Show n I u n i r 1 i i i t 1 1 I I I I I a aI L 1 I BY FRANKLIN FYLES fl u May lay 14 William J Rr Dines ones n ns to New York to have a 8 ago ago go 10 at inn to rub noses and mark mack lips with showgirls to swap po polut lut rl talk with Tammany men and to tog g Jt get t so sn o merrily rousted roused on a 8 convivial l tIfa il as to start a song with Im firm froll an Im thence dishing in on to tell what he will do if h he be only sits Bits there in the presidents I hair nail in ill good I Meanwhile lie Im II meddles with the rival rivalry ry V of or a J German and an Irishman for tor and lets leu himself loose in the I I of the tenderloin I JlII West Vest the actor assigned ed an a n i imitation of Bryan acquires scant t up to make a lifelike re en enI I harse without caricature th the manner of f the celebrated candidate is le not ex exaggerated exaggerated I I rated for travesty and a d ao we have hae haveA haeA A rather sober and sedate Bryan Bran ng ug in io the foolery of a n new w I sania ranza afi HP HI Js j an extraneous and Incon grInI personage suggesting a man of solidity at home shaken down by b sirens abroad yet set It he hI is l not maltreated td In any an anal anyay isy ay al to tn t lose ORE ose votes vote for him next time The Th he audience applauds him Mm while it ita a uhs I I Theodore T Tir lore Roosevelt is dealt With less les Near te I end of or the I veiling sing wen Aen w en one of these thoe T v Juggling flu troops or troupes ot gymnasts In the guise of give an exhibition drill Roosevelt is at the centre of a I ed by a rising rt curtain He Heis Hein is posed in the bright spot of the lime limelight 1 light ht which glints from his bill eyeglass I and radiates from the white teeth of I Ills his hi big grin burlesqued It to Is a comic comi artam though Intended for a pa pan i picture and a great explosion elon of j Merriment was Wall touched off the night 11 I IWas I was present by the gallery boy who wha whan j jin in nn n seeing Teddy in the th khaki of a Cu Cuban I han bas rough nigh r h rider Thier just like We hit garb garli as IU a urt er of big game in AMes Africa let out outI an imitation of If a lions growL I Drama leaves the starch of dignity n of this thill weeks wash and wears wear I so 11 much of its Ita raiment as it I I d throw brow off for the swimmer summer A Aas I as It figure of 0 Th The In New ew ewI Pork Vork rk for tor Sunday Sunda May Xay IS 16 I would be c e I showgirl in a II robe robe of gaiety gamy and a post pose j I f hilarity The mot most theatric thing thine in InI I he fresh output and why n net t say it is If I the most dramatic as It contains the theer I er plenum nt l of aroused interest tonne tense sus susi I i nw nse i and nd unexpected ted denouement d is r l hl as ac a happening hap to Bryan He Is I Il in III Broadway with l BOSS tr II Murphy The stateliest of the Nay lay siv passes MUlliN by In hi one of ofra ho h f ra l th gowns which tit the fashion rit t i tell us have absolutely no pet petis JIS is underneath Just Juet Ju t before she abe sher r OS o nut tit of If f sight whatever It te Ss Ui the that t tup jn I u i up that gowns skirt lets Jets go and andI I p snakes her exit in hi ho bo hory Ply ry looking like her own skin from flan aster tops to belt line MM What Ahat was that Charles JT J said UI al 4 Inc lor IO v n William J says Murphy rry I have my y eyes e open i I 1 r I Wall Wait it u popeyed till the next one ORe ones m s along a Willie Willient I 1 arnt nt set net pt myself up as JUI tin an n expert rss se but the ne DeJ t one ORe struck me as win bein t nore oro of o a toeo than the first tire ne n Anyway ti vv she was WIllI no n such audi lady 1 dy as the thi si I Urt rt loser oh no net not ever and AM nn R l niter nover for she had the tile of the then thery a ry rP n rather rat her than the air of ot Broad aS y and what shat dear Lord Lort what If she ike k I Ir r Predecessor Ird d t drap ape th skirt of nr nOr oress dres rf 0 mink says ay M Murphy ny I fa I II ls q Il Pryan lIk if it chats me my eyesight eo t I Tl a Murphy cries out opt to the girl girls I res s II H R mouse run rYR up tip p yen vow yenI I vown n I a ik eke her skirt high she II as flees ee I ale t H pair I r of M hi rubber boots boot baldt I E p grip shut out what wha Bryan i iOne iI I d Ii 1 11 P One Once more he t Is un II III I ri d I g I rrose dramas are hold bold I t the wW ItI demand tf p om The Fol Fe na ay O h Bry DryaD Bryan n and andr hi r as dee is Ie one of the 4 o ok r k wW ng S up pp the h Jt Lat Last Sunday I toll tok you youn on n e viand J play 5 that showed how a portion of n a fortnight t before the a 1 l ing f nt that h a resort for WW 1909 and anda alv a al v I tia Ctt City 17 U la revealed H incident T Th The e F Follies of ot th the DW nav This Thil n t l ur G rp i I n marked s a d du 11 ummer u r in diver lver divera per De cent cant Salaries a al tors fa tall Irp e I as the e weathers tempera r In 8 a d with that cut In ex exRa Ra Hr iKa n aj a although in to re II two miles b be J y y yond n the th the th e sale of t j a justas I how is as I a I effe a hat alf that f r the I T Tn Tnt t r tiu IP name Dav Da the tb A Ae e Pin pi t r r Follies I Id d i 0 1101 hr bf 1 ra e TV act s of r word I IS t fa a al am in yet they are not notT I 11 T talent sleet t and th do I they y most of M vo u t tr liar 1 stunts for one dollar doUar I Price considered In WEEK AT ATTHE ATTHE ATTHE THE THEATRES P I Salt Thursday Friday Saturday and Saturday matinee John ohn Drew in Jack Straw Orpheum All week beginning tonight matinees matinee d doily dally ily vaudeville Colonial C All w beginning K to tonight tonight w night matinees maUnee day and Sat Saturday Saturday u ay Mills of tin tiro Cods Bungalow All we k beginning tonight matinees Wednesday and Transgressors Grand GrandAll All week beginning to tonight tonight tonight night matinees Wednesday and Saturday Hearts of ot the Blue Ridge 9 stead tead of originative artists and HP ne n matter from noted humorists there at a duplications of the best beet things dorr dT last winter in sows TI TIT velvets and satins n of the Ue showgirl may be linen or cotton and I are perhaps from the fibre of plants pants in instead stead of the emissions of worms Win perplex myself as to the verity veri y of an at t i Ernest Gerhard the programs soleo i I Ithan than of 0 an author There is no pint pin whatever Even Kven Mr Ir Bryan Brn know kno where he comes Into or goes gocs out our of the tile story lito Taking the program at its word the thc start la is made at the Plaza a center of ot wealth and fashion with a Central parks main entrance a Van Yan Vanderbilt mansion arid and three palatial hotels ho hotels hotels siding it Yet Tho Follies S of or the Day throws its whole force of girls Into that pla plaza piau a with their toes toos pointing to If 1 and midnight presumably presumably ably abl not noon You know asWell aa as I 1 Ithe Ithe the things bound to be done thereafter the chorused acclaim of good old Broadway the ballads of ten tenor tenors tenors or ors to enrapture girls girl Ii the songs with sauntering choruses of sweethearts tie the t e responders from gal gallery galIe gallery lery Ie balcony and boxes and the flirta flirtation flirtation flirtation tion encounter of one fellow th two rival maidens not a Quarter an eighth not yet a Ii sixteenth of the doings done over in The Follies of the Day DayAs DayAs DayAs As this summer show is II shaped on last lut winters model It has Gibson on or nr Du Manner r long girls a short and ac i a ari i I I I I t I ihl s I I I Monroe Salisbury In The Mills of the Gods at the Colonial starting to tonight night fig ht and resentment at the south surely would be demonstrative Nor oes it seem that glint W n wag lp of sumo nt n to tot er h dice A ti pe pee for or haJt earp than now ow must have hate reconciled audiences to the realistic I of the Shakespearean black hero and I Iwhite white heroine The subject is made I pertinent here hrie by The Red toon in hr which a great groat deal of Intermarriage ze tween negroes and ami others is enacted I and the company has not white mem member her bee berThat That looks 1 kt darker r in print however than tift H tHe le stage st ge and for the pallia palliative palliative tive reason that the racial blend rep re nt in mimicry ml is not of black and white but of or the yellow to light brown of octoroons quadroons and mulattoes with the yellow of Mexicans and the p Y t G w iy i t 1 4 I Y c d e f k kt kC C t g i i a I I j I e w ar arI I aA 4 mar marc a n c John Drew and Rose Coghlan Co in Jack Straw tive th set of or ponies of or a prancing e tion and Broadway boys bogs bo s sufficient to escort e cort both th the showgirls and the ponies A Gertrude Hye from vau vaudeville deville leads four lively lightweights billed as her dancing be because because cause ue The Thc Th same Gertrude mates with a Sam McCabe in the customary cus customary customary tomary travesty trave t of acting on the one night stands a Sandy Sand McGregor ol strives to duplicate the Scotch Harry Lauder and there are brief burlesques of various dramas JI v When Ira Aldrich h a negro nelO played p ed Othello before our war about negroes his Desdemona was Willil a young white girl yet I can find no record of any such racial trouble as would be sure I to arise now for ridicule at the north red of or Indians All the black in sight sIght is the moot oot of ol fer not more morg than thana a third of all lW p blood is iss I negro A play named The Red fled Moon has been taken through the country by Bob Cole and Rosamond Johnson it Ira Ita authors author and maybe you ou saw it at some point in its of evolution If so babiy the adroit Met f t with fl th which dangers of ridicule ridi ridicule ridicule cule and perils af of animosity were avoided As pac paced d now among amon the shows meant to summer in Broadway three other authors than the original Cole and Johnson are mentioned One is a Mr Europe contributor of ot tunes who sits in the conductors chair H His He Heis is bla blak k and ami the orchestra of twenty four tour is white while I dont know that any dicker was needed to keep those mu musicians under a negros negro s baton and his demeanor may not be a result of agreement but certain it Is 18 that Mr Europe while making the motions usual to a leader never seems aware of the mostly German musicians but behaves as though bowing only the tinted singers on the stage The action ution of The Red fled Moon you youma mays may ma recall begins in a Florida town where no sign of a pure white resi resident resident resident dent is seen where most of the people are old ivory and where a school for fo Indians and negroes is an institution Do you catch the ingenuity of that de device device device I vice The offspring of Indians and Africans mate in love 1 k re e anti and wedlock without the color Scheme of ot yellow brown an and 4 red offending the taste of a white audience An ensuing hour of the play pia is at an Indian reservation in inthe inthe the th where the blend of hues is extended without a break of har harmony harmony II mony by the introduction of Spanish beaus and belles from Mexico A Are re return return turn to Florida Is im made for the finish at a ball in the U mansion man ton of the negro political boss bo s of the town Not a glimpse of a clear white person is given from to last t I wonder that Japanese brown and Chinese yellow enow are not worked into the anthropological design This play pia has serious passages An Indian chief has married a mulatto woman and he comes after atter a long ab absence absence sence to take away his hL octoroon daughter A sober serious scene of ot parental contention over a dutiful daughter Is acted with care and con considerable considerable considerable skill yet the noble nObl red rd man manof manof of 1 excessive ie dignity Is personated by bya b ba a big buck the mother mot er by a fat wench and the daughter by a gal and doubtless you are wanting to know whether a Broadway audience stood tood for It I have written that sen sentence sentence sentence tence colloquially because such dic diction diction diction tion best represents the assemblages state of mind A laugh breaks out once in a while up in the gallery and sometimes a titter runs through the parquet but the good quality of the writing and the acting saves the ven venture en ture barely saves it and whenever the sedate tension threatens to break the action plunges quickly into hilari hilarity hilarity ty t Thus the show is the strangest amalgam of ot drama and farce tragedy and extravaganza that tha ever eter I saw The boldest bode t phase of ot The Red Moon loon in its appeal to Broadway is its outfit of showgirls Never have Williams and Walker nor Cole and Johnson ever before dared to present negroes in singing and dancing relays las lasin in full and close cloe imitation of ot the white beauty shows Safety heretofore has been blen sought in devoting the yellow to coon songs cake cakewalks cakewalks cakewalks walks and antics in ragtime Six Sic tall erect gracefully dignified girls are coupled with a half dozen collegians col collegians collegians with the bearing of ot Gotham beaus not a negro motion notion or tone mars the smart set aspect of this new newest newest newest est of the double The usual lot tot of smaller and livelier girls ac accompanied companied by nimble fellows fello 8 are per permitted permitted permitted two short spells of or plantation but later lat r t they y are Mexicans in a 11 fandango ana anE Indians in a war dance The forty young women play all the tricks of or prettiness known to show showgirls showgirls showgirls girls and while the front rows fn fh the parquet dont sell ell to the towns round ers and the dusky dusk trailers of these theae yellow soubrettes are relegated to the I gallery galle the Ule general applause is ungrudgingly un ungrudgingly grudgingly grudging liberal And when AbIde Abate 1 Mitchell as all the Indian maiden Min Un Minnehaha is sung ung to by Cole as her mu mn mulatto I latto tenor wooer with the spotlight on them she rolling roiling up her eyes e efI in loves languor to his soulful ballad re Ie refrain retrain train frain of I love oe but you oo oo the melody of the music silence evory every tendency to take It for fun and when Abble Abbie all by her coquettish self x a disc of If that follows her ht r I I f I I I I x z I I t The noted note humorist Marshall 1 P i wilder Yv lI ci in a variety of moods at the th Orpheum Orph um 1 but b JUT th otherwise dark stage stag wet war W t of her sweet exploits in toe the path pathway way say of or love few allwhite sopranos ouid get bet more applause Of course I have bave nave given givon tiny 1111 atten attention attention attention tion to that show than that T l would If it were sere not extraneously Interest ng ug and ands surely s rely neither for tor merits nor amusing faults would I tell you about the other play which by chance is located in the Bowery which on the theatrical map is a 8 long way from Broadway Here the bold exploit in is Kiss or 01 Kick the King The facade of the theatre is 18 lettered All AH octoroons and Brunette beauty show The house is one of the many sited v by b burlesque companies and for a late spring a sup supplementary ip season se there are sen sensuous sensuous n sights in stupendous scenic sen sensationalism Did I go in Could 1 I stay out Negro couples have teamed and teemed in vaudeville plenteously they are lue cheap openers fo to the show Sometimes they are a saucy dandy and a comic coon in the manner jf f Williams and Walker Oftener they are a bright octoroon and a hundred per cent negro man Always they are spry dancers with nasally tuneful voices and a keen sense of nt the humor of their race New York audiences view them with tolerance I even with some amusement but white performers refuse to like them and those |