The evening world. Newspaper, October 25, 1902, Page 9

a Mrs. Osborne Explains Her Play-House—All the News and Gossip of the bocal Stage, HERE appeara to be a misapprehen- sion concerning the intents and purposes of Mrs. Osborn’s play- ‘thouse. Come into the boudotr-like office of the dressmaker-manager and hear the true facts of the case. Sit there, If you prefer, on tife chenille-covered window- eeat. Now, are you “comfy?” Well— firet understand this: The play-house wag not designed as rendezvous of the smart set. Absurd!-It's for you and me and the rest of us. Bring the ohil- Gren, {f You like; and Jet them crumb eakes on the carpet, It won't matter a bit. You shouldn't feel you must come with a silver spoon in your mouth, just because the ushers receive seat coupons fn silver salvers. ‘Nonsense! Mrs. Osborn's bandbox of mirth and seng is for anybody who has the price, It tg universal. Tt is as democratic as Tammany Hall. Bo wipesyour feet and come in and make yourself perfeci.y at home. Don’t feel out of place !f you happen to have nothing better than a business sult or shirt waist, Show that you are wholly at ease by walking on society's corns ae you cfowd Into your seat. Have a ood time, no matter if Fitth avenue Is just around the cornor. ‘This from Mrs, Osborn herself. “TIME!” “That clock is fast.’ “Haw do you know “It's a French clock.” —“Tommy Rot.” NEWSPAPERS TO BLAM. “The newspapers are to blame for the {dea that my theatre !s a soclety place," said Mra. Osborn. “I have never intl- mated anything of the kind and never had wuch a thing In mind. A polley of that kind would be utterly ridiculous.” ‘Do you think {t would be Impossible to make the enterprise pay !f you de- ended entirely upon society for sup- ort?’ was asked. “Of course {t would,” was the answer. "The smart set 1s comparatively small. Wurthermore, I don't think it has any Gesire to be by iteelf when it Is being entertained. Its members may be seen @ny night in the different Broadway theatres. Therefore, why should I re- gerve my theatre for its exclusive use? "Whe proposition ts idiotic. I, like other Managers, am catering to the general Public and I want to please all tastes, it’s too bad that another Impression been given. I certainly have sald Mothing to warrant such a conclusion,” “Why did you Bo into the theatrioal Vusiness?"* {For my own amusement,” Osborn, You getting much amusem: replied MRS. THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING; OCTOBER 25, 1902. . * WORLD'S * * HOME * * MAGAZINE. 9 CAMPBELL AS BEATA, (The newest of the ‘Tanqueray-Iris-Dbbsmith-Magda ajsterhood.) Mra, Osborn answered with « Lord- help. She's having her troubles just like other managers who bite big black’ c!- eacs and say things that the press agents never send out. What's worry- ing her-most {a the critfclam made of the performance, “Fancy any one going on the stage If they've got money enough to keep off!” —"Tommy Rot.” CRITICS ARE MEAN THINGS. “I think the critics were most un- just," complained Mrs. Osborn. “I'm aware, of course, my show has some weak spots, but why should they pick them out and virtually ignore the strong polnte? Doesn't It take three weeks or a month for George Lederer and other Broadway managers to whip a musical comedy into shape? And don't the crities make allowances in thelr cases? ‘Then why shouldn't they in mine? I know some of the men !n my com- pany aren't as strong as they might be, but I got the best I could find, Instead of complaining about my comedians why don't the critics aay that Blanche Ring is one of the hits of the town; that my girls are pretty and clever, and that thelr frocks are as nico as any- body could ask for? 1 know about frocks," with a tremulous little smile, “even though I may not know as much about theatres as managers who have had years of experience, “And why do the papera persist in mixing my dressmaking business with my show businesaty They are two dis- Unetly different enterprises, and it it became neceswary for me te abandon either I should quit the show business and stick to dressmaking.” “Do you fear the double burden may be more than you can carry? was asked. “II d—don't know," was the thought- ful response, “The two things are taxing my strength and my time great- ly now, but I hope matters may run more smoothly once the show is well started, I want to Keep thom both going, and by next season it is my am- bition to have a Broadway theatre, ‘This place !s too small, the size of tho house and the glze af the company making a‘ decidedly diMcult financial problem to sol) if “A widow is the only kind of second-hand goods that never reaches the bargain counter.’ —“Cryris. Os STAY WHERE YOU ARE, Now let us ask a few questions: Why not stay ‘neath the sheltering shade of Fifth avenue, Mrs. Osborn? Wouldn't that be better than running into the vulgar glure of the “electric strip?” Why not make your piay-house a smart set Weber & Fields? Think what an attraction your rib- bon-tied handbook might be to out-of- town folk who come to New York once @ year and talk about it the rest of the year to their envious townspeople! Reflect on how the Waldorf-Astoria would fade from ¢ conversation and how drawing-rooma from Olean to Muncie, Ind., would ring with the ume and fame of Mra, Osborn! Every woman who could afford an {rona be eure tq go to Mrs, Oshorn's |Play-house even if she had to sit in the balcony and guess who the people downstairs were. go back home and say she hadni't been to Mre. Osborn’s, Dear, nol See, “Five hundred a week,” repeats Miss Ring. “That's Just what they offered me to be leading lady at the German Theatre.” “Why didn't you take It?” asks the homely comedian. “Because | couldn't speak Ger- man," says Bonny Blanche. —"Tommy Rot.” HERE'S ONE DANGER, ‘There's one thing; yes, two things, to be sald against the location, however— Sherry's and Delmontco's, Married men, to be sure, may brave these dangers with deflance, but to the bachelor with a Ught, fluffy, hungry vtslon of lovell- ness on his hands, and with not much more than carfare !n his pocket, these costly cafes would be a snare and a trap. His only eafety would lle in put- ting blinders on Bright Byes and lead- Ing her past the swell feed stores while her mind was stil engrossed with that cony cuddling act the boys end girls of the chorus perform when Miss Scott sings, "She used to take Me on Her| Knee, Come to think of it, Mra, Osborn, the s@ proximity of Sherry’s and Del- mnico'a Is provably responsible for the plebelan fevpression that your play- house wasn't intended for the common herd, Englishman— Columbus! Oh, yes; he was the old chap who set- tled America, wasn’t he? American—No; he was the oid chap who settled Great Britain. —An American Invasion,” IT'S A CHUMMY PLACE. One nice thing about Mrs, Oshorn's house ts ree-and-easy atmosphere. If you feel like saying something to one of the many pretty girls on the stage you can go right ahead and ay ft. No- body will object. Its bound to be a favorite hang-out for the Johnnies, by Jove! It's such rum sport, old chap, to ait down in front and chuck a word over the footlights J every now and then, and have the girl smile and fire something back at you, don't you know The other night, when Blanche Ring was singing a chapple called Back to Boo-Ra-Boo, out: you, {f you'll let me, right,’ answered Blanche, as h she'd be tiekled to death to go. She wouldn't dara) | Ontons,”" RUNNING THE GAUNTLET ' AT MRS. OSBORN’S PLAYHOUSE. If you contemplate visiting Mrs. Osborn’s Playhouse to take a lesson | in sassiety manners you'd better hav door, Otherwise sassiety manners wi! length of the lobby, The aptest com: non-sassiety minority at the opening night was: some one chloroform you at the outer 1 shrivel you up before you pass the iment I heard from a member of tho “Holy smoke! Don't they tubber!” Collogquial, but true. Mrs. Osborn’s Playhouse is the high temple of “rubbering,”* and that is the first lesson in manners to be learned there. The only defense is to “rubber” in return; but that needs a lot of practice. A mask forged at the Bethlehem stcel | should keep an assortment on hand f it” The figure in the centre of the p: She had one, Not being “in it.” she hi the playhouse was to be “full dress’ ‘works would be useful. Mrs. Osborn ‘or such of her visitors as are not “in icture may be imagined to be wishing ad believed the published reports that ""—which means anything but “full” dress.” But eassiety privately determined otherwise, and only high necks were “in it,” its" who try to anticipate its fad: Such are sasstety’s little devices for punishing the “out of KATE CAREW. nessing “An American Invasion,” tn which J. ©, Dodson and Annie Irish are starring at the Bijou, It'e not so bad when dramatized bus!- ness deals with the tape and the ticker and ruin for the epeculator waits on every click. But when the business re- lates to the drainage in Calcutta and dram pends upon the disappearance of tech- nical engineering plans, one Is apt to yawn and look at his watch. And when the centre of the stage ts occupled by a plain, varnished office desk, exactly ike the one @ man has been’ sitting at all day, the man is apt to feel ilke running away to a piace Where pieces of furniture are covered with snowy cloths and a foreigner with @ napkin folded on hin arm waits to hear what will make you happiest. “An American Invasion” ts wholewome and clean, a bit too business- Uke to enable the business man to for get his business cares, “In these Harlem fiate there Isn't room for suspicion.” —‘Tommy Rot.” THREE NEW PLAYS AAT NEW YORK THEATRES NEXT ON C, FISHER, who brought “Florodora’? to thts country, will 4} offer another English tmportatton, “The Bilver Silpper,” at the Broaéw Theatre Mondav night. The book and music were written respectively by Owen Mall and Leslie Stuart, the authors of “Florodora," and they duplicated thelr frst Fisher gives of the production will eclipse that of any of the musteal plays which have gone before, A ballroom scene offers opportunity for the display of hand- some gowns, Helen Royton playa Stelle, the sllp- per-hunting miss, while prominent in the cast are Edna Wallace Hopper, Sam Bernard, Snitz Edwards, Cyril Scott, Mackenzie Gordon, Harry Bureher, Susan Drake, Daisy Green and Maide Villiers, a French dancer, . 8 Chauncey Olcott will come forward at the Fourteenth Street Theatre Monday night in a new Irish play by Augustus | Pitou, with the title “Old Limerick Town.” j A new burlesaue’ will be offered at Weber & Fields's Thureday night. It has been named “Humming Birds and @ composite travesty on ‘Car rots,"" the playlet in which Ethel Bar- rymore is appearing at the Savoy, and “rhe Mummy and the Humming Bird," | SOMETHING NEW FOR NEW YORKERS. | which John Drew is playing at the Empire m9 An@rew Mack fn his pleasing play, “Tom Moore," will be the attraction at the Grand Opera-House, “Hazel Kirk’ will be revived by the Donnelly Stock Company at the Murray Hill Theatre, The first performance of the Bibitcal play by Dore Davidson, ‘The Judgment of King Solomo: will be given at the American Theatre Monday night, Over one hundrod people will be employed in the production, Lincoln J, Carter's “Two Little Waifs” fs to be the attraction at the Third Avenue Theatre, "The Fatal ‘edding’”’ will be offered rons of the Metropolis Theatre, “Old Sleuth’ will furnish mystery and excitement at the Star. The now Manhattan Garden, One Hun- dred and Fifty-ffth street and Elghth avenue, wil] be opened Monday evening with concerts by Fanciul!: Seventy- firat Regiment Band and Sause's Orches- tra, Amella Bingham in “A Modern Mag- cele. adopted by Haddon Chambers rom > ham will be supported by 't company, including Henry Dixe: Wilton Lackaye, eph Holland an Ferdinand Gottschi BROADWAY BILLS THAT DO NOT CHANGE. ARTIN HARV the talented M Sydney Carton tn ‘The Only Wav" at the Herald Sauaro Theatre. J. HB, Dodson and Annie Irish begin thelr eecond week at the Bliow !n “An American invasion.’ The Rogers Brothers in "The Rogers Brothers in Harvard’ enter upon thelr farewell week at the Knickerbocker. Weedon Grossmith and his English young Enelish actor, will continue a ing." at the Garden Theatre throughout the week. “Everyman, morality pla delssohn Hall, “His Excellency the Governor’ will do vlaved but one more week at the Garrick. Honrietta Crosman in ‘The Sword of the King” remains at Wallack's the will fifteenth continue at century Men- “Tommy Rot” will take fresh hold at Mrs, Osborn’s playhouse plavera in "Tho Night of the Party" aro proving a lasting popularity at the Princess, Monday will mnrk the sixth week of “A Country Girl’ at Daly's. Virginia Harned fn ‘Iris’ will remain at the Criterion until Nov. &4. “Du Parry,” in which Mrs, Carter ts appearing at Belasco's Theatre, will be two chorus girls? Second Johnnie—The boys at the club call one Inanimate and the other In-a-Minute. —"Tommy Rot.” DRAMATIZING BUSIN Business—dry, sordid business—is hard. ly @ good thing for a play. Le vatuatina?, oe ee cara Tha dact Losges duvet upon one in wit- Gudermann Arama, haa f b produced in Vienna Nov. 8 by Frau Helene Odilon : “A Chinese Honeymoon" hi {ts 150th performance at the Ci John Drew's run ‘The Mummy and the Humming Bird” at the Empire will continue until Nov. 15. The Savoy Is crowded nightly hel Barrymore in ‘Carrots’ ‘ountry Mouse.”” Mrs, Patrick Campbell will play the to see and “A her in Mrs, Jack" and Band will begin thelr last Week at Hammerateln’s Victoria, i shu is drawing rk ‘Thea ont ‘8 performing animals the St Nicholas Garden ute doing tke wis Ramsay Morris's melodrama, “Th Ninety and Nine" continues to pack the Academy of Muste. SUNDAY CONCERTS. Duss and his excellent band will give two concerts to-morrow, at the Metrop- olis Theatre in the afternoon and at the Metropolitan Opera-House in th ovening. Sunday night vaudey be given at the Herald Squar where Della Fox will make 6 The. hor K. ean PARKER'S HAIR BALsSAm Promotes the growth of the hair and gives tt the lustre andsilkiness of youth. When the hair 15 gray or faded tt BRINGS BACK THE YOUTHFUL COLOR, It prevents Dandruff and hatr falling and keeps the scalp clean and healthy, Amusements. 14th St. Theatre, ar. Och ave, Mats We Bat tease Tynan saronbaY | Robert Emmet 22" lay, eewell Performan To:Nigut. NEXT MONDA' ‘Annual engagement of MR. CHAUNCEY OLcoTT In bls New Play, br Augustus Pitou, Manager, OLD tant RICK TOWN, TO-MORROW NiGHT “Bre concer PAULINE HALL ant ry rag eg 28c., 80c., Res. 752, Ty TERRY ARO a 23D SI. | STH AV. SSTH ST. YSiT fROCOR As Coatinuou: Post ac Led As GARDE} MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL, EVENINGS AT 8.15, MATINEE TO-DAY, 218 TUE JOY OF 12V1 GARRIC HIS EXCELLENCY 7 EMPIRE THEATRE. Broad Evge, 8.20. Male. To-ay mins a |THE. MU! A JOHN DREW | rte aUAAiNG BIRD. ‘Hine. & Bway. sday & Wednesday A COUNTRY WOUSE ceded ABW SAVOY THkaTh . ETHE ‘ BARKYMORE cure RION ‘wie Atke. | MADIBON 80. THRATRE. 2 GHTFUI. COMEDY fucceen |THE TWO SCHOOLS 8 seulnen re Mat. To-day. bet. Ui way 6th ‘el Sat at HESDELSIQUN HA : 1TH ¢ MORAL, |BEIASCO THEATRE,“ ers dttheBroadway Amusements, Metropolitan Opera House To-morrow Night Metropolis Theatre To-morrow Afternesn. 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