The evening world. Newspaper, May 3, 1913, Page 8

Trains Elephant, Dog, Horse and Pony to Act Together! Max Gruber Tells How. He! tivere! Sor tiny 7%, cl famtty. tor. Taught His Strangely As- playe ‘possum, and never bats an eye- lash, Bometimes Minnie's rough pedals Sct ita tn a ut a Very Remarkable Circus! wrod knows it ts ail in the aot teed Act—The Thoroughbred Irish Stallion Plays “Dead” for Six Minutes While Minnie, the Ele- fF moves @ muscle, ‘ery performance, and never moves until t give him the signal.” Step of the dance, Hoe tolerates Pea- . wise the Tittle Ghotland, whe ts a0 oun- Ming a @ kiddy. Peacvok, whe marenes, the and lete Miante carry him around ‘wan’ her trunk and play red eroes nureo @erce him, ie gentle as but Vor East diepley something qentieness—momenta If there's \ffalo pause in aguregation the find an casis villain be hasn’ And ‘ful act majority of br has the bave hada came © heres, cue Foy ion Ghe wants ‘There's 0 be bes any: Ble, the elephant, thing on her. cowboy ervants at every mount her, Ne, air, wot halt some elephant. bls yng ah) of with dame of the e rh knowing, -but she’ ‘May, the intelligent and wide-awake 14 girl. Why not @, Bernard, doesn't do all the tricks erewaned heads. ohe knows. When she's playing on the the purple, She stage she has several other stunts which Yate Queen Victoria @an't do on the tanbark. One of entertained at them ts ckipping rope. May just rune ‘Mrappe, Kaiser perfunctorily through performance. of Gta, It's too easy, the work she is doing in Minale marches the Wild West show. It docen't require Ghetland poay any effort and she does not attempt course, Q peo ona heat Max Gruber, the trainer of this !I1 of Mr, Max Did @snorted quartet, was asked to ex- ‘dy what course of plain how he managed to do it all. festion of detail “Well,” aid, with a amile, “it's Grader cannot toll Just patience and constant training. 1 ten who wormed Started frst with Minnie, and while It thinking it out might appear dificult to handle euch work, te, work. & big animal, it whe comparatively 4 season with th: easy. I had the old horse, and I was hae him just three years to bring L cmagsbid traming both new tricks, it kept me busy and them too. Then the act up to ita present stage of Per) rotroduced the Mhetiand, and iaat of all the dog. I am now training » big leven hag 4 led paca rg Le} Collie, nearly ap big as May. that he appeared Defore Queen. Vie~ “It took me all of three years to get ‘He found the } growing too the four into perfect tates Gea old after a while, and had to train a time in Lone new one, the present one Prever. The 4 no practice for three latter io an Irion thoroughared Leow ond months, yet when I went on in the hipe and comes all the way from im. | Sodrome she was just as good and per. Gentle as a bitten and also an playful, | tect an ever, This act I once had to you @on't want to rile him. Fight him | gop training for three weeks and the and he'll fight bask, saye Mr, Gruber. /nignt 1 started again there wasn't a Of course he will, He's an Irish thor |aingle break in the performance, Ani- eughbrea. Never » Sick of wtp falls | mais are a good deal like men. Treat on his glossy beck, never & towdh of @/them right and they will respong in aper even tickles him Onee « feolish |iike manner. You cannot afford: to be groom ewished him with a whip and he/ugiy with them. Gentlenes always was exhausted when he stepped kick: | wins, All four animals in my ehow are ing. very fond of one another, and I think Protor plays dead ané the clephant|they are all fond of me. I know I walks over him. Gidewise she stepe|am of them. They are my family, jemg as Gingerly as @ g00d housewife mine and my wife’ ¢ MINNIE, *y RE In Gorgeous Specia Seven Suffr.ge Associations Ranging From Mrs. Clarence Machcy's Exclusive Equal Franchise Society to the Wage Earners’ League Share in the Brilliant Success—Men in Knightly Costumes a Background for Stunning Women. OW woman longs for freedom, how the hope of it dawns upon her, how men oppose her until overborne by the coming of juatice, and the final, inevitable triumph of | emancipated American womanhood— that was the story glowingly and ear- nestly set forth tn the suffrage pa- Beant given last night at the Metropoll- tan Opera House, ‘We have hu suffrage playe and suf. frage parades and suffrage petitions aplenty, but pageant is something new. And one doubts If the cause of “votes for women” was ever presented more artistically and alluringly than fn the “Dream of Freedom,” as the Metropolitan spectacle was called, Buch a demonstration is bound to more beguiling effect on the impres- stonable—and nine-tenths of the pub- Uc is impressionable—than all Mrs. Pankhuret’s bombs and hammers and aelf-sought martyrdom, If “artistie’ is tho first adjective to apply to the pageant, “democratic” is the second. From the beginning it was in charge of seven suffrage asso- clations, ranging from Mra. Clarence Mackay's exclusive Equal Franchise Boclety to the W! Earners’ League And among the actual workers were not merely women from every rank in lecture cou teo, Young Mr, Harri- Man didn't neglect to apply for the $20 bill that goes with attendance at @ U. P. board meeting. Averell will banking at t! Bank, where he Young Harsiman Learns. Avereli Harriman, the twenty-one-year- OM @on of the late Edward H. Harri- ‘an, the ratiroad magnate, came down to New York the othor day for his first leagon in @ branch falls to get tn the curriculum mapped out for him et Yale, He attended a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Union Pacific, to which he has onty recently been elected. Averell went to the meeting at Ni M6 Broadway directly from the Grand Central Station, having run down trom New Haven, where he is s senior and coach of the crew, especially for the oc. casion. He brought along a couple of books to-read on the train, He left them with his overcoat outside, They were History of Europe Since 1815" and & standard textbook on his course in practical Harriman National Iso & director, This Soaring City. Borough President MoAneny an- nounced the other that the latest figures of the Board of Health gave Greater New .ork « population of 6,883,000, And that doesn’t count in the Dart of New York City's population that sleeps outside its limits in Jersey, ‘Westchester and along Long Island. London's actual population in 1911, when the last count was made, was 4022,064, almost @ million less than that of New York. But London always counts its metropolitan and city police districts in its score, giving it @ total ve 7,962,068, Adding in New York's suburbs to the | Board of Health's figures, New York would have @ population of 6,000,114, Which means we are hardly more than Ralf a million behind the English etropolis. that than ever stop to think a8 @ larger population All Bweden, a: ae i The Hatpin Foiled. New York hasn't en fit as yet io adopt New Jersey's plan for mussiing hatpins, Dut this doesn't apply to the Royal Insurance Building down at No. U William at The management hi "t exactly passed a law ag deadly hatpin, but It has taken to make it conspicuous, ‘The other day a neatly printed notloe Was sent to every office in the building. ‘This is what !t said: “Numerous complaints have reached the owners from pertons who, using the while jevators, have been injured with loss of eyesight by. rily long, sharp-pointed some ladies are now the use of long pine in small “The owners express the belief that when the matter ls thue drawn to the attention of ladics using the elevators the longer and more dangerous hat pins will be Glepensed with, thue conducing | to the avoidance of accidents for which the ladies who cause them may be held Personally responsible under law." ‘There, ien't that well done? Isn't it a mai of diplomacy? There fan't @ suggestion of a threat—cer- tainly nothing like the uncouth Jersey law which talke of vulgar fines and, worse still, offers to divide the fines with the persons causing the arrests of unmussied hatpina, S MNfe, but men, The membership of the orchestra {# an excellent illustration, It wan composed of the men players at the Metropolitan, the society women who make up the Woi and prise pupila sele Mannes from the Musio Sc ment. After Miss Keith Wakeman, in flow- ing robes of white and suffrage yellow, had finiehed reciting the prologue put into verso by Charles Hanson Towne, the orchestra softly played Wagnerian elections and the curtains parted on the moonlit Elysian fields, In the foreground was the altar of freedom and behind it w flight of marble steps led up to freedom's temple. At the top of these steps waited the hand- maidens of Hope, Miss Heulah Hep- burn, i Teabel Carbicre, Miss Diana Yor! and Mrs, Arnold Furst. The part of Hope was taken by Mra. Flor- ence Fleming Noyes, who immediately appeared between the centre columns of the temple of freedom and danced Mghtly down ¢ eps to the altar carrying @ biasing torch and followed by her hand-maidens. All the young women were in white Grecian robes and all were barefoot. They danced lightly about the altar, hool Bettlo- ce: in of TOR, PEACOCK, MAY AND TRAINER GOING THROUGH AN ACT | Alderman Ralph Folks, who is 4 lawyer ae well ae an Alderman, had ® caller the other day with a real idea, Perhaps he was only an optimist in his ignorance, but there are millions of Persone in the United States who will agree his idea should be adopted by Uncle Sam's government, “Look here, Mr. Folks,” remarked you about thie income tax business,” ‘The hatpin certainly ts de trop at ing ine No, 64 Willlam street. You don't see amy af all in the Glevatore any more, How do the women keep their hate on? Ace (hem—where theres @ will, aa, The Alderman was a bit pussied, ue} ‘snow hie caller never made more than! 100 @ month in u "why, don't have to bother about i, MLL" Ro replied “That He Got Tangled on the Income Tax Bill. | people who make more than $4,000 a those who earn more than $4,000 have to pay one per cent?’ hurt to diaiilusionise Bil of such a beautiful dream, the visitor after he had finished the tt cree principal joh brought him A STIMULUS, to the la I want to ask!) “YOU #ay you're so good. Why didn't | You enter the amateur They wanted to start us off with ‘@ only for Journal’ FLORENCE FUBMING MOYES AS. AND ASSISTANT whiTg *NOPES® corating it with green wreaths, and finally Hope herself lit the fame of freedom with From the ied, shapeler frocks of green and blue ant gray, crouched at elther side of the stage. Some of them held laps. appeared the spirit of Woman, persont- fled in Miss Pauline Fredericks, Miss Frederioke wore a trailing gausy, rain- tow hued robe, and, as her took toreh, ing of the curtain hud- woman forms, in coarse children in their Out of the dumb groups suddenly the biasing altar of freedom, pealed with passionate’ gestures to the matdens dancing about It. All repulsed her, save Hope, the queen them all. She took Woman by the ati ir cent. to all thi in $4,000 @ year just as And Alderman Folks saya it really ‘oad jump?" “Rules didn’ “Why not? it ni ol shot, and I do my best jumping cle She Scales the Heights of HOPE” (ov. wewre) hand and suddenly, on the temple heights a myatical vision of Freedom embodied in white, winged figure, slowly arose. Seeing this, Woman hastened to Srouse her slumbering sisters, and from either side they rushed to join her Might up the temple steps. They were headed by Miss Margart Howe, President Wilson's niece. But defore they reached the vision of Freedom there sounded a biast of trumpets and moonlight faded before the coming of dawn and the Pageant of p- | States. Eact State, plus Alaska and Hawail, was represented by @ woman —_——>—— HERE'S an act up at the Palace th: ek that has them s- feeling, You know There's It's baseball in pantomime. only one man in the act, and h McGraw of the'game, He's the whole thing. Frank Oakley is his name, but livers” on the bills, and there's nothing that touches his act in rela- tion to the national pastime since Thayer wrote “Casey at the Bat.” ‘The stage is in darkness when livers, as a Clown, is injected into the eputlight. He has @ broom, and he carries in th three begs and a home plate. When lights go up, the diamond is eet, and scene is a wonderful production of the grounds, There 1s the grandstand and the bleachers, the bench and all the equipment for the game, and one man to carry off the entire honors, Now, if you oan figure ont hew that rest, The man at the drum makes the funniest noises, and every nolse has its meaning to the trained ear of the “fan.” There's a ewishing sound when Slivers sweeps the home plate with his broom, and the sound continues after Blivers stops. Sliver looks foolish, 4 everybody laughs ike kids in church, and you experien tickled to death ‘a going to be a 00d gahe, and isn't going to be called @n account of darkness. In the firat half of the inning, Slivere is behind the bat, and he Is an ideal backstop, He has all the harness on. He doffs his cap to the grand stand, and nods familiarly to the bleachers, then "Play bail.” The first man to the bat fans. before he do the catol eter it, but it away trom him, ball ts thrown back to him and fump goes its emack ‘As {t nesties in the catcher’s glove, Of course, there is no ball. But you know the ball 1 there just the same by the sounds and by the catcher's actions, He signals to the pitcher and tries to But foul | put oue over on the umpire by swinging hiw glove in until tt 1s right behind the plate. The look of disguat on his face shows that the umpire has called one un The next drive is straight over the hing at the drum, follows the ball has been cought. The next man makes frat, aud Siivers's look of amazement shows that the umpire has erred again in julg- ‘ment, from the’ catehur's viewpoint, Then the runner steals second, The hall te catapulted down to second, and | tho catcher knows that he a tian out, He tak om ps hernese and te thor called vack by the umpize All this you read in the ay 1 hear an auto horn,"'--Chicago prewsion gf hie fave and his enla- tone Me gece back te the plate and bed tells you that the ball and @ man. The States where women are allowed to vote showed the generous proportion of two women to one man. ‘They came marching along the ter- race from elther side, headed by the thigteen original States, New York, New Jersey, -Penneylvania, Massa- chusetta, Rhode Island, Connecticut. Vermont, Virginia, Delaware, Mary- land, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, The women representing States wore robes of pure white rried wreaths, All the othe omen carried palms. Next ia the women from the voting States, who wore cloaks of suffrage yol- low over their white draperies, The men, who were to appear in short-skirted Roman soldier costumes, openly rebelted against bare legs. At Jeast that’s one story. The other rumor when they saw the-er—skimpy shins of thelr chosen Adoniges. At all events, the men were finally garded in chasio Parsifal knight costumes, grey, with crimson-lined cloaks and black stock- ings and sandals, All carried shields, all wore ferorcious and palpably false wigs and some insisted on the further Giaguise of chin whiskers, Truth compels one to admit that they 4id not exactly satisfy one's precou- ceived dreams of Adonises and Apollos They looked rather unkempt and there Wae more than o hint of eheepiehness ta the galt of some of them: But they How “Slivers’’ Plays One-Man Baseball the next man up makes clean hit and the firat runner rea third. ‘The second runner starts for sucond, and down to second goe@ the ball. It comes right back again, according to signal, and tho firet man !s cauwht off third, Then there is an Interchangs between third base and the plate. Back and forth the runner 1s driven and is finally put out at the plate. And time the audience {s on its tues, the fans at the real game, @livers retires like a modest hero of the diamond and bows (to the bleachers and the grandstand. #e sheds his har- kes @ big drink out of the bucket, with the spectators and a big dummy policeman and has a lot of fun ‘on the bench, He 1s called to the bat, the ball. Pop! goes the ground tay the home ahakes the dust off his uniform, which has N. ¥. an front and Boston in back and starig for the bench, The way he FARDERICH made an admirable background for the tall and really good-looking women, and what more can any mere man do? The entire battalion marched down: the steps, the women drawing back be- fore them. When, after ail the States had passed and the passageway seemed clear, Woman attempted once more to scale the mountain heights of freedom, her way was barred by the sudden for- ward rush of the men representing the States where women are not allowed y vote. Woman drew back, but denly, at the top of the temple steps, Justice (Mrs, Sarah ‘Truax) appeared with drawn sword, Woman and Child (little Serene Kearns) rushed to the protec- tion of Justice and were folded in her arms. Then bohind her appeared Co- lumbia, In the person of Madame Lititan Nordica, waving the American flag. She descended to the front of the stage. the ranks of the States closing behind her, and led in the singing of “The Star-Spangled Bann audience joined, can flags the ushers eariter in the evening. The pageant was written by Miss Mar- waret Merriman Tuttle, and staged by her mother, Mrs, Howard Mansfield, Mrs. Raymond Brown, and Edward Siedle, of the Metropolitan Opera House, Miss Inez Milholland and A. Hamil- ton represented New York. New Jersey was personified by Mrs. ik Btrat- ton and Mr. Wyrreus. OSO9FO9S OOO turns around tells you that the umpire has called him out. Then follows some of the funniest pantomime ever seen. The captain from the field calle Aim down and orders him to the bench. He chews the rag with the captain and gets tho rules and reads the perticula: rule on thet “out.” He is fined by thu captain and tears up the pulee and walks to the bench, getting the “bail out” from bleachers and grandstand. Sitting on the bench, he evinces Utele interest in the rest of the game, By Nia actions you see that one man is out and another has reached the initial bag. But he's the thing, To h—1 with the game. He's the injured party, His “rep” has been tarnished. He scowls at the big cop and takes a “chaw" of tobacco, He keeps up the work for five minutes ani ere's @ laugh in his every expression. And finally a real Policeman comes tn and leads him acroag the field, over the diamond and out o¢ the grounds, And the big dummy ‘ gives him the herse laugh, ‘The act is @ classic,