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Show IsS , In Theater and Concert Hall East "1 I irKp tp Tho Tribune. Vcb. 5. Mr. Francis lo Bachelor's Baby," remainder of tho season judging front tho auc-Kfldr auc-Kfldr Mr- Wilson sat in ?JEm; Ho dipped a shav-UjKi shav-UjKi bottle- of vaseline and uHkcO (green room secret) SEfcr might tho deck of a JRTgnd water. It was, at ,niay. and the comedian . aMforo a mirror busy as a Zbt actors call "taking TM'What do I know about 4HfroIod through a broad E all vcr a aco nonc Ttho bloom of youth. r3now about babies! Sit HiKro a mothers' meeting "tKn. You know there are SgKis that writo for ,glory. J5Ky, somo just write to JiMbnriH and neighbors, and SKcauso their lingers arc HTwroto 'The Bachelor's iJKfanie nor for money 2m't cntch mo refusing any Wxavcnge; yes, by eolly! jwE vou talk liko an anar-wUright.'' anar-wUright.'' . aKII, when I think of iMlBfce an anarchist, but tho i!$BFonly a husband, tho jnily, ono of thoso 'scr-MKbo 'scr-MKbo houso that objects ;Zji3 pulled out by the wSBkfl It about timo to pro-TMnflk pro-TMnflk is turned into a im''his onl.v Rood, top hat "jfjSyf really a bachelor with '"'fv; no, a thousand times-my times-my a father with three Bachelor's Baby' isn't, in autobiography. I've ibis very experience." i'X" In Now York. !' a drama by Alexandre, tans had a two months' i, came to tho now Amir Am-ir "Wednesday evening, ijs a life storj-. Ploriot, rj'in Paris, is an tmhappy rife, .Tasquelinc, has dc-Jhe dc-Jhe Has fled with her : bohind her a four-Baymond, four-Baymond, who falls ill. rs of Raymond's illness i'or old homo and pleads r forgiveness. Floriot is vcr, and drives her from t Inter in a tawdry hotel fman and woman arrivo mi ake lodgings. It is ten to tho very gtittcr, a wrriblo other habit; her jaronue. a jail bird and foquo has picked her up fca and learning m some-past some-past history, decides to r6t,,who is now president 0 court. Jacqueline cx-i.ovcn cx-i.ovcn begs; thou as he kills him. When her ,?sho refuses to auswer dwill not oven tell her ftlso of the mystery sur-ho sur-ho is known as Madame b appointed by the court tout sho refuses to redoes re-does not oveu know his wyer is Raymond. This ret and his father has curt room to hear him e of Floriot's distin-m distin-m ho is given a scat it beside the presiding fe tho situation- when rrrnigncrt for her awful-Bcoguizes awful-Bcoguizes her husband 1 turn recognizes her. f" she suddenly declares peak that alio will tell th when tho president IB of Raymond and she t- is her son who is to i' loud cry breaks from pj No! Sho will hold jiw than bring disgraco , JJ ed son Then ho begins i'Si I.or' rv'n t construct ?y aich might have caused jj, iroouo and accidentally, BC it, tells tho story of of hor pk'a for forgive-J forgive-J 'husband's refusal, and, ji (oratory almost sublime fc thunders: "Tho man r(s ii is the guilty one and isS anding hero in this M's place " 4 a NoIrh Gone. ijai England as well, suf-1 suf-1 iho dcat'i of Miko Nolan, .J. Btcd the m T'.ls with his S,S Mlo Kci. ' and other too way . ion cable-Jkl cable-Jkl $ riuc' 'lan. as ho 'JLi galled, was one of tho t class that is becoming tliJ -a?6-0 uitcer minstrel. J la of dry humor and an hi ' ? n -ho two combined I& fWsnro to listen to his ;S tha" visitors will rcad-Jh rcad-Jh t Rroat HUCCC5S of "An-iZ "An-iZ la simplo onough ditty, Ian car-haunting waltz Jr mado it popular on threo 2 non there was "The 5 Jown," a song cast in fS ? mould. It rolatod how i'j. c-quostions wero decided 1)r-?ic-H3 of J-Iirowing a jj If it stayod up it was yes,-' if it came down it was "no." 0,10 ?,hls latest and greatest successes was "The SineY Was Irish," in which the delight of an exile from tho Green Isle, at hearing. "Como Back to Brin" sung m a foreign Innd, was-pathetically described. Tho dead singer was always al-ways ready to do a kind action. One bitter winter's day, when tho snow was a toot doop, he was "discovered ' by a friend as ho was taking a bottle of wino and somo nthor delicacies to a poor sick professional. Dlvino Sarah. Coming, As. has bcou told a fortnight or so ago, ILidamc Ejarah Bernhardt is coming com-ing to tho United States to make a tour of America next sensou. But tho fact was overlooked that sho is going to bring homo new plays with hor for tho delectation -of Amorican theater-goers. There is somo vuguoncs's about vaudeville, vaude-ville, but do not. bo surprised if her playing amounts only to short sketches. It has hcen five years since sho played in America. William Connor, the American Amer-ican manager for Madamo Bornhardt, in discussing her coming said: "Ilcr tour wili hkoly begin in Chicago and will include Now York, where sho will play during tho holiday season. Her repcrtoiro will includo '.Tcanno d'Arc,' 'IjCs Bouffons,' La Bcffa,' 'La Eampo,' 'Faust,' 'Lo Passo' and 'Un Coour dMIommc.' Her tour will include all the principal cities of the United States, Canada and Mexico. Madame Bornhurdt is C6 years of ago, but still shows remarkablo Vigor. Hor coming tour is tho seventh for tho United States. She thinks it may bo her last visit to America, but refuses to call it her 'farewell tour.' " "vision of Salome." Probably four-fifths of tho audience that packed Carnegie hall to see Maud Allan danco camo away wondering if they ought to bo shocked or not ovor Mies Allan's famous f Vision of Salome," Sa-lome," with which the dancor- ended hor entertainment, her second appearance appear-ance in New York. "I am shockod," said ono woman, "but I don't know quite how much. If I had brought my opera glasses I should know better." . Porsons who had not forgotten their opera glasses were divided in opinion concerning t ho sensational character of what Miss Allan presented and which London is said to have acclaimed as the acme of daring in costumo or lack of ir. Some thought that Miss Allan's microscopic bodice was all sufficient, others contended that only tho lack of light mado such an exhibition possible. possi-ble. As Salome Miss Allan presented a poetic figuro in draperies, hardly more filmy than other dancers have worn. Tho stago was kept in semi-darkness semi-darkness during tho Salomo scone., As to the dance, it differed but slightly from others that had preceded preced-ed it during tho afternoon and consisted chiefly of posturing, with a suggestion at the close that tho head of John the Baptist is the magnet that alternately draws nnd repels tho dancer. There was no head visible Tn tho first part of her programme. Miss Allan again danced to the music of Grieg's "Poor Gvnt" suite, tho Mendelssohn Spring Song, and tho "Bluo Danube Waltz." Sho was frequently applauded and had to rcpca(soveral of tho dances. Thinning of tho Banks. Tho month of January saw a thinning thin-ning of tho ranks. Ezra Xondall, a comedian favorably compared to Joseph Jefferson, although their fields of endeavor en-deavor lay apart, died in a private sanitarium in Indiana. Ezra Kendall mado "Tho .Vinegar Buyer" famous and starred in if. until two weeks bc-foro bc-foro his death. Joseph E. Whiting, a veteran American actor of tho Vmla Allen company, died in Toronto. Joseph Jo-seph Whcclock, Jr., who gained public notice and approval in "Lord and Lady Algy' and ''London Assurance," died in Arizon.'u Lotta Faust, ono of our best, known musical comedy actresses, who left "Tho Midnight Sons" for a sanitarium, died of pneumonia. Miss Faust was divorced from Eichio Ling a few weeks beforo hor death, and at tho timo was ongaged lo marry Malcolm Mal-colm Strauss, a painter. To Establish Maori Village. The Messrs. Shubort announce that they will cslablish a Maori village, cither at tho polo grounds or ono of tho uptown amusement parks, at the conclusion of their present contract with tho t.ribo of Arnwa Maoris from Now Zealand, who aro now appearing as one of the features of tho triple spectacular show at tho Now York Hippodrome . The Maoris, with their Chief Kiwi, will give their Uaka dances and the women of tho tribo will pro-sent pro-sent tho Canoo and Poi dancos, as well as giving an exhibition of native weaving weav-ing and mat making. It is planned fo have the village lighted by electricity at night and beside tho war hakas now being given at tho Hippodrome, the Maoris will produco fpr the yfnsl timo a number of their special dances, which aro given in celebration of oyery important im-portant event of life, as for instance: weddings, births or deaths and also the celebration beforo and after battles. Tho Maori village will not bo opened until after the closing of tho regular Hippodromo season, some timo in tho early summer. Sister Beatrice. Miss Edith Wynuo Matthison, (he noted 15 n glish actress who recently ar- rivod in New York after appearing in London in "Tho Great Divide" and "Tho Servant in tho li'olsn,,, has been engaged as a member of tho New Theater The-ater company nnd will mako hor first appearance shortly when "Sister Beatrice," Bea-trice," a now play by Mnnrico Maeterlinck, Maeter-linck, is produced. Miss Matthison, who in private Jifo is Mrs. Charles Eann Kennedy, was born in Birmingham, Birming-ham, England. Sho is the danghtor of Henry Matthison, and the niece of Kdith Wynne and tho late Arthur Matthison. dramatist and nctor. At the ago of 10, whilo preparing for tho concert stage, sho appeared as an amateur ama-teur in Shakespearean and other roles, and finally adopted the stage as a profession. pro-fession. She mado hor first professional profes-sional appearance at Blackpool in 180G and was later engaged to play Mercy Merrick in "Tho New Magdalen." Sho roso rapidly and has sinco appeared in a number of Shakespearean parts, including in-cluding .Juliet, "Rosalind, Ophelia, Portia. Por-tia. Beatrice, Viola. Queen Katharino and Oberon. She lias also played in old English comedies. She created a profound sensation in hor performance of "Everyman" at 'tho St- George's hall, and lator appeared in tho samo play in America, where sho was oqual-13' oqual-13' well received. Tn 1904 and 1905 she toured with Trviug, playing Portia, Eos-alind Eos-alind and Iolanthc. In 100(5 sho created the chief part in Professor Murray's translation of "The Elect ra" by fiurip-idos. fiurip-idos. scoring an enormous success. Hor last Aincricnn appearance was in "The Sorvaul. in the House," and in "The Wintcrfoast," both of which were written by hor husband. Hcv Arms Valuable Pat was tho most optimistic Irishman in tho soction gang. Every time misfortune mis-fortune overlook him ho bore up bravely, declaring that it might have been worso. Ono day a train ran over him and cut off both his legs. His friends wore consoling with him, but Pat smilod grimly and said: "Ah. mo bb'ys it could a' been worse.' 7 "How tho divil could it. bo worse, Pat?" askod oho of his friends. "Well, sor." replied Pat. "it might havo been an actress." Euth St. Denis, who is now doing tho torpsichorenn according to tho Hindoo interpretation, has just; had hor arms insured in-sured for $50,000. Her dances nrc tho sonsation of the current theatrical season. sea-son. Tho $50,000 insurance on Miss St. Bonis 'a arms is against injury by accident. ac-cident. This is an unusual procedure for a dancer, but inasmuch as Miss St. Denis's arms aru brought more into play than her lower limbs, in her torpsichorenn torpsi-chorenn foaturos, and as Harry B, liar ris has made a number of contracts for this dancer's appoarnnco in different cities in which tliero is a forfeit clause if sho is nuablo lo appear, ho has mere-lv mere-lv oxorcisod a business man's precaution precau-tion and placed this insurance. The companv which took the risk was Lloyds of London. Paderowski's finqera were insurod for 125,000. and Mischa El-man, El-man, tho celebrated boy violjnist, had his digitals insured for 50,000, so this sort of insuranco gambling is not an unknown feature. Pretty Story ou Leoncavallo. A pretty story is told of "the genesis of Lconcnvnllo's now musical play, "Malbruk," soon lo .be produced at Vienna. During his recent visit, to I3or-lin I3or-lin lie attended a party given by a great manufacturer. Leoncavallo 's'cotn-panion 's'cotn-panion at tablo was the pretty wife of a doctor, who was anxious to secure good waitzcrs for the danco which was to follow the dinner. Great was he.r surprise, however, when sho discovered that tho composer had not entered tho ballroom. Sho went to the smoke room and found him comfortably ensconsed in an armchair enjoying a cigar. ABked if ho was not going to dance, Leoncavallo Leonca-vallo pointed to his corpulent figuro. Tho lady was disappointed. ''"Well, if you do not dance," she said, with something liko a pout, "you might play a waltz and show that you can bo put to somo use." An idea seizod tho composor. He laid his cigar aside, and tho next moment mo-ment he had taken tho place of tho pianist. Ho struck up a waltz which ho had never played before. Tho couples on. tho floor gavo him inspiration. The waltz was followed by a polka. Leoncavallo Leonca-vallo sat at the piano for half an hour. When ho rose tho guests flocked round him nnd thankod him effusively. Tho master asked his host to find him a quiot corner and provido him with peu-cil peu-cil nnd paper. Lighting another cigar, ho wrolc tho melodies 110 had played. From that moment he decided to wrilo a musical play. A few days afterwards after-wards ho was hard at work writing Iho music to tho librotto of "Malbruk." "The Fourth Estate." From Chicago comes word lhat everybody every-body in the metropolis on the lake con-tinues con-tinues to talk about flip great, news- paper play, "Tho Fourth Estate," which is now entering upon its sixth wook at tho Grand opera houso in lhat city, with ovcry prospoct that it will bo necessary to givo an extra matinee some day to accommodate thoHO disappointed theatergoers theater-goers who wore not wise enough to so-euro so-euro their scats for tho regular per-formanccs per-formanccs far in advance. Despite tho Beauties of the Stage 7Jr ;,T . EVA TANGUAY. fact that the demand for scats for "The Fourth Estate" is tliQ biggest by far of any play in Chicago, and 0110 of the greatest in tho last half-dnzon .years, tho management have succeoded in keen ing tickets completely out of the hands of speculators and oul-of-lown patrons who write or telephone in advance to tho theater arc ablo to got seats in any location they wish, provided they do so sufficiently far ahead. Tho management have succeeded in adding ono more week to the timo allotted originally to "Tho Fourth Kslato, " and it consequently will remain at the Grand until February Ui. No play in many years has succeeded suc-ceeded in arousing tho discussion which has bcou caused by tho big thonic of "Tho Fourth Hstat.c," and its pitiless, bald, brutal exposition of the forces and corruptions which arc endeavoring fo dominate the honest man and honest hon-est enterprise today, as well as Iho delightful de-lightful love affair of the two principal characters, send ovory spectator of Iho I play an enthusiastic herald of its mcr-its. mcr-its. Tho thrilling realism of tho composing com-posing and. pressroom scone of the big newspapor are so vivid, unusual and show such mighty mechanical power in operation that it grips tho spectator as no other scene in tho theatrical world toda3r can do, and tho audience ig invariably in-variably half out of its soats with excitement ex-citement nt the c)iinax of tho big situation.' situa-tion.' Donvor Girl Makes Good. Ti, lias "begun to Took as though "Paid in Full" is one of those standard works of drariia which will Iivo in popularity for many, many years'. In the present cast of the company-playing "Paid .in I'ull" in the cast is a young woman for whom critics havo a great regard, and for whom thev predict great tilings some day. Sho is "Miss Marguerite Watson, Wat-son, who plays tho role of "' Beth Harris. Har-ris. ' Miss Watson is a slight and pctito little woman, who ib playing her part with truo artistic interpretation. Sho was born in Now Orleans, but was educated edu-cated in Denver, so that, when her full mcasnro of greatness comes, the south and west may both lay claim to her. Finally Hears Daughter Sing. Though Miss Flora Wilson, daughter of Tlon. James Wilson, sccrelar' of agriculture, agri-culture, has been singing in tho west in concert over sinco hor American dobut at tho Hotel Plaza in New York, hor fathcrjiad never heard hor sing in public until she gave a special concort. Monday night in tho Bellevuo-Stratford in Philadelphia. Tho secretary happened hap-pened to bo in Philadelphia to givo an address .before the Manufacturers' club of that city and availed himself of tho opportunity to heat his talented daughter. daugh-ter. All tho society of Philadelphia apparently appar-ently availed itself of the same privilege, priv-ilege, for the audience wa3 almost a roster of; tho Quaker City "smart Bet." Miss Wilson is better known as a society so-ciety woman thnn as a concert singer, but the enthusiastic reception accorded her would argue a speedy reversal of her distinct roputations. Throat Hospital in Theater. An adjunct absolutely unique in the annals of the theater has boon installed in the Casino theater in New York by Fred C. Whitney, and to this ugency may be traced the fact that the great strain on tho voices of the chorus men and women of "The Chocolate Soldier" Sol-dier" has had no appreciable effect on their voices which continue as fresh and strong, in spite of the six months' wear and tear on them as when tho opera was first produced here early in the season. This innovation is nothing moro or less than the installation of a thoroughly equipped throat hospital or inhalatonum. under the direction of Dr. Joseph Muir. tho well-known throat specialist, and a trained nurso working under his direction, in which tho chorus girls particularly arc treated every night before the second act, in which, in tho finale, there is such a tremendous strain on their singing powers. Dancing at Seventy-Five. Annio Ycnnians, who is now playing play-ing in "Tho Candy. Shop," will be 7o years old on November 10, and has been before the public sixty years, but sho is still far from old. . "Indeed, Mrs. Yeamnns dances an Irish jig or a Connomara reel today with as much arch coquolrj' as might be expected of tho youngest of actresses. She is young in Bpirit becauso she has always looked at. hfo through tho rosy glasses of optimism. op-timism. Sho is one of the most beloved worn on of tho stage. Born on the Jslo of Man, tho land made familiar to Amorican readers principally by Hall Caino, of a Welsh father nnd a Manx mother, she was placed on the stage when sho was fairly fair-ly a babv in arms. Her father was William Griffiths, a singer and actor, and when little Emily Annio Griffiths was a year old her father took his wifo and child to Australia to begin an en gagement thoro with a slock company. Hor lirst important appcaranco was in 1S45, with this company in Mel- I H bourne, when sho was. 10 vears old. She had been tutored for a year by hot father in the graces of the ballet. Hoi debut was as Little Red Hiding Hood jl in a Christmas pantomime in Now Zca-land. Zca-land. It was from Iho Now Zealand stock company lhat Emily Annie Orif- lfl fltlis graduated fo a little circus com- pany led into tho wilderness of thn H Antipodes by Sandy Malcolm. That was in the late '10 's. Since then she has appeared with practically all of the principal English-speaking stars. Dean of American Actors. One of tho most important announce H mcnts in tho theatrical world is to tho H effect that "the dean of American act- H ora," Denman Thompson of "Old H Homestead" fame, returns to the foot- H lights after a lapse of many yearn. Mr-. H Thompson will appear in Keith's the- IH at or, Philadelphia, next Monday, when H ho will present his character of Joshua H Whitcomb ns it was first written and H offered to tho public moro than forty 3'cars ago. It was this skolch which v.;as afterward elaborated into tho na- B tionally famous drama of rural life. IH "The 'Old Homestead." The rights of producing the latter play long sinco H passed into other hands, but the pro- duction of the first originnl sketch ns IB played by Mr. Thompson more than IH n goneration ago, remains with himself. H Mr. Thompson mnde his initial reap- H pcaranco nt Keith's theater in Boston H a short timo ago and was literally tho H sensation of the town. Tho theater H was crowded day and night with en- H thusiastic admirers, showing what a H strong hold the personality of this ro- H mnrkablc character artist has upon tho H general American public. War on Tickot Speculators. The Now York police are engaged in another of their " thcorotical" war- H fares against ticket speculators. Tn H addition to holding a corner on nil tho H best scats in theaters and charging H three and four times the face value for H them tho speculators give a very un- H pleasant few minutes .to every person H who starts tn enter a phu-house. The H moment ono starts for the portals of H the theater a squad of speculators bear H down upon him blocking his way and H importuning a purchase. Tt resembles H tho old time Bowery scenes when the H merchants literally dragged pedestrians H into their stores. Spot Lights. Miss Blanche Ring, who made tho H song "Rings On Her Fingers" famous in "The Midnight Sons" will appear on Monday night in our very newosc H musical comedy. "The Yankee Girl." at the Herald Square theater. "Tho 1 Yankee Girl" sounds like George M. Cohan but it isn't. The company will include Harry Gilfoil. Nat Wills bf vaudovillo fame has H contracted acroplania. He wants to H own a flying machine and soar through H tho ambient. All winter Wills has H been looking forward to an engagement in Dayton where ho hones fo commune with the Quito Wright brothers. H "Raymond Hitchcock in "The Man H Who Owns Broadway," leaves Boston 1 next week for a circuit tour. To use H a Cohanism ho will leavo them laughing H when he says good-bye. H William Collier will play in England H next season. H |