Show 1 ART AND VAUDEVILLE Julius ius Steger The World Famous Actor Singer Tells of bI f Some Significant Things in His Career By JULIUS STEGER Art and an Vaudeville Is not a misnomer It Is just Juat this combination that huts as succeeded ed in making vaudeville accepted by 11 all classes of theatergoers In Now New ow York and throughout the as an en entertainment so w far above a oc variety that lint there scarcely romulus remains I a 1 semblance of oC some som of tho material that years ago made the variety stage a dumping ground round for fOI banality and When I went into vaudeville vau only three season seasons ago there were friends frienda who believed honestly that r f was losing caste by b so dpi i my mr experience hind had hn been in big Broadway productions and along lines lutes totally different from front those I that had haiJ I become familiar in vaudeville I This Chis was a silly sill way wa of looking at atit atit I it of course courso for or already there had been the examples t furnished of some I of or finest players in the tho th mul cat cal and dramatic fields going on the tho I or voted entirely to dramatic perform performances performances ances They The know Ino what dramatic val ial value al alno ue no is they ther know kitow that vaudeville is 19 no longer longel a 1 synonym m oI methods for fot double entendre for the thu mawkish for tho ho cheap chell tawdry and aDd the tue obvious They The have been IMn educated to ap appreciate appreciate predate and anil therefore to exact a I higher highet class of o entertainment than titan I ever before That II I s why cay da there tharo Is art in I 1 I am certain that a very N great deal of oC tins this newer appreciation of the ar artistic artistic In vaudeville audiences s can cnn be lie traced directly to the attitude of men who like Martin Bek B F F Keith F FF I IJ FF I F J Proctor Percy Perc Williams E F r Al AI Albec Albee bee bec anti and an William Hammerstein have constantly l beut cn cu on the lookout l h kout for Cor forthe Corthe forthe the material that lint would add both to the interest and anti the worth of their programs and who Just as ns constantly have hae been actively engaged In the work worl of spreading among amon vaudeville players n the propaganda that the tho best bestIs bestis Is none hone too loo good for audi es that I pay their lr money mone to he Ill entertained The TIte work worl ork of such men mon as all these thes In en n I be lie compelled to account to the th com coin company compan part pan for the sum IUm of which It IL is alleged he wrongfully wron fully and antI fraud fraudulently fraudulently withhold withheld from assessment nt duo dUI dueon on his personal stock tock In the tho com corn company company pany Brandl says as that he Is a stockholder stool I of oC the company company and alleges that he I was compelled to secure a wilt writ of or mandamus la from rom tho courts in order to examine th books of the company compan companA An A 11 examination of oj If its books disclosed It is claimed that Spiro holds shares of oC stock In his hili own name and also holds 2 shares hares as agent and that his wife holds shares |