The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1913, Page 9

BA Nitin ares nee Meg Villars Compares the Night Dances of New York and Paris, New York's a Poor Imitation at Four Times the Cost Lo ‘ <= 4 No Mrs. Carter Contrasts The Lady With a Past With Modern Sister The Difference Between Them Is That, While One Dies y in the Good Old-Fashioned Way, the Other Lives Happily Ever Atter. BY CHARLES DARNTON. HERW really should have been another chair at the table for our old T stage friend, The Lady with @ Past. She seemed to come in with’ the oysters, and it goes without saying that she was talked about. Mrs. Carter, full of her first experience with “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray,” & INEVITABLE SPANISH DANCING! because they have a literary precision that makes them so, The coltequial style is que out of the question. In attempting to grasp them I had nothing’ but inetinct to guide me. To me “The, Second Mra, Tanqueray’ is a classic to’ be approached with reverence. Yet I was obliged to put it on before I knew my lines, and at the same time‘ to ro- hearse a new company in ‘Zasa.’ Can i} Belt hessedo tars ommoociat trae’ tage Paris You Are Welcome depend entirely upon myself. Bven now to Spend Your Money— vT I am rehearsing a repertory that in- and the Prices Are Tall T MEG VIFLARS. |, do you think ita right? And the mar ‘Camille, cp i ial tone work? owe, pelioigee But at Least You Feel WH: 144 women who were there all dreased Bunday merninge I go to work et 1 — UUEG f| 1S) Up Uke Rorwen! se the ether that Your Money Is DANCE Gratefully Received — Here at the Entrance You Meet a Uniformed; Official Who Gives You} a@ Who-the-Devil-Are-| ° of the New You Glance, as if You scum ne ‘ Came to Borrow a Few| tit, #*7, "ibe surses » orton view in mont cabaretn-—since cab-| ,it # extraordinary the abandon and | “Certainty Some of the ‘ part when I went to that burlesque show I resolved to be on the safe side this time. 1 needn't have worried’ either way, though, for I found every kind of thing in the way of dress from ball gowns that one uvex a shoe horn to ge! Into to tallor-:nace suite. bo an aged spinster with a parrot erete they are—would give any artiat Dollars, Instead of to oe of Waarenvest Siferences Seinoen food for thought and peavide inspira- ‘anything New York Women Be- he two, “yours” and “ours,” at Nl tion till hie death, allowing he wasn't] when you remember that these are ‘‘re- Waste a Lot of Them on| ? 1 you are welcomed to spend your|etruck deaf, dumb and blind at first] spect bie" souls, Tf a Frenchman was lieve in Stripping for money; the prices are tall, as tall as . the Place that Pays for | your wondertui akyn:rapers, but at east WHELs arican. indy. wectatnlp. anarde'| UU” h Oot me ota TOoRR Bk SHO Po the Fight—The Arms, l'you feel that when you pay your DIM| onore with her English sieter in tho| “#red tell him that these people are Shoulders and Backs His Clothes!”’ {the money in gratefully received, Hei moutly wealthy cltisens of good stand- se | where you arrive at the entrance of aj riter or wearing lowscut gowne on) ing, He would abjure you, with al On View in Most Caba- all possible occasions. be. cabaret you find, inetead of the amiling Frenoh equivalent, to “cut It out, By Meg Villars. \Countenonee cf a etaychesded captain}, Puristennea leave more te the | murmur under his breath ‘Maxim’ rets— Since Cabarete who conalders it a privilege to make you|!Masination as it and although | Remember, Maxim's Indies LAfOBT the day 1 wae you may accuse them of wearing aug-| What you seem to think they in| They Are—Would Pro- . comfortable, a uniformed official who re people sex to me, they reative and ‘ musical comedies, dear New York; the lade to eae with an taaaiont ermesenae | and even “wicked” frocks you i ‘ trees they 1aid on the word | 2 {FY and borrow a few dollars instend | tulle mused snd, unitasnedl 1A Din | render inter tine! tion Till His Death, Al- “our I came to the con-|°f to waste & lot of them on the estab- n the| The number of ry men and ay tg4 lishment that paye for hie clothes. bores of very smart theatres and at| oi jaiieere’ Frechmen ‘would alow| lOWing He Wasn't justen that New York !# very proud In Paris most of the emart places are|Private dances and M@inners that you | that they are eminently reepectadie, in- uck Deaf, Di ig eeghe paar aimednead brightly Ut, well decorated by French | catch the Parisionnen in all the glory | asmuch as they are so grotesque—ae- Struck ', Dumband it, us Ra tnveotian all, dear New | artiste who know thely werk and, adove|of their usually beautiful shoulde: tounded me. 1 have never come across York, why you oall these piaces|@b the rooms are Driliiently Ughted,| There's & certain type of bathing | & roomful of sane citizens making them- 4 they don't look as if they have been|drese frock that seema very popular | S¢!ves look humorous a serlously. Th ens ] r 7 et et is TM, wondered what The Lady with a Past would think of The Lady with @|oviock: But 1 don't mind, One of these cabarets”? In France « caberct i | astuy daubed over according to the|here, a popular ax the shaving brsn | nie duet you, dear New Tor?” | Seely jcoHNe with two:lenmed ant- Present. ° daye I hape to come back to New Yorkgem™ll, cheap . tes {directions of a bad German panier in that {e built expressly to| "y,Gont you tear New York! mals in the search of pleasure, Byery ] wm secre to me," eho retiscted, polee| Aa attentive walter appreecned ine |WHO © new play thet will give me 6) ho anes See he We" aiddie | Murry to catch the next boat back t0|tIckle your partnera nose wien he! eyt Ry do all these, poeple Corie. andl one wes GSY, Overy coe wee Manan ate | ( . chamee to do great things. The chief, ore Europe in order to get home to his wife| bunny hugs you around! You would! Are they all disappointed stage as-|to think "G peel intr nes ae not see @ frock like that anywhere !n| pirants who must have an audience and Ugh Parte, off the stage. Of course we all| can only find one there? FF ert ite Conta irri. know that on the stage the limita of| A tew of them appeared to be up-from.| thinking about in a crowded place like Lindros have been resened, since Rar |the-country and rather astonished at| that Hine Badet danced nantly to crowach | finding themselves there, a little anxious| But what mentality have the will Certainly there are & fe, 1 vith the dollars you have ov&rgener- artistic” cabaret up on the | Tid tae Soli heimhte of Montmartre, where Well] Tie aires iid on “our” cabarets led known posts and musicians have *UN8| in. ty expect something even grander thelr own ballads in thelr Eada but Tthan the lofty white and gold rooms jed almost °° | furnished with moss green hangings that | houses wea about their noteoften-used ring a black Ince shawl. allk (not the sort | ong finds at thu Abbaye, but my expecte-|etockings and a rose sticking from be- | °"\ but quite ready te. tions were short lived when My @800ft\eween her poarly teeth. Here you seem | pe Mhele teen took me to my first New York cabaret. |in the way af 4r ad avi erha | or throws re aa diferent trom your cabarets tere (Vas I had an gacort tala Hore thas |manmerg too, in. real” life, aimowt| ters, who danced for ail whe was worth | too proud toe pull," but aot’ pawee thoee cabarets are different to the | you, dear New York: once bitten twice sveryening you wen done on the staae.| With any one who came within eateh-| enough to refuse TBh OME Bek sere, iv on Pil eetar can (ah) dainas Ga” harciie Parisian night Crolplaigy ist gles shy, a@ I remarked tn @ previous scrtb-| mgs Gear New York, would get you | !N-hold-of ri . She was wonderfully a wind-up we tried to get tate on at an emtonte ng Fate. Loa kes Pte da aap terupe UD tla seen ei iE feahioned tee drinkers gprobably what you are trying + | ule, 1 no longer go out alone at alsht 18 lite trouble If you were in Paris! and marvetously made up, and ehe hed | Bustanoby's, but the Warrior on guest veflects the independent «pir ee Miner, act ina kaay wits Alu 1 awk for,” ahe mused, “te Aveptatel Now York—never again, sir.) To remain with this “fret cabaret of |f ryan vound the neew thas ope You, T will have a title alt, }ooures, settion her, But the Lady wilt wore years. Then I shall retire, Mean-g Imitation fe the sincerest form of Mat") The cabaret I sampled le one level mine—it wax illuminated by a Sirenmn | one Se POrTeR Mey 08 SOR: to: 98 ° went inslate upon living. ‘That's , ‘ pronerly. taask you. the New Thought Pag let Corse." while 1 should Mke to play @ part withgtery, #0 we must at least say "Thank with the entrance, there are no ¢! waters lof becoming pink light, which ™ my dying day T shall never know A tek with Mire, Carter is not aft pale beousht cracked a French accent and a touch of com-@you" for the compliment. that take you up to the ‘th floor there li, sortened the crudeneas of the #0 ‘whi », ami pepper, with no meat. There ta aub- | err Lah iv! Paige ledy. After that @ season in vewlevilleg The English languaxe te « very poor) no winding passages, no steep and BaF!) guess that pink Hgbt was used just i stance in what she says. That's what | he gah ip o * aug ig | With, aay @ acene from ‘adres,’ fol-@one, or else I am @ poor scholar, which | row atairy to negotiate as in some Of) 2 ung jadypust-her-youth employs etters need restoring after the exertions 2 nmkes her worth while, that's what | took only a moment for Mra Carter's! 4.44 by a moving picture play—then@is more Wkely, for I cannot find @ word | the other dens I saw; you enter right ing her fork, “that the woree # woman |table—Dut he did not bring.a chalr for ivin the modern play that deals with|the popr Lady with # Past, who by|4Mculy Ws to find » new play her type, the better she gete along, I) thin time must have felt @ trifle weak give me the opportunity 1 tong for. 1 dont know quite what to make af the jin the knees, nad ‘Bella Donne’ in my hands a year | modern woman ae the playwright sees! “I don't mind saying,” confessed Mre,|*S% but f slipped through them by her when he puts on his morally ad-|Carter, “that 1 have my doubts about the metemt chancn wanted to do | justed glagses, Unlike the unfortunate }aome of the long-suifering heroines of Hamlet,’ a¢ T once told you, but art iaSy who suffered hersetf to be crushed | the stage wearing sackcloth and ashes Cort wouldn't let me—he thought oy her past, her current prototype not | for the rest of their lives, Zaza, for one, would be grotesque for a Woman to only takes # high and mighty atand, but did go away by herself, but I've often |*PPear In ® men’s part. Howove | ahe fon’t mattefied until she has juetified | Wondered whether Dufresne didn't fol- | Hare are ane ir pare oe eae ore heveett, She both goes on and gete|low Her on the next troley oan Voll ough reading her fortune Im the way! | running down and spotling her maen'ft-| I wonder they don't provide embe ce been ra ed, Pies ane cent gown of crimson velvet embrold-| lances to take them home afterward 2 ite of th \ In the curious half light, rendered AED aan wanter, 1¢|thnled ae mae ee ee a] the more uncertain by @ haze of to-| that woman put in front of @ mad njoyed my bacco smoke, the beautiful women were | bu! the anfmal would go down on its ly, enjoy xoldesses and the plain ones were| knees and beg for mercy, | 4 ir" Veue- | third chin to prevent the i> of the night! gtves her stage performances their | hair to melt the ice to the green hille far away and a blue@ytrong enough to tell you the gigantic | “way unprepared and defenseless, and paint and then pulls down the Veue vite quality, She never speaks without] ‘Do you know,” suked, “(hat I'm /aky under Which to dream of ell that@aitrerence there fe betweer your New the atmosphere of the place ls permitted thimtcing, She puts brain behind utter-) just getting aoquainted with Paulalhas passed. I don't want to keep On@yorg caberet and the Parisian restau: to get fret knock at you. The combined ane, Tanqueray? No, I didn’t tiink you did. acting until the publio says of MO rant-de-nult odor of warm humanity, perfume, food “Year modern heroine who faces e| Well, let me tell you that J have never} "She's an old woman.” ‘Of course there are tsiganes in both |#Nd tobacco, bit me hard Aret breath moral problem {s no oyster,’ she re-| seen a performance of ‘The Second Mra,| We pulled back our chairs, and While®aceg, there ie the inevitavle Spanish but, with the fortitude which enables 1 eumed, studying a ba 1 by way of | Tanquera: inakes my perform.|we went out at one door, the old-fash- 9 ooo? wnom you cannot get away from | Women to support such wnplessent and n.| Ry the way, do you think that Frenoh queer things as tight ghees, corsets, hat /PeeutMul: therein must He the aurac’) | Gane in the nteht restaurants? | vow that I rexained the {mposin Buropean cities where in any of the p ping and dentists, | kept @ emile etiek- r % Because they do Not the way you |dorf, with which | am at I ing around the corners ef my mouth— | The girle at Maxim's danee to-| mate terms enough to call it “homef* and advanced. jetrange half expectant expression all! gether, certainly, but they @o that to| There I bade good-morning te en@ the time, just as if they were count: |show off thelr paces! thanked my kind escort, then made for Paria we eee the turkey trot performed| The heat was appaling, the exiguity of) 71 Something out-of-the way hap-| on dance with them are from every city | the elevator. To do so I had t an eject lesson, “Oh, no! She has al ance all the more remarkable? I’ giad toned Lady with # Past vanished great deal to say for herself, and she} to hear you may that, for I've been out through another, ange It without any apologies Instead] oniy two weeks, and when 1 came Int of elowing her past to drag her down| New York at @ moment's notice I gave, to @ timely grave in the fourth aot, she} my sixth performance of Paula, I hope digs tt ep in the third act and exhibite| you are right in saying it may become} Not Generally Known There are alec | ne TO tenes ari ees mare than |Dening—vet nothing ever dia! The York included), but| way over pools of noany watet, It wlth @ fearlessness that bring her|one of my greatest rolos, for 1 feel By Joha L. Hobble t of the tradi. | Women | eit Httie mere eee ise cal’ coud be an ' vr DAAle 06 Rene Wales, triemph, a fine husband and your kind | !t Ie Dig and J ain golng to do my beat y om d which women and can orowd inte eueh © plese! ose cg husband, retureing unex- whe have/up and the gorgeous Pea epelause ‘Times cortainiy — have] to live up to {t After all, Paula is won- neon ef beth enntinente dent up with | "Mr nennmre | shall Rover understand. | eotadly from e journey, eome there to| (ee nine foe the fun o Sgene round undergoing Its morning toilet, Foaling: changed. In the days of ‘The Scarlet] derfully human, and the human appealg@ Many & wornan le unhappy evauseSrorus eo that the bubbies subside, but fetch hie wife and find here dancing—| bands, do it a little bit out of Dravado, el yy the a aes ioe she has all the things necessary te make A ne happy. nate end we pointe of fg a ing |*i! tee mart restaurants, 1t amaned me ‘ray don't imagine I am preferring |, seq dosene of whitetrecked gistioh Paria, I Gistike the night resteura: | creatures eitting in that impossible at- as I've seen them dance! Then some-| but never as I see ft done here—ne' “Bhocking time to be out, lan't itt thing out of the way would happen, 1} Hever. Yad, yp BI half-world, ye “You're not the last, ma'am," he amy 0 wor! dare ony! {an't it, dear New York—emphatic and nh, aatd I, absurdly relteved, Letter,’ for example, the attitude to-| never grows old, While I have come t: / ward & woman wie erred was nothing | believe that the public loves to lus! Yeas thas fanatical. And look back, for| tu-day as It uever did before, f am con~ A super’ is an actor whose ealary a moment, at the stage heroine who| vinced it has not forgotten how toY orcas him to confine his diet to soup. @form of amusement as much a@ the} moephere with the ale ef being el@| You may think it very bold of me to joved and suffers!. Du Barry paid the | feel, and Pinero’s play 1s as true to-day — cabaret stunt. Idon't think I have been | netitues, I give you my werd, dear |aseume that there were married wom: NS ae baret dancing place there|are out at eye pny 4 Gebt—she «ied, Vasta Ilerne @id the} a the day it wae written, To me it a man appears ignorant when heQenticed into one of the smart haunts |New York, that some of the delightful, | there without their husbande, dear New | was a “ni ” (Feminine Ryp- y eame, Advionne, ts an abeolutely new play. I know oesn't know something thas you learned Gof night Parle more than once during | charming looking little girte 1 eaw Yors, 1 apotogise if I am mistaken, | rag tim: latent Viennese valses and | ocrisy takes the cake!) they died. But the nothing of its traditions, never having® esterday ‘the whole of last year, and then the|otner night have adopted, @& wneen-|dUt I don't think I am! A woman of | the newest French songs, What a won-| ‘I dessuy, ma'am,” and he added, past is the least of her worrles lves| seen it played. 3 a Abbaye de Thaleme only got me on | ctoual; forty, uniese she married late and 1s derful of rhythm th: darkies| der his breath, but I caught it all i happy cver after, The contrast f2| “When Mise Nethersole and Mrsg, When ® man chooses tho lesser of WORCirigtmae Eve, out of pure snobbish- iM on her honeymoon, doesn't wear) have! The long, somewhat dingy room,|same, “More fools they when they 4 euiing. Bu 1 co wish eat |Campball appeared tn i I was a0 dusyQ es De ™akoe the most of It noes, beouuse if you don't go there that out o peruuet Goer dancing with her] with We dull red hansings, wee very | sight be sleeping!” ’ ( ty : » ws! half the wr ies full as the other ehow: ‘t you t 5 trl : something, Can't lok sou inte a few] that X could aot Gnd opportunity to sec sen are divided into two classes—thosegnisht you may ae well give up pretend: ‘eomeared to welh the oake| locked Inca pM PE BR ex | mo ) | | eggteses” Wem“ Penye. Hane 90 Geng Gs Pute pre and Teese whe we anh ing to be comehedy and ctert the eneta! |, pocket, esowded, ft wan|te Gaal? ; Debian & { eo Se premaiys ty UW © NURaae f a, re — r; ~ - . -