The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1907, Page 9

By Charles Darnton. YOUNG man in a brown study and a sult to match stood at a win- dow in the tip-top story of the New Amsterdam Theatre Building and gazed down upon the snow-streaked roofs on the Belasco side of Forty-second street. “Poor Hammerstein!” he sighed. “Why?” I queried. “Because,"’ explained George Melancholy Cohan, “his one best joke 1s dead. You know, last year, when they sald Jerome was going to close the theatres on Sunday: Oscar answered right back with this one: ‘Jerome ,ought ‘to get some new stuff.’ Ain't {t tough to ‘lose a line like that and have-the funeral on Sunday? And that’s not all. If this thing hadn't hap- pened Oscar could have made enough on a good Sunday to send all his opera alngers back to Europe. Take {t from me, you never can tell aboit ‘new stuff.’ : “How about yours?” J inquired, ‘and loafed into chairs. ae : “It's a gamble every time,” drawled George M., cocking his trained John Drew eye at me. “Would you believe it, when I brought ‘Twenty-three’ to town, even’ the wise ones-didn’t know ft. It worked here for three months before it drew a full week's laugh. I picked it up in San Francisco, where the folks used it for houschold purposes. but when I turned {t loose in New York {t was a sad case of ‘Lost in a Great Cit Our most advanced citi- gens used to ask the head usher what Tt meant, and I heard one fellaw'tell snother: ‘It's the number of his lodgo.’" Young Mr. Cohan talked himself inlo a cocked hat as we pursued the @ubject of New York as a slang centre, we turned away from thé window {t's not worrying me.” Slang Shipped Here. 1 Wath ana ‘They know more about slang in Chi-|fenaphnt FOF you see A've re. cago and San Francisco,” he exp as he cocked his hat over the Drew op- . tie “They know more about it because they use more of it When !t comes here we have to be introduced to It, and it takes us wome time to get ac- qusinted.”* New York, in the light of the gray, vaw day. and what its most advanced siangist had said. began to look almost as hopeless as London. In desperation I called upon the glib young man to Getend nis town. “I'm not @ New Yorker, you know,” be drawied. “I'm from Providence—but I saw {t tn his plain black tle, his quiet clothes and the long-suffering derby that wax doomed to a short life, “Do you know Victor Moore." he anked, giving (he hat a moment’a rest “Well, he isn't a bit lke Kid Burns. Ho hardly uses a word of siang o1f the stage.” “Where did you discover tim?" “Over at ilammerstein's ore after- noon, He was playing a ‘Nick actor’ in a sketch, and the moment he was through I chased over to the office and mid: “Grab that fellow! He's just-the boy I've been looking for. He made a hit with me because he didntt act like @n actor. I heard @ man say the other day, ‘This fellow Moore will play this Kind of part all his life?’ Well, he Won't hayo to. He can play other things as we}l us he plays the Kid, for he's an actor. And what's more, he's an easy actor He's about tie only one who has an easy time of it in “The Talk of New York," 1 remarked, ® tae race that {* run at the Knickerbock: Keeping Up the Pace, “I delleve in stlekin, deli n iB to the ly atte he sai@. “I'm always going RG ave 2 good time, even when I'm writ. ing a play. And I always sit in the I @on't play there.” ‘But Kid Burns is a New Yorker, Jen't het’ I asked, with increasing thought he was an ex-champton," he answered. “Anyw they wrote about him as Kid McCoy in Gisguigg. But I guess he belongs here, all right. You can meet him on almost ny corner in New York. I've known him all my life, or ever since I came from Providence—and that's the eame | thing. I know a thousand fellows just | like him, and while they aren't fa: when !t comes to conversation, the: all on the square, and you can go a long distance with them.” “And they talk like your ‘Kid?’ ” “Same stuff. They all study the same language, and they know it by heart. | Audience when i write. It the stutt I've been hearing tt since I was a kid. |Pleases me I fizury it will please the ‘optean't it changed with other| Public. 1 simpy try to amuse. th atyies?** public—I don’t expect anyone to take me seriously. And, anyway, New York doesn't take anything very seriously, New Yorkers witl alt around a tabi telling about some fellow’a wife leav- The ‘Johnny Jones’’ Kind. ‘Oh, yes," answered the authority, ‘it has kept up to date. The New York young fellow 1s bound to keep up to |‘ date, even if he runs behind In hiw| te blase burg, all right. room rent. He knows more than any-|, He unbuttoned his vest /walstcoat™ tody else, or at least he thinks he does | Wouldn't At the subject) and swung a because he walka ug and down Broad- |!06 over his chair with the remark: Yway, on the lookout for the latest.| “Tey ueed to call me ‘the laziest swhen I happened, he dressed like me in|comedian th the world,’ and put @ the first act of “Johnny Jones,” and} on mark afer ‘comedian,’ but started up the tine, stooped over and York didn't care, I've taken chewing gum. He didn't overlook any- | lately playing a dressing- thing, from my hat to my spate.” room part In ‘Fifty Milex From Bos- “you havea lot to answer for,” I re-jton.’ 1 went on for about five minutes marked. to do a hero specialty, and I came back ing him and make a Joke of {t. Thin ts! HIS coat gives I the broad shoulder et- fect and ds the fa- fore.of the season. It entirely covers \ the frock, and +s adapted to every weasonable materia! In the {Ilustration ‘Bordeaux red broad- cloth {a trimmed with black braid end with little frits of ribbon, but brown and green are fa- vorite colors, and there are many mix- tures pecullarly well adapted to school- qirls’ wear. The frills can be omitted {f womething plain- er is wanted; aldo the soutache on the front panels, es the binding of)braid is Yeally all that 1s Necessary. The coat conasiate of the frontz and the front payela with “the bask. The back ta . Mad In plalts for its entire length and =the front edges are omed over and ar- yanged over the centre fronts, giv- ing the effect of x -plait at each aide The) quantity of material required for the medium siz» (10 years) in 5 1-1 yards 27,3 1-4 yards 1 for frills and soutanhe, according to des Pattern No. 5,8) is cut in sizes | wow te Call.pr. send by mall to @btaia rf TON FASHION BUREAU. No. 2 West Twenty-third street, New York, Sep ten cents in colm or stamps for each pattern ordered. Astoopate IMPORKTANT—Write your name'and address plainty, and ofp arbor) waye specify size wanted. oof Girl's Coat—Pattern No, 5,839. 44 or 23:4 yardn 52 Inches wide, with +10 yards of wide braid, & yards of ribbon a * Ign uxed. or girix of & 10 and 12 years of age THE EVENING WORLD MAY MAN. : ‘A Thrilling Hu nt for Treas ure—R The Evening World Daily RLVPRPEDLDPOOPOPPHBRLPOGRHP POVHGSHOP PHHDD DB BPPPHHDHDDHDRDDDDD DHRDOPHPDBDO GEORGE COHAN JS ays His “Kid Burns” | Can Be Found on Every New York Corner — @,?. ky : peg Uff, haar, the Kid in about an-hour to give ‘em five min- ntes of this.'* Hé danced what B rising from is chatr "It wax the sort of in the dreseing-room fest awake, but {t was enous’ ston got without I might do t to keep my to make a hit. That careless stuff always gets ‘em. ‘Don't ask fof applause,’ I tell my actors, ‘Make ‘em think you don't want Jt and you're sure to get it.’ When you wait for an encore in New York with a look that says, ‘Now I'll get {t," the audience sits back on its shoulder-bladea and says, ‘You will, eh? And then you don’t. Down came the derby and up went the Drew eye. “This 1s a funny town, he musod, “and believe me, it fs the only place in the country where they don't ko plumb daffy over melodrama. And yet they'll pay $2 a plate to see biood dripping on @ handkerchief, and they'll stand for a gal digging @ card out of her stocking in a poker game with a professional gambler who {s wise to every trick of the trade. ‘They take that sort of thing and cal) it ‘art,’ when it's nothing but straight melodrama. If 1t were called j‘mel@drama’ it wouldn't have a chance," “How about musica . melodrama?” Music and Shooting. “It's bound: to be a winner,” declared Ita inventor, ‘When we were rehears- ing ‘Johnny Jones’ I waa told th couldn't whoot into a crowd and then MASTER ADAM JAEGER, No. 0% Ten Eyck street, Brooklyn.—Your plc ture entitled “Swe: tremely pretty incon well grouned. JEROME MOSER, No. 1408 Madison avenue, Cityi—Picture very good and shows artlatic talent. | eg ree | To the Young Readers of The Even-| ing World AM much pleased with, the great} I number of quick responses and ox- | col work sent {9 upon Tho | vening “World's series art cut uta. Wesolect from among the ma clever compositions sent in publication, with a list of ‘others who bave sent for riames fn very compos|tions This work, as We progress, will pee! come very entertaining and exciting, as ven out old many changes In the deolgns gi In. to you will ogeu wh both and young can cor The name of every one who clr know in gee Mshed. progross mi wil your name as L think a gone {dea woud vox In which to from th com, sign’ cut tyou shave be st ‘and continued carefully alen, " every d ao that yu ean n Kk your Im.) provemon:. It will alles 1 amo th jamusing book to abow, 3-0 | ‘An npace ix limited, can give but a} short lst of Pore who have sent exceiiont ead ‘ ‘The OOOO RRR New York Children Are Eager for The Evening World Art L Hundreds of Them Cut Out the Figures and Rearrange in Pictures. Magazine, Saturday, December 7, 1907; —+ PPPGPPLOLEDLRLSREROOSES “They wsed (0 call Fos me Ihe laZtEest comedian 9 New York and pul a GUESLIOD Mark efter Come alan” essons. IRECTIONS for making picture. Cut out all the dbjects and arrange them D upon a plece of white paper, 6 by 8 Inches, In sych a way as to form a pretty subject; then paste “arm down. He careful not to place the objects as to look out of location when you put In your extra drawing them. A most charming composition can be niade from this cut-out ple- We might suppose it is the back door of a ittle country home, and the little fellow prefers to ent his ear of corn outside, Well, ‘this 1s my idea, but 1 H. R, LICHTENSTEIN, No. 33 Bast} One Hundred and’ Fourteenth atreet, | City.—You have cut out the objects very | carefully and grouped them pictur- esquely. JENNIE «‘DOUGALL, No, 9 Third} avenue, Long Island City, New York.—j Your frat attempt at this work is very } Twenty-three wes \' lost loa great /ly. : . sing. Well, I dia: I aidn't give the audience time enough to think about ft. You can't affon! to wait in musical thelodrama, and that's what makes the musical end of ft diffcult. You have to write up to a song and then right any from !t on the Jump, The hari- est part 1s writing away from it, for 1€ you aren't quick about it your song will leave a big hole, If you could have a fellow run in right after the song and fall down an elevator shaft, it would be a simple matter, but to plok up the play and oarry it along in a legitimate way isn't so easy, You've got to take care of your situation. It's the situation that makes that walts in ‘The Merry Widow.’ Without the eit- uation the waltz would attract no par tloular attention.” “Do you write a song to ft a sttun- ton? “T've never written a song to make @ dollar,” he declared. ‘I mean by that, I have never given a publisher a “Why do you take the ‘Kiki’ back to esary, for ft ts the sought aifts made by the nimble fingers time and thought to make by noticed the knitted ties which ave. are quite expensive when bought af utilizes her spare mements. priate gift vhan a favorite stores are crowded with attractive ‘woman. Pretty purses in leather er \e song—end tho: emclaimed: mays have a sons belong to the play—| Heusere ergy tine I wane to acike te tell a part of the story.” matoh, me IEmbecidered yell as college pillows, The mam who favors the ette holder with no end of joy, and for the bosk New Rochefle with thet song in the Jaat att” I asked. Mr. Cohan, New Rochelle. “Well, you sca” he replica “I've premised to do a whole lot for tha’ down. When I went there with’ 'Forty- Five Minutes’ at the! opening of the soason the Mayor :matle n speech and | told ‘em I-was goink to ltve there. And then look at Mary—she got money enough there to promote grand opera.” “And you got monéy enough to bulld @ theatre In Now York? St expect to open the Gayety in “The Gayety? Then you won't ha .,| Your name over the door?’ "No, I'm lable to div." ‘Will owning a theatre make any | Mifterence with your’ “Ob, no; I'll treat you boys just the aame.’’ hee 2 BASS : 4 ‘(Laughter and .buxiness: of Manager’ | Sam Harris falling in a fit.) j I ‘risked a question about the new plece for the new house, : “There'll be about thirteen thousand women. elght—tons of scenery, « song every minute, and Tm going to @ance ‘my head off,” sald the honest young man, “What are you going to call the 7 piece?” “T may call tt A ‘mustoal comedy— © after the first night. Before that I tiay caf { a ‘musical affair—thate always safe, I've decided upon “The ~ Man Servant for the title. I'm going to play a Jap. Say, is Eddie Foy really soing to play Hamlet? What do yea ! think of thatT ‘What, do you think?” ‘T think he'd do a great busines, ; T'd go te see him, wouldn't your” i ——_—- Lived Too Far Away. N old woman frem the countey / bought three boxes ef mmtohes from her grocer jn town. It rained when ste was going home, and the Matches became so Gam that not one of them would strike, On the follow- og Saturday she took the matches back to the grocer, and upbraided him for selling such useless stuff. The gro- cer took out ope or two and struck them quite easily on the leg of his ¥ prin’ which is listed among her favorites, aimple jewelry, all will giadéen the hearts can, the tastes and inclinations ef the ene buy your present eccordingfy. | But, remember, it revealed {n the few words written on the earl ecsompanytiag will make or mar the success of your hothiag Be Properly Introduced, Dear Rettyi AM twenty-@ve and know a man by sight whom I em anxior to meet. He tokd a friend that admired me Is ft groper me speak to him? a Do not speak to the young The only way to’meet him ts through nome mutual friend—the ene, for tm stance, who told you the young man admires you. if Doesn't Know Him ‘Well, Dear Betty: ‘a. ce clever. Firat—Remomber chat all things in| your picwre should be in good propor: | Hon—that ix to say, when drawing aj dhiid or person by a. dont mako | nem’ ao large that it would be igipos ble for then to get inside the j (a rule Js to be observed tn all] you work, and when representing an #bjec bay not make Jt look more ike a cross | {t himself, and be #ure to give hin cure to compose ena to for a good namo adds greatly to the inte 2 8 expect every Want | nue, Brooklyn. I will here «ive 323 make It look as much 1 Laway. WAS In love with a young man. but we averrelied, and I have known another man for a month. He asled me tt 1 would be his wife, and wented to 4¢-T would not answer him right I told him I would let him know n two day, Ia this love fickle or te be the right ono? I have no love for the rat one when the second one comes He has not met my parents C. EB, B. You should be better acquainted with know shall I 40, as I could not love a person of that sort? MOR Give him up, as he ta deceitful and fickle. Tell him you do not care for him and cease, your friendship with him round. to the art workers: ‘are trying to represe the young man before engaging your- West ye The Jostling, By Drury Un said tho dime mus: Of course, one no nity: | 1k \ | | | Vesey | erwood. have always Deen tie main | as freaks according (0 BW CATA, Ifo nd this out I was plo Master Ad: xtreet, Broc Walter Voss rmented rooklyn fetta sh tan Who Runs sD UN bled s Miss I lest 1 mblad a congress of « ue e was’ suspended I got a le David Men: was fu f second streat ! however, Jo: A Morer, 1#8. M y avenue. | he was city.” | with pure alr, ng and early WR. ul 4 Fast One confidential man to look him ‘over, and he'r hen 1 got to work and arrange) for @ triump i nnd Cralx brought into town in an ore car, holated out into a dray by a derric olty Hundred and F Ida Zimmern ave: Adventurer.” By Lloyd Oshourne— Will Begin it Monday Juicy Revenge \ Thich the Fat Man Took. te ,rough the streeta. Cralg belonged to « dinky secret society or 0 eid him aa ~The Monater Maser Mason." ‘The spiel was that he aldn't stand up-that his ankles wouldn't atand the strain. ack on a mattress and the lecturer would say; ladies and gentlemen! So huge ta atime,’ and so on. Craig and two, ware 50. fo Crabs wold lle on nis bs at (his unparalleled maas of flesh, and for more than four seconds at and the crowd was impressed. He was surely a nite anati got enovgh of Craig, ao T booked him in Chicago, “By iE had a pole run out over the streat from whioh dangled ‘hig.enough to hold a bale of bay tn each log I dispinyed ct day, neler artist also contributing a color sketch red the museum n hour before the reayy he ¢ A coat, opening Monday morning there waa a mob outside. ‘ea and thera was Craig sitting on a bench amoking a cigar He of the window wd and asked for more coin. : about getting even, I dlgn't i ard acd t slob Ike bin co! rowd spiel ned bi Oey pad, and the lecturer Kentlemen!—se soe how alg was there on rmous b Jad and ol annot stand And he got ip anid did a buck dance.” said Crats. The hell I can’ *5 Evening Worl Sanita