The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1911, Page 5

andi sect 1 ei est NOMBRE INNA al Ry nanan Yan ee Ne ) ne getter ve TWO LEFT DYING « IN HOSPITALS BY MEN WHO VANISH William Arris, Restaurant Keep- ¢ éf, Stabbed in an Affray in Harlem. HIS LUNG IS PIERC! John Fallon, Salesman, Re- . fuses to Tell How He Was Shot. ‘Am @atomodite Grove te the J. Heed ‘Wright Hospital in Harem at 8 o'clock thie morning and a man plainiy pats was helped to the reception dy another who said “This {s Willlam Br own He was stabbed in « fight at Bruad- way and Forty-second wotng along there in my him in. I did not know While surgeons we-e examining the patient the other man stepped out, got in his car and vanished. “Brown” was| brook Blinn hid behind his stage whis- nd before! kere. “Tom” Wise coulin't eaare up a put on the operating table, an anaesthetic was administered was asked his name and address. He said he was William Arris, proprietor of the Pabst Van Cortlandt Rei t. at Broadway and Two Hundred ‘orty- second street. He said he had been stabbed by a man he 414 not know at “some place im Hast One Hundred and Twenty- Afth street.” The operation on his wound, a deep stab under the right armpit, penetrating the lung, was postponed until Detectives Thompson and Hawkins could be called from the West One Hundred and Twen- ty-fifth street station. Arris was more frank with them. He said the quarrel! in which he was hurt had occurred near No. 815 West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. With the information gained from him, the detectives, after an hour's search, arrested James H. Alonso of No. 30 Willow street, a clerk. He id he 414 not know Arris and had been in no fight, but the detectives gald they would ask that he be held in Harlem Court to-day to await the outcome of Arrig's wound, —~— REFUSES TO TELL HOW HE WAS SHOT. A man who sald he was Benjamin Bentf?, of No, 28 West Broadway, drove into Bellevue Hospital yard at 2 o'clock this morning with a man who was only partly conscious, said he did not know the name of his con.,an- jon, but that he had been hurt in a shooting affray in Second avenue, near Houston street. ‘While the surgeons were stripping off the man's clothes Schiff slipped out “to cet a little air” and did not come back. Detective Ramsberg was called from the Fifth street station, When he ar- rived the wounded man, who had been shot through the abdomen, was con- eclous. “You are going to die, berg; 19 you better teil me all you know about who shot you." “What fs It to you if I die? sald the One Hundred and sixteenth street, and that’s all they'll get from me whether 1am dying or not.” He would answer no more question: HRS.DOOGE GUL OFKLLNG MANN MYSTERIOUS CAS Rich Vermont Woman Shows No Emotion When Verdict of ‘Manslaughter Is Returned. GUILDHALL, Vt. May 13.—Hardly @ trace of emotion crossed the face of Mra. Florence M. Dodge, the wealthy ‘woman of Lunenburg, when in the Es- ex County Court House here to-day whe heard from the lips of the fore- men of the jury that she had been found guilty of manslaughter in con- nection with the death of William Heath, @ painter of Dalton, N. H., who was shot on Sept. 17 last while at work ia Mra, Dodge's home at Lunen- Attired in black, Mra, Dodge stood impassive as the verdict was returned. Then she sank k in her seat betwi her daughter, Mrs, Ida Bell, who has been her constant companion during the trial, and one of her attorneys, Harry Blodgett, The imposing of wentence in the case un 4eferred until next Monday in or- der to allow Mrs. Dodge's counsel to study the exceptions noted by them during the two weeks that the trial has been in progress, Mrs, Dodge, in the meantime, was remarded in the cus- tody of the sheriff, Mrs, Dodge, who is the widow of J. Marshall Dodge of Lunenburg, late High Sheriff of Essex County, was put on trial on May 1, The shooting of Heath was mysterious, and the evidence was entirely clreumstantial, No one ex Mrs. Dodge and Heath were in the house when the killing occurred, and no motive for the tragedy was set forth by the State. |Manager Brady Hoots a But Keeps Stray Cat in Playhouse| Winged by a Falling Wing, He Still Didn't Believe an Actor’s False Mus- tache Had Brought Calamity on Play. If a Play Gets in the Air Nothing Can Stop It, He Says—Belasco the Only Superstitious Manager Now. BY CHARLES DARNTON “Ite Chariie Richman’ ‘Willlam Courtenay caught himee?f say- ing, “It's a fill, Bil, it'e @ All’ Ghost of a smile. Then all three sud- denly gazed in horror at the carefully Dollehed villain and in Ace ert ‘It's Charile Richman’s mustache Tt was only a little thing, end false at ttiat—as false as the villain’s heart itself —but it loomed large and terrible as a hoodoo. There was no mistaking it. Calamity hung upon every heir, disaster Gangied at {ts ends. Since that awful night the terror-spreading mustache has been neatly but firmly trimmed, and this no doubt explains the great success of the play. Once you trim a hoodoo, there Je nothing to fear. The actors have re- gained their courage, and Mr. Brady !s brave enough to say for publication on this thirteenth day of a month that is by no means to be depended upon: “I don't believe in hoodoos,”” He Isn't Superstitious. Mr. Brady sald this with a eteady voice and without knocking on wood. “If a play gets in the alr, nothing can stop it,” he asserted. “Nothing can hoodoo it. And any- I'm not superstitious, When that ‘wing’ winged me on tho opening night of ‘The Lights o' London’ and accidents began piling up, I never for a moment thought that the play was hoodooed. It was easy enough to find an explanation for everything that happened. That lamp in the murder scene, for examp! didn't go ou: for the simple reason that the electrician wasn’t at his post. Mod- ern methods were fighting ancient melo- drama, that's all. Although every big Production of this sort twenty years ago was marked by mishaps, the men in charge of the lights, the carpenters and the stage hands were more capable than those of to-day because of the rapid changes of bill that were made. Man- tell still carries a lot of those old- timers with him, and that's why he hasn't any mechanical troubles to worry about. This plan is as old- fashioned as the hoodoo idea, The only difference between them ts that Prevails while the hoodoo doesn't “Theatrical managers are no longer superstitious?” Had a List of Hoodoos. No, not as @ rule,” answered Mr. Brady. ‘Twenty years ago they had @ recognized Ist of hoodoos—actors who were supposed to bring bad luck be- | cause the plays In which they appeared | had happened to prove failures, On! this list were the names of a dozen ex- cellent players, men and women, and some of them are walking Broadway to- day. J. B, Stubley was considered the Prize hoodoo. He couldn't approach a| manager without giving him a chill, | Sometimes {t was the manager him- ‘elf who became known as @ hoodoo. Frederick W. Bert, who dropped dead as he was walking along Broadway with me the other day, Was considered a hoodoo after his luck as a San Fran- cisco manager changed. But he came to me and finally lived it down, David | Belasco is the only New York manager who retains all the old superstitions of the staxe.” To believe this you have only to see Mr. Belasco walk aro apin. Ho will not come to the point if he sees it, but steer @ wide course and manage to get on the safe side, His superstition car- ried him so far after the opening per- formance of one of his plays that when he found his supper party in celebra-| tion of the occasion to number thirteen he sent out for a messenger boy and fave him a seat at the table, The boy was @ success, and so was the play. Fait hin First Impressions, “Charles Frohman ts not at all super- etitious,” added Mr. Brady, “He be- Heves in himself, not in hoodoos, and has absolute falth in his first impres- sions, Mp, Belasco never allows the ‘tag’ of a plece to be spoken by an actor at rehearsals, but even this old superstl- tion Is rapidly dying out among man- agers, At one time nearly all of them belteved an actor could hoodoo a play by pulling aside the curtain on an open- ing night and peeking out at the audl- ence, ‘This was considered fatal, Edwin Booth was always superstitious about the way he dressed a part, and all the famous actors and actresses of his day | were chock full of superstitions, A cat that strays Into a theatre 1s always sup: poscl to bring good luck, Just before I opened the Playhouse @ cat was dlecov- ered in the place and one of the men | started to put {t out, But I stopped nim, | sent im out fof @ bottle of milk and— | well, the cat's there still and she'll stay | there for the rest of her days,” | “Then you are superstitious after all,” I argued, “No, I'm not," maintained Mr, Brady, ‘I'm superstitious against superstition— see?’ No, I don't; do you? a i = se i RRR ge cama am aa ~ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1911, “The Clouds” to Be Produced at the Bijou 66 HE CLOUDS," a modern drama I by Jarosiay Kvapil, @ Bohe- mian playwright, will be pro- duced by Julius Hopp at the Bijou Theatre on Monday night. The scene is laid in a Bohemian village at the parsonage of the priest. The charac- ters include a priest, his sister, a young theological student, a village doctor and Maya, an actress, who is the central figure of the story. Maya visits the village and meets the theological stu- dent, who was one of her playmates ‘n childhood, She brings with her the atmosphere of modern life and, face to face with primitive conditions and people hide-bound by church conven- tlons 1s forced to acknowledge the tn poss‘bility of lifting the student out of his own surroundings into the world .n which she lives and toward which he aspires when in her presence, In the cast will be Sara Blala, John Maurice ullivan, Harry L. Fraser, L, Rogers Lytton and Laura Linden, The Corse Payton stock company, at the Grand Opera House, will present “Zana,” with Minna Phillips in the tile role. ‘At the Academy of Music the stock company Will be seen in ‘The Great Divide.”” The Robert T. Haines stock company, at the West End Theatre, will appear in “Strongheart,” Mr. Haines playing the title role. “Follles of New York and Parts’ will be seen at the Columbia Theatre. “The Paristan Widows" come to the Murray Hill Theatre. “The Trocadero Burlesquers” at the Olympic, VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. Hammerstein's will be Amelia in “Big Moments From Great Kate Elinor and Sam Willams, will be Plays, the Jack Wilson Trio, Ray Cox, Wilfred Clarke and company, the Avon Comedy Four, Nana, Con: mer and Brown, others. “Old Timers’ Week" at the Fifth Ave- nue Theatre will be marked by the ap- pearance of Maggie Cline, Mrs. Annie Yeamans, Lottie Gilson, Fox and Ward, Ward and Curran, Tom Nawn in "A Touch of Nature,” Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thorne and Rooney and Bent. The Colonial will have the Four Mor- tons, Valerie Bergere in “Judgment,” Eugene and Willie Howard, the Rigo- letto Twins, Willette Whitaker, the Temple Quartette, Courtney Sisters and Rice, Scully and Scott. Irene Franklin will head the bill at the Alhambra, where others will be Ryan and Richfield in “Mag Hagerty, and Lematre, fack and Orth and t Hoodoos, Oateopath “Dinkelspiel’s Christmas, Fords, Alexander and &cott and Keller, Mack and Frank Orth, Eva Tanguay will be the principal at- traction at the Bronx Theatre. Flan- agen and Edwards in “On and Off, Little Billy, the midget comedian, Je Grady in “The Butterfly,” the “Spook Minstrels,” Lee White and George Parry, and the Sebastian Merrit! Com- pany wilt be the other features CONEY AND BRIGHTON. The New Brighton Theatre at Bright- on Beach will open its third season on Monday, The dill will include Belle Blanche, Princess Sita Diva in dances, Maude Iliian Berri and her Scotch lassies, Windsor McCay, May Tully in “The Battle Cry of Freedom,” the Five Brown Brothers and others. Dreamland, Coney Island, opens on Saturday of next week. The park has taken on a new color scheme of red and white, the restaurant and ballroom hag been moved to a new building near the entrance and the old ballroom will be used skating rink. Col. Fer- ined Wild Animal Ghow will be another feature. Luna Park will be open to-morrow with its twenty-one new slides and rides in_ running order. Steeplechase Park has a number of| new features. Knelse! Quartet Recital. The Kneisel Quartet, assisted by Joset Kovarlk, will give a recital at the Insti- tute of Musical Art on Tuesday after- neon. Brahms's quintet in F majo Opus 88, and Moz quintet minor, for two violins, two violas and ‘cello, will be played. Free Organ Recitals To-Morrow. Prof. Samuel A. Baldwin will give his usual free organ recitals at the City College on to-morrow and Wednesday afternoons at 4 o'clock. New Amsterdam The New Amsterdam Hotel at Fourth avenue and Twenty-first street been bought by J. H. & ©. K, lo, a Broome street silk manufacturing firm, and is to be torn down to give way to a sixteen-story loft and office building Two old buildings adjoining on 1 arth | avenue were also bou i the com | pany, which patd $600, the whole plot, The New Amst is one of the last of the popular hotels that once ined Fourth avenue Maurice Nitke Gives a Concert At Cooper Union eae Charlotte Lund, Mildred Potter, Hans Kronold and Other Artists As- sist the Violinist in an Entertainment Man- aged by Himself. BY SYLVESTER RAWLIN AURICH NITKE, the violinist, gave a personally conducted con- cert at Cooper Union last night that was admirable save for two thinge—it began half an hour late and it overflowed half an hour with good measure, The large and enthusiastic audience took exception to neither of these faults; in fact, It was greedily calling for more when even Mr. Nitke's food nature was exhausted, and bows of acknowledgment, repeated again and again, were all that he would vouch- safe for his last number. ‘The cares of Management, ariuous as they were, did not detract from his artistic ability. He pleyed with skill and power and charm almost @ dozen numbers from firet to last, among them, with William J. Falk at the plano, Grieg's sonata in @ minor. Mr, Nitke was assisted by several artists, Hans Kronold, the ‘cellist, in hia best form, was heard in compost- tions by Bruch, Bocherini, Popper and Liest; Charlotte Lund, whose lovely soprano voice was disclosed to us first some months ago at a benefit concert for Mr. Nitke, sang an arta from Ma senot's “Le Cid and Gounod's “Ave Maria," with harp and violin accom: paniment by Lalla De Grandmont and Mr. Nitke, in a manner most effective; Mildred Potter, contralto, gave find ex- pression to the familiar aria from Saint-Saens'n “Samson and Delilah,” and Yvonne Koniger played a plano solo in addition to dividing the accom- paniments with Mr. Falk, Showing sins of tiredness, but smtt- ing as he wiped his brow after the concert was over, Mr, tke protested to the writer that the combination of manager and principal performer was a bit hard. SEASON OF GRAND OPERA AT THE PEOPLE'S THEATRE, Plans are complote for the season of Ttallan and French grand opera at thé People's Theatre, which is to t cin week from Monday night, when “Aida will be presented, The other operas for the opening w will be “Faust, “Cavalleria,” "Pagilac “Trovatore” and “Traviata, Among the artists en- gagedare Charlotte Lund, an American soprano, pupll of Jean de Reszke, who has sung throughout Europe and made an excellent impression here tn con- certs; Diavetta Alvina, a leading #o- prano from Berlin; Alice Gentle, con- tralto, formerly of the Manhattan Opera House Company; Verner Alberti, tenor, well known in many; Pilade Sin: agra, tenor; Giuseppe Plmazzonl, bart- tone, formerly of La Scala, Milan; Glus stano Zara, baritone, and Glovannt Gravina and Natale Cervi., bas: Louis Zuro, formerly with Mr, Ham: meratein, 18 the manager, and his aon, Josiah Zuro, who conducted “Hane the Flute Player,” and was Mr. Hammer- stein'a chorus master, will be the con- There will be performances gaucrer. every evening and Saturday matinees. On Sunday evenings there will be oper- atic concerts, The annual three-day Musi Feattval at Paterson, N. J., takes place in rhe Fifth Regiment Armory on Thursday and Friday evenings and Saturday afternoon of next week. Among the singers engaged are Marie Alma Glu Louise Homer, Karl Jo Herbert Witherspoon and All ley of the M ppolitan Opera Company, and Daniel Beddoes, Frederick Gunster, Fredert Weld and William Worthing- ton, Mischa E an, the brilliant young violinist, will appear on Friday night At the Saturday matinee the Manhat Quartet will present Smart's tene's Daughter.” The Young Orchespra and — the Young People's Choral Union will part. The opening num evening will be Wi over ture, in which the audience is asked to rise with the chorus and sing ‘“Amer- The Wage Earners’ Theatre League is have a concert in Carnegio Mall a “Healthgrams” Good air means good health, Watch the children's health all the time, but especially in the spring. 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TWO PRINCIPAL, SINGERS IN NEW OPERA COMPANY é CHARLOTTE, WWND week from to-morrow evening, at which David Bispham will be the principal artist, oW tlons will Include the setting by Walter Damroach famous poem “Danny Devi tition of Longtellow's “King Re of Sleily" to the musle of Rossetter G, Assisting artists will be Leo Orn- stein, Maurice Nitkw and Max Doltin, An orchestra of seventy-five men, re- crulted from the Phitharmonte and Met- ropollian Orchestras, under the direc tion of Glovannii FE, Conterno, ts to give at popular prices every night the middie of June in the Twenty- 4 Regiment ry. The pro- grammes will in ec works and the best popular music. ‘There will be vocal and Inst casional nights will twe nental soloists, and oc: |& be set aside for! singing socteties, quartettes and sies clubs. Among the patrons are Mayor Gaynor and Gen. Horatio C. King, Representatives of Music School Set- tlemente in Brooklyn, Boston, Philadel+ phia and Albany have accepted the in- vitation of the New York parent school to @ conference at No. 65 East Third street a week from to-morrow, to begin at 10.90 A. M. The New York school has 800 puptt Rach's on According to St, John" will be sung at the Church of the Ascension to-morrow evening at a quarter before 8 o'clock, The soloists will be Miss Laura Combs, soprano; Mra. John M. Flagler, contralto; Al- phonsus Grten, baritone; Frederic Mar- Un, bass, Richard Henry Warren will conduct. — | OFFERED A RIG CHEAP. |So Two Young Mem Are Locked Up Poltee. in a wagon stopped tn J, before daylight today nd offered to sell the rig, eastiy worth $350, for $75. A night watchman @rrested them on suspicion, The wagon bears the name of M. | Musler, butter and exe market, No 042 Second street, Jersey City. 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