The evening world. Newspaper, May 2, 1903, Page 7

LORE R TTT FTP TIT , the Star, does the Baby Act as Sweetly a¢ Willian Collier, Aussell’s Audience Was Even More Amusing Than Was His Ham- let-—The Former Was Oriental and Mystic, While the Latter Was Merely ‘‘Worst and Weird.” T must be a@ lovely sensation to feel that you are probably the worst ‘and weirdest Hamet ever seen on any stage, and that is where Mr. Edmund Russell is handsomely It. - But he has another important distinction. He drew to Wallack’s ‘Theatre atyhis first performance last Tuesday afternoon the most uncanny audience in my experience of audiences. I have never attended a table-rapping bee, or a Theosophist levee, or ®& Mother Eddy conclave, or the Black Mass, but that audience was spectral enough to satiate all the curiosity I had ever felt about such things. It might have been recruited from them all. For a real theatre on a weekday afternoon, with a real sun shining out- side on the pavement of a real Broadway, it was what Mr, Devery would call “the Hmit,”” The Rajah of Bhong had the place of honor in @ box. I have since learn- ed that his great and good friend, the Swami of Swat, elevated his dusky turbaned crest in another part of the audience. But, thank goodness, I didn’t see him. Two fat Oriental divinities at one matinee would have been as«trying as two Hamlets. he Rajah of Bhong was coffee colored and very fat. He wore a frock coat,ia turban and an air of self esteem. From beneath his turban at the dack fell a aihsa of mots or lesa matted locks. His buge, fleshy vicage shone like @ highly polished mahogany idol. He folded his hanvis on the place where his waist ehould heve been and owed the whites of his eyes in acknowledgment of the homage paid to htm ‘by the-other occupants of the box. fas rd rd as a a a a “may be protested thet this is not in the nature of dramatic comment. Trae; but Mr. Russell's audience was far more interesting than Mr. Rossell's Hamlet. ; ‘When you say of the latter, “worst and weirdest,” you exhaust the maitject. But the audience can't be dismissed so ightly. You and I know a thousand men who could play Hamlet as badly as ‘Mr, Russell, but we probably don't know one who could have drawn that andlence. a cd * sb wt s as HE people in the box with the Rajah of Bhong were white, and most- ly female. None was exactly in the frst hlush of youth, but they were vivacious, ‘They were very attentive to the Rajah. It was touching. They hung upon his lightest word and his duskiest smile. t \ And the Rajah seemed gratified. His condescension was admirable. Not all his votaries were female. There were at least two males in the party. They, also, were white of skin and wore the garments of our own etviltsation, but there was something different about them—something @uggestive of the table-rapping bee and the other weirdnesses mentioned abave. They vied with the females in paying homage to the portly Rajah. One of them was armed with a laurel wreath tied with red and white ribbons, which at the psychological moment he hurled at the dreadful Russel] person on the stage. a a rod as as a a hy HERD was evidently an affinity between the box party and the Ham- \ let, and also between both and other groups and individuals scat- tered through the audience. Only the familiar faces of the startled professional critics saved the occagign from a compiste air of enchant- ment. There were elfin females, matrons with their hair done in schuolgirl curls, men with pomaded locks, spectral youths and spook maidens, Immediately behind me sat a blond young iaan who followed the per- formance with goblin cries. With him was », girl who moaned continually ‘Uke a character in a Maeterlinck play. And there was the Swami of Swat, whom a merciful fate hid from my troubled eyes. ry Edmund Russell must be a better sorcerer than actor. He is evidently caster of spells, who can summon from their haunts the varied forms of human aberration. es ss ad Cd Cd a rad ad T the Fourteenth Street Theatre, where the Four Cohans are cohap- A fourteenthstreetly, George M. Cohan, the one real artist of the family, is singing a very excellent comic song. ‘The refrain, if I remember aright, is “If I were Mr. Morgan,” and the burden of each verso ie a narrative of wiiat the einger would do if he owned Mr. Mongan’s digested and undigested securities and other valuables, Based on & childish conception of. the possibilities of wealth, apiced 7 catchy _ ee ieee eae ae The one clever ee ee te ae RN | THREE NEW PLAYS NEXT WEEK. | With three new plays here and Sirs, jconcerns the misadventures of Lady Langtry presenting her new play, | Peggy, who runs off to London to find “Mademotselle Mars," tn Brooklyn next |and bring back her flouted suitor, Sit week, the dying theatrical season may |g0es to the lodgings of her brother and be said to bs taking a turn for the bet® dons his clothes, in the bellef that in ter, jmale attire she will be better able to Monday night, at the Garrick Theatre, find her lover. In this disguise she has will witness the first production on any |a series of lively and sometimes embar- stage of “Skipper & Co., Wall Street,” /rassing experiences. In Miss Spooner’s ® comedy dealing wita the social and|support will be Walter Hale, Etienne Gnancial s{de of New York life, written |Girardot, Lynn Pratt, Mortimer Wel- by J. H. W. Dam. Maclyn Arbuckle, don, Clara Coleman and Mildred Law- who has played both farce comedy and | rence, Shakespeare in the past few seasans, will appear in the princtpal role. Thy company will include Irma La Pierre lar honors on Monday night will be Lotta Linthicum, Beverly Sitgreaves. | Mera Kendall, who will appear at the Katherine Keyes, Charles Cherry, G.| Savoy in “The Vinegar Buyer.” ‘Lhe . . A new candidate for Broadway stel- “There's a good show at the opry-house to-night. ask the manager.” If you don't believe it “Running for Office.” el Harrison Hunter and others. Manager plece was written by Herbert Hall Frank McKee maintains a mysterious, Winslow, and the story is said to be silence regarding the plot of the plece. | woven about a character similar to oe 8 ' James Whitcomd Riley's rural friend Cecil Spooner, with heart beating fast/ Jap Miller. He has a faculty for re- @nd hopes soaring high, will cross the | forming drunken relatives and Is par- bridge Monday evening and make her | ticularly handy about tnending tamuy New York debut at Daly's in “My Lady | jars. With Mr, Kendall will be Lottie Peggy Goes to Town,” a dramatization! Alter, [da Darling, Rose Norris, Mafton by Frances Aymar Mathews of ter | Abbott, Charles Bowser, Ed Chapman, novel of similar name. This Peggy 18; Walter Thomas and others, a Burgoyne, not a WoMngton. The, ‘8 Pertod of the play 1s the latter part of| David Warfield is to return to Broad: the eighteenth century, when George|way Monday evening, appearing at the II. wes King of England. The story Victoria Theatre in his admirable im- WHEN A GIRL IS” VERY girl knows that there are) Umea tn the year when {t would be) highly uedortunate tP be married. | During the season of Lent no good church people would think of marrying, but Eeeter frees the devout and the thoughts tum to love and matrimony. Of, course no one would marry in May, for' it is eaid: “Marry in May and rue the day.” An old Scoteb clergyman once told his young friends from the pulpit that “the gitls are all stark mad that wed in May In all ages there has been an antip- athy to marrying in May. Over eighteon centuries ago Ovid wrote of this antip- EN | Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all.” | In the early times the Orientals con: | sidered the fourth day of the week un: entous day approaches etlve bride must be careful that she has nothing to do with making the wedding cake or the sewing of the | bridal gown, nor must she try on the! mown; or if whe does it must not be in its entirety, for if the complete costume! is tried on before the hour set for tie ceremony sich an act presnges death Or dire misfortune. When the time has arrived, the bride must e careful to put on her right shoe | first, for to put om the left first means unhappiness in married life, Then she must remember that It is requisite to! carry to the altar “something old and! something new, sometaing borrowed and something blue,” | {Ze must not look in the aicror, not even to see if the bride? wreath is on straight, nor must she turn back after once starting. She must be sure to ueve @ silver coin in her pocket so that in future years she may not come to want. In the Isle of Man, 1t is customary Sir Walter Scott was not {ree from this syperstitious fear, for we read how he Hurried asvay trom London that hin daughte! marriage might take place hefore the opening of the inauspicious month. ‘The French have a ¢ommon rhyme: 81 le commun people dit, vra! La mauvaise s'epou: (If the common people tell the truth the wicked marry in May.) ‘The Church used to prohibit mar- tages between Rogation and Whit- ae 4 [for the bride and bridegroom to go ta “Marry in Lent, we live to repent.” | ene altar with a ners chet slants ‘The Rugsians say that marriages at! Socxets, to ineure them firdscn Eaater bring money, those at Ascension-| bride who does not oleh ay pekaldiaky health; those at Whitwuntide| sing gay ip sure to have plenty ot and th080} osuse for sorrow afterward, 90 every at Trinity, a numerous progeny. bride should try_to squeeze out a few June is considered one of the luckiest | tears, months in which to get married, but !f] When the bride returns from the altar you are not fortunate enough to wed! ana changes her dress she must throw tm that month of roses, better remain | away every pin used in the eie. ingle until Geptembecr, which ts &| What color should the t be ms ‘be? weky month, as are also October end] An old rhyme thus predicta the eff December, et various colors: days, the ol4 adage sys: ‘Married in white, you bave chosen eit, wealth, fo grey. you will go Sar health, Married neat dey of aN; . [Married in black, you will with — yee Rerfonation of the kindly, shrew? and) amusing Hebrew peddier, Simon Levy. | The company st'll ccatains Marie Bat Bugene Canfeld, Maria Davis, Hejsna | Paillips, Willlam Boag Harry Rog and other members of the original cant. | “King Dodo’ will hold merry reign for a week at the Grand Opera-Houre. | The lively musical p.eve is practically | in the eame hands as when lt scored a hit at Daly's last spring. the company | being headed by Raymend Hitehcock. | and inctding Cheridah Simoson, Greta| Risley, Flora Zabel'e, Margaret McKin- | ney, Arthur Wooley, Charles Meyer, Willtam Corliss and Ivar Anderses, | Joseph Jefferson will be seen in reper= tolre at the Harlem Opera-House, On) Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights! “Why, Constable Pinchem, do you “You just bet 1 do. Why, I haven't and Saturday afternoon he will play “Rip Van My Priday evenings, “The Rivals.” and on day night, “The Cricket on tne Hearth” and “Land Me Five Shillings,” Shakespeare's tragedy. “Othello,” with Othello and Laura Hope Crews as Dae- demons, will be the offering of the Don- nelly ptodk company at the Murray Hil: Theatre. Tolstol'a ‘‘Resurrection* duced Wy the stock ecumpany at American Theatre. Isabel Irving's first appearance as 4 star in New York wil! occur at the West End Theatre, where she wi.) appear as Virwina Carvel in Tae Crisis.” Denman Thompson and his quaint Swangey folk will pay their fret v to the Bronx, appearing at the olis Thexire in “The Old Homestead. “Mickey Finn’ will be up to al! ¢ of tricka at the Third Avenue Thea | will be prov the ‘ .~ ' GAGED. self oack. Marvied in red. you'd better be dead Married tn green, ashamed to be seen. Married in blue, you'll always be true. Married in peari, you'll live in a whirl Married in yellow, ashamed of the fe! low. Married in brown, you'll lve out of town. Married in pink, your spirits will sink” We get the wedding ring the ancient Romans, the throwing from the Greeks and the wedding cake trum the Scandinavians. | Suct are some of the superstitions; which still gury nd claim aztention} from our falr maidens, That tbey are jothing but superstitions can be proved ily by every reader who will take UUme to think, How many a nappy wife there is to- day who made her own bridal dress; and how many, who have proved thelr married life ta’ a foretaste of Hoaven. married in a dreas which they had worn several times before it did duty edding garment? ins of one marti not “Hved to repent; and of brine, there are thovsande who t May marriage. If the bride and Dridegroom love, as they should, 2 they realise marringe me: all thet ans and it with at due sense of !ts rexponalbilities and i. yee, Hf they Infand tat the neseners | ail be for ¢, an a y share In each ¢é Meht, ht. do all du disunite, the: allly Old-World super- gtitions will have no effect on the.r lives, far with true love it matters sot ae to the date of the month or time of day they should w Amusements. PRINCE OF PIGSEN Se Co i “Flappy Hooligan” will be at the Star queens” are advectised with Bob Man- the Dewey. VAUDEVILLE HOUSES. Co@ and Johnson, the nown colored comedians, vocalists and song: writers, will bs the headlinera at Kalin s Crawtord and Stanie: e.tramp. te piano @ud the dude,’ will be at the top of Pastor's list The Great Goldin, iliustonist, who bossts having recently received & Jawelled pin from Engiand’s Queen, will be the chief card st the Circle. Proctor'a Theatres: H. A. De Souchet’s mean to say you go-to football games?” missed 2 baseball, a football, a masque- rade ball a high ball or any other kind of a ba!? since I've been in office.” -~“Running for Office.” comedy “The Man from Mexico” will on Wednesday and be presented at the Fifch avenue the | am Bramwell and Polly Stockwell heading the cast. The Jolly Joliier,” a new sketch offered by Bar- rows, Lancaster and company. wil db? atre, with W Creeton Clarke’ as Iago, Edwin Holt as the feature of the vaudeville bill at the, Twenty-third mtreet theatre. The slock company al the Orq Hundred ant Tren- ,ty-Mih street tneatre will be acen in & “Mixed Piokk Theo- opulsr melodra: “The will be the attraction at the Pitly-eighth street theatre, Ow In Newark the bill wil de headed by Jeesie Mae Hall and James A, Kiernan in “The Opening Night.” Metn: and Heath, the beat Glack- face jeam in vaudev. will lead @ Bood bill at Hurig & Seamon’s. The electrical taeaire, a novelty well worth seeing. wil con to be em: hibited at the Eden Mu Ac Huber'e Museum the Chaputs, ac- FRECK farcical c dore Kremer's Fatal Wedding,” LES LIVER SPOT the Deauty of the # hy aud sately re hie, er onre’ jen roy poaltive! oved. No aharee for cantultation aad boa 2% "RJOHN H, WOODBURY D. I Me Amuse ments 8 than twenty-two burlesque | t “ THE # EVENING »# WORLD'S # HOME # MAGAZINE w a) SATURDAY EVENING MAY 2, 1908 > Such a Hamlet as Edmund Russell - “the Male 6 a aint ever 4 been! Ieeketh and balancers, will make their | fret American appearance PLAYS WHICH REMAIN. Remaining at the principal playhouses will be “Sultan of Sulu,’ Wallack's; | man,’ Garden; “A Foot and His | ey." Madison Square; ‘Mr. Blue Knickerbocker; Marie Cahill in “Nana Brown,” Bijou; Lawrence D'Orsay ip “The Earl of Pawtucket,” Manhettam “The Wizard of Oz." Majestic; the Foup “Money talks.” “It wouldn't talk to you if it knew in "The Darling of the Relasco’s Theatre, with a special Thursday matinee; ‘Prince of Pilzen,” Broadway; “The Suourban," Academy of Mugir; “There and Back" and “The Man Who Stole the Castle," Princess; Grace Georga tn “Pretiy Peggy.” Her- a.@ Square, Charlee Hawtrey in “A Mersage from Mars,” Criterion; the fif- ury morality pl you as well as I do.” —"Running for Office.* Cohans in “Ronning for Office,” Foun teenth Street Theetre. 4 BROOKLYN THEATRES. Mrs. Langtry will appear at the tauk In “Mademotselle Mars,” play in which she {s credited sith Taw Ing score@ a real success. Clyde Fitch's play ‘Levers’ Lane” will be the attraction at the Columbia | chester’s Crackerjacks, waa will be | REQEOODOESEBED00COO000NDO RCOKOMY FREE, WE TEACH GAS We employ corps of Women Experts who visit thousands of Gas Consumers every month. This service may be had for the ask- ing. ‘Phone or write to any gas office. 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