The evening world. Newspaper, September 24, 1904, Page 9

NEL ig ay tae a: ) re THE o ‘EVENING RY WORLD'S ao HOME . ut MAGAZINE. cde. oe “THEY'LL Do You iF They CAN TELLING ABOUT THE COLLEGE Boys ' ‘Best Way to [Make People Laugh Is the * Simplest Way, Says the Indiana Hu- morist--Give Them. Something They'll Recognize, but Don’t Be Too True to Life—Play wright Admits that His News- paper Training Is a Great Help to Him. HERE wasn't the least trace of the glory with which George Ade had covered himself thu night before. If I hadn't been at the Garden Theatre the previous evening I might have imagined that “The College Widow" had turned out to be a dramatic “wall flower,” and that Mr, Ade was in mourning over her fate. He wes all in black, from his shoes to the fall block derby, whieb wasn’t in the same place twice during our visit. | “ite One of the first things about him I noticed was that he was chewing | ; gum, And it was one of the last things J noticed. He never stopped. GEORGE A wan smile of recognition flickered through the gloom of the Tall-and- VE ¢ Thin-One's countenance as he beheld his former Chicago companion in rnalistic crime, and, reaching out a long arm, he murmured: erresne teat I hardly knew you, hiding bebind those,” | ages to get In without falling over anything, and I succeeded in saying | Play. And this 1s where my newspaper training comes to my aid again. \ (Mr. Powers has already lafd In a winter supply of whiskers.) | a ‘word or two that sounded aa if it hadn’t been rehearsed for more than a George Marion says he doesn’t think much of me as a writer, but that I am *No?" grinned the caricaturist, Then, as if in detense of his changed | week. But I didn’t get a chance to butt in very often, When it comes to! the greatest rewriter he ever saw.” @ppearance, confessed: | *aey-running, eighty-horse power conversation the President has the roed Mr. Ade, with his long, slender arm, saluted the (maginary stage mana- farmer now, too, George.” | all to himself, He’s a talking dynamo, And informed? He seems to have/| ger. “Shake again,” said the Indiana granger as he led us to the let’s-sit- ‘verything at his fingers’ ends, and he doesn’t mind telling you a tew! “T tell him that anybody who has written to catch the next edition of a ‘@own-for-a-minute room of the Holland House. things, as long as he knows they'll go further, I never knew « candidate dally nowspaper ought to be able to write to catch the next performance of “Ab! there's our place,” he exolaimed, espying tn the extreme south-| to talk #0 freely as Roosevelt does. If some of the things he told me |® play. He has a lot more time,” weet an island of refreshment completely surrounded by big leather chairs. bog anya ge i) Leb poh brid would be altting up reading them. | tole big ner ce gat Pe fe ag trop sal pep hry —_ | “What'll be?" he asked. what a at wi co! { We had no difficulty in finding the anewer, but Mt. Ade knitted his The Persian hadn't killed the newspaper man. | talking about himself, eo, sitting back against the cushions, he fell to telling rows over the question. Presently, with the perplexing problem still un- s a s s s | two i re ee ue B pihtprgath bare had oe a _ bolved—tor ‘twas the witching hour when you can’t most slways sometimes “Ds yoo feel that your newspayer oxperience has helped you in writiug| ne Ago pkey Wd Bal pr Ni 4 * {all what you want—he looked up and sald to the patient servitor: ” “Don't go away; I'll think of something good in « minute.” reebasiioiaat: ” answered Mr. Ade. “In fact, I don’t believe either the fashionable club or the country stare cracker barrel. “Yes, sir,” was the Yespecttul response. And then the waiter opened I'd ever have been able to write » play at all without that experience. It s o s s s a the tnterview with as much dexterity as if it had been « bottle. - | was imply invaluable, For seven years, 1a Chicago, 1 wrote ¢wo columns “Those were good notices you got in the papers, Mr. Ade," he ventured. every day—that Is, two columns with the pictures~and all of this time 1 TN *ying he would probably write no more musical comedies, Mr, Ade “Oh, yes,” replied the proud parent of “The College Widow.” , "T bad! was writing dialogue. Not only that, but I learned how to condense. Ev- remarked: that all fixed.” | evrything was condensed on one paper | was with, even salaries, Skort een- "Ie Is user for me to write ‘wratght’ comety, ANhough I tad the| “No,” contended the walter, “you can't’ fix them fellows, They'll 40/ tonces which told something quickly were what we all Kad to write, Now, | {des, or the plot, or whatever it might be called, wabbling around in my you if they can.” that’s exactly what a fellow has to do in wriling a play. Have you read many | head for about three years, I wrote “The College Widow’ in three weeks. 7 after that Mr. Ade laughed easily and often. | play manuscripts? Don't like to read them? Neither do L Take any manu.| Y, did the work out on my farm. Qreat place to work! Nothing to dis- s s s s s script and merely read it, and tt will strike you as absolutely impossible, It|turb you, nobody walking in on you. Do all my writing in the morning, | 16 #0 Jerky, cut up and disjointed that it seems to 1 balong to the four-hours-and-a-half-a-day union, but when we're rushed | eT" etna siad over the way ‘The College Widow’ has been 7! but - ppd beg people on the dead Gowen men I sometimes consont to do a little revising in the afternoon.” Ht RE eB eile fron aos te ee rere tha recena| tnd YOu 00 the difference in a minute, ‘The disjointed things change to| “Do you think of writing @ serious play one of these days?” me whea Iwas in newspaper work—'Don't burt tite feelings of = Wabebie wae the fretiot sky by vegioks wan te se York, | "right and mnappy lines and keep the play alive and moving. On the other) “No, I don't believe I'll ever tackle that job. It's « good thing to know! body of people.’ This must slso be remembered in writing « play... rt Of my pleces to really have ite ‘try-out’ In New York.| nang, a epeech of much length which may read beautifully 1s apt to prove | One's limitation, and I think I know mine.” | can't always be true to life, Take, for instance, that celebration of § confess | was mighty anxious over the outcome, and when I went be-| 4 drag on the action once you get it on the stage. Writing « good play is In the odd moments that Mr. Ade's hat was off I saw no sign of that football game in “The College Widow,’ where the boys mar fore the curtain last night I was 80 nervous I couldn't see anybody,| 4 great deal like writing & good newspaper ‘story.’ You've got to keep | ailment common to genius called “the swelled head.” I saw only gray | nary Now, I know, and go do you, that a football victory 1 couldn't hear anything, and couldn't titer, ot anything. Bay, It must tako| yor going to hold the public's interest. You haven't much time between | hairs. This funny business is evidently an aging trade, The gray haire!is usually celebrated by most of the students getting ‘ple-eyed.’ Buti an a lot of nerve to be an actor, eh? | ¥.16 and 10.45 to burden e piay with explanatory apeeches, and the quicker | Were rumpled into freah notice as their young owner ‘considered the que | wouldn't do for # minute to oven suggest intoxication in « play of colle hc CE be some actors. you tell what you really must tell the better. A long speech {s likely to| tion “What is the easiest way to take veneie lanen Nite. "You'd be sure to offend some ons.” oe ere you nervous, George, when you visted Roosevelt the other) make an audience turn in {te seat like this"—Mr. Ade writhed into another! “The eastest way is the simplest way, according to my notion,” ha), Trust Mr. Ado won't be offended at this getting into print. At lay?” asked Mr. Powers, who loves politics and delights In making little) recess of his chair—“and that's always a bad sign. It means, {f you hap-| Bfesently eald, “Gtve them natura types that they recognise and things rate, he's not here to complain. He bas run away to bis farm. Must - pastels of the President. Put the truth in it, whatever it may be, poll pen to be the author, that you need to get bugy right off rewriting that par- |that they understand. y de, only Le care-| nice to have a farm to run away to—and from. No,” gnswered the representative of Indiana's farmer vote. “I man-| ticular speech or scéne. It doesn't take many restless moments to ian of not to hurt any one’s feelings, That was one thing that was dinned into | CHARLES DARNTON, Se eee re OOO OO | ? AMUSEMENTS. | AMUSEMENTS, =) PROCTOR'S feta | ome onan sh Ea) yy pons Woe | 6p yp {2 ee HUDSON THEA ATE, Sith, vest B way, Bie Va The Williams Company Opening Sale Monday Heaviest Taffeta ‘Warfield, Daly, Della Fox in New Plays Next Week |Sirtecost0 Drew in “The Duke of Killichankie,” Bmpire; Lulu Glaser in “A | Princess,” Knickerbocker; “The Rogers | Brothers in Paris," New Amsterdam; Denman Thompson in “The Old Home- | stead/’ New York; Edna May in “The 4 "a; “Pit, Paff, Pout,” iat. Baturtay at 3 [so Otis eae users | SUK Costumes || wo. FAVERSHAM LETTY] (PSI Ol { ncn staPmo Patch,” Savoy; “The Isle of Spice,” | DALY Sia EW wT Watlneee Mi “Cheekers," Academy of Mu- | 818.10, | Sate ar 2 JKELLAR, ter the County Chairman,” Wal-| lptony 4 5 Alterations MAY. scutht orm. volt SL “MAT xh lack's; Herbert Keleey and EmMe Shan- colors. FREE, Nee oar hae ant ae m eT papers CABBAGE PATCH non In “Taps,” Lyric, VAUDEVILLE OFFERINGS, Keith's bill will be headed by Wil- Mam Harcourt in “A Dakota Widow" 830 SIXTH AVENUE, Between 20th & 2ist St. and Byron Douglass in “The Cowboy me See ah and the Lord.” Others will be; Fi iret LASER" yetliiad, Mason's Five Society Belles, Q it La aaa as EY pre rincess. | Brothers in “The Congressman at GARD = LYCEUM Gach LIN, Large,” Clement = Delson, Irvin f wil nil in“ Phe Serle Jones, Green and Menner, dancers; Von- j — fe ing = jseo and Niug, Castle and Collins, and| sow AMSTERDAM, he RUGans) BELASCO 2! TH ar ne Foster and his dog Mike, Proetor’s Fitth Avenue Theatre will ‘joffer “Captain Letterbiair,” with Ed- win Arden in the title role. The vaude- ville performance will consist of James thie rosmtution, Wy IMs Gaughter| Eagement at the Berkeley Lyceum @ Alfred Barre, “while Richmond Glenroy, Kelly and Reno, Hie farerincluden Sar Bat Petes Co week from fornignt ebated A to ais aes Pon's | the DeMutha, J. Francia Dooley, 42 | ro sorrow, TED MAR tat Test. dant hel Waldron, Anti ft : by % oe in| B®. Austin and Ed. and Nettle Massey, eek—"HER MAD Met 1 Gola CMY 1s oh mem pW ope @ suppor Among the | ai Proctor’s ‘Twenty-third street =a NAREIA Scott Cooper, Richie Ling. Joseph Her. | house May Robson will ala" yaude- nl? dh ey Cuftain at 8.15, i Murday ‘ee a fH bey ae het i: ie WARELELD Oy, RLASCO THEATRE UNTIL SEPTE MOR: Continuous Indian cane A Winans o os i i = 5 5 itz PARK \ Carn ival Parades, Fetes Harding & AP sid Adgmint & Tayiee Bawnrd Abeles, Clara Palperand| silig debut, im @ exetcl, Glarton Wie.” war wo & > SHOW THIS APTRRSOOR, vi t AL oe CK REI RS ie bie i] Arthur Gu {tng Veneie ‘eot i i , CH piece was ada by M. N: rthur inningham, There will ’ Venelle’s it. French of Pout’ Biliaod andl Thursday and Seturday motives °*| ‘Sionmond Glenroy sod rian |VUIULE & — AW RANGER by 7. Fea EC KERS,; Bernard Siww's new play, “How He| —— Bid Bs BP Ak {eietece will also ue the bill. - Und a a eee Wil nat go on at AC Prosiars Ong Hunted and ka MAJE ESTI on an 2 pede ta : KEW MELODRAMAS FOR TWO THEATRES tsiciesrice ists JESTIC INF ANSI atta : f i i i 4 i: 333 i 1 i i end will be seen as nd Daigneen, eer ——— cts Ant This will be fon a Y day, Bie ¥) Gaage to Seanities At the Circle Theatre Molmtyre and ; | METROPOLIS ty rm = Poe umes a | bea big ruse GR AN SLEEPING in Heath will be the gy Mele | 12 me a Ay. | Connie YB. 33, 90. ioe, act tively BEAUTY AND BEA whan Wa ry Capt Barri J. Mauldin Feigel's new drama of life 5 4 4 2 4 Wil M. a William Bramwell in “Captain Bar- hianche i Ne’ pent | Germany. m $$$ | ATLA TIC Deer forced him én the Southwestern frontier, “A Texas | ington” will be at ihe Metropolis, asardy’s La- NEW Lex. Av, 107th, t. To-D The Brit: De Fea on & Davis, ductor in & Ranger," comes to the Fourteenth) | “The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast” | (ont, Clarice Vance, | tack arworiy STAR aig Wensles 7 the fea, | schall. Vinemso fvtanove Recher Seon lodgings on Street Theatre Monday night. Sydney! Will continue at the Grand Opera- | Keaamer, ‘Brothers and Saw- t week, Wedded and Parted. Ayres is the star. House for another week. “Her Mad Marriage,” described as "| “New York Day by Day” will be of- opto 1 caver, fe te eee Avenue thrilier that will outdo all others,” will fered at the Third Avenue, Wie "eiemormean, a: ww Hiway IEEDHYS SHOW [pees as, Tee DAY, /KBITH'S": Falk of New York, ; kerbock Nat Pree 3 bal * ~Att. 4 concerts | “= 5 i : formed at the Ameri Harry B Extr Seri . Glietie’s M Sean a ~ | MINER'S *}8.3. 88 THEATRES MH conte cones: oWaee fetant | var thee ah the, Dewey, and, tha | Doms, Ht and isd Magrath. Tro me GOTHAM nies nit Sed oa, | _ High Case I and Burowe | ~ SROORLYN AMOSERS val UF by the Comes Marching Home" wilt be the|aVnity Fair Burlesquers ot the Gotham, o Pheates whl onter Ward (2th & at AylToM'w—Att. & Bvg.—Concone EDEN} Newdroups Siies MONTAUK. § ol ee ereiice Of he FOUNE MAD. ANd gtirqotion at the West End Theaire, | Comtinuing at leading theatres will be | and Curran, tn Terrible JJ) Five §.15 Mais To-tay & Wed MUSE. Pedant 3 oe WILLIAM CO ; “Ninety end Nine,” with lis big rait- | Will Crane in “Business Is Busi- | edt an. LYRIC stort Ls Etre SEGA TAPS ‘erin tes alten es ea In THB DiCTs toad ‘weene, te scheduled for Proctor’s| ness,” Cr "the College Widow, “ SrMren ot Ay a, Ure Thane Gorden Coronet of the Duchess,” les ¥v Swan and Bam. cA ERE. PLPR,PAPR,PGUP 53: “CANDIDA iSaiEN ir, Wix of Wickham, a. Cnps re, wt re) Gari ia, "The Diet {sim Seinen. bamaaen 8 set {Fe . om Ha ENS ES pit a re ~