The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1902, Page 9

-_——__ eee ——__. rulu (ff A Warning for Dancers! ofthe Strenuous Type —Crinoline or Sym-| metricals? Miss} kambert Preiers the; batter — Where New| York Chorus Girls} Come From. | ! BAD incident of the theatstcat | week—and one which seems to | sound a warning to stage dance:s of the strenuous style—was the death of stelle Afoyer, one of the dancing girls at Weber & Fields's. It appears that she is the second of the Moyer sisters to pay the fatal cost of excessive dancing. In view of this, it seems time that @ancers of this class pause to ponder the danger they are counting. ‘The fearful exertion which such danc: ers undergo 1s otvious even to the cas- ual amusenient-seeker who watches their performances with simply an eye to the pleasure the exhibition affonis. ‘Take, for instance, Bessie Clayton, the Weber & Fields danseuse, who is easily the best exponent of the athletic form of dancing. Every time ehe appears she betrays the dreadful strain sho !s under. At the end of her dance she is a panting, pitiable object. There 1s mute appeal, rather than pleased appreciation, at the q@hich always follows her re- markable exhibition of graceful agility. She fights egeinst an encore as though ft were the plague, The mos greedy of @udlences appear to recognize the ardu- @us labor involved in ner act and com- passionately excuse her from repetition. Akt a@ recent performance a hardened theatregoer turned his head as Miss Clayton began her dance. “Waat's the matter, don't you like her Gancing?” he was asked, “[ think it the most wonderful danc- tug I have ever seen,” he replied. “But I hate to look at her, because what she goes through strikes me 4s downright qruelty.” Wrequently, at the music hall, one fears stories of Miss Clayton utterly eotlepsing efter her trying dance, ‘These @tories may or may not be true. But, ge to her complete exhaustion, this fact % potent to even those whose knowledgo Goes not extend over the footlights. “Bonnte Meginn was until recently an- ether of the Weberfeld forces who ‘hen she retired from the company the q@anagement {tself gave out the state- ment thet her withdrawal was due to {ness resulting from violent dancing. Ih other theatres it ig not uncommon te see women dancers of the strenuous @ohool stagger off the stage and fall Blindly against the wall,in the wings, @uch sights as these and the death @ Miss Moyer naturally suggest tho “Does athletic dancing Involve Dr. Cyrus Edson, to whom this ques- tion was put, answered emphatically in the affirmative. “Tt is not only dangerous, but it aimest certain death, if persisted tn," @aid he. ‘There is not one woman ‘in @ thousand whom it {s not sure to kill fn time. How Jong a time? Five years, I should eay. I fix the ratio at one In @ thousand, for the reason that about ene person in a thousand has perfect health and a normal heart. This is ab- < ao- solutely epsential to the safety of the ot upon COPE tre Grand OPS @anced until she was ready to drop, and}, \ WORLD'S THE NAME OF WEBER. D: SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 97, 1902. HOME E. H. SOTHERN, At the Garden Theatre of doing this, But very few persons are Messed with such a heart. The chances are {t is weakened from one cause or another. And when this {s true, It ts bound to break down under the supreme te: t was at a theatre one night when T fully expected to see a young woman— —one of the Four Cohans—drop dead. Sho had performed one of those {ntense- ly violent danc and when she was brought back by the applause she so well deserved her face was a bluish purple, W exertion brings a person to that stage it Is time to look for the worst, "I noticed by, the newspaper reports that Miss Moyer’s death was ascribed to what ts called ‘athletic heart.’ ‘That could scarcely be the case. An ath- letic heart is not in {tself dangerous, no more so, in fact, than the muscular development of any other part of the body 4s to be considered dangerous, What Miss Moyer probably dled of was a dt- lated heart—granting, of course, it was a derangement of the heart which brought about her death “here is no question,” pursued Dr. Edson, “that the strenuous style of dancing now so common on the stage should be discouraged. It is simply one way of a woman killing herself. If she has rheumatic affection or any of the other many Ills which have a direct though sometimes almost imperceptible Influence on the heart she simply takes her life In her hands, Indigestion ts one thing which is a serous menace to the heart of the dancer, and Inte sup- pers and irregular habits, which of necestlty are a penalty of a stage per- former's life, are calculated to lead to dyspepsia. - ot only dancers, but New York pe2- ple generally, seem io be going thy pace that kills," sald Dr. Eason. “New York has grown to be jlke a great lunatic asylum. Everybody appears to bo rush- ing along trying to outstrip the other fellow. We aro all living too fast im this “great, hurly-burly metropolis. Dancers are’ not ‘the only people whose condition demand: “Thaw, but not to everybody—that would be too much like sloppy weather.” —The Girl with the Green Eyes.” ener CRINOLINE WORSE THAN TIGHTS. From an orchestra chair point of view at “When Johnny Comes Marcaing Home” it would strike the average ob- server that the girl in crinoline 1s more of a revelation than the girl in tights. She fs certainly doing a great deal these days and nights toward developing the gutta percha qualities of the necks at the New York Theatre. ‘hero is nothing in the score or book of the Stange-Edwards civil-war-time piece which causes such delight and merriment as the capricious actions of those swelling, tilting, refractory hoop- skirts. This is especially true when their fair wearers Indulge in waitzing. Little wonder dancing was so dear to the soldier heart In the early stxties, What a whirling revel would be a crin- olined French, ball of to-day! But to get back to the quaintly rigged lena of the nope “Johnny” : Z NE goes to Weber & Fields’ these days to be sized up. ~hat’s what “The Stickiness of Gelatine is for. the adorable Templeton. It must be interesting for the players, too, to take paseage on a craft } that ploughs through a sea of faces. Weberfield audiences are such artless ‘ things, you know. Tnere isn't a particle of self-co: , They are mostly shirtfront and broad grin. A photograph snapped from ALL THE NGWS AND THE LATEST GOSSIP OF w. COLLIER In ‘THE STICKINESS , OF GELATINE A WEBERFIELD TOPSYTURVYISM. Just take the trouple! It enables the} Ob, you ma but the broaden yusness about them. jthe stage would be a priceless study in biped relaxation And then the rall of the Pnenmowa affords the div | mad wags of the Weberfield troupe to gather carelessly at the rail | fine opportunity to count up the house without catching cold in his eye of the S.S. Pneumonia and “rubber” diligent]y at the audience. It's rather interesting to be the man overboard. to imagine yourself a lobster, my dear sir, and you can unflinchingly endure the corkscrew scrutiny of the sophisticated Collier, or the lambent gaze of | from the draught through a peephole. urself that the players are intent y flatter ing of your grin, but if you watch the Fraulein Krank closely you will dete t the speculative | managerial eye in the act of forecasting the box-office returns, In justice to small enough to count up the house without ceasing to be funny. But, then. counting up cf a Weberfield house can’t be the dismallest task in the world. Mr. Weber | MAGAZINI Wo on nothing pizness iss piznegs, mein friendt, and) be confessed that he ts artist the jet. it KATE CARE crinoline, listen to what one of the)creature than the filghty chours girl?’1 hoop-skirt girls has to say: remarked a Broadway manager, as a} “I would much rather wear tights than hoop-skirts,”” confessed pretty Maul Lambert, with a becoming blush, “Thess things,” with a half-way-rouad glonce at her bulging apparel, “keep a girl in a constant state of egibarr: Every time 1 come out “nthe find myself wishing that the audience was all in the balcoay and gallery, Ins pecfectly dreadful to dance in this bal- loon-like affair and hear the people on the lower floor laughing at the exhi- bition a girl {s compelled to nrike of herself. It makes me feo! sorry for myself, We don't Vo showing tie bottom of our pantalettys—it is intended that we should—but when the hoop-skirt takes things into its own hands, van't tell. when or where it Is gol to stop. All we can judge by, as we swing around in the danse, i che mer- riment of the people out in front. And the men—the brutes!—are tia onex wh seem to get the most fun out of our helpless dilemma ‘Do I find tights less embarrassing? Infinitely Jess. I've worn both and can speak from experience. After the first shock of appearing in tights, embar- rassment disappears, A woman in tights no longer attracts any particular attention. All she has to do is to learn how to walk in them. Once she ac- customs herself to taking cather long strides sho has solved the art of feel- ing and looking at home {n them, But hoop-skirts are a constant source of worry and surprise, One never know what the pesky thing may be up to. At firat when you have succeeded in keep ing your knees from knocking against it by taking short, mincing steps you con- gratulate yourself that you have It under perfect control. But the minute your back Js turned, s0 to epeak, It's apt to bo up to some new and wholly un- suspected trick, You're obliged to be constantly on your guard against brushing against anybody or anything, for the slighest touch ts Ikely to send it careening to one side Ifke a shiv in, @ storm, “One of the most diMoult things to do in @ hoop-skirt ts to make a curtsey. You can't bow iike you might in tghts or ordinary skirts, because if you did the infernal thing would tp up behind in most distressing fashion, You must sink down like # partially inflated bal~ loon ead then rise like « kite. It's the ebting-up-again part that’s the hardest ‘3 k of all. You'd be surprised to know the auction there in toe hoop-akirt, Vhen you start to rise you as you were bringing part of the stage with you. But worst and most trying of all the crinoling girl's troubles ig her reall~ fation of the audience's constant in- ‘clination to ‘rubber.’ "’ “Men And forget; women give and forgive,” —"The Giri with the Green Byes.” disconsolate choru from his office one A mome Iw. You production on ‘one. to 4 good po! stand them punetual, Then th prosperity, The first attentiv y comme! rimands from treated with lofty lows. In getting a new Guctions so well the same happy. me, only give them ani “Where do most asked. “From tho count ater proportion safe to fay, were o in eountry ‘hote Continuing at Mra, Fiske In “Ma hattan: Richard The Dariln e tnpr A The Cavaller,’ C: win and Maxine of Priencship, beon in "Al Then John: New York: Viola Ali Victoria; feldelbers, before, dozen of them who are constantly mak- ing the rounds of have been In the ¢ ¥ couldn't drive them out of town; yet they haven't sense cough to “The trouble with them is they can't per and coming late to rehearsals, the a auestion of time when dismissal fol- They atraightway take themselves to another theatre and usually succeed are clever, and know the different pro- without any trouble. there, and before long they are back to abjectly penitent promise all sorts of obedience if I will come from originally “Very fow of them are city bred —- Broadway Favorttes. Herald Square; Blanche Bates is Cite God. * Knickerbocke: us girl went sighing! ay this week when the girl had duction new to | presented before and a select aud and at Mrs. Langtry royal box and o the theatres and who horus of every Broad- already this season. hang vil get “The the piece. when th on much older than ‘The ‘Johnnles' spol !#2d her plan of week or so they are and hard-working. nce golng out to sup- Rep- stage manager are Gisdain, and It's only are straightened o Langtry will be s don company. Opportunity to hi on satire, “The Sulta its metropolitan Jack's, Special at 4 comely chorus engagement, for they that they can fit In They go througn -go-lucky experience | of Broadway’. The story hinges on she American ox- vill pedition to the Philippines, and the and willing to}sbenevolent assimilation” of the Sultan and em by the Invading forces other chance, v is ih d by rank of the chorus girls * the oracle was \ ry towns," he replied Th of them, it's pretty »nce dining-room giris inst satin musica Gustave "The an taken by Quiller’’ fame. show the lo! York t ange a wil ft Jerom 0} and leading theatres are ry of Magdala,"’ Man- Mansfleld in Hus nd 1 himself @. ast include: alle Fishe other for sa he Follis number o! ers. E. H. Sothern's ment Hamlet! Garden Theat a Helas- Girl with the Green liam Faversham in pire; Julia M. terion; 3% Mott In “The Altar ago is stil) Will have a new Intere ing and her share In the authorship of story of a Duchess who marries a man jalm lead to various entanglements which humor sounds when spoken and sung the stage will be afforded Monday night, when the slang expert's musical said to have never suffered tae blight Maude Lilian Berrt, y Harry Bi. [ONE NEW PLAY, TWO COMIC OPERAS. | j mee i a 4 Neh Mid-season theatricals will take a) revived at the Murray Hill with Henry | iff {deen greeted with a careless “Hello!] econ epur next week, when thre pro-| V;, Donnelly ay Dewon Tid ' Hhow ar 1 drummed nervously | cdavst Rive New York will claim at-| tional’ pla the King and Queen Hence of the nobil end of the third a mmoned to the d for ner act- Cross: W tells the! herself. ils jeolousy curing and punishing putin the er Mrs. upported by her Lon- ear how George Ade's | n of Sulu," will haye| introduction at Wal- tention {s promised tn} whose members are will find th Billionaire.” <4 | ne of dt auditor Hit ie here uMcient — fret-nig! saying and doing | things which make him a ripe s Ma Robson, Steger well-known en four weeks t' wHI the eng) open at on ‘Tgesday evening. | New York, I wry, 45 at Bothern'e euccesy in the toe twol nee His) Your's. W HT in fresh in m debut In this olty of Miss Ceclila 1 4a Ophelia, BE. 8, Willard w De louse for Bovcicault in SA, Chinese | 0: éty | Monday cyening, Sper 1 Dolly Varden’ fou vie at Midnight Bell" wih be 11 Ro to the Hi Week of reperto! to town thie time appeari Gra: onthe ie ‘and aneworea with a) tention. Andrew om Moo) Then. in low, plasding tence sho aaued |, Dramatic interest will center in the re | Meatre Ww W, pleading tones, she asked! so. or sire, Langtes, who on Monday | ‘cUhe Sliver King" is to be revived at{ave the mana if he wouldn't take her) Wena Armerl Racie TRLaTRie aa se ae WAKHE will Degin a three weeks engage | (Me Amerieuin, | . Ae pany sp | menc at fok. Her opening play eulet theeThirdcAveRtell ce a 1'll think about it," he answered. “I i pawgitt sai Ree ONO uess I had better keep you on probation | Will be s-Ways,”” written by Alphon Gast RUCR ST NADIE a Prove herself and her leading man, J, Hactley! ; ron at the Met @ little longer. r Lilies’ will bloom in bu: 7 ‘ Manners. Democratle Amerleans are) jesque atthe Lewes That girl," explained the oracle when t : 3 given assurance that on Dec. 8 at the Opera His. she had gone, “Is one of a class of cho-| ia eral Theatre, London, the play was ' ‘A rus girl ‘tramps.’ ‘There are about aj ™PEr alah zs The feat i ne politan be ‘ompany Walk Noraiea will her reappearance as a member Company in the role of the you hile. Repetitions wil Of Seville’ on Monday Huguenots’ on Briday Vaudeville Offerings. ‘Ope pe on formance Wi re ale | NE Mme. Konorah, who gives exhibitions | BY® of thought transference and lightning calculating, will have her New York in- troduction at K s The Carter de Haven Trio will lead the dill at Pastor's, where au extra per- formance will be given on New Year's Day Proct @ war ‘8 theatres: will “Cumberland. ey io Bergere He's First La the ang company will b street house “hauncey Ol- ved in Har- will be the f Newark house Wider a among the en’ te & Senmon Beard’ pantom! he children at th ma, the fire king, at Huger's Suuday Night Concer Stabs ater’ will be Metropolitan Opera-Houre {the Grau company, Mme © soprano part converts will the various theatres wher! rtalament lias ome Ay Migat feature, In Broooklyn Theatres, Patrick: Ca he Montauk Jn ar Melhou Marbow Stone will t nd Clegpatra MA °| KNI Br wi by kl be giv this foi Sun at jkes: Amusements, WORLD IN WAX. New EDEN]! MUSEE] v. kimi Wistar war a9. WHEN COMES — JOHKNY EMSS All a Mats. New on ‘& Thur, we. Audrey Dow endoudted trinmph in berg’ ~-N.¥. 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