Show NEW THINGS THEATRICAL < Two Innovation In This Country That Have COIIIC to Stay There are two new things in the theatrical the-atrical line said an old New York manager 1 man-ager yesterday and most of the people J1 who are interested In the theatre will watch their development with considerable consider-able Interest The first of these Is the continuous performance idea The general gen-eral theory of this style of entertainment is now well understood by the public and theatres giving a continuous performance per-formance arc established in half a dozen different cities The variety shows go on from 11 oclock In the morning until 11 at night without Intermission and the dimes and quarters are picked up by the man I ageir nt during the whole of this time The theatres are never filled but the I visitors continually dropping In make a I respectable total at the end of the day The newer Idea of the two Is called The Passing Show This entertainment was not original with Sydney Rosenfeld 7 or the Lambs club or any other Amen can or American Institution For half s century the Parisians have given what they calla revue at the end of the theatrical the-atrical season Jn which all the sensa tlrral and talked about performances and acts are caricatured and burlesqued lie Passing Show la exactly like the i t 0 French revue except that it has been Americanized It was originally intended to run it for a few weeks as a burlesque Now the intention is to run The Passing Show all the year round and to burlesque bur-lesque things as they come up The management man-agement have Introduced variety actors sensational dancers and all the other elements ele-ments of a firstclass variety show and it Is evident that this new style of entertainment enter-tainment has come to stayNew York SunA |