Show A ACC 9 l 6 Ifil ik o II 1 H eoW Ire w Lb BY v FRANKLIN FYLE the New dew ew York ork May hay 13 he oddest odIL the theat i at neat nal al show of the season oft was given gin f fir the he Actors Acton Home la last la t Sunday in la lae e excepting the odder one by the l l L 1 on afternoon And nr n thing hing in the first entertainment took n fancy mote mon than Paul Dresser Dr er M 9 d tE d between Vent is tta JarL au i l and end V bel het Tho Tb Those were UK I he mid d 1 three in to a minstrel mi ircle Vaster D by himself wo have hae been ai unusual sight llight ae gave fur or r his fat rott tor di did i he do the duty cf f an mt ur ure Jf e But as lire Ule wide dividing In lit I between two vaudeville wom omen ll he to hei teI i part a of afi a i picture Jf if f extreme extreme cen central en entrant trant Mrs Jarbe had bad fl o n Il 1 for fora a quarter of u a I century in i private life lifear lifear ar ari u rich wife But u Ii the t stage sh Bh had longer than that embodied de dev deviltry y of the Pai sian sort an ant and 1 ahe lie looked it Mrs i niece i ce of a president of the tile United States Statts had I g goner ner on os the stage from a modish sec ec tu tit i n of New York Vork society within the theM I i M y tr dr r mad and that is Ii t what hat she looked like UkE T Tie f two toilets were typical it al One ws w as lOUd load a am a yell eU of revelry with witla u iu itt gown COwn of black green n red nt I and all sil sile ve t e The other Was villa in soft n I its and Del lusterless luat pink The be beia beha beha ha ia for tor waa was as strongly differentiated Vernona Y e nona was wits d an i very knowing know 80 e o wee was Mahal alert t tto to what waa was going o on tin sad aad affable but ht buther her liet deportment was not demonstrative demo When their times tithes came to sine sing Yer V 1101 ia stepped lite forth briskly for a aou seu ou French ballad bU of winks and shrove and Mabel bel swung wung quietly forward on her hei I erMeS for DuaO 1 lay of K de corona sentiment Thus did the Ute stage sta e and society get together for sake bake eakeT There T had been en a row among the volunteer actresses of oY course and Jennie Yeamans was one of four fete fe who stayed ta away after permit to tobe tobe be he advertised So 80 there were but three tIt pain pairs anda a mites instead of the promised d our four f ur but in the bun abundance abundance dance of comic talent Jennie mi as much as she abe may 1 have sab sap posed Only the first team testis was as Mock Mack lied Marie Dressier Dressler and Elfie Elne Fay were the funniest t combination with tambourine a and bon and and to ear ONI their droll dr faces with bUrnt bornt cork would be a waste of comicality They bey are the most moel t ear ent to ta our Tenderloin village villate and they dont save up all their fun for the Ute theatre but J give ive it out freely in hotels hob restaurant leS nt nta and a lid wherever else af a runny lit fit comes comet on Marie had been depended de on for original anal inal I talks antics Iea at tide this charity show and 8 she he disappoint us She appeared in ill a black k evening e gown own like a tyl stylish stylish ish woman but she was tipped man w with h a collar and tie rOo amend her r neck k above her bared should e cuffs at the wrists of her arms and anda a high biP silk hat on her ber finely head pane Elne wore wore a simple white frock and a lid retted retied on tau mobility of visage nd limbs for grotesquery grotesquely They were well of negro up in the grins Brine and grimaces ism both of them but hut it was b big Ma Ka Karie Marie rie who tickled us half to death with uh new W tricks trick Tambo Marie manifested the IDaet disdain dIMain of Sones nones and corned scorned to so 80 much as look at the fur furth th thE r end e of the line but glared grim grimly 1 ly y at the audience whenever it laughed at tt it that tbt most of or my 1111 readers nave ve iI h these leftt eOl so 80 are able to imag Ima in ins ine the broad humor of what they did didon didon didon on this tIt occasion To others I cant undertake un to convey COlly more than thao a vague idea idt of it It That small lump bU P of humor humo r Marshall Marshal P WIlder Wider Ilder woe was w t none among the at II t f the tile Fund Fend slow T 1 hoar ee wale to te oj d so Ile Ie e too toes time ll f r only tw q a kea OF O OV v s to e el h l abig lg air aJr r t card rd disclose lose l and anal andt analI t I tn n place it on its rack The second I cant stay slay out here bere a an aHI an M 15 i to ray nay AI n HI i George eOrge Kessler Ke aler likes the en ent tp t e ar s well that hes bes sent in Int f 1000 and I 1 muan t lose x t heck beck fur r ri ht of It Jt The TIle audience knob bot what hat liat to think about the check till un a littler later Kessler Ker has baa given his thousand plunks plinks J to te the t Actors Acton Home fund all allright right 1 i 1111 said aid James J Morton Mono in th the ae ther r course 01 of his hie monologue but I guess Kessler Kessier J kr It t t means two twe thousand for the Home fund and all right bt too What Morton meant was that the rustling rounder r whom the Tenderloin Ten cal alls ails is Count Kessler ta is as all well weH Known in ill i l this thi town as ae the brand of wine he imports and was booming his merch i by b to the charity In 1 ratio of at least t two to one Well and anel anyway diversion which have laave cost chat less than doubt the i of 1511 i M if the performers had bad hadi 1 i een hired was waa extra good and plenty i i course there was familiar material m to the olio of specialties which added ddt d two hours boura to te two of et female Strange to say the oldest of alt all pleased tilE the t he very sophisticated audience mightily might mightily ily By It was McIntyre d Heaths Old which those two bogus blacks blackshare have hare used u ed these the e twenty years or more They roused themselves to their best beat xin Ui m dot don their exact imitation of real realM dramatic art t M them was wae jut t that kind of talent has bas become fc t 1 i a falling oft OR o in the denna de dema dema ma nna nd and 4 so those of us who settled ha ba k in our oar seats to suffer Buffer soon Mr tightened tend up to enjoy ourselves elvee eur The 1 he contribution was wa waY 1 Y the pony ballet and Foy from fromI I current It to Is five or orb ori b bix i x years J ear since nee the first of loon to rt es was brought from m England End yet JAu hi one warranted W original and ermine is ia made up like its sue 8 of girls barely over the for forbidden bidden age ase of It 1 The explanation is t 1 hi h e t a London teacher turns nan out as us ms nj 07 n pony ballets balleta as the worlds mar marke marke marke ke s will buy He selects novices of oft ofa a t small emall slat abet drills them for rust rol singing and strenuous dancing mi Jill kes Ices them as aa good comediennes as ashe ashe ashe he can cann and an graduates them in eights t j neat Beet the demands dem Those These whom Foy Ui let Is la 1 la in a song chorus and dance dancea t a edThe ell Ghost that Never Walked a Indeed spy spoy sp y young whoppers old Vony Pastor was an ex hi it only Perhaps you dont know il ti t t he be is a bt oved philanthropist and anda a ice lee president t of the fund He has hu hasi i 1 II his bit rotundity JOh and aDd shows shawl all ail of i ih h age a of threescore re years and six U We Wed e ed d duo d A d scat OCA Why my friends be replied I 1 Ii I i ent nt sun un sung in two nol when l I new anybody was within hearing ring niel omao who has baa had IId charge the be funds charity entertainments i vas as th t thine s says say they aye are wrong in m WRY way because beca they give peo pee i too doo much rOt for their their money He and andI I 1 fellow ellow officers t have laave agreed to try I her ther met matted of sustaining the be f char har chari harI i They y w ll ii I od a tax oY of a dime dim diml dimet i t very ve v deadheads dc pass pans As A s a full fullI fourths of the t he free admissions I ilven iven to a t Ins on i and other theatre theatres v s andas and as only t a few hundreds of ill n it ou tout out of T tany thousands tan can an be bej bei j Ii i to pay pa the hf t annual ar nu il membership f lIt of f 3 the i tan ian surely Is ia equitable h it tt is I ralle caile d e Gambol for the La JA JAh Viv by h the an n actors actor dub club 1 unique a au i ual vent event No Xo public urn ment ement t made n ade of it it No tick ti k kare are aie sold old to s strangers Yet the one ont oneia ia un Ice Tue TU i lay afternoon earned thin t ha n 50 5 I It I is m in fI iu no sense IH a au u Hy but a Ii c iv n 11 misel i to sp lid nd business M I r I Ti i I r rs like ike those yote te ile clubs i n i t die varel sty b by mem Mi iT h insiders and never neer know f for rOI i tion oll But Bit B It U is i gen genn n u n that every month or tw twi twan i n 1 i a i Sunday evening ening E gan ganol ol nl 0 V 1 s ri rn t i rt u tad yr flOS ts is sn en event m to the df club house Once a war ear a selection f 1 fu fr m th thID in m is ia performed i h i t some ome uig ole theatre All AH the th seats t ea ls had h ad seen sold HOld HOldby by auction to members only and they I 1 were vere w reat at liberty to let then their friends at the e same prices prise or Dr at atno atno atno no price The lb Senu ANc suit It was wasa aM aMt i ia a treat great t assemblage of fI in which n outnumbered men five fie to toone i ione one OM But not so 80 much as a placard at the doorway Indicated what was going go ng on en within i Much tuch of the fun tun at these the e Lambs an j bas has of 01 men playing wo won 0 n Jl t n ns Iras s roles in burlesques ol of current pieces But this Urns time a The Squaw Man was wu given ven with a young f How Itow Indian I impersonating ur tr squaw and not by way of ofa a joke Edward Milton Royle had written rULen in dead I I eai earnest nest the tragedy of an English lord lords disowned younger brother io i o be oo becane I Iri cane a ranchman in our west mat rii ri l an Indian girl and was w ws tn tb r of her little boy bo The Tile family t law liw liwer I Ier yer er came to tell tali that the t 1 tied fl wa lIi i t I td dead d ad and that the title and aul I awaited waited th the wanderers Mo Now j j ou see Bee the problem The squaw luau I take his MB d wife t l 11 gland FIgland gland Should he desert ert her Ah Au Ails 8 s sae loved him and arid he v t aban abandon abandon don dun her Well then if H he was fbi re r j i St Ived to lo remain oo oa the raich tal With I her bee rby by 11 not n t let the lawyer carry carr bat back 11 k the boy to be educated and enri enric J 1 1 Yes Y 8 he Ie deemed it his lata duty D a lo le that II though it would break his heart f t to part pert with the darling darl 1 e eNow Now NotI yen ou s o how bou Iao t wife ft I and alad mott r comes cornea in tn re r n and lot Lov 1 the child hild Id 13 t to b remo le removed d I t f seem tta em to be ni J by her lter Her Har H r native stolidity nt Rive give Ive I Iway way wy vii ui 1 she off 0 iu of sf age j and blo of tf pace p ee I Int She nt understand says RaY the theNo I r rNo I No he the husban 1 aa ut tit she does doe lo s A gun MK is herd heard s She he has hag b killed herself trot out of her he Mad Dd II aM 04 childs pathway to happiness lne s I Ifie hv hive fie written this description to 0 show tile the danger that the squaw Stayed played by bya T Ta a man qan n at a Lambs gambol might midst be ber regarded r toed as aa ridiculous I J nM toil tell yi who the actor rotor was t f at t Want nt to load this letter up with names And Andall trey ater all the success of ot the ue expert experiment ment lay with the author He permit his heroine to utter aUer a word We Ant Arst Saw her walk alk silently acmes acs ea the Ute scene sane sn alt savage When she abe came back to hear bear of 0 the sorrow site she was teas dumb um except lot for some me low I inarticulate outcries out outcries cries crl L Again AF n she went away stolidly At the climax she ab was brought in limp and aDd dead d All U of that wig soberly im hn impressive In n the main bowe however r the Lambs gamboled facetiously fI They gave us in The English Invasion an inside I view of their club chi The TIle English actors act j I were shown own as grumbling tn much buy buying ing ini little and to t be caddish b Clay M Y Greene the president of the lambs sad had written this t skit and lie he liea to is toa isa a hard Ord hitter when he jokes joke They bey tell me he be said to to the tM audience pat whan w en the tl author author of The KII Man do was called c for that Mr r Royle R le is 18 out there theN therein In m front and rYe Ive no doubt he ie helping the applause The single of iii hilt m recent play T gave cave the scone from Babes in Toy rand land where girls r and hays hoys of the Mother Mather Goose Goode tales ta sit lilt In la a row on a high II wall all WISh Uh pencils pencil cJ train and ft J slates and sing Bing a ditty called I Cant Do Irb That Sum Seven even chaps wore the curls finks and acid socks of 01 little tilt misses made madeI I up to look a as pretty as tia they Y could happily Ppl J suggestion no Ito i real al e effeminacy The TIle audience nce liked 1 that thai The other Qt pisse p of in a as s more i wo el It was wa a travest of grand opera ra raon I on a new plan The point poked at was as not operatic music mute but operatic libretto 1 the common practice of delaying action i I for far the sake of tv A man and i his wife ife were w e in a hotel hMel room mom tO m There These came a tremendous lapping hipping at their door and an d they sang aa a reiterating their notion that tome some me one 11 wanted to g get t 1 la is The proved preyed to tobe tobe tobe be a porter lam an with the warning that the e house bouee was wason wason wason on fire ore and they am Ajr b instantly Yet I he delivered d his Hl gag t ft pt ed Id solo sole sol afterward aften rd Joining the two oth others others ers ert in madrigals ont on the perils s of their j I i plight if it they d t get t out right aw away ay Firemen in ln to rescue j I them but stayed I to shag g and loud loudat loudat j jabout out about at at out the b a or f tile the danger The smoke and gUel Of the Ute conflagration tion lion came in on them hot bad that hurry them at aU all to a grand FU d finale Gustae Gustave Kerker h o m ed quite dignified music for Be nett kind of a burlesque R H bad had writ written written written ten the words x e es c sing Ing singers singers Ingers ers try tTy to f fas the tb inherent elent hu bu humer mer by bv any skylarking t Weber and Fields Field the dialect lect i did a curious the in lq Ii this h 11 how 1 T he hey have hah quarrelled ay ail a you youki ki know o and ard are to part company two week wee hence each to go his own ow way fray ay However they showed nothing but be i am of this occasion They will give you aid Ud resident eat ent Greene Green exactly the act In w they bey made their debut on the Bowery they were boys They think they look Lookas looka a as young now nov as at they did then I 4 think they can act a t just as all welt well welte We Ve e were astonished to see ome rut tut ut in the jaunty jackets a ee knee breeches br affected b by neat snag and dance dante teams twenty five yeaH y ago U One ut of those lb easy melodies of that tW fT far back baek time was played and acid d t tto to it what do you vou suppose A ditty In in which they said they were two Irish lads They covered cove d Jewish noses at that assertion of Irish birth bleth but lw t that was their only break in iQ tilt the faith faithfulness f th with which they repeated tae he be rude crude singing and dancing of long 0 ago The They left lefts fis to do the laughing did U it it |