The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1913, Page 9

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“I'd like Fay Templeton Thinks New York’s Fog Like Pittsburgh’s Smoke Sometimes the Old Farm Looks Good to Broad: Favorite, but She May Get George Cohan to! Write a Play for Her After a Brief Fling in Vaudeville, and So Come Back to Si’ BY CHARLES DARNTON. “Hello! This is Miss Templeton Just heard you wanted to see me. Why © * © © Cut of, weren't we? 1 was going to say—wwell, yive you three guesses, only don't juess in print! How would you like to come up to-night!” nothing better.” “AML right. Better give you my ad- dress, hadn't 18 * * 8 © Ye Seventy-first. How's that for you? ‘ “Right in my neighborhood.” Must be respectable, isn't it? “Hopelessly 80.” “Then how did I get in?" A: that can lift a man out of is wet shoes on a rainy night It's a vely talk with the Douyant, efferves- \ ent Fay Templeton. She came hum- ning down ghe hall as soon as the door was opened, leading with her cordial right and closing with @ hearty grip, “Pittsburgh couldn't hold you?’ Jectured. “Bit down she replied. by Sinks! h “Ze it the lure of the stage or the { temptation my sleeve Here's the aimple truth: I stayed off { the stage for six years, Now, I don't care for society, and society doe > gtve & whoop for m and T'll tell you about tt," “It was lke this: A man |) Geame to see me tn Pittsburgh, waved ‘ ontract before my blinking ey ere I am.” of lucre?” “By watching me closely,” she ad- vised, “you will see I have nothing up with which to decalve you. I have no chil. dren, my husband's business takes him away from home a great deal, when Mr. Patterson's gone I get lone- ome. Bo I've decided to have a Ilttle filng in vaudeville, beginning at Ham- meretein'’s on the twenty-fourth, I'm told Ghey’re billing me already in front t of ee Beewr Perhaps fer tori tt’ egy whe from time Ww time insisted oho "Would Like te boow what I'm going pwemy-tourdal ay) <e g nere she was-all the way Pittsburgh! If there's any- I con- and ‘t and THE EVENING Going Home in the Subway Crush ® & e : & << & With J. Pierpont Morgan Jr. GRANO' CENTRAL MOB-SCENE , PROFESSOR, JOHNNY-BOy, MERCHANT, CLERK, CHORUS GIRL, ARTIST, LABORER J.P. MORGAN, JR. public ought to be fully prepared fore me," Refusing to take herself too seriously: ow me a true artist that does!) Miss! Temp! her head back for ai laugh, then straightened up to add “What | wonder ts whether pared for my new public I'm going into grand oj MWke @ srood five bor me I'll find one at H t trouble with me ts that 1 enthusi only ,to and then the little farm to m “How does New York look to you MRS, UPPER-EAST-SIDE, MI&S, WEST-END-AVENUE , ‘BUSINESS MAN , STENOGGAPHERS, MESSENGER - BOY An Evening World Artist Gets Jammed Up Against the|?n4 tie. which segged untiaily from the collar; simple, plain gold scarfpin, Act d ot the H tM d Hi in| simple, plain black overcoat with black: Malini | lee aie ee ae “““§Boware, New Yorkers, These Two Men! and a plain, straight-handled walking. ao Me aia Don t Kick Their Suit Cases! Bu Wil: B. Johnstone. ing his world famous name blazing at| at work on subway matters, TRE PLACE—A subway car, jammea| them from the headlines of thelr eve-| He stood tn dignified allence, unaware cate ning papers. of my scrutiny, I wondered why he was: TED TIMB—The 6.30 rush hour,| There stood J. Plerpont Morgan $r.,| using the subway Instead of a diamond- ne dusalan, fgnominioualy caught in the deadly | studded limousine, What did he mean Z ni IS small, bright gray eyes looked| rush hour, the man who a few hours |‘by travelling with the common herd, and: Y E : Z 4 I H down at me and in a flash I| before had given out @ statement ¢hat of all times during the rush hour? May- ' 2 recognized J. P, Morgan, Jr. his firm's commission for financing the | be he was collecting date to incorporate the cut of that] proposed new suteway contract would into the new subway contracts that are ? It was placid and composed, Ike] be $4,200,000, | upsetting the town and the Board of Ke- bhonx with a jaw aid mouth line as} About six feet two tn height he stood, | timate. I watched him particularly ‘rm as tar, prominent, ambi-| Droad-shouldered, portly of girth, but| When his eye caught aight of @ front Hous nose, drooping mustache, gray-|4n good proportion—-a ringer for his| pase cartoon in The Eventag World a Porown and hi r in key with his] father not only in his face but in his| Passenger was reading. It showed {d complexion. A man of vital {n-| dress, He had the Morgan pot-hat | father Knickerbocker, with his new, rest, especially to every passenger by, black; the same square cornered | Way tucked under his arm, mourn: riding in that suffocating car, many of| Piccadilly collar, of thick ply and| fully walking into Morgan & Co.'s of- whom, at that very moment, were glossy finish; heavy black #ilk four-in-! ‘ice, Which was shown as @ roker's snop, with the three-ball eign aver the door, 1 suapicloned a human’ winkle in the corner of hie eye, but the Sphinx never relaxed. Everybody waa reading about the subway tangle: and nobody wae understanding it, 1. wager, At Fourteenth street we got a new: wrangement as the Jam increased. Mr. Morgan found himself cornered by a pretty young woman who stood with, her back to him, she had a large velvet hat and the hat had two wng atin Nulla) protectin Hragidens fan ie Keep Your Eye Open for The: Any Evening at Times Square Station. sero! Mr. Morgan's face was impaled: HERE were two of them. One Monday morning newspapers with hun between th n. This was going to be tall, thin and in evening dress; of cohumne per year, stumbling over and kicking that nigmt, rari loa’ aaaiat ana(tha) vauhe 1ey the other stocky and in busin: wore on thetr way to Bronx! And many other nights, Quite herole of ee eee enetd tonversarion, witapattire. Each carried a big sult case.| Park from one of the many lectures that| you, wasn't it? You make the man who Nitl friend. ‘The young lady wae veryQON@ case was of battered grayish! Ditmars delivers in various parts of the | lights matches tn a powder factory look hervous and the car shook her headgieather, Tho second was of yellow| city throughout the winter, He tllus-|ike @ piker. Next time, though—now input to add to Mr, Morgan's discom-@ Wicker work, (The two suit ¢ are| trates these lectures with live snakes|that you know the secret-you may de ly \@ trifle heroic, How about tt? Who could mist | whose lodging house you people were ‘Ature. ‘The quills began to bob abourgworth that much description. 80 areland other ers ‘is face and he was busy trying to avold! . You are iikely to ace them | ty kept tn a separ ite (rite te Sollee Be oe g at Times Square Station.) | And these bags ure carried to and fro d_ was successful at first. He even® They boarded the uptown subWay | in the two sult cases over which subway ed to be dignified, but thie Was tovMrsin, Bo did @ multi-colored army of| passengers a0 often stumble. nuch, ‘The Sphing was smiling. S00! “ he was Inughing pleasantly, eo was the: home-bound theatre-goers. It was 1l| Here is 4 partial te Directory” of thore cases’ inhabitants aborer, #0 waa the messenger boy, sop? M. wan I hed others. The yOuns. lady w ‘A suit cane ina jostling subway theatre] In the wicker«work recepticle-One ybiivious to Mr, Morgaa’s situation. She@crowd te about as pleasant and com-| gila monster (more dangerous than @ ouldn't have moved if she wanted to@fortable @ bit of incumbrance as @ sore| whule kernel of rabid dogs); one king vway. thumb or @ raspberry seed under a eet] snake, one boa constrictor, one glass after Pittsburgh?” [ asked in all sym- was worrying her head off. “il have to Go in vaudeville? Well, I'll tell youg For minutes Mr. Morgane head® + ¢aise tecth one chicken snake, ene indigo pathy, ‘anything but a centennial, Tun not one thing I'm not going to do, I shai bed on. He laughed outright, T two suitcases were kicked and | « one milk snak ‘She's Kolng to get me yet," he eaid’ % 7) y Jo er | toothless ie ri NOT at ‘Rosle.’ But 0! to How COULD New York look after | toothiess, physically incapacitated nor vi 6. ut Tam going to the tubes, “Mek ne A Lo " went le nity ced, But I'm looking SD one of George Cohan's old songs Ql r 4 | izard, a garter snake, a puff> Pipa ple ees ae wall quae} it ref an ee jos Ke There will be four numbers and a com-giirat one quill and n the other jabbec: awled by several hundred people. And | sides @ lizard, a Pp pany of elght. I've becom: the sides of his fa very person who thus came into tnvol- | adder, &c.), one rattlesnake, 6 feet long jit's painted, 1 really can't see much dif- | duick changes [') have to make M NY Qyeress—on, ye! I'm hiring halla forg He looked relleved when we reaches: Q intary contact with one or both of the) (it was he why remonstrated against nocked about and stumbled over and| The battered leather ault case held (be- ference betw {t and the New York er to ell it my Is, talking of salaries, ny QGrand Cer ‘ yoeptacies, glowered at the two owners, |the kick on hie domtotle by “parring’’) | fox. Take it from a gentle stranger, wonder of the telling the actors ver, way y e Several women, whose dresses had|and one bloated, hideous cotton-mouth | there's nothing the matter with the fox vas How that company that I will 1a he surveyed the crowd between h tught on the corners of the cases water moccasin, ‘The moccasin’s venom here! But Broadway ja lighter than changes with the quickness baggage, At the same and the door, In a deep ba cweded to wither the two burden bearers |sace contain thirty drops of @ poison ever. And how the.hotels are springing nl comes out smiling with do all I can for them, 19 alled out, “Tt want to with looks of wrath, More than one|so virulent that # single drop means th, se ‘em to support me afte tw ced him or hi fh aaa ~ th a ney ‘f > ni barked his shins on them said | inatan " see myself gasping for breath when 1. changes in Jeville leave me contusion, nan who ba we t0 Sow Cars mene raucarila pine? ss , | and helpless.” were In Ph lite diatinetly what he thuugnt about| Yes tiga Sani” eased" Ka From where 1 sat 1 couldn't ace anutting the doo: eo who block jo with #uch And whe herself adin tted thatQhla powerful shoulder, he ter than the new thea- wong after anothor gets me! 1 up—almost f tres! Every time I © I play a new hotel. It's the latest game and lots of fun, I haven't started get- the pretty poem! ng to keép it ting around to the theatres yet. What/ UP) a . : j through the mase of men and women, wd nettled to tts straps ki f h Thi Se ei elder wehon tome | Eve taken a yer for onty a weeks" | Tua law tirrwe es roa aetund to tes strain Furst @ ew of the ings : fe atiae. of (ed And then are you going to setth muaani ate whod Zfrom the car T caught @ final giimpse NSB Bnd: § : one told me that the names of the prine | 4M a t know," rom th 1 aught 8 ANAL KUMP MS ciose-pucke!inaas a Vou Cae ns ya i. Y, ‘ cipals were printed on the doors of the | OO" The two men the tall and ‘she slowly answered Bur that's k nook, turkey-red from hie ex dressing rooms at Weber & Fields’ new | .. i + eda BLES GEA. ainualapennd music hallp { could hardly believe Is Saag y lonu engagement 0 way to treet soyeliy,'! 1@the a oe nes ae Gad VRE are some. of the unusual) City, remember=io Linoleumvilie, or In the days of the old music hall We fie ty ne torn down, I whs cragy to Ko I rubved the elbow Mr.Qto that sort of thing. It ares things you can do in York Mt] from Hull's Head, Staten Island, to had to wait for the newspapers to see | ataecerrie ie aauathed intl ced SIUNBIB Gan tion ce ica Cwan) FB sou only now 4 East Springfleld, ‘There's no other way our names in print. My father taught re iar MEEPS PON SPN Cum) io feet in the alr-tf you get al of reaching these interesting places ex- me to like old theatres. When we got ee >. o Ait from the superintendent of the] cept by stage: they're not even flag sta was when en w Woo worth Butiding at Broadway and! tions on @ rattroad, Harclay street. je an elephant in the Bronx Zoe, a 7W0 feet below ground—4t you get car on West street, a scooter—in State Board of ¥ ‘ason—on Jamaica Bay, & goat cart in Supply to descend the shaft of the av the Bronx, or, {f particularly adventur- tuct bore at’ Broadway ous and reckless with your patrimony, to @ town that had @ bang-up theatre, with nice dressing rooms, father would | say, ‘No busine Give me a barn” It Was a superatition with him, but, by Jinks! we always bad a fine house when | cooks and atten we played in @ rickety, tumbledown) appeal to me Heard at the Waldorf SAULSBURY, mining n big lumber dealer of Nevadi the Waldorf. mh In the early ¢ { mace hin pile, Ho wae also in Dearn, ratthng around new what luxurious last’ Weber and en with our own ants the trip didn't dike one of those had elicited from result case a fa t was un 8 acute out of % bo a servant. I've mind the crowd Sow Workin. a Ruan cuamsl sag team thing, t no: street a taxicab on Broadway, pisos Naw ¥9 EE Rel ON er every ay ay av ” hings tha I sould y and la with pride of afterward, I'm 1 to tt Tr 1 perpendicularly In any one of Mave a nose made of your forefinger ’ H pla for a 4 neatre. I'd he ewtly daya of that sple knew what ts tn tho half dozen elevators whose exact loca-| or swap leg bones with a Newfoundia alma | ald | play fo wh zen elev ogo exact loc wap > nd Rated ‘Temples an onl aRtora to, way hake @ lot of t ; fours we'd have a privale@tion must be diacovered-—to be specific! dox in any of a dozen well known 1b ppraves ane Signs laoie Th la 6 . uh same mining cera ve a ne woul be embarrassing—at a rate of ap-| hospitals Have a moving pleture fm way j peta worked ncn Ne nan owas F IhtmarsQproximately 100 miles an hour. {made of your siomach an hour after a aa toda nat ae teen wa the graveyard aulft, The Cof- genius of the F Cravel Horizontally in an aeroplane at| dinner. “1 think I'N call the coming engage n b, a) B48C" her tropical eyes gloWed as ene lifted ” 0 on the cast side of use. His Helmont Park at an $0-mile eltp. y 4 ah Ha eae sae sneak |her tropical eye nt Park at an 50-mfle cltp. See Harry Lauder—if arrangements neval Kange on the edge of DeathSsnyder, the man whose feats ‘ Ride tn a stage from Oakwood | made with his manager—break a Valley. ’ venomous serpents furnish New York'sQHeights, Long leland—still in New York dollar bill on a bas, forget STEERS. = apres:

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