Show Sidelights on the New NewYork Theatre I 1 BY FRANKLIN FYLES YORI NEW N have hane had s Introductory per performance e in New York ark within a pk ok Many of o them were wre ones 1 and yet et of jr l Were Inter to those v ill watch atch for tor fresh dramatic Ideas rr were at a matinee tIt lidl made fOr far A M j do low who e had left tn a COmpetitive producIng with V and nd Au AulISI lISI i 1 Dul Daly It a stock corn com ariy as as either ot of this theIrs J ot Jost an prosperity It a fatal malady and aDd dIed deep 1 II He had bad thAt me meI I matinee which put pu n In Into to f finally Indigent purse IH iL his own turn came caine to le be ob jc if l u in art and bygone In business 11 to be hi that wa way I am dead doad do what you OU wm will of c l my fl wife vIte and h he said to Frohman fut but Id rather work L t the time left I 1 can r J i a job for that lIttle while l x Frohman gave to the for 1 dramatic It a chance to earn earni i I i fig ig as aa a agent at on one of the Pt r man n I consider L the U rd ma ate In that i Daly wd several times a and only left lert an estate by byI I to die clIe at an up instead ot of a 1 n point in I his Changeful fortunes T It if it I Is possible that either of at atI I or th I ran Ir r or ICI or will die after aU all their profitable eon con jr tion But ELAt these three plays worth t f 1 at the Palmer matinee maUne 1 n of account R a e Carton a i had written dialogues c 4 r JI light ht with Jovial sentiment and th the heavy with woeful emotion The i th fh Waltz showed the chance meet i g in an anteroom at a ball or of who ho had been widely sop itil for years They talked as aM as Carton caR ca Write rite and behaved mannerly na as Fa Davis and C rn t c tf au art act But was nothing 1 more ruffling than Ute the woman t the man that in hl his l sl bf become Come a wife Ife whereAt It he was wa de dep de deTe p Te Nl l and her O later InformatIon that thal was a widow whereat he waS a The Tho Thing ruing was a auti ar r uti in polite poUle vie lc 4 A YOUng l n h hs s I LT if about to maks aft an 3 PaM paid It a ArtIng visit to U the stress hISS whom lie II had to get rid vid of rr I author meant us to pity the wo 0 3 nfl nand and th the man Sh hp had hadR R f nea through Il a love lon that was ag bonest boneRt I gh she indulged a aJ J l hope thAt he ml might ht be fbI wife Iff of leer The ton bc 11 Mil as old 01 In RS i it lit 11 Sydney Grundy used d it If In the same cite iff s R Rr sr r e uIn Lu Honor Bound r play which he Im Into L k of Honor HanOI AnUn was Use in inIs J let Is ThinK you 0 seen tn net act She In hr t the weepiest t th ti g since Clara Morris was young start your I lat hat a ecru hurt hurl her bel tott tot or set with an l 01 OS t f fr O on It her fin finger r And hen sh ct O hy about ana in her hf he ll 11 un UI Slit lw I is not noti i u I StA Sha Is now playing in 11 au a new Version of New 1 iua If n from tM the old on onI one I except that the woman 1 i wife If instead of f a t tt t h The dramatically weaken was wail dup due to the dis 1 h lf tin nn impure heroine T ihen did she volunteer to I that kind of nf n ft In The I I i g reo that lu the o the n hlll over lovet the and It wg for forIt It 1 in a Made after T Ht a audience was Wall mostly feminine tid all for nt nat it Ben BU BUe Bentt e tt r althou be Is yer very beautiful h h Is barely pretty prett The rh aut author 1 I lh i et t let IN him a son sone I e III te while I Ir and over with 11 on eloquence nO n 1 that overwhelmed him himy y v I Margaret throws flat dat on our before him In moaning anI g t wd b r turned away from her herI I It t I c i Jt l behind me sd hl their nan u 5 they do 1 tI d 1 1 villains main In Flowery Bowery theatres M t r le the demon limit said one i 1 she h the ever Ier It other othet HiI au an hour bour later those same girls v seemed to th Art ArtH H 0 Jve seep m Pha Hunch i iI I IF I F a z a nOW new tta were lt cull cullI i Ht sard Short a chump and a duff f j I e the h he hed I II I d kiss kiRS Viola J teasing i li It V 1 w were re from PUTh avenue too t II I I Illum lI 1 that at I IU U It II 1 as un an author a as wen well as actor Ii l c vice s hero 11 Pt Tite fhe Squaw SquawS S had incited him to write a one It 0 1 ild Id melodrama In Old t and I wm will tell you OU wh why n It ll ugh h It was w s a futile effort It In inI tt I t f m me very much forIt t C a a one for tor an expert Li 11 ator artor to ran fall Into T rho e charac t b by tor or 1 a l sherIff in of a bandit i hout the action clear up to tot toU t U i d lent this hero tin a at t I villain In a tUl dl disguise e thor I I L I t hat not flOt alone the heroine on p I a got but man in the audience t t identify him rite fhe was wash wasI h I l d to us at the outset out et as wear d 4 yellow hair so o when a man manU mant U t came ame Into the hero 01 s abin and asked sk her to ta hIde bide him H iII the sheriff she he fell teU In love Ime with I 1 H and put lUll into S rot Ift closet bleached i Bill dashed In and begged for tor Jt JI Which W the This one The fhe other ether was WMS the I Ji J sn j II hero tero The sheriff came out 11 1 took the bandit captive but by br tL time we rather liked diJ 11 us as a bandit and aU all In a minute favor him ht he pulled oft his hll yellow wig Ie atal tt fad himself u as the tricky hf lanned play for tor an actor to toI tor r I tp te tep a PI p U I author ot of The TheU U 11 Ir I tu to the Hurrah wrote an expert I tal l brevity In stage n 1 brin ng an lit The II 1 ge to his sweetheart In New ew York of oC sendIng has out there Ure i I lilli lw He had heen in mak makh h 1 his million and be ome n Jt oth in III his otter to buy her hii to for a aIs aIs Is there It a mil man n In Alao who L for C tasted whisky sn ci that there VI was tK a U s ui made It the chief factor tn In tt JS s ItaY The girl ctrl meant to give f 1 a drink A f ginger al ale In aho a hors M tint Jut by Jl mistake IWed the ta taI l with the of ry rye hi wooing grew gre and with an ardor that was wase e But the eloquence of him hili v 1 1 tongue took a whining turn 1 ld h her r ho how when latt Ill Iss i Death Vane ValleY he had In a vision of e her figure and her voice reIt lt g him to safety That had been j f to whIch hi he o owed hi his life ii 11 lila hili of her ti T id d himself ot that pitet for tor her bPI 1 t 1 tl aad d being too drunk tV tb su ty any ht h sank Into a chair to sleep oft ote tf li enesS but she he kiLb doub f lIe fit would bt be lovable sober therefore kissed lalin That was Wag lin 0 1 th 11 five n things Iti In tit the pro proE II E or 1 th Ilk lambs gambol la last t FArnum AS th man and by way IY or of Usage Alfred lan as the girt girl 0 The Thea occasional lonal entertainments by nut fur for the Lambs at s at af fait und tind not meant for publicity yet yetI I yield to the temptation to tell tall that all of lie he gamboling is lhee was a quite frisk with written by Joseph W V Herbert you know It if at all au as an actor In the of 01 Bernard Sha Shaw was WAIt introduced In ift an Imitation Uon by DeWitt JennIn as an angry rend render rendor or er of denunciations of Mrs Warrens arlen Profession lon Sa tt 11 dropped in to the of impersonation by that Fred Jck P rry who enacts bad brul old men on the illa stage but at the club I Is a handsome young fellow feno Shaw and the devil dl disputed the of Shaws plays Then Than the audience of actors And their pest guests WWi was amazed to find itself Itsel fooled by a theatrical trick A white bu bust t ot stood on it ft a at t one side HId ot of the room and ot of B Ben n Jonson at the other Xo No ono no su suspect suspected p t teel eel ed that the hn images were ere not net plaster hu ter untIl Shakespeare In the discus discussion sion with the ol oice e of Sydney and Jonson fU ith th the voice olce of George Fawcett both uttering characteristic characteristically ally critical So o you OU see the al are in their own diversions lona Ou fAme Sunday the Pm 0 Stage society was U tr trying Ig the from do de degradation gradation by performing Max ax revoltingly Indecent The tight Hight t to Love LoveI 0 I ought to be sorry sorn that the only full fulllen len length th new In Broadway this week weeke e except t a ont one in Sarah ibm Is a frivolous fore and I really hm am glad It is no worse that Io 10 tile the olI theat theatres ate alO brought problem dramas 4 of iniquity with Wl titles like Wh hy Come to Naughty Naught of oC a Wife Ife Quern or of the and No Mother roth r to Spank lier But the district of our t theatric beaUle theatrical RI al town bus to get ft along tot for th time being heine with l t bit of non lUl up P fore fOI and fter It nauw to tIm the difference In Its before a nostrum to the blues to hues huett As the tbt ascribes the to JAO I that he hC I floe nt 1 member getting It from lIar Bet i un lIn It had bud been conveyed one l flom Paris Pari and rn gues Iii is that the moth clue Wt in II New e York ok is a beerup the tho was in the French 11 German It i a love plan phil plant t tee t tot rw th t he con conscience lenee an I of in short It a very wicked in e to ha hats lone clune with th the material what hat dyers do to foul VOl fa fabrIcs cleaned and nd colored It fit to among polite pea I O OIt PIe It lIt lIe has bUill made madA a good Job or of it Not ot otH H t II Fiske tu In whose hub ms theatre it is III shown would care tp aign I n nIta its Ita tag of oC r for It a frolic froll or of wives and oth r mt but its p gyot d nt deserve any Cl de Incidentally T 1 tan an give ie you OU an n Idea of the hard work that authors Antl ad act tb 10 to make you TUU lauh Before awl After beau lleen triM tried u a t fortnight bt hi fu Non and to seine extent t re rewritten written and rt recast t for tor its Ill New ew York In tr last ronda whon Nc Di fell 11 oft off a saddle horAe hod and banged himself so IV that lie ht ml might ht not bf be aIde ahlf in 10 act MISS M Kenyon Bishop caught a old cold monia slId ud th the look sure till late hate iu ILl the week v k Sol 54 T 1 need an ItI to attend u a rASH rehearsal 1 The theatre was wa shrouded In th the white cloths loth tit the tip b 1 In daUme A dozen dosen Interested lot rt l UIe nt l an n i once u with a aarm n arm arlU lii In Ii a and II a hand hantl ped to h his Ss jolted bead hed co coached r lii read the a b d him own 01 and had recourse to an attend big Ing physician to keep him going AR Air ARt t m genc actress s Mat sa t a apart the ab role rolp its Il business s on the sta going fI ser r its hI bit hIoe oe CL with the orchestra leader and arJan arranging IlZ tot for ill in Us Its gowns iO o them fit her In hi case it she abe bad to 10 wear Nr them The l staff Wl was darting lu In and out and about in what looked like hopel hopeless j f anxiety If I IWI WI at i judge on the bench and a jury ln or of und under I such T I might d him to n a for but bitI butOt Ot not to a fur au any further un inn unis is Hut But in tb the p performance Bo Be fore forean an After l ked Uke a frolic as funny to the lt m as to the audience AL AI one lM point in the farce a really husband band figures cures unwIllingly In Inan inan an c escapade with a He is dolorous and tie she is ie in the lJ too The rho inventor puts puta double doses es of ui the quick bracer Into their champagne They lh have sat apart In a morose But the tI drug takes instant of f ft t feet l Their frowns froIa give ve way to smiles then thell to grins US then to laughter nally tb they break Into a hilarious can I clot call No o I watched Fritz Williams I and I at tile the rs al practicing that over oyer and andover I over taking the cue u from the ac rn music for fOI their chan changes of t countenance timIng exactly r COI every whitt of front from depression to exuberance and almost convincing me meby j b by the exact exactness of the preparation I that no one would laugh with tham But to the audience the they betrayed no effort rue rite fun tun looked l as sPontaneous as thou h the ha had generated It in III minute on eu th the spot That warn a aone one of the things thing that make nake th the farce atco amusing It Is a 8 sayIng among players that it is to tomake I make mak peOple laUgh titan than et cry II There Is a hullabaloo over ovel U good ll old Grandma B Bernhardt at at the j age Kf or of yet still the of living actresses q Yet why I the public wildly tumbles over oyer itself to Kol gt at her In 1 after c calmly d a way away froni her In I OO Is a puzzle to the rhen she ste iva accompanied b by the famed Coquelin now hEr stage comrade Is Do De Max of Parisian nut flute but unknown here duly two in her fortnight round of ten are additions to h hot t fa Ca lt sales of seats seab were re for tor the Camille anti and andLa antiLa La Tosca except for tor her opening with The My h own Idea Is that the deaths death of Irving Iring and Jet Jef Jefferson ferson u US t this might be last tour Sarah rab tart with The Sorceress pe gave a dance chance to measure her art 1 by the of oC Mis h Pat Patrick Patrick rick Cambell Of the con contrast on itc is to Mrs eU whose 00 J looks small when In connection with Ith Bern Brn greet one There Is u a tine oIt under womans a ba baek her theatric the d devices ft genius her acquired skill nil all of which ran gave to hot her ant and not to the Fn English woman However sonic mw I of th the Idiocy In the New Nev I York Journals made me feel r reading adin such Much sane praise ot of the Chi cage caco pe to 10 the same Bern Bernardt ardt same like hike pitch tn lag lute tu tier Or Of course Unit that d li hut But I may venture to object to tn toUtI the UtI of i Which some of the adu ot or In Iii ny opinion thoUgh I mu may be favorably y yan an Inartistic liking ot DC n Sar Sai i dous plays written for have han been an important It IC not on I Hal fad factor or In hr Paid baa ns bet hel 1 tf reserve ill iii kuist roles rols like rb J ii u for hr In I modern emotionalism like that of character by th the wa ivay which she plays seldom eldom except p i Amedee hut has made hir famous bY r ot of such heroines of i violence as Fedora Feora ln La LaTosca I ITOH TOH Tosca l Theodore Theodora Cleopatra tra and Gia monda Yet there thore are ae crItIcs In New NewYork e York who recognise the of Mrs Irs Curter Carter b by B ft et that Sar ous greater work ot of the same general kind for tor the t B Bornhardt has been u a hindrance toj to her J I think that Idea Is fu fudge lt i I |