The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1901, Page 5

-question.”' he aad. : eweeey “JOHNNY”:.BENNETT TELLS WHY SHE ISN’T A “RAT.” The Young Woman Stands by Her Man. ager as a [latter of Principle and Has Not Joined in the Vaude-- ville Strike. “Why am [ not a White Rat? Well, {f you come up to my dreseing-room I'll tell you all about It. T am gasping to cet it off my mind.” “Johnny” Bennett, her hair pointed in the front and carefully spatted down all round tll you couldn't have told. if you hadn't known, whether it was a boy's head or a giri's you were look- ing at, had Just come off the stage, and the plano was still tinkling merrily at the curtain music which ends the sketch known as “A Quiet Evening at Home.” I followed her up a short Night of tron stairs and into a room somewhat larger than a dry-goods box. Mins Bennett dfopped wearily into a chalr in front of her dressing tabl while Miss Graham, her private secre tary, hovered over her policitously, and her maid relieved her of a few super- fluous articles of wearing apparel. “1am 11," Miss Bennett sald, “and have been fil for some time. I am tired | out, It was a strugele to ret through | the performance. However, this tsn't | talking about White Rats, te it? 1 un-} derstand this organization haa ai! kinds | of a bad opinion of me, because | wouldn't throw up my engagement and | leave my manager in the lurch. 1 am very worry, of course. One hates to antagonize anybody. But 1 am ted hand and foot. I couldn't move if I wished to do so. And I'm not at all nure that I do. I Ike to be fair and square and white, and to treat people with consideration and kindness. My manager has been dead square with me. But my contract with him ts simply fron-ciad, and there's no getting away from It. 1f I should now join the White Rats and refuse to finish my season {t would mean a loss to me of nearly $5,000. Between you and me and the lamp-post, I haven't arrived at thai happy period of my life where I can afford to thow away so much money. “There is not tho usual two weeks’ clause in my contract this season. If I leave my manager I forfelt my ten weeks’ salary to come. No matter when r where I might play in future, Mr. inick would be honestly entitled to all my earnings until the forfeit had ikavelucecalorithoncrs been made good. “The other people under his manage- ment have the two weeks’ clause in their can he proved Iegal I will see agreements, no that the worst which can} to it th © promptly happen to them In a loss of two weeks’ ; " 5 slaty. It ie entirely different with me, | Stopped.” —MAGISTIATE CRANE If for any reaxon other than iiness [| in anawer to White Hata? fall to meet my engagements | have to make good to my manager to the tune| plication for sammonses, my entire salary for the remainder of the season.” e “Are, you In sympathy with the White Rate?" 1 asked. “Tam afraid 1 cannot answer that 1 don't.want to wet_on the wrong wide of anybody. 1 feel tat Lam in honor bound, as well as by contract, to the man who engaged my services. "He has lived up to his agreement with me in every particular. lle even had a acene made for my met and furnished all the things I aaked f in order to make {t artistle and aterm tve and out of the common. If yo notice, T have a Might of titul medallion, and many pretty acces- ries which you don't see In other deville plays. ‘Then he furnished the re Empire Vaudeville Company—this was the name by which we were —with « private car, and every time we went on board for a Journey at night there, In the men’s end of the car. werr four. doxen bottles of beer and four dozen sandwiches for our refreshment, Isn't th a pretty square man he entitled tg nome conalderatio “In it true,” T asked, “that th Rain believe in keeping the aotors out of vaudeville? “Lunderatand that Fuller Golden suid ro in his ‘ch Sunday night.” Miss Hennett ropiled. “It hardly reems pos- sible, Why, just ace what the ‘legiti- mate’ has done for the Variety stage. Nefore we came into this buriness many’ of the old Vaudeville performers were kotting ralartes ranging from $40 to $00 a week, who now get {12% und upward. We have drawn the best people to these houses. These bright, cholce little twen ty-minute plays have become a distinct feature of vaudeville entertainments and draw refined audiences. We should Ast axsuredly be missed by the public, day performances, and If they The White Rats of America carried the war into the managers’ camp to- day, In their behalf Lawyer Daniel O'Reilly appeared in the Hariem Police Court to ask for a summons for F. ¥- Proctor on a charge of giving a theatri- cal performance on Sunday contrary to the Penal Code. The performance took Place iast Sunday at Proctor's Theatre jon One Hundred and Twenty-ftth street Mr. O'Reilly also wanted summoases for J. Austen Fynes, Proctor's genezal manager, and for the following per- formers, who appeared: Ascott and Eddy, acrobats; Johnstone Hennett, who played tn a sketch; Naomi Ethardo, an acrobat; Millle Christine und her performing monkeys, and Mattle Lockett, & dancer. Magistrate Crane grante! the sum- monses and the managers must appear ton Thursday. ws the Managers. “but the beginning of a gen- ugh the courte, It tho strikers that this will do great deal toward bringing the man- agers to terms, us the penalties for the offense alleged {x a revocation of the theatrical Icensen and a fine of $4. O'Reilly, accompanied by George Ful- ler Golden, Premdent of the White mate This wal WHITE RATS WIN THE FIRST ROUND. ————_++ Summons Granted Against F. F. Proctor for Sunday Vaudeville Performance. risa. ared before he Jefferson Mar- and obtained sum- pearance of Proctor ad the vaudeville perform: rrmann, Lena Farrington, ry Bergman, Baron and Burke and Smith Rowe. The White Rats are enthusiastic day over the closing of the Gayety Thea- tre in Brooklyn last night by the atrike of the performers. ‘The show lasted elght minutes, and then the house was mpolled to shut down until Monday vext. The Gayety Is managed by Hyde & Behman, Two other Brookly1 badly: pled, The fen" have been th fon at the Star Theaire, When the curtain went up for the frst act last night none of the men appeared, The managers explained the situation to the audience and offered to give money back for tickets. About a score took the offer. A band was rent from Ryde & Rehman's and several artists from the Orpheum. A crippled performance was given. Rate organization Magistrate Mott in t Police Court onses for the ay tos houses aave been Morning Glor- Rarlesquers on a Strike. Several of the “Royal Burlesquers’ Went out on strike at che Empire tn Willamaburg, Im announcemen: ix made by Preai- dent George Fuller Golden, of the White Hats, After th permanent arra: between the atrikers and those represent agers’ Association, Mr. Gol it the managers are willing. Tarough them a contract equitavle :o both sides can he drawn up. If xome such arrangement Is not rived at, the strike will go on tndetl- nit The White Rats say they have $0.00 in the treasury and will have no trouble in carrying on the sirlke. " and if T mistake not, by the vaudevilituns ihemeelves, “Who wrote your sketch?" "I wrote It myself. 1 iso wrote ‘American Types,” hur the manugers all ask for the ‘Quiet Evening at Home,’ so T keep on giving LOVE NOTES COT =) YOUTH AN CELL it to them. T have Just finished a cap. Kal Uttle skit, however, which I think with bea go. ACall events, It has caused vhrieks of laughter when I have read ft Perhaps th: to eome of my friend 4 sisn, though, They ) Jon't think you'll ever de 4 Ratz’ Wie grimace ST havent wala thats sod Knows AWekmow” svinat "we are, but Pretty Sweetheart Ob- we know not what wi De. ; i fata present. T belore to my manager. ite] jected to His Claiming oven has an Sption on my services for next eason. Rut when [ finieh my present engagement I may be a pink rabbit or a blue bumble bee fur all 1 can tell” Onething In certain, for bobhing up serenely Johnstone Bennett han few equals and no superiors, First she acts. then she makes necktics for the swetl_ then mhe acts aguin. She in one of those elastic tndividi who always come to the surface. She has gray matter and pluck, an excellent combini Monopoly. Louise Duffy, # pretty’ orunette, was complainant in the Adams, Street i lice Court, Brooklyn, to-day, against a bove-lorn youth who, she said, had threatened to kill her, The prisoner was Henry Lawrence, of “Johnny” "Bennett may to oie if you ask her ‘Tnanager, No, 26 Henry street, wn undersized ire he will ‘ell you she's white,| youth, not handsome, He appeared dure enough. JANE GORDON: SS Very much at a disadvantage in court. Ne was frightened and ashamed. Miss Duffy sald that she was tn SHIPPING NEWS. mortal terror ot her would-be lover, Henry had sent her threatening let- ters, and on one occasion had produced a revolver, whiet he placed at her head, ring In melodramatic tones that uid KIN her if she would not be hin alone, “Judge,” pleaded Henry, “it was onl a toy revoiver, and 1 was only Joking. Mugintrate Steers eould not ‘see the joint. of the Joke, so he hed Henry {ir $300° for, examination. ‘Miss Duffy sald that she began to PORT OF NEW YORK. ARRIVED. Porta Rico fiyn Juan Lorenzo Premier a sample: eb. 12, 1901. Friend Loulee: 1 told you that you would oat have bed news If you were to play any mo: VN put an end to your Mt your folks would he thit you have nou OUTGOING STEAMSHIPS. RAILED TO-DAY. Iroquol mi ‘a the bad new 4 1 know befor you can break your promises G Charleston, Capel, Barba farewell (0 you, “Hoping you will Jamestown, KI Monte, New Orleans, . . Hoping yo ore! vorpal. ‘yourself better with the one you. witl aha. eerste see to-night then you done with me. Princeas Anne, 3 INCOMING STEAMBHIPS. DUB TO-DAY, Atllanca, Coloa, From your desperate and i Parewsll furever. 1 war 2 Y One Family. Pa, Feb. %.--Matilda Busch, who dled here Bunday, had been in the service of one family for Ofty Southwark, Antwerp. Haseyay Kesorcnes,. CHbratiar, Gallia, Gibraitar, ‘Bene, Lampasas, Gelvesion, ‘Vietorla, Gibraltar. 1 Dorado, New Orleans. Baatss City, Swansee, Re ot threatening letters, the following beling | SEIZED WITH A MANIA TO ILL Kate Woods Aroused a Boarding-House with Her Ravings. At 3 oelock this morning the ina of the fashionable tourding-house at No, HW West ‘Phiriy-fourth street arou. by shriek and screams end poundings on thelr doors. The house waa quickly in turmoil from jbaxement to gurret |mater believing at | wan afire. | Kate Woods, a domestic, thirty-three the frighten: first that the house years old, suddenly xelzed with homie eldal manta, was the caure, The gir y fost her mind. while the peor aim her. + she out of the front Joor and ran in her nigh: othes up and down the block, screaming for help. Dr, Grant H, Richtmeyer, Thirty-fourth street, p ced her in. sane and suggested that she be sent to | Bellevue, whither «he was (uken, — | “BOY SNATCHED PURSE. uh Only Twelve, Been Arrested rank Burke, twelve years old, of Ni {35 Goerck street, wax held for trial in default of $1,000 bal ler tn the Essex Market Last night he approached Mins Annie Treublg, of No. Jorelemon. street, | Brooklyn, wt Goerck aid Hast Jlounton and tober pur contains e Sheridan arrested Murke to-day after a chase. ‘This is the fourth cime the boy has been arrested for stealln SELL YOUR SECOND-HA D PHO- nograph. Advertise it in the Sun- day World. West! ere ear) as ehanistee . FLLED SUITOR, MSS BATES, WON A BRIE, DISARRAY FLED. ——— Schlitzer Aided Miss|Fire Under the Actress’s Hasse Sunday; Mar- Apartments Caused r.ed Her To-Day. Mad Panic. Hasse. Loutse ken on © Rates alrocca on #he stage and Binns was marriet to Martin Sehittzer to-day | teeing, half dressed, from a real tire by durtice of tre Pe He jwafare different but equally entertaining stawant on the Ame Thelr| It wax in the latter rote whe ay romative wax crowded {pte two days. [this afternoon, ably supported oy her Max Muller, who: Ine Yaobel Haskina. wurn- with love. df aurant | y night and Was served by the trim rooms at No, 0 W atreet, Just under th st sight | Dlet by the atage ladies, apartmenta +a came of love a with Mulle After he had tarrial as When the alarm wast sounded Mis« long as he could in the restaurant he| Bates lay quietly sleeping off her was closed | nikht's wWeariners acquired in portraying and the waltreas started to go home, the brave, cool “Cigarette.” + followel her until, she nearly ar-| The vlercing shriek of fire engines and Vat her home, ae NI Rioomfela| sudden shouta of the quiok matherink atreet. Then he caught her by the arm| throng cauxed her to jump. frantically and began to pour cut protestations of | from bed. Her wil’ terror Rave love, winding up by begging her to be- | the Me to all stage Musions, come his wife, migifully her equally fri waited ou until the plac ntened maid bout MI in fear, and Schiltxer, valk dressing gown aEleuheancarpomiosentata| plump form. Together the Without watting for | Made for tlie door and out Into the hall ty explanation he knocked guard over him{ eman arrived. arratgned the flying draperies of the mingiet with those of Miew Hnrr- rday before | Klis 8 they tumbled together down the rel in| stalrway and out on the stdewulk Ti waa a spectscle to delight the gap- wren pun: rimiand= erest in Kern lost nll in him, | re. whieh after wan a never met |! started In a rubbleh heap a he arema to{ back of the auction store. he damage wie mostly by smoke and water and the firemen soon loft not until the Inet vestige of Miss ftten quite ax strongly as take his an, and on gracefully flowing robes hi ome for her is weet within again did the crowd me wy BROOKLYN GIRL'S AGED PERRY ROMANTIC TRIP, SAVED CIRL Officer Returning from|Carried Daughter from Manila to Get Joyous Sick Bed During a Welcome. Fire. ‘s to The Evening World.) OW Francte Perry proved eslf on NORFOLK, Feb. 2.—Miss M. | he: this morning when he saved his Walther, of No, 27 Steuben street. |, PERT TEE ELE MRT ETT CEPT Urookiyn, a dashing young woman of surpasaing beauty, ts in Norfolk to moet an oMicer of the United States collter by fire and smoke by carrying her from a sick bed to the rooms of a neizhbor Ajax, now due here trom the Asiatic station. lives with his three ehildren at Peotone ere preents A Jamen slip. His daughter Mar- + of Bro . who ts ac aK dttcally monta her chaperon, The jadies have elegunt [Soret t crittsally i) with pneamoenta. apartments at the Monticello Hotel, Perry got up this morning early to There I ald to be w very romantic| start the fire and give the girl her story back of Minn Walther's trip here. | medicine At No, 27 Steuben street, Brookiyn,| While he waz tn (he bedroom a lamp Mine M. Walther and Mise, B. Briggs in the adjotning room exploded and blaz- eccuny al aa apartment together. Anting oll set the furniture afre. Perry avening World reporter Hed wt the fynut the door to the bedroom. ‘Then plek as no one] ing hie sick daughter up he carried her up the rear stairs and Igft her in charge of a neighbor. apartment to but thet In porgension but a servant, She eid Mlsw Walther was waiting for a Dr, Bakins, who is a naval sur- geon attached to the United Statex 4 ve * fi t folller “Ajax. Ste did not knows why) Taen he went below and fought the Mine Walther was waiting. for the| fre. With the aid of friends the tir doctor. was put out before the firemen arrived. LEFT NOTHING = TO HUSBAND, Mrs. Stokes Accuses Him of Extravagance in Her Will. m Boston Christian Scien- tists Attended Con- sumptive Patient. World.) “Lexpressiy declare it to be my intent (Special to. The and will not to’ make any provision for} LYNN, Mans. t A reat deal the benefit of my husband, George W.]of talk bus been occasioned by the Stokes, | have already paid over to him) death of Bess: Carroll, nineteen yearn 4 large part of my estate, and there be-| OW. at the residence of her facher, No ing, owing to hie extravagance and lack| 3} reson ave She had been treated of ‘thrift, only enough left to properly] oY Christian Sctentiste and died witl "1 in and educate my ebidren,” a regular physician being called. girl w Victim of consumption une inthe will of Alice] BUH S17 a Seguin ot on This is ae h Lou's Stokes, just Med tn the Surro-| the pattent’s bedside, aid ndant xate’x office, She died on Fab, 4, 1991. of the Chrintian Sele le Waa the daughter of the jate Benja- rances Allen, of Boy and itved at No, 131 Man. sald t ni City Phyaletan Lit min J. Bk than ave he din e that wt burial Another peculiarity In the case Is that |COMiMeate Wirt alened iene revit the will wax offered for probate to-lay |siclane and. should. thhe, be the Belthathuahindirwnoiiatenpresslt Will Hecesmitate an Invertigation elther ‘ by Dred F oMedica! Examiner in the will from any «hare In the Pinkham Mrs. Stokes divides her pr — equally betw her aniior ehittren| OQ QWAGER EMPRESS OUT. Alice Temple Stokes and George Thomas Stoker. She nan executors and trustees her two brothers, Franklin R. Attended by King Edward the Barnes and Reginald H, Barnes, Royal Patient Takes au Outing. In the event of the children’s dea CRONBERG, Feb, %. perce Wille Hwithout issue the ute goes fam will return to Reriin to-day In order brothers and sister to be with the Emprera upon the anni- Vereary of thelr wedding, which occurs Sac enieamenmanee! to-morrow. Kg Edward, by spec: CONTAGION INCREASES. the Dowager fF til Sac urday no wiring. tn tng, King Edw prom Frederick to wheel-chatr this mo walking by her side. Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria Cases Make Big Jumps. ‘The weekly report of the Department of Health shows Mure contagious die Soelety easen for tho week ending Feb. 16, ‘The baby found under the stairway than any week for the four montha|the New York entrance to the Hrook- scheduled. ‘The grentemt increase re. {iyo Bridge was named May Whitney corged te that of carte, fever which eee eee te ieee eel leaped from 369 casea on Feb. § to 404 In he prevent week, Diphtheria also tn- creased from 20) to 2%, Small-pox in- creamed elght cases making a total of 2%, but le only half the number of the of Feb. 2, when there were 50 Soclety of the Infant Saviour and baptized in the Catho! n —————__—_ r Sort Rath. Feb. 3. It. 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