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Show I' V GritirnSNewdPkyTent I1 Theater and Concert Hall East 1 ' " ' " . ,,- irn.L.1.1.. M,o , II By leased Wire to The Tribune. NEW YOBIC, April 23. As the time draws nearer for tho Actors' Fund fair c it is apparent that this will 1)0 tho i ; raost stupendous affair o its kind ovor i. consummated, citlior liero or elsewhere I. Tho fair will run for a week and scores of famous actors and nctrnases will take part. Practically every theatrical man and woman in America has an interest in (ho fair. Somo through largo donations, dona-tions, others throngh tun work they ;' are now doing, and still others in spo- 1 , c.inl productions to bo given to swell tho treasury fund. Charles Burn ham has ehnrgo'of tho arrangements Tho fair will bo opened in tho Seventy-first Bcgi mc-nt armory by President Tnft and will extend 'from May 0 to 31, inclusive. inclu-sive. Speaking of tho evont Mr. Burnham says: "In the first plneo. the decorations have novor boon eqnnled at any great fair or exposition. At an oxponso of thousands of dollars wo aro transforming tho hugo drill room of the armory into a roplica of a comer of the garden of Versailles. "With tho court of honor, the fountains pplashing and the white pergolas overhung with luxuriously flowering vines, wo will have an oxquisito sotting. Wo intend making it a fnir of hcauty, and it. will I bo unforgettable as such. Handsome Actresses will become saleswomen, waitresses and auctioneers. The booths taken by tho women's clubs will bo in ( charge of tho prettiest girls in tho city. Arrayed with these will bo tho debutantes debu-tantes who will assist Mrs. .lames Spoy " cr at tho society 'a floral booth. r If thero is an unpledged bachelor in Now York aftor the fourteenth of May, when tho fair closes, it will bo bocnuso he did tint daro to go insido that armory. VTo shall raiso $200,000 $.'15,000 mora than wo obtained at the first fair, at Madison Sipiaro garden eighteen years ago. and $M0,000 moro than what wa3 sofiired at the next fnir, at tho Metro-I Metro-I politan opera houso three years ago," i ' Nazimova In Little -Eyolf. Monday ovening in tho new Thirty- ' ninth street theater, Mndnmo Nazi- mova appeared in " Little Eyolf," one ' of tho later plaj-s of tho Scandinavian master, Ibson. "Little Eyolf" was . written in Ohristiania during 1S94, and " was published in Copenhagen on Do- comber 11 of that year. Tho first performance per-formance of tho play in Norway took place at tho Christiania theater on Jnn-uary Jnn-uary 15. JS05. In May, lSUS, it ro-uoived ro-uoived its initial presentation in Paris. Tho first performance of "Liltlo Ey-( Ey-( olf" in English waa given at t.ho Ave- - nuc theater, London, on tho afternoon , of November 23, 3S9G, with a cast which included .Tanot Achurch as Pita, Elizabeth Bobina as Asta. and Mrs. i rn trick Campboll as tho Bat "Wife. Mrs. rn trick Campbell later played Itita at a short series of evening performances. The first pcrformanco of "Liltta Eyolf" Ey-olf" in America was given in Chicago in tho spring of 1805 by a company of Scandinavian amateurs. Tho provions history of tho pieco in Now York City includes only an attempted presentation presenta-tion by Oda "Nielsen, who, hqwovcr, did not havo tho requisito facilities. Jn , , his introduction to his published trans lation of the play "William Archer givos the facts already noted and continues with an analysis of tho pieco, tho first paragraph of" which is particularly illuminating illu-minating as to tho essential scntimoJit .- of tho work. Ifo says: "George Brandos, writing of this play, has right-ly right-ly observed that a kind of dualism I has always boon porcoptiblo in Ibsen; I he pleads tho cause of Nature, and he I castigates Nature with myotic morality; I only sometimes Natnro is allowed the M first voioe, sometimes moralitT. In 'Tho I Master Buildor' and in 'Ghosts,' tho I lovo of naturo in Ibson waa prcdom- IC inant; horo, as in 'Brand' and 'The 1 Wild 'Duck.' tho castigator is in tho as- I ' ' , condant, Bo clearly is this tho caso in I 'Little Eyolf that Ibsen sooms almost I to Xall into lino with Mr. Thomas Tiar- I ' dy. To say nothing of tho analogies of I detail botwoon 'Little Eyolf and '.Tudc B, , , tho Obscure,' thero is this radical annl- og3. that they are both utterances of a I' profound pessimism, both indictmonts of nature.'' Tho plot of "Little Ey- I olf" iB too familiar to reqniro ropeti- I tion. in detail. Thero are only sis char- I actcrs, Alfred AJlmors, landed propric- tor and a man of lcttors, formerly a I tutor; Bita, his wife; Eyolf, thoir child, H , ' nino years old; Asta Allmers, Alfred's H . . younger half -sister; Engineer Borg- M .' licim, who is in lovo with Asta, and -i tho Bat-"Wife, a more or less mystical woman, who lurcu rats into tho water I i no that tlioy aro drowned. Mmo, Nazi- J mtn-a appear od as Bita .'1 Taft Bust for Actor? Fair. H .1 Mr. Bobort T. Aitkon, a sculptor of H jjl this city, who is widely known for his H j McKinloy monument In Sim Francisco, H - G has finished tho model for a marble l I 'jE bust of President Taft for tho Actors' H ( fair. Through tho good offices of Mr. H I Francis "Wilson, President Taft was in- H, I duccd to give Mr. Aitken daily sittings H for almost a wcok, but without stopping H1 1 bis work. Tho sculptor raado his wax H( '1 model on tho President's desk in the F' I "White llouso. "Whilo Mr. Taft talked, Hr h ,B wrote and reooivod his callors, Mr, Ait- ft ken watched him and workod. Mr. , M Aitkin lioliovos tho btiBt will bo one- of H' 1 t hiK best, works and ho is onthusiastic : jfft concerning his subject. "It may snr- j prise somo persons," said Mr. Aitkin, ' Jff "but I believe tho president to bo tho I ; '. handsomest man in public life. Somo H. ! will say ho is too heavy, but after you , , . havo been with him for a fow moments H- i you forgot his weight. Ho impresses you merely as a 'big' man. You are H.. i Iiwnro only of tho firmness of his faco : : and tho counterbalancing fincmess of 1 ' i . his f cnturcs. I havo studied tho faces ' k r of all tho mem prominent in pnblic life, - t t i particularly of tho cabinet ofilcors, tho W f'; enntors and tho representatives who i I . called on him doily whilo I was there, V ' E ' and I fonnd none that compa.ro with ill S hi?. LA ' j: "Mr. Tnft is a difficult man to sculpt. Hl. ,"' ! J l is so easy to burlcsquo and caricatnro B' ) him without rcproduomg tho roal man. l Tho expression about his eves shows HR ' a greater combination of qualities than 5, 1 havo seen in any other man. His : ; ' forehead and brows, with tho littlo sag . . abovo the eyes, aro full of forco and i i ', determination. II o has tho prominent t bulges that den o to perception. Tho ' i tremendous power latent in these char- t' j ; acteristics is not hard to express in y, ' marble. The difficulty comes in show- l j'jjj; ' ing tho gentleness of his eyes." a Nover Saw Dopo PI end. L i Much h;in been paid and writton jfl j about tho weirdly1 realistic manner in "St ' which Tally Marshall porlravs tho role S ; of a dopo fiond in Clydo Fitch's pos- 'to! thnmous play, "Tho City." Lot me S j whisper a socret, please: Mr. Mar- k X Khali never saw a dopo fiend in his ? II. life. Honest and truly ho didn't, for j H ho snys to himself. What manner of I S3 man is this who has been hornfying 1 M and lcrrifing audiences in "Th City" A' . since Dccombor? First of all, to bo V j hiire. ho was an actor who had made t 3 ; his mark, llo stood out on the theat- " 5 rical liori.on liko a vivid flash, llo 1 J had scored the dramatic sensation of MMJ I I tho year. Yet he was as mild as tho Hl ' V igarctte he offered me. Women might i ' j ye ream and faint at sight of him in his , j ilrug-crazcd stage-self, but at close , range ho was not as yellow as ho was mvA-- f pninltug himself, ft till his role of tho H' mitirablo wretch in "Tho gether with his earlier part of the white-livered husband in "Paid in Full" mado him seem the yellow dog of tho drama. And ho was ready to arguo that oven tho yellow dog has his day and his play. "I'd be scared green if I saw a real dopo fiend," said Mr. Marshall as ho prepared to answer his cue. About Mrs. Pat Campbell. Mrs. Patrick Campboll, tho distinguished distin-guished English emotional actress, who is at present doing one of her stipulated stipulat-ed ten wcoka in vaudeville, is a famons Mrs. Campbell's son, Alan Patrick Campbell, is a member of tho cast presenting pre-senting "Expiation." Bo was formerly former-ly a cadet in tho British navy and recently re-cently graduated from Oxford, llo is ! married and Iub wife, a beautiful young womnn, is accompanying Mrs. Campbell Camp-bell during her vaudovillo tour, although not a member of the companj. Mrs. Campbell also has a daughter, who hears her mother's name, Beatrico Stella, and who is now leading lady in tho St. James theater. London. Mrs. Campbell's London house is said to bo ono of tho most romarkablo in beauty as well as o plnyor of inturna--tionnl ropntation. That no gjcat amount of make-up is required to increase the effectiveness of her goodrlooks is shown by the rapidity with which sho gets roady for tho stage, for according to tho testimony of tho people back of the scones, she seldom arrivcB at tho tho-ator tho-ator more than a few momenta before tho timo for her act, tho star feature of tho bill. tho world. It is at 83 Kensington square, wost, London. Architocturall', it is elegant, but it is in its furnishings that it owes it r titlo to distinction. Ench room in tho houso represents a different country, and within eaoh room aro gathered the various trophies which Mrs. Campbell has selected in her tours over tho world. Her Amorican tooiu is her music room and overything in it is American-made. It has nn upright piano, with interior player. It has a heavy carved mahogany center table, tho wood of whicli was imported from tho Antilles. Tho clock which stands on tho American mantel is Amor-ican-nuido and abovo it is a large American Amer-ican painting bv Abbe. Tho light dome, which hangs over 'the center table, was manufactured in Pittsburg, as wero all the lights. Pedestals, Pedes-tals, statuary nud even tho rich car-pots car-pots and rugs were mado in America, as were cut-glass ornaments, .bookracks and even tho pens and stationery. The dining room is tho French room, all tho articles in it having boen collected col-lected in Pans and the provinces of France. A Star With a History. Whoa most young women of her ago wero thinking of dolls, Loah Bafomau-Huntor was thinking of the stnge. At 7 sho played Laily Teazle in tho screen scono from "Th'e School for Scandal" and Dampn in "The Eu- chnntcd Fountain." Of course this may have been becauso Miss Batenian-Hunter Batenian-Hunter come of a family of actors. For five generations her antecedents hnvo been actors and good ones, too, who in thoir time plnycd many part. And today at the ago of 17 Miss Bate-man-llunter is a member of tho New Theater company, which is now playing at tho Shubcrt theater, Bostou, the vouugest in thnt well-known orgtiniwi-tion. orgtiniwi-tion. save Master .lohn Tansey, who is only S. But Miss Batcman-Hunler plays important pnrts. At 10 she played Juliet in London and was pro I nounccd one of tho best Juliels that tho world's metropolis had ever seen. Miss Batoman-Ilunlor is the grcat-great-granddaughtor of .loc Cowoll, tho great-granddaughter of II. L. BatGman and the daughter of George Harrison Hunter. Her grandmother, Miss Kato Batenian, drew all playgoing New York to Barnum's musoum somo fifty years ago, although she was then but" merely a, child. Later she became quo of tho most famous actrcpscs of tho day. Her "raudfather wis tho manager of tha Sous Lvccum theater iu London and aK an J&or of Rrcut ropu In both horo and in Eng and. Both j of A s s B jl -muii-Hunter'B parents aro still on tne English stagc,occuPying Pronnncnt positions po-sitions in their profession . And thur daughter promises to bo the- bnclittst star in Iho firmament ol u'u,t" "1h Hit iter familv. Because ol her youth Mi s Batcman-Hunter has Jccomo tho "net" of tho members ot tho New TBitcr'company, and all aro eager to help her along and teach her. AlthougH ACTRESSES WHO WELL PARTICIPATE UN" THE AOTOBS PUND FAIR.' - " From the Columbian Magazine. keen and eager to acquire all tho luiow-ledgo luiow-ledgo possiblo about her art, it is safe to say that she might bo ablo to tell somo important things about dramatic art to somo of thoso who aro tr3ing to teach her. But sho is popular and well liked and so far has acquitted herself notably in such plays as "Tho Winter's Talo," "Strifo' and "Twelfth Night." In tho latter Shakespearean comedy she plays Olivia, and is prob- ably the youngest womaTSL assuijied that role. MrT "Echo"lsWoUJfc According to reports frX west that ew n.IISicV'! Echo." iu which ohaJHB in Ijetroi , ,8 well iiatn5l hngham herewith hone, Echo ' upon the board, tJMWt and. if this )n possible uBI contmuo playing it. itfr tract specifies that ho fcfc "Tho Echo" as long -,. ,wW It will have a summ'iMfd and will bo brought tn tho autumn. Ueforo Mr. Carle elucidated suffiriM us an inkling of what tlXC all about. "I piny,'' Mja Si "a millionaire who coesfflHC to avoid excitement, hi m' advertently composed J that "lakes a terrific taW1 does this millionaire nrrhvBr nnt solitudes than his rlKl bv the music of this vf.n la tlo it, bands plav it, W'.Mff it and hurdy-gurdies fUjMf cossautly. llo can no' cstiS" lor where he goes. Lnuilft lopes his fortune, the this song help h,iu loirMf success. I he piece ccuSSi tho fact that the ruillionaLSfle ing his money, takes a ioTB mer hotel "faking" flf mountain near tho resort. "The Spendthruaj! Frederick Thompson, tha"'K Porter Emerson BrornaiBi "Tho Spendthrift," JjS found a new star in MitHS grane of Los Ancelcs, uSh with brighter luster as tUBl on. .Miss Magrane nlnulH role i ii "The Spendthrift K part of tho real spemlthrijH of a bun Iter whose cxtratE lead to hi: ruin. Krom tH which .li53 Magrane has lH there is little doubt that jfl has a now winner. As toB prophecy is pretty (enoraJB liavo a loucer run than "(H "WaH." which first .hroujH Browne. Tho play dcalr cnt-day wife who 'inanaenH husband to help him to bifl eiallv speaking, by borro'H afiimtv. A thrilling sccneH her bed room after ivM(H her husband nnd toniporaril lead the simple life. sho gradual ly forgets money and she ami LorH united again. Tu tho husband has recouped happily ever nfterwardi. Mable Taliaferro at ''jl The Belasco reopened fl evening, when Frederic TaH sented Mable Taliaferro of Iho Cricket." The stoqH experience of a little s;irl,1H cricket, who gained hcrsotjH her joyousncss of nature iB She goes to Larchmont toiH friend. Fauuia Maruh; btB man Marsh, Fa nine's brotbifl cently excites tlie icaloufji cee, Lena Colcbrook. The'fl rcl. Norman dcfcndini; theV til Benn, in a fit of ariffl that ho marry her rival. X(9 at the idea 'at first, but fiafl and, to spite his s'veeth'arttfl the cricket, and she. troinH lug mm, accepts. Three afl their marriage sho learafM through Bona. Sbc hidHV in facia but reckless RftieMH alono with her husband an understanding. Ho olH tion or divorce, but AttJM and forces him to live ootjl fore the world, while bill shall stand a wall of tnfl grief and shamo for That'B Norman hns not dared to bfl now he begins to nppreciifl age and her worth, and Ififl for the wrong. Whet. mV grown canicst and sinewjj between them is broken 'dfl and both aro hapuier for-W thev have endured. The M prologuo and three nets. ;1B scene is laid in KcntuuH remaining thrco in LarchaH title character Mies TaluJH part ideally suited to ber.fl Ethel Barry-norfi'sfl When Miss Ethel BurJ upon her spring tour snortlNH "Mid-Channol," Chnrle5? vival of Boborlson's cujm comedy, "Caste." will bfl the Empire. Miss BarrjajM so successful in her emotOfl "Mid-Channel," thaUnM tain the tone at the i'mpirjj man has provided an ' ' Caste. ' ' headed by oritTB containing auioni the othHfcfJ loy aud Elsio Forgueon. portant rovival of this c ing of comedy and pathos J about twenty years ayoaj when Honry'E. Abbey company thero affcr theJjJ tcr Wallack. Boso CouhuiB part of leading lady in tH a score of years ago. JJH Anna Held In "Mial Anna Held, on Mo&dnrJB ica.ted tho new City Fourteenth street, pfmM plneo. In addition to M York theater choro, tnjj was assisted by LawreifM Alice Hogeman, Gene LubijH C. Powers. Frances rorr"M hard, Maurice liegeman, Mm A dele Choridah, Violet im Vernon and others. Th ater is owned by tho City . panv, compoHod of T,.5f,aB vau George .1. Kraus, the late Timothy P. iev of tho houso will .B the most classic prodactio" prices. Klaw & ErlanRj of tho booking In artfj building is French rcJJ main entrance on rou"teit a vaulted dome twcnK- height with arches and J elaborate frescoes in -"fH lobbv. N twenty-five ect tmg on a' foyer hall of the ffS vided tor entrance to H and by gnidient to too tfj approach is about fill' and ,is wainscoted and MM scngiol marble with .'"JJB The mural treatment isJM wainscot and dainnsk xsfW The ceiling under balconj in figure work. fiowc'MM the stair rails richly ornaU the scats in mahoRT imi holstory. Tho picture otmt represents a scene itota Versailles. This is eticfmm gold leaf frame of .nC7H plaster several feet ib cmM out from this frame are sixtoen in number. onrtMu aro hung with hugo vnrm below. The arch or somM vaulted from the top of H frame and extends iTOja,kt five sets of boxes c'tj"1 width to the other et o'f Continued oa Fol!awJM IN THEATER AND I CONCERT HALL EAST , Continned from Preceding Page. IH sounding board is decorated by a mag ' nilicent mural painting executed by on. of the greatest artists of the day, rep resenting history, music, art and lit crature. The color scheme of the entin auditorium is rose and olive green, witl ceiling in lighter tint of rose and bright cned up by pure gold leaf. jH Vaudeville and Legitimate. jH Tho era when vaudeville was makin serious inroads upon the so-called le gitimate stage has boon reversed ap parcutly, judging from a few cases Harry Davenport, Eva Tanguay, Graci La Rue, Gertrude Hoffman and Nor: Baycs have all been stolon from th rcilniB of variety for musical come dies, and tho'latest to bo boldly pluckec is Miss Irene Frnnkliu. Miss Franklin who has been delighting vaudeville au diences .by her song "Redhead," anc others, is the leading lady in Lev Fields 's review, "Tho Summer Widow ors," which will delight the hot weath er theatergoers in New York this sum mer. Although this will not open nnti somo time in June, Miss Franklin hai already bidden her adieu to two-a-day Broadway Likes Lilinutians. Broadway has taken to Liliputiam this season as never before. And, pur suing the subject further, the Lihpu tians Havo given rise to a number 0: interesting press items, mostly concern ing marriage nnd elopements. A whol shipload of dwarfs wa3 brought over fo. the Hippodrome. Appearing in "Th Newly wods" aro two others, James E Rosen anfl Trixie Warren. Master Roa en and Miss Warren aro married, am tho groom, although born in Russia holds tho happy record of having livet for three years in St. Paul. Amoni tho midgets in vaudeville aro Herber Rice, formerly of tho "Buster Brown -company; Jimmy Healey and Littl Washer. "Littlo Nemo" is also mad up of a few undersized people. Tho "Divine Sarah," on October 23 1910, will have reached her sixtv-sixtl year. On October 31, 1910, sho will be gin her seventh tour of tho Unite" States, or to uso her words: 4T an sorry to say, it will be my last visit b I America. " Her repertory during he: coming engagements will consist of fif teen plays. William H. Grane has mad his las appearance in George Ado's clever an mirthful comedy. "Father and thi Boys." New York has seen les3 of Mr Crane in this rolo than tho country x large for last year, his engagement hen having been interrupted by illness. Mi Crane entered upon a brief engagemen here in the role of Lemuel Morewood which ho termed as his farewell to tha character. This was his third seaaoi in the role. |