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ence. is sometimes: deceived. trained ear, however, can detect the | false note in the applause, It nove rings true. Genuine applause cannot be mistaken, No one knows this ‘This nuisance bas grown to be insufferable in New York theatres where the character of the performance admits of “interpolations. First nights are made hideous by so-called “pluggers’’ Intent on pound- inge@, song into*popularity. Audiences are powerless against them, They flo@& from “Tin Pan Alloy”—that strip/of Twenty-elghth street between |better than the people on the stage, | Brendway and Sixth avenue—with resin on their hands and encores in their/@Md sonte singers refuse to lend | hagrts. The din-making drove distributes itself judiciously about the the-| themselves to the purposes of tho atm and waite its time, ‘The merit of the song makes no difference. Once|¢claque. Miss Marie Cabil) and Miss i. it about time that handcuffs were placed on the song claque? may be enough for you, but nut for the claque, » pelted to hear it over and over again. | Behind me the other night was a pair of hands that knew no mercy, Tie song wasn't worth the paper it was written on, but its heavy-handed chempion succeeded by main strength in having it dinned into the tired ears Con- oMthe audienee no loss than four times, He was not alone, of course, f@erates were planted in every part of the house: They clapped in ( opshestra, banged in the balcony and crashed in the gallery, ‘ 5 e a) These'spontancous” démdnstrations are so well planned that an audl- Ze an . a =< “SONGS ARE GROUND OUT TO ORDER.” L hi I¢ loves the song for what It is worth in dollars and cents, and whether you like it or not you are com- Lillian Russell ave two of these. The sound of the claque is never music fe | “Behind Me Was a Patr of Hands.” ‘\to thelr ears. Singing for the bene- | fit of the song-publishers doesn’t ap- peal to them, They can get all the songs thay want for nothing; in fact| But the claque that depends on they are often offeredylarge sums to | {ts hands is stronger than ever. On “Introduce” a song. Both have made /@ recent night when a new song was fortunes for song publishers. Miss | interpolated in a Broddway musica! Cahill, for one, has put a muzzle vad Lanter no lost than eighteen “plug- the “whistling gallery,” which has | gere” were on hand to make tho long been a favorite device of tho | welkin ring, When a plece contains song publishers, The ‘whistling |songs published by different firms gallery” was a great discovery, ani | the number increases secordinglys for several seasons it was the joy and the rivalry of the opposing of the near-prima donna and the |claques waxes loud. They hammer | song publisher alike. only occasionally néw, It has al- most whistled itself out. a yn gna sre ° - ‘ thing, ‘he nevor tells me ho, Will she obtained it, If In Rew York, you jf" you can't, become intereated in. any By Margaret Hubbard Ayer d By Nikola Greeley-Smith an sc a RO ee | eth rll ah ada hm wit," | can mo over to Jersby City oF Hoboken |? one. elee,. fry to make yourself, mens iy @ yer, : CONNECTICUT romans whien bas sum oulminated) |isin expert advice on hele tang | NE FF Be oar An “| aNd MAY wise pretty clothes, and tr) toda aome | | Longer and Darker Eyebrows, | fous‘aits p'cnanrat}*s°f Sunes oy aang ~ la che marriage of a fascinating witow to the bach-| | love a y Writing Bet! ake ‘os, the yom man had a va fect = Rd to others. ia ~ lea ‘e cologne, e luld quince; wid Ehret eon Inavor baat had its ovirin in tho tate | |UeE% fOr her should be addressed 12] | wight ts leave you, ateer having taker She Loved in Vain. bys Mat vores 2 ul inet oat itnofure Ine H tors rescue (rom a watery grave of the widow's hat, by You oiit, to @o to @PATY oF elHOWhere. | Hee. metty \Is It Proper to Kiss ? brew wilt ounce: ett Hod water, 10 0 ‘This * a refresiingty original oceurronce, — You have no mortgage on his time, It LABABE, advise Sdenpontent, young | Dear imeity: ea te, ‘ntetlen| ous 1 ai and agitate unc) solution le very’ time 1 ret Int ne megaipert of the wedding of py, t747 2g Apologise. ain Peng lee ele dle aa P eee iat thts world has | AM a Young g’rl nineteon years old I two effects, 1 Thin Mair and Eyebrows, } or of her lite, I groan a fair gitl to the seashore | nounced Ghakesperre, can get away-from It, ‘The Connecticut witow recognised the supreme importance of millinery 1c verited & better that T cherish tn common with many athera, that che abid! » pansion of Lhe feminine scul (a clothes. Who seyea my Hfe; maven trawh; | J ner t ? Ss ih secre ee nie ha {Jost him, But If you are a sentimental) ‘pei ine young man that ho miet|eamel's hair paint brush, ‘The brush |plen.y of fruit wd leave off the tea ; } { hee Wit me fair ‘Indo. t, When she Ghtecried the divorce, Yuu) srl who loves mainiy with her ime | have confidence In you If he expects | must be treed tram any drop and pasted | o tung hot water In the ’ forbidden te marry, tie prohibl-|aginalion, It W porsible that you may | ou to love kim, It is not proper to} lightly eiong the edge of the eyelids, Ales @rint = good feat y ! or course, hat ihe ‘widow rewanted Was the motive behind Jie rescue, mt j the pyesote iteeif, ‘There can be no doubt that the shat wae rulsed, for erae (Anmert'on te 2 Mop x wot good 4% the feminine hear which promjied 4 attanger to risk hi J1te for a bunch {eatherd nnd chiffon, that touched her, W535) BEART ane | ANEW REASON FOR MATRIMONY, | millinery. It Wie tho subtle comprehension | “THEY FLOCK FROM TIN PAN ALLEY.” It ts heard ‘away with all thelr might, and then! regular salary, and the fold of his operations Js wide, ; r) rush out gleefully at the end of an act to tell the manager that their par- tleular song is a knockout.” Some managers do all they can to discourage the uproar made by these nuisances, One had his revenge the other night when he put the representatives of six rival housed all in a row, with the result that one shamed the other into silence. “IT'S A KNOCKOUT,” confined to the theatres. His enterprise has been known to lead him tale, the restaurants even, He takes with him an attractive young woman, when the orchestra srikés up ‘My Keyhole Sue,” sops eating and bursts counted upon to boom the sale of the song. Songs are nearly always bought by or for women, For this reason the maudlin-pathetic ballad is the “best seller,” while the comic song has Iittle Friends of the writers of songs form another claque, and they come in) 2! their strength to add to the tumult, They, however, are the lesser of, the two evilé, for their interost Is not wholly a selfish one, Glory, in a great} many instances, {s about the only pay that the song-writer receives, The songewriter and the publisher are forever having rows over royalties, In England the author puts his stamp on every copy of his song that is printed, Here he is obliged to take the publisher's word for the sales, The “plugger” fs often better paid than the author. He ts kept on a| the claque is a permanent Institution in the vaudeville houses. But Broadway is the chief hattle-ground of the claque at prestnt, It ts doing its deadliest to capture the musi¢ad comedy, “Veronique” alone has | escaped the onslaught. Songs as noisy as their claques smite the ear In every one of the American productions, and they are crowded into man: of the English pleces, to the discouragement of good music, ‘The worst it is they all sound alike. You Meton in vain for originality. The “Good»By, Dolly Gray,” to-day, and “Goot-lix, Little Girl,” to-morrow, Tt 19 by no means the Third Avenue Theatre, Jflonae Pace a WOMEN If guly we could gay the same of the claque! ] CHARLES DARNTON, BELASCO’S “GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST” WILL ARRIVE WITH BLANCHE BAIES NEXT WEEK. Wi gis Bertrand snd 4 iss 1." There are three acts and an Bj S 9 ing in ale a fr—th sical comedy by Harry B. Smith and |t Twelve American Girls, the Three Klos} rand enters Uror' Le. Ge Polke” wales || Ren, Gheet'e oorepamy will prebaue |1aSidcnee os Mie Gare vacate ont heart Le Stoscbele: WIN te mesma ihelia ee ae “Minety 604 |aistere, Mayme Remington and Her Bune woe Siu dareke ieee hake hd Maayan on fare vn ‘vh home af tie Gear mond’ in, ine ‘catin | “Macbeth” at Mendelsedin Hall, giving 4 REE Ta RY |Cirand Opera-House, wit’ Miss Florence | Mabe) Mektinles will appear in “The |ter Brownies and Mr, and Mrs. Jimms | “Ure © 8Ps wii Sar the ak story, ar he ‘morning: the third in the dance jail of | £0 ‘agedsin the Bisabethep manner) George YM. Cohan will return to the | pindley in the tlle role; | Purson's Wife” at the ea Ea sag, (B87: Lilllon Rossel begins ber Inst | 7° te tnd +Dolly Nobles wil nana | "HAL hi hi 7s “Potkn” a tow days etter, ‘The cast tie er eeherel Of the Dotmatarh trio {NeW York Thoatee with “Little Johnny] “me Fourtosnth Sitest Thontre will | ,uelke Gopton, Ommanplen isl BAG. |weex nt the Hitty-etenth street houre.( ‘ho bill at Hurtig & Seamen's, ONerR) famous men, will nema a feature in | nel wios Penet BiNard, Pinan: {ieenen, Keenan, Fatt 3 gat jae A ann ed ts ir, Cohen's touri have Barney Gilmore in “A Roghy | Dowey with the Cosind Giiis, [Other attractions will be Alga Overton | be (he Reed Birds, the Dollar | the Eden Musee, | de ae ahd Harriet ete Comyns Carre dramatization of | house Rood to Duttin.” loa’ Gutharn Beauty Show will be at{ walker, Havenan’s Animals, Dida and , Fobd and Wilson, Johnson ond | jN BROOKLYN, we: Twist,” the one used by Beer- 5 ie a “Girls WIN Be Girts” ts announced 5, Shotwell-Piper and Mr, Tom [the Three Crane Brothe: “The Behool t} Girls and the Gregsons. Thomas BE. Shea, tn rtoire, wilt f M2 soneen a Mise Julia Mar- | bohm Tree in Loiion, will be given! Mr. BE. 8. Willard will appear bah for the West End Thoatre. lpi ef be the soloista weh Victor ‘tor Beandal" will be given at the One hfe will be at the Alhambra | appear at the Grand: by 2 —~— ———— ea ey ep — etl ee & in ane if you know he wants to, | Dear’ Betty: | When | met him ovtedde he spoke to me nd! but Tak not aniwer him. ‘The nox ng) day, when T to dim, he py oud answer me. Dave nim very often o the atreots, but he never sree a ig by! of| _BETTY’S BALM FOR LOVERS. ir tion only holds good in the Beate meer Find 'Lo's Hidden Treasures, es io use for ber, L have a love! and in love with a young mon one aftalr about three years aga, but was | Year my senior, This gentioman Ie | Most people would tell you that it) SH8, 8 SUR } Ix Absolute nonsense for you to be- ‘Heve that there fs Just one person tn | \ the world for you, and that you have cohitaue to think this for a long time. | igen velore being engaged. + eeermemeennniaeime | Kean before belng engaged, but It ls more | than probabla, | She Does Not Write. HEALTH AND BEAUTY. sive you the eys- © B—Whid vie haly vecomeg the hale fs thin and wiry; Castor ofl, 50 grams; bay rum, 80 grams; tincture of dantgarides, 10 grams. Diet has much to do with the complexion” to which you allud emtract of jabor- } andi, Sdrams. Agt- tate Ingredients ¢i) thoroughly incor Porated. Apply to the eyearows with tho-briiah, and to the Inches with a tay ort jcrolting extreme oare that no minute jot a cold weter. Kerp up this ton of the lotion tovehes the eye it- | rogimen and sko ithe edmplexton doce | not deoume clenrer. ‘The ¢yebrow gy The stain f9 made of gum arabic, 1 | am} India ink, 1-2 dram; rose water, 4 f st ey Wouk! do that for her hat, whe: woutd he not do for her? You were quite rigir, to rosent, tho pid katy hoes. ta moat nt hod hi Re y “ so. ~ r | 2, Re merican woman, St aor Bote bes Meng priewtess of millinery. It) young ia * Pepereigieds| he owes ite} at | AM a young man olghteon y Powder the Ink aad gum and triturate | ounce; ol at tavend lavender, 18 drops; a D woman, who needed a ie tit, had Just, $ or $0 lo make} an epology, Le may be that you too! old and I met & young jady antities of the powder with the f bre srat 1 ‘Mix. thore Rtg pfesentable, what would she dot Buy « pair of pretty shoes and some) offense (oo Hawise 1 could not tell | J same jege. Svinle. Rulon Ne work eve untll you: get a Uniform ong! ily, Apply to aie ‘eyebrows whh & ory Ume, But Imagine the average Amerteng girl in the same without knowing what he sald ced. Both of tia huve been cor awk [quid In a powder, and add the Ear er na ete A ‘wont and a wtinsdliway you Inow, that whe would sally forth and bees! rgeous ‘hat the A Cruel Parent Inte*feres. pau to three woeks ago. T went her tw letters but she did) maintor of the rome water vw It, Md be ty often, oe aint m applied with a yery tiny | le, may be used for In this cree it song. Othera join in the chorus, and the advertising gained by this tick ta sale, The vaudeville singer is the life of the song business, and therefore — are ground out to order, One “Bedelia” brings out a dozen “iottes” Ite AVID ence bern Sata ae oe riser Pig “pweitih oh Qt Procior's Fifth Avenue Theatre. J. | the Harlem Opera-Houre in the ce “How Baxter Butied In,” which will Baber |: orghente at the Majeatic | ore and Twenty-fiith Street Thea- rie ‘itunes the Ponte.) —- ht nual | th erbocker ‘Theatre on Monday}, Dodson will play Fagin, Mias|ing repertolre; Monday night be shown at the Murray Hill Theatre, ‘ Ls Q sey? ‘ | th os i Theatre on Tuesday evening, when | night. This will bo their fret time to-} Amelia Binghain will be Nancy Bikes, | urday macnes, “David Garr! | 18 deserted ax a musical melodrama, ance icles, “Boo Ma srotner I Williams and Walker will continue to he Seysiaria eratal will Bere she will present Bia Blanche Bates in| cother in thle comedy, eithough Mim! Harte Kirkland has been chosen for |4a¥ night, “The Middiema | “Dangers of Working Girls’ will be | Casino to-morrow nigh h ‘i “ i “The Girl of the Golden Weat.” Mr, Be- | Marlowe tae been ween as Viola. ‘There! ihe part of Bill Sikes and fos Agnes {GAY BRL "The. Brofensor's | ecbanaere the AmorieaD, VAUCEVILL' T rind ant ety ss a gue Hermgah Donat be Tit Yaseo has gone to California Cordis story | May.” ’vor ihe sewn meat laot week ee | ASOtt Will be cast ap Oliver Fastin [Seat NP AGAT MGM ihe Foals Res | rile ta ee ee cet eI seoctor'e: Ti a artnac baer Clay. iveytle dean algae. and. \denear eae na Willie itiae end choven the evenetul peried of '49,| Wer engagement Mr, Sothern and Miay| in hls "ens Pe 4 Pe hon | eae rete Fe SRO. Pangan lo} 200 aceny java sidgers and dancers. | Cats and, Willle 2h <Miss Bates, hervelt a Californian, wii| Marlowe wit offer "Romeo ant Juliet,’ | aeainet Pen: Fes Ten tie win nd EInen Sotho Pooks Revenge ta a new |? etcons of tha Star Theatre. will see |v i) Cana Le wee Nendiiner |Othera’ wilt be Bhungopori, mediate) AA Tey lense ai foi, « “Pave the role of a girl who grows up In | London rig i listening to Nancy's |foature of Mr, Willerd’s repertolre, what happens "Wien the World at the ‘Twenty-third Street Theatre | may and magician; Booker and Corbdley, lenhattan Man,” wi t ly gh aioli camp: esos the Spotka” ean| Revert B Mantel), ‘at the Garden | Confessions Mugin en ng Bikes to bill + ee Bleep,” Among others will bo Emmett Corrigan | pelle Hathaway's Monkey and Banoon coer rea be ‘eet & be + Yoon aA fells in love with a “road| Theatre, will bo eon In “Macbeth.” deseo Op Ma as PR ge Ronda Ne Bello of the West,” a new mu-|—‘"feaeked Around the World” will belana company, Frask Ryan and the Cinsus, the Vantecr rio, Jack Nor™yunes Lei opirlt over the deadly enméness of eontiment. ! a But from my saul Thong the crigivat widow who broke| | GO with @ young man seventeen He Wants to Marry Again. x sorenente, Vy a geet *, La Phat Pgs eg AL Then. Be with ¥ 4 © e emulagt} nin and uneven, as In your cfs, the spe, aud gave her hand to the gallant rescuer of hor] ] years ood, ie Werte Beane, og RS hes at once become vers cool, 1 ike hint and a atain, both | VY © cnere te soite deficioney in iho "i : 440 ‘bo sald comething to 8 gir'| [AM a young Pan and am ty jor wiih very, much, DUE CaRot Bul Ge with his { which have Deen) tam whieh governs the Health and } he value of Ute lw problematical, ‘To be of not to.be,| friend of mine which 1 overheard ané| | & youn lady and ahe returns my tirana ee eonaiiet t6 bale: Proper, dia stn is that {9 th i did no think was very nice for a youny love, but not know if 1 can eu ‘ Worth arcriowe grow . , rf at. 18 Whe quanta. man t say. When T told him to stop | ot married, a8 my wife secured.» ¥ Color hair fe necomary; masiage firat of ai} 4 Bit tt doesn’t apply to hate, They have singly got | he. tuted And s1ld the game thog. | livone from mo, TL would o> bey ipuboed: ae 314) co atinvulare the circulation, ‘The L.ts | be. Neo purveyor of “old quotations,” as George I. Pr) me y growed hiay L woubn't take st | ‘9 £FCIn way trai, bile { 1 1S’ bunsen? fad mula I give you Is very helpful where { evden — 7 - +See eee s a he owner of the bigger: a4 mest, ey would purchase, ‘Ad Mie crown of her crown of glory, whe Acheron sane for IG ANd WHEN Dear Ppt: jit andwers a wld not Uke to 15 | onmel’s fat brush, atully apptied. it} waves, imjpelied by the jealous Vers Anodyomene, wlio lived in the)» icopT Ney, with a young mai araty f iF - any olb will, lets were Invented, ty to toh tt from her It im bee wonder, (at hat until cure - |For an Auburn Shade, i tee savior wilt her tnd, roid { It eeems to me that you already! Superfluous Hair. Widow Ned the bent) a for getting, maria Tfiaye Neant Vi ta pe hi ve @ pretty ahade of hair, aad L, M.—Theve ts hut on permanent Tipe stout. ae «anvthing you apply to change It! cure for muperfivous hile ang} oY tw him, ag) Jove nigat ppolt you, Bowdver, you that is eles This ie hot told me that be baht he tonlo T give wou. It tends! ciwayt accersihie an er remedy ee tame {to miko the hat Muffy and aubura. meat be po veprid often a the hale Poaulhly the airl has roal'zed the tr-' Persxid tr. as you know, @ blened, and ‘Pee plaster stick Is an excel- chamiat| /)) ie only seven digerotion of meeting you without F iwuroduerion. Can't you get some one to. lw woe you? That is really t only @ hill for you to. do ohfdren, Tite beoel is linown ae the Novland Nurrstles.” Horo in suitor of to reoms the children of the wei G6 may find a town addregs while po en Are traveling or enduring unami+ able climates. The gueste range from Vl atoms of a month or ro (o velerang of clgit oF nine, amd egch. three hay eI ade Hovel for Children. rese' puke ond ona’ v: ‘tly t , Orange P ve. amit Rie ayrp i oaces| “HL, LwWo large oirahs, ut iy quare | geavas, ans Come watt aac pl aT ga [dla atteragen, bit Loniton i beer Beit Aeddadt.d ‘Si x ‘ GAY, Ohm fF ae Gorais & wood pavond WIL a hotel TOF) A ate eefthe Wanilla and a plngh of dns | ‘Guava Jeily, i lent Lemporary Punecy, A not have the effest’ fou hen, mn FOR THE HOME. eet nee ates Sac ab iseagrd, Add ta the ayrap tie ayarters ¢ oramars and of citron, squergiiig Me at pon dy before patting into the ara! Cook, slowly wncd sho fruit fa tend and ike clear, Sared with crake cad eben, , i vatil they fail to pleges; mea Un water, Por ever heavy syrup of one pupa fund one pint of water, To add the nuava Ww ii j tip mearures of ayrup } are Cock wlowly a A sat in ‘Try a. Utele In tee 901 ‘Telly, B's gredy aavos whole 1