The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1904, Page 9

. ; SGT TP TTT — en w THE # EVENING » WORLD'S # HOME »# MAGAZINE. # enw HoeD WHILE 7 2 Doe BAaY. 2OK AT THE PICTURES “Action” the Secret of Entertaining an Out-of-Doors Summer Crowd— Wizard of Coney Knows His Human Nature as Well as His Wignola— Luna “Laid Out" on the Atlantic fn Two Short Days — Architect Showman Planning a Mammoth, Popular-Priced Theatre for New York. —_— +. R. THOMPSON!" Consider yourself introduced to the man who conceived and built Lune Park—to the wizard who brought @ city of color and contrast out of the marsh and mud of Coney, Don't pre- pare to be dazzled. Don't fumble for your green Glaases, Mr. Thompson won't hurt your eyes. He's 66 es piein 6s his work is spectacular. If our guide through lively, puleing, chromatio Zane hedn't said “Mr. Thompson!” I might have mistaken the creator of the place for a boss car penter or the man with the peanut privilege. A mo- ment before I had heard a sirong-lunged lecturer of noble bearing smite the alr with @ sonorous “THOMP-son and Dundy, pro-pri-e-tor-rs!"" My first impression of Mr, Thompson was that he dida't Jook a bit like his orators had made him sound, idn't begin to be as grand as any of the ‘‘splelers' who flung his name to the breeze in swelling sylia- bles. He made no pretense of fiving up to their dignity or their eloquence, ‘T'm just a freak,” he said, emiling, and glancing out from beneath the brim of @ gray eoft hat pulled aver his eyes, up thelr shutters. One by one productions are being laid away the camphor balls. Next week will find the Fimptre, the New Amster- fam, the Knickerbocker and the Acad- emy of Music added to the list of houses miready dark. On Saturday night final performances will be given in half a fowen other playhouses. “The County Chairman’ on that night will end the longest run of year in New York. By that time George Ade's amusing pormedy of rural life in the Middle West, will have been given tts 237th perform- at Wallack’ Souvenirs will mark eceasion, ‘The County Chairman,” with the same cast, will resume busi- ness at the old stand on Sept. 1, and about that time Manager Savage will|'Phe jrst ot start another company on the road| {une Teller. with the piece. Likewise, a week from] izerman Hire! to-night Henrietta Crosman will mako/ win 8. Metca! hor Iast appearance this season in| Manscone, “Sweet Kitty Bellairs” at Bolasco’s) °" ‘Theatre, which will reopen in Septem- ber with the same attraction. Miss|™ pede re Crosman's sparkling performance and ‘Mr. Belasco’s fine production have com- bined to mak weet Kitty Bellairs” one of the few real delights of the sea- fon, ‘There will be nothing new under, the moon until Klaw & Erlanger open the Acrial Garilens atop the New Ain-| steriam ‘Theatre a week from Monday pight with their production of John J. MeNally’s musical conceit “A Little of, home of a at of the hous Cover. the company 3 sree r seb na jMatiove, and production, "a Bativel Te ‘ho Peddler’ Pverythii ‘Then we shall have Bay! Pempleton back with us, together with] wy Peter W. Dailey, Joseph Sparks, Lelia ‘MeIntyre and others to Mee us pitied: @ur physical woes, NE by one the theatres are putting) The coming week may make his last appearance there, about by Edward Harrigan's Laurence will also be tn the cast, day nicht Mr, open three weel iad rite loa closing Joasie Milward Mootilight Maids" will tained et the ‘Twenty-third atrect A GLIMPSE OF FREDERICK THOUMPSON.CREA TOR _OF CO! will be re. jon ‘will Durbar — proc treet houge ing DAVEOmL Dy striking feature, continue a q ref ve dein Seto Around the ANE ee aing of Dewelves, Spr mathe Winn, Seohert 8 Hickman Bros. Murpby Bal & Francios, Martine & isatoa & sae Grok, PEUPLE' Pe ‘Mxt. we Mr, You sus? sr, were 7 T4Y as re qe MESENGER. * “Boys 4 . . One sir He might have said ‘a freak of genius” and come, lot of talk about ‘art and beauty.’ Forget it when/ion. But I soon gave it up as a@ bad job. nearer ria truth, you start planning « show for the masses. ‘Art and| would insist on having hers pinned up at the side, beauty’ have yelled failure for more than one out-| another im front, another in the back, and so on, es s * a ad *) ot-doors show. I am an architect and I know my] intil we now have more than fifty-seven varieties ETTING roady for a rehearsal,” he explainec,| Vignola. I also know human nature, and human|of the adapiable sombrero. $6, bd B G eep of the hand which took in what| nature and classic architecture don't mix. People| “You see,’ each one explained to ma, ‘I do up my mtown section of Now York.| wili look at # anu say ‘Yes, St is beautiful.’ Then/| hair so and 60, and it would be awfully unbecoming Here “Fire and Flames" would burn an tmitation| they'll go home and forget to come back.” for me to wear a hat'—whereupon I fled for my life. city block. Even in the glare of day the scene Was) iis busy man epoke rapidly, in short sentences, | yt rd a wt a a a remarkably realistic, Beside the curb stood the) socompanying his words with an incessant jingling RE crossed our path at this point the rustic 2 familier Sider ey cab, A ape tier weertied of @ handful of coins, It was the first time I had belle of Luna, Have you seen her—'the orig~ “Brooklyn” bo! on {te sides, waited—as Broo! heard money really talk. His restless, blue eyes inal lady rube?"" H “3 cars have @ habit of waiting—for power from the of i ‘where in critical survey | ‘Glad to meet y',"’ wes the cordial greeting of Mrs.| With charming courtesy she consented to slide He stopped and let the jingling coins finish the i darted here, there and every ' trolley. of his enimated, picturesque estate, I remarked| Macks, “I'm the wife of James B. , Foropaugh’s | A moment later the ech bonnes Einguacel Sead tence. ay a moment's allence he told a. Smee! the elevator station ts th Ing of the buildings, original farmer,” she informed me, with trie pro-| rubs" was seated at the top of the devious chute. news wi SoS) CHEAT ERG theey ies tne end ee @ trety: ievesiticedceapenaeds opening Iie arms as if to|fersional pride, ‘That's how I come to ortginate the “Come on, Bill, {t's fine!" she ered, in hearty in-! “ty next” venture, it present plans succes } Everything but the clang of the gate and the « CHAas 3 the whole, “that's what I aimed to do—| indy rube. Cynthia, I call her, and I've got a copy-| vitation. | be a New York theatre, terday I 1} ioouetecuss. Beep tive fo bring everything im close connection, Bee, there| right on the name, An artist wot originates can't| ‘Then, with a merry whoop, she came jerking and| q year for a plece of ground in the padi ‘ Trnst Thorapeon’ for detalt are no great aky-spaces, even.” be too careful. I've pul @ lol of imitators out of Baca down sels Head ey all he World Nke) (cate district, 12 I get the site 1 will sata “Blevators in the hotel. Some of the guests will be) “71.416 were merely glimpses of blue between towers, | business by shakin’ my copyright under their noses. /a Vermont “washing” flapping in a gale, | brought down that way.” turret jatoareta, yerodas, kiosks, gargoyles, apires| Cheap advertisers, that’s wot I mean, I want tol yp os a os wt | duction of spectacular character, o fire start in the hot asl i overpower them advertisers. I'm @ performer, an ING down naes tac! nd ‘may the| seat Pikenpiain tes Lap saalirtbat tlh reba ind the hundred and one other things whiah shone | overpo Y rf | FRETTING down to bi ks—and th t 6,000 people and ¢he price will range from “No, in that off store down the street there, That'l! | 14,01 Ot artist, and I stand alone. Lots of times senc food spirit of Luna preserve ra, Macks trom| 8 gents. | Small prices and capac! pers wont Pe givé an excuse for a quick blaze. Fires start that} “14.04 how long did it take you to plan all thist* | been here folks—mostly wimmen—hev cum up to both tacks and splinters!—I asked Mr, Thomp-| want I feel Choe panel 8 ener 2 bpecr'ps A Capen way in oll stores. It willeeem natural. That's the tdes.| wnt. qavg: was the surptising reply. “I made a|and ast, ‘Who y' advertising?’ ‘Nobody, goldarn ye,’ son what “Greater Luna” co: big success, ani bn chance Make everything natural. Give it to ‘em quick. Get your} os 4. pled board steamer when I was returning| 1s the way I've ans'ered ‘em, I don't want to “One million, aix hundred thousand dollars,” he| prove that I am right. Akh % effect at once. Then work it up. Tho audience will work | > ii) wo . considered no commorp advertiser, and I've went #0| readily answered, jingling the coins in his hand as| Frederick Thompson, born in the lit town up with {t. People Uke to see a good, hot, quick fire. ay ice pe years ret that Luna Park was| far as to hev some of them taken off the street.” jhe had not Jingled them before. “And, thanks to| Ironton, Ohio—Ohlo, where the Presidents ema Thrills ‘em Exoltement's what they want—ginger. | ti nes te ntlanor Wo were duly impressed, ‘To relieve the serlous | Mr. Dundy's genius as a financier, it's all ours, We showmen come from—never dreamed of being : Don't keep ‘em walting and don’t keep ‘em in one| “I#i4 out” on the Atlantio? strain, I asked Mrs, Macks if her standing as an| wound up last season with $400,000 in the bank. We thing but en architect until he dalek tee ree place too long. Don't tire ‘em out. Thirty minutes Is | gt od rd a ry a JH] vartist” would permit her doing so undignified a | opened tho place this spring $400,000 in debt. W of the Nashville Exposition. He now bids fair te long enough for any spectacle. Make it less, if po thing as demonstrating the wild, free ecstatic joys| wipe that out by August, and we'll close ps come a modern Barnum, with 4 sible, A holiday crowd 1s restless, An American hol- 8 we went along the conversation changed from cone f | peavon"— mings. CHARLES D. $ = i architecture to women—on second thought, not] Of the “helter-skelt ot day crowd, in particular. It wants to keep on the L move, You've got to know your crowd. And aif/®,"~ much a great change elther | ; AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. ity American crowd ts a good crowd to know. It's the ie e: SWEB AES eal AND THE LEAF |) : if , ee best crowd in the world. Give it what 1t wants and pols renered ae Thompson. “Have you noticed big beth li f PARKER'S }| r 9g To-day, 25c, $0¢ i eat ie TOWERS 2e0 TENTS Just as if it Jsn't an tmportant part of a news-|| Cause a man to cower, is HAIR octors Tornight, Res.756 Cd Cd wt | paper worker's business to be ooserving. And by the winter fire sit fast | digas damier 3.0.8 “p eer Se to @ place of this kind for “Doubtless, then, you have noticed the Mexican Many an hour, jd StL4e they site Rut amusement," remarked Mr, Thompson, a8|sombreros worn by the young ladies. But have you mote ta 10 PM. 5 we strolied out among the crowds, “Tat's| noticed how they wear ‘em? No two allke, I at-|| But May and her fair kind, fives {tthe lustre and.ilkiness of youth. | 5th Ny, {sunt ainiey: Go. de CONEY ISLAND. _- what the showman must remember. He must re-| tempted to have these young women wear those|| The flower and the en bert eR eels | (haa titer ee rey A World's Fair tn Itself, member not to make his show serfous, You hear @ they should be worn, in true Mexican fas urge man’ 5 z °: ul ‘ ae eee a a Oe Srey | Svan ROAM ay Shane: Metoan S080 Change his grief, prevents Dandruff and hatr Ged | LAs aneeP Reeerane ee eeoet Om tour and keeps the scalp clean and healthy, Summer Is Closing Theatres All Along the bine.|| eee os wee | S8IHSL| DAME soa AMUSEMENTS, witness the| shine at the Di and also go to the One Hundred and|| Ana the spring. Sepa paneneneanaaanannnenaeeee: 'LOOD ead 06 the Butea Phil hseatre oh the | Paes Burlesn gers Mar be ee ten Gator | Bwenty Reh street theatre with Hart- —Bmest Rhys in Harpers || THOMPSON & DUNDY’S JOHNSTOWN FLOO took company, Mr. Don-|,,Continuing engagements at Jey Manners's clever sketch, "A CONEY ISLAND. fy hi pares Will be Raymond Hitchcoc! Queen's Messeng: Clarice oe R E A T E nelly will bring his season to a close|in “The Yankee Const, will be another singe? THE MAIN QUESTION. G R aan etal with ‘My Friend from India” as the| ‘Tho County Chairman, third street theatre / CASINO Bey ee ie Mon. 2.18 = Dill, and, as @ member of the oast, may| Henri nriett Crosman, Ay First Artist—We must go to nature for 'LUNA PA RK _ MPIFE, PAFF, P' POUFY” He is jsent an uy our subjects. 8 ‘i it ith be “The New D y, | Di Mat. Mo of two minds about renewing his lease Patt, py capa Celtacl ont iitedalen Cd eesiodn Ih Hf Second Artist—Oh. that's easy, but] ane pictured Glozy of the| ¥'r2 Necoration Day Gish Han! net ausoended | Hampers nea anal See cet ite Dogs will bo reteined at where tn thunder are we to go for our Arabian Nights Shamed by the Mi si ‘HgpReR fn winning buck all {ts old cliontole| Tyree tn “Tit for Tat," Savoy Theatre; Now rill |customera?—Brooklyn Lite, + Salata OR aerate Ou Mat Me pan. since the change of polloy brought | Charlee A, Bigelow, jn The Man from | Re = é ‘Under New ork, re oA sa , D B h’ ese e ea et cohen ay : Walter Allen will return to oration Day matinees w' 1° ei LEST rank THRATRR Gia Cee i ok ext rok and Geocee| Sint a He theta ange ot| Hane aNd Sh Ries alison P. DEUSD S | iicunie warn meee eae | | = URGES Fe BROADWAY Sie s, yra ‘3 here wi a mghtly chan of " . | fant = 1 roneamoAe at” Yona i apatigon |"stinnje trom Sunesota. JULIA MARLOWE in INGOMAR 5 at Zl Proctor’s Fifty-elghth Street Thea-|Squaro Garden, where Duss and the ti ee Yill offer, a 115 whieh will Brent, 18 8B cea | | MAIESTICE anon aar 16. wit ‘ieucock THE i al ms, tre will terminate its seagon ax a com-| Metropolitan Opera-Houso Orchestra | MAG. Bletoan woe the Rerlment nt SAVOY sirse Rona ea ee BF Ne FROM CHINA. bination house to-night, but on Mon-|enter upon their second week, Miss |TAPyyt5 The laut of the, agen y ny ||} siteasoen TYREE © Take for Pats with | ) 6 BIGELOW & THE A supplementary season Of light oberes | he Witte stats will Hines, tele bone- Trving. Jones. Sihice é ea ——- | DEWEY, i } wh wtf srl BE MERE ORS [nrat the Geund Opera-House to-morrow Tittie, Madeline sin” The Ideal CRITERION NeW AMSTERDAM pct S15 Ja East uraerT. vron's Ulf ‘ company Will ine |neht. Bera Kendall. Nat’ Mo Wills, Steal,’ Charles and Fannte Van, Rice WA, COLLIER The SieeATOR I a . Orr Myers Hebert Lett, (George W. Munroe, Eleanor Faik and a} steal’ Charies, and innate Van, dice Extra Matinee Monday, Decoration Day. | |} WEBER & FIELDS, 2 ee Mera hil Branson. ‘ea: [heet of others will bo on tho bill. frothers, Toledo, s SUMMER BEVERAGE, | Ko: ui Gotham ‘oui FT DUCHESS Bo, pei cecres | VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS, “Bund. a 9 old negro. plantet, YORK CER a StS 5 fare, ‘Lurpin, Biraie Dale R Cosh! All idvelthealatarcoksthe will_claim the headline poncrs Oats Sold at every drug store, | ‘PASTOR'S | 1 hat. a4 Ay. | Kom Eh SOUTHERNERS 425th Stk 0 A 4 one Coghlan w jorence Ree ys +. THE Se ra-House will he kept [bill at Hammerstein's Victorig Theatre ot eee Roland Reed, will appear In Healthful, nutritious, sat- ' <anevataiese!. | Belasco ™=: longer with a trio of Of Varieties next woek. Others on the new sketch, and other features wil! isfying; a delicious, effer- | Costing & Mart, gu awh Atel MY OF . i OR BUTS. a Li the first, of ‘these: eit bill will be Sydney Grant, O'Brien and] he" =the Watermelon. Trust,” a com- vescent drink; aids diges- |20¢ © Netile Diner, Jas wO LITTLE SA Li «1 COSKAN Ne Jomsph Bantiey playa the Gist [eile aoraon, ie Tae ee areton aad | muintion Of oglored, pomrelane eo Cini tion and helps the stom-| = $1 Last Mat.To-dag2, BV.S 18, ts . Pn olsts, Har | aniet Jone anit Dlays the Le hier ickaninnter and’ Le Beil Blanche ‘ fu Hedriond and, Harry’ Thomson; ach we proper work) BQ)S TOCK’ AREA Thea _Bimay & fh & Wallackis, by 62), Mats T dg aie ‘al the company at tho oar! uerro, the sensational dan. the Mayor of the Bower, 3 when disarranged TOR) | Dreaimiand's Penture ‘nd, Mid-Alh) Betie + ae SRPR TART at py Meer Ma ek aes Aa QE ae viol EAS OT overwork or oer eats Se POPS, Pay pa venevian ROMANCE [ie,;COUNTY. CHAIRMAN, saurow Bergen will bo| Feather” at the Lyric Theat Ne new. addition to. tho” waxwork article has received Ronavitn B |B:ST SHO seam: ricken nobleman, the feature at the Circts, groups at thi Bea et will be one such indorsement from phy- TO: Shes 0. ENICE Kel Wi ‘56 and 4 attraction foe Metron. | will appear in her,poval act, Fepresenting ‘Mike t ldidicna’and cesmisure, ‘DUSS": ces 50 an Littie Sailor Boys lant tho: Dagger’ The bil wi ine | denned murderer of Pollcer Sonik Sit er thee ot ow at ihe, aeapene of jeluge Clayton White and Mare Stuart New attractions at Dr mand Coney z Pot, | Orchentr: iand company in “Paris.” Emma Carus, | Island, will be the Santox-Dumont atr Se a Eth Rik UBAlenGn oTth. orabere | will een Emvire City Quartet, Trovolio, 8. aby. Hpeopa tone S08 AMUSEMENTS. METROPOLIS S Shadows of a Great City. ia ‘heat ‘int Blanche Ring will be the my — ve —Two I Little Sailor Boys, its (ceason with “The Feng of ‘De- | unor at "tne Proctoy. theatre nd Wiamea” and ‘war ta He” | EDEN)Vorkt in, wefodaneane Next Week with hasty ee BAG» a joop between the Fifth a In full rinning order at Lunal say gicgs “¢ ATLANTIC GARDEX, Bowery, near canat “from Sing Slog” will be ins seen Street and ‘Newark! Park, Coney Island, and the great u se