Show DAUGHTER DISPLAY LILLIAN RUSSELLS TALENT BY FRANKLIN FYLES New York Jan Is nothing of any dramatic consequence in the weeks new plays in New York yet I have amused myself uncommonly to toto to fooling ling around with their unimportant and maybe I can write read readably readably ably about them Two yawp and kick shows are The Mimic and the Maid and The Tue Girl From Broadway They are funny b by intention and otherwise Allen AIJen Lowes Loes scheme tot for The and the Maid laid was to give a show within a 0 show A professional corn com company pany quits work when whon a n new w piece is about to bp be and the director employs a c amateurs Instead rho fhe action shows a rehearsal of th there l novices Now it real that the actual company has bei beAn n brought into Broadway to stop a gap and anel with Insufficient preparation Thus we have haye professional proCessional actors making be believe lieve that t they are arc amateur actors and at the same time they are arc as raw In 5 fact us as they mean to merely pret pretend ml to he be There In therefore one play another pla play and that filay i is wIthin still another r pIa play Lillian Russells daughter Do Dorothys Dorothys debut will s serve re as an stratton ot of the ss Dorothy had sung ung In vaudeville on trial and nt at nta ata a charity matinee with tn mamma mma an anaU and andall aU all of the k know ts were cu curious curious rious to see how she would look and behave as an actress Dorothy hac ha haroOM roOM zono of Lillians beauty and not much of her voice yet et she is a 3 comely girl andI give it as a 3 will de develop more than Lillians talent How However ver she made n a bad be In her vaudeville essay she had been charmingly apologetic Uc In manner In her legitimate effort sh she seemed saucy to the point of Dorothy Is too self confident said ne She is scared out of her wits said another The girl W was to a J brash amateur and being an amateur In fact her ner nervous voun energy made her overdo the as No dramatist has ever J yet t made ef cf effectual use of our first president on the stage but lots of stuff derived from Crom th the present president In one way or another r is of more or less theatrical value alue Russells ells best five minutes In The Mimic and the Maid were those In whIch she led a chorus of lIr girls with Teddy leddy beara No mu musical musical farce nowadays tries to do with without without out two sets of young ones In Iii the gowns and drawing room deportment and Gibson girls and short ones in the frocks and frisks of children Roasts and broil broilers broilers ers are are those birds In the parlance of the stage Dorothy and the broil broilers ors ers cine out with Teddy bears in their ther a arms ms coddle caress and coo to them hike Uke doll doH babies and finally set setting ting them on their hind stuffed cubs hind to them Then occurs the dramatic surprise the sensational wonder the marvel or of real realIsm realism Ism The Teddy bears oa each h show in Us its teeth in a delighted grin dance with the clockwork that has been woun wound up within them And the mu music music sic of the ambitious A Baldwin Sloane n under the baton or of a highly ImpressIve director times Itself to the hopping of Jf ofa a dozen mechanical Teddy bears While Dorothy Russell led lcd the lie I broilers Jan Janet t Melville led lcd the roasts that Is the tall contingent of Gibson girls Could this Janet be the Melville of Melville and Stetson the vaudeville aud me team Yes There was the fat Evie BYle Stetson as 03 a wardrobe wo 10 iian butting funnily into the rehear rehearsal hear sal and It really was her longtime Va Variety show partner who as a society woman displayed with of eC f rUess ease case the quite correct aspect of a belle This account of the birth of The Mimic and the Maid is also Its obit lt record for tor It is dead after two Extinguished are the lights that lettered its tItle among Broadways fiery of pleasure Pasted Into scrap hooks books are the adver I ItI tI agents tales of Dorothy Bus Bussells sells personal doIngs Including some ot of her heir taking Mamma Lillian Russells toy terrIer out for a walk on encountering a bulldog and having haIng an ear bitten off the little dog by the big dog dogIn lit In spite of the girls tearless fearless attempt at n a rescue Why are newspaper per Jays right here In fly New NewYork NewYork York to print such ith joke marks s yet et sometimes with no indIcation that the editor a au aTo u To a theatre off Broadway comen The Girl From Broadway She might DS as well hall hail from the tha Strand of London the Champs Elysee of Pars or Under den Linden of Berlin BerHn as she b las s no characteristics local to any anywhere where on earth outside f r ss I Is i p Grace Esmond who may have brought her niceties of charm from fi om Fifth avenue so Inbred do they look The character is a runaway rider from a circus Her author Her Herbert Herbert bert Hall Winslow says she Is a lost h heiress with a birthmark on her el ci elbow bow an and It might me discovered car In th the play as her gown ts is sleeve sleeveless le less but tor or the fact that her knees are more actively 11 sight She Is but one ot of three soubrettes In the tha company which has also five comIc comedians with an aggregate of talent sufficient if concentrated in one to make an actor worth the five salaries This Is Isn isa n a far better show than the one that died in the borning and Is going to live vigorously enough to make malte a round of the lower price circuits there js Is uncommon In 1 it t David l B 5 Hill BilI fOrmer governor and aspirant to the presidency Is proud to own and lIve in Roost once nc the home at Albany of Joseph Josoph 1 K Emmet the actor Emmet vas as a I and negro when Charles Charle Foster a pro hue writer write of plays hearIng speak i and yodel with a German accent conI con conceived the Idea of Fritz Our COUSin German Out of Joe Emm Emmets ts result resulting lug ing fortune came Roost There were ere many Imitators of Emmet but no one duplicated his harm charm or of singing to the hearts of audiences Chouncey Chauncey Olcott and Andrew Macit warbled their Irish way Into the vogue and brogue of William J Scanlan but butaU aU all the search earch for a successor to Em Emmet Emmet met has been in vain and the prize been found In Joe Hortiz who Is presented resen ted in Our Friand Fritz Yet high t tenor nor voice Is the acme of melody and he to me all yodelling Is dreadful and the LEtter tetter It Is the worse it makes me feel but Hortis yodels just like JUte Em Emmot Emmet mot met used to He lacks Jacks only the Em Emmet Emmet met and Scanlan genius s to make every In the theatre fancy for tor the foolish time beIng that he Is singIng his hilt love to her and nd to no ono one else The now new Fritz play by I 1 Me Cormick Is an endeavor to got get clear of th the moss and barnAcles of Fosters Eo old one The Vh C d sIt war warl l 0 ble to at play nor lullaby one of them to sleep that a bold departure ure from the standards Ot Of course he has to have listeners In the The first of these is a nearly grown girl a maltreated truant from froma a poorhouse She toe 01 big to he taken Up In his arms but he do that to lull her to sl sleep ep He carries her out to wash ash her and when sh she somes back her face hands and feet are cJ clean an to the neck wrists and an ankles ankles kles but at those points dark con of skin mark the thc limits ot of Fritzs modesty in scrubbing her Further along In the play when it has become melodramatic on a stormy night In a haunted old mm mill with an heiress by a gang of f crim Fritz appears in the disguise of ofa ofa a bibulous Woman tramp and shUts shifts the drugged whisky which has been prepared for the girls ruination so that the several scoundrels dope themselves with it Thereupon Fritz Fri sings ballad with the refrain Im so now The tune and the voice sound like but the lulled ones are the drowsed sots and the words tell both the heiress and the thc foundling how to escape Broadway In Quest of fey noy nd the names of Rose Coghlan Mane r Levy and the Rug Rus Russell sell Brothers lit up on the fronts of vaudeville theatres Jimmie Russells health Is so bad that he c cant nt act throughout a long play any more and It is a pity that John the one to give mit Not that John ma may not b be tt a better fellow than Jimmie but it is JimmIe who makes folks laugh with his scream ing Irish servant girl That caricature was transferred several years ago from a sketch into a drama with Jim screams so much louder and long longer er that they brought on bronchitis After Arter a rest he and John have returned to vaudeville and on going in to see what they are arc doing I find that it is The Irish Servant Girls In Its old time version And every scream that hurts Jimmie tickles the thc unknowing audience the same as ever Stage fun Is serious business sometimes Ethel Levy Is another proof that corn com comedians dont always smile because they cant help It ft George Cohan and his wife Ethel sang and danced to together together gether In his extravaganzas and he wrote songs withIn the small compass of her voice givIng her things to do that reached the utmost of her ability without going beyond it Yet suddenly she quits his company sues for dIvorce and becomes a vaudeville with fifteen minutes of singing and dancing taken from the roles she has acted in his plays That seems to open up a cross account of royalty and aU ninny it Marie Vaudeville outbreak is with burlesques of Louise Leslie Car Carter Carter ter and Blanche Bates In characters which David Belasco prepared for them Marie no more than imitates Miss Bates as the Darling of the Gods and the Girl of the Golden West but her fun with Mrs Carters Du Barry Is a travesty of the bedroom scene with the affluent Marie In a stingy little bed operating a wooden image of her lover as 1 ventriloquist does a dummy and hiding him from his enemies by amply sItting on him Marie is the coarsest actress that ever Was vas so fun funny ny fly that you cant blame her herThe The other woman emblazoned on the vaudeville signboards Rose Coghlan compels me to that played In so long ag ago that Lester k was alive and she was the r leader of his company Her present pIece The Ace of Trumps Is a condensation or of the drama that stirred New York and Lon don thirty years ago The details are so as to be wholly different yet their trend is absolutely the same The notorious adventuress has become gen genuinely genuinely repentant and desirous of lead ing a virtuous life Her adversary in the verbal duel is not a former lover fightIng for his sweethearts sister but the son of the womans d dad ad lover corn com batting her demand to meet his fiancee in reputable society The ute limit prevents the subplot of the fierce foreigner lurking in shadows thirsting for Roses gore but It permits the effective climax ellma of the beaten sin sinners sinners ners capitulation with its showy man of horror This crouching trembling exit of the vanquished ad adventuress adventuress was the talk of the theatrical town In days and by this still splendId actress it thrills vaudeville audiences One or of New Yorks handsome the thc theatres atres was built by the millionaire Goe Goc lets right alongside their own fashion fashionable fashionable able part of the town almost within sniffing dIstance of Astor and Vander but bilt residences and meant ment to be a tern tem temple pie of dramatic art lirt rs bankrupted bankruPt d ye In fJ realize reaUze the th 1 s snow now given over to of the lower concert hail grade Earlier this winter I our smart set took an unexplainable notion to pat patronIze patronize one of these touring parties of female minstrels so that instead of movIng on at the end of the week they remain Indefinitely Its managers as soon as ag they saw aw that lat goo good l luck had struck l I r Quality of tHeir entertainment The rhe seem now to have haye been put wIse to the fact that they were not get getting getting ting the and genuinely thing at that joint and that burlesque in ah a uncensored and unmitigated unmitigated gated condition of Indecency may be found at the Goelet theatre That is thy ihy the regular patrons when they raw aw for the first time a line of car carriages carriages there surmised that Rose for years cars and y ars leader of the Lon don dop Belles had died suddenly and that the unaccustomed vehicles were her fUneral procession No such blow has been struck at re Ic male minstrelsy Rose is on fun full view very than ever before in all her long and broad career on the stage The rhe entire show that she gives Is calculated to make the feel that the other Others one al although though named Wine Women and Song should Instead have been called Tea Women and Hymen They had lately seen Anna Held In a Broadway theatre what has come to be called a Sammy song with coaxing appeals to toa toa a man in a box or a front row while a spotlIght Is thrown on him But Rose has it done with more realism by her herbest herbest best and winker The songs refrain a varIation of An Annas Annas nas Come play wis melt me or any ot of the come and kiss me phrases but the fonder and more Intimate offer Ill let you chew my gum The girl devotes the first two verses to fel fellows fellows lows In the parquet and then grow growIng growing Ing demonstrative a flInch Ing shrinking chap In the neat near corner of a box But he braces up when hen she I puts a kiN on his forehead He Is a confederate But the one in the heir box is not and he from her care Thereupon she he steps over the railing row her anold C It n I ish man and kisses him with a hearty smack That Is ia the way It went the night I was there The satisfaction given to t the HIe fashionable visitors however IS with So a revival of those living pictures which it was thought had passed Into permanent se They are shown here herewith herewith with twelve women not In marble whIte but in a startlingly natural flesh tint and they are arc posed in groups with without without out the smallest scrap p of drapery That the climax of the audacity eIther for in the ensuIng scene of the extravaganza extravaganza ganza the same dozen women reappear as the chorus for a song entitled Cu CupIds Cupids Cavaliers marchIng to 19 and Ire fro across the stage and up and down it itIn itin In military evolutions Their arms are bows and arrows Their unIforms con cofi consist of caps they put anything else on since posIng as I statues Oh yes Each wears vears a gauzy pair of little wings all And the feel sure that this time getting the real thIng in female The he They anything to tor r y 3 5 h y ld the the theatre a Y year rio riot ago t i ic O c c |