The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1903, Page 9

4 THE w EVENING 2 WORLD'S # HOME . MAGAZINE ©The Runaways” Marks a Step in the Crusade to Free Chorus Girls from the ‘Hideous Despotism of Tights.” HE MESSRS. SHUBERT were so very kind as to invite me to a pri- vate view of the costumes worn in “The Runaways,” but dearly as I dote on frocks, and much as I should like to fill this page with millinery, the editor has other views. But I’m quite willing to take the managerial word for it that “The Run- @ways” is a “$75,000 production.” Moreover, in spite of its stupidity as an entertainment, it deserves a Sarge wreath for its influence in furthering the emancipation of the chorus girl from the hideous despotism of tights. Slowly but surely the conviction ds forcing itself upon the English- speaking peoples that a pair of legs surmounted by a trunk trussed up ne corsets not only falls short of the alluring qualities once attributed to the combination, but is positively the most ungainly, inartiatic and ludiczous spectecle in the world. How the chorus lady of the tights-and-corsets past ever made her repu-! tation as a winner, and how the gilded youth of stage~loor and greenroom ever was attracted to her in her stage trappings !s as deep.e mystery as the Hottentot lady's delusion concerning the becoming effect of a wishbone thrust through the nose. "The new order of things has produced a new order of chorus girl. Judging from “The Runaways” she is chosen no longer for the chunkiness | of her extremities, but for her ability to wear a fashionable gown with an} air of being used to it. The young women in “The Runaways” carry this air very successfully. Moreover, they are pretty and discreet, and when it comes to roguery they have the tights-and-corsets article hopelessly faded. rd a ed a a a a HE diminutive Arthur Dunn, whose principal function in “The Run- aways” is to distribute unctuous kisses among the chorus ladies, is an amusing creature who seems to have studied some of James T. Powers's stock methods, but at the same time has a good deal of quiet, cock- gure originality. If to the private view of frocks the Messrs. Shubert had added an exhibit of the mechanism by the ald of which those marvellous automata known as the Hengler sisters go through their pretty poosons) my cug- osity could not have withstood the temptation. To see these interesting figuree (with phonograph attachment) per- forming a Spanish dance, for instance, is one of the marvéls of the age. | ‘No wires can be detected, and each movement is absolutely lifelike. As for the atmosphere—well, there, pevhaps. Otero would have the) e@dvantage. The marvellous Henglera, in spite of their precision, don’t quite suggest the Andalusian fury of garlic and tabasco, ws a wt ro a a wt F@= along time I've been wondering why Miss Dorothy Dorr re- minded me of a Mother Goose rhyme. When I heard her robust tones in “The Runaways” it came over me like a flash: Dorothy, Dorothy Dorr Lets out a terrible roar Of hilarious laughter That shakes every rafter— Dorothy, Dorothy Dorr! KATE CAREW. Ghe Sea Wolves A Story of {Gold, Piracy and Wreckers. | Will begin in The Ewening World Tareas ante dattii SAAR ae << shddianel dae aaiaa & K; Dono-thy Der-o.thy Lets ou a terrible Roar The ratner hasty withdrawal of ‘Wkipper & Co."" {3 responsible for the only new offering of next week. On Thursday night Henry E. Dixey will appear at the Garrick In “Facing the Music," a farce which, though new to this country, has been played for a year in Australia and two sea- sons in London and the provinces. While the authorship and locale of the Plece are English, it is credited with having French sprightliness and {s sald to afford Mr. Dixey excellent oppor- tunities for Nght comedy. ‘The three acts transpire in the fore- noon in an apartment house where there which he {s the author. Thte wifi be tts first public presentation. eo ee Henry Miller returns for @ week at the Grand ra-House in Richard Harding Davis's comedy, "The Taming of Helen." The production will be prac- tleally the same as during the run at the Savoy Theatre. Miss_Martha Wal- dron, who jumped from the ranks to the position of leading lady during the last week at the Savoy, will be Mr. Miller's chief assistant. “Janice Meredith," by Paul Leicester Ford, will be presented at the Murray Hill, with Henry V. Donnelly included {8 general confusfon because of the residence there of two married men, Dorothy Dorr—If my ninth husband was here he would kill you. Arthur Dunn—Why don't you leave him and marry me—and make it nine and a half?-—“The Runaways.” both bearing the time-honored name of @mith, The mix-up in the gentlemen and the mistaken {identities of their wives to the persons who know the former but not the latter furnish amus- | ing sttuations, Mr, Dixey's support will include John | Magon, T. Newton Lindo, Ralph Del- more, Henry Norman, Katherine Grey, Grace Heyer, Adella Barker and Ger- trude Gheen. ‘The farce will be preceded by @ one- act raiser entitled “A Welsh Rarebdit,” in which Mr. Dixey will appear, and of |ner’’ in the cast. “A Mother's Love,’ a new comedy drama by Hal Reid, will have its initial production at the American Theatre. The occasion will mark the return of ‘Miss Lillian Bayer, a popular member of the stock company, who has been ill for some months. David Belasco's play, “The Heart of Maryland,"’ with Miss Alma Kruger in the role of Maryland Calvert, will be the attraction at the West End Theatre. Miss Alice Fischer. in her lively suc- cess, “Mrs, Jack," will be at the Me. tropolis, “The Little Church Around the Cor- Will be the attraction at the Star. Te (Most Marvellous Invantion of the Aq ° “A Working Girl's Wrongs," a new melodrama by Hal Reid, will be dis- closed at the Third Avenue, Bob Manchester's Vanity Fair Ex- travaganza Company will be at the Dewey. ‘The Royal Lilliputians, with their droll entertainment, ‘In Posterland," will be “Do you know a good photograph the attraction at Proctor's Fifty-eighth Street Theatre. VAUDEVILLE BILL». ‘Marie Dresslor will be the headliner at the Circle. Other entertainers will be Thomas J, Ryan and Mary Richfleld in “Mag Haggerty'’s Father,” Press El- dridge ang Belini and Arthur, jugel Elfie Fay will give her songs and clalties at Keith's, while Nick Long and Idalene Cotton will present the chief sketch, “Managerial Troubles. Lizsie Evans and company, in “A Country Dance," and Howard, Russell, | Edwards and Whiting, “The Four Em- perors of Music,” will be prominent at Pastor's. The Henqler Sisters - Mins Used!) 3 “Yes, there's a fine one just around the corner. father that was so natural mother wouldn't have it around the house.’” SATURDAY EVENTING, MAY 16, 1903. os among the performer third street theatre. will be revived at the One Hundred and “The Still Alarm’ Twenty-fifth street house, with Adelaide Keim and Carl Smith Geerle in the principal parts. Mme, Redan and com- pany will offer e novelty at the New- ark house, er?”” He took a picture of —"The Runaways.” Among the entertainers at Hurtig & Seamon’s will be Jules and Ella Garrison in "Burlesque, Drama and Tragedy,” and Bellman and Moore in “Hester’s Promise." May party pictures of ohildren tn the parks will be shown at the Eien Muses, | Mascot, the Talking Horse, and the | Lady Sprinters will be in the race for first honors at Huber'’s. ATTRACTIONS WHICH REmalIN. Remaining at leading theatres will be “The Runaways,” Casino; “The Wizard of Oz," Majestic; Blanche Bates, in “The Darling of the Gods,"' Belasco's Theatre; Ezra bye Ne ithe: Wi Vineg: a Rose, “Our Hebrew Friend," will be! Proctor's theatres: Joseph Arthur's | iver: vo sadisba square: Grace George play, “On the Wabash.” with Florence! pretty Pegay,’’ Herald Square; “Bul ry Helen Lord—Have you no friends? “Billy Gould—No, only relatives.—"The Runaways.” 2 Reed and Paul McAllister in the leading | tan of Sulu.” Watlacks; “The Prince of roles, will be presented at the Fitth| Pilsen,” Broadway; Frank Daniels, in ity,’ uaic; avenue. Mr. und Mre. Gene Hughes, in| ; Miss Simplicity, Stine Auetion® ne “A Matrimonial Substitute,” and Juifan | Victoria; Cecil’ Spooner, In ly Peggy Gocs to Town,” Daly Law- NEW YORK PLAYS IN A NUTSHELL. “MY LADY PEGGY ANY people have not time to attend all the plays that come to New York, but at tho same time iike to know what such plays are about. heneflt of such readers The Eevening World publishes the salient fea- “In a nutshell." To-day's play is: Name—"My Lady Peggy Comes to Town.” | tures of u few of these plays Author—Frances Aymer Mathews. Theatre—Daly's. Place of Action—London and vicinity, ‘Time—Reign of George III. Prinelpal Character—Lady Peggy Bu: Plot—Lady Peggy Burgoyne, of Kennaston Castle, Surrey, Eng., quarrels with her lover, Sir Percy dé Bohun, over his supposed attentions to Lady De Bohun leaves her, vowing to go to London end Pegsy follows him to London and in her brother's clothes meets Sir Percy saves her from being hanged as a highway- man. Her identity {s discovered and a reconolliation with father and lover Diana Weston in London. ‘the devil, with many adventures, occurs, Most Dramatic Situation—Fencing scene in second act. Bright Lines—‘What's the use of being a man [if you can’t discipline a woman?" “What Is the proper study of man? Peggy (in boy's throw back in your teeth the lie you have uttered. And let me tell you, sir, J | that before you ever set eyes on her Lady Peggy's heart was my heart, her eyes were my eyes, her lips were my lips and her kisses were my kisses. “I thought you said you would never set eyes on Sir Percy again.” “Thought—well, never was. your time thinking where a woman is con- |) ed. She's always time to think after she's acted.” | ‘Tis comforting to hear, so I'll believe." jo more of love for me; I'll take marriage."” ‘4 rather trust @ rapier than a woman's tongue.” { ttine)—A pox on you for a libeller, Sir Perey. For I do COMES TO TOWN.” For the rgoyne (Cecil Spooner). Woman." | {turned to colored help. it with the question of getting colored walters,”” said a woman who keeps a fashionable boarding- [house near Central Park. “You know, ‘tt would never do to have waitresses In a large boarding-house, and so we must have men. ‘What Is the objection to waitresses? ‘Well, that's a question that couldn't be explained in a few words. In a general way, however, T would say that walt- ress are inclined to distract the @t- jtention of the men boarders, More- over, the women boarders nag at them constantly, I don't know why they do ft, but it ts @ fact that the few wait- resses whom I tried were run away from the house bv the women. But it was long, long ago that I gave up trying to have waitresses, just as every other boarding-house keeper has done. When we gave them up we Now a colored waiter is decidedly a hard proposition to deal with. Unless he takes a per- sonal interest in his surroundings—as @ few of them do-it's a settled fact that he won't stay long, “I hed a waiter a few years ago who thought that our household could not exist without him. Why, he took more interest in the welfare of my boamlers than I myself did. He would be on hatid every morning promptly at 6 Has wervant girl problem isn’t tn THE COLORED WAITER PROBLEM. o'clock, and would break lis neck ing that every one got impartial treal ment at meal time. Of course, he got tips, but they didn’t seem to bother him much. One of the boarders finally took him away to Burope, and there was much weeping on his part when he lett. “My next waiter was a Gouthern negro, As soon as he got his first week's wages he went out and gambled them away, and then he came to me and bemged for a littie advance. He was 60 grief stricken over his plight that I gave him something. “The next morning he didn't report for work until 10 o'clock. I couldn't dia- charge him because he owed me money, but I did demand an explanation for his tardiness, and the excuse he gave was such a unique one that I didn't have the heart to be angry with him. | was this way ‘bout my not! comin’, he told me with great serlous- ness, ‘When I woke up this mornta’ my feet was ewolled so that I couldn't get my shoes on. Of course there wasn't nothing for me to do but to wait till the swelling went down, an’ that took till after 9 o'clock.’ “Yes, the question of getting colored waiters is a perplexing one for the boarding-house keepers of New York, and we have worried over it till we are black in the face.” Tt CHILD LIFE SIXTY YEARS AGO. ‘The editor's early boyhood was passed in one such district in the mountains of ‘Vermont, near the source of the Otter Creek, Harper's Magazine, The chil- dren of a few families living far apart went to school during the summer months through woods where bears were sometimes caught, The schoolhouse was built of logs; yet it was there that we had our first glimpse of a celestial globe, and we vividly recall the mysterious fascination of its yuaintly flgured con- stellations, Already the Brble, the only book, excepting Watt's Hymns, in the! home—also a lox house—had been read (especially such portions of it as were of dramatic or poetic interest), and na had its wonderful way with the bo: Imagination, mingling naturally with ¢ | wild mountain scenery. 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