The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1907, Page 9

v ° i A a loo ea era ae > and . The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, December 28, _QFHSHHLSIDIVHHNSHI]DISHVOILHHHWHHHHVSOHIWHIS @ SPHOPDDPP PTO DOHBHBOGHPHHOSDHVSHPES PPLPDPCPOPBOE HERE COMES THE TRAGIC BVG! CONNIE EDISS Is Crazy to ley, Lady Macbeth > By Charlies Darnton. J APPY New Year! Grim Tragedy might just as well get ready to swap ¢ with smiling Comedy, for Eddie F the rising young traged of that pretty thing, “The Orohid,” will go mad as Hamlet in merry springtime, while Connie Ediss, the heavy tragedy queen of “Tie Girl Behind the Counter,” {sjsimply crazy to play Lady Macbeth. _ The tragic bug is abroad in the land of musical comedy. It has bitten Mx Foy to the very soul and left him in such a serious condition over Hamlet that there is absolutely no hope of recovery. While Miss Ediss has developed alarming symptoms, there is no immediate dange>. She !s still able to sit up and take notice of tho lighter side of ‘life, though the worst! may be expected {fa bloodthirsty manager happens along and hands; her a dagger. These are the simple facts of the matter. as learned by professional * visits to the victims of the tragic bug. Mr. €. Fitzgerald Foy.? —_| Mr. t Foy boldly and to an spoke to-my They dasn'r one of the kids. I learn elocution “1 know 1 ing as Hamtet. but_I'm at it fbr twelve nighta in Ma T can Yaat by I'll be satisfied. Shakespeare ta food for tarusa’ omy tutor-sthat's a @s long as I can buy ‘Hamie ) Shakespeare, you know. If (bad luck to that tid a deep dent I couldn't Way, ident? Fi | give as good a rmunce as I'll be | be" with Foy y. Tcan give Hamit | And intensity by playing as an excelent se aeeitaiicdat soul than I would I Rae beac caked 4 it from my head. I've got all that's enough. I've been go with Ha do{ a xreat Teading Shakeaware for s, and I know what Ha: twenty ree Mus answer. | Sin vray'al scale went ecarward at the| ‘me. Many can’ read Ha ¢ | few can play him.” “sq hope the public will come to » [ate Sty we,’ he. eaid, “and I hope it will take| “2 know." he went on as though nothing had happened, “that if I played me seriously. I don't want prople to @hink I'm going to the graveyata to do @ clog. I may yot Jook Ike Hamlet, but | P TH fool Uke him. And I'th going to t @o Jook Ike him. I think I can make him look =." Better that than 23, mueed 1. “You'll see me in ght wig.’ came w a bers Taek ieatenine we oe eameeet “Do you think your playing Hamlet Tm going to dress him ancient-away| "i! affect your reputation as a come Qeck—an far back as cai get him | ‘en?’ T asked. i L inquired about the arrangements for| “7 hadn't thought of that” he an- (he production, and iearned that the; were’ with a grin. “I've nothing to fearless tragedian would be managed | /0#¢ and everything to gain. I'm not a by 4. Toxen Worm, who) put Mra, Shakesperian actor—I'm not an actor a: Campbell in the tanbark business, and|®l!—only a clown who has been ‘but- Wilt A. Paige, former literary adviser | f00nIng around and making children @e the elephants at the Hippodrome. the part for a hundred ysara I'd never y it well. But I think rise a few “people who think I'm going to be a Joke tn tt find me very serious, If I burlesqued tho part the audience would scream at first, and then walk out of the theatre in dingun ten to me I'll be satisfied. I suppose Crying It om tbe Cow. {I'M utter, but provabty won't“ eutter ‘They wanted to put me in the Metro-} #8 much audience. Anyhow, polftan Opera-House for the two per- eee oink to do my best to make Ham- ! @ormances I will give in New York,~{ let seem natural. | gaia Mr. Foy,.‘but I thought that place} “And sane would be too big for my voice. I want ¢o play in a mall theatre. My voice ts he Will Go Insane. the one thing { must be careful abo Hamlet wasn't eane. Im training {t now." want insane by,setting his mind on one DOOO000000000 lOOO000000. A SE feat they had already achieved Bilt the captain's sour facé prelude any- thne of the kind, and evéd overawed the Ittle party, ;that were huddled to- gether on the after part of the bridge. Besides, they were oold and dazed, apd only just besinning to recover from the frightful Joltmg they had undergone. “How Jong will tt take yout” manded the captain, Crawshaw reflec od. orn : DOOOOTOOQOS) The Adventurer Lioyd. Osbourne. Qnpyright, 1907, by D. Appleton & Co.) have to rig up a sort of tole- O} © OOda My Dear Young Friends and Artists of The ing World's Art Club: E reproduce to-day some of the best. efforts of your penolla made upon The Evening World's art fil-out of Deo, 17. These are partic- ularly clever in execution and Idea, T um pleased to see the versaulity of the students of this fascinating club. I ion ie probably a treasure hunt. Jackson, for teens of his own trying to make Mrs. Hitchcock . Jackson takes a/fancy to Kirk makes him second officer. At last. ‘with a picked crew, the Fortuna starte on Der intend’ "The motjon te triehttul: | wilt ¢rom to-day eolect for publication Feetewoe, eee enema, et MF TMV the frat and fifth picture made upon The .Evening World art cut-outs by a boy and rl of the Brooklyn branch or CHAPTER XVII. of this art work, and of New York, and ey (Continued.) of out of town—that is to say, If they show an improvement upon the’ first one. } The Start. Just to show how this art work de- * K= turned away, ony to meet lopa the creative genius, an artistic exe, and alse gives a free hand in drawing—in fact, toaches originality, without which a subject eeoms very dull —I will at different times give out to the club, sentences or descriptions for you all to illustrate. Do not be afraid to send in your work, no matter. how poor you may think it Is, for it may have fine the Httle engineer himself. He ras beaming from ear to ear, And in apite of the fact that he looked whe aplendid!” he cried. “Salle mitch, and aa smooth as phaston. Hardly know that you weren't ‘Yve been logging her, and ‘The captain grimly breught htm back to ‘earth, ‘We've been jrunning blindfolded,” be eaté. “Heaven only knows what we've escaped! Moro luck than good guld- tell you. See here, Cruw- wot to fx those speaking T jnalst on {t) We can't trust out Ives to a tin squeal, Call them up aft, and see for yourself how “gotten bad they aré!” Jackson's scornful and fault-finding |, tone angered Crawshaw. He pursed his lips together, and without another word ‘went ‘over to the apparatus. In their Moment’ of triumph, of signal and as- r@ured euccess, it seemed hard to hin Gat there roa ye no general | coe 4 Heb 1 wo By Arthur Sachs, No. 62. West. One Hundred and Twelfth atreet, New York. —Picture fine. Figures placed correctly in regard to proper proportion, and sub- fect is quite amusing Let me ess your HUSH! EDDIE FOY, Badly Bitten, Will Go Mad as Hamlet ay a word, or} rn} laugh. If I can get an audience to lis-| He! TO000000000-000000 DOHOQDODODODODONOOIDGOOOOGOGOODHWOWOGIGWIOQGGOIGOOs: - « Some More Clever Work by. The Evening \ World's Art. Club. er] HV SH!! | | }Purpose. That's L drives crazy, Look at the people in this | Who are money mad! Money drives ‘er [crazy and then drives ‘em to mulcide | Did you ever hear of a tramp commit- | tag suicide? Did you ever hear of a |bum blowing his head off? Hamlet goes loft his head because his mind Ia set o one idea. His first speech to his moth- ler: ‘Seems, madame! Nay, !t Ss,’ will be | “HUSH!!! “Wil Sou feel a ce. o rant. down. I want art sympathetic, and when’) ge—close to the h some anxiety. a bit DoT y 2 seem egot ji sh tical, uld be afraid. in Peoria and shouwl I be afraid in a few other I tnmirance K they premium because wouldn't stay I'm going to ge rest of St awful ser! IT found Lady And You can't} talk Ham- T'll be | laughe: quired, i Macbeth. at the Herald Eddie Foy in wi but I'l bet they hear th The ‘And ye ess lessened shoulder straps. I think T hope n cities: 1 going to play Hamlet kraph © to ask: ‘Have Ophelia yet?” She would Ophella, tut we'd haye ar burying her. And? I'm burlea. came back t6 life and comedy advice to the players, Lady Zonnie Macbeth. Connie Macbeth ‘Hank people w Jat the slde-spiitting th added, “I'm crazy appesr but I di te pl Kot a company nad May Irwi Shi "kid" but I ti. qua ‘ } scream when fe Ediss wants to wit the s to play Lady it's a lovely pa: CQOQOQDOOBIOIGOOOOSS phone harness,’ he returned at lengt! “One for a man here, one for the for: COODWOOHOIOHOGOVOOGIOIEOH. The Land Ship Gets Its Second Start in a Gale, ‘Lunging and Bumping Along: Kirk, Lonesome and Verging on Fear, Guides It From a High and _ Dizzy Perch. OODIOOS. he-rprings are standing It. Iso to exam © journals, and x DODDS Tell them on the port quarter) eland as she gathered wa: Soood steadied the ship, relieved the dure tit ght be in have: t fot & sort of a longing fee {PK on the serio k life ts horribly se- I've never n the part- ey always m arge smile for agree- on r (1 can't put my penct “It was a very easy ma make for to people when I Was seventeen, I've had two thou- sand people weeping over one of my sad recitations—and I can move people | sti “Don't| She looked as though she could move lovely, | #ything ‘ou see, I've thought an| “Yes, indeed, I dit tt only the other her, As I said. I've alNnight, Miss Dresser, in the next dress-| mad to play her. If|Ing room there, will tell you so. It wan} ome to me with a » party she gave... Everybody Lady Macbeth I] was jn ears when | gave a little recita- caimiy and go|tion, and Mr. Beban—George Beban, ¥°| nse peopte | k nad to leave the room. I should} aquealy, | love to make people cry in the mbitious idea | | ese it! But of c sa yery don't | mrke | people would get frightened-to death ff 10 play any. eat from Bhallaapeits; Isn't 1c? “It might be for some, but——"* “Now, that {s nice of you!" “whe bub- died, plump woman seriously. Not that 1 couldn't make myself look thinner. An° actress looks thinner and feels thinner in a serious role, y* know. Oh, dear; yea! I think I could take off « hundred pounds in a really tragic role and J only welgh a hundred and fitty now." Perhaps I betrayed a Iittle surprise, for she quickly added: m not as fat as I look. No, it the way I dress the part. I know I'm toa fat for Uphelia, and I don't ‘kid’ myself that I'm eeventeen any more, A woman of thirty never looks Ophelia, does she? But f don't think Tam toe fat for Lady Macbeth. If I played the part I shouldn't make her a really bed woman, and I should try to win aym- pathy for her. But, first of all, I'd her natural, though, I suppose, Shakespeare were played naturally. I'd like to stage-manage a Shakeepearian plays:I wouldn't baye black curtsins and gloomy surroundihes. No: I'd have pretty chairs and things to brighten {t up a dit. And I should play Shakes. peare as It is written, though, of course, {t would have to be cut in places, be cause Shakespeare in very ‘blue’ in spots, isn't {t? Of course, in his time they were awfully frank about things, but nowadays {t Is djfterent, isn’t it? Axi, then, words that mean nothing to ua in Engiand sound very ‘blue’ over here, don’t they? I've deen in polite society here and that have made me feel like sinking through the floor. I should be very careful/if I played Shakespeare in this country.” Imi 0, indeed! I wouldn't have s chawnce over there. Théy wouldn't ertt {cise me fairly. They would expect me to be funny. You critic boys here would criticise my acting—and I love to bé criticised! And it's -wioked to sy Shakespeare, don't you think sot If | played Lady Macbeth the bloody deg: | ger would terrorize me. That's Soy If phould play it well. I am «@ highly sensitive woman. Ami X talking tke a silly nwss? What? Well, that is nice of you He Knew All Right, Irlehman out of work applied to the “boss of a Warne reoatr_snon. In Detrolf. When the Celt had stated his sundry and divers quatifice- jtions for a ‘job’ the supérfatehdent bexan dulzzing him a (bit Starting quite at random, he asked: “Do you know anything about ome pentry “shure “Do you know how to make a Vene- tan blind?” “Shure!” “How would you do It?’ (Shure. I'd poke me finger in bis evel companions were was struck. top, and another for the wheel.” Say ¢ are they're Itricating.”* wo other salle tiat t down, They hour. Yes. all of an hour. Yes, you see tg that, too, Mr. Kirk-! sickening, jouncing, . te the bone. 1 “Mr. Kirkpatrick?” © vatrick,"" added the captain with Jeal-|motion recommienced. imped that “Yes, sii alt yus authority. — plunged forward xtth old to the ratlir To'make matters t storm trysail au} of ‘The gale was still raging, but their|accelerition, bumping ao. rse they were all mor leas nea- sall-locker, bend {t, and be ready to run | second start was less beset with ter-| lunging: rolling. nds he” vi . whipping move- rors than the first. They knew now \apray of clots an Meat fof the mast, Kirk watched them? “Oh, : Yrsay.” put in Crawshaw, for certal: hat the Fortuna was!she was off, and eve: scene some anxiety, and wish you'd tell Gibbs and Hemlerron | capable of. The storm trysail. which|braced and erttled himself e men w athed a sikh 1 when they to look over the trucks and sce how! was sent up first (the wind being now! nerve-racking ordeal that had to aid aloft to keertrafety reached the deck. Phelps was, O20 By H, V., No. 16) Amsterdam avenue, elty.—Your work is very bright. I think the caw would like to have that dog behind her heels Just for a minute, points which it would surprise you to know you pcasess, Also it is through oriticiam we learn to be pertect. I can ennounce that the girls of The Evening World chib have come out ahead Of the boys this week in the greatest umber of efforts sent fh. The boys still hold the tam of best, work, but the girls coming alongs fine. Look: out, boye, or the gtris will take the standard next week. Following are the names of Art Club members who have done excellent work George Howis, No. %5 8t. Paul's ave. nue, Jersey City, Mabst Hervey, No. (15 Ratpn avenue, Brooklyn. Fred Slater, No. 18 Washington aye- nue, Bronx. 1 RW. Lichtenstein, No. 342 Bast Forty- ‘sixth street. city. Grace Emily Milten, No. 18 West Thir- eS secests prea Sey ve) Roo LOO, Jenjle 7. aa CC street, city. Spreng. No; 623 Hudson Ve i ha BS: By Robert Y.—Your done. “AM: going, notht "ts quite a title I ners wife is so interested in the oon OMIGITS hur Ohlman, Ata street, N Helen Obr! ercond strest Louise Buck, Brooklyn. ( Shepard ayenue, No. <n Koerner, 919 Greene ay ‘Brookly { B son-the- And sie Hyer rson. y Duffey, No. 23 Alexander! Rag! One Hun-| and Forty New York | otty. L. Fascoe, } Amy R. Prendergast, No. 14 Waver- ploture ts Alley place, tty j Adam Jaeger, No. lyn, ith Landan, Ten Eyck stre No. dred and Sixty-sixth street, 363 East One Joseph ‘Holdberg, No, 4 Clinton John | sixth street. Harold street, city. the picture. This blank will test the architec- | street, Brogklyn. of young artists, You can put in windows, domes, | Brooi) anything which will make @ pleasing ploture. | place, ya. No Bt shegt secw: Ox.0 4 ayentie, city. James Madill, seventh street, city. Anna Sutherland, Frank Lioyd F Harry Oberg, No. » avenue, i a Brook By Alfred J, Demmers, No. 63 Pactt\ Margaret Wigmore, No. 3 Wolcott | Avenue, Jersey City, . Your picture a very funny, indeed Edward Prendergast. Net Irving strpet, city. / ‘0. Tt East One F Bronx No. 3% East Thirty- undred No. 30 East Fifty- S11 East Eighty | & Box St West | One Hun- 3 West Be cow in particular (if such I may call the obisst behind the fence) does @ pettahle title, cat jt out of the paper gpd mail Matthew J. tne We-t4.'P, O. Pex 134. New York. N.Y." 3a Mar.t—Hrom thi dand left, “How's It to windward “Seems all clear, elr.’’ Well, keep wer going." + MAY ay, airy"? Kirk, leaning over his diazy perch’ c| watched the Captain disappear. It gan that Crawshaw spoke througt Into the harness improvieed. Kiri put had Fmaster, do you hear mer’ *“Sou-sou-east.” tis she hard to hold?” sir. fellows Bucks lke a th off thelr pine, str." nail I send you two more hands?" | “We'd be very glad to get them. Could do with four, I think, str, “AM right—I'll see to it Then he called up the bridge. “Hello! Bridge! Can) you hear mé plainly? ry word, sir.” “Tell Capt. Jackson that the helee- men are need four mor “Ay, ay, sir? Kirk ¢ up hands” binoculars: that the | Haines‘had left him and swept the hori- zon i From that great altitude the Ilmitlees, disolate pihins seemed as fat as a Dill lard board; It required very close in+ spection to pick out hollows and ins equalities’ of surface. But by dint of |warching, and aided by Haggitty, se eyes were sharper than the gluss, Kirk gradually learned to detect bad places and avoid them. Haines emply allowed the ship to roll evet everything, lickety-split, bump, bump, bump, with a slavish adherence to. bid course as though any deviation trem it were a crime. But Kirk tried to ease the running all te—eeuld-—Under hid direction the vessel yawed to the right with not only gome increase of speed, but with a most noticeable improvement in her motion. “Foretop, there!” "Ay, ay, captain, “I'm golng below, and turn over the command to the second officer.” - ery good, sir.” ‘You are to call me If the gale freshe hall do so, str,’ it letting up at 0, sir—seems not, him aA strange sense of Jonelinene—q aralyziu-balplassnems verning 00 feet, ho whole respons ility of the shit waa now upon 2 cm, Tod aavona ey rely on tnt bimealt. wok a dew breach and pafied Per oy me Continued) “but an audience never takes a aid’ perfectly innocent things ~ “Would you rather play {¢ in Eng rt-handed and that they”