The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1907, Page 11

The fvening A. L. ERLANGER “New Title Means All | That Is Superior in the Vaudeville World.’’ By Charles Darnton. LTHOUGH the theatrical season {s dead so far as new prod tions are concerned, vaudeville f¢ very much alive and kick- ing up more dust than the Jateet spring stylé of automobile. ue ‘ With, “combinations” forming right and left and the In- vasion of the field by a powerful firm of. theatrical managers, ths “continuous” is in the public opora-glass as never before. Head}iners even the traine: ness, are hoarsely tten {n contracts We F down are being bunted on both skies of the Atlantis, a Wwriggilms out of the water with pathetic eviewar jog for higher sstaries, Vaudeville history is bel t read like fina: The lady who 4 with a urs » mere a ital A, weartly ctor who minid pices her own bos grow pais and thin { ard a bucking tre for a cro bs We've been hearing the four figures end envious ac Sadyenced” #t ed adopted to ¢ our | | \ cities. \ When 1 4 with William Morr the plans wo bad in mind 1 him we wanted to a class of vaudevil'e that would be in advance of en ever given My) ewhy not call it~ advanced he . The gestion struck me as RB go eo I decided to adopt the title. While I notice t is b ed by va } ville managers tn different pa th cance without the Klaw é { Erfanger ought to mean s ing by this time, for wegave nev Whenever we have founa ne hearty approval of it golng wit lose thousands of that the public , I think, that \ force anything on the pu ¢ that one of our productions id not / public we have taken {t off at once inste’ / ope of getting our money back. We wow dollars than lose the confidence of the public. } tas given the productions we have kept on the stage sho it has confidence in Klaw & Erlanger. ‘ “What will ‘advanced vaudeviile’ mean to patrons of vaudeville?” 1 ) tmquired. Foreign Novelties and American Fun. “Tt will mean,” replied Mr. Erlanger, “all that 1s superior in the vau-| Geville world. We shall not confine ourselves to any country, but get the dest in ail countries, We now have agents 4]! over Europe, and we shall keep theur there permanently to get the very best novelties for Americs, | ‘| po matter what they may cost. It is our plan to heve Buropean novelties | nd American humor on our bills.” } “€nglish humor seems to be apprectated here,” I suggested. “Yes,” he agreed, “and we shall bave that, too. We shal! also briue \ ewer the big vaudeville features. The Engitsh are vaudeville producers, | not merely vaudeville vultures who pounce upon musical comedies and lift | features for their own use, as so many do in this country. Vaudeville! » production in England is made upon a large and dignified scale, and the} waudevilie actor over there is not left entirely to his own resources, Nothing bas ever been done for the vaudeville actor in this country, He ts seldom given more than a ‘drop,’ said with only this ald, if it may be fea \ Ralph Slade, Reporter and Detec-' tive, Rescued by the Cruiser | Wolverine, Is Revived and Bids His Savers to Head Quickly tor ‘* The Volcano.”’ a sg pecan Sy of Mate Timmisa of avoard the | Lavgbliue b od from Inta.tn 11" livea, proves to Laugaing Lasse THC MYSTERY. By Sidwart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams. Copyrighted 1907 by MeCiure, Pritlips & Co CHAPTER VI. (Continued The Castaways. | UCH « flurry of eagerness burned S in the face of Barnet that Tres- enclhe ats | don cautioned him. “See here, Mr. aul mecis| Barnett, you're not going to fire « ase ‘v0 | broadside of Auiturbing questions at my mysterious “cruise |pationt yet a while He's in no ont | |, oul (Aboard | the | thon.”" But {t was from the other that the questions came, Opening his eye: ECEDINO CHAPTERS The Unit biews 7 Menget be | Whispered: “The milor? Where “Dead,” wat4 Trendon, bluntly, Then, breaking | amked “Did he come off the schooner with | yout" K. | “Picked him up,” was “ straining ene bewits jenewer, “Drifung.” end"the Laughing Lass ai | ‘The survivor looked around him, then dery eopeare in whieh are two men. hia own rule of repression, he XT WEEK THE BVENING WORLD will give $10 4 day in prises} to Practical Housekeepers, as follows: Two prises of $1 each for the best 200 words or lese—the fewer words the better—under ny one of these five headings, making ten prises in all: Summer Dishes, ‘ome Dresemaking, Ooay-Oorner Hints, Window Gardens and Kitchen T Hints, Bend letters to “HOUSEKE. @ PRIZES BDITOR, P. 0. Box 41854 New York Otty.” f ; The names and addresses of To-Day's Ten Price Winners are given be- ow with the Prize-Winning Suggestions, Sronie caterch are a xe originated maak of ed loosely 2008~ Not only oo ote | Wor la’ 8 he’ into Marnett’s face, and this mind, too, | Kore fi s 0 for example, to sing at the Church,’ the h 1 be there. In otaer words, ide an appropriate set p bill.” p {nat has e bill each is now the custom, we shal) ive companies, which will remain practically intact during the entire season. By follow- ing this plan we shall know that an entertainment opening in any of the | various cities where we have theatres | will contain no new material that {s untried, and that the bill is a good, smoothly running performance. That | is one of the principal inno- | vations we shall make, Every company gent out will be equipped as com- Dietely #8 a regular organization playing the so-called legitimate theatres, | Each company will have a manager, stage manager and musical director.” “Do you expect t> revolution{ve the vaudeville business?” Will Revolutionize the Business. “In my opinion this system wil) revolutionize the vauderille business, for it will result in making the entertainments brighter and better; each act will fit Into the programme; it will have been tried; the people wit have been working together for months instead of coming together as strangers every Monday—in short, the opening show wil! not be a trial performance. There will be another innovation: Tnatend of having only ‘The Free Lance Picked Up From “The Tagine Lass” You saw it?" a strange Ueht."" ar traversed the years North Dakota?’ he queried . eald Bar- | rope $0; I've changed my lade nett. ‘This is the Wo exploded “Where's the Laughing Lass? ‘ he *ked Barnett shook his head ‘Tell me," begged Slade goon to," “Wait til you're stronger” 84-/ FST {man halt dead of ce ntustion " ished ‘Trendon. “Can't walt,” sald the (weak voice. The eyes ¢: wild Mr. Bari tell him the bare outline jAnd make it short,” said the surgeon sighted the Laughing Lass two |4ays ago. She was & good shape, Dut May Manton S , ———_ * Daily Magazine, SHLIDPEDL STOLE TH! SHEP ESE TED TOE Tells About * Advanced Vaudeville” hie __ Aaaaninamiaill |“Bills Will Be Made Up Headliners and Travel- E ling Companies Kent tact.’’ kpuretslicg ltrgtventiin Shrndie si all pay no attention to thelr business, but attend strictly to our own! hat will ‘advanced yaudevitie’ mean to the vaudeville performer?” 4 “It will mean, among other things,” was the reply, “greater securityy the matter of engagements. Heretofore the majority of vaudeville performers have not been geiting consecutive ‘time.’ The more torrential | | we fn bavo been able to eee th way through a season, but many of others could get only two, turee or four weeks, after which they iy competied to remain idle for the same ‘ength of time, so that al as great, > on thelr earnings have not been greater, mate’ compantes with cc oncerning the plan of K densed musical comedies, Mr “Instead of having weak acts o j best come last and to end the bil do not contemplate giving if 2 ‘leg nUOUS eLgagementa.” maid «l ‘chasers,’ we intend to have the wich @ musical comedy or fares. We ) any serious sketches, for the reaton that we belleve people go to vaude © be nmused. One of our biggest features ~ will be Thompson & Dundy's Circus. Our vaudeville houses will be cone, ducted on precisely the same principie a» our reguiar theatres. A farce or musical comedy wi!) be cast with the same care that we give to @ production playing In a first-class New York theatre.” {You can do all of e things and still make ‘advanced vauderilis’ pay? Fortunes Made by Vaudeville Managers. | “It may not pay as well as some of the vaud le theatres are paying now,” answered Mr, Wrlanger, with a collar-mark lurking in his amlle, |“but It will pay. Do you happen to know what the Victoria earns for afr. | Hammerstein? Well, it brings in more money than any four |New York theatres together, with the possible exception of the New Amsterdam and Empire theatres. [ll give you another example: Twenty- fivo years ago Keith « din the vaudeville business with a freak baby, and a rt time ago he refused an offer of $5,000,000) for bis inter- ests. You don’t bear; very much about the vaudeville manager because he reldom has anything to say to the pablic. Hut he has earned the respost j aud confidence of the public by kee faith with it, Unlike some the | Mtrical managers, he isn't etvibg out a lot of buncombe shout ‘art’ or having his press agent advertise him with ‘dog stories.’ He is pli attending to businusa.” : | “And the business {s cons ly growing?” | “Yes; but {t's stfil tn 4 y. There is no doubt that tn the tnte- jrtor cities, such as Clev |, Cincinnat!, Indianapo! Washington and | Newark, the people who attend vaudeville performances greatly outnumber those who go to other places of amuwement, and this condition naturally would follow in the larger cilies, Twenty thousand people witnessed, the vaudeville performance given under our management at the Chestuut A lA’ “s { Street Opera-House during the week of May 13, breaking all rlanger lattondause: mt that house. the- leading teeatte CF Putadelphia tas COPYMIGTT BY | nor helleve, however, that the legitimate theatres will suffer because ROCK ISGO OME | of the two vaudeville circults, either tn point of attendance or loss dt * -—--- |{mportant actors. My experience has taught me that the greater the 7 number of good entertainments of all kinds gotng on fn a clty the better ‘it ts for the theatrical business generally, This is cxplained, in my opin= fon, by the fact that people get into the habit of going to places of amuse- 3 one headliner, we shall try to have the whole bill made up of headliners. ment when they find the entertainment averages well. When theres % We do not tntend to have one big feature, surrounsted by inferior acts, @ ie bare pri on the other and, Ser. Dene cienersies and bess. b bed ome. so, I repeat, 10 e growing interest vau- condition which is a hardship not only to the performer who heads the ‘ile will work to the detriment of the theatre In fact. we intend to ar bill but a greater one to the patrons, who are obliged to sit in a theatre’. axe more theatrical productions than ever next season.” 3 for two hours {n order to get fifteen minutes of real entertainment.” “Will the supply of headliners equal the demand?" “There will be no difficulty in getting the talent to supply the tn- ‘Why” (the artless question almost choked me) “have you gone into the vaudeville business?" “Because we believe the public wants yaudeville,” answered Mr. Erlanger, “and because we are {un the theatrical business to give the public 4 creased number of vaudeville theatres,” said Mr. Erlanger. “And there) what it wants. Some one wanted to know the other day why Kiaw & will be plenty of room for both cireults, The newspapers have been | Erlanger didn't go into the circus business, “We were offered the Barnum & Bailey show shortly after Mr Bailey's death, and I was sorry we <a aed but tf take it. A cireus requires a great deal of time and attention, and Messrs. | qidn't have the time to spare. But we may have one yet. I could have Beck and the gentlemen Associated with | lot of fun with a circus.” devoting a great deal of pace to what they call a ‘vaudeville war,’ thore {8 any battle the fighting is entirely on the other side. Keith, Proctor, Wi ps, Kohl, n hour before Sla world again. ‘1 along." The other ‘« still there, The chorus of greeting was hearty 8 zon find her ‘on Ry Ry a Te with tho enough, but the Journalist barely paid yiverine’® en- ~ let wt have it ‘and iby head) > core of acknowledgment. His || nd whe ‘ 4 " jane n Just ugh turn *%@ #wept the horizon eagerly until it! Parkinson's rateed oid her egatost the|rested on the cloud of yolcanto smoke (Him (“If you well ae a" f billowing up across the setting sun, A sigh of relief escaped him, hin “Where are wet’ he asked Barnett, “I mean since you picked me up. How jong ago was that, anyway?” “Yesterday,” replied the navigating |oMeer, “We've stood off and on, lool jing for some of our men.’ if "8 ‘ell, CHAPTER VII. The Free Lance. Y the following afternoon Dr. Tren- don reported his patient as quite recovered. ea for Daly Fashions B “Ss water,” proffered tne| “Then that’s the same vol [deserted, ‘That is, we thought she was NDERWEAR without fulness over surge: Tissues fairly @ried out| Barnett laughed softly D hi és ‘ 4 aren't quite holding a caucus of wean: Doctor, deserted. is much in demand by Soaked him op, Fed him broth: Put) noes down in this country, One ike that | 4tuff would "Sent ~~ <4 “We ry The man nodded eagerly. ¥ nim to sleep. He'a all right. Just/is enough." yarniny.” “1 guppose you were eboard,” ’ h Os CePeORNY wakes up to eat; then off again like a| ut Slade brushed the remark asid: «One als Barnett, and Tremion made a quic i the warm weather. | tw: “Wonderful constitution.” | gr,1ftad for st!" he cried excitedly, “We oath h . ™ to |may be in time! Ther & man on that genture of impatience and rebuke. | at are shapely and or nan wants to know if ne | Island.” “No,” pata Glade. “Lett three<four— ¢ e time that can came on Gedk, str.” saluted an|,.4 man!” | “Another!” don't know how many nights ago. "| b and which y ; bey rh ye Not! same of our. bays?” The oMcers ‘ooked at each other. | be made fre 4 materials the ‘aked up, en? Come on, Barnett, op.” | mate D }"Go on," said Trenton ta nis eom-| are used for g of the sort, Nair boost him en deck.” | nos Sd ST) panion ook wit h trimming of lace is the ma: os @ two offloers disappeared, to return ‘Batre, re ie “We put a crew aboard in command ter ated, nent armetn-arm with Reipo Darrow, you baie of an ensiga,” continued Barnett, “and the Mike ere quite as appropriate, while Who ta vs Picked up the schooner the next night : } can be e ofe rly twenty-four houry rest end nye bee ihe sagsiant It's a band ie. deserted. You shust kagw aboct tt tery or can be trimmed with lace | treatment had done wonders. He) #ta: Where te Billy award?’ sertion as liked. Each Jeg portion 1 4 (rfl weak and uncertain, matt, Jena isgrrup | ectats “Never heard of bim,” whispered the cut to be wide end full at the lower « Uttie glad to lean on the Fkineon, nar teem 4 | Solomon, 7 | other. edge, while it te hie companions, tut hie eye Volcano you chest, an “ and MoQuire, then, They were Open Dart Fitted Draware—Pattorn darts b bright and alert and his hollew yey! ie mew bb a3 Be wnoug! there sfoer— Great (od, man!” he No. bee Q \n® cheeks mounted @ slight eoler. This, |who Percy Darrow ls. And there's din- | /neet,, Mul) =e cried, his agitation breaking out medium else te 214 yar inches wide » : ‘iw ie clothes lent bim by Barnett. | ner, so we'll just adjourn to the Dipme you a bit.’ Yourself together! Give us something of easing. stormed his appearence, and led |foom and hear what you can ‘ell aa "We've seen marvels ourselves to go on,” Pattern No, 6682 te cut in sixes for a 2, M8 99, M2 Si and M4 Inch waist. 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