Show u u i Eights ano on ta tan taBY BY 81 FYLES n New ew Jun dd birds SI i along horizon lii in i time and some of them fly up Into the thc dramatic sky where their wiit In a day of the sun or of criticism Which shines scorching hot on at thIs 1 ani flutter aWl behind the clouds Of f oblivion Last week I 1 told you or of a female lI et that soared transiently This week I tell leU iou or the second flight of aman man who last year yea played H Hamlet ml t so o that wh h we came to set see AdelaIde Keims impersonation It ItI r I seemed comparatively Ed 1 Edmend mend mund Russell was a i I grin grill now he heis is a scream of I laughter Permit me to re you ou that Rail KaU dasa was an Asiatic dramatist a thOU thOUsand thousand I sand yosra before Shakespeare nas vas born that was the literary pride of the court of Empt Emperor of Samrat as much as Shakespeare was long Jong afterward of Q een and that the East Indians of toda today reverence play Zak Sak as a masterpIece far above and e beyond oDd tnY ever written in any other Jan language than Those are arc facts which maybe you OU at aI ready know b but t you ou are uninformed than that Edmund Russell sell sellis is the tle high priest of a Hindu e cult lt both material and mystical here tn In New York Yerk Devotees of Oriental art liter Jiter religion igi gather in his slon salon to smell the gaze on the furnish ins Sl sip the beverages verges and listen to the lore of line bast st from his lips for he is an lecturer I It was as under the of f Mr Rusel Russell that the Progressive Stage tage so society society brought abut about a perron ce ot of s last Sunday But for Cor his fond and foolish disregard of the American sense of humor this would have ben been a soberly int interesting rest afar affair in an informatory way The play tells the mythical stor story of a potentates f a lowly Jowly maiden and Gothe Goethe said e manner of oC the telling wa waa ad adm admirably m romanti romantic an and poetic But in inthe I the English translation Inexpertly in interpreted interpreted it get serious consid oration except from 8 a vel very congenial few per persons Iret present The Thc others took I Ii i it for amusement only When wone wontOn went to the village at the St Luis Louis r fair ir they were forewarned or of the naked men they would se see and braced their n nerves res for forth forthe th the shok shock But the women who came I two amazingly bare Est East Indians I handing ot ent for the Pro gr vf Zt St gi show at the entrance to the Madisn Madison roof Toof garden ren and were ushered to sots seats by other yellOw fellows wih with nothing on but turban and nd a loin JoIn coth cloth the they fused flushed and seemed Inclined to flee Thee These servitors r were from Mr 11 Rus Russels Russells sels sells own domestic outfit anti and if he heso 3 so nearly tok took their clothes or off for this occasion what disclosure might might he not me make of himself in the cause ause of rel real realism Ism However there was n no grund ground for tor An All who had hadn seen n hi his d gb garb as the moun ing Hamlet might have known that lIe be cover 10 m of himself wIth bar bric bane splendors as Emperor of India The stage hd had been fitted out wih treasures treasure from Oriental collectIons an antI the players wore gar gr ment tat that were wre gorgeously genuine East Indian But there wa was nothing in insIght sIght s so resplendent as Mr Ir Russel Russell in inA ina i A series or of four costume costumes aU all hung rund round with Uh r r s of bright sik silk g gemmed mme profusely wih with stone stones of many colors his er ears dangling big hoops of gold and his fingers and toes glittering with Notwithstanding hi his dr drap r he was bare at attlies tC rom ilder shoulders to and fn to to toes So were re the n othe other I men inca In the company So were not the women ye yet their coverings lung clung so se soI I thin and time that the skin under underneath underneath neath was but veiled as to their Imbs lImbs Th y the show girls of s a modern But no one ol of them was a half so pretty IL a darlng darlIng to te lok look up upon a 8 Mr Russells Dush On a sizzling Saturday afternoon s zing afern when I a large part o of the pop I went to th the in Coney to t tsee S see w wriggle le de in ia Turkish ernst smal of f the went to il In New York t to me In hr I m Rus Russian lan I It as s One e of tho tho humid I days when hn th vr very dewalk under under fot font scorch like the gridiron bd ha I i The cb cabe e Mr ears bound south bOk block after block of Broad Broadw Broadnay w nay y stores and store coed closed for the t half balf earie carried roes men I and Wom women n not to the th serious drama but for a breth breath of S see L air nir and a swallow of beer at old ok I Irney I nEY But 3 t few w of us went in in Instead stead front from the sizzling sidewalks U to the musty sel smell of an old Bowel Bowery the a las clinging to i It from rm other ther o days an of fine t ad and foul roul smells in about e proportions Te The playhouse was dark ark d before ad and behind the df behin te f anti and the doleful drama was unfolded u In dismal gloom glom with not a n ote of music between tween net acts to relieve the depression And the bt beet that could bp bo b e sid said for fot the scenery was that I it p d the brik brick walls from absolute n comment slightly adapted a I is te the kinet kindest tribute Tor or the c tor t oss that covered te the foreign ac acoss Yet out of the sel macit an and gloom bloom ate atean arose an exhibition ot of ar art that could not fail faU anyone wih with a mind to understand it and u a wI wilt to give i It fai fair attention The drama drama wa was Henrik Ghosts The actors were Rusian Russian r who have been giving occa occasional performances In corners of our ourtown town t own since their frt first appearance here in i n Marh March on Broadway So man many Pol Polish ish ab l Jews lve live on our lower est east side enough to support two Yiddish theatres i that these similarly speaking foreign er era found their roost most understanding i New York audiences there But I it is not as one who understands their thAir Jan Ian guage that I am ging going t tol toll you ab about ut I the effect of this matinee Sprinkled throughout the audience were i Amer Americans ans wh who st sat as at n a pantomime pantomime i some ome s conjuring UP of the g great t plot plot se some referrIng to books of the pl play But the majority f d the drama wor word for wor word and strangest to our Broadway eyes were the children many nt not over oer 10 01 or U 12 years who listened wih with rpt rapt atten tin t hin to this terrifying tle tale of miser misery s and hereditary disease There Is no re reason at this time to discuss the right or wrong or of Ibsen But It is pertinent to nota that this tragedy which h for lck lack ff f an English word or more nearly equivalent to the Norwegian we cal call Ghost Ghosts is the most admire admired by b the believers and abhorred by the un Unbelievers believers But tere there can be no DO two pOints of vJ view w cing of the Russian men who played ye two o of the five ive l characters in th pl OnE One n med who pla a the dergan clergyman and the other very veo Rus cle called bad a rich sense or of character kept wel well within its place which it would be folly foUy to sy say our stage does not possess but which wih with the thedeth deth death or retirement of such actor actors as Stoddart Jefferson Here Herne and L Le seems to b be fas fast becoming a arm rm memory r only As for the embodiment of the paretic Oswald b by Paul well this is a a Shot h time to become too serious But starts hr to one corn com pring paring it to Mansfeld Mansfield quite dismissing any h lesser set out to onesElf oneself why hy I it is more Impassioned temperamentally vivid than anything our star has done whIle as surel surely I it Jack lacks the large outlook that a man of the world like unconsciously in building his creations A barone baroness is one of th the stage novel novelties te ties in this time of Russian tragedians and Persian kittens Perian But theres more to kw knew abut about Ra Ray Yon Von Wrede than the mere baroness part in appreciating why she i is able to make her stage debut as a though only a a vaudeville on one She is a sister of Kuehne Beveridge th the sculptress s sand and going further back back a a gand grand granddaughter daughter of Governor Beveridge e of I Ii So there you ou are Wih With al all that in the family one have expected R Ray to 0 herf with th a more mildly titled sketch than Lady Mar lur SUI Still why not be of the aristocracy on an and of off She is quie quite as pretty a an the broe baroness or a as Lady Muriel uriel which it mayB may be noted is very veo pret pretty Indeed She can ac act enough h to give an all the tho poetic significance an and vast depth embodied in the twenty minute I sketch or of a young woman wh who calls Us in ina Ina a money lender to dispose of her gowns presently Jok locks him in a wardrobe lest lesta a suitor mitor discover hr her poverty before proposing marriage an and at the given time closes general jO joy I It Is allver all very touching But real really do Lady MuncIe have so much trouble wih with an and cautious hovers Als Alas bron baroness the aristocracy what i it us Used to b bAmon be Amon Amongst t th the theatrical novelties tbt that cn can Quite coety correctly b be tel termed oddities are the Sisters Y MA n no nl noi men mean Mrs rs Anni Yem an and her daughter Jennie Having ben been famous I during eighty yer years lr or be between tween l uncommonly coi comic of eccentric characters the genial Ann and Ten Jen have cst cast asie aside al all eccentricity for June Probably cooler for i it Certainly they wont overheat overheat audi I cocos from laughter a as they both hae have many Ure times and doubtless will 1 again when cool weather returns They ap appear pear In an original inal comedy omY sunds sounds as if mother and d daughter made I it up one Ma May rooming over t er light sewIng I can he hear mother saying Ob Oh 5 so ought to make U A vaudeville sketch out of i It And then Jennie sid said Do you think 50 Lets maKe few more jokes before i tea t ea and call I It al all a a skit and g t au Tie yule for te the summer months you Jou kow know As a bit of dom domestic st d a fragment ot of the Yeamans home Jl thE t ti he skit should be py by flout It i i n planned on the principle that Mrs Ir Yeamans Is the Mrs Irs Gilbert GUbert of aude audeville YUe ville Ever met bit of foly folly she commis commits ii ih supposed to be greeted wih with dear old Mr Mrs Yeamans Thus the Idea dea I is carried from dance and to song that whatever Jennie attempts ad and fais fails Annie jumps in and performs splendidly Of course that makes curse everybody happy T Taken ken separately Jennie ad and Annie Yeamans ar are about as funn funny as any two women on our stage but if They tey arged argued that for that reason they would be just twice RS as funny together teJ they missed almost the greatest of stage i Separately with wih a 2 2 a week helper each would be more amusing And then dear maers makers ot of may many merry moments to be eccentric again or rough or whatever you cre care to eU call iL it Jennie please ask mother who is dear dearold er erold old Mrs Yeamans without lr an any joking to la lay aside that reh rich and gor gorgeous gorgeous black lace Jac for h her soda social 0 en engagements and to sacrifice her most haughty gy grey pompadour for the i good old slicked and wi I sod parted re red wig wigAnd And Annie please bg Jennie ennie not to be beso so 50 dainty She Won our heart hearts lam lambasting m basting ua ua in and dont let our l ove OC grow cold by bJ her becoming Edna Swat em one Jon Ien swat em cnn for old times SpeakIng ot of survivors in the sho show s last Sunday I came across the Counte Countess Lg nee Warren te the little Minnie Innie who wa was Tom Thumbs bride in inthe Inthe the famously wedding at Grace church years ago and after a a considerably later spelt of widowhood mared married a a second comrade in count genuine me ine I bleve believe The countess upward and outward since she wa was a tny tiny wonder until now she is four feet long Jong and two fet feet thick As to age th the theold old lady arose from her rocking chair down her needlework looked over oer her spectacles and smilingly answered the question which I had bad not ot aske asked J I a am 64 and I look i It she sad said but I d declare clare to you I dont feet i it itA A dignified matron Mrs Tom Thumb has become become during her retirement but here she is back agin again in the show business In Midget Cit City at Cone Coney I Is Island land m she is an exhibit housewife In Inthe inthe the rm room of a a minature N New w En England Sla d dwelling with It its rent oe I to Jle like a stage hou house I In w Is to te take place 1 o Os J Jp p tal and I In gt glass c canes ae are git gH I which te the Thumbs gt got tl t I crowned hed heads of f Europe when V i toria tone was as a youngish quote tb the frt WS was a kaiser who ho t ti 1 up the ends of his moustache agres ages shely and the Ni Nicholas pen a mightier in signing an e I 1 serfs than hi his grandsons o j i j Jabbing Jap Japs A is a a the old d arnig which the conto ct ut gt get into l n but In which he an and T Toni Thumb 1 to Quen Queen Victorias court i around th the word rd an anthe arid the other si side i is a a sta stable lp ith m mu newer p ponies I is t the stalls A sni hJ street hM has a photograph gle a s f drink ad and some e candy t trinket S stalls 11 conducted by hil size adults dult A jn n th the square square big c enough h to te N griP gro group a aup up p I Is wil with dwarf from seller and t orchestra rid stage Let me introduce my husband oil said saki the and nj Baron Barest Two moon men of about He bee own ae ir irand and aDd h height but bet of much mere girth over overgrown wn dwarfs r other days t i tM the At thA th moment an electric the Baron and t the Conet c t e excused the selves and withdrew a call lIIlI the explained their ir ct Wilt will go on in fi five minutes minute And they have to make up for U it ThIS will w I be their fourth turn today and I expect reach mb On a h busy like Jike th we give a hour forenoon to near mt midnight t IT If Oh Ob re no nomy remy my acting days are over and II l picked UP her bel adjusted h r spectacles and settled herself lm nm tenably in her rocking I went to the theater Tile The La rI count an and baron ce caine on tim the stage t ta a rustic hu husband band and wife of European pea ant ate a r rin ill in pantomime over It fought VIolently made it up and ended a rr r brief and clumsy sketch with a ridiculously tat fat dance I stayed long to see a dwarf Hermann do some tri tn ld which any boy can ean perform with 11 i from the toy st stores ces a dWar Beau Brummell gave ve a a sauntering dit dif t that would ha be applauded at t L n lads pin shoW and asid a dwarf Pay Fay Ten stammer and stumble though v L flirtation ballad and strolL Neither lt the theatre nor 1101 In aU all Midget City w ute there a person under tour four feet clil 1 what duff duffers rg these actors ed I thought of such talented three foot as Franz Ebert Zink and Gab Gabne riel ne Still they are In shows that i 1 I in New York at two dollars wh Midget City cost me only a |