The evening world. Newspaper, November 30, 1912, Page 5

FOR THE KIDDIES IN NEW YORK CITY It Has a Little Stage and the Seats Are Small to Suit the Children, YOUNGSTERS WILL ACT. \There Is a Candy Shop, Too, Also Rooms for Nurses and Mothers. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Christmas this year is bringing 1 to the New York child the newest, the most expensive and surely the most delightful toy in the world. tm fact, the whole world can show hothing like it, and it’s a new one tven on Santa Clans. For the first Children's Theatre will open ite floors early Christmas week, on the roof of the Century Theatre, the very name of which aptly re- minds us that this is indeed “the century of the chil Wiliam K, Vanderbilt, Prestdent of the New Theatre Company, which owns the building, 4¢ financing this unique plaything for young New York, Its in!- tal expense is approximately $60,000, and it seems to me that no detail has been englected for Juvenile comfort and ple ure, The theatre would appear to an- ewer completely the demands of i. parent who te honestly anxious to give his ohtld recreation, and yet pauses un- nerved between the Bcylla of th: fee” and the Charybdis of “sex drama.” LITTLE THEATRE NOT 80 LIT- TLE AT THAT. The Mttle theatre, which after al! fen’t 90 little, since it seats 800, com- dines a dainty artistry with all the homely advantages of grandmother's ‘attic, Tt 4s all on one floor, with a dozen boxes extending around the sides and back. The architect, V. Hugo Koehler, has arranged that the back of each box @hould be practically one large window, te be carefully curtained during the performance, but to admit all the fresh @ir any one wants. Besides these win- dows, three large gies double doors out on the terraced eanlanade of Theatre, over’ ching Cen- a | g rt g All the chair the orchestra and in the boxes, Been made smaller and lower to sult @mall, short legs. The stage Itself ts #ix inches lower than any other in town, and not deep enough to confuse childish vision. It measures 100 feet between walls. The theatre is reached by four elevators and four independent stair- cases, giving ample exit facilities in case sof any accident. peAiTING ROOM FOR MOTHERS AND NURSES. Of course no grown-up with money to pay for a seat will be refused admission, but emphasis will be placed on the fa. “nat the theatre belongs to the children, ‘There is a perfectly good waiting room for nurses and mothers, and the young er ushers will tactfully keep an eve! lon the audie while allowing tt the independenve so dear to*t. Even ir, the decoration the youthful ppeal is paramount, Philip Martiny, ho is particularly interested in child | wulpture, has done a f. proscenium aroti. 8 Luca del 1 daisies, | squirrels | fe j starred - No Longer Does Father Lean Against the Bar' All Evening, but Takes Mother and Kids to the Show,Amusement Mag-' nate Declare: and Quotes Brewery Statis- tics to Show He’s Right. But the Man Who Owns Sixteen Houses and En- tertains 400,000 People a Week Cries “Utter Ruination” at More Theatre Building, Just After He’s Opened a Huge One in Washing- ton Heights. BY CHARLES DARNTON. T'S a strange theatrical world! Here was a man who had just built a vaudeville house that's big as a block—and ‘way up on hington Heights at that!—and yet when I cheerfully inquired, “What does all this theatre-building mean?” his mournful answer was: “Ruination.” And then on top of that he clapped, “Utter ruination!” I had heard these ominous words before, but I was not prepared to hear them from William Fox two days after he had opened the hip. Podromic Audubon Theatre as far north as One Hundred and Sixcy- sixth street. “This building of theatres can't go on,” he declared. “You wait—you'll hear some awful crashes before long. You “know what they're saying on Broadway. Yes, I know I'm not on Broadway. But tt's the same all over town. And this crazy bullding of the- atres ought to be discouraged. You can't make this too strong in your ar- ticle,” urged Mr. Fox, It suddenly occurred to me that there might be something in a name. Pe haps Mr. Fox, like other owners of I cocks and other old favorites from Aesop and La Fountaine. “IT want to suggest the little birds and animals which are loved by children," M. Mar‘iny explained to me. “IT am not trying to illustrate any rectal ayy. because they have their story to follow on the stage. But I want ‘to make them tink of happy vacation days in the country, or of other happy days curled up in front of the fireplace with a picture-book. I want to keep the note of home and familiar pleasure, and particularly I desire to emphasize fun and joy. That is why all my children are smiling—to THe BVeninG WUebD, eelingly on subject, hia own prival reasons for wishing me to ‘make it strong” in my * “But why did you bulld so large « theatre in the Washington Heights sec- on?” I asked. A THEATRE BIG ENOUGH TO DISCOURAGE COMPETITORS.' “T did it as a matter of self-protec- tion,” he explained. “It has long been my polloy to go to outlying sections in opening theatres, and usually I've been followed by competitors in a small way. So thig time I decided to put up @ theatre that others would find it hard to compete with. The Audubon !s a much larger theatre than the Wash- ington Heights section needs, and I don't expect to make any money at the start. I'm depending upon the future of Washington Heights. I always con- sider the commercial possibilities of a proposition beforehand. I was in 01 ness before I beoame a theatrical It was none of my business, was curious, “I was in the woolen busine ex. plained Mr. Fox. ‘My first theatrical this but an old burlesque house in V It was known as ‘The Bu by people of the neighborhood, but I didn’t know it was called that until after leased it. There had been rows and rumpuses there, and I had a good deal of trouble in the municipal departments getting the nece: ry permits. 10,000 “RESPECTABLE PEOPLE” MARCHED IN PARADE. “Then I began a campaign of adver- tising In the neighborhood, sending out hundreds of letters in which I appealed to the citizenship of the residents, You ser objection had been made to the place, the authorities saying it wasn't respectable. I brought out this polnt in my letters. form of @ parade on the opening night. Ten thousand people marched down make the little children in the audience amile back.” The frieze measure: altogether, and is three feet, six inches | hgh. The figures of children are ightly above life The color scheme is gray and y-white, and) these tints, shading into French ross are repeated in the coloring of wa and cefling. On panels set into the walls will be engraved familiar nursery rhyme. In the first play presented, which has been written by one of the most popular from thirty to appear. leroy velvets and corduroy knickers is already crowding a certain care- fully secured room in the Century ‘Theatre for rehearsal. The orches- tra will bo made up of child must- clans. Also there is little Miss Jean Ford. She 1s the eleven-year-old daughter of the stage manager, Hugh Ford, and last year in the children's eduction of “Pomander Walk.” Just Dw m apected Theatre, on the scenery, play: | She set her seal of approval Piece now In rehearsal, ona usiness" and lines gment as to > de serreoegessadars THIE PLAYS FOR THE KIDDIES 996 9149G094 > o9dHOHH thirty-two feet | * “what a Child | jrand street with ten bands playing. sir! And the people carried ban- ners. One of ‘em read, ‘We Are Re- spectable People of Williamsburg.’ That was the last ever heard, of “The Bum.’ It has been a family theatre ever | since.” ‘The cigar that Mr. Fox paused to light became a torchlight procession of 10,000 champions of respectability. “It was pride more than any mone- tary consideration that led me to give | entertainments to the people at prices within their reach,” went on Mr, Fox. “A man who 1s married and earns only $2 or $5 a week can’t afford to pay © for @ seat In a theatro, can he "No," I answered emphatically “Well, then, wnat does he do 1 couldn't “I'M tell yo * volunteered Mr. Fox. He stands up at a bar until he le drunk and then he goes home and fights with his wife At least, that's what he used to do, But now you'll find him, with his wife and children, in the theatre, The family is united. That's what makes a house of mine a family theatre. It affects the saloon nd the pool and bililard parlors.” POPULAR PRICED THEATRE AF- FECTS BROADWAY GALLERIES. “How does it’ affect the Broadway theatres?” I asked the cloquent Mr. Fox, now revealed as a benefactor. Well," he pondered, “I should say it affects only thelr galleries. Before popular-priced vaudeville and moving Picture shows were given, the fellow who had only fifty cents In his pocket never knew what it was to sit down- stairs. He used to hang over the rail and dream how he'd look down there in a dress suit. And now he won't sit In the gallery. He prefers an orchestra twenty-five cents. But I think helping the Broadway theatres le in the habit of going time have been made to feel the need of entertainment We to create our audteni BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU TAKE FOR COLD The danger in t sing p nedicines is from he stimulants vnd dangerous frugs whic h/ nany of them J lepend on for heir temporary ffect. Because t is free from Icohol, nareotics ind dangerous rugs, Father John's Medicine ws had 50 y ara af success md body for heal lungs aud in the tr { coughs and colds, Father John's Medicine is 4 doctor's prescription—pure and whole- ‘The answer came in the | | tracted for some reason or other, | the audiences are pretty mucti | day | D jusranteed, |lishment of the venture was made in 198, when I took | ville | ture “TH we did it first of all with the Nickel- ottes, From those little picture shows people who reallzed that they must have some entertainment 4n their lives moved on to the popular-priced vaudeville th atres, Out of this form of entert ment has grown the real family atre. And, as I said before, it the man away from the saloon, now when he goes out for th th takes and | takes his family with him orts sl I've been told, cent. less beer ts sold by tl 26 per cent. more was the case bef popul vaude- and picture the You ean look up the reports for yourself." MR. FOX ENTERTAINS 400,000 PEOPLE A WEEK. In spite of the alluring prospect of statistics T decided to accept Mr. Fox as an authority on bottled beer In its relation to the moral uplift. But there were more Interesting fizures to come, “T have sixteon theatres in Manhat- tan and Brooklyn,” said Mr, Fox, “and I estin fe that they entertain 100,000 people every week. I have theatres | other cities, and my enterprises repre- sent a capital of $4,000,000, Have a elgar?” He watched me anxiously as T pulled myself together, and then sald, as a possible concession: “T couldn't make York Theatre. the the bottle extab- and by than pay at the New Broadway wasn't at- It's a moving ple- and vaudeville theatre must Seve & nelghborhood to draw from, This gives {t regular patrons, The best audi- ence is the old man who comes week after week. He Inughs his head off. | The prices are 10, 15 and 2% been my experience that after day, “A year ago T sent out 10,000 oards requesting patrons to say what part of the performance they liked best. Fifty- five per cent. of the answers favor of moving pictures. Int: comedy scenes and ‘heart interest’ photo seems to be about equally divided. Instructive pictures showing countries and thelr fanufacturing industries are appreciated most in the poorer districts. But everywhere it in pictures, more than vaudeville acts, that hold the a nces. The only explanation T can find ix that motion pictures, perhaps, realize the | What do you think?" “T think you've hi ting Into motion. it" T agreed, get- ‘THE LARGEST MAK! SRB % sHoEs BALUHYAX, Popular Priced Theatres Unite Families By Keeping Men Out of Saloons, Says Fox aVV MB wee SU, dua’. Guleos herself as a boy and is taken Aboard ag a cabin boy. She te detected and omlered back to New York, but is befriended by an okt German musicia Who brings her out as an opera singe) The supporting company includes Roy Atwell, Melville Stewart, Henry Vogel, Craig Campbell, Sammy Lee, Evelyn ‘arter Carrington, Ruby Morton and ‘a De Rosa. . | ‘he Indiscretion of Truth,” a drama- tization by J. Hartley Manners of Wilkie Collins's novel = “Man and Wife," will be offered at the Harris re on Tuesday evening. The ni Scotch marriage laws which in ‘both the novel and its early dramatiza- Hons led to @ melodramatic climax are made to serve the purpose Of comed, well as forming the legal knot wolcn the gallant Seo. Sir George Stirling How he not only rele @ trom the conse- quences of an eclopement, which leaves her with two putative husbands, al- though still @ maid, but manages to, Win her for himbelf, Is a development | of the theme which readers of the hovel Will seek in vain between the covers of the book, In the cast will be Frank Kemble Cooper, an English comediaf; Walter Hampden, Henry Mortimer, Dan Collyer, A Meredith, Murtel Starr, Violet Nina Herbert and Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, | oe On Wednesday afternoon at the Gar- den Theatre John B. Kellerd and com- Dany will give & special performance of “The Merchant of Venice,” | “The Quaker Gin” comes to the Grand Opera House. Flower Stand.” Among others at the Alhambra will be ao Reeve, the English singing come- dienne; Florence Roberts in “The Woman Intervenes," Ea Wynn and Edmund Russon in “Joy and Gloom,” and the Three Keate At the Bri J, McGraw Baseball, Theatre will be John in his monologue “Inside Belle Blanche in songs and Miss Norton and Paul . on matie ‘and James B. Donovan and C MoDonald in “My Good Fri At Hammerstetn's will be “The Guy that Put the ‘Tone’ in Baritone," “The Seal with the Human Brain,” Litian Shaw in character sonws, Lydia Barry, Joe Weich and Gertrude Vanderbilt and George Moore. Kathryn Kidder will character Madame “The Keith's Union Sq ‘on the bin will be CIM Gordon, return to na-Gene the in Lind eckwith, and Jim Diamond, and tbyl Brennan. The dill at Procto Fifth Avenue Theatre will include Madame (7), the masked soprano; Bert Leslie, In “Hogan the Painter,” and Pat Rooney and Mar- fon Bent In “At the News Stand." At Proctor'a Twenty-third Street Theatre the chief feature will be a pantomime called “The Flower of Bagdad.” Head- ing the bill at the Fifty-cighth Street Theatre will be J. K. Murray and Clara in “Bright Bits from Operatic ica.” ‘The leading attraction at the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Theatre will be “The Boys and Girls of Avenue B." At the American ‘Theatre will be Kit Karson, the MeCarvers, ma Francis and her Arabs; J. Whidden, Harry Eng- lah and company, Morton and Kiasen. BREAKS A COLD. IN A FEW HOURS, First dose of Pay Pape’s Cold, Compound Relieves all Grippe misery —Con- tains no Quinine, After the very first dose of Pag 3 Cold Compound” you distinetly the cold breaking and all the disagree- able grippe symptoms leaving. 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The Midnight Maidens" will be at Hurtig & Se Miner's Avenue Theatre will have “Queens of the Folles Bergere.”” At Miner's Theatre in the Bronx Zallah's own company will be the at- traction, “The Gay Masqueraders" at the Olymple. At the Women's Titante Reneft at after- will be seen the Century Theatre on Friday Mme. noon Nuzinova and her ear in one act of John Mason, on, Hille Burke, V hone and othe: thelr serv: Patrick's Ca+ thedral cholr will appear in the grand Keant which closes the programme, The memorial committee has already ralsed $10,000 for the proposed monu- ment VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS, Cecella Loftus, the celebraced mimte, will head the bill at the Colonial, Othe: Franc’ will be Willlam Rock and Maude I ton In a singing and dancing number, and Dorothy Brenner and Joseph Rat- cliffe_ in a comedy sketch A New Remedy tor re Old Complaint A Betentitic and Important, Discov. ory, for the jon, ele tsed and Ineftective. of mw Roud. dent taking. witho ot in of wh remedies of misery and © drastic ® it MEETINGS. ~ SOCIETY oF TAMMANY COLUMBIAN ORDER You are reanmatfully reusated to attend Iie segular Seetleeheg Uae Jory fo, the Great Wiawain, on MONDAY EVENING, "Dec 2 1012, at half an hour after ot the, min, ¥ oritet of the Grant Hachem, MAS F aur crotary, noms, 11th od mh of Indevendtence 1 Manhajtan Season | Year ot ery 4 FOR GALE. Diamonds at 1 jewelry iio sa, KS Kem iat Sin aty Beat or meas te alo $1 sk itis, We tines ita Aid aud Jd, citideue ot base doclared their’ in Ce ee | woe the Romany Opera Company and others, | gently. to in we in they will bring their children to Macy’s now—perhaps even their grandchildren—to revel anew in the wonders of Toy- land. Broad aisles. room for all. Macy’s, always foremost in catering to the little folk, has outdone all previous efforts this year. Don’t Fail to Show Occupies Macy’s It is nothing new for Macy’s youngsters to Macy’s. will remember the good time they used to have when they R. H. Macy & Co.'s Attractions Are Their Low Prices Herald Square, New Yor k’s Greatest Toy Store Broadway, 34th te 35thSt. Sixth Floor This is not a boast. have the best Toy Store New York. Macy’s is not a new store, and ever since its open- ing Macy’s has each year had the best Xmas Toy Store in New York. Old New Yorkers will, thousands of them, re- member how their mothers brought them as They re taken to see Santa Claus his great home of Toys, and Plenty of the Children: The great Terminal Station where trains and cars of all sorts are constantly in motion. The 21-foot model of the world’s largest ship, the Ham- burg-American Liner ‘‘Jm- perator.”” Santa Claus’ home and work. shop where he lives and makes Toys. The model of New York harbor with its sailboa' steamboats, electric boats and spring- driven boats.