The evening world. Newspaper, August 14, 1903, Page 7

wz EVENING »#& WORLD'S ‘fhe Newest “Turn” Comes Under the Head of Variety Rather Than Waudeville—It Is on Somewhat the Same Style as the Rope Work in Butfalo Bill's Show, but Is Along Far More Complicated Lines. After all, variety !s a better word than vaudeville for that branch of the amusement profession now classed under the latter category. It is not a vaudeville, but a variety of entertainments, and unless that variety extsts the perfor ance {s not voted good. ‘This demand for variety is unceasing, supply contrast the managers have to look in strange places at times. Some years ago there was a man by the name of Everhart who wrote the Eastern managers that he had a hoop-roiling Spectalty which classed as a novelty In the language of the times the managers “gave him the hoot,” suggesting that there were plenty of dren per- forming the same specialty at no charge for admission. Finally Ted Marks (he of the gaudy button-hole bouquets) brought Everhart to New York. In three weeks jhe was a sensation, and for the past few years he has been commanding a salary ‘trom Buropean managers which would pay almost the entire cost of the minsitel troupe with which he first perfected the specialty, while imitators in droves have |fellowed whero he led. ‘Phe specialty sounded so commonplace that It appealed to none of the man- lagers to whom it was first offered, and yet the homely hoops have made a fortune Everhart. Harry Houdini, being something of a lockemith, found out how to get himself out of the ordinary police handcuffs. Last month he astounded the Moscow police ‘by escaping from a cell used for the incarceration of political prisoners of a dan- ‘gerous sort, and now Houdin! is showing a contract for three months instead of one for four weeks. He simply saw that there was a chance for a vaudeville specialty, and he gave the managers the novelty they wero looking for. Some eight years ago the specialty he then performed could be seen at Huber's for a ten-cent admission, \A New “Specialty.” One of the latest purveyors of novelty is Frank Chamberlin, who does “rope Juggling." He is assisted by his wife, Rope juggling is the development of the fancy rope work of the plalnsman and is performed with the lariat. A rather stout gentleman with the Buffalo Bill Wild West gave us an insight into rope work years ago. He was supposed to be a Mexican and the press agent was ready to take oath to that effect. At any rate, he was remarkatily clever, but his specialty was made merely an Incident of a diversified show. The Cham- berlins have taken roping and made of it a fine art. ‘The gentle art of typing has always appealed to the small boy, and until Col, Cody took his troupe to England the lasso craze followed the Wild West per- formances and usually lasted several weeks. Most of the small boys who essayed and in order to} j with dt cee this cowboy art atopped before expertness was acquired, Sometimes would keep at it until he could throw a clothesline lariat over the head of a boy ten feet away if the latter were careful to be where the noose fell Less fre- quently something would go wrong with the noose and the father of the amate and obliging victim would be put to some expense for a nice white tombstone Chamberlin Is not the product of the Wild West, for the specialty he is show- ing at Tony Pastor's Theatre this week is but the elaboration of a display com mon enough at any cowboy gathering in the West. Fancy roping bears the same relation to the actual work with the lariat as fancy sword strokes to an actual tight. In neither instance are the fancy tricks avallatle for actual work, but they give the expert assurance and command over the useful work. Chamberlin has worked on the plains with the cattle outfit, and his expertnoss with tae rope is the nefural result of his experience. He was shrewd enough to take {t to the stage, an. ot enough to handle it after he was able to place it. With the experience he has had he has been able to handle the rope in new ways, but the work is all based upon the fancy roping of the grazing districts His fleid is necessarily limited by the narrow confines of the stage, and rope- whirling (or juggling, as he prefers to call it) forms the basin of his specialty Rope Must Be Kept in Mofion. In whirling, the sinsplést trick is to keep the loop In motion while held free of the ground. This motion may be ¢! parallel to the stage or at rigat angles In either Instance the loop retains the same diameter throughout. Whiri- ing and changing the direction ct the rope is a littic more diMeult, and then fol- lows the same trick accomplished with the rope resting on the arm or in the Sol- low of the elbow. A Uttle harder js increasing the size of the loop after the revoiutions have com- menced, Alfter this it {2 easy to step inside of the loop, and to round off this trick Chomberlin starts the loop, while Mrs. Chamberlin crawls under their: citcling ro) nd, taking the rope from her husband, keeps up the circle while he crawls out Another very pretty trick In the vame class is that In which the rope is wht d up or down over the performer's body, and in another the operator Jumps Inside of the rope as It revolyes, and with a quick jerk lifts it over his head and lets it fall, still revolving, outside. ‘The second class of rope work is what is known as the hitch. Mrs. C hamberlin and permits herself to be “roped.” Here ther of the whirling motion around the head, A real cowboy only waves the loop around his head while on horseback, and then only to gain added momentum inste i of picturesque effect. There 1s merely a quick flash of the rope and it Is around Mrs Chamberlin’s left foot. She raises her foot siightly, There ts a twitch of her husband's wrist and a circle of manila appears to travel down the rope and, curi- ing about her foot, makes a seconki loop. She raises her right foot, a second coll slides down the ope, and that member is sastened. In turn her wrists are bound and for a finish they are bound together and a loop Js thrown about her little finger. youngster non obligingly plays “cow” formed. The diameter of the rope being two inches in length or four inches tn circt the shock of cow work, and it should travel freel, For practice work @ twenty-foot rope sould be pose should be drawn up the rope Then the rope is carried along the loop for some and the rope and that part of the loop beneath shauld be Kathe The rope should,travel in the same direc is acquired passed through held In the right hand. WHEN GHE VAC_ATION DOES NOG BE_AVGIFY. BY HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. The Summer Holiday, Which Should Be a Blessing to| for fs, of cours that the new ekin is unnaturally sensi-| lar value tive, and air treat- ment given the in a real | nference ae should bh It is made solid to stand long enough until proficiency | it is untll some eight feet have AaTURBAY AVENI® AUGUAT (8, (0%, - - parses through the noore and not be turned back upon it This being done, the ramainder of »pe is cofled and the end caught ee tween the third and litle fingers of the left hand, the coll resting between (h® thumb and free and gecond fingers Now atart to twist the rope tna fe. It ts impossible to tell you how; it @ one ie things you must find out for yourself. You may employ either the full arm motion from the shoulder or the wrtst action. Both are correct, but the wri® movement Is employed by tie dest ropers, and it would be well to try this first, In the arm motion the welet ts held rigid, the arm describing a circle from the In the other case the hand alone revolves, the arm being held rigid oF | elbow very nearly ao |The Secret of the Trick. If the motion ie right the rope will deseribe a circle of fixed dimensions. Whee the wrist fas described several hundred thousand revolutions you will get some idea of the way It !# accomplishe?, and when you can keep the rope going without getting it all knotted up you will be ready for the second part. This is the exe panding loop and fs effected by slowiy feeding the aurplus rope into that part hel@ in the right hand. If the loop Ix revolving rapidly enough to take up the slack threugh centrifugal motion you wil be able to keep !t going until the entire call exhausted. If the loop collapses and the trick is a failure you elther feed tow ast or elke you do not keep the loop revolving rapidly enough. After this, when you get the loop large enough, try jumping into It. If you raise the rope above your head and are careful to keep it revolving steadily you Will be atile to accomplish this. To change places with another keep the free en@ of the rope short and swing the loop high. The Half Hitch. The half hitch ts quite another matter. First you rope the foot and in this you alm to have the rope expand as soon es you throw ft. It should fall just ume * the upraised foot. Now you are ready to make the hold secure with the hitch. The best that can be said is that the hitch t» formed by a circular movee ment of the hand. The end of the hitch nearest the thrower bears against the the rope opposite and a forward motion made simultaneously with the side of clreular twist sends it down to the other end of the rope, which should be fairly taut, Practice alone will show the beginner what is needled, but with practices patient, plodding practice—command of the rope is gained, and any boy will be qualified to Join the next circus he wants to run away with as a fancy roper. He vil] pot be qualified as a cowboy until he 1s able to rope a steer from the deck of a half-broken cow pony, but until the pony 1s acquired there 1s plenty of tum an much good, healthy exercise in the ornamental fancy roping as the Chame ant about | beriins show It In practicing, remember that the rope must be smooth and at all times pliable, the noose must be neatly mare, so that It will slide freely upon the rope, and once vted {t must be kept at the same even motion until more rope is paid out. e 4. ‘The more rope used the greater the exertion require: ‘phe pictures which illustrate this article were posed for by the Chamberiing, nurteen Ince: , gether und and {lustrate the tricks mentioned. A study of the cuts will give an Idea of the fon in which irl Geseatiens CHICOT. e tender covering Tesuits | elgnt times a day in warmed milk. Heat not may One milk bath a day is of no particu-| do for her ill-treated skin is to attempt If you are going in for a| to restore it by cold water sponges of milk treatment bathe your face six or| cold water treatment of any kind. Warm lotions open the congeste@ help to carry off effete matter about a pint at a time and apply it with] pores, ‘This hitch is the prettiest part of the werk when it is well done done nothing is more awkward. A Seventy-five-Foot Lariat, ‘The ropes the Chamberlins use are, with a single exoption, the hide ropes of ‘The exception Js the seventy-five-foot hemp larlat used in the Gnishing the plain. trick, in which Chamberlin starts with a circl winds up with a loop sixty feet or more in circumference, Horse-hair, hemp and hide are all employed in the making of lartats he best “rope’’ is made of seven strands of hide, largely a matter of choice, but When badly Nerves and Complexion, Is Often Abused. OW many girls are really improve in looks by the summer holiday? It ts This question was asked me yesterday by a well-known speolallst using some eight feet of rope, and six of the strands being braided about the seventh, “his is worked unt itis thor-} | And 1 was obliged to reply—not For stage use It Is covered with a white braid, that it may be the | many A great many sirix are tn better oughly pliable. more readily seen. The ropes are from twenty to forty-five feet in length. health when they come home from a In one end a noose is summer spent by the sea or in the Theatre Monday evening, when ee “Vivian's Papas’ will have its, The Fourteenth Street Theatre will first production, tte new theatrical sea-| also open Monday night, when Nat M. spn, In Its relation to the Broadway] Willis, well known to vaudeville pa- theatres, will be inaugurated, | trons, will make hia debut as a star ‘Leo Dietrichstein, who wrote ‘“Are|! a musical comedy called A Son of You a Mason?" ts the author of “Vivi-| Rest.” The scenes of the two acts are an'é Papas.” John C, Rice and Thomas) id in a Connecticut. summer resort ‘A. Wise, who originated the principal] 8nd a drug store. There will be a cast poles in “Are You a Mason?" will also|f sixty, and Broadhurst and Currie have the chief characters in Mr. Diet-| Promise a handsome production. Stress Tichstetn's new plece, and Hattie Will-| !# lafd on the beauty of the show girls, fams, who had much to do with several] and it is announced that something of the Rogers Brothers’ pieces, has been| Striking and original mey be looked | engaged to play the show girl whose/for jn the way of costumes and lghting fagcinations are the cause of the many|effecte, ‘The plot of the plece ix kept a troubles in which the characters of the| dark secret, play become entangled. eee The piece opens in the library of a] Henrietta Browne, heraided as a Vir- fashionable New York home. The|&inia beauty, who has been leading} Tarnhams are a happy young married] Woman with the Girard Avenue Stock | couple’ whose contentment is disturbed | Company; of Philadeiphta, will come to fly by the misdeeds of two gay old| town a week from to-night and begin Wys, the father of the young wife and] an engagement at the West End Thea- fle uncle of the young husband. Both| tre with Willis Granger in "A Gentle- ‘hese elderly sinners have been fasc!-|man of France.” mitted by the show girl, Vivian Rogers ee Their use of young Farnham's private} The Metropolis Theatre reopens to- W ITH the opening of the Garrick) out, and the young couple are reunited. night with ‘The Winning Hand." The house hea peen redecorated and a eath- skeller and cloak-room added, The attraction at the Third Avenue Theatre next week will be the Engiivh Jessie Izett as Polly. “Dr. Bil v ‘ i melodrama, “Lown by the Sea.” be the attraction at the Harlem house, ae we attempt to defy natural “Two Little Vagrants,” with clever) with Frederick Bond and Margaret} mre on tg N Pt Jrew heading the t. “The Factory 1 who Ns x Neva: Harr\roncsixwasen| will beat) Drew hevding he e td cream soda, lobster saluds and bonbons, the Star. The Dewey will again open tts doors to-night with the Eagle Eiwlesquers, Continuing engagements will be “The Runaways,” Casino; “The Wirard of On," Majestic; “The Earl of Paw- tucket,” Manhattan, and ‘The Chris- an,” Academy of Music. ‘The bills at the roof gardons—Ham- merstein's Paradise Gardens, the Madl- son Square Roof Garden and the Crystal Gardens—remain practically unchanged, except that In "Otoyo," at, the Madison Square, Miss Clara Lane will be seon In the title role, and J. K, Murray will succeed Hobart Smock. ‘Tom Nawn and company in “Pat and the Genii," will be the headline at- traction at Keith's, Proctor’s theatres: Colby and Way, In “The Ventriloquist and the Dancing tebphone leads to the show girl sending aietlatad @ Ressage postponing an engagement in wr to prevent a meeting of her ad- mifrs, ‘The young wife recelves the] An English Jovers' di mehage and naturally seeks the apart-|been complied by G. R. M, Devereux. mets of Vivian, each actuated hy'a dif-|'The volume contains an amazing fere\t_ motive and each ignorant that{amount of information which may or| any \ther 1s bound for the same destina-|may not be useful to an ardent sultor, | tion. The second act, in the apartments {and deals especially with the language | of tl show girl, leads only to Increase|of flowers, the superstitions and omens | the histakes and complications, Ajof love, &c. Here are a few sentences neigh br's jealous husband heightens the|extracted from the bi 20k: | troud|s of all, and it is not until the| “For a hachelor to dream of a patr of followhis day, when the characters meet| slippers portends his speety marriage.” | im thépalm room of a New York hotel,| “For 4 young woman to dream of its ate Gnally straightened peing Sunday means that yhe is about onary has inet atk aides wn Dir satus th a le ES bial ade A LOVERS’ DICTIONARY. to form an alliance with a clergyman." The sneezing of a cat is a lucky omen to a bride who Is to be married the following day." “The Ojibaway Indiana are the only unelviiized folk who go in for a honey- moon."* An example of what may be done by presents of combined floral offerings 1s shown In the followin | w THREE MORE THEATRICAL OPENINGS NEXT WEEK. | at the Fitty-eighth Greet Theatre, The country, but without prejudice jt must be conceded that the majority of the summer girls present an extremely weather-worn and unkempt appear- ance when they return to the city. Alno it must be acknowledged that not every girl is improved in health by a three months’ outing The girl herseif is the sinner in such cases, and she gets punished as ve oll Doll," will head the list at the Twenty- third Gtreet Theatre, ‘Caste’ will be the play at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, with Hugh Ford as Eccles and Miss wil Girl” will be the melodramatic offering the girl who stays up until all hours of the night, the girl who drinks wine or other intoxicants, the gir! who lets down the bars of common sense and takes the grossest liberties with her stomach for three months at 4 stretch, cannot ex- pect to reap anything but disaster, an no one condition 11 the world {s so sure- ly and speedily reflected in a woman's face as a disordered stomach When it comes to the complexion, every thinking person must realize that the wind and sun which work suca havoc with the skin of sea-faring folk are not going to effect diametrically op- posal results on the complexioa cd even the daintiest of maktens. In other words, no one r d expect to throw all common sense precautions and safetuanis to the wind and dedge the conseauences traction® has deen arranged for Lana] oven eivers but frat eit im & Dlg Bibs Coney teens munlieht has the effect of drying up the An entirely new vaudeville bil. will] oti of the akin, making It parched first be offered at Brighton Beach Sfusle land on further exposure literally burn-| Russell Brothérs will be the headiin- SetEnd ooele ie Pea cwnet ty ers at Morrison's Theatre, Rockaway] provides a new skin, fortunate- Boney because the cuticle # always in some There will be an entire change of| stage of the process of reproduction, but DIL on the floating Foot garden of the jine polar rays beating down on the tens Band wit} | der skin of a young girl are not con Great Thurston will be the headliner at the Newark house, Leading the list at Pastor's will be Gardner and Maddern. ‘The Inst week of the Duss concerts at Madison Square Garden will bexin Monday night. On the following day night a complimentary concert wii! be tendered Manager Johnaion, Julius Saunders, the osstfted man, will be the chief curio ot Huber's Museum. “The Sleeving Peauty and the Beast,” Pain’s fireworks and Shannon's Band will remain the attractions ut Manhat- tan Beach. A new feature of the Bostock animal nw at Sea Beach Palace, Coney Island. will be “Happy Hoolige hin no9- logical kindergarten,” Another big Ilst of free outdoor at- Rosat's Naval Reserve continue tts concerts on the Pabst roof} sidered or favored in nature's scheme, From Him—Aroutus—"Thee only do 1| garden, Grand. Circle, ‘i SHOAACSOUER, & i love. Henderson's Music ilall and tho John. | Te wkin burned through by wun and] Krom Her—Garden dalsy—"I share! «town Flood are atteactions worth vise | Wind has been de Procipitate'y | 1 sentiments.” aud oefere the under membrane Is ready | iuag at Coney, ‘ \ - ‘g, according to the palliative |a sponge, making repeated passes over ce receives |the face at each bath, You must not thing treatment | use the same milk twice. tepid milk baths| After the first milk bath the skin feels injured by sun and| relieved, the burning sensation {ts al- layed, and in two or three days the 1 as the! stretched, impoverished cuticle will have rform the] received nourishment from the olls in e skin will be on the upon prove last treatment the I know of no more s than a succession for the face badly wind burn. Milk baths are Literally as hits and will not in reality p miracles attributed to them; but for @/ the milk and t sunburnt, par akin « course of milk) way to regain the baths taken in the early stages of dis-/ which It nds for beau tress will be found exceedingly ben Once the skin acquires its normal tex- ficial. ; ture a Iltte chemically pure borax may Don't use the milk cold, but just warm be added to the bath, say a teaspoon enough to be agreeable, a little abave even full to a qua mils the temperature we call tepid The borax added to the milk Tae soothing effect of the milk is a mild bleaching quality muoh greater when {t is used warm The worst thing the summer girl can BURNING WINTER IN EFFIGY, suppleness ex it At Zurich, Switzerland, cold weather {s so plentiful that they lterally “have * From time immemorial the tnhabitants for miles arowid bave square, when they fleem the frigid season at an end, and that aynibolizes Winter . the suc winter to burn assombled In the pub ly burn in effigy a stuffed Agur proce with weirdslooking floats is part of the strange ceremony ese of whic! fs sometines mar © fact that Winter refuses to consider his burns as fatal and returns li m of a cold spell or a snowstorm, J \ he bt alsa: bl and invite a flow of the olly secretions which the skin must be supplied with to look soft and pretty. Cold water closes the pores, arrests the functions of the perspiratory an@ | ou glands and brings the blood to the, gested and spotty appearance allke dg structive to looks and comfort. Of course, the girl who has acquired what an Evening World correspondent termed recently “‘a rowdy stomach'= meaning a stomach vrone to insubore dination on the slightest vrovocation— must pay the price of her indiscretion, and her best plan will be to cut off from her bills of fare every greasy, | sweet and highly spiced dish, as well ag strong coffee and tea, A diet of fruttsy Vexetables, sainds, plenty of pure water drunk before meals and late at night, whole wheat bread and pure milk, $f 18 Agrees wit hthe subject, will not only bring rest and relief to the abused stom }ach. but the wholesome effects of such @ |Tegimen will be shown very speedily in the complexion, the hair and the added brightness that will come te | the eyes, Rest is essential to the woman who would look her best, How many women really and truly set any rest during a summer's outing? Don't forget that to rest you must iax mentaNy and physically. The body must be clothed so loosely | that every part of it is free. The mind must be at rest also, Don't try to untangle any family snarls or. solye any psychic problems while you are supposed to be resting. Do not think you can rest in a noisy place or an JH-ventilated chamber, Fresh atr and quiet you must have or you cannot get refreshing repose. When you get your complexion back 0 the day before you started for the country and your stomach repaired you may well take # critical survey of your hair. Nothing worse than a dally soak ta salt water can be conceived of for the) welfare of the hair, Salt water will always, even applied in moderation, male the hair sticky and rough, destroving its lustre and flegl+ bility. i altwater soak as an every-day here will in many cases, wi the growth is verv fine and delicate, completely ruin the hair, Scalp massage and a caréfil weel shampoo form the best treatment (on sea-sick hair. ,! As for the added lines to taroat, Induced by ni myscles relaxed fron “x ot reat, mapsige, AO SRtID ministered. ith’ rational pair such djimages epegdily, surface, where {t often causes a come! |