The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1904, Page 11

: a Ee + 4, / s yew epee fevers. of thing at Sor There’s the Opera-Box Artiste and the Theatre-Box Actress—One Has to Take Distance Into Consideration, the Other Must Be Equal to Close Inspection—Soft- Pedal Conversation Is Now the Correct Thing, ETTING in a box” fs ordinarily the easiest thing in the world. The simplicity of the process, as Mrs. Chadwick might tes- tify, 1s equalled only by the unpleasantness of the result. The difficulty is “getting out of it.” But with the opera box, however, {t's another story—to rise to the subject, a*second story, It’s not so easy to get into an opera box, at any Fate, and that it is Pleasant to be thete is proved by the fact that people who are not obliged to count thelr pennies pay thousands of dollars for the sake of having a box to their name. It must be worth something to be seen when Mme. Nordica pays $3,000, | a8 she was credited with doing, for part of a box a part of each week, dur- ing a part of the season, It can't be possible that Mme. Nordica has parted with such a sum simply because she loves to listen again and again to Operas which she knows ag well as most of us know our elevated stations— the “step-lively” kind, I mean—or because she feels she must be there to cheer on her sister stars, If this were rue, she might content herself with & more humble seat, as does the thrifty Sembrich, and be satlsflod with the | homage of the ushers and a few others in her immediate neighborhood who aight be able to point the finger of recognition at her. This much, however, may be said of Mme. Rordicail performance, She pays much more attent ttitude toward & king place on the hame to take her money, | 8 so carried away that she doesn’t even stop to whether her hat is on straight. e rad Cd * a ad rd ad EXT te going on the stage and being a “star,” or a rushlight, the av- erage womah delights in twinkling on the other side of the foot- lighte, granting, of courso, she is properly equipped in the way of scenery, Hor yearning to play an impressive part, to be “the qbserved of All observers,” is avidenced not only at the opera, but at every first night in theatres where box prices rule from $12 to $15. The women in the boxes are'part of the show, and they know it, al- | , though they try desperately not to let others see that they know it, Their self-conscious unconsciousness of manner would be nvagnificent were it not funny, | They know only too well tho part they play. When the curtain goes down between acts, thelr curtain goes up, When the lights are turned on, thoy flutter ‘nto active operations, and the comedy of the entr'acte begins. | We all know the comedy, for {t never varies; but we watch {t none the less, | with the unfailing Interest of a child at a Christmas pantomime, Willingly;| or unwillingly, we “rubber,” while they face unmasked batteries of opere- Glasses unfiinchingly, though they can’t help seeing themselves being picked ‘out from th programmes by the socially curjous, The real music-lovers in, the galleries are, fortunately, above that sort of thing, At the theatre, as at the opera, woman, lovely, millinered, bejeweled ‘woman, always plays the chief role, for, unless the man happens to be a-lion, he, poor, uncomfortable martyr, represents little more than the price of the box, Very often there are four or five luminous ladies to one doommatty little man. You feel anxious about him, worrying lest he may have lost this car- riage check, or bis nerve, or sonfething. He usually looks as though he had lost something. fut the women, young, old, or in the doubtful, column, may be depended upon to stand by their colors—and sometimes the colors are a mighty test of courage!—to the bitter end. Dressed to kill the hopes of the “piker” who limps along In an effort to keep up with the pace, they sit up like models of the dressmakor's art—how they do sit up and take no- tice as their just tribute! Is it dignity or the straight-front? rd ral rd “ o Pad al ~ UT if the comedy is always the same the style of acting varies with the time and place, There's a world of difference, for example, be- tween the traditional “legitimate” manner of the opera-box artiste and the daring individuality of the theatre-box actress, not to mention the matinee manner, which must be prettily simple in is affected naturalness. The woman te the box born knows how to adjust hur manner to the occasion, and even the crude beginner from the suburbs or the West soon gets the poise of the thing. The percentage of attraction gt the opera ts, of course, far greater than at a mereAheatre, but so flerce is the competition and so great the distances in Herr Coaried's home of high-priced ‘sounds that effects are often missed. To shine there one must be a star of the first sartorial magnitude. In that Wiiverse of tashion the color scheme {s so vivid and the iignts so dazzling “that a profound knowledge of perspective is required. +A costume beautiful but delicate may be knocked into a pale blotch of nothing in particular by a dsshing tout eusemble which may not have cost half as much. Mere ‘ westth and mere youth are not sufficiont, Ono night last week, for in- stausa, a gray-halred dowager, patrician-ivatured, haughtily polsed and cobed tn a severe, cold style which somehow or other suggested the Steel Trust, made ail the others around the horseshoe look/ike faded wallfiowers, a ot Bal rad rd “ FN the theatre, on the other hand. the box actress is nearer her audience, and there are fewer of her, Therefore, sho must consider the finer values. Every detail counts here, for every woman who can see her ‘ will know whether ehe's all lace and a yard wide. She's there to be in- mpected and she knows that, she mast be @ble to stand the closest examina- " ‘9 THE w EVENING WORLD'S # HOME . MAGAZINE y ‘coum the Peop | - PICKING ‘EM OUT FROM THE PROGRAMMES. bies and fairly eat every gown that swishes past are not the only ones who take patterns home from the theatres. Of all the modele of the prevent theatrical season, Lillian Ruseell has | been “the glass of fashion and the mould of form.” ©he is the most famous of box artistes, imperturbably lovely, and, like Tennyson's Maude, “ietly reg- ular and splendidly null,” Another nice thing about her is that she's so quiet, She seldom speaks, scarcely smiles. She simply sits and looks lovely® In this, as ineverything else, Miss Russell is in style, _ It’s no longer the fashion to be “loud” in a box. Where high-gear conversation used to! be the proper accompaniment to any self-respecting box party, the softiy- spoken word {s now the correct thing. When, ht the opera on a recent night, @ group of aelf-ipterested people in a parterre box talked so loudly (they could be heard above Sombrich’s top trill, the plain five-dollar people downstairs turned angrily and in one voice said: “S-s-h-h-h |" Times have changed, even in the music hails, At Weber's, champagne is no longer opened im the boxes. The noiseless waiter does his work le: | hind the curtains, He maxes the pulling of a cork sound like a long-drawn | sigh, After the champagne, of ‘course, it's not always possible to keep the soft pedal on the conversation, » CHARLES DARNTON, | . shrist- | f6F Scandal,” and is going’ to be one of our C het ant * Pp ’ ° ly Sheridan's 4 mas toys ater all, ‘Pinero’s com. | {hy (nog Bherlean's edy, which set London in a flutter with | will be under the mi Oo" dear! the dancing doll 1s not) The plece ts a version o but in many i tied on 8 and Lee Shubert. Her compa 4 the antics of ite reaps | oe Soper | brea ni ert. sae fa string attached to a sofA In a Haw Rensaclacr Whee om, will bé offered to us in expur- | ¢ John Dunamuiro, Elsa vated form. We will have to get along | Ryan, Phoebe Coyne and Lucille Baun with “A Wife Without a Smile” and ; S°F tows ae Without # doll. At the eleverth HOU) he nie thing any leomes the cruel Intelligence that p, “Charles Frotiman has decided, WIM) 1, soon in “Jtichelieu.”” This will be Mr. the consent of A. W. Pintro, to omit the | siantoti’s first New York appearance in| Children’s T {neident.” Afr. Frohman, sensible man | that he is, doesn’t intend to run the risk of our taking ‘a perverted viow of | the role of the Cardinal, Andrew Mack will revive ‘om Moore” the authcr’s purpose.” We shall have 10 | street Theatre. judge Mr Finercay, Ie tolig of the ef- | Sagement Mr. Mack will siart for Aus- forts of a man to break us gloom of /tralla, to be gone a year. hia wite's face, He aucceeda when ne tie, bev be he 4 his first wife| Sauqre Theatre Edna May and “The Shea he married het, Bhe sees the joke| Schoo! Girl" will move: back to Daly's. And laugheha! ha!—but gets serious | to remain there until Jan, 1. Daly's will fhuncee, The company will Include) Mrital Scheff's com: ¥ will not play Frank Worthing, Henest’ Lawford, | at the Broadway Theatre ‘the ¢ ‘ | Ane Atheriey. 3, 1. lharnes, Margaret coming Llington, Elsie De Wolfe, Essie Tittell week, but will devote ita time ded Florence Wiikinson | hearsals of Suppe’s comic opera . | nitza,” An interesting event will be,the “wel-| (, leome home” matinee to be given | Bleanor Robson tn Rot gf wel Ann’ at the New Amsterdam eatre on rr] a | filer, in “Jone Friday. Mixp Robson will arrive on | wit’ toate Lt aes Thursday from London, where her suc-) the Harlem Opera-Hous \cess in Mr. Zangwill's charming play | ¢ | will make her return assume the char- acter of a triumpfiant celebration. On }the following day Miss Robson ard her newly-organised company will leave Louis, to -Begin the Season's | tour. The company will, include two| yartin’s "U English actors, Frank Mills, who will) Harry Leighton w | play Lancelot, and Aérbert Mainwar-| {At the ink of Hits ing, who will have the role of Pever!| Ay Girls Leave Home" will be th Adu Dwyer will come back with Mins | t the Windsor. Robson to continue her intmitable act- oked Around {he World” will ing of the landlady. Max Freeman | reach the Metropolis. has been engaged for the part of| Sam Dever@s own big burlesque com Brahmson, and Mra, Thomas Whiffen ny will be a the Dew will be Lady Chelmé: | be jer Burlémquers at the r which Is to be pre as (Monday) night h les of re heft in the nan Doyle's be played at the West En Theatre. The & ton | She Isn't afraid. She will even get up to shake bunds with a be- tween-the-acts calle In order (@ show the audience how Wer dress is made R woman wa dp the back. 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