| Show 1 r I SONG BIRDS SINGING f L FOR SWEET CHARITY i iBY BY FRANKLIN FYLES New e y Yet i of the th sixteen In hi The Song Bird A I ki r there bean bein any ny ane hare would t I j jYe ve if for to a week eek bt bf le ending in n one perrot e eSom Som So ot of esmie operas noteworthy le CowlS Van I Yh r St Stanley Do De Wolf tol If HOlIt Hoppers r nd IO o on n In th th SOh S Sant ant fl coit ht H Half lf as aB mU much h more ud ba hv gOne e t tO Victor H Her r G Geo v H Hobart b rt If they had b beti d t the mul and wor I 1 wont oot a fair faJr te tent f c nt t fOr r N NOl al tid d AU AUgustus I gustus Barrett Barratt They were th the prima printa d itt in the tr vesty of f grand Opera and I bo hoi t f r nt nn other pur iM j than a Lam l would they primp and tt t any rf Then too the were I C rUe h and nd Willlam BUr r read re in carefully p n tiona of r Conried anti and I L happl hour bour In th to lve e 1 t to J the burnt out Bohemians of n Fran Francisco FranI I cisco Was as a yi view w of the forthcomIng in grand Opere feitl I Conned tie the Coo cn and I th Hun Ham n met t In front of the p ra hotte that Is YU Toil at It a dont know th thee managers as we e NOW New York tS do nd and It would be and hard bard to tot t tell ll you Ww w and wh why th the S nf them re sunny tunny to a t a tr l nce I r I shall give he said Oscar with wilh Peter punks yelping dogs and I I th the Brite Brothers Br ther stunt h b tween a atS ts and tM th people eople laughed hysterically over the allusion to ida his sS sSI 5 I 1 shall sMil notify sp t said sald S Heinrich that if they take bad n t for tickets it will Ill tt it the Box and th re was a hI bl hIlari lari lari uli us roa roar at th l fele ce t to the si sidewalk eJk in M US It But you wOUld have bave appreciated the singing match t th forces with sixteen mep mega tit It the noise they could like Uke the steam callIopes p or of rival circuses a town at nce roUghly b ver but S with ith the two v lum S of hex bar by ie Herbert rt from the rs tAnd LP rlou lit h tb between ert Tuna Park and Dr this his Week k Neither l te ready for th the n but both had bad their J lOns n n i lees than fifty of them alto lt at Asiatic or ox ex pl t w nd In th the t t t U t two 0 men fri 8 ml might ht himself lf In s jJ I be hunt but be by bi big game me In Into to teNt I s nt an art aft C moon and an evening at the b a shows of cf and Mun y Tie Th unuSual 1 number of lions and andt t he dOcility ty of m most t of th thi made matle them thena te herds of b bUffaloes and andas 4 as scant t In Ii f re Ote of the trat traIners e w wa a woman oman rI who hn followed the fashIon of that h prevailed In the caged Al nI f finking iS inking circus poses with h hr r t y fixed on th the jon a at aV t V t lo h if she turn turned d her back Mck an n In iL tant they would leap her she among th the ten and g old ants like a sta stac c tte amon harmlessly aged I them like a COquette S they roared In yet makIng hEr hr betray in alarm I dont mean to sty ay they ete not nO i g roUS roUSA A lion to be b at and andS S d when h he s lOST lOSTa Iora a nand band at Coney Island two years ago agoT T Tw men ani her hir lS of Hens with hers ItE unexciting as af the tho woman Tn The tp p bo hope of a 3 Bona Bonat t Incident nt and grew drowsy with the Mat heat under a 8 r rOof of Suddenly and ADd alter thet a long sleepy V t 1 it elL U of beats and elephants elephant one OM Del Bl a k US u with Ith a rIval of houp I 1 la slapStick 1 k ani ni gunplaY Here was as the thC old time trainer labeled H Hr r and Dare Devil A 11 he was heralded too by a trumpet nod ned lee 5 Baltimore the n ver er tamed and ever everS S that so IO killed 8 said Jd the will willbe willbe that Bel be among the twelve lions will IntroduCe y u will ill know BaltimOre by hI bl vicious behavior To Tb face him in the arena li l like f cing d death The lion as assigned l ed to the of Thai Bal Baltimore acted it right spiritedly He HeS sulked and snarled wh n bor ap p S pro d him at the whIp with his and bit at the prod nd and if he be beunt really whom Bona TW vinta was as Said to have killed he wu was wasI I near to be Ann Annapolis polis or Cum Cumberland S berland He Incited tI ty In hi cas cage mat mates under the mans P and ent the people IlS as IlSen aswell well en u AZ any ll liOn n could wIthout ut e ting eating some or Of his keeger The mOst theatrical Pitt ef f either ox x thou though h was vas giT by Amiri with th Ave U crea creatures tures shaped d lIke Uke feml but Uk like In pilson rt n for fort and desiruS of f committing t some mo more The lecture told us they were th Ug tIger JI ever ff trained er r they were embo of r fe And Amari was watI no M cage A actor lr of th the ino rn r He WM was a and a 1 raver aW Y back when a trainer In a wagon c cage with he r IOn Ad rne mt cf f s a row Hum I h aa hen n l In an arena rena with twenty tw ty Th n was no iSay ay to know whit the beasts be W ut VM kaT ha o done to the man manIC if IC th man done things to the thet Oh but be b was It a ft c cre t re He carried a pistol 4 1 lit In his bis right a steel I bar in his left wI haid d and at th same time tim ban handled led I a that snapped like Uke a giant firecracker He made much g nOise his m tb too s loud line of H 9 Uge tigers AS though h the they were b und ed them with the theS t I and the drove t them into Irto S hurdles and andS F mer them over S formed them In cowering t N ax rot Fot br n d dramatic atmosphere r two with repeating s stood ov ovi i side the bars By way of climax he be beJ J changed 4 hit his pistol f for r One withOUt tt hal halI I lets shot up the case cage as a 11 e bad acI man I do do R a b tim and the JIve from Bengal l tied thrOugh the opened exIt XIt He ha had won th the g once onre mors mor with a blurt But EO di Russian history lILTS that when hen rett ter and r tripe away M w they left 1 of themselves on the all cr crowned and andrt d rt d nO 8 UI t et be ne nein Pt in the Uie W s of royalty Th Theodore odore 4 me S1 meo Io f cruda t 4 Hon tion those dolls doUs to turn oft ocr a comedy of court coun manners and intrigue in ancient Ru Russia t But in this play hE has baa no ue me for Ie he Pet Peter r loll loII so 0 lie he excuses its absence ab by having a cour r I liar remark that some sun sunshine bille being f ed c by a window p pane ne hot on a melted his waxen nose ute ff Thereby the O consort sort doll Cather ath r rine me ine Is left lett to reign feign alone while the live Jive sov reigns ue are away Catherine has as been for all as The are to await in the room the neWs I cf f her death No Now Catherine Is a 8 very empress s and like the atlO very Kremer f the he may ha b seen n big doUs come to life Ufe in p 5 I so why hy not paint her face e pink and hit put the r regal J things oti on hOr bel ani place her ber like the waxen to ii overhear and the th lott lutts ia Tbt is the odd episode in The uhe Tr of an Empress with MIl MIldred dred Holland has bas traveled the country through without gettIng nw nth N NW w York Turk until this we week k kOne One grade and class of dr per pOr performances familiar El elsewhere ewh re ace 1 a amo i most mo t unknown here They poI po polite lite pla plays s of intellectual merit such sueh a aThe aThe The Triumph of an S s with proficient players and t scenic outfits often the company is headed by an clever clevel star lik like thiS th Mildred Holland and a score of such h concerns have fared finely on their i tours this season without visiting New NewYork NewYork York Of course there is a reason why there Is no New York pub public for them We have some bg and handsome theatres 8 where plays that have had gr great at Broadway explOitation 1 are given s no On att afterward often before the first season sMS n Is if r at t half Broad way prices or J M lees and with th the same famous stars and pr ed c casts The typical N NOw Yorker feelS that the best sat t in the hou bou O e Is non none too good for him If there Is 16 s sOmething on ona ona a stage before a p that he cant wait to see he may go up to the g gallery at a r rate but usually he will m bide his hI time untIl that very same thing gets ts b fore before a one dollar parquet That is hy a con considerable considerable proportion or of New Yorkers spend an all their theatre m mOney ney on first c Ul class entertainments in houses leaving none for such sIh good but not bet bent sati as Mildred HoI Hol Hollands lands acting in Theodore Kren Krem rs comedy That condition shuts out a large e quantity of amusement th that t in quality is b between twe n th the brands or o I Broadway an and Bowery I IA A problem drama In bj black k and white I Color Blind is out against the Clansman The Ret He Walter Haight stands forth to fight the Rev Thomas Thomaa Dixon 1 uch tich ado and many dollars have been made by Dixon with his play representing n negroes roes at th the south uth as dangerous to ty Haight Haigh t would like to do as much by depicting n noes groes oes at the north as endangered by society Te author Or of ColOr r Blind is of the African race r and so were the actors of his or l ss lOss for forin forin in hues they shaded off from black to the brown bron of the hero tero and nd the creamy white of the her herbin ine The Th audience In Ina Ina a small theatre used bY am te i dra dramatic dramatic matic societies was similarly diler sifted in colOr with a few while spots The play be began n an Othello i hose chose tales were of his v valor lor In the Cuban Cub n war and a 8 who was wasa I Ia a wealthy belle bene in New York smart rt so society det The brunette hero met the blonde heroine at a fashionable recep reception reception tion in Havana and they loved at t sight so suddenly indeed that they were betrothed ere he C cOuld uld t ti il her that he was oas not all Spanish as sh shO supposed but half African At this point the author put In his best licks for his race b by making the girl say If by some miracle I could blot out b half of your color It would be the half that comes from your d degenerate g Span Spanish ish father and his race leaving you altogether a progressive uprising African The audience ap approved proved highly Broth r Haight ad admitted admitted that if his play wOnt went on tour it might encounter less unanimity of approval Wait till you see what happens to them in the next act he be said when they get to New York The bride brave with th ethi l pur purpose purpose pose did not attempt to conceal her husbands from her ber New NewYork NewYork York family and friends friend She pro proclaimed proclaimed claimed It in a plea or demand for equality s as the bIrthright of the ne negro gro that tbt I love Jove But she m make ke keany any white converts t to her doctrine of mt In the play what eYer sh she may accomplish wIth audi audiences Her brother and some of his club cronies organized th themselves m Into a sort of Ian clan ed the bridegroom into a forest and were about to kill him by torture If he take an oath to bart from his wife But she rescued him at the p point int or of a pistol and they set ou out t to journey journe to Mme e pace ulace of refu refuge e un till social evils are reformed Two stage Incidents or oi a Sunday h had d to do with the art and the etiquette of the tb state stage One was a of Of f Russian social depths The Ab Abyss by Paul Ol h company of RU Russian 5 ln Jewish JOwish actors Orl n rf lf and hit his wife wiCe are arc the plind principaLs pals with socialistic tendencies In their of plays and for giving The Abyss the Czars c censor ns r closed their St Pet burg the theatre tr Th They oSme to t the land of freedom and nd riches opened a haIl haU in the Yiddish quarter r were dt covered by our crit Ira and patrOnized by our smart set very transi for a little of their excellent art satisfied d the demand for forIt forIt It So thEY were stranded a l lOn ns way from home nd and there are no railway ties to count the Atlantic Ole neff asked the actreSs who is Maxim Gorkis traveling wife to volunteer r for fora a Sunday rep repetition n of uTh The Abyss as her wOuld have drawn et ought money to buy steamship paz pas sages but she de declined Unoo and wIthout her tM the re receipts were 0 Not aU all of the good who cant speak Eng Ens EngI I h can n thrive on our admiration of v ethI foreign The T Jl c secOnd nd of theatrical art and etiquette was given by th thO In Innocent Innocent MaIds at a burlesque theatre Take m tip whispered a tip t r rand and look In at t the show Over ver th theren therell be Something ep your eye on e and Lottie He with Ith me and pointed Out ut Lottie Lotti In a 3 bOx WIth a young man not working tonight said Mid my guide but bat I th ren be Something doing with her right In It HerE comes omoo Mazie t to do 60 doher her stunt zie stop at lh the en of oC the stage but looked across at the box where th man had bad opened a pink ev n npr pr per a Its plis t Lottie Bt t fi s 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