Show Newer Angles Angle of Marital Happiness X 4 Place of Wife Not Alone Household o 0 o e o eTwo Two in Gotham Prove Theory I By Elsie Bv-Elsie Elsie Greene Thew I How to be oe happy though married married married mar mar- ried and Is womans woman's place in the home home home- hese two supplementary I subjects have been aired ared a countless I number of times for the edification of the reading public and v y lit t a discussion of them is ever new ever Interesting Answers to these two vital questions have haxe been many and Ious valous and an presented om f.-om many points of view We think a happy compromise on the second question is the answer to the first Surely the wife wite who maintains maintains' interests outside her household affairs Is Ismore isI ismore I more Interesting to her husband conversation for tor one thing never nevera languishes a e in such h a home and a If I both gu are busy u and l love v Ot their their ir ira worK r life is possessed of a sparkle a zest that the bonds of mat inv ny only serve to enhance I Ko- Ko instance two who hp have won a large measure of ot success success success suc suc- cess in a comparatively comparative short shoTt number number number num num- ber of years from a cit city miserly in her gifts Watson Barratt as art for the puts pUis on more i l I o- o in a year than other scenic artists combined At Atthe Atthe Atthe the present time he has light eight productions productions productions pro pro- on Broadway which include 1 The Bluebird Topics of 1923 1023 Artists and Models Models' and Innocent collaboration collaboration Eyes Byes Mrs 1 Barratt in m tion with Helena Smith Dayton Daton not only has Just written a book but is working on three othe others othes s for spring delivery In addition the last annual annual annual an an- nual f of or the Illustrators' Illustrators so society so- so 0 clety held in the ballroom ballroom ballroom ball ball- room of at the Hotel Astor o on 01 i February February Feb Feb- a 1 1 owed its unusual s success c. c r to her r lin inspiration tI and efforts oi It was in the nature of a pirate costume costume costume cos cos- tume dance and was advertised as the ball She was also la gel instrumental in putting over o the Illustrators Illustrators' Desert Dance at the previous pevious year eui The fame of Artists and Model Models still playing to packed houses at a Broadway theatre has spread the country over over Visitors tou bUYErs and residents resident continue to make mak the S S. S R R. o O. sign necessary From Vom a a. a box office point of view alone i 2 It u is ls the most successful revue of or the season for this I mot most p-o p pos pos- IS of ot their ventures it has hah been making them a 0 week since j last st st. August the have Watson Vatson and Louise Bascom Barratt to thank It came about by Mr Barratt's s I being made chairman of of at the entertainment en en- committee of at the tho Illustrators Illustrators' Illus Illus- I i l it society last year T The II- II society we pause se seT to re remark re- re mark k was od organized rz twenty years ago and n today Is la one of the most fl powerful t l organizations a s of artists in the city and Includes rJ s several e ls hundred hun hun- su dred men and women Among Its membership are names to conjure with with such such as Charles Dana Gibson James Montgomery Flagg Wallace I Morgan Dean Cornwall Edward dward Penfield Howard Chandler Christy Tony Sag Sas Rube Goldberg I Lejaren a Hiller Eve Eve y year It it has been Its custom to utilize the talent of or its Individual members for for the I amusement of ot all the affair a usually usual usual- ly part partaking king of or the nature of a a. a vaudeville show Always has this b been en sacred to the members alone Never hever never have alien eyes ees been per per- permitted permitted to gaze at the laughable satires and beautiful numbers it staged But after the war hard times came upon the artists and dues flowed slower and slower into the s. Its membership waned it became desperate money must roust be raised at all costs had haIJ It a was brilliant then that suggestion Watson tJ s n why Barratt not 1 let the finance their annual annual an an- I an-I nual show with the privilege o olater of I i later later- putting It on professionally I giving 1 per cent of the proceeds proceeds' to the Illustrators' Illustrators society The plan met with favorable response but not a member guessed at the mone money it was to make nor of at the fame that was to accrue to It though th-ough the nationwide advertising accorded c r d the professional te presentation presentation presenta presenta- nt tion I of Artists i and Models ll It t thas has b become come twice as powerful as asIt asIt asit It ever was waa in former r times and the privilege of membership Is eagerly sought Watson Barratt planned the whole whole show with the exception of three numbers emphasis being placed on his arranging of settings and pictorial pictorial pictorial pic pic- numb numbers rs Thee The were In all some eighteen scenes two of whIch were written by Mrs Barratt who also acted in one The with the help of Mrs Dayton vayton rehearsed re rehearsed rehearsed re- re the numbers selected the cast arranged d the music and colloquially colloquially colloquially col col- speaking worsted worked 1 Ike dogs dogs' until a week or so bero the opening when the services of or Hary ry Wagstaff Grlbble Gribble Ie author of I I March Hares were secured as di director dI- dI Of rector Even then the diplomatic efforts of the of-the the atts were much In demand In-demand in pacifying tal Illustrators who wanted large large- or smaller parts and l like ke problems Incident to every amateur performance perform perform- ance The whole went over so big itI it itI I called forth the praise of those su sue I show man and Shubert both of whom h said i they ey had nev never neverseen r rI i I seen such c a fine I one n I Mr was enthusiastic about putting it on professionally I However being obliged to go abroad rat at this time he left the whole thing In insole sole charge of t Mr Barratt whose i Ireal real troubles troubles' then began Professional I assistants provided him did not understand this unique show I l' l and fought every number As a reI re result re- re I suit sult the final show was somewhat some hat I of a comp omis j many of tile the original original nal numbes numbe s being omitted and some somei i new ones added neTh The most s beautiful feature of the I show was undoubtedly a I series of tf I colorful tableaux entitled The Japanese JapI Japanese Jap- Jap These conceived anese Prints were I 1 and designed by Watson Barratt Several dramatic critics in talking of at these said they were wera the most beautiful pieces of scenic artistry ever seen on any stage in any c country corm coun un- un try try Being on a a. publishers' publishers list we e recently received a card from McBribe Mc- Mc Bribe do Co advertising Mrs BarI Barratt Barratt Bar Bar- I a s book mentioned at the beI beginning beginning be be- ginning of or this article It is called I A A Book Boole of Entertainments and andI and it concerns but to I quote from the card Membership on an entertainment committee Is Isas isI isas as Inevitable as babies o or 0 false raIse I teeth Sometimes somewhere al almost alI almost al- al most everyone e will be scheduled to I help build a a new clubhouse order ordera a banquet manage a vaudeville show a dramatic production of ot a anto pageant or o at least help to raise nto money ne nin nino In order to m make s some s such entertainment entertainment a success For such I unfortunates this book will prove a ai aJ i i J blessing The authors who a ate ae atei aeI e et I t Past Grand Mistresses of the Art of ot otI Organized Entertainment here reI reveal reveal re- re I I veal the arcana of the craft tells telli tell- tell i s Ing ling in an n informal but exhaustive I fashion everything that one needs to know knout about the work of at the entertainment entertainment entertainment en en- committee Among the numerous subjects dealt with in this Interesting book are the planning of printing publicity publicity publicity pub pub- tickets decorations costumes cosI costumes cos- cos I turner for tor any sort of affair the 1 scenery lighting properties pe stage W dressing rg mechanical nl effects of stage production and kindred sub- sub and also tells how to manage cha charity It Ity bazars bazara society circuses exhibitions college reunions and the I most Interesting problem of raising money The live in 11 the fashionable fashionable fashion fashion- able studio neighborhood just off Central park west Mrs Barr Barratt tt it Is Isa a charming hostess and Mr Barratt an interesting host With nth Witha a circle of at friends constantly widening widening widening wid wid- ening many are the delightful din din- nera ners and pleasant social evenings I held in their attractive apartment l I Guests ever that ha are their hei always h host Is warned v as l apt et a as howl however how how- On not notto t tto to be obliged to hasten away to a midnight dress rehearsal to oversee oversee oversee over over- see the completion of some Important Important important tant scenery to finish the design for tor a curtain to be Installed possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly the next night and so forth Both the love their work and In connection with a book on the life Ufa of Marie Dressler Dressier they have been Invited by he her he to spend the tho month of May at her villa on Lake Coma Italy And there work and restful recreation will be enjoyed I in delightful conjunction |