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hing depends hn,’ and I always ;ence instantly, Everyt name, \ seene of ont nerves,” 'B the o Toy Soldier #@!nation of the audience,” having nerves!| “What Is the greatest obstacle to But this 1s from! be overcome?” his own lips—the “Circumetances, Few stage man- first words that) 48ers and fewer theatrical managers have passed them understand pantomime. If you have fo fer as the % laugh coming they want you to public $6 con.) jump at it. They can't sce the use of corned aince he! Working up to it by degrees,, The came to town on Christmas Day|Public has no Idea of tho detall in- with “The Babes and the Baron,” | Yolved in pantomime, and ite & good “{ dare say it sounds strange,” | Job they haven't, perhaps." “but Mr, Walton sighed wearily, siidress them by [rt he! Always leave something to the {m- We 1 a iitile something for our different kinds, and then The bit of noise sends it seampering. If Toy goldier marched down Broade anything happens to make me self-| way {n pursult of a chop. conscious [lose myself and my audl- | CHARLES DARNTON, a mou the least that kind is | Nordica Puts Out a Real Blaze tn “Gotterdammerung” remarked the wooden warrior, ite all a case of nerves with me.” | You'd never know The Toy Soldier fore I played Friday in ‘Robinson fn his everyday face and clothes, Crusoe’ I spent three months at He's a blue-eyed Britisher in the the British Museum getting de- ddle thirties, as modest as a rear- tails and making sure they were (fam Night before I went ahead. No, I didn't find The Toy Soldier tn a toy- shop. In fact, I don't know where I did get the tdea, It just grew, At first I didn't think much of it, but my maniger urged me to hang on to it, and little by little I worked it up into something Hke.a character.” “Do you aim particularly to play to the children {n an audience?” ‘or instance,” he went on, “he- | Tian Nostlea, eur own home great dramatic soprano, gilded a ler her sheaf of laureis yesterday afternoon pit All's woll that ends well, and Mr private and as earnest as a new W a reeruit\on parade, Prime the picture with nerves and you have Mr. Fre Walton, who is taking the town's children into camp on the double- quick. “It’s all done by nerves,” he ex- plained. “The more sensitive th % nerves, the more successful th pantomimist. You can't have too may congeotulato himestf that, re of mand erent vi singing that have wher she put out a real blaze on the} and the ti stake of the Met She was eng yolitan Opera-House | blurred the pres Bo) le the| mas matinee “Indeed, T do not,” was the answer, Tt has a decidedly pathetic side.” he net of ‘“Clotterdammerung,” the | trugedy, the Gude were In fact, that !s its stronger side—ft) fourth and last Nh the musle dramas In| Walhalla fell ina fine performance, ean bring tears as well as laughter. | the eye of “Whe Nibelungen Ring Ror this th lit nuet be given chiefly It 18 the pathetic side that appeals When, Just before her make : ne ea! Vor ; i | a tac ‘ } e\tnolation on Siegfrled’s funeral pyre o RODEO Power and # to me most. Th the ‘Dumb Doy of 1 of the chorus gitla apiilod the ilu © tenderness and grace and Manchester,’ for instance, there is alm (nating Nquid from her toreh, A yel- | import of Brunnhilde were portrayed by Helleve Im- | to N { | | Nw. alternated between] j { many nerves {n this business, and Py ; ad ave Grown people, Ze | teene in which the speechless boy, fow-blun flame leaped up. ‘There was] her as by one Inspire. She won a fresh you must have them all in good/*2> ‘Me more Intelligent they are the Ze on trial for murder, convinces judge |destily ailence, No one stirred. ‘f nil affection i {better it goes, What we call a LZ . from the centre of the stage, the 7 1 ine moment eBs working order. If they are out of re-) Lo and jury by dumb show that the i : Aiea Orica alee | eee |‘dress-suit audience’ {s the best. Ze Neon donna walked quietly over, with newer] frie Tia a pity he can't, n't, nd patr, your one means of reaching an | Reach the grown peopl i * nt Ses lerime was committed by @ tramp. | a caver in her vol, oblivions of her | Himself of his heka i) posturing, £ Deople “BAG you'll \ Phe acene is both dramatic and pa- | skirts, and with root stamped out) His narrative cx) iis death song were | 275 \Belle of New York’ had been given thetle, | the Are orny Wagne vudlenve; re Loulke Homer grown steadily In une , in London with an English cast, Bn-) “!# It all dumb show, or are you) i for Waa) i, | derstanding of Waltraute’s character, glish humor and English music, Mentally speaking to the wooden jay wor ne foreiven its bre Taran Weeks elk Ihe Munirba ans what would have been thy result?|fentries during the controversy over jeouim when {t broke Into a wave of] ginther ane « Hagen were as 8a Everybody would have sald, “We've the medal?” DBsSI u Moke ki b and cee hs i ue The iff Ale eae jhad all this before’ The novelty,’ "Oh, I'm talking every minute, ant ue ; wa eat pee a tn taint ; the attraction would have been mias- !f anything qeeurs to distract ma 4), ‘ eifnct’ of iia i Hore apy sme Bin ipitasts fom ne ing. Just so with pantomime, am lost, The slightest nojse in the loot seen " I believe genuine © pantomime | wings throws me off completely and = : Inided here was that there 17 no ap> would be as much appreciated here my scene goes to pleces. Yes, I have spanbics oom Ran preclation of pantomime in this coun ag in England. I think the sense of names for the two sentries, The iz , Nee ia did be . j pig THE VERE Broadway and try, Hut I’m not convinced this {8 ,ymor is very much the same on, one to whony T bring the medal ts Tejephone at Ari Mate FJ \ trie, ‘The trouble Is that America® path sides. I haven't noticed any wy) UDE ADAMS FUER TAN hasn't ven real pantomime In @iiferonce in the six weeks I've been Ser VECe | cei Fenian ane roat many years, so far as T can in this eountr ‘owl an fron ee eed, ae Ha nas Abe . in this country. I know," and Mr. IRISH 10 has played an Impor- i ats. Wed. a Bat. jaime Barrymore Thi PME so-caled English pantomimes yalion smiled, “there's an {mpres- Your audience, The whole thing hangs the twr wenty ' " i Riven. hs : B bans the two for twenty yenrs, going back ave becn tant sart Im the ime Pantalvon, wiih Lionel Barrymore a thread, It’s a delicate business. (to acting when pantomime has fallen| A pantomimist must play up to the into decline,” | te Point of his scene, and the moment “And fg it ina decline now?” ! ht over, but they sion that an Englishman doesn't seo , e Imen greatly changed, T'm told.,a joke as quickly as an American, mense heusinoss of 'DALY'S proeamay ay Tuying a production, seenery, cos- but perhaps it is only that he takes al 5 tho year just closing. ia vs ri, To ety " KER, (ie > he touches it 3 - “Yes M2 th nd all that ts one thing, but Joke more quie . > Shu 5 sok deen Wb i # were) "Yes, there's little real panto-lic q great chance for it riht now, putting it on dn its ofiginal form is “Do you regard pantomime as a So it will noxt years | | FRITZI'SCHEEE Wi Aiit, a a eg a ne these days, but I believe there 'Ayout the first thi: me when Canother, Suppose, say, that ‘The joke?” Neier rita: to Be Buried | Have You |HERALD 99, ere. § ei a aici ranma eaescoma in hie eepnee espera in Cal y ¢ Temetery Telephones Enough? | OLOA Ne rhensMie’ in SAPHO PONRIED'S AUTO. Ld VELY NEW YEAR’ s WEEK AT THEA TRES on Suny new rome erm 0. | Ite nt wns ITH four new plays and the f < Ne . Grand Nut ea a nee 1} gama! cavvannoh,. actornier dient SAVOY Sata: thurs gat 1 ls in "The Doke of Du ; turn of the fe es in W 7 wilt ie " 1 th iY Reginen || ontaecmmane eee Jamon: Hucket an i rei plece of nonsi : see : Disk and Harry’ will be at! jaier a cantain ia the Trinh Volunteers, | 7 ’ , ie year will be given a lively n the «Oe tera R 4 pole Who died at his residence, No. 32) ase} | AMUSEMENTS, as Uh (9 0] Dear ee fst 8 cf Shen will appear at the |e tecteen wereet on ‘Lhureduy, Mad LTHE LION AND. THE Aba AY Winaton The Crossing’); Unt Te Bells.” 'Richelien” and ‘Othello taken an act t iy the ota Fenian W ANSIER 421 St, wostot fg Electric Vehicle, on Rampage»! ent at Daly's on | APM Nee aise Inge "pe Bette (une Rte MH, be tae attraction at | movement In Livblin and wus one of the] Sey anise woy He Ai 1 canNnGtR HATE ioe METAR ‘ ‘, . ; . M The author and} “Mase 1 day jaf Avenue A fourteenth Street | ‘The Thilla will have “Secret Ber- | faders of (he Civn-na-tiaol | WILLAR) o ae VICTOR ERBE in Broadway Knocks Louis } uve made the! mat y 3 Theatr vice Sam James Btepliens, hel the Mentan } LSI ORCHESTRAS . od Folk About 4 foureact play. The action With ‘performan ; Theatte VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS, SRE ona Pies een ' HUBER'S 1811 os MAPS SUE n New Orleans late in the} rint 4 Comes she Girl with the Hed Domino” will | wore made in We aad altrecgh many (ALS i MUSEUM — eniuty andi shawe by tmp ' a At the ke the headliner at stoln's JIGAEL eee Stee hanee KR RAO, THE, MISKING ow: the “Crossing” Was! A : ) nem were tured out non Pi Horr Meinricn ¢ ‘ Emmet Corrigan and company, Will HW inte the hands of the G stied by the eager. restless Ami? i His *GINGE BREAD’ Mobile went ylole : that ried i’ 1 1 Murphy and Blanche Mile. damn OD. ‘i Atl LNG wren ‘ Nee ef \ Trainy, Frank Bush, Chasino and @ijolie scholar 3 ‘ Recon siroet ar John Bluty will be Nicholas mm NE cn Ward i ier ae: renee ree it a butte | Eeceee M xt With the chauffeur clinging to his goat urvus young Aine Proctor's ‘Theatrea—Cinquevalt, the WHh Hicks Pasha’s Bayptian army | terest, rial Wt took a zig-zag course up Rroad sah Girl In the Clouds’ £20, Soudan, wos the 1 Btudent of fi HEeny Btraddled the curb wit Jugeler and ‘The Gir ie Cloud Trinky 4 : and ut healt » audience {s gone. have the children with you every UM ever feel a desire 0 ltimo, for after all we're all children be yeah Pantomime has become almost a lost] Heavens, no! That would spoll ost pecause it has fallen largely into @rerything. But it's keeping in and tne hands of knockabouts, whe giving out at the same time that couldn't say anything ; they trie ‘a brings the strain, Haven't you ever, and so clown it all ‘ore ate Nae | when you were a lad, got a whipping wy father war a great help to ee and kept from crying because of your rq was in the ‘le ey and ne ~ pride? Well, that is as near as T can |tratning began in the cradle. 14 : Come to explaining the strain on a! yomemter learning to dance, T must} & pantomimist. His nerves must be have Journod tt when 1 learned esl keyed up to the breaking point, but | walk, Jt was part of my bringing! they mustn't break. Keep 'em at the up. And then Fam a comedian vou right tension and you have your know. It helps. a pantomimiat tr he audience, Lot ‘em slip, and away g0e8 an actor. Ty nty-third charge of the sidewalk aqd ty irvenala and ar \ Holt to Start wil be fester th others In the com-| H owled al tor t | Stre st bill, Others will be the Nichol i viled 1h rain : men and w : , | pistons A. 0. Duncan ventriloqutst; n Wak prompt se RAORaR oe Divarh oe “et t A O Cliffe Berave and his pony elreus) th ined Can RONEN wockinNt: Hid the. dirncter oP th oikra Mine eon manman tt re je Ww "ear in Mises Delmore, the Allisons, Wiite Prien. In which im BO anuevade Halts NEW pat ote rom Broadway he fh eon 4. Alexander, 1“ Gove mt prarecHiouee (hark 6 BM, Cotan's tates sce Gros Wil heed ibs HIM potsion of the Hlaflene Cone aC, FRENCH ceund tral | Mae Biarted to Conried's home, No, | ome to the New Amsterdam T " ihealte, (Ot wholesale arrests and domi iie' STUDENTS, © patice. it eye a t hie Yeni nes i a a has no Tom Hearn, O'Brien ays ay He enoapen fan i un ‘| Hatlet by G00 Meetty Show (lela, jens airoe tiore a ie ack » own, r "i fn i} . H : he Little Black Man, {fF and has been evor since his arr sumbile ¢ ber ! t H m give orlda y r wis se, and, we i 1 Naw throw: 4 the d ni pletbr fs not + yas Ae, i ‘ st < at the to the , ‘ nit Y FA he ot r 1 it of r dyes , i: i sabe Sivost t ' ne. | 1 i missing the Subway ’ © was an , On thes iad The t Keith's will include Valerie bh i i kiosk at the nort © of the Q he Keith's witl Include Valeri | saw ; 5 waiting > ly swore Po snd y And where is Ae hn " + funy, Oh, thus be oe \yagoner: om ills eres ITH ST TERA at Ost AS xd Marke’ Xion ¢ AUBIN oF my Conyiers? atk Le _ TWICE TO-MORROW. Uae myth Hergere ccmpany in “Carmen Daisy Harcourt, Julian Eltinge, Filson and Errol, Guyer and O'Neill and street. the auto hurdied the curb and with two wheels on the sidewalk spun Mr. Coan one of th nity rtyeflve Minutes from Ti along, way" {8 sure of a heart . rt ure of re ¥ Welcome. saad | y tay Hiwathinie weare old . of No cre LORE cert | “RRidaimmentaten Gatti the Alhambra R. A, Roberts In EPARN iN x (BEAD rd and her essort, leo ited a ee en wmualS? a, the: Sama furnin’” wil remain a feature. HEPARO'S NOViWG PICTURES BLANCHE | essork, Leo tothe ‘ ow that will given Col, Gaston Bordeverry will be a new i; ame address, we Nittle further o hurled to the wa pany at his must were | New Year's night, Edgar smit 4 ries pave | ‘tS &ulhor, and Maurice Le a up Hal Davia - —— LAST MATINEE TO-DAY, 25¢, to $1.00. | BOL leo Har- | Hobinstetn pM Nard io wm " GRAN iat vont. || WARFIELD headiiner, and others will b nd Inez Macauley in * ked down, A| Joe Wor and | plied the mu cha A im 4 rison, Trovollo, the Walkow iy , we shed tro © 0: is ee lia h rst act will . ‘ i 7 4 Le Nino, and Carlisle's dogs and Now Your's QR q ries | AL Fortysit Willd the second will change to “truly Bhattuck and her Prince of | ter passenger nm tow vlanht sed sien ven"! MADISON SQ. ! kee Stopped as str liz.”’ the Coney Island of laen’ girls, Will end the. bill atthe | 0°r b f \ \ at Hixep in iL will uesume the propo! Colonial, Othe will be Felix, Barry Puubinatein, Wo {men to Amerien t¢ PASTOR’ Ss: Ath aeity on ‘tine ee ft ‘ Mt Aino eanitoe rma H [Brothers ahd Brooks’ and Vialliday.. | 1 oune Hubinate ne how elentvon venrs | asic urs UE. WEBER 5) evant sco njured were With social asplrations. ures 6 & Seamon’s will be 1 eae poate aeane ih arin I ee alle BA Dia st Meratn aw aetteR, Kigelow, Edward J. Con- Klein, Ott An ambulance was called from the JOE WE B Rr 3 All Star Co, I nelly New York Hospital, as 1t was found st Lambart, Bam Maric ; olson, Kilzabeth Murray, Heeh Bag enowy e Li oacent 4 Bie scion in Oren bay i mim bah gst | Biioyand cma, Pielde and Wo) APU) arn iene, let Bak 2 Se era ert v4 a ouive 98 /the rest of the #1 4 Y Pastor's bill. will include the; Plano, and at three w parents |! 2 - POR dst erie, tatgnucoted. from 6 6 We fs Roninos, Gus Williams’ J, Aldrich, Lab calted in Joachiny 0 aA olm fe aitvtou | ye ire aoe sTOYLAND LYRIC #4" ‘the ie baron pital ‘and Gurdon took her home in a Fouls Mann ahd Lipman will bor bos Ragone reves, the, Tie AAT he LRRMGROLINE 5 PA nd th atate i tiaee HELDS Sea ort g uppear at Flelds's Theatre on Monday | Mitchells and Cogan and Bancroft ns without even th sta f baci Pk —- “Julle Bon lon," a comedy fr: ey ) At the Been Muses the pantomime | 1 Si. Hicholas Rink, “ths. THEATRE FOR JERSEY CITY, | ritton by Miss Lipman, On her way i , Cinematograph “attraction, “Pugs in the age of four, wt sient of + psig staat * [io America, Jule, who has a millinery ve oy Boater aul np ove, tue Ar | tacthe apocaved vn 4 ‘fon Open Monda N nae Jshop i Paris, falls ove with a f mi | d ay EoD eR areune oe ReUmneve ROTOR I Tn ks ys ew Year's Day. nISs var ‘na Ground to Ne Broken Next Mouth oung American wh for New P : the doug Uh Ser hunye Whet he discovers that her father 18 " Atlantie Gardeh will de the Im. | === en Japanese Troupe, Mineo end | Pulane Jim, Kennedy and elle James, Alveolar Dentistry, originated, pat ven her to ba P™=ETHE DEWEY 2 | Hareeanss $ # Torney City i# to haye a now theatre. |g tesotied, halt-witted Mrenenans Fa. Clarke, Lillian Taylor and the Elite and slusively pri te aby i 5 Mat. To-day—Kes Tandon Belles vet Poll. of ' 4 Jove affair gets in A tangle, but is faly Ont ented and exclusively practise Kina. Wiltret' ¢ - fy ee ee ree Bylvester %, Poll, of ‘tho Poll ciroult,| jimi atralgined out eM, “Mane | 4h. the missing tink. will be the |Dr, G. Gordon Martin, Is recognized ‘ oh, | f eet GOTHAM Past, with vaudeville souses In New Haven, | will play the father. | feature at Huber's Museum ng a distinct advance {in dental Mat, To-da ay Mam 4 Hartford, Worcester, Springfield, Wa- Sines B IN BROOKLYN. science, No necessity for or - terbury aw) Bridgeport, has secured op- | Honrletta Cromaian will make tions on property at Erle and First | {rst appearance in an emotional ri pizeets, Ground will be broken early in| “t the Garrick on riday night, when wenpery Mf the weather permits. 'M sho will procede “Mary, ‘oll announces. ‘The deal wae o trary ‘a gives Yesterday, with Reat estate|) ph he y Mrs W ita yoKer Heary J’ Nugent, With him | {iy bY, Ms WW. Clifford, wis 1. \ of Bosion, al tress ‘info beg ® UG gt the | pritialy Envi aay. Loni " 5 the usual unsatisfactory dg co ‘See viet vi iF y the . ston ae ee al be Played by the 'work, Loose and falling teeth saved, i made strong and firm. Pyorrhea and all diseases of the guma cured, Ex- KITTY BELLAIRS HURT. = [pert specialists in each branch of amamuernemenl dental work. Hours, 9 A. M, to Kitty Bellairs was injured {nan auto-|6 P, M., week days only, Examina- mobile accident on Brooklyn Bridge last tions and booklet on Alveolar Dea- BA : hight, Odette Tyler, leading lady in tistry free, G. GORDON MARTIN alanhattans pate et? The Heart of Maryland company, M, D,, D.D.S, Inc, Suite 704, 320) Leo Dire Ba BRPORE ass A vat & others nee Daiy, AL cease dao Hoberts Louise TWH EG vs. 1M ‘ 99 playing at Lee Shubert’s theatre, in Fifth Ave, cor, 32d St, New York, x vy Lag 8 “ . ” . ’ Brooklyn, was also in the accident, but Appointments by letter, telegram or + Lagd \) in | stands for ‘Auction Sales"—which, in in describing It she tells frst of the|'phone, 8068 Madison 8q haa ape Men MAES enemy yen ordeal of Kitty Be the “outest mt ened 5 PF toy spaniel on revo wae tum, stand for Bargains” inti: Mant yler's husband, R, D. Miss Maud Powell, a talented young | chime of the New Year are to be; Money, Mish Trice ah causte were violinist, who will be the principal] heard, Proctsoly at 12 Mise Powell will 1p the auto, which was speeding so 8 wolotst at the Victor Herbert concert, | bewin the strains of “fue Star Spangled |the bridge when It “sildded.” bumped at Carnegie Hall rrow night, will, | Banner.” eee a ry AE enAg Reem at the stroke of in t, welcome the} Mr, Horbert will conduct the orches-|up behind The occupa were th hew year with the strains of ¢| tra himself, and by an ingentous «ter. O¥t and tame was veld up Star Spangled Banner.” trical device will be ab'e to tell o*- was brulsed. MacLean and The melody part of the composer’ajactly ten seconds before midnight tegsives lacerated arms and we “Grand Amercan Fantasie,’ made up| strikes, ‘The wateh-night concert will! |thete tari thook. Onminacar sat Buy February te Lil Wy "t d to th io TO-NI E ee of patniose and popular American | tesin at 9.90 o'clock, giving late din-| ae ‘wa ne heat balled wet tan HLA. Queen of te Wait Sarre YXLYN AMUSEME Carpets Furniture _—-Paintings Antiques Statuary Pianos Books Tapestries Orientals Suni World “Auction Sale” Announcements Stand for Legality and Reliability, als: ARRICK ith, We F i LL! iss’ & W VAVKER 40 pe ‘Cr Seriat 85k Latest Fashions a songs, ‘The entire medie yis to be| ers ample opportunity to join in OY gone ake the railing Into Wi Titich th Becrot Bervico Bam RACES TO-NIGHT. my played, starting #ix minutes before the gooey 0 2 Hw Your. was found under he will nih | MUSIC AFTERNOON NG RVENING | au ADMIMSSION 900, PERFECT IC 4 {