The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1905, Page 7

| T WAS a glaring red light that our most sanguinary maker i melodrama throw on the stage the other day when he said to me: “The public {s melodrama-mad, It can't get too much blood ‘nd thunder, Why, in my last play I kill off my cast twice! If} ‘ ts had dared to be half as blood-thirsty two years ago I would have been| { stoned, It's In the air, this craving for the sensational, as much on Broad-{ = Way as over in Third avenue, It's the reaction from the quiet, polite play | that has been In vogue so long. The change was bound to come,” | There {8, certainly, plentiful indication “up and down old Broadway’ | f that we do want things to go with a bang, preferably the bang of the! cowboy's pistol, The strenuous times were reflected even in Shakespeare, ;, When Julia Marlowe, by throwing Junk at Petruchio, set the house in a ‘Toar, The melodrama microbe has found its way into the theatregoer's system. Its approach has been slow, but sure, “Leah Kleshna” was the first unmistakable sign of the times that try men’s souls and women's nerves, Then came “The Woman in the Case,” and now the wild west has swept across the New York stage like a gale. “The Squaw Man") ‘used the spurs to race into town ahead of "The Girl of the Goldén West,” fand has been kicking up a deal of dust In the box office at Wellae | ever since; while the throngs that are going to the Belasco play prove there is plenty of room for both, i i | ) But against all the rush and roar, the whoopingrand the shooting, ‘that gentle, kindly actor, Mr, David Warfleld, has been able to hold his) own. “The Music Master” goes serenely on in its second season, soothing the) strenuous breast and the S, R, O. sign alike, Crowds wontinue to flock to} "the Bijou. The mild Barwig “eats ‘em alive” at every performance. What's the answer? « "I haven't bothered to find the answer,” sald Mr. Warfield when the question was submitted to him. “To be perfectly honest, I went to the Bijou because I had nowhere else to go. I had no idea that ‘The Music| | Master’ would be able to stay there more than a couple of months at least, {1 can't explain what's keeping {t there unless {t's what might be called) the home appeal of the play. There’s a lot fn that. The play that the) Pramny talks about—that gets into the home—is the one that lasts, One| A thing I've noticed this season is that a great many old people come to see | ‘The Musto Master.’ Every audience seems to have more gray hairs, I! } like that, It means that the play ts getting more and more into the home, tt is the human side that an actor must reach, and he can do that only by| “making 4 character human. Plays dominated by a human character are "the ones that live longest. See what Jefferson did for ''Rip Van Winkle;" what Denman Thompson did for ‘The Old Homestead.’ The taste of thea-,) tregoers may change in some respects as it seems to be changing now, but ‘the play with a real human element may irsually be trusted to weather| euch changes. I always try to make a character human,” “And to do that?" ‘ “An actor must be natural. The trouble with most actors is that they copy one another instead of oupying nature, They have their models, | @tage models, that are necessarily unreal, And they are forever ‘aeting,’ | both on and off the stage. I once heard It said of a partioularly stagey | actor that he ‘acted’ so much all day he was too tired to act at night. The place for an actor to find his model fs !n real }ife, not im the theatre,” “Where did you find Barwig?” "T didn’t exactly find him anywhere. He {s a combination of several old Germans I have seen, It happened in this way: When I was playing) in ‘Tho i ene Autonet Mr. Belasco meseeied a Penney vps Duteh, boy for ' A ee: ‘THE WORLD my next part. I didn't think aj ‘Heini boy’ would be understood, and j@0 suggested an educated old Ger- man, who, while having a dialect, | would tear the mark of culture, and above all be sympathetic and human,” “And your Jew, where did he come Weber & Fields’, and a shabby Prince Albert buttoned tightly about him, and carried a pair Jew that the public had been used to from?" “From the street, I saw him first of freshly-pressed trousers across his arm, when I was at that type working in the tailor shops of the neight porhood then, in Thirtieth street, ee HOMAS W. ROSS, who made & i suvceas in “Checkers,” wilt be} seen in a” caer Henry Blossom | comedy, "A Fa. Oxchange,” at the Laberty Theatre on Monday night. Mr. | * Rose will play the part of a young New | Yorker, who has lived on a ranch for, @ number of years, but who makes pertodioal visite ¢o nis sister, Mra, Ryor- son, a widow, who has 4 summer home at Larchimont, Among others in his #ap> | port will be Liastc Hudson Colller, Bijou , Fernandes, Claire Kulp, Gertrude Dore- | § mus, Channes Olney, John Flood and | » George Parsons. | “The Mayor of Toklo,” with tte au-| thor, Richart Carle, in the princtpal! role, tt the ttle of a musical farce that { will come to the Now York Theatre on jMfoniay evening. The plece deals with Jene troables between Russia and Japan, @ the scene opening in a public garden tn | $ Tokio, The music wus written by Wil- ‘4am Frederick Peters, Mr, Carle wit! | '* play Marcus Orlando Kidder, a Yankee | + comic opera Impresirio, who arrives in 1 Tokio with the remnants of his theatri- ‘Leal organgzation, which Incluies @ "Pen- nut Ballet," The company Inaludes | Fred Frear, J, A, Wollerstadt, Hor- Ht tense Masurotte, Coollin Rhoda, mine | Janvier and many others, oe | Robert Mantell, at the Gurden ‘Nhea- tre, will continue to appear in “King | * Lear.” | his iret appearance {n the role of Prinzi- | | Avenae Theatre, with Amelia Bingham | in the leading parts, will be a special her engagement at the Manhattan Thea- tre in “Monna Vanna" on Monilay evening, wher H. B, Stanforti wil| make | “Mss Dolly Dol- | valle Miss Lulu Glaser, tn lara." wiki come to the Grand Opera | House, | Nat M Wills, in “The Duke of Du-| Juth,” will be at the American Theatre, Jerome K. Jerome's comedy, ‘Mise Hobbs," will be given at Prostor's Pith in the tike mole. ‘The Fourteenth Street Thaatre will have “Me, Him and 1" “The Darling of the Gods,” wilt Miss Peroy Haswell and Robert T, Haines offering a: the Yorkville Theatre. Digby Bell in "The Kduoution of Mr. | Pipp"” will be the abvimetion at the | Harlem Opera- Houre Lian Mortimer will appear in her own melodrama, “No Mother to Gulde | Her,” at the Star. Bugenle Blair will play Nancy tn “Oliver Twist’ at the Murray Hill Theatre, and give a single performance | of "East Lynne" on Satuniay after. | noon. | “Her First False Step" will tint its way to the ‘Third Avenue Theatre, | ‘the Confessions of a Wife” will de | heard at the Thalia. SATTRDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1905, DAVID WARFIELD IN SOME OF HIS CHARACTERS, Ore > Vi) WARE time I saw one I had a laugh to my- self. Suddenly it occurred to me that this type would be something new to the stage. ‘Great!" Fin 1 paid, and I began making a careful study of the peculiarities of the type. Well, it made a hit—you know that—be- ause it was different from the stage He came along with an old derby hat on his ears | tre and hear actors apeak as people talk in real life? Charles a P1LOW and caught various dialects, his er re of what Miss “Olssy” Loftus once sald to me: “I don't know how I get my {mitavions, I Jumt watch people and then I've got ‘em or 1 haven't.” "T've got dialvcts for sale,” laughed Warfield, “How I get them & can't tell, It's ali a matter of intemation T gels in my ears, 18 near as I can come to expl the trick, 1 just absorb thu i,” he broke off, with the unconsciousness of genius Have you ever noticed that anywhere but on the stage? Master,’ ets are never heard fraid of in “The Muste an Italian to play the Italian, @ Frenchman to play the Frenchman, and a German to play the young Ger man, In other words, we got the real thing, Naturaluess In acting is most stuge d That's what we were and to guard against |t we got | what counts,” But naturalness, Mr, Warfleld admitted, is not as easy “For example,” as it may seem, he said, bounding from the chair upon which he had been sitting with one leg doubled under him, He found a stripe in the |rug and stood on ft, one foot in front of the other. “Now,” he went on jn explanation, “I can stand here and keep my balance Without any difficulty, But Suppose I tried to do this several hum dred feet up in the air, It would be an altogether different matter, wouldn't it? Well, that’s about the way it is with naturalness off and on the stage, One's very much easier than the other. How often do you go to the thea« The instead of keeping down to earth, gets on a pedestal and gives you wh Elocu- ion, Shylock comes on to say, ‘Three thousand ducats for three months, and Antonio bound,’ as If he were telling it to the whole neighborhood, in- stead of turning over a business proposition in bis mind.” Mr, Warfield had betrayed his ambition. “Yes,” he admitted, “I do want to play Shylock, of thes But not for a long time yet—oh till I can afford to do t—if that tlme ever comes don't care what happens to me.” Ambition sat wreathed in smiles and smoke, “Dave” Warfield came to New York fifteen years ago with only @ four dollar “dress sult" to his professional back and paid a dollar to an agent for a $15-a-week engagement at Paine’s concert hall and beer garden on Bighth avenue, It was my usher sult,” he said, “and in it I gave imitations of actors T had seen in Gan Francisco, I was an usher for five years at the Bush Street Theatre, and if I had known how to write I would have made a good actor, t? and perhaps Lear, one I'm going to wait till I can feel that £ days, no! jeritie, I could tell bad acting from the back row, but I couldn't tell why it was bad, From time to time I went out with fly-by- “night companies, but I always came back. I could always get my job back at the Bush Street Theatre. I was a good usher, I would ‘ush’ for a while, then the old fecl- ing would return and out I'd go again, Finally I decided to try my luek tn New York, and I caught on for the first time as an old Trishwoman ‘in ‘O'Dowd’s Nevrhbors' at the Bijou, fourteen years ago, In the six years that I divided between Weber & Fields’ and the Casino several good offers to go into vaudeville came to me, but I made up my mind to wait in the hope that something bigger would come some day, I needed Dractioe .Matlod) I got plefty of it at Weber & Fields’, where a performer was thrown largely upon his own resources. Finally my chance came with an offer from | Belnsco. It’s all luck in this business, just as everything is largely luck in | this world, You have to wait for tt to come, and you never know when it’s going to change.” In a year or two Mr. Warfield will try his “luck” in the role of an at many of seeing.” When I asked Mr. Warfleld how he| There were a gr nd every “New York by Night’ will be seen at the Metropolis. The Dewey will have the ‘Trocadero Burlesque, and Roble's Knioker Victor Herbert's Orchestra at Treatre to-morrow night. VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS, At oin's will be Rice and Prevost, Kelly, Hal Davis and Ines Macauley tn ‘Pals,’ Horses, the Mvsioal Avalos, Felix, Ba ry and Barry, the Red Raven Cadets, and the Three Auroras Buropean ath- letos, Proctor’s Theatres: Loulse Beaudet, | who has just returned from a European | tour, will be the headliner of a bill at! the Twenty-third Street Theatre that will fnolude the Military Ootette, Stuart, “the Male Patt!; Burke and / | Larue, with their Inkey Boys, and Ab dul Kader and his t wives, The Wfty-eighth Street ‘Th ‘6 will have Arthur Dunn, Panny the Navajo | Girls, Tom Nawn y Van and oth- ers. Lillian Russell will sing at the One Hundred and Twenty4ifth Street Nheatre, and the stook company will resent Henry Waeniiton’s drama, “Harvest.” Vony Pastor's vf! will Include Keno, | Walsh and Melrose in thelr ncrobs novelty, “The Revolvirg Human Areh; the ‘Three Keatons, with ttle Buster; Madge Maitland, the Marlowe- rbowker | Riceabonno's | American, Meanwhile he is industriously knoclng on wood—| | hand-¢ arved mahogany CHARLES DARN TONY “A FAIR EXCHANGE” AND “THE MAYOR OF TOKIO" NEXT WEEK’S NEW ATTRACTIONS Mitohall and Marron, and Al Carleton, Kolth's attractions will Include Bert Coote and company in "A Lamb on ou Street,” O'Brien and Havel in “Ticks and Clicks,’ the Four Wel- sons, Buropean ring performers; | =| the | ,| Four Piccolo Midgets, Toto, mo- \ ehanteal mystery; Lew Hawkins, and | Cartwell and Herris, At the AJhambra will be Hart and Carrie De Mar, fn The Other Fellow’; Tom Hearn, © London music hall comec j dun, described x6 “the lagiest juggier | on arth,” Mr. and Mrs, Horry ‘Thoraa, {in “An Uptown Fiw."; Prank Lincola, | Bertha Waltzinger and others, | The Colonial will have three head+ | Une attractions—Williams and Walker, K. A, Roberts, the London music hall favorite, and Ned Wayburn's Minstrel | Misses. Othors will be Crane | Brothers, Alekle Capitalne, e perfect Binns and Bions and the Velian Operatic Trio. } At Hurtle & Geamon's will bo Billy | Taylor and John F. Keamey and come pany, in "Wanted, a Stenograph sthinta Spencer and vompan and Mrs, Nagg;"" Waterbity and ‘Tenny, Brothers Sabine, Bite of rhe Real Henry “hee, at the Kuen Muse i add to his Imoers ; uPlerpont | Morgan, William Jerome, the | Cear and the Japan |. Og Zio, Barnum'a “What Ie 1t? wil! he the star freak at Huber’s Museum, si Lisl Nps POWERS WILL WOULD THAT EVERY FAMILY KNEW TS VALUE = tins EPP ODROME tages scat NOT JEWISH FUND IS TOVALUE — An SiN EPP OOROME tamer am escapes Holiday Interferes with Full Reports of Amounts Collected. . Reject the Sultan’s Counter. Proposals as Being Dila- tory and Unsatisfactory, PARIS, Deo, 2.—It was ‘Ammoclated Press in the highest Goy-|not yet officially reached the militon- é@rnment quarter to-day that the Powers | doliar mak, being stil! $20,000 short, ‘fatter carefully exxamining the Sultan's! As @ matter of fact (he total may be $1,000,000, as the ‘Thanksgiving holiday delayed the completion of the Mets, The grind total is now reported as $000,118, On MonHay the National Commitice will meet to decide whether a new ap- peal for funds will be sent out, ‘The disturoed oondition of Russia haa prevented'any news coming through as to tihe methois of distribution, Peg y! ext will be observed as a) day of general mouniing and serviees will be held in all the synagogues. — $10,000 GIFT TO YALE, New Bellow: Named Atier Donor, Henry B, Loomis, NEW HAVEN, Conn, Deo, 2—A new fellowship in chemistry, to be called! P the Loomis fellowahtp, is annaunced \Ghe.American tine steamer St. Louis, |@t the ScheMeld Solentifie Behool of 4nd Cherbourg for | Yale University, 1 ‘was in communteation by} It is made pomsible by the gift of hiaceyh wit te sailed 4 from Henry B, Loomis, clase of > itt P, if domonstration in Turkish Monday, with the probable seisure of the Islands of Lemnos and Imbros, No \ consideration has been given to stopping the passage of the Dardanelle, owing to the interruption of international com- meres whidh would follow. water an examination of the Bultan's V counter propownis all the Powers cane by the conclusion that the propositions ‘were @ilatory and bia weld uneatiafac- "“ANTINO! 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