The evening world. Newspaper, December 6, 1902, Page 9

“DHE WORLD: SATU... ee eye a! ?CEMBE R 6, 1902. wNew Draught tor Jaded “2. Theatregoers Mixed by the Skilled Belasco a =—'The Darling of the »2¢ Gods” Marks a Fresh “" Gra in Dramatic Pro- wis duction — Meanwhile silver Slipper Girls” “Go Thirsty—Spirit of — Barnum hives in Mr. Mansfield, ve } Syne It comes to being the theatrl- cal bartender, Mr. Belasco may re- move his black cravat and put on Vthe white badge of service. He has won the post of honor by the concoction of ‘new dramatic draught. It {s called Wephe Darling of the Gods.” It might also be alled “a darling of a ar \ fs a pourse cafe of stage coloring, as, Mtoxicating to the senses as the perfect ! lending of tho rarcet liquers. "Agrurn trom the poppy, for the Land of “the Lotus awalts you in Forty-second street! Here faithful slaves the theatre habit may at last gain emanc “ypation from the nauscous potions t “have grown sick of swallowing. © Mr. Belasco has fur Nbxicant It will not be necessary for Him to warn sensuists to see that his {game is blown in the bottle and to take mo other, ‘There Is no other T ever was such another, and it “Wkely be many a moon before there . gother such, uniess this same Wizar his genius as an ¢X- pert mix It may amactt ¢ @escribe Mr. T reatlon, but once e spell you the s subtle senses that this arama most strongly to such cmay azree Tt Is to ‘Deauts appea's. are : ePheatre that you with murder with a passive p dark deeds nade will By in. yaurself the acme of Yeuched. and feel t eg tell Mr. Belasco that he has done ina i Rar ase done with the actors. It strikes yhu he muet cted the re- Hy direals with a finger upraised and & hh!" on his lps, Jeness of tone Is every word spoken fna in such careful restraint Is every a Je actors and gesture kept. He has made « tures with the same touch. Likewlse bas made’ ‘theatrical history at you sho , 109. ssente way he ; “Tis better to lie a little than be unhappy much.” —"The Darling of the Gods.” pELASCO AND THE ScCRUB- WOMAN. what simple means Belasco has} Heed the marvellous light effects of Dis latest production was suggested by fw pantomimic scene in his theatro ves- ; ee terniay afternoon. P(.“fre was th tho topmost gallery, ap- IB parently delleving himself alone, He would wall down a few steps, then up & few steps, then further towant the tre,’ here, there, and everywhere, Wd Sie appeared to be making mental cal- vegiation. of distances, in ald of which hye would alternately raise his hands and ¥ his eyes. At Intervals he would @isappes® through portieres at the side, ‘@ moment later lights would grow LIE Srighter or more dim. Once, when the @ashed as bright as day, two stage Lands who were working over pleces of , “looked upward with quick su But thay qld ‘not see the quiet, Sep: iS | Ished a new In- In such unusual) { § i iT ime lrilzL Schepf. At Metron olin Opera, clerical-looking ttle man—master of |Mght and shadow. | Neither did a serub-woman who ,emerged with pall and brush from jremote corner see him. But she saw |something ele, She saw that the door leading from the gallery was open. “Who left that door open?" she de- manded. 1 Mr, Belasco,” she was told. 1! Well,’ was her testy rejoinder. “He jovght to know the better, It's against the rule: And wi! the door! that she slammed and locked 1 “And this Is the end of love— |] whose other name is good-by | —The Darling of the God 8 enema at nav eee eee MANAGER AND WINE AGENTS, The Intoxication of “The Darling of |the Gods" brings the reminder that tt |Manager Fisher, of The Silver Slip- pe were not a pronounced advocate of temperance, he could pass around real wine between the acts to patrons of the Broadway Theatre, Ever since The Sliver Slipper" was put op, all the wine agents In town have been {mpor- tuning bim to use thelr brands In the sne Dance. ters were made opening night. One ag: wine were used he | to the box office for the house staff once ja week. Another agent offered to send a case to the apartments of Mr. Fisher he offers mounted up until they embraced a | proposition to turntsh wine between the | ac’ ead of water, if Mr. Fisher Would consent to uso a certain brand for the girls In the Champagne Dance, show the labels conspicuously, and print a sma}! announcement in the programme that such and such a wine was used. As a matter of fact, {t would be im- possible for the young women to par- take of wine In the specialty, even If they ilked the stuff, which, of course, they don't. They gimte so swiftiy and | spin so persistently that when they go of the stage they are so dizzy thoy can scarcely stand, If they used ‘he real stuff they would probably plrovette clear out Into the audience. to him the t sald if his id send a case “Philanthrophy and business make a poor team.” —"The Altar of Friendship.” MANSFIELD AND BARNUM. After all, there's a good doal of the Barnum about Mr. Mansfleld. This may or may not be Intentional on his part, Some think one thing, some another, But that the quality existy—at least Jn effect upon the public—there is no dis- puting. This was demonstrated somewhat amusingly on Monday, when quite a crowd stood, at Thirty-Atth street and Broadway and watched a truckload of Mansfield properties “being lugged through the reef doors of the Herald Square Theatre, Seriously ang curtously the people | arks the summer day in smaller s “when the circus comes to town.” There was really nothing to see—nothing but eome canyas ‘sets with dingy side up, and a few traps which would have attracted no attention had they been stacked up In front of a second-hand | store, But there was nothing elso of such fa tng Interest in Broadway this day, The spectators didn't know what \the things were, and they didn't care. |Avhat they did know was that the bag- gage was a part of the goods and chat- ‘tele of Richard Mansfeld, a part of his ‘teenth thousand dollar production of “Jullus Caesar;" a part of the gigantic dramatic scheme which Involves a $30,000 private car, wherein colored slaves walt and tremble on every word of their im- perlous Jord and master. All of which proves the value of ad- | vertising, | ‘The trouble with the drama of to-day Is that it's so—so dra- matic."" —The Altar of Friendship.” SPECULATORS ARE SAD. Those vacant rear rows at the Herald Square this week mean sadness to the speculator, as well a8 indicating to Mr. Mansfield that an admiring public ts not failing over itself to see him as ‘the noblest. Roman of them all.» Even though we might feel an impulse to sympathize with the star, fow of us are lkely to shed commiserating tears With the gentlemen of the sidewalk who track us to the very threshold of the theatre trying to persuade us to buy thelr seats at advanced prices whether or not we already have tickets of our own, The speculator ts flourishing anew in Broadway. the Sunday night concerts lat the more Important theatres having |{mbued him with fresh hope and added zeal. Droves of him are to be en- countered in the vicinity of places of amusement, where marked, or even fair, success of the attraction gives him an excuse, There Is likewise evidence he is in managerial favor with certain theatres along ‘the electric strip.” This suspicion 1s strengthened, if not con- firmed, by the fact that he is frequently to be met with in the offices of man- agers. In the business department of one of the Broadway theatres this speculator whose face is as fa ras the dazzling sign on the front of Wwe house was seen in earnest consultation with the manager. There was nothing in thelr attitude toward each other to suggest that the speculator was ‘on the carpet.” To the contrary, he seemed to be “on vel- vet,” ‘The man whose name appears the front page of the programme the {mportunate gentleman whose voice is heanl In the street appeared earnestly discussing a business proposi- tion, What they sald was spoken in such guarded tones that only they could hear, They might have been talking ayout the weather, But |t was the day before the biiz- gard. Maxine Elilott—Did you ever have to go to somebody and con- fess yourself to be a >rainiess idiot? Nat Goodwin—Never, My friends have always taken It for granted. 8, THIS A JOKE ON “NAT?” week a} to be} ‘a BELASCO, MAGICIAN AND REFORMER. B Your Uncl David is fying high ager.” Unless the eye of prophesy be are about to be avenged by Belasco, Belasco is artistic—passionately If that were all, it would not be and Palmers would still go unavenged. and teaches singing. deepest, biggest, braniest actresses in sheer force of wild, primitive woman- growing higher and deeper and forcef Of the two, Blanche Bates is the Blanche's finish, but in weight and r than he pretended when he concoct inspires a hope that he knows better. that, after Blanche Bates’s performance in “The Darling of the Gods.” ELASCO, the Sorcerer, will bear watching. This is best understood in an eyrie not a thousand miles from Broadway and Fortieth street where a battery of more or les~ Magus of Forty-second street and his temple of the black art. eagle eyes is trained upon the Simon because he needs elbow room, and that's to be found only at the top. Things theatrical are moving swiftly; history is a-making. “It is not a revolt, sire, it Is a revolution!" It is too late now to lament the passing of the old-time ‘‘artistic man- afflicted with strablemus, the passing of the IN-artistic manager is in sight--the manager who handles the drama as Brother Baer handles coal—and the Wallacks and Dalys and Palmers artistic. His theatre compares with the most pretentious of its rivals as a creation of Virot’s would with a bar- | gain from Division street. His stage pictures are even more beautiful as works of art than they are amazing as mechanical illusions. enough, and the Wallacks and Dalys . But apart from the making of stage illustons—which, however artistic, are, after all, only an apotheosis of Mr. |Crummles’s pump—Belasco knows and teaches acting as Marchesi knows It is rooted in him, Most important of all, he has caught and tamed two of the strongest, the country. There's no doubt about In nature, she and Mrs. Carter haven't @ serious rival. And they are both, under the fostering care of Belasco, ‘ulle! more unlike anybody else—the more in a class by herself, You can't 'most always sometimes see the bouncing each and actorial hitting power she's growing like a weed, and already most of the hidden heartstrings of hu- manity are clutched in her fair young fists. ‘As for the drama itself, it may be that Belasco has more respect for it ed “Du Barry.” That misdemeanor proved that he knew his actress and his public. “The Darling of the God KATE CAREW. of Friendship" Hall Caine attended the performance at the Knickerbocker, Be- side him sat Charles B. Dillingham and C. Haddon Chambers. They were no- ticed to engage the sunset playwright of Manxland in frequent conversation, At one time Mr. Caine felt nervously In his pocket and found his watch was still there. This seemed to give him confi- dence, He smiled his innocent, child- like smile and lstened less uneasily to what Mr, Dillingham and Mr. Chambers were whispering into opposite sides of his whiskers, Presently Mr. Caine sat up a little higher in his chair and re- garded Mr. Goodwin on the stage with a new and personal Interest. Mr, Cham- bers made an expressive and admiring gesture in the direction of Mr. Good- win, Mr, Dillingham smote his lusty thigh and acted as though he could scarcely restrain himself from climbing over the footlights and telling Mr. Good- win what was in thelr minds, Next day the’man who dramatized the Pope announced in all seriousness that he was golng to write a play for Mr. Goodwin, Now the question is, who made the arrangements, Mr. Goodwin, or Mr, Dil- lingham and Mr. Chambers, as “a Mttle surprise’ on “Nat?” 1 EXT week will have but one ‘frst night,” that of ‘The Cava- Hier,” the new Southern mance by George w. Cable, in |Which Julia Marlowe wil! begin van | ngagement at the Criterion Theatre on Jonday evening. The heroine is married, oniy to discover that her husband ts a traitor to the Souta, thelr mutual cause |Phough refusing to betray him, she |dcorns him and devotes herself to aton- \fog for his misdeeds, To this end sho becomes virtually a comrade in the) tanks, Incidentally she falls tn love, with a dashing young Heutenant, and \{he death of her husband and the end | of the war maxes ft possible for them \ to wed. Dan Daly Is to appear at the Grand ‘Opera-House Monday night in "The ‘New Clown,” playing the part of Lord ro-| Garden Thoatre, ONLY ONE NEW PLAY NEXT WEEK. borne and Louis Harrison, For the ‘Thursday matinee at the Willard will pre- sent ‘The Professor's Love Story “Jane,” with Bijou Fernandez tn the title role, will be the change at the Cir- cle Theatre, Creston Clarke, assisted by the Don- nelly Stock Company, will be scen in “Hamlet” at the Murray Hin Theatre, Andrew Mack, the Irish singing come- élan, In “Tom Moore,” will be the at- traction at the Metropolis Theatre, The Four Cohans will take thelr lively and tuneful entertainment, “The Goy- ernor’s Son,” to the West End Theatre. “The Slaves of Russia.” a melodrama, will have Its firat New York production at the American. “A Ragged Hero” will furnish thrilis and sensation at the Star, ‘Gyril Garston, who, believing he has accidentally killed a friend, becomes at clown in a clrous tm the hope of saving “A Montana Outlaw” will be at the Third Avenue. ‘That fine young English actor, Martin gazed, with egmething of the wonder! Om the opening night of “The Altar himself, In the cast will be Merri Os- Harvey, will appear at the Harlem Opera-House throughout the week in The Only Way.” At the ‘Empire Theatre on Thursday afternoon students of the Ame Academy of Dramatloc Arts will present for the first t!me in this country Ger- hart Hauptmann's drama, “Lonely Lives,"* GRAND OPERA—OTHER MUSIC. Italian, French and German opera will be presented by the Grau company at the Metropolitan Opera-House. On Mon- day night the bill be “Afda," with the same cast as at the opening perform ance; Wednesday evening a revival of Meyerbeer's “Le Prophete,” with Mme, Schumann-Helnk as Fides; Friday even- Ing, Puccinl's “Tosca,” In which Mme. Emma Eames will sustain for the first time the part of Floria Tosca; Satur- day afternoon, “Tannhauser,” with Mr. Anthes in the name part, and Saturday evening, “La Traviata," with Mme. Sembrich as Violetta, On Tuesday even- ing and Thursday afternoon perform- ances will be given in Philadelphia, The fifth free organ concert at the| Firat Presbyterian Church will be given | Tuesday evening, Mrs. Julle Wyman, mezzo-soprano, will sing at a concert to be given at the Collegiate Reformed Church Tuesday evening. Michael Bonner will give a violin re- cltal at Miss Elizabeth L. Kones’s school Wednesday evening. SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERTS. The soloists of the Grau company who will participate in to-morrow evening's concert at the Metropolitan Opera-House are Mme, Gadski, Miss Carrie Bride- well, Mr. Bispham and Mr, Blass, to- gether with the entire orchestra, Pletro Mascagni, with the full or chestra and chorus of hia late opera company, is announved to give a con- cert, which Include relections from ! at the Herald Square Theatre ning. vaudeville concerts wit varlous theatres where entertainment is estab- this form of lished, VAUDEVILLE BILLS. Miss Mary Norman, called ‘the #o- clety caricaturist,” will be the head- liner at Keith's. Dolan and Lenharr, in king Chances,” wil! lead the bill at Pastor's Proctor Theatres: Lottle Brandon, the cycliat, wi oop the loop"? at the ‘Twenty-third street house, “Saints and Sinner will be revived at the Fifth avenue. “Uno Toms Cabin" will be played at the Fifty-clghth @treet house. “alvin Joslyn” will be the bill up in Mr. and Murphy | fun; amon's. nemato- the ud- Munsee, vi excite to the Ede world's greate: be the star s burlesquers will hold court Kyrle Bellew rhe ct Theat? HUBER’S MUSEUM. LALOO. THE WONDERFUL DOUBLE \\ MARVEL, GA TWO. LIVING HUMAN DEIN MERGED INTO ONR. A Most amazing and agreeable exhibit that does not offend. They are one, yet with 4 arms, 4 legs, 4 t this marvellous dual p> Prince Lake's Russi Fat Lady, Human Bil- Shake Charmer; Heng th. 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