Show r The Seamy Side of Broadway I i NEW YORK July 11 11 In In the days when we believed anything we might have believed that a a. concert given in New York could be heard and ind probably was heard by 00 persons That seems to be a fact tact For several months the Goldman Goldman Goldman Gold Gold- man band has been the most widely advertised musical organization inthe In Inthe Inthe the world This advertising the cause of which need not at this time be discussed brought the band I to the notice of music lovers everywhere everywhere every every- where When the seventh season was announced to be given on the campus of the New York plans were made at once to radiocast radiocast radio radio- c cast st It and beginning with In New York and utilizing their network network network net net- work of connecting stations it isnow is isnow isnow now possible and on the opening night Was Avas proved to be so for mu music music sic lovers everywhere in hi the co coun country m. m try listen In When fifteen million million mil lion people have heard the same concert the so-called so miracles of t th the past become pygmies in Interest That personable comedian In Bachelors Brides which will open in Chicago In the fall Charles Davis Davis Davis Da Da- vis has a pretty wit and incidentally tally he has a radio set The other afternoon he w went ent Into a restaurant for tor a quick lunch After a long wait walt without raising a waiter walterr h he turned to his companion and dryly observed I I have got Chicago Denver and San Francisco easier than I can get geta a waiter walter here New York will have a new Yiddish Yiddish Yiddish dish theatre this year This Thris statement statement statement state state- ment Is Important because the Yiddish Yiddish Yiddish dish Art theatre as directed by Maurice Schwartz has been one of ot the outstanding features o of th the theatrical theatrical theatrical the the- season in New York and elsewhere for the past five years The company Is just closing an extensive extensive extensive ex ex- tour and Mr Schwartz has demonstrated once more that there Is very little that the foreign element element element ele ele- ment can offer us that Is better than that which we already have One of ot our or our brought us the Moscow Art theatre and the public sat before these actors uncomprehending uncomprehending uncomprehending un un- comprehending but enthusiastic New York has had and has enjoyed the Yiddish Art theatre for several years jears and some some of our Important cities clUes In the East East and Midwest have also als had a chance to witness their plays It Is the consensus o of opinIon opinion opinion ion that Moscow 1 has nothing to offer of offer offer of- of fer us that we have not already seen and possessed The United States rightly claims to be the drama center of the world and and the Yiddish Art theatre has done much to substantiate that claim When Bessie Barriscale was organizing or organizing or- or her vaudeville troupe a dramatic agency sent her a young girl who sought one of the parts This part Miss 1 Barriscale explained explained explained ex ex- in her het most Judicial manner man man- manner ner requires an actress who is beautiful talented and can dance I I see the applicant answered dublo dubiously you want three of us We Ve appear to be approaching that era when the actor will play playa a conspicuous conspicuous conspicuous con con- and important part In the writing and producing of plays plas inthe In Inthe the th United States Each ye year ear r some actor to has come come with forth forth with a play which has been sl significantly successful successful successful suc suc- James Gleason helped to write as he also helps to act actIs Is Is Zat Z t So which Is one o of the happiest plays of the season Each year a tabulation of plays written by actors shows chows that the group is Increasing Increasing- And increasing in increasing increasing in- in creasing among those of pf the craft crat who are most representative of the better things In th the theatre The press announcement has just been made that Curtis Cooksey an actor of this this class has written a play called Sycamore am and this is scheduled for production this year This Is not the first play written by Mr Cooksey who is now dell delighting hUng Chicago with his performance performance mance mance in The Gorilla lie is a gentleman of rare qualifications aswell as aswell aswell well as an actor of ability and In In- theatrical manager manager manager man man- It was said ld by a recently that there are less than ager a score of actors now on the competent to play the roles stage stapo In the classical plays Mr Hr Cooksey was one so ment mentioned mentioned The first notices for the new theatrical theatrical theatrical the the- In Indication indication Indication In- In season give encouraging that the plays will be of ot the he better sort There has been a tendency of late particularly among the musical plays to Improve The successful plays on Broadway which are rated among the musical attractions at- at at attractions t- t tractions are plays like The Student Student student Stu stu- dent Prince Louie XIV and andRose andRose andRose Rose Marie These are the successful successful successful suc suc- plays and their music Is distinctly high grade SIgmund Romberg is the most conspicuous figure In the world of modern composers composers com com- posers His music has the charm charmo o of Offenbach and possesses also the same quality ty of ot permanency based on musical Inspiration that has kept alive these lilting melodies through the ages Mr Romberg it was who after graduating from the jazz mania of Broadway created and has sustained a new nev and impressive ImP impressive im Im- P school of ot composition and Blossom Time Maytime l and The Student Prince Prince are are of this school and all fr from m the same brain that created more than fifty other Broadway successes successes successes' during his hI's relatively relatively relatively rel rel- brief career of Oe fifteen fifteen or or twenty years In the elaborate sales salesrooms rooms of the Rudolph Wurlitzer company in New York are musical Instruments I of every kind A musician known as a pianist went Into the store recently re recently recently re- re and tested some of them The clerk watched him go from instrument Instrument instrument ment to instrument playing upon each Piano violin cello cornet they were all all the same to him Its a talent talet one o of the clerks remarked Talent snorted the other Its Hs a Anna Cleveland well known ac actress actress ac- ac tress tres who Is now winning new laurels laurels laurels lau lau- as a writer recently returned from her tour around the world She went up to her summer place in New York state and found that things had been sadly neglected during lier Her absence You are dismissed she said to the housekeeper whose duty It was to keep the house hous Why she protested I 1 aint done no thin Yes I know that Mss Miss Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land replied That Is why you are dismissed Each year a number of or so-called so concerts concert are given by young musi musicians clans more ambitious than talented Tickets are freely distributed and every effort is made to fill the house Frederic Warren the singer teacher and manager received a batch o of tickets for tor the deb debut t o of a pianist It didn't sound very good but Mr Warren decided that he would help her out by distributing the tickets ho he had received But I dont don't care for music one oneo o of his friends protested Oh Mr Warren answered airily airily air air- ily then you jou ou will enjoy this The RIalto rover may be on his uppers but he is rl right ht there when the occasion demands it As Frank Thomas was leaving t the e stage door of the Lyric theatre where ho he helps to keep the wol away from the door by acting the American who came back in Aloma he A a p p ro ac h e nil d b n a a p p e uv 11 vu u y typical type of mendicant He gave Thomas such a plausible story that tha he bestowed a quarter upon him And lAnd the now actor remarked in a merry mood if I should give you a hundred d dollars what would you do with It Count it replied Roving Robin without a smile There Is no better place than a music store to pick up up- amusing in In- In A free lance reporter dropped into one ong on of the big stores where there is ig 1 every sort of musical musical musi- musi cal Instrument A young woman with a vivacious attitude entered and examined a musical instrument ment She gave It a thorough test playing it for half halt an hour What hat do you think of o her the reporter casually asked It is remarkable where she gets all her lack o of knowledge from the clerk cIerI answered wittily Olive Wyndham noted actress isone Isone is isone one of the wittiest of the stage fra fra- fraternity When she was asked to define an optimist she gave a definition definition definition which will be lasting It Is she declared a pessimist who ho went vent seeking a no Job end and got gat It IL |