The evening world. Newspaper, November 29, 1902, Page 9

Ava Sl ha WS ine Eliol€: \ mer ae - - aR a bi Audrey (ELAN £ANOR wirs A BSON, /00 Yards ‘Pacers sAe “ Mrs. Robert Osborn | Says This Year’s Op- Nia! era Gown Costs Twice as Much as That of bast Year—Mr. Grau THE TYRANNY OF THE FROCK COAT Glad Because Opera F all the influences that blast and benumb the budding actor there's Is So R I none quite so blasting and benumbing as the frock coat. § 90 Fopular. Not the thing itself, mind you—unot the garment known in Trenton, N. J,, as a “Prince Albert,” and at the City Hall, New York, as a “funeral NN order to be a shining spike in the| coat’—but the idea of which it {s a symbol on the stage. I glittering horseshoe at the Metro- John Drew can amble down the long, declining years in a frock coat Ces Lewis mle has Bele double this! without making the spectator rise and beseech him to change his clothes, ~ ‘Thos, ra Acta ase antits when the}! only to a sult of overalls, But there's only ono John Drew, whereas the east side is gatheri keep from freezing dur!y that affluent element ¢ family known as Soc expedient to extravagant ‘ expenditures In the matter ¢ @t the Metropolitan these n twice what it ‘ ine the intere clalism “art” than ¢ “But it has n ingly.” added + Uke the peop! the price of « emurred stron, gowns, but, like it td face the vo: . it to resign Itself to the sart tion. As ar there @ grand ¢ money has “Not only is the higher, but ths ater sow who are w worn before. “T doubt w the ultra opera this © Slement of newe circle which ts we money can buy the smart set who « Horse Show thia ye fan old story with ti 4 they would see noting new. prove to be the reason that de Reazke absent tually without ae nothing which soo! sensation.” Mrs, dng an anchor to windward, not commit herself to the the ewellest of the swe! the Metropolitan for the Porty-fourth street. As to the high-water ma: mecked ‘creations, for the on, Mrs. Osborn says. she gown which cost the snug of $1,000. and several rangln from $700 to $400. ‘tA few seasons amo," sald nd four hundred aollars w. ered pretty high figures, present parade the Fou dresses of this attract notice. Now, in ..c grand rn gowns which cost close to for MR, GRAU IS SATISFIED. Now for Mr, Grau's side o: tion sale for its gubscr!} an Increase Its rete Osborn. menring better clothes than sh the care with the o: with Caive —@ story which has an unusually large Z scraps of fitel to the w the human as found it! nf di lay. Mrs, Robert Osborn, the Fifth avenue modiste who knows about dresses and is learning a t or two about the- atres, for the statement ed In the boxes uights yfore, ut _commer- tribute to uncce its troubles. It sh cost off who have was obliged orial situa- hever been a} w ng In the best > loads. of fo to the use it was} and Jean y ie Osborn might have been throw- but she dla rk opera sea- made one {tte sum ng in price she, “three ere conald- but in the rr Hundred no special tler at the opera, a person may count by the dozen ur hgures.”* f the story inspiration, Gespite the fact that the impressario's only contribution in the way of naeale ig ary of German wos oie Ta | during that} name of the budding actor {s legion; and the tyranny of the frock coat is as che iron hecl on the pet corn and the mailed fist on the solar plexus. Look at Faversham. Separate Faversham from the John Drew tradi- | tion—strip him of the deadly frock coat—and you'd have the beginnings of a very decent character actor, The poor young man never did such able work as in “Brother Officers,” picturing a good, young Tommy Atkins pro- ;moted from the ranks and “up against” a social circle whose customs be- | wildered and manners abashed him. Faversham in that part almost forgot to strut and seesaw his elbows, and with a little encouragement he might even have forgotten to make g00-guo eyes at the gallery. It was the sort of character that we speak of kindly as “one of Nature’s gentlemen, my doar,” and Mr. Faversham realized it as to the manner born. But gents and gentlemen all look alike to Mile. Matinee, and it's Nature for a back seat when the frock coat looms over the footlights. Henoe the wees of Faversham, who when be tackles the drawing-room article finds his elbows and knens fastened to invisible wires and his eyes drawn with soulful self-consctousness to the balcony. And, to make matters worse, he buys sartorial gold bricks from freak {in New York—whteher ft is in the direc tlon of more fashionable display 0: toward a sincere appreciation and love of musie—I think {t is apparent to ry one who has attended perform- 8 at the’ Metropolitan Opera-Houre the past ten years that during jthat perlod we have witnessed extraor- Idinary musical and dramatic develop- ment of what might be called a cos- Mowolitan cha Metrooo) the grand-opera stars, and, what's more. he never expects to be. But, accord- ing to a boastful little secret ahe's tell- ing, she has warbled her way into the heart of the Crown Prince of Slam, who, it is further alleged, would put the pretty “Mocking Bird" of the Bijou in a gilded cuge were it not for the fact that his royal parents have told him he mustn't. The Crdwn Prince, it is sald, oapitu- lated to Mabelle's charms when she was ‘asino Girl In London tan Opera-House, which has naturally a commanding in-| singing In ‘The fluence in bringing about or, as I should | two seasons ago. So lasting has been perhaps, say, in satisfying this new|the spell, Miss Gilman avers, that on the opening night of “The Mocking Bird's the Prince sent her, along with some flowers, a diamond mocking bird with a royal crest, She also holds out a white ttle hand to show a ring, likewise “crested,” and points with pride to her corsage, whereon sparkles @ solitaire pin which 1s represented to have set the Crown Prince back several hundred “plunks.'* pubilc taste, seemed for a time wedded exclusive to one style of singing and one school of music, The Importance of that school it would be Idle to deny, ‘But it had atways seemed to me that n ntlally eosmopolitan city ike . some effort should be made to introduce the spirit of cosmopolitan- ism In epera, | “The outcome of this effort has been, iis) you know, the establishment at the Metropolitan pera-House of German, French and Itallan opera, sung In those three languages the most eminent ts in the w ad. This broadening of the operatic scheme evidently pleases, | the public, for ne before in the his- tory of opera has the Interest shown in 18! pertormanc “es been more general or ap- lp y as sincere. This, I think, an- awers ,the question, Is opera a mere as opera Were nothing but a fashion |{t 1s not probable we should see, as we do, the standing spaces, the family circle and the dreas circle at the Metro- Stan crowded with enthusiasts of In- eligence, but modest mekns, SHIFTING THEATRE DISTRICT. rand opera, being ag It Js a most costly form of art, must in existing con-| 18 the fucure theatrical district of ditions depend Inrely for ruccess on the | New York to be Fifty-ninth street, at support of what Is called ‘Society.’ ‘To| the southern end of Central Park? that extent it4s, if you wil, not exactly | This Is a question suggested by the @ fashion, bul certainly fashionable, 1[oDenine of the Circle Theatre, at Bix- am glad to say it is also, In the real{tieth strect and Broadway. Wiscacres Mabelle will dream on with the Sires a couple of seasons and then— But what's the use wondering whether dreams will come true? Everard—Miss Audrey, | dare- say that Cupid wears your livery tonight. Ah! as | live, thou hast him on thy fan. Audrey—’Tis the only way to keep him well in hand. —Audrey.”” — ed sense of the word, popular and that it] #fe propheaying that this house and the {a likely to continue so. That it has had|Maseatic Theatre, now in process of completion, will be pioneers ot fhe an educational Influence ts also, in my opinion, undeniable.” theatrical contre of a few years hence. First the district was at Wall etreet; then it crept to Fulton street; next to Park Row, and shortly afterward it was in the Bowery, where a favorite of that time and place was George Fox, |} the famous clown, who died lamenting ‘he had not played Hamil Step by Harry Conor—! never mal love to unmarried women, it's apt to turn out serlously. . —“Fad and Folly.” Bieecker, Houston and _|Alreeta, Patsl, Fourteenth % may be remembered, at the Academy of Music. ninth streets second street, are building. The next logical centre of the the- atrical and night life of the metropolis seems to be Fifty-ninth street, the boundary will It 1s believed, and More recent years have witnessed the theatres travel to Twenty-third street then gjtes from Twenty-ninth to Thirty- were eagerly sough now the Rialto promises to reach Forty~ wherein four representing an investment of $2,000,000, vicinity, Darden — Audrey, heard the children say that Sa- tan comes and walks behind me when | go through the forest? Audrey—Yes, but thelr are not good. . and theatres, Here, belt reached, as ‘Central Park will be a barrier to further progression. hast ever eyes You go hand In —‘Audrey.” Jim Dumps’ young wife while yet a bride Some biscuits made with greatest jalote Jim looked with fear upon the But to a bride one can't be rude, “Let's eat ‘Force’ first, dear, 'tis my whim." It saved the life of “Sunny Jim." ‘F ORCE” when in doubt, Sweet, crisp fla! All “Sunny Jims” now. “In our household ‘ Force welcome as ‘Sunny Jim,’ Amusements HERALD RNa Beh NM aaey TO-MORKOW “| SO U atep the uptowi! maroh extended to| IN" 20th at and malt. 9 as familiar and and thas saying & good deal, for we are all ‘Sunny dims’ now, if “RL, Stowe,” ‘The Ready-to-Serve Carcal Amusements. eves, a0 WORLD In WAX! CINEMAS TOGRAI Eu & Evi rormient av. . THR GAME OF Lire, : here Me la $f THE WOES OF WILLIAM FAVERSHAM. ‘tatlors and perpetuates euch weird “novelties” as the gray evening clothes he is wearing in “Imprudence.” "Tis as ead as it would be to see some hardy and wholesome vegetable, llke an eggplant or a squash, assuming a pale and fantastic luxuriance among the orchids in the conservatory. Jameson Lee Finney is another competent character actor on whom the frock-ccat blight has recently fallen. Think what a misfortune it would have been if Weedon Grosemith had pursued his career on this side of the water, As eure as fate, he'd have been smothered under the John Drew tradition instead of developing intd the cleverest stage lackey of the generation. No, increduious madam, there's nothing necessarfly funnier in the idea of Mr. Gicssmith playing “drawing-room comedy” than there fa in the autual performauces of your own matinee idol, whoever e/a Amusements, HUBER'S sr: MUSEUM Amusements. Last Mat, To-day,28¢,to 1.00. 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