The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1906, Page 7

“You've Got to Have ie in You,” Says Miss Templeton, Who Declares It Is Harder for a Woman to Be Funny Than a Man. BY FAY TEMPLETON. iT is far more difficult to be really funny on the stage than to play a straight part. Wit or humor, expressed in lines, ap- peal to the intellect, but to be really funny includes action, either fn connection with lines or in a situ- ation, and, after all, on the stage, ac- tion is the keynote, for it responds to the greatest tyrant of the theatre, the eye. On the premise that wit and humor are expressed in lines, and fun matn- ly in action, it follows that a woman has to exercise greater finesse on the stage than a man. A Dit of “basiness” that would pass as inoffensive done by a man would be ‘risque’ by a woman, A comedienne has less lati- tude than a man. Strained wit, humor or fun are hard to project over the footlights and fall flat nine times out of ten, while that which comes offhand, spontaneously, or apparently uncon- sclously, 1s received with laughter that is an inspiration to a player. ‘The most laughable things presented on the stage are done seemingly un- consciously, as one says and does laughable things in real life. And these require more careful stady and preparation than horeeplay or Duffoonery. In ‘Forty-five Minutes from Broadway,” one of my best Iaughs comes from unconsciously wiping a chair back with a duster while seated in conversation. The use of the duster is not in itself funny, of course, the lines and situa- tion giving the incident its laugha- dle aspect. This indicates what goes Dest before first-class audiences. To Gefine exactly how to be funny, either 9 a man or woman, would be im- possitie, First of all you “must have you.” Many players who really genius as comedians are the dole! it ia have most ful and melancholy things seeing them can hardly believe they are the same persons before and be- hind the footlights. A New York first night audience is distinctive and no matter how much it Iikes you as an individual. you must prove you are good in your part. Stuff that goes with a roar latar in the week gets » modest little ripple at the premiere. The ‘‘second night” audience is usually a little cold, and it is not till the third performance that one actually gets to the public. And even then audiences differ from night to night. An audience will re- spond to every laugh in the piece and the very next night it will be cold and unresponsive to the very things that. brought the most ap- plause the night before, The effect imaginable off the stage, and one NEWSNUGGETS Philippines Peaceful. MANTEA. Aap 6—A local Rewape rer printed despatches Hey re San Branciscu eRtOCGAY, 9 te land were be- mands to to aol ‘@ pos- sities speieta Oe ot ie ives. Both the tary and clvil o: way that con Eitiies’ wore ‘never: better rare al all “the troops could be * withdrawn th felands without wiles or. ow Boy in Jail as 5, Slayer. DALLAS, TEX., SANT 6—Oltle Clay- mrell, fourteen years old, last night Carl Owens, een, and fines Jail charg red git murder The Htabbice tollowel a boyish pean Brown-Tail North Again. }, JAN. 6—The brown-tall agai which was fonged ih the spring, by the D Pere toning numbers again, cores fa feted ¢ Duggan, in e ill get two cents for every chuagen a th Jnatead of ane Cee ab in the first cru Arrested at Grave. | Nee ta far sf Blow OB, ie he mg. head, ary | Cou, of hrged eaters. : ae two weeks ago. Read Bi Bible. Shot Herself, |. ¥., JAN, 6—Mrs. Homer : orig irezater Teas age, in os Men, ‘Wes | coal at there nad wo | beret yan, of the on the player {s inevitable. To the UNCLAD GHOST DID ATHLETIC STUNTS Then Vanished, Like All Other Ghosts, Into Thin Air When the Police Arrived. A ghost stalked through the Bronx arly to-day and climbed the fire-es- cape of the fire-story apartment house at No. 927 Grant avenue The ghost was not attired in usual ghostly robes. In fact, this Bronx ghost was described as a naked individual, which was not immune to the weather conditions. ‘Mrs, G. W. Delacey, who has apart- ments on the third floor of the Grant avenue house, saw the ghostly figure ‘on the fire-escape outalde her window. She nudged her husband. “There's a ghost out there,” she whispered. ‘Then she shrieked, as @ frightened woman is expected to do. ‘There are twenty-four families in the Tesponsive audience he or she works with enthusiasm. To the cold one the player cannot help but be a little cold, too, This is why, it seems to me, that a play seems to differ in merit. How it goes before an au- dience is the key to its value, and au- diences themselves establish the val- ue of stage“work by the way they take it for that performance at least. There is no rule of how to be fun- One must, if a comedian, be funny in the opinion of the audience and let it go at that. Things that I have thought funny could not be seen and things I have thought would faH flat hava been ny on the stage, greeted with a roar. To be funny on the stage ts the hardest job in the theatre, and to bs funny without horseplay is more diff- Do you know, I have al- cult still. ways wanted to be a trasedienne? JAMES “Talk About Sawing Wood!” Moans Marie. “It Isn’t a Circumstance to Pulling Laughs from Wise, Up-to- Date New York- BY MARIE DRESSLER. T strikes me one could write fifppantly ad lib. about “the seriousness of being funny,” but my inclination tn discuss- ing such a subject is just to the contrary. The layman is frequently quoted as saying, when some of the “flighty actor talk” is on tap, “My, but I'll bet she’s funny off the stage! She's a scream to me on the stage.” These laymen or laywomen should be given a chance to try to be funny on a Broadway stage before a house full of up-to-date, wise New Yorkers. Talk about sawing cord wood being hard work! It isn't a circumstance to pulling laughs from some of the folks who sit out in front and loll back in their chairs with an expres- sion that says just as plainly as so many words, ‘‘Now go on; 'm ready; I dare you to make me laugh.” Per- haps you think that isn’t pretty seri- “dared,” Of course, it is our business to give them the best in the shop. That’s whet pulls money into the little old box-office and gives us increasing popularity and salary. But it’s pretty tough sometimes as you are feeling your way with an audience, and try- ing your best to please, to see straight ahead a few dead faces. One man there may just have been jilted by his best girl, or he may have gone to her house to learn she has gone out with another fellow. Another man is sitting there with a horribla case of grouch because he has eaten something he knew he shouldn’t— and he’s going to make others feel miserable with him just because he's selfish enough to believe “misery loves company.” They are the boys who send us home after the show with a case of dumps, and you can imagine us be- ing gay and festive and laughter- provoking off the stage under stich ‘elreumstances. No indeedy, with a CORBETT IO BE A SHAW ous business for him or her who 1s) new show on our hands being funny is anything but an iridescent dream. It is a muggy, heavy, dis- agreeable wet blanket. We are s0 anxious to be funny and to please our audiences and our managers that we leave the theatre with knitted brows and dull headaches over won- dering why this or that merty quip or bright line failed to “land.” Was it my fault? Did I fail to give the Mne an intelligent reading within the meaning of the author? Why did the audience the night before laugh and fairly revel in those same quips and lines? Was the audience to- night less intelligent than the one of the previous evening? Such are the questions the seriously-minded comedian—the only kind who can be artistic—keeps asking himself sit- ting up in bed, often until long after HERO AT DALY’S THEATRE T= former star of the ring, James J. Corbett, will attain to the dignity of a Brosdway ector on Monday night, when he will appear at Daly's Theatre in “Cashel Byron's Profession.’ Stanisiaus Stange has turned Bernard Show's @jory into a three-act play, and Manager Henry B. Harris ahs hit upon Mr. Corbettas the man to play the young champion of England and Australia. Margaret Wysherly will bo seen as the gentle Ly@a Carew, who falls in love with training quarters at Wilstoken. The cast will include Joseph Kilgour, Kate Lester, Aloe Leigh, Mary Tully, Maudo Gtroux, Marion Little, Herbert MoKen- ste, Luke Martin and John UC. Dixon. . eee “The Clansman,” a dramatization of Thomas Dixo! novel of that namé and his other story, “The Repent house, Men and women poked their out of the window and then them back. They, too, saw the on the fire-escape. Naked though the ghost. was, there was no mistake about him pelng a ghost. . Jeaning from the window, “pared it the figure, but it stayed right on the ladder and grinned Sonica Delacey decided that the ghost Ae to be arrested. His neighbors agreed with him. Any ghost that would awaken decent folk at the hour of dawn a Ne liner do co eh ‘who were Ste int ‘they Insist they saw and’ tha after It bad done FA gues tun = a heads drew ghost |i. ‘was no trace of found. SHIPPING NEWS. mean EE PORT oF NEV NEW YORK, Spots," will be seen at th Theatre on Monday night, It ts a eke of the Reconstruction days of the South, with that mysterious band of horsemen knonw as Ku-Klux Klen fig- wrlog in its incktents. Holbrook Biinn, wo acted Napoleon in “The Duchess of Dantztc," will play the principal back |Character, while Jeffreys Lewis wilt have the role of an old bleck “mammy.” Others in the company are Georgia Welles, Grayce Boott, Sydney Ayres and Joseph Wheelock, sr, to via PRISSASS TON. ERPAT ot at eae rater. Low Water, wh Magistrate to 9 astariing on The father ‘of t fesses to the crime. ven by a ise | oan fas ioe os K Mrs. elas nines: dra. Bayard Wharton, Mrs. Stanford erton Winthrop and Richard Watson Gi ail Bee Monday evening at the berkeley Lyceum Theatre, under the direction of the Progressive e Society. Tie play ie tn five short acte and symbolizes the struggle of manidnd peatnet death. . . ry Brosgom’s comedy, “A Exchange,” will be the offering cen a company at Proctor's Fifth A) e 8 e@ . Cohan, will continue at the pare -House for another weelt, “Tattle Jonony: Jones,’ ry x, _Wreon will appear a Dew in “A Quiet Life,” Hermanyts and Cats, Clarice "vance, Fort and Wilson, Phil and Nettie ‘Peters We ent Renter and Coudier, es Ene five ‘Mowatts, ‘and ‘the Grit will inotude, among PRoay Pastor's pill others, Fitzgibbon. peor Mr. and Mra, Coal Stri Owen, German Gypsy," at the Foutteenth Street Theatre, The Buro- in Gypsy Trio will be @ feature of performance. Beret EDixey and Caziotin, Niven. tn “Fitba Ban Gn ‘he Box,” wil be boo “tviifiam Collier, in On the Quiet, lam ler, in “‘ ‘nn will beat the Harlem Opera-Fouse, Bite Fay and “The Belle of Avenue an fo the West End ‘Theatre itied thas Soorne wens IN be the attrac- Ridge’ Murray Hit the Streets’ will finda ‘Arrow” will fly into the] wi toa at th ‘th 4 “Phe Girl at the “The Third Aven: ‘The TT at » in “Down the Pike,” will lee Knicke: ie Sop.) ckerbocker Berlesquers encore will bave Harry Bryants Dewey ae Sie Gotta ‘will be the Trocadero ieee will give a at eet Soloists vill be * ain Elizabeth Schiller, 100; 3 Jeanette Powers, lo~ Knee Api ictren, lett Pasi (she mper ells, VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS, Barl and ae six Johnni whl the bill at Augusto yee Biene, the ‘oellist; Col. champion rifle shot et, the te ta harles Waren a thet the Wilton Brothers, ane e ‘and V. P. Woodward, pean tambourine Juggler, will oomplsts this ‘ mee will produce | , At Al "s Twen riveatsf lh be (rela Oui HJac's ponies, Hal Inez MoCauley Black Man, Sntien and Havel okhers. At ‘6 omittycaghth ‘Theatre id_will embrace Paul nquevalli’ Nhe famous ler; the Dareths i} Gran ue Thalia will have ‘The Curse of| boy Seen. ‘The | Burglar Worked While Doctor Was aat a oe Annie Youmans and Miss Jennie Yen- and ‘Bailey in roan ‘Cigarette Cas Sorwey. "musical a it on ing, comedienn bythe the Yate Wilson Car- tlantio len_will heye the Shubert Quartette, the Nohrens, performers; Laura Rich, character comedienne; Mile. Orletto, flying ring performer. and the Elite’ Ladies Or. Ede At alee yn nm Bed capes Svengalas hia ott be Japs as aoe features SAT UPON THIEF TILL POLICE CAME. |= at Dinner and Fought Two with Jimmy, Dr. W. H. Vall and bis brother, Cyrus mastered a burglar in fine shape, caught In the act of robbing the resi- donce of the physician, at No, 34 Mount Prospect avenue, Newark, Toi ‘While the doctor's family Were at din- ner the thief broke In by = rear en- trance, but was not heard until ne had reached the floor above the dining- ere hen Dr. Vail aud tis brother ie era to aap war seated, and gat on the eres and held him until the epi} of the Tan decaribsa puaet it Charles is pA omer) be tl xine. ‘ie crook successfully be has breaking Teet mis ltd Inothe houses in Newark and the oe Nanny LA GASCOGNE REPORTED. The French Une steamer La Gas- coume, from Havre fer New York, was passing T was Nordica’s night. I dinner and kept it until mtdnigh Occasionally she gave Mr. Burgstaller @ piece of it, in order that he might die happy. The big audience sent the big prima donna a big bouquet and a bigger wreath, The wreath came at the end, together with two curtain calls, It was midnight, but home was never like that performance of ‘Tristan and Isolde.’ Wagner's beautiful work was the right thing in the right time. It arrived on the striking hour. The poor $15-a- week chorus wasn't missed. The good ship Unlucky Strike was manned by a crew composed of the less important men principals of Conried’s forces and ambitious youtha from his private school. Even Caruso had volunteered as a strike-breaker, but the word was taken for the decd, as was also the case with Mr. Dippel, who took it easy in a box. ‘The bridal ship has boasted lustier crews in its me, but this one at least kept Conried’s craft from going jon the rocks. SS/er2 the gray dawn of morning, After a few hours of restlgss tossing he is up again with those same infernal questions forming a riotous proces- sion through his mind unttl his brain throbs with pain. That is “the seriousness of being funny,” and I only wish that some of those who thoughtlessly criticise us could have positions revereed for one trial. We would surely be more charitable toward those who are trying to please us, and perhaps they would find that no one has a sinecure:when it comes to trying to please. As a final word or two, let, me sug- gest that it is harder to be funny at Joe Weber's Music Hall than In any other theatre I have any knowledge of. The audiences there are the wisest {n the world, and they have had such a succession of big suc- cesses that the audiences expect to get more than they do anywhere else, And that’s no joke! leleivinieleleieinlnlefofofel- ‘LORD ROTHSCHILD Strongly to Food of Peo- ple Being Taxed. LONDON, Jan. 6—Dord Rothschild, in @ speech at Watford to-day in sup- rt of the Protectionist candidate, oa Frederick Halsey, the altaing member, announced himself ag a "Free ‘Trader in favor of the negotiation ot tariff treaties with other countries." Rothschild said he had never hidden the fact that he was a Free ‘Trader. He. objected strongly to the taxation of the food of the people and | k uy) same time he must also say Re 7 favor of ni in word d retaliation ation, not to use the remembered the eras thee of Gobden'a treaty with France, under two recent treaties which’ Lor Lansdowne had hegoilated with Rou mania and/ Bulgaria Lancashire good: would now be admitted to those coun- rand | {ree much lower tariffs than HIS LAST SPREE ENDED IN DEATH. Arthur McKay, Sheet Writer, Known to Race-Track Men, Died in Flower Hospital. Arthur) McKay, forty years old, known to every frequenter of Eastern Face tracks aa a wonderfully fast sheot JiNter, dled to-day at Flower Hospital. Técord given the cause of death as sondng,” but alco! cama Wren the: Gingtaip Ut ce congas MoKay lived at No, 12 East itty. third street, ‘with Snedeker, the book. maker, by whom he was employed. All fast yoarshe left liquor alone, hut duce ing Christmas week ho began drinking eavily: Tuesday morning he was found | — room unconscious, Policoman Farrell was called in, and he in turn got Dr, Lol ux, -with an ambulance, McKay was taken to the hospital. He neven recovered his senses. He was born in Canada, and had no family. eh] men all over the coun- try knew The Square Deal Magazine Tells the truth about Labor , Unions and other trusts. Cc. w, POST is one of the writers. $1.00 a year. The Square Deal, St. James Bldg,, New York. News Stands, 10c OUT FOR FREE TRADE Declares in Speech He Objects} ‘OE WEBER'S A™*35"™* THIDDLE: i How Nature Mr. is now a stock broker, investor and) mine-owner and has just returned from British Columbia. “Phat was one reason I left the faa- cinating theatrical busiiess, but tho greater veason was the realization that the most gorgeous scenes, constructed by the most gifted hania, could not rise to the hights which real nature presents to her admirers. “When twenty years ago I saw tho} great success with which my work wus crowned I was but half content. I had taken Margaret Mather from a fifteen- cent show and had made her one of the most brilliant stars in the theatrical firmament. “But once I was sent to no Canada—my interests were nged. 1 returned to New York, tried/to become interested again in the stage, out I real. jzed then how utterly inadequate were the histrionic counterfeits of the mar. vels of nature, “This is why I «pend seven months each year out yonder—this Is why T keep piling up my mining Interests there. I had money before I went Imo the theatrical business, I had invented western Mme. Nordica Sings Superbly in ‘Tristan and Isolde,” She simplyy walked in and took It right after | hi Nordica swept the deck ir dress, diated *% Gatching on the ste! Burgstaller, too, as Tris his best, singing ‘with event his wonted fervor. Miss EB as Brangae usual. Mr. Van Kurvenal and Mr. King Mark. tan, m: Rooy was a drowned out able efforts bobbed out to start ‘There was no indication on thi the muslel: that they expec called out at any moment to tomary chord. Won fa device and soki It toga pro’ use as his own. 242 “Tt is harder to make a star than to find gold.” suki James M. Hil, who has evolved many theatrical stars and who | called It his, ening the ‘corks’ phn of a_ penell-sharpener. moter offered me $2,000 for th but gave me $20,000 I took starred Murguret Mather, promoter returned, ‘The Inven no good. It drew the temper Lon, little window and scare the away. “Our party usually cotisinte persons. The ‘Judge,’ buttoned even in the wildes youth, who shot we only woman t! regre theatricul “management—but &re forever calling me back." AMUSEMENTS. New Amsterdam 324 "20° Sau. FAY Minute LETON in “GEO. COHAN’ i “45 Minutes from Broadway” BROADWAY esr a2, oor Edwantes With ait ae Tandon Company, Veronious is) ERTY Pesatig, aa sot “ionay 16 a READ MAN Next Monday, Seats Now on THE CCANS Why N Mate. 14TH sT. Huber’s Museum ee TIME INN. ¥, EMOTOS ROYAL __ JIU JITSU JAPS. THEATRE Harman ‘< Fou « "Dubie, New sunday’ Concerts Nat_w week—At Piney Ri EAST Y ease ==THE GOTHAM =a5t aa | Datatrary—aice @ Bartin's Big Gatety (POLONAL Prince of Pilsen Girte with ‘ttuck, Fel rey & vy gas ae Barry, dew Jewel's "fant Dally Mts. Knee watay nionteverty. 7th av., 126 at. Mr. 'R. A, Roberts & others met nH "Blanche, achin a Waterniclon Girls & Others, 14th St., 2d Ax. PASTOR'S & gontisuous. ROZINOS. GUS WILLIAMS, mar aes AND AYER, 3 WESTON SISTER! ATLANTIC 9 (ital power. nr. Canal st Bt, Taatene; Gaylor and Grate, Basis Clank: Jone Allen, Moving Pictures, Eschert’s Orchestra. ath, mr Hy, | CROSMAN ic ee y Preveded by A Short Play, Manhattan: Diteicbstela'e ie ge Sey akOR Ss x2 iii St. Nicholas Rink, @o%%: » Col. Ave. Hogkey Game to-night, Columbia va Prince: ton} Perfect 8 aeaal ‘excopt won & Errol, Guyer Nelli, “Jullien 31 MAT. TO-DA’ LYRIC i Babes “ni Baron i. BREA Ls am gp ihe ith ont the sau D AY. Mat. To-day. Lire Next Week—THE FLAMING ARROW. 3 Se, ole, CLOSES 1 TO. NIGHT pe RI : ret siecle ii Randeuttin ied Ae | t Bey gees aE AMUSEMENTS, EMPIRE SHEarRe. by MAUDE ADAMS CRITERION EAT RE. Also Pan’ y aE ROEM 8 THEA, B'wa: Evie. 813. Mat. HERALD SQ. bcs Tae EE eat HUDSON © THEA we Robert Loraine we SAVOY THEA. yes SAVOT Haunees Thursday & Heres fie ianesag | & 45th at. LYGEUM Br = se THE LION AND TI BELASCO 3, $4 Mat, Saturday, BLANCHE. EB, THES in Acndemy of BER’ ye ta Babi! Bolas GALLAND erent Popular Prices. Mat. To-day, Boe David Relnsna never 1 BAND SOUSA | ASR ORROW Ey 14th St. THA, At th Ai Ma’ Night Grand Eigeons, caislay one anid Caged ‘Binds, Gavies,' Ha dren. 250.0 A.M. to and his shirt collar open at the -| Then there ts our foreman, a handsome, a poor crovs-eyed traveller because he thought the Wway= farer was ogling his bride of a month: hereabouts), t that nature spoiled me for — Ie pl at Tine ini Bes nled Sta year Jn and | her volee--a voice that he wind, as free as the and as clear as the sky. She wi house when she came out to theet ries flowed ike ee very beautti ron the other.” She ‘gat bine ein the gave Derformance. z aaa Nicer, oe a chen: aplenaid. | ‘he orchestra was likewise on ite deat behavior, and although Conductor: the # won Wi of applause when fi the second act ie part 3) ted to be strike as moter (0 I did not core ie Tt was a device for shat of horseshoes on the The pro=> no” pacetity, that abd One day my tion was from “But to return to the story of God's country. Here is the picture of our log hut. It js not a sky-scraper, It is heated by a primitive stove and lighted | with candles which radiate through one © parithece: ot four | who weighs three hundred pounds, wears his overcoat un t ators he bills ay Mats. 2 Wea ane rire a Ethel | Barrymore id ich ieey th Lionel ‘Barryvaots, ‘Both GUT, sae a jerk Eva, ND THE MO [Pua suet Panu ateeee Pp lipped ic ENING. This Week & Next GRAND. GEO. M. COHAN JONES** “LITTLE JOHNNY: IWESTIC wth 1 ee ite eae ‘Mat..1.00, ~ MARIE CAHILL ption of David Corson, | MOON SHEN | ai od SQ. [igre Re aa in ay “AS i sow. aoe DICK AND. OUIS | QLARA Mann & Lipmant 33 ti Erg rireay Service tee Beak ‘PO! it Week- ie cams | ( LEONARD. Al Next Wiest RAYS. Ia “pone t FIELDS a2 Ai ett ale ot By BROOKLYN LYN AMUSEMENTS. IMPERIAL fae MS MONay ht vaste th ve AT THE BIPFPODROMS TO- MORROW! EVG, METROPOLISi ae Blass an acceptasle:— sympathetic strike, instead of the cuss CHARLES DARNTON. Hill from Broadway steel of the shoe by {ts repid revolus fa) SHEPARD'S MOVING PICTURES | : Noxt Week—AL H.Wilnon. The German Te ny uf