The evening world. Newspaper, June 4, 1904, Page 11

Without His Evening Clothes Mr. Duss Looks the Dutch Freacher He Used fo Be—Music Is His Pastime, but He's Too Businesslike a Millioraire fo be Willing fo Give It Away—lIf You're Going for a Chat with Mr. Duss You May Leave Your Ear Trumpet at Home. oe FI live until New York is finished, Duss will ring in my ears, It was afternoon. the soft serenity lt like ‘seven-up” for the sarsaparilla, A gray, gloomy light crept into Madison Square look about as bright and pleasant as a man and his wife sitting at home on Garden and made ‘‘Venice” @ rainy Sunday. Only the voice of the press agent broke the stili- He told how often they gaye the canal @ change of water and anxiously urged me to touch a tamed and tied gondola on the nose In order to be convinced that it would neither bite nor kick, He also related stories of funny folk who had rapturous- “Oh, doesn't it ness, Jy exclaimed upon entering the place, look exactly like Venus!" Thus the moments dragged. twenty minutes late—John 8, Duss, been known (o be late. Perhaps was missing from his watch, rom the clock in s'more, there broke upon Duss who had never the minute-hand just as it was missing Not a Laura Jean Libbey afternoon, when the slowly westering sun kissed of the skyscrapers, the listless air there brooded the sweet silence that harbinges approaching dusk—not exactly that kind of an efternoon, but almost as bad as thi was the sort of afternoon when moist mortal eaking into a back room and playing the steeple at Economy. ‘was nothing to do but wait and try to look pleasant. I was {dly wondering whether a person could catch malaria from an artificial canal when, to Laurajean the sweet silence that which harbingered the approach of Duss, the March King it might be appropriate to say he tame in like a Hon, just as I later went out like ® lamb, a a a a a R. DUSS appears to have the impression that M the world in general is rather “hard of hear- ing.” He may begin a sentence rc i cs eee jtones, but st's a fairly safe bet that his period will | be resounding, if not well-rounded, Apparently ne has been unable to stmke off the habit of his preaching days, when he administered some fifty- seven varieties of religion to the Economy commune, Without his evening coat, the set of whiQh scems to give him much concern when he is at the con- ductor's desk, Mr, Duss suggests the preacher more than the musician, It occurred to me that it might be his purpoze to carry the Gospel into Gotham through the medium of music. “No,” he seid, “that 1s not my mission." “You have a mission, then?” “Y-yer,” with some hesitation. ‘And will you say what that mission is?" “NO"—the thunder rolled again—"if I told what my mission was the mission would be destroyed. If you were planning a big deal in Wall street you wouldn't tell, would you? Of course you wouldn't. Therefore, I won't tell you what my mission !s, And, anyway, if I did, you wouldn't understand.” Wouldn't that crush you? w s o ry ow “ ry O= might imagine that a millionaire with musio the volce of and on it an as a pastime might, Carnegte-like, establis music lbraries or endow village brass band! but Mr, Duss did not admit that either surmise wa: correct. He did confess that music was his greates pleasure, yet when asked if he was willing to spend ‘a part of his fortune—now said, to be $16,000,000, with another $16,000,000 in sight at Economy—in pursuance of his hobby, he once more awakened the echoes with: “I wovldn’t continue to conduct an orchestra or band that wasn’t self-sustaining. In the first place, that wouldn't be good business, and in the second place, I would know that I was glving the public something it didn't want. I do not belleve in giving the public something for nothing. Otherwise I might give free concerts in the parks. If you give a man a dollar’s worth of music and get nothing in return, he {s apt to think that what you gave him was worth no more than what he gave you, It's always the ‘dead-head’ who goen away giving a show the hottest ‘roast.’ I hate dime-grabbing and dollar- chasing, but I don't believe in misconcetved charity, Recently, a well-known music critic said to me: ‘Mr, Duss, you have a wonderful opportunity within your grasp, You can educate the masses to the highest class of music, You have the chance and tha money. Why not do it? I sald to him: ‘What you say sounds very well, but do you know what would happen if I gave programmes such as you sug- was jlate— ‘There If he were wt a in gentle Constantly vs ee gest? You and a few others who paid noth ° come would hear and possibly enjoy the o The masses would be outside and they couldn't by dragged in by a team of horses.’ ing a programme is to give the public ought to hear.” we we we wv on UST here—and quite opportunely—a suave little man of Pilsener complexion hurried in to that the music library he represented did not have| @ certain selection Mr, Duss had ordered. “Don't tell me that,” cried the forty conductor, turning in his chair and glaring amiably Mr, Duss was constantly chang- Ing position, He had bobbed about until I was ner- yous enough to jump Into the canal, and ft was really through his glasses. a rellef to have him turn on some one else, My idea in arrane somethi that it wants to hear and elso something that wt horse-power | \ wt The lit- Aerial and Paradise, Gardens Will Open Next Week. ND now for the roof gardens, and )tttDulitions of a foreign impresario, Herr the really time." Elevators will “good old summer carry two audiences toward the stars—heavenly and other- i wise—on Monday night, when Klaw & Erlanger will offer a new place of amusement in the Aerial Ganiens, uperimposed’’ no less on the New ‘Amsterdam Theatre, and Oscar Ham- merstein will’ once again throw wide the gates of his Paradise Garden, atop the Victoria Theatre, on the opposite side of Forty-second street. A week from Monday night the New York ‘Theatre roof garden will have the man in the moon taking a squint in its direction, and later on the Madison Square Garden roof will be transformed into “Paris by Night,” ; The Aerial Gardens combine a com- Plete theatre anf a quaint Dutch garien, and with an altitude of 120 feet, claim the distinction of being the high- est amusement resort in New York. Tho theatré seats 1,200 persons, and with the garden the total capacity ts nearly 2,000 people, The auditorium can be adapted to «all kinds of weather. ‘Phe atttnction will be the Klaw & KEr- langer Comedy Company, headed by Fay Templeton and Peter F. Dalley, in @ “Little of Everything,’ a musical Vaudeville farce in three acts by John J. MoNally; ‘The company will number , over one Aundrea people, and will. in- ‘clude John arks, George Schiller, \ Harry “Kelly, Leila’ Metntyre, | 8abel Johnsom Buele Fisher, Charlotte Les: ie Biphyne Snowden. Mr: Dalley w: ay, the part of a popular minstrel and pleton that of a stage-strucic idow. An interpolated’ feature will Be Cole & Johnson's * eration oC Rae- me,” which was out of ther Goose” because the, piece Whaiee long. ' “Pasialfatia’” will” be’ Mr. Hammes etein's latest at the Paradise Garden. He calls it a “musical persifinge,” but hastens to add that itis in no sense a burlesque on. the Wagner opera, which caused phousands totake board by the day at the Metropolitan Opera-House during the recent peason. It is reason. able to presume, however, that Hair Contied will come in for caricature, @tace the oie 4s designed to depict the ‘The Savoy Theatre, where is appearing in Slegfried Confried, who {s punished by loser to-n igh Tony Pastor will offer among others $ "4 The soloist with Duss and the Met-| the Manhasset Comedy Four, J. le the Goddess Musica for attempting to litan Onera-House Orchestra at nard Dyllin and Belmont and O'R produce “Parsifal" without the permis- “eon Square Garden next week will |in an amusing sketch; Mr. and 3 sion of Frau Wagner. Confried in| be Mme. Packblers, who camo here | Browning in the Cure,” John Lecta wit ne French © ‘a Company from ai Alama, eccen! thrown into a tranee by the wrathtul | New Oriean ms Le: couple, and: the Barkers ina muse, and his trials and difficulties as- sumo various characters. which appear | House a test before him in review. ‘The cast will | tre RO OG erence eae re inclue Emma Carus, Eleanor Falk, Bet-! the nh avenue playhouse, ‘The bill Belles, Rey K tle Youlton, Frieda Valentine andywill include Jimmy Britt, Joe Welch. In ‘the New’ England Doll” charles rant. Cl ‘i Nal- 8 ats see Misses Delmore, Fisher Hrnest. black-face monologist, and Ray James Want. Chet among the special | Ing rving Jones and a number in Southern dlalect stories, Hes will be "The Mysterious Face,” a] SP aaurs és ithe. Baden Musee will offer seweral French novelty, Invented by Mons,| | Kraus Brothers will be given a bene-| Mew attractions, * s jor-| Camillo and Fona, European acrobats, Pewitt, ‘The contrivance is an ‘im-| ft performance at the Dewey tomer.) willbe the feature nt Hihers Museum, mense rezJicn of the human coun-| Offered, ‘The out-of-doors free shows at tenance, which 1s made to assume a va- “Tit To-morrow night at the Grand Opera- imonial will ciate Jpobineon and Bronson Douglas, VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. for De Killarney, novel act. be given unchanged next wee! and the ‘Three Madcaps. & Seamon's bill will inclu Dreamland; Coney Tsland, will remain riety of expressions. Among other feat- ° “Fire and Fiames.” the thrilling ures will be the Sunny South Planta: W. H. ‘Thompson, who ippossitly closed a spectacle tie. burMIng oe thon Band from Charleston $, C., Paul] the season with "The Secret of Pollchi-| block, Is one of the eral great at- Spadon juggler charles r. Slarioh, nelle,” will have his first teate: of vaude- tractfons at Luna Park, Coney Island M. guesic Frogoli;" the | Never’ Will have his rst taste ot yee | Anigtananese toa houno, with” real Goren Sistens, eon women gymnasts to| Ville in the Proctor houses n yet Felsina girls, 1s now open, ‘attempt, head-to-head balancing, and| He will appear at the Iifth avenue panere, 28 over 350° wild animals in Willy Zimmerman, another Huropean | Newark theatres afternoon and evening | oye" int, vanes, taland | A importation, in ‘Portraits OL Masters ef in “For Love's Sweet Sake,” a sketch) ‘The Johnstown is another nm Core: goats, :Pigs, Toostore in which Mr. | Coney Istand attraction: which ducks will compose a reception com-| by, Clay M. Greene, mittee in the @aeien at the rear of the theatre. eee “The Black Mask," an English melodrama, made by F, B. Marriott Watson from Conan Doyle's ‘Round the Red Lamp" stories, will be the attraction at the Grand Opera-House. It 1s promised that the wvillain, to be played by Nathan Jelenko, will be the deepest-dyed specimen of his, kind ‘that ever was hissed by a virtue-lov- ing gallery. ‘The opera company headed by Grace Orr Myers at Proctor’s Fifty-clghth Street Theatre will give ‘The Singing Girl" as the bill for its second week. “Under Two Flags,” with Una Abell- Brinker as Cigarette, will be present- ed by the stock company at the West End Theatre, Samuel Tornberg, in “The Peddler, will be the attraction at the People's ‘Theatre. the Lyceum ‘Theatre. tween Proctor’ self to son; Interesting Theatre and appear in and the Dady,” “Needles and Pins" will will muke his pearances ut the Circle, avenrs German com Mark Sullivan, comedian ‘Tea Brooke, ‘Tom Miner's Bohemian Burlesquers| in a new musical skit, Mosher, Hough- —— will be at the Dowey, and the Gotham | ton and Morher, comedy acrobats; Rita wilt have “Wine, Waoinen and Sorg.''] Hedmoné and others. ECONOMICS, Sontinuing engagenents at oun th ta, thelr laugh-9 «pre! Sy p> i theatrenswill be Haymand Hitcneocss aL’ Dec Becakabober’ will head] zie, Boing to Ret out av a a gules Consul he bil Keith's. wr otd will be| Poems. bie in wens and pany in “A| ‘Lord saye us! Where'd he get th Crateron' Pak. Fe mine! et etoy: sind | money?’ a Madison, Tat- “The ana tueramen New: ‘Helaar on. Tat: halr cuts,’ Thompson achieved an artistic success at the recent Actors’ Fund benefit in Edna Wallace Hopper will be kept busy ‘Twenty-third street, fifth avenue and One Hundred and ‘Twenty-Ofth street theatres. dropped her sketch and will confine her- “The Magic Kettle.” velty, will be a feature of the continuous bill at the Twenty-third street house, S, Miller Kent will join the stock company at the Fitth Avenue “The Cowboy At the Harlem house in connection with yaudeville numbers, Churles Hawtrey, in “Time is Money, farewell Vathe ‘il ap- 1 Techow's cats, Inciude wate? Delmore, vocalists and instrumentalists; Lambert and Ten Brooke, thousands, — hustling be- mon in the closing sts Abs criminal trials, has “niiast day of the the desperado in the dock be presented DILL wii) | SAtlows. pnd mimics | cepted by the Court Flo! “Saved it on Paice. ab Rost, Houston draws The Brighton Beach M open next Saturday atternoon eM A QUEER ACCIDENT. Sensational. incidents are not uncom- ses of famous One of the most .re- markable occurred in Melbourne on the trial of Ned Kelly, known to thousands of readers of penny fiction as the “ironclad bushranger of Australia.” A Knife droped from a gal- lery overhead and fell at the feet af every temptation to grasp it and put | an end to his existence, for there was not the slightest chance of his escaping the But It was promptly picked uy Raymond. and |bY 2 balliff and its owner was arrested and. brought. before the “Judec. TAT Mieter | pleaded that the orcurcence tas aurct i accidental, und the explanation was uc ume o Ue man didnt to Duss for you, a plece of music I wanted. and found it without tho slightest trouble, Oh, dear, | t I'll have to"— But another paroxysm of merriment took the words “I see I've got to come over and run that Mbrary | Only last week you told me you didn't haye see th seem to mind He merely smiled we haven't that mu “Jol out. But Duss all but drowned bist and he did, od USS drew down his face when asked if he be ~~ lleved people generally were coming to « higher knowledge and appreciation of the better olaat of music, “What do you mean by the better class of muaia?™ he demanded, “That of the great composers? * why is one class of music better than another both are good of their class? Beethoven and Wegner wrote rag-time without knowing it, They wrote bits s— of syncopated time, even if they did not write whole operas in the same time. But—coming to the ques tion—there has in recent years been a marked y in the public's taste. For illustration, take my ing concert this season, A Sunday night esnesrt with a programme made up entirely of Wagnestan | music! THINK OF IT! I was advised not to ate” thing, but I went ahead and had not + only an immense audience, but an audience which % encored the ‘Parsifal’ vorsplel and the funeral march from ‘Gotterdammerung.’ Five—or et any rate _ ten—years ago no one would have thought of offer-* ing a programme lik: in New York, ri “A conductor must know his public. He must feel the pulse of his audience, A leader must always be” a ttle way in front, It was this principle made Blaine the great politician he was. He had his finger on the public pulse. He was @ way in front, When he saw that the country He was evidently used, out of and softly repeated: shouted i ‘ou must get St! his mouth, Suddenly he grew stern and It 1s on the programme! The thelr thunder, Blaine was a great leader. ‘Which reminded me that another leader was plan ning to give this particular public “free trade,” but instead of calling it “rectprocit; he would have . down on the Lidia Uosicchd as “Bulte:;—Arendia,” CHARLES DARNTON.. Duss bowed his head in his hands. I feared he| programmes are already printed! I must have it!" |on the point of demanding a change in the vas about to Weep, But ft was to laugh. He laughed | ‘The little man did not fall on his Ines and beseech. |'system he gave {t what it wanted. He did ud and long. Presently, still conyulsed, he raised | gerene and smiling, he murmured, will try to get] it ‘free trade.’ He called it ‘reciprocit, Repul head and with mock resignation shouted ‘and started off. swallowed it whole, and Democrats were robbed of © i ] VOP!" thundered Duss, “Let it go. T will play | the ‘Arcadian Suite’ tn its place, and we'll’ see if the T walked Into your brary | musto erities and others who know all miste and all about music will know the difference, It will be a | wood Joke."* ‘Tho Uttle man could well afford to isugh at the Hashtin Daimlo AMUSEMENTS, . |” Proctor’s Tr 2 To-night, Res. 74a 2308. ARRAS aR ceraaneys caeponmmian.a” 7 5th AY, | nS eee ates eae. mean pe Ani ine ee our un- Vath SL{ “FEN HERS ss Ber Stee that it te oN { mate HEC Ra thing of ite kind °. t, 28e.-B0e. Only, HUBER'S * St. THE _NIZARRAS. - Lae ACROBATS. ‘Wis: LUNA "PARK © | BOSTOCK: DRE, Conn! AMUSEMENTS. The Napoleon of Japan. FROM NEW YORK. ca | 7h na r aE? HEA "aubrey ieptaeat PASTOR’ sath, fd By CONTIN it & Co. Kell canon inte * Hay & io 5 W THIS AFTERNOO! At 2 1h. a 26 minutes via BOR. T. 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