| Show I 1 r Theatrical ical and BY Bv Corey poney FRANKLIN 2 FYLES Fv F Island LES and Attractions I I New York fork May 22 The genuine sky was blue clouded with white as though you OU looked up at it from Arl cona zona and a full acre aaro of at canvas gulches gul hes and ridges were paint painted ed In n grays yellows and other hues of aridity to look like miles and miles of or landscape In the while in the foreground the shacks of a pioneer set settlement settlement bordered a creek of ot actually act allY wet water Half Halt a hundred Yankee cowboys a and half halt as many Mexican greasers rode roda on horseback from tram the way off art distances 8 by winding trails down Into the valley alloy to carouse One girl who though pretty be molested In Broadway made mad an ado among the men there because rare treasures of her sex were as precious In that region as discoveries of ot pay pa ore She came on a broncho to the post for tor letters and having got ot some she ehe started for her home ranch at a gallop All the Yankees cheered her merrily as sho she sped away while the Mexicans leered wickedly and oue oae ol malignant greaser struck spurs In He overtook her hor demanded a kiss which she give jerked her from her saddle to his and rode oft orr behind a hill There more than tune time for tor two or three forced smacks before she on nimbly run ruu running ning feet teet climbed to her waiting horses back fell limp across the sad saddie die and was carried back by the beast to the tho settlement That filled the first quarter hour of the new melodrama mel drama of If Th Man lUan Hunt If anyone wants to quit at any time during this play pIa a ballyhoo bawler at the tho entrance had saId Bald his money mone will be returned to him and besides that the management will pay pa his fare to the nearest hospital Insane asylum or cemetery that he may ma mase mayAll se All 11 of ot us stayed another quarter of ot ota au ai a hour and got tho the worth of ot our ci of a dollar by b watching the Tight Fight of or the girl stealer the th pursuit ot C It him lum l LY by v the Yankee cow boys the dt dE dEfense d of him by b the Mexicans and the up tp l P down and roundabout the rods or peaks that looked like miles The hunt hum In a 1 capture i taa an I quit now and get my two tits bark was a n boys question urt ure was vas the ushers reply Th lad mused a moment Guess III Ili stay was his decision and see sea coming to the greaser If It The Man tian Hunt was meant for tor a aJ J problem blem m pia to deliver its ing moral fresh every hour that an au deON dence gathers Rathers to hear it it should hit hith h bird ird the evil PU wrought by the dra waltz lovesong comedies of UK jast ast season eason for this abductor of an unwilling kissee is fastened to a n stake sake heaped h a d around with resinous boughs boug s drenched with kerosene and q cd ed in A Wg Mg bonfire It booked that anyway yet I dont suppose use Ul u e up an actor at every per irm ince That Thu hort short and and v vy ry ry thick western m stern r rJ t aroma was the Ue MS big new thing in III l f of the Luna Park s see seeTon c ci i t Ton nn In of or Coney nn Island Dreamland the thes s f ail nd assemblage of ot summer shows i lil is with Bo tocks subdued Last sti only the third Steeple h 11 v sr park lia haul l nothing unfamiliar to tor r t l x apt broncho riding by cow co 1 li 10 1 we paid to do it and via vis viator tor Mh h hn paid paW ti t l tin un l It it t and a the chance chanc t n cub it l the plainsmen n on ont onI I t I hark tk swine 10 to 0 delight boys espe 1 The fun was increased by b put ng lured hired riders Ciders on bucking horses or orI I sting amr tr urs risk their hones bonus r to t the Ihl crowd Show Shown n t at lt tone on are arc quick to a tip ti tir p 11 r ar the w nf of or the day The Jour 11 U 1 a e nf r f Sunday morning gave accounts aCC of ti the t caused aU in London 1 M nI 01 farts by n who rode in th the f 1 ls i is r parkways p on horseback k kI 3 r t yet f l v aring raring l gowns that until I I f se t c i it ii it i horsed horsey were close closen tt r t ti n the ilif style but on of g s split front fron t ar ai I 1 r r shoeing shoo hl i ing legs legit from feet teet t to tok o k e a 5 in ill embroidered t Un boots boons By B y tip tie illie iHie of The he afternoon four hand Fm 11 ils were we astride of ot horses i ii in n Ht i t hase park hark In skirts hastily y n nJ nal ji t t ewer to conform with the foreign fore matt roif Which proves the alertness of oft o otle f t tle 11 i runey showmen to discover novel t tv tt T l traversed Coneys Cone s main street vr r r Broadway and its side street or orI o oi I A r with their quarter mile mlle each r f pleasure places place from big spectacles t little Ii faker fake ak J without finding more mor e than slight variations from last year yearb b bF r many IlJan placards promised astonish r T rt for or a week later and so yo you rou u r i r Count on Ii a letter next Sunday de des s bing many man ingenuities that will be he hed d Jf lea quickly at the th suburban re reB res r rn B s is through the country Imitation n it fa f the opposition that is the life of the th ne e park pak show business Nut Net t all ail nor half of at the stage shows show s Jr it t w oW York between now and nd Sept Sep t r will go outdoors even though t tt r roof gardens and waterside resorts orE o e to be bo attractive Many plays that look lock breezy breez and sound airy aln will wilt be beof b of off red in the theatres and I think thit tt tt hy by y another year many through 0 o t the land will HI follow tollo the example o n N Nt Nev w York Chicago and San Fran in making no difference between s fi umer and winter The weeks eks birth of or a l play meant to lv e a ail an summer in the theatre bearing the t name of or I Lester Is lightly musical and contains naught to mall main malat mallte the te t f ghost gt ost of the modish old oh beau of ot ana an ana a stalk the Rialto The Gay Musician one ORe tenderloin word or note although Its theme if is i locally theatrical and its principal three young oung women are actresses That Is its salient oddity rolf roles I with equal chances for tor Sophie Brandt Amelia Stone and Olga von Hartzfeld to sing dance dan and grin for the witch cry erv prize They The are a graceful and ami trio and the management wont have to nag lag them as the competition com competition competition petition will keep them keen and zest fu tu The question of ot their relative sal salaries salaries aries aties was wac raised between bet l acts on the th opening night The puzzle of or that technical al award ward a of superiority the star dressing room hud had been solved by tossing a coin oln Sophie Sophia Amelia and biga will have bave it a month each In the order named to The interact theme for or jocularity in th lobby lobb however was Julian Edwards Ed Bd Edwards wards performance The belief of ot the thep py p tY sharps was that the libretto of The Gay Musician had been taken from a foreign farce probably Pa Parisian Parisian possibly Viennese and the unknown un unknown unknown known adaptors adaptor work of or transfer to New York was clumsy clum Verses VeNes fortunes for fortunes fortunes tunes by b Edwards were ascribed In Inthe Inthe inthe the bill indefinitely to Siedle and an Campbell But the positive success lay lb in Edwards music and the clever singing of or it Edwards was received with applause by b friendly boomers her he came to the conductors stand and d he bowed with a R confident d en t smile 81 n lIe I Ilor for lor a weeks tryout in Philadelphia I had ad removed ill all anxiety The ThC curtain I dropped on the first ot of the two to acts a ts tsI I ov and its rise d Sophie Sophle Amelia and Olga hand In hand like sisters loving oving l as well as lovely lovel and the rest of or the company compan on view too The ap applause applause applause held out strongly with no need of or ushers and other rooters helping the thereal thereal real Ital approval of or the shows first halt half Now it seem possible that Ed Edwards wards could have reached the stage from the orchestra Probably the course had been cleared and amI he had hall trained for Cor the sprint Anyway there here he stood smiling as as the he t painted dolls of or actresses and bowing as amiably as the th daubed pup puppets puppets pets p ets of oC actors In his hs elation he waited to hear a call of or Ills his name He knew linen that th that t his music had dominated the triumph and forgot that anyone else had done anything But he bethought be bethought bethought thought him of ot his helpers at the third lift of the curtain and brought out our three men but their Identity and the th nature of ot their individual collaboration was w as left to conjecture They may have been the backing angel ho adaptive translator and the th subservient subservient subservIent Tho Tito ridi ridiculed ridiculed cubed Edwards cheek yet et admired his aptness In making malting a lot of ut tunes for far a comic opera opera not a musical farce arse The play went on with Sophie Brandt as a moneyed prima donna whom ahem the gay musician makes love gave loveto loveto to so that she will produce an opera of or his Amelia Stone is his wife rife who reluctantly permits him to tD figure as a n bachelor while she serves the scheme s heme as a housemaid and Olga von yon Harz Har fold is a soubrette who wh edges into the therow therow row rov row that inevitably ensues for tor of at oJ course the husbands love of ol o the prima rima p donna becomes considerably genuine the wife raises the jealous de il II there Utera is I a divorce and a n re matching before a return to peace and prosperity The first or the peeked between the mimic antagonists and peered beyond them to discern signs of real hatred in the personal rivalry Nothing of ot the kind was visible The Thet t ree actresses while pretending to fight fi like liko tabbies over a tomcat on a fence pretended also to be personally as 88 playful as kittens battens over a ball in a basket The upshot is that The Gay Musician Is a welcome variant from the output qt of shows that are arc tender tenderloin in sensuality but tough with the tenderloin flavor that is s rank to some folks talks In a week or a fortnight my space will be crowded by big summer pro productions productions productions so now is la the time to men mention menion ion tion t Inconsequential little curiosities A ring on a girls too toe is one of them The actress is in Clyde comedy comedor of or o Girls in n which he illustrates his subject that is to say his subjects by b y having three of them change their thole day duy d ay gowns to nightgowns and go to tobed tobed tobed bed The youngest very cute euto an cun cunnin nin thrusts her bare foot from un under under under der the bedclothes towards the audience au audience audience and calls on one of or her room roommates mates to tuck em in tn I told tol you that in an account of or the fire first ance Every earnest endeavor In dra dramatic dramatic matic matte art strives ever to progress for forward forward forward ward and upward When hen this actress puts forth her something glistens glis glistens glistens tens on one fine of ot them Eager eyes locate lo locate l late cate ate it on her right big toe Really the toe big bib but it is her biggest A ring Is s on it and a diamond shines where a corn might be beIt beIt I It Is a year ear and more since I wrote a word about the tI e burlesque compa companies nies formerly called female min minstrels steels that entertain in American theatres fourteen of or which are here herein in ht New Net York Fork not counting the sum Bum summers Bummer mers mer score at Coney Island I have hae sat out four of ot their shows within i fl fort fortnight fortnight night to see e if in 1908 1906 they the are any an better bett or worse than in 1907 1901 They The have neither risen nor fallen The worst of at athe true the four our was shaped up In the usual form of or two plays with some vaude vaudeville vaudeville ville between but I Iliad had hoped for one of or the pieces as it bore a baseball title promising a travesty of or Casey Case at the th e Bat the rhymed account of ot the th e mighty Casey who at the crucial point in a game ante lost it for tor the local club by b striking out De Wolf Walt Hop Hopper Hopper Hopper per saw the verses in a newspaper and an d recited them between acts for tor years wear s sas before rOri finding out Its author and has h as kept on using them without paying one dollar of or the thousands it has ha s i earned reckoning its royalty value by bythe b bythe the time It has line filled tilled and the laughter r it has hat caused However the New Ne England lawyer who wrote It after r having scanned the copyright law In n vain for tor ground on an which to base a de demand demand mand nand for tor money mone took all the satisfaction satisfaction satisfaction tion that Hoppers eloquent recital yielded and accepted a Ii sumptuous s supper with laudatory speeches The author of ot Casey at the Bat should keep away from the touring burl who are misusing his rhymes rhyme Let him not go as I did with the rho th expectation of seeing seem his baseball hum r nn n the stage He and I and others have thought of or a full lull length l song and dance farce devel deel developed developed from mighty three thre strikes with no hit The account of f rise and fall was was recited by a woman who had scant ability In her capering feet none at all in to her lisping voice and distinction only In being the till one ono bleached blonde I said there was no change in this theatrical thea then theatrical field That so A year car ago of or all nIl the feminine hair In every company was faded to yel yellow el ellow low l ow now nearly all Is s loft left In the color that nature gave to It and of o r mercury must have hae slumped in tit the drug market markot dollars ft a week in addi additional additional salary would have havee provided an elocutionist e to declaim Casey at the Bat in tolerable imitation of De Wolf VoU Hopper A further hoist in the wage of or an nn Irish comedian to personate per nate Casy say would have luwe secured a n panto m mist to illustrate the humor effect effectually ct To save 50 a week probably is boat lo t in receipts because the setting of ot th scene the tho byplay of the th spectators s a stud d the tho popularity of o the th subject need only a n comedian with a clownish knack for Casey C so and an elo elocutionary in tho the Greek chorus sort of to make audiences roar merrily at tho deop deep dark classical tragedy of or the mighty three strikes and out But you are not a manager of or and results rot not processes pt interest you OU OUi i The rho dramatically best of ot the four shows that I Inspected was immorally the worst I am sorry to say for it t thad had two genuine Irish comedians and an mr actress who poor old thing re retained r retained the skill which twenty years ears ago might have ranked her with AImee Almee and Judie Aside and by b the way let me tell you that all concerned In lit making this show like to have their names read through the smoke of ot to tobacco tobacco tobacco bacco The program program not nor only tells who wrote the libretto and score of the opening play who revised the verses and contributed extra songs and after billing the costumer the tho providers of ot tights hosiery and foot footwear footwear footwear wear are printed Ashamed oJ of o their th II work Why h tHese th se men are proud cf their agency agene in the exhibition of wo women women men mell menThe menThe The first play is sensual with the ar arrival arrival arrival rival of an East Indian prince at a re te reception reception given by a Mrs rs note tho the compression of ot Astor and Vanderbilt Vander Vanderbilt Vanderbilt bilt In one best society name In 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