The evening world. Newspaper, December 21, 1912, Page 9

+ IMADE IT MYSELF ! She Has a Mission in Life, | But Feels She Can’t| Carry It Out at Weber @ Fields, cnd So May Leave the Music Hall. | BY CHARLES DARNTON. HERE are moments that seem almost sacred. It was in such @ moment, a hush fallin, upon her voice and a new light shin- ing in her eyes, that she said with deep conviction: “I fel I have a mission in life.” And then Mtss Marte Dressier sat tn silence, her steadfast gase fixed upon a green hatbox in a corner of her dress- ing-room at Weber and Fields's music hall, Past the open door tripped earnest workers In the chorus, some in aweaters, others in nothing to speak of, and not infrequently one wrapped in tralling furs. But they passed unheeded, evon as chickens cross the street. A watch ticked fatofully. Then a sigh swept the room, * 'Y'up,” resumed Miss Dressler, “T de- machine and give a Hunting-Big-Game exhibition. “Perhaps I Gould stand the starring tour,” she speculated, ‘but the auto- mobtie might break down unless it hap- Pened to be unusually strong. I like Marie Dressler Made Her Furs _ Out of a Rug---Her Own Idea! ||. Neve I was put on earth for a detinite | the Hunting-Big-Geme idea “with my punpose, I'm the outlet for the tired] nian-eating furs, as you oall them, for man's brain, He sees me come slobbing | this would give me @ chance to work on and says, ‘I'm giad T came.’ He on Sunday nighte. It's really wrong for finds relaxation in seeing me make a/™e to re night a week, But fool of myagif. If I did something else—|Teally think I'll rest this winter and Wf B becatye intensely dramatio—he'd he | eee some good shows, I'l walt till 1] saying 40 himself, ‘My God! how'll I] “——~ meet that bill?’ And (et the other day Sh when I recited @ touching little poen at the Plaga | had everybody in the hall dna ane crying, After it was over all the women exporiones th waite ites Thac- grabbed me and sald: ‘Why don't you Teer etesevel a3 \esntvivation do something bis? But I won't insult Wes een dot ceek ponte my audleace, I won't disappomnt it, I know what it expects me to do, and 1| Which insures the least possible lose of do {t, I don't believe there ts another] time in listening to those who call performer in the world who feels about] 4pon him in business hours. an audience as I do. If a man should] Mr, Roosevelt has devised @ trap walk in here now and give me a fitty-| which holds them all harmless. dotlar bill, saying, ‘I'm coming every| Ag the visitor gets off the Thursday afternoon to hear you #in&'| tne Outlook floor he sees before him T'@ be right here ready to sing for him] | goo iettered: every Thursday. But I haven't even a|° Operon Op THEODORE ROOSE- song of my own In this plece. Heaven | y-mr knows I'm not a prima donna—that's not : it, But I feel that I'm not playing fair Pr Tighe ih need Pa Rees pie ee with my audiences because tt 1s impos-| Oncg inside ne finds himeelf in a ible to give them what they expect with] gmat railed off space in a grent room the material that has been given Me! which g obviously anything but the Be Tea) Secices (ho Ware. oMce of T. R. He stands bewildered 1 coukt only bring out an astonished) cop g moment. But before he can back “What out @ demure young woman, one of a SHE'S GOING TO HANO IN HER] hundred working over typewriters or NOTICE MONDAY. eubscription liste on the other side of “1'm going to hand in my two weeks'| the rail comes forward and innocently notice on Monday,” she declared, “I've|asks for whom he is looking. told the boys how I feel about my per-] “Just a moment," she says, when told and both Weber and Fields nkly and sald: ‘Well, Marie, what can we do? I'm sorry about It, and I don't want to bur- den you with my hard luck story. But you happen to have walked right into it I feel that I owe # hing more to my friends than I am able to give them @s matiers stand now. I've not forgotten the friends who stood by me when things were very hard for me." Her eyes filled until the tears ran down cheeks, ‘This was more than 1 had bargained for. Marie Dressler in tears was not a funny sight. It was a relief to see her dry her eyes as she goes out, TH get something good. I have lots ideas for a play, but I can't write e play. That fur costume is my idea, I saw so many tiger or leopard furs in the shops and on the streets that it oc- curred to me it might be funny to bur- lesque them. So I bought « large rug| there specific need of the expressions and made the suit from it. Here it is,” she said, bringing out the wonderful creation and putting it “Yes, I made # myself,” she proudly repeated, “I cut up the rug and then let {t ran wild over the coat. It was jess to try to get any one to carry out my suggestions, I usually get up my|eab of the push. Can't make yourself titch of | hep without it. the clothes I wore in ‘Tilly's Nightmare,’| Lesite, ‘Add up your regular talk, own costumes. I made every even the Paris gowns. ‘Just how she cou’ make Paris gowns was more than I could understand, but she made the humorous statement in all seriousness. “I've made a doll in the same part of a charity baseer with actors and actresses as drawing cards is that the poor actors and actresses epend all the money while the other people round looking at them. Well, I'l go over and do cay Shere" she laughed, ing on her hat Shnwe reached Ca cad ahe halted nly and remarked: siete. see, where is the Waldorf? Why it's way down on the Bowery now, tan't {t? How things change! The other day I saw @ atreet car with poor old hol pulling it @long and I said to myself, ‘And those things used to run over people!’ Would you believe it?” ‘And with this she plunged into a taxi- cab, = -h-! The Roosevelt Door Trap! around. If they do not care for litera- ture, they may look at the pretty girls at the desks end observe that many of them wear bright bandanna office aprons and are liberally decorated with moose heads, In the fulness of time, just a few minutes before his lunch hour, there 1s a sharp, firm step on the marble floor outside, the door swings wide and EB EVENING WORLD, ot | 6 kina of | brass ring and ride on, ride on. The furs for a charity basear,” she added, | English language is to blame for slang. “and I'm going over there this after-|You meet yourself coming back. Siang noon to leave a Mttle money. The funny) drops off at the curve and boards the SATURDAY, DEOEMES titles loose in New York this |Lucinge, lent that lovely enough to ‘week! Count ‘em, girle—one—two | have come out of Oulda? The Siamese —three—four—five—siz—seven— | gentleman is briefer, styling himeeif tgit—nine—ten! Prince Traides, put he holds the posi- Four of them are princes. There's |tion of Minister to the United States. Prince Albert Radsiwill, staying at the| Then there is tall and good looking Gotham. On the Kronprinsessin Cecilie | Prince Stanislaus Sulkowski, oMfcer of arrived @ French and a Siamese prince- | the Austriqn Imperial Guard, and one ling. The Frenchman has a perfectly |of the heire to a duchy worth 99,000,000 bee-yew-tiful name—Guy de Faucigny- & year. He sounds well recommended, “Say, Back to the Oven )] NOW again; I don't get your drift,” said Bert Leslie, the King of Glang when he was asked why the English language ts <is- torted into slang. ‘Why does the distortion ocour? Is you use, or?— asked the reporter. “Nix on the ferryboat talk. Come ecross, come across,” chided the King of Slang. “Well, what is slang and why?" “Oh, now I make you. Siang’s the Got to use #,” said where do yo get? You're three figures in the wrong column. Throw away the ledger. Slang’s the day book. Get a ticket for the merry-go-round, grab the car ahead, “Your regular taik’s limring along on sympathy sticks. Take Shakespeare. | ing his lunch hooks. He says in Richard the Third ‘You! ‘These college guys can’t see anything Creese’ when he means a fellow !s|mew. Some of them knock slang. Why all to the punk, and even Hawilet| if some of their heads were cut down @wears by his ‘pickers stealers,’ mean-|to fit their brains they'd wear.a pea- cents will be alike under the ban. } At the Ritz-Carlton the price of the | Remember! | after-dinner supper wil! be $7.60 « cover, No but less expensive drinks than wine will be served in any quantity. Horn- Tooting | ‘The demand for the New Year's reser- Inside. vations at Rector’s has been #0 great | that the orchestra has been perched on qilte, making room for several more} tables. By other expedients the seating frames T. R, Before the first man at the right can get out of his chair the Colonel has him by the hand: “$0 glad to see you—oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. That was fine in Flatbush, Most remarkable, I can never tell you how much I was pleased.” He makes a surprised, joyful leap at the next man. “You old woodchuck, what brings you out of your hole?” shouts T. R. There te whispering. The Flatbush man stands on ove leg for a moment and then fades out into the hall. “Certainly it is all wrong. Certainly NOT,” exclaims T. R. to the s man. There 1s more whisperin, e second man nods with a grin. He, too, but he doesn't go down the HOSE (downtrodden Samaritans ale who live a precarious, hand-to- mouth, bankruptcy-verging exiet- ence 4 days of the year—the hotel- keepers and restaurateurs of wew York—perked up a little to-day when} the report went the rounds that every ( table and chair and footstool available New Year's night had been contracted tor, Tt Is going to be, according to the almost-enthusiastic assurances given to a Right Here in New York observer— whether or not they sing hymns out on the sidewalk and without regard to th “thirteen threat in the infant year's monacker—the most successful occasion of the sort the city ever has seen, con- sidered, of course, from a purely finan- | capacity has been breught up to eight | hundred, end the expectations of Man- ager Phil Farley and Humbert, the | scholarly maitre d’hotel run so high that the coal bins are piled with an extra con#ignment of champagne. The dinner proper will be % @ oo and the wine what you want to make it. ‘IT never in all my experience as 8} hotel and restaurant man have seen ‘of this year,” said Mr, Farley to-day {after he had hired an extra force of checkers for New Year's Eve. “It is @ Doaitive indication that the country is away from danger of a financial panic. The management of the Hotel Plasa! counts on serving 2,500 revellers and has retained three orchestras, @ band and a troupe of Neapolitan singers to keep anid: “] Gon't object to legitimate horse- play, but I hate i: when It's dragged | \: ~ N im, And I can’t help feeling that every- Ne thing I am doing now is dragged in, I'm Em A | | ‘ Perfectly willing to fall into an auto- Se - mobile or out of {t, but I don't like i ‘\ doing it merely as @ stunt. And then I | “should Ike to come on a bit Iaier on In \ the ebow, wiien the late diners are in r | thely @euts, instead of being obliged to work without resulis while people are FAST IN THE TRAP FOR TWO HOURS, still coming in, When 1 go 00 1 Wan) ihe caller would like to talk a minute jelevator, He goes to a more aecluded ys Lou cant tell M*) with Mr. Roosevelt, She returns soon | office down the hall somewhere and T ne stra ieader {and says that Mr, Roosevelt ts busy|awaits a more secluded Interview, A ana T lke all the chorus girls, but Tat the moment, but will be glad to see [handshake, @ slap on the back, two or can’t be myself woen conditions are un-| you in a minute, three good laughs, one or two deep, favorable. Y she agteed a moment| Ong minute, sixty minutes pass.|solemniy worded expressions of eym later, ‘all this may be changed. It W!l| Otner victims of the lure on the door | pathy and gratitude, the room ts empry, have to be if I stay. | Bho laughed at the suggestion that sRe o on a starring tour with an auto- “tobe for support, or take out her furs with a moving picture walk in, #tare aroung and go through the same formula, The callers sit on comfortable chairs There o i a a TPE nt 0 Rae Ba pe T. R. goes down the hall and starts our to lunch with the one or two’ whose lota | errands realiy demand serious atten- "Of bound copies of the Outlook lying ' tion, \ nything ike the rush for reservations BR 31 Goes he mot? And he tells his callers at the Plaza that American women have the most denutiful figures in the worl Also there is the noble Count de Lasteyrie—or rather, alas, there has been! For he married Miss Constance ‘atren on Thuraday, and she promptly ed him out West on a honeymoon hunting trip. So he is really out of the running. It You Are Half Done.”---Bert Leslie.|M wut for a panama, Honest, the ding ding wagon will get ‘em all some ai and take ‘am where they play with the Gaisies, “But the inherent purity of speech,” suggested the interviewer, “Can the Warble, Pocke tthe no! Reverse! You're tn high Put on the chains or you'll akid. Your tongue will get ar- Tested for speeding. Under the carpet with the rest of the dust,” sald the Biang Master. “Slang’s around because the boys need it. They say I'm a lob Qowbrow). They say me brow's so yow that when I wrinkle my forehead I knock my hat off. I never get & mash note or make a hit with the ladies, but, believe me, the real crowd falls hard for my line. Why, I can't use my stuff more than a couple of weeks because it travels needed, and they take to It fi they do to jokes, I've got thinking up new stuff all the time, ‘Next week I go up to Rochester with my sketch. They'll have part of my stuff on the street before I get there. I used to have ‘rain again, I don't get your patter,’ nov I use the enow and drift thing, and soon I'l) have to find an- other.” When Savage Didn't “Dive.” When Jim Savage the local heavy- weht went to Cleveland last week to fight Dan Daley the Newcastle, Pa., giant, his reputa- tion for doing a Brodie when the going {8 thickest had preceded him, Aa Savage and his manager Dan Mor- jan hopped off the train at Cleviand, they were met by Matt Hinkel the Cleveland Promoter, Taking Morgan to one aide, Hinkel began talking like thi ‘Now we know, Dan, this fellow Savage is ing to quit to Daly, but for the Lord ke keep him going for 4 or 6 rounds and give the crowd @ run for their money will you?” Morgan promised he would make Siv- age stick as long as possible. When Savage and Daly began boxing, the Now Yorker quickly found out he could nail Daly nine times out of ten, with a straight left and at the eame time easily voll hin opponent's heavy swin In the ninth round poor Daly was badly beaten and’ didn't have a look in, t Hinkel picked his way to Suv- age’'s corner and looked at Morgan quisgically, “He {an't taking any ‘Brodies’ to-night,” Morgan slipped him. @ used @ new kind of dope on him to | last ten rounds.” Savage lasted right and won tn a gallop. Now the Clevelanders think they were handed phoney advance stuff on Sa ‘# quitting propensities He's one of them bottled up go an sprung on us, Never mind. There are left those other noble and ennobled French gentle- men, Count 4@’Aramou and Count de Bt. Maurice There is the musteally en- titled Count della Gherardesca, There ts Count Trott!, who stepped gleefully from the gangplank of the Katser Augustin Victoria early in the week—also, It goes without saying that we are very, very glad to see them all. Any AYOR GAYNOR always walks down Flatbush avenue mornin 9 if he had an appointment at @ particular moment some miles away, and if he meots @ friend, that person has got to fall into line and walk steadily. There ts never @ stop except for one friend, who never says @ word, but who evinces in the most sincere way his lik- ‘one of us who gets the chance wit! tua» ble over himself to repeat the grand old Spanish welcome, “My house is Those of us such felicity combine in the fervent wis! visitors will de every: b rd they waft to do—and never b& jone. In a word (whichever you prefer): Vive I'Bmpereur! Hoch der Kaiser! Banzai! Good luck, gentlemen! @ | A Friend of His Honor the Mayor. ing for the city’s executive. This friend is a horse, who always stands with his front feet on the side walk, watohing apparently fo ‘he ‘vs, or, and the way he receives the cares sing ts @ pleasure to see, After the Mayor proceeds, the animal watehr him out of #tght. official handicap- per in the old racing days, seca little hope for the revival of racing in New York. Mr. Vos- burg ie now @ chicken fancier and tries to get as raising various kinds of fowls as he did in keeping track of the performances of the racers, when his wonderful handi- | capping served as an almost infallible guide for the patrons of racing through- | Outs the country, Probably no one ever hed a better HEYR'E telling « good story at T the Yale Club about George Foster Banford, the famous foot- ball coach. Having occasion to meet Tom Thorpe one day and hearing his 014 friend was coaching Fordham, San- ford volunteered his services, Tommy ‘Thorpe was one of the greatest foot- ball players Columbla ever turned out, but gladly welcomed the aid of the Yale star, who has the reputation of Picking g00d men in two minutes. True to his word, Sanford journeyed up to Fordham. ‘I've only # couple of minutes, Tommy, but I'll look over that team of yours," exclaimed the great coach in the way of greeting, watking eI UCKY JACK" “Lucky Jack’ M'GINNIS 11 ny more. He 1s Just plain Jack now, MoeGtn- nia ts just back from the Southern racing ciroutt with his bread winner, Sam Jackson, and a few orainary selling piatera, which he has put by for the winter down at Graves- _ end, Jack th CUOKY JACK GINS ‘’ ae “Chickens for Me,” Says Handicapper Vosturg W. 6 VOSBURG, | few unscrupulous owners ever foole: much fun out of | eal | him to any profitable extent. One di @t Saratoga, a couple of years ago. somebody asked John EK. Madden whs chance his Lady Bedford had im # handicap that day. Madden went ini ‘a deep discussion on the winning chance: of any horse on which Vosburg put § “That mas Vosburg is a wonder, Madden. *He isn't putting #8 pound: Heard at the Yale Club. on the feild. After watching several plays, Sanford briskly trotted out to the eleven, end, tapping a husky guard on the shoulder, ordered him to the sidelines. Nemt he told a big tackle and a haldback to get! out of practice, Then @anford walked’ over to a crowd of substitutes and se-' lected three to fill the vacancies. ‘I'm sorry, Tom, I couldn't do more for you to-day, but I'll be up to- bial said Sandford, leaving the eld. ‘ouldn't do more, eh?’ expostulated Thorpe, after he regained his epm- Dosure, “you only threw off my cagtain and two of the best men to-day.” “Lucky Jack” McGinnis Giad He’s Alive. companion and workout horse for CBuc- tanunda, then the star of the Samford ring. he was @ sour discouraged son of the kreat Clifford. He saw himeelf beaten every morning by tbe fast “Chuck” and soon became disinterested in racing life, McGinnis adopted original methods set his past. He first rested him up, end then began joxsing him aroung the’ boulevards, Tribes Hill became ae ively; & yearling in no time and ome @ay, McGinnis atarted him a Aqueduet, Tue: cial standpoint, wards, He at all and game is tough |"ookles posted 60 to 1 against Tethes’ To get into the restaurant of one of eg tively he Shnee, will b8-@ & | ean beat any of them,” Tone davk, #” UL, He won by @ hend ond Jock Bad the big hotels or into a White Light | beer will not be compelled to buy cham- = es Five years McGinnis was terally | Yet enough on him to win $1,600, Lack lobster palace, and to be able to prove | pagne. j —- rolling in money; he had a string of | Was with J thereafter, Within a. {t afterward, will be just as good a8! The Vanderbilt Hotel anticipates seat He Was the Boss. ood Horses and Was a most Auccessful | Year Tribes Hill had won 400 for tind a Bradstreet rating, for the only places |ing a thousand diners, The supper | LDERMAN DOWLING was ob-| bettor, Now he is satisfied If he can /'0 purses and bets, MeGinnis, them es 4 ‘ 5; 4 Jecting to a ruling of the chatr at| make both ends mee tablished, went on luckily and adde that will cater to poor men's trade on | there will be $ a plate. Louls Sherry’s HPP 16 SINAN OE Mache Oe | ee n yaakeol atesaig, Seana enders’ 1 pe the hotels |in Fitth avenue will also charge % a even ton of the Board of| MeGinnis's rise in the old days was | lt bs y, this spenders’ night will plate, and those who buy the dinner | Aldermen. As uaual, he objected atren-| mateoric. He got his roal star: when | horse he ever owved was Frank. of the Mills group, Salvation Army | Pine tie teolltatinn in tea rane. | Ue ho paid $100 for Tribes Hill at an auction | ill, who dropped dend after finishing! headquarters and the white-tiled, open | ooo oe drinking. | “Oh, come, let us be fair, Aldermen,” ff the Sanford horses; $100 was a/a race one day at Gravesend, Me@in- all-night Cafes des Enfants, tok's, formeriy. the Caditles, wit) "O,,. cer rement who waslot of money to MoGinnis then, but he [nis's luck seemed to change then, Now For instance, if you are able to prove | seat @ thousand, and there are two | Memiding in the temporary © Of | took a chance, Tribes Hilt had been a the ts glad he has his health, to the policemen guarding the entrances | thousand bottles of wine in the cellar icaient John Purroy Mitchel to Shaniey's that you have reserved @| awaiting orde Nd you way ‘us? shouted the Tam- table, are able to make @ similar im-| gyery restaurant, great and small, te sep Rh Pie gil i Pena pression on the maltro d'hotel and|gpruced for the big night. In some nt, of w friend of mine who ran have the price left after Christmas| places hundreds have bi spent for One day @ new clerk came to sprugetng you can sit down for $1. Be- | decorations, in others te him and seid: sides your seat you get something to| But in no place will the hornblower be T think we're going te bave ¢ome eat. When the last course has passed | stowed, rain. into history you may drink, talk and| The Hotel Astor has thrown open! "We're Kolng to have some rain? sing, At midnight you may yell—but jevery one of tts banquet haila for the | Cred my friend. | What diye mean, the boy at the door will have not only | poliday throng, Supper there will be “eT €0'ns 10 have some rain? Looky your oat ond bat, dut you bern end (gs without ae pene sed m here, young fellow, I'm the howw of this And He Meant It. , whistle and rattler and whatsoever | squad of policemen on guard to see that SRP AN’ when it rains I have jt. you OUNG Mooney, Nghtwelght, who @ “sleep producer’ on Mooney's chim in ether noloerne ws you may have|no one enters with @ notse-making de- dBc’ Ae orm Y. some day expected to have) the round. Heferee Hess, who was brought glong, Celery, howe: will | vice. Flower girls will toss genuine, Chama a “ SMiclating, h be provided for the boisterous esprit myers penn That Club! bela tipo hf eg 4 or a4 PhetrairoAbery eee 1 Re jo Fre egint If it happened to be the Hotel Knick- singers dimguised as diners will sing | Female Volce (on telephone)—So my 4 : : for Mooney never stifred, When. he erbocker you selected as the wcene of und any noise that can be made with Nusband is not at the club? in a four-round hout at the Old Lang) on te his ériende’ aamee ieee | your follificatton, {t would cost you only the vocal apparatus unaided wif be Club Steward—T am sorry, madam, but Acre A C. on West Twenty-ninth ii a ouse was, Tale w $5 to eat. But after that it would besin [heard with apprectative interest. {nobody's husband is ever at the olub, | street. A day or two before the 00 | anower to be expensive, for one niust buy wine| In the places where the cabarets | (yur grewargey) ue juss #08 fre. ‘test Moonay went around to all his| “That's all right! If thet Agnt jor thirst, Piebelan beer and even the 'relgn extra entertainers will welcome iyadam, ‘That makes eight houses this {lends telling them he couldn't lose. | been scheduled for six rounds lrare mixed drinks which come at # the New Year with 1913 model ragtine afternoon, Is it a general conflagration? The night of the bout Kid Lewis slipped |‘ @¢ ¢our 1 would have won.” Seam seer eee 4