The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1905, Page 9

— ) T was a few hours later than the cold, gray dawn of the ‘morning | after ‘The Bad Samaritan," and Mz. George Ado waa resting easily: To uae his own words (not ay yet copyrighted), he had been para~ Scat chtited—let down easy. A forked emile played about his Indiana features as he told how the critic iron had © Enteted the soul of his faithful (riend and admirer, a moon-faced walter at the Holand House who lives at his elbow every minute of the time he is in the cafe, ” ‘ When you call upon a playwright or @ star the morning after and fell to find. newspapers littering the room in glad protusion—-DON'T. Talk Rdout the weather, your neighbors, or the clerk downstairs, tut don't, as you hope to lead the conversation into pleasant paths, doh’t drag last night ut of its darkness. It's always the time to omit flowera, « Thad had in mind a little chat about—but—but——-/ “How would a little talk on slang do?” proposed Mr, Ade. “It would do Very well,” I. agroed, “but once before when I suggested 2 that subject you said you were £o sick of slang that you didn’t want to, talk about it.” i iA *Yes, I know; but that slang in the last act seemed to go well: last. nipht.” It did. It went.eo well that it ought to go almost equally well in print. Go here it 1s, the laconic Spillers handing it out to Uncle Ike: s s s * a a upraren with the hammer—are you on? I go up to the city, put something across, come back here pits a bundle of money that I had to carry in a shawl-strap, and 'you know what I got.” “I can guess.” “Ail the 1-Knew-Him-When brothers got together. Ever hear of the I-Knew-Him-When Club? It's immense. All the boys with long Belshazzars Ket together in front of the Post-Offive like this; ‘I knew him when he was working for $6 a week;’ ‘I knew him when he had two shirts and one pair of galluses.’ I've been getiing it here ever since I connected with a little coi "Gene, you won’t know what real unpopularity is until you start to ‘give your money away,’ “That re-minds me. Come here! You remember Belle—la-la-la—with the voice, you know—the one that was going to send Schufann-Heink back to Germany? ‘Well, I sltpped her-a Httle piece of money to get her back to this town. You know how she used to be—like this (indicating swelled * ead), -Tamest ‘thing you ever saw—eat right out of your hand. “What they did-to her up in tho big town! Wow! wow! You know she finally gang. Oh, real stage, orchestra, flowers in the hair, and the Missouri family ‘out in front.” “Missouri family?” “All the guys sittin’ dowa on thelr, shoulder-blades sayin’ ‘Come on, Now; show us.” Beile out, steppin’ oa her own feet, reaches for a high note—Blump-ph!” > “ks bad as that Both ccs as “I've vot It here (producing a clipping) Evening paper. This 1s what they handed Little Bright-Eyes, Listen; ‘Mins Relle Hinkle, whose gown ‘was slightly bunched in the back, came out and did a few things to tho “Jewel Soug: ‘Migs Hinkle’s voice sounded a# itahe Were standing too close; the Bho’ ht the Key only onee,-and then fell of backward'—anq eplumn.” {insident in Wilkie Colitns's novel New Magdalen’ and deals with. the efforts of a young Engiieh girt to M3 he tet | Pee SR eta en at ‘Deen ‘tricked into 4 false mi ees ; on the same evening Tew Fields wil | and then Gragged_ Seca ahe divorce put on’ a burlesdue of “The Musle | courts as a S0-respondent by the real Master” iat his: ‘theatre, “On Wednes-| wire of the. man. ‘The company ine <) aay cludes Frank Finney, George 8. i Crauford,. Harrington, Reynolds, Fred Thorne, William Deane, Seventy ‘sit sreaves and Mrs. Thomas ‘The burlesque of “The Music Maiter’? “I'm sorry; she was a nice girl.” “Well, she was huntin’ for it, and she got it. And now back to me. Head on the shonlder—nothin’ ‘to it. T'm going to have her here for the gazizzas (indicating the stone), Will you sort of ‘How-de-do, Belle’. business of shaking hands and all that? When I come back with her nobe, nothing about: the volee; understand?” ‘Mrs. Lealle .' Carter, ‘teginaing on. evening, will appear in “Adrem' at the Belasco Theatre until |Oct. 7. ‘Then she will give seveo per- formanots of "Zaza," to be followed by two weeke of ‘Du Barry.” There will Atill be two weeks of her home season left, and’ the ‘arrangement of perform- ances for this period wi!] be announced oe, oe . Arnold Daly will devote next week at the Garrick ‘to that double Shaw bill, of Destiny” and “How He Husband.” Mary Hampton to the stige as The Lacly play, and! Dorothy Revell ‘will play @ Shaw role for the first time @s The ieee in the other piece, Dodson Mitotell: wii il play The Husband. Wis- corners ivf chell Smith jn Findlay for The stodk Avenue “Ameri entre, A sheciaculur-tarcecsuinedye Wier Hin ang with 8 ivan ctone’ e ery ana Stone ag |the Scarecrow, FOS. ip ihe ue iN sgh hey irxinian,” with Dustin Farnum ‘ra-House, ia “You knew, didn't you,” put in endearment in Japan?” it may be good news to a large class supper checks under the restaurant’s “There's hardly anything new in stretched. “I've, mate quite a atady when. I was @ reporter on the Recor what the magical word could mean. cee aotterine Pat the Yorkyilie Theatre 2 rhe Bh Shadow Behind the Throne’ ts *|a new melodrama that will be seen at Shay Murey eh evlve “"Haset cin at the Moree ‘Theat 7 le. To! will be the at- 2 ee at ayes Grane ‘Theatre. Grant is cast for The Lieutenant leonic ‘comp. lod shan fer Scorned” will the Thint Ayenue ators Last Fight" will bring Ine diane, cowboys, horses, dogs and Wolves tthe Bhalla Sy qpe ( Bee: t Rogers, the cowbuy lasso ex; pil we ewira, attraction with che Fanon Gime t the Circle. Watson and | be ial will ‘Hart, will, be | Bret: Thentre. | wi lontgom- Tin Woodman and’ be-at the West Bnd j role. Js announced for the, lary versus will continue at o Manhattan aother werk. ent will 2 Mason?" will be the fer-! be followed by Mra, Fiske and th: young. geen Can obtain expert yOu are-alone he ‘the door. ea pg y an vend Bid to marty gt 4 un * Although Mr. Ade’s expert knowledge didn’t seem to carry him that far, I am dleposed to offer this interrogative information in the hope that! cut to telling what you want to say. But there {e slang and slang: It. can head that is full of it against the pillows of the bed upon which he was yations of many of the slang words that are in common use. One day *Twenty-three!’ to a tramp who was shuffling in to make a touch. The lobo kept right on going. That was @ new one on me, and I wondered “Tracked Around TePOWERS H “ONE uct of the times, as many might imagine,” said its past master. “On the contrary. it’s as old as the hills, I was reminded of this the other day by reading in one of} the papers that Tim Sullivan, on his arrival from Europe, said, when in- vited to atep inte a cab at the pler, ‘No thank. you; I'll take . rattler,’ meaning a car. Mr. Sullivan probably) thonght he was using the very latest slang, when as a matter of fact he had brought an infirm old-timer through the customs. That word ‘rattler,’ which was slang for ‘car- riage’ then, is in an English book of slang published in 1820. I also found} the word ‘lobster’ in that book." a@ friend, ‘that Maite is a term of “Sir is by no means a prod- which is ruining its eyesight reading ref lamp. ‘ slang,” went on Mr. Ade, bumping & of it, and have tried to find the deri-) ‘d 1 heard) a’ porter in @ hotel call out he sent word to his friends to come and save him. There were twenty {| word you hear to-day has its‘history.” CHEWING quM STAND DAY WHEN 1 WAS A REPORTER” —. this one: A crook from the City of Mexico, who had pulled off’ a job, caught in New Orleans and extradition papers Kad been taken out, when three of them, and they concocted the plan of surrounding the balliffa when they brought out their man. At the sijnal “Pwenty-three! they were to grab their pal and then all ran in different directions. Accordin: : beantiful legend the plan worked, hence the word that has come down the ages. Another story they tell is that In the old racing England twenty-three .horses were entered ina race, and three’ was the word for the getaway. And so if goes, Nearly every s 2 a a ad * Ts was largely a matter of accident,” sald Mr. Ade, when asked how he happened to begin writing slang. “ ‘Artie’ was to blame. ‘Ai you may remember, was an office boy. It occurred ito me to send him to a church social and let him tell ahout it in his own. way. Well, people seemed to like it, Judging from the letters I got. bi I decided to we! them more of the same kind of stuff.” “And you belleve—you must after last nigh péonte still slang?” “Yen, a certain kind of slang. It's picturesque, eesy, dae its a short never be coarse aud be popular. The best slang is’ that which finds its way into the family circle, ‘There's another kind that never tees # beyond the race course or the barroom.” f 4 “Will yon keep on writing slang?” ‘ok “TY may be compelled to, T have tried to get away trom it;moré than once, but my awfil past has always caught up with me and back . I was ween of Bulu.! ‘It wily Ibertian,’ sald 1 to 'myself’—Mr, Ade smiled at gelt—*but my lovely fden didn’t live through the first rehearsal. ‘When I asked the porter, he informed, me that {t meant “Get out.’ I went to a great deal of pains “to find the) mand grew with every rehearsal, until I felt quite certain derivation of the term. The most interesting explanation of several was! never be furiously jealous of me. que on “The Music Master” Next Week — agian company in “Leah or titan and vital matinee he ee een ee Sayer an” has been ‘Thursday at hed ane ‘and tte will Piatt another Ta0rrow Sousa coueerr at the Hippodrome wn 3 have ‘been made in ‘of “Tue. Prodigal Son" at the: Now Avisterdam ‘Theatre, The play now et |in a reconciMation of the two brothers. VAUDEVILLE, OFFERINGS. Proctor’s Theatres: Among the fea tures at Proctor’a Twenty-third St Theatre will be Ephraim Thompson and his elephants, the’ Empire City Quar- tette und Carmencita, At the Fitty- eighth Street Theatre’ will be the Hil- ore Sisters, Sheehan and Warren in ‘Quo Vadis’ Upside Down, potie and fet Bite and thas tnie ee wa % ayaard, ven! uilati Colling’ Con- ot Ro i Ride a ananea BS treet Theatte | will present. the last tess 0! stock com - | Pwenity-fifth for the voung lady to extend +e haus tation th every, instance? { | ‘In very formal society where chap- eronage. prevaila the invitation to call ty! extended by the young . woman's, mother er .chaveran, rp hy Liiaoetl ‘penple th Sete Son cal if we of the airl if They Met at an Outtna i Bear Bait: Ang with a Quite a number as with ime time home, but ward | field, mis euggested a line of slang here, another just a word or two fal Me, Soles vos CHARLES DARNTON, - Johnaon,” with Jessie " title ‘Tol Tole. in's ba be Robert vey a0, bese “The Dey. me Bonstell 'y, Pastor's “Nae Terie, ae aoa Cink maa ones. en compauy in “Juan! ity an hear} ‘oman, Frutti. a uonrog Mack Your ry o Mother-in-Law, at eneilale and the Valder troupe ‘ BRR OEY cpdaseedvsechis a ch Evie, , a ot Holbi pelt opal . ea" eit FL an 3 y ie} of Gola't will be’ tha pene gat ‘famimersi Seiad a ber AV Bin neuen and 3 Ene es rr Charlie Case, Fated St. a others, elie hn will ih ectBe the Fadettes Orchest if hatne stg ‘\ Simone, and company in ‘The New Coachman," ‘Bergac’s Circus, “A Smashup in Chinatown’ and Datay Barootss 4 singing comesiienne from Bergere, will head the. bill at the Colonial, Others will be ‘he Girl from Coney Tsland,’* Binest Hogan nua his Memphis Students, Ryan and Rich- vont, Charles F age ‘hihentbra wilt be § geen Henry compan, y% Hnvemann’s trained Sinai Seme! 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