The evening world. Newspaper, April 30, 1904, Page 11

Lon eurmneienne Oo SP: 2s 4 FH Hackett Dalys- : Ais Wd , Public Seems to “Cotfon" to the Stow Woman on the Stage—By Her Happy Example Miss Davenport Is a Real Home Missionary — Were You Aware that New York is the Home of Large Ladies ?—Watch Out, It's in the Air! es T was e@ weighty subject—Avoirdupois as First Aid to the Comedienne—yet Hva Davenport treated it lightly. Frankly stout, yes, but she’s not losing fieab over it. Upon being ushered into Miss Davenport's tm- posing presence, words failed me, It ds not the easiest matter in the world to discuss physical well-being with any wpmen whose waistline has passed the twenty-five-inch mark. You're apt to be sat upon. Miss Davenport, however, at once put me at ease. “Buppose we sit on that bench over there,” sho gugges.ed, leading the way to the rear of the Broad- fwey Theatre stage. ‘We managed to squeeze on, and pwere quite “comfy” @ave for the reflection in my mind that there was enly a fiimsy “back drop"’ between us and the mat- fee public, Now, if that bench should by any @hamce prove untrue to the trust placed in it, and "we should suddenly find ourselves spilled at the feet Bf the dancing and tra-le-la-ing ‘Yankee Consul" phorus, the situation would be exceedingly embar- jassing. But, whispered Courage, faint heart never won f-+- l—, @o hold fast! rd os se ‘Have you seen So-and-So.lately? She's-a eight! ‘Why, my dear, she’s almost es stout as you arel’ “And how i used to hurt me to go shopping! Be- fore I could even get a chance to say what I wanted, the haughty young woman behind the counter would crush me with a disdainful glance and Jolly remark: ‘We hve nothing that will Mt you, madam!’ But all that's changed, Now I can welk into a store with « perfeotly Independent air and get anything I want. New York is the darlingest place to shop in. I can get my eize In @nything, and every once in a while the ealeswoman gives me a smile or two without extra charge, I've lived in Dng- Jand—was born there, you knowin Australia, China, Japan and India, but there's no plmce like New York, One is everlastingly alive here. I like to keep mov- ing and will hang on to » atrap any time rather than walt for the next car," It was interesting, of course, to hear Miss Daven port talk Ike. foreign star, but as twenty minutes are only twenty minutes by tho stage manager's watoh, I reluctantly felt the necessity of gently yet firmly leading the funniest woman on the New York stage into @ channel which would bring her face to face with avordupols in its relation to “art.” other good things I lave been able to do simply De- cause I weigh a lot @d don’t ‘make faces’ at the scales.” s s ad * o QO ricecstions the church isn’t inclined to accept cause she is stout an audience very often takes it /agreeable.’ But when I grow serious I invariably get for granted #hé is funny before she does @ single |a laugh. When I tumbled downstairs all the way thing. Only the other afternoon I saw this illus-|from my dressing-room a few nights ago everybody trated at a vaudeville show, A woman unmistakably |in the company howled with amusement. They seemed stout, though not extraordinarily clever, was ‘the hit|to Imagine I did it as a joke, and the only regret of the show.’ The minute ehe’appeared the audience |expressed was by those who didn't see the ‘joke got ready to Inugh. Although I ached in every bone I was soon laughing “But it's not so easy for the stout comedienne to| with the rest. I laugh very easily, What I have to make friends on the road. New York is the home of |«uard against is the effect of @ laughing audience, stout women. There are more of them here than in| When I start laughing in that scene where Mr. Hitch- any other city in the world. Never occurred to you?|cock 1s supposed to convulse me with a funny story ‘Well, just look atoit you on the streets, in the res-|{t's often very hard for me to stop. The laughter of taurants and in the theatres, I'm an expert looker. I} tho.people out in front 1s ao infectious that I get to always have an tys out for my stout sisters, And 1|laughing in real earnest. I was gratified beyond always beam on them. Admire stoutness? Well, no,{ measure just now as I was doing my heavy-welg! not exactly; for right down in my heart I should like} fainting act. In one of the boxes sat Mrs. —-" to be wfender. But," and a laugh gurgled to Miss|(mentioning the name of a woman whose husband Davenport's Ups, “I lke to know there are others.” {dled last autumn), ‘and when I heard her laugh it “But why 60 many others—do you think the Now/did my heart good. And now I must tell you of Sr ate na ua wm «zt PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD First Great Coach Excursion A woman shouldn’t.be blamed because she’s Bhe can't help it. Why, I go through a form of tlses every day, eat but two meals, deny myseht toes, candy and pie—and I do so love pie and and still I can’t lose a pound, No, I don't sin’ I stay just about the same, I suppose I ought to: thankful for that end my good nature, I stayed:at: ay Mt. Clemens for elghteen deys last summer; didn’t = have s mouthful of anything but skimmed milk ‘ that time, took the regular system of baths, and elght over for good measure, and, will you bellevé it, & didn’t lose an ounc a. “Did you love any of your good nature?* “No, but the doctor did. He wauted to point to pe aa a shining example of what he and the baths could! do, and"—Miss Davenport shook with langhter “at memory of We Joke on the doctor. suggestions from the stage, but here ts what ‘would seem ¢o commend itself as a new and ex- cellent idea in the way of real home missionary work. “You'd be astonished to see the letters I've received from stout women who say that after seoing me they are much more content with their lot,” Miss Daven- port was saying. “Yes, isn’t it funny? They write the queerést things, One woman thanked me for hav- ing made her home happier, saying that the members of her housshold had quit finding fault with her about her size, and that even the parrot was showing her some respect. Any numbér have assured me that 1 have done a great deal to teach them how to be happy “NO,” and the oracle settled back with a profound air, “I think it must be the climate, I believe It's in the air’’—this in.a hoarse, fearful whisper. EMPIRE ivecti tase Ween. ws ss 188 DAVENPORT amiled encouragement, “I’m not the least bit eensitive about my ad ad ad a sf a os se a THEA nd led Use sersesd as "I tell my friends that ‘“ ee she said, finally coming out of the} ¢¢~ SUPPOSE, too, that laughing bas something TO THE We ALDSO. 1TH TRE. Hyey &S Cleo een ry bral figure And too young shopping district, “I do believe that being | to do with it. You remember good old Dr. 9 200TH a GIRL past aie. ee panne Het jon’t you thihk that's a fat helps a women to be funny, I know Bomebody’s prescription, ‘Laugh and grow—.” tt helps me, and it certainly has helped other women| “I'm forever running the danger of losing control 7 wate essrst ons ttcaah te tell the truth, I was/ on the stage. Take May Irwin, for one; would sho |of my figure” (a deep contralto chuckle) “because of | think: 0 bench, have won the success she did if htr collarbone had|my unfortunate habit of seeing the funny side of LOUIS, MO. 4 . e 4 at “I tised to be dreadfully sensitive, and more than pnee my feelings were given an awful jab by some kind, considerate friend—a, woman, of course—saying: ae nea EA shown and her waist had Iooked Hke the stem of a champagne glass? If I may use the word, the pub- Uc seems to ‘cotton’ to the stout stage woman. Be- Two Musical Pieces and a Tank Drama Next Week. in | “Ingo: les Frohman ar- things. But I'm never funny when I try to be. If attempt to say something I imagine {s funny some one is sure to say, ‘Now, don't be sarcastic and dis- MAY 10, 1904 Round Trip $}2QFROMNEW YORK Proportionate rates from other points 'O new musical pieces and an Eng- Continuing engagements at other the- Msh tank drama will be the novel- Char! ranged this season for Miss Marlowe to atres will be “fhe Girl from Kay's,” | cyctist, will Contribute the chtet vaudos SPECIAL. TRAIN tles noxt week. give New York theatregoers a last ond Hiteh ¥ le act. fe 850) riunity to see her at the head of | “The Tanker C Broadwa: TonyB ‘ of 8 7 Conches, ‘ano ‘ ‘The Man from China” will come to | Pep orunty, e Cons: 1 ny Pastor's bill will offer, amon; RAV >) 8.25 A. M venings, 20. Ma pany, prior to her appenr-| County Chairman," ’ Wallack's; Henri-| others, Howard and Bland, the Mus! i = tt ha . Mee In .th % prelates aatie Theatre on Monday night Anco next season as co-star with Bt. ‘a (Crossman, in “Sweet Kitty Bel: Bennetts, the Weston-Raymond Com-| Stopping at (HREENERY clad eae ls Wea ware Maaledos Menlo . Bilzabeth Tyree. t and put Paul West to the test as a ern, mab D Ene eco aheatre; all-star cast! pany, Miss Katherino Nelson, mono-| Mokets will be mood pot on npecial train and returning im coaches NEW | LYCE CEU Lah aT Ubrettist and John W. Bratton a9 a! wecause Mis» Marlowe poAgey ia and Wind and Pore once Murphy on regular t roae'e ena me Ever have painsin footand leg— Chas. sawtrey. in PR ‘Bhi Composer, The first act takes place at| promised this engagement at the Eee | company. Ferguson, Dupres and | JR feel 4s the’ walking on your heels? 5... Prom Palm Beach and the other act on board Haverly’s Mastodon Minstrels will be Means “arch” st iot oe, in yaoi atioibices tee G)pire “The Other Girl” will be obliged, An at Hurtig & Be 5 - bs fra nase Apeinnds compll- | to 0 to the Ly A tas eae Lx fetes tales pay, ‘Yan .ts the AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS, z Pi great deal of fun,| Thomas's Naw tothe comcty teen le Mantes Pern mes ALL NEXT WEEK, Sesangriss and the tittles of the plentiful number of OW RORY Lneeneny” RBS benn rincess; “The | WAS MRE mA Baty George ie HUBER’S poeen aracicicny lea A. Bloclog | 0b® of the real succeases of the season | Volunteer Bolichinel arisonth Btreet Vell and Willan Mose’? Stree 3} MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. F twill frst appear in oa ae Rie =, inst due agile" to Lonel \ Barry Theatre. srudson and attan-the> | es eBiat if Kettle” will bo kept at BIGHTH ANNUAL MUSEUM _ bons a “wandering musician known es “the hu- piototypenand 3 doubtless: Pe aa be closed. A_ fresh lat of curtosities will be ex- MILITARY TOURNAMENT, " —_ ma Ladies WoT A TINIE man band,” end later disguise himself | ‘flow ft to its Sp VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. nibtted at ‘Truber’s Museum. Sakaseneal Mitice yaaa Oriental Gypsy ocr anal inserted steel LS 2 y= “ae GUNNY agement Military Athletic League, remtest Pal; ayne, 2 A i plate. ies just ight sport UID Sisson realey, Gus Wil ' Roly mee from China." Other aoe e , “The Wizard of Oz" wil come down At Hammerstein's Theatre of Variee| IN BROOKLYN, Teview a 34, ESR tint : ot Ghat. are Vera Michelen: p bers ot Pe comp pany ft aeenlson ay from ‘the Majestic to the New York |ties the bill will include George Prim-| Robert Edegon, in “Ranson's Folly," | & A Heat: ‘r. | where most wanted. Tab, iz ay. ABS i Almlee Angeles and Harry Y, | Theatre, eulcite rose and the dancing Foley Twins, | will be the attraction at the Montnule’ Teronta, Military, Pr Eran, ‘the a yer ‘omen ‘en. Doane f Emma Carus, Jess Dandy, the Flying lock me Tere AoTs. | For Wi and M The Malster of Woodbarrow “A Venetian Romance" fll be in- To-night James K. Hackett will begin —$——____ Potters, recently with Barnum & Bal-! MEAT AND APPENDICITIS, nd Baturdny, 2.00" Tyatinces Wed Rox Office Now Onen tuced by tho Frank L. Pefley Opera |*® engagement at Daly's in ‘The j),\, ; Klein, Ott Brothers and on: Pompeny at the Hnlckerbosker aspirs [Crown Prince,” the romantic play by |J4Y's ctroua; Hlein, Ott Brothers nd! he rondon Lancet reports a. dis ACADEMY OF MUSIC ise JAMES 8 COWARD,|NEW AMSTERDAM 5¢ jn Monday night, Cornelia Osgood Tyler (George H. Broadhurst, in which he|Posq Mayou troupe of 100 trained tropl- cussion of the Academy of Medicine, To-day, 25¢, 50c, LAST CR AN E 4Ge St. nearW. x AtasTAs TWO ORP has set her story in the romantic at- hited hog rpie bund cat ine West Had Cal DI, Spe, M, Lucas Championnere To-night, Res., 75c. ue S “in DAVID HARUBE, a . mosphere of the Venice of the fifteenth | Theatre. Charlotte er remains the) “Mctntyre and Heath will,appear at the | \ every day more confirmation | MARY DUPONT | NEM oie ee tT y.2, ev..8.16, Night aa ‘ veatury, ‘The plece Is in threo acts, a td Ae head ot the Cibuates phew’ at the Circle: Was forthcoming of the idea that it 934 St} Mabe! McKay « 80 Bander ee WeeK ieee Melodrama, INEW YORK 'it.7ze Te Ne, ; howing Bett of Fare San Rome during! Berths Galland,,in “Dorothy Vernon | They will give thelr familiar “Georgiu! Vag ne abuse of a ment diet #hich “IN MIZ701ID A.» je Sailor cues, = EXnitie THE TENDERFOOT Gras), the Temple Gr Hy sun | ot Haddon Hall," will be the attraction |Minstrols’’ skit. Other acts will be Mer- | 1"* the Principal cause of appendicitis, {5th iN j IN MIZZOURA., — AMUSEMENTS. mountains of the Austrian at the Grand-Opera House. lan's Dogi; Ed F. Reynard, with hi n those countries where the natives | Big Continuous Vaudeville. BROADWAY ; Beit Mts 2 eda Pm ni "The music is by Frederick Coit] prince Otto," adapted trom Robert [talking and walking automatons; Moore | eat very little meat, aa in Brittany, ap- t Sti §“Sis Hopkins.” cf QSP re. GRAND INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITI N, rg of the com-| Louis Stevenson's ato: Otis Skin-|and, Littlefeld, in “Change Your Ac! ndicitis 1s very rare, In England and ‘48 h 7 ace iS aa a Eee 1 Micdortaaiy, Niel net, ‘will be the weeks revival of the|Bllsabeth Murray, “‘the girl. from the | the. United States, where a great deal \ TAAMILLE”? THE _jvapmms NDP CENT RAT _ +) ana wa "a aclo Martinetti| Donnelly stock compahy at the Murray |South,” and tho Milani Trio, Itallan |Of meat ts eaten, append! 125th Cra CAMILLE. DEWEY i ‘MAT. TO-DAY, GRAND CEN TRAL | PALACE, BAT ¢ F/R ‘ea eee Beri Hill Theatre. Given slain times commoner than in Fy Big Vaudevitie Twice Dally, erry Maiden Burlesquors, in Ave and VARIE the Gap. Franke . » sepwo Little ates ‘Senay 1) tade Henry B, Harris's company will play | ,,,V iit Hergere will appear at Keith’ . — | 14 z= XG A ‘Av.| Tmw ee Concert, 20.-80e, conceit ay AUBENE ea tn ye aos “3 a ne ketch, is Japanese a.way,T avivire Com.4.4 Nightons, othe gd Gre Ce en aeaseey of Messe solo o¢ Morne” at the West in | hi Mish yeh {APU at PASTOR'S SPRTAPOE |GOTHAM |METIT MOUNTGAT BADS SEES aoa BELASCO FHEATHR. Areatg Monday night. These eaflor boys will be | Theatre 3 ay Se new be ‘s ‘5 Mayme Gehrae, ANE ALLACK’S Ryxay #200 8t. ven, 320, MAN 3 DAVID BEI tn dincuies<Daonte. D, ‘Wilton Lackaye, tn “The Pit," will be | 24! ernene:, Beene soe yme, 125 Bt, & 8d Ay. | Tw. Net. Convert, 26¢.-50¢. "| W Aiate, Tor Day & We “| CRCS Swen KITTY ceared Meeting te eaon and | ine attraction at the Harlem Opera- | Qeirety, Harry’ Tue! Clair, female, im: Brief Stories of Bit tod as OUNTY “CH AIRM AIRMAN. | ATLANTIC GARDES, Dowers:nenr canal atari other tl House, 2 ersonator, ind ran as. Ne 4 Toledo & Price, fhe fiver that Cyril Grey plunges in| Nat AL: Wils will go to the American | Méchield, In, Bown at Brooke Ear! Human Necessity. {| MAJESTIC Janae. 200m, Re “| Henan 4oDae, a cee ae os saves hischum. Incidentially mem- | Theatre, with “A Son of Rest." and Bertha Waltzinger, in "fhe Woman i WIZARD of 0Z with 0} : 1.00. Ne’ ighes EDEN "ah RaR “oe ape Gaited States Voluntecrs| Ralph Stuart will appear in “By | Who, Hesitates. Is Won, be the} The Sunday World to-morrow next HARIMa A RIne ights, EE ORG oN GRI RIES iit fo Saving Corp will De on hand tol might of Sword” at Prootor’s Fitty- | Peadiine attraction at Proctor's ‘twenty. | will haye more than 100 columns HiShaay. (te ANS POM EHHISON fon wale ord |THE VOLUNT R R NIST, CHEN lectcatnenee Th jessie Ize! anda) S i " : a ae = uth ful paare, there will be. Lisa eighth Street Theatre, {comp ny Will appeat jn “another ete ane WANTS filled with brief stories ee <erthn Goren RBASRER.. HARLEM ROB RT) Bey 815. at ay, cae Jas, Fair | The Royal eerie at! totale ‘Her First Offense," and Itauschle, th of human necessity. How inter- Br 8.15, late To-day Wed 18 [8 HOUR ‘Ranson'a. WEST END so we of = Gront asin, Bea jeorge | through “Gulliver the | impersonations of famous: men, will be esting every Evening World read A MUSICAL COOKTAIL, | Lex. Ave. & 107th. Mat. To-Day, | NS, tom, mye (a Bite ext Wek, SOLDIERS OF Brandon and others, + Metropelit i nave a company of cole | Smother feuture, The Firth Avehue Ths! ¥ wint find. them! What a viste of “PIFF, PAFF, POUF.” \E STAR UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, |EVSFy Sunday Nis oe = o atre stock company wi ‘4 Marlowe will, on ored tole in "Tho Smart get. Grutahes," and White and Simmons, in| $ mew. opportunity, of hope, of MAY 2—MYSTIC_SHRINB_NIGi | _Next qVeek—THE SMART OWS, Bye 816, Mate Wed. ~ BROOKLYN AMUSEMENTS. Monday night, ct Bi PP Y P pelt! oh MEL Ly SRE AT sa Maer scaabunent athe eg’ the black. face skit, “Rate,” will: lead] change, they open to every enter- "a2, Bt," Went of Brvaitway, Manhatia ran Mate Siete | yaad ot. 34 ave KEI CLAR, THE WGA ss oon MONT. AUK £85 = Theatre. She will be seen in one 6 Bemouth “Foon iit be prostiten by|} prising mind! Read them! Try the Wolt Baspar in owknank Ab Ldn jext Week—THE ROYAL’ LILLIP' ‘Oniy Ene arate, "taw” phe | Hee ttt, todos, ate tue onan ett Oa eted| | Gen cen poem (et KEI Si BESTS fc SOTHERN, exoun' Jaishthood Way in Flower,” end later. Devere's Own Company tor the Gotham. Teturn_ a {PRINCESS a Git tee aiiaseoar | Sat ments leas a Rogeaons Pa re PRLS g Third Aven be right t gate. a = igndl Lignes ot ‘Pott tila Rast ares LR WS. 8.15, Only Matinee To-Day, . VIRGINIAN.