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Show liell" Is Latest New York Satire B ' t & & lale-Theater Is for Reckless Rich ' j Fety Features Provided While Birds and Bottles Go Round; It's Expensive, but Hits Metropolitan Taste MLffronklin Byles EL.td Wire to The Tribune. BTTOBK. May &-f Hell," The author, Rennold Wolf, I 'lilla U b "protnno satire.'; K s that, The place of im ho shows it is a place K,ure Electric ians and teveraecs mitigate the heat, fiftte torture is not more (lev-Hixn (lev-Hixn tho ordinary headache of after. When Salome ar-r,;, ar-r,;, , descends the bottomless &n elevator, as all tho wom-vhilo wom-vhilo tho men are flung R chute. Otis Harlan is a ita-lzebub when Ada Lewis I' rir.ee wife isn't jealous of titntion to the abounding m-fau Types of those heaven-fiaiitSirens heaven-fiaiitSirens are hellions not iHrtf than thov wero on earth. Statue of Liberty quits her si in quest of men who " for- loved their liberty," but : pK'ilic now misses in her sur-Ef sur-Ef Gotham from her pedestal Etay She encounters a knot &es from Pittsburg with foer inscribed: ' 'Actresses Lrpcn in tho best of fami- aid a party of New York pWjgrs hears the motto: ,Ma- foeit." A largo party of Hp'rls conie barelegged in bath-Htaiise bath-Htaiise from Atlantic City, fc roes3ngcrs bring notes to from the audience, and the pBstk "beiflR read aloud, iden-vanous iden-vanous rounders. Mrs. Jack-fcmiraud, Jack-fcmiraud, whom you knew as BCrocker, now again a -widow, Hrts ss Mrs. Maxon Newrow, Kl from the first night of a Xst Goodwin appears as H'Voodinn, looking for still an-Hf, an-Hf, rife. Philadelphia's recent Hbout "in Eocioty" is fought Mottling Bercsford and Dread-Hjjht Dread-Hjjht Drcxcl, with tea to brace Mrbetivecn rounds, and their i manicured by pretty- girls. Hl' "Hell" as shown at the "Broadway theater. ter-Eestaurant. Hll our dramatic critics need Hjlttirc course in culinary tech-H&.jo..oualify tech-H&.jo..oualify them as reviewers Hy future? Or will their pal-jtervG pal-jtervG as their guides? The Hfe Bergere blends stage diver-Kfaad diver-Kfaad table indulgences. The HjaH has a row of tables for B'row of neats, with space for Hps to deliver not mere drinks RsiBcks, but dinners and sup-Jcomparablc sup-Jcomparablc in qualities and k with tho most luxurious tcs-Bnt?. tcs-Bnt?. The vnrious phases of tnosement last from G o'clock BtlThe first two hours arc din-Hline. din-Hline. Your tablo is covered Tdelicatc pink silk and ex-lekce; ex-lekce; and you may Elop and B,or flip ashes from your cigar, fJ a layer of clear glass pro- ttc fabrics. If you touch a 3 bulb glows red to bring wler , to serve you from a long V .Costly viands and cham-fct cham-fct are encouraged, but sand-Pand sand-Pand beer are tolerated. Un- garter past S desultory tt are done io divert you. A NPlian orchestra at the "front of Wage alternates with mandolin KR'at the back of the house. fee Reckless Rich. ca don't have to take your at your Mle till you -wish to, " fcE; saunter in a wide promo-oaok promo-oaok of the fSalcouj' boxes, or f-Jjw thirst whero the pla- . H.' Champagne bar" discour-.lbDRy discour-.lbDRy drinking, of kill timo p-valets, barbers and manicure BHn anterooms. But if you a table, a neat flower girl smile to vou and a nose-mn nose-mn vow lady, if vou have one: Hj!Ja .you are tho gaveties o ia 5t cafe for Pastinie g mta your dinner; and on Worms,, alongside 'the stnjrc, proscenium boxes might be, HE sing, dance and are dis-K dis-K '"tableaux of imitation .,wGiou3. moral and cth-J" cth-J" wll not hold their ban-,tne ban-,tne Fohcs "Bergero. But foML110 ??ubt. rallying :Dnn he CH,MS "Ch to fling Knoy and time into. There K jast tho same elsewhere oteto "Hell." Rte2,w, hnT fr"a 6tag0 fL , 'Ada Lewis comc3 be-8 be-8 curtain and delivers a Tsm 3.lm"Z of Maude inn. ChantccW; and when "tr v? i .He,p bg'n-the HEbK aml is Allowed by S t- ,f Patomimic bal-R'MK?ca,ly' bal-R'MK?ca,ly' miPlt precede n oc the We of the a tempted. This is an im- hn Lp-C'8 w,th .motions, Biu nn Ams coking with Hf.atw .8 champagno t demi )mt creates a crav- Btllct Ta.A Rross degeneracy B k TfnS employed. R'.an y J pleasure, wh lo Rra55"13 Volupluous-:nand?o"Clrf Volupluous-:nand?o"Clrf Emi)ie Lea BC avalna is a naive RJ & ftP8,x ' Tcmpta-WSQ Tcmpta-WSQ nftor ewallowing t;abaret," KeSre? vTh, lfiaac C fot t, anfl ; yJ?u lmvo Paid ed to fj aie,, a much as If you fin?0fl iTink and Kf rcou may stay through "The Cabaret." Many go out during tho intormission, but as many or nioro come in from other theaters, instead of going to ros-taurants ros-taurants for- midnight suppers. You may order heavily or lightly from a new and not shortened "bill of fare; or may dawdle over as light refreshment as you please; for -while you may 'have been eved askance by waiters if thev thought you niggardly at dinne"r, thoy don't sulk over orders at supper. Still, champagne pops its corks and aiz-zIcb aiz-zIcb out of its bottles copiously, and .pnrtridgos thoso present birds of tho gourmet's paradise would flutter all over the place if they could but get back their wings and logs and q-uit their plates. "Tho Cabaret" is not a formulated play, but a programme of specialties meant to 'last until the eaters and drinkers become sparse, and until 1 o'clock anywaj'. That Sad Failure. The holies Bergere is a kind of thing to catch the shifting fancy of ICcw York spendthrifts. Hnd it not been thoroughly heralded, it might have suffcrod a hindrance, or oven been imperiled, by the previous week's fiasco of " London Follies." which ended what was planned for all summer in one spring evening. Not long ago an excellent play failed because its title, "Nobody's Daughter," was -confounded with that of "Nobody's "No-body's Widow," which had run so long that few understood that its almost namesake was a different piece. "London Follies" was to be as remarkable a new enterprise as the Folies Bergere. Tho Londoners Lon-doners were densely slow to be-lievo be-lievo their case was hopeless." It wasn't till tho third section "The Land of Delft" travesty that they lost their smug stolidity, and their relatives in two boxes ceased to fight for them with applause. A m husky actor in the guise of a princess remarked to four real dam-' sels: "Oh, girls, girls, what a night." A minute later he had lo say to the one who was cnactiug an actress at a debut: "Anyone who can hold an audience as vou have " the conclusion was lost in uproar. The guyincr, which .began early, reached a climax when an actor came forward to sing, and throughout through-out the first verso the spot-lighter tried m vain to locate him. The people neglected the words to watch the wabbling and dodging of the disc of illumination; but the familiar refrain, "the Jay of the love-lorn lobster,'" reached their ears, and they realized that a ditty popularized on that same Weber-Fields stage ten years ago by Sam Bernard, was being maltreated. mal-treated. Just then the calcium man made a frantic effort to spot the singer. "Don't mind the light," cried Diamond Jim Brady Jrom his customary cus-tomary seat in tho second row; "hit him with anything you'vo got. ' ' Play Died in a Night. Seats costing nearly $500 were sold beforehand, whilo a fine show was expected; and noxt morning, when tho ludicrous criticisms had been published, the rest of the tickets were wanted by .'jokers who didn't like to miss a thing so bad that it was good fun. But the housa wasn't reopened. Plays that dio in a singlo night are Tare, and almost never are thoy professional compositions. "The "Wonder Child" and "Littlo Ethel's Prayer," Pray-er," one extravaganza, the other melodrama, and both cost,l ventures, ven-tures, are vividly remembered as such quick deaths accompanied by hilarity. It frequently happens that an unsatisfactory picc6 is withdrawn on Saturday night, although al-though it may have been used but part of tho week. It is seldom nowadaj'S that attempts are made to force mediocre productions into success. It is too oxuensive and too uncertain. "Loudon Follies" holds the New York record. I think, for closing before its first representation was finished. Blase Broadway's Temper. Blaso Broadway never loses its temper. When on rare occasions it ridicules a show, it is to mako tho diversion that isn't provided on tho stage. Usually the cou-tempt cou-tempt is undemonstrative. A hiss or a loud comment is hardly ever heard. Will you permit a personal reminiscence? rem-iniscence? Georffo Jones, an eccentric lawyer, law-yer, :ictor and fakor, who entitled himself Count Joannes, had been a player of some account earlier in life, and his daughter, Avonia Jones, hud acted with Forrest, Davennort and tho elder Booths nnd AVallacks. But when I know him ho was a frows.v-wiggcd, sog- . gv-shod caricature of a tragedian, borrowing dollars when ho could, but not scorning dimes. lie was an erudite scholar, and ho amused Charles A. Dana, of whoso Sun staff I was a very young member. A Famous Burlesque. One day. after Mr. Dana had given a dollar to the count, and I ri dime, ho talked of tho degenerate degen-erate stage and its sordid showmen. show-men. ''Count," T interposed, "if you will play 'Kichard III.' T will provide a theater and a company." Jonc8 was a' town guy, the Sun having made a byword of him, and a sudden thought had como to mo of tho old fop mouthing and striding aa Itichnrd beforo a lo-riding lo-riding audience. Uo was willing. "You'd mako a bigger comic show of mo," ho said. But we came quickly to half nnd half terms for a week, he to contribute himself arid I -ill else. Tfc was late in tho snring, as I Tcmeiubor, and the old Bowerv theater wasn't in use. Idle actors" wore plentiful. Having n made all ready, I had a few hours of .financial panic; but it was relieved re-lieved by a lieavj' advanco sale of seats, and we had a cram-jam opening with Mr. Dana as u guest of honor in que box, and tho others filled bv men of Wall street, tho press and the bar. Next morning no city newsnnper had less than a column account of tho guying of tho Count Joannes, hardly a word of whoso spouting had .boon heard in the- din of do-rision, do-rision, and whoso every' strut or stride had incited an outburst of mock applause and merry comments. com-ments. How Jones felt 1 never know, but ho took his half of the receipts, and wanted mo to con-tinuo con-tinuo the engagement; but I turned hiin over to a real manager. Since that episodo in the dramatic dra-matic career of tho Count Joannes no audienco has given such a disorderly disor-derly performance in Brondway before tho introduction of "London "Lon-don Follies," for whom a fashionable fashion-able sort of success -was expected. Mike Donlin on Stage. 'A Certain Party," is a new frivol basod on our national game. Not a baseball is tossed in it, but its principal malo figuro is a popular popu-lar exhibit of the sport. Mike Donlin won't ever bo as a stage player what he was as a ball player,- though he may be appraised commercially as worth tho ten thousand a year thnt he used to get. When ho went into a vaudo-ville vaudo-ville sketch two years ago with his wife, Mabel Kite, it was in his idle winter lime, and no ono could guess that even though handsome, and liko the sluggers. Corbett and Fitzsiuimons, was just easy enough to escape tho ridiculo that later was vented on the black Johnson he wouldn't respond to the call of the .ball and bat when spring came. "He loves me and lie's lazy," Mrs. Hile-Donlin is quoted to mo by a friend, "and so he'll stick to mo liko two spells' of foolery por da-." The "Home-Run Kid." The wife did most of the work all of it that was then amusiug; and she is again the busier of the twain during the wholo evening that "A Certain Party" occupied on the stage once dominatod by Lester Wallack. And good old Lester, tho Beau Bruinmell of the nineteenth century in New York and comedian par excellence and paragonic of his time, never was received on that stage with moro applause thau was given to Miko Donlin. Pretty soon Mabel responded re-sponded to some remark of his with a kiss and a "Sure, Mike," that seemed impromptu; and tho audienco audi-enco made all tho gleeful noiso that a four-base hit gets in a ball game. How truly satisfying to tho soul of a dramatic artist must, be tho spontaneous acclaim of discriminate dis-criminate appreciation! "Suro, Mike." Mabel BTite is a first-rale mimic not so very many notches down the scalo of merit below Cecilia Loftus and Elsio Janis. With no special pertinence, T will tell you why the most applauded imitation by this good looking young woman is of tho ugly Eddie- Foy. Some ono asked mo when Mabel Hito came to Foy in her set, and I watched her. She drew her chin back as far as sho could, pulled up the corners of her mouth, took on a circus clown's quizical grimace, and -her faca was a likeness of Foy's. Try these contortions of visage beforo a mirror, and likelier like-lier than not you'll be surprised by tho forced resemblanco. And Foy's peculiarity of speech and gait easy to do and you have recognizable impersonation. Not Much of a Play. Miko and Mabel nro sweethearts in the play that is callod "A Certain Cer-tain Party,''' because the action is al parties given by a family, in its drawing room and the servants in the kitchen. He is r. policeman working for promotion in the detective de-tective bureau. She is a lady's maid and fix-it for tho household. The programmo docsu 't name the authors, excepting Robert Hood Bowers, composer of tho music. They are numerous. Edward Town-send Town-send and Frank Wnrd O'Malley, newspaper humorists, wrote it fiomo time ngo as "Tho Head of the House," and it was tried onco with a servant who. aided by the cop. saved hor master from blackmail black-mail in a political campaign. She and ho circumvent a plotting gang of gamblers; but whilo in tho play their reward was prosperity and wedlock, thev didn't get on well with the audiences.' Next thereafter. Henry Blossom and Vincent Bryan put it through a treatment of elimination and interpolation; in-terpolation; ensuing collaborators were Walter Ihickett, Hugh Ford and Frank Tamiehill, Jr.; and thoso second and third versions wero not winning betterments. Finally Edgar Smith refashioned it into a musical farce, with kindly help by John Mason and William Collier," and that's how it is now. Mabel Mile as its star actress, hitherto eccentric in stage guise, is now comely as Donlin 's love-mate; When alio sinus to him fondly ho can !t sing back; but he has learned to dance in an athletic if not very "raccful way, whilo she Is graceful, grace-ful, and he whirls her in a gymnastic gym-nastic waltz ho hard that, if they wero to let go, she might be hurled over the footlights into the parquet. par-quet. Indeed, antic violonce makes tho dancing generally peculiar. At ono tlmo eight girls aro revolved ho rapidly by eight young stalwarts that their arms and legs look like spokes of wheels; at another timo, i they aro propelled bo fast across tho' stage, bent backwards, aud their fingers and toes barely touching touch-ing tho floor, that thoy suggest human crabs in a stampede; and for the ballot, chorus the engagement engage-ment should servo as a course in physical culture. |
