugen t,A lan Bunce
,and Ru th G ordon .
PAW L I N G—T he Starlight T heatre . Man
ag ing D irector,Maryverne Jones .Man
ager, T heodore Jones T en -w eek sea
son . Schedu le—Week Ju ly 27 th, Courage, w ith M aryverne Jones ; Aug .
3rd, Post Road, w ith Maida Reade .
G uest stars include Jeanne D ante and
G ertrude H offman . O ther plays to beselected from Little Shot , M id-West,
Across the Blue (new ) , Candida, T heWild D uck. Performances n ight ly ex
cept Sunday . Matinees T hurs. and Sat .
PI N E H I LL—T he T alent Scou t RepertoryPlayers . D irector, G ene Francois . T his
group, formerly known as the RipVan W inkle P layers, is sponsored this
’
SOU T H FALLSBU RGH—T he BrickmanPlayhouse. Manager, W il l iam B .
Friedlander . Five troupes tou ring the
Catski l ls . O ne-n ight stands of tryou tplays.
S tag e, S creen , R adio, P ersonal D evelopmen t
David I tkin , Dire c tor
A Professional Schoolw ith U n iv ersity Pres t ige
O Profe s s ion al T rain in gO Ac tin g T e c hn iqu eO Produ c in g E x pe rien c eO Pu b lic Pe rform an c e s
O Fu l ly E q u ip e d T h e atreO Diplom a an D e g re e C ou rse s0 E v en in g C lass e s
S em e s te r Op e n in g s S eptemb e r and Feb ru aryFor Bulle tin addre s s
DOPAU L U NIVE RS I TY4 02—64 E . Lak e S tre e t . C h ic ag o , I llin o is
STU DIO it'éTHEATRE
T H E OD O RA I RVI N E , D irector
SCH E N E CT ADY—T he M ohawk D rama5 Festival; U nion College Campus . D irectors, M r. and M rs . Char les Cobu rn .
Chairman,I nstitu te of the T heatre ,
E dward L . Carrol l . T he Festival is runin con junction w i th the I nsti tu te ofthe ' T heatre of U nion Co l lege (D r.
D ixon Ryan Fox , president ) . Season
runs through Augu st 29th . Produ ctionSchedulk J uly 28 th-Aug . lst
, T he
Rivals (w i th M argaret Ang l in as -M rs .
Malaprop) Aug . 4th-8 th, T he CountyChairman ; Aug . 1 l th-l 5th, T heYellow
Jacket ; Aug . 1 8 th-22nd, M oroni, byE dgar Lee Masters ; Aug . 25th-29th ,
T he I maginary I nvalid, by M ol iere .
P layers—M argaret Ang l in and otherguest stars w i l l al ternate w i th the Co
bu rns and a professional company inthe six Festival plays.
SU FFE RN—T he County T heatre . Managing director, Robert F. Cu t ler . D irector
,Bretaigne W indu st . Assistan t
director and scen ic designer, N orrisH oughton . Ru th G ordon appears hereon Augu st 1 7 th in A Chu rch M ouse .
O ther plays ( tentative l ist )—1VhatPrice G lory, PersonalAppearance, T heD evil Passes, T he T aming of the
Shrew (Bo les law sky version ) , B roadway, Burlesque, Art and M rs . Bottle ,Liliam, Arms and the Man . Appren tice '
group.
W H I T E PLAI N S—T he Ridgeway T heatre .
“
D i rector, D ay T u ttle . Manager, R ichar
_d Skinner . T w e lve-week season .
All show s play at the W estchesterP layhou se, M t . K isco ,
the week immediate ly fo l low ing . ProductionSchedu le—Aug . 3rd, Pomeroy
’s Past
,
S tock T heatre appearances while learn ing
G raduates : Lee T racy , F red Astaire ,
Peggy Shannon , U na M erke l , ZitaJohann , etc .
DRAMA, SPEECH , MUSICAL COMEDY.
VOCAL and DANC E
Professional t rain ing—the on ly D ramat icS chool in the U n ited S tates present ing itsstuden t s a w eek in each play , plu s T alking P ictu res and technical t rain ing inVoice , D iction , Make -up, Pantom ime ,
D ialects , Characterization , Fenc ing , andtwenty al lied study subjects .
Special Cou rses for T eachin gD irec ting and G en eral C ultu re
E m in en t Facu ltyWrite fo r Bu lle tin to S . D uval, Sec’y
66 West 8 5 th Sr. , N ew Yo rk
MRS. DON MARQUISProlessionalDirector
The T H E AT R E U N I T
of the
Master lnstitute of United Arts
Mrs. John MartinDept . of Technique
Open in g M onday , O ct . 5 th
Special C ou rses
For th e You n g Pro fe ssionalFor the O lde r Pro fe ssion alFor the B egin ner
Fo r th e Y o u ng D irector
T rain in g for Radio
I ndiv idual Con su ltations and Analy ses
of N eeds . Coaching for S pecrfic R o les .
Satu rday S es sion s for T eache rs and
U ndergraduates .
For in form ation as to S tafi and C ou rse saddress
M RS MARQU I S , Box 4 08
3 1 0 Riv ersrde D rive N ew Yo rk C ityA cadem y 4 -1 7 00
w i th G eorge Macready ; Aug . 1 0th,D eath T akes a H oliday , w i th T om
Pow ers ; Aug . 1 7 th , T he Bad Man,
w i th Myron Mccorm ick ; Aug . 24 th,A Church M ouse, w i th Ru th G ordon ;Aug . Slst , Liliam,
w i th Bu rgess Meredith and Margaret Perry .
W OODST OCK—T he Maverick T heatre .
Manag ing D irector, Robert E lw yn .
Personal Appearance, March H ares,
Co-Respondent U nknown, Rain FromH eaven, Russet Mantle, Candlelight,T he Second Man , H edda Gabler, and
two tryou ts. Company—Robert E lwyn ,
Ve lma Royton , Frank Rothe ,H arriott
Marshal l , N eal Berry , Cyn thia Arden ,
D uane MacKynne, Phy l l is E l lerman .
YoN K E Rs—T he U rban Playhouse. Man
ager, E l izabeth M ie le . ProductionM anager, Lora Baxter. Scen ic D esigner, Kate Law son . T ryou ts and B roadway successes . Produ ct ion s—T hePlay s the T hing, H er Cardboard Lover, Ou tward B ou nd, T he RoyalFamily,T he Vinegar T ree, H otel U niverse,Fire Across the Sky (new ) , D eny the
H eart ( new ) , D eath I s M y Lover
(new ) . Visi ting players—Ru th W es
ton , Lou is Calhern , Arno ld Korff.
PENN SYLVAN IA
BU CK H I LL FALLS—Bu ck H ill Players .
T he Barn Studio T heatre and T heBuck H ill Auditorium . D irector,Corne l ia Stabler G i l lam . Assistan tD irector, Ralph Pendleton . Manager,W il liam Laporte . Amateu r organizat ion w i th smal l group of professionals.
Productions—D ear B ru tus, T he D over
Road, Where’
s the Fire? ( new ) .
MOYLAN -ROSE Van n a—T he H edge
row T heatre . D irector, Jasper D eeter.Permanen t repertory company, thirteen th season . Produ ction Schedu le forAugu st
—Aug . 1 , 2 1, Kit Marlowe ;
Aug . 3, Arms and the M an ; Aug . 4,
1 0, Winesbu rg , Ohio ; Aug . 5, 1 5, 20,28 , G et ting Married ; Aug . 6
,1 2 , An
American T ragedy ; Aug . 7 ,1 3, 24,
T he Lonesome West ; Aug . 8 , M isalliance ; Aug . 1 4, I nheritors ; Aug . 1 7 ,1 8 , 26, 29, a new play from the Frenchof Simon G an tillon ; Aug . 1 9, Saint
J oan ; Aug . 22, T he D evil
’
s D isciple ;Aug . 25, Love and G eography ; Aug .
27 , Candida; Aug . 31 , T he E mperor
J ones .
N U AN GOLA—T he N uangola G rove T heatre . D irectors, John Ravold and RoyalC . Stou t . Po l icy—B roadway revivalsw ith stock company . P lays—T heN ight of January l6th, Fresh Fields,Love on the D ole, M oon O ver M ul
berry Street, Petrified Forest, PersonalAppearance, Pride and Prejudice,Small M iracle, Blind Alley, Bird in
H and. P layers—Kay Loring , D onaldG lenn , Royal Stou t , N e l l ie KennedyStou t, MacG regor G ibb, Fred Lahrmer, Mary D aw ley, Charles Pau l .
RHOD E I SLAND
M A'
r U N U c K—T he-T heatre-by -the-Sea.
D irector, H alstedW e l les. Manager, T .
W I SCON SIN
FI S H CRE E K—T he Peninsular Players inT he T heatre in the Garden . D irector,R ichard W i ley Fisher . Professionaland appren t ice group.
SCHO O L O F
POWER THE THEATRE
C omple te d ram a tic tra in in gu nder tacu lty of profe s sion als .
Also in tensiv e one -y e ar cou rs e in
radio .
Fu lly eq u ipped Little Th ea tre andradio s tu dio u nder profe s sion a l dire c tion offe rs e x ce l len t opportu nityfor
'
ae tin g and re cognition .
S end tor illu s trated ca talogu e .
MRS . LE LAND POWERS . PrincipalS E vans Way BOSTON. MAS S .
Edward H ambleton . Production Schedu le—Aug . 4 , G oldoni
’
s T he Servant ofT wo Masters ; Aug . 1 1
, Russet Man
tle ; Aug . 1 8 , a new play ; Aug . 25,
Liliam,w i th E ric W ollencott and
Sy lvia Fie ld. Permanen t company in
cludes Marie B row n , Ann D ere, Sy lviaFie ld, H aro ld Mofiet
,E ricWollencott .
N EWPORT—N ewport Casino T heatre .
D irect ion , T he Actor-Managers, I nc.
Stag ing by Agnes Morgan . Per
formances T ues . through Fri. even ings .
Mat inees T hu rs . and Sat . Produ ctionSchedu le—Ju ly 28 , Kind Lady, w i thM inna Ph i l lips, Stiano Braggiotti ;Aug . 4 , B erkeley Square, w i th A lexander K irkland, D oris D al ton ; Aug .
1 1 , B rief Candle ; Aug . 1 8 , Personal
Appearance, w i th Barbara Brow n ;
Aug . 25, Sheridan's T he Critic, w i thD orothy Sands and Wh itford Kane ;P layers—E dgar Ken t, H ayden Rorke ,E l izabeth Cerf, Shir ley O sborn , Ph i l ipT onge, Frank l in G ray, O ctavia Kenmore, E l izabeth D ean Farrar, CharlesT rex ler, J u s Addiss .
VE RMON T
BRAT T LE BORO—T he B rat tleboro T he
atre . E xecu tives, John Becker, M argotLoines, Constance Reeve . D irector ,Pau l Stephenson . Performances W ed.
th rough Sat . for fiv e-weeks season .
Schedu le —Ju ly 29-Aug . 1,Yellow
Jack ; Aug . 5- 8 , Serena Blandish ; Aug .
1 2- 1 5, Bu ry the D ead.
BU RL IN GT ON—Bu rlington Summer T heatre . M eet the Prince and T he Second
Man w i l l take Se lena Roy le and E ar leLarimore to Bu rl ington Augu st 3rd.
VI RG IN IA
ABIN GDON—T he Barter T heatre . Man
aging director, Robert Porterfield. D i
rectors, W i l l iam Morewood, Owen
Ph i l ips, E dmund W i lkes . Schedu leJu ly 30-Aug . 1 , Personal Appearance,w i th G loria B londe l l
,E ddy Craven ;
Aug . 6-8 , H ay Fever ; Aug . 1 3- 1 5,
E veryman and T wo Angry Women ofAbingdon ; Aug . 20-22 , N or All Your
T ears ( new ) . P layers—D oris R ich,A l ice Buchanan , G eorge L loyd, Bar
bara Fu l ton ,Madeira Schw artz, M arion
W i l l is, D aphne Bayne, Jane Roberts,T omes Chapman
,N ell H arrison , W ill iam Prince
,W ende l l Wh i tten .
WE ST VI RG IN IA
I N ST I T U T E—T he Village Playhou se . D irector, F. S . Be lcher . T echnical D irectors, Mu rray J . Marv in and G eorgeW i l l iams . N ine-w eek season . Po l icyFive recen t B roadway successes and
several new plays, among them A
Recipe for M urder, D id the G ods
Laugh? Children ’
s T heatre and ap
pren tice group in con junct ion w ith theplayhou se .
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