The evening world. Newspaper, July 12, 1913, Page 9

Latesr The Afternoon and Eve- ning Bathing Suits Are Already With Us, and Not to Have Them Is to Argue Yourself Behind the Times. By Nixola Greeley-Smith, If you are in doubt as to what to do ‘with your old dress sult, just have it waterproofed and tity i: inte the aut ‘this evening—any time, that is, after 6 o'clock, Be sure, too, that the gir! whom you take with you for a Moonlight dip wears an evening creation of coral satin or cerulean blu and that she sports a water-proofed cor- sage bouques. For the fashion makers q bave sald that it is essential for those who would bathe in ‘ the correct manner to suit their attire MNO GRERLEYIET tthe hour on sea aa well as land. And the time is near when a gentleman in a full dress sult and @ topper, carrying an Inve Satu ie over his arm if the air is chill, may be|ring shaped coral island’). seen shaking hands just thia side of the|of cerulean blue It may be of ¢ r-proofed vision in|‘brightest or the darkest of Roman life ropes with a @ Futurist event: own, Who thanks him prettily for the India rubber roses he was sweet enough to send to com- plete her costume. Nonsense? Of course it is, But it is true, just the same. If you doubt it, read this latest “faghion note" which I discovered yes- “This is a season of bathing eults for the morning, more elaborate sea costumes for the after noon and any quantity of distinguished styles for the beach at all hours.” “An afternoon bathing eult may be of coral satin as vivid as the atolls of Southern seas (I have just looked atoll up in the dictionary and it means ‘a \ 4 | ut |i eKOW UL THE EVENING WORLD, a \f oe SATURDAY, JULY 132, 1913. st It may be stripes. If black satin is the founda tion material it may be picturesquely trimmed with the most modern of futurist colors in peacock eyes a la Cubist. Waterproof corsage bouquets have now their logical companions— Waterproof sashes in blue, which are bly wide and have fringed If more evidence is needed of this latest extraordinary freak of fashion, look at the designs for bathing suits taken from Le Costume Royal, Of course you have noticed what you wear in the morning is a bathing it, In the afternoon it becomes a 4 costume” and must live up to its Charles Famous Theatrical Man- ager Is a Whale for Work, Never Sleeping More Than Six Hours— While the Ship Is Speeding for Port He Ploughs His Way Through Plays and Keeps the Wireless Crackling. a Fellow Traveller. SING the ocean with Charles Frohman is about as restful as a ride in the sub- way during the rush hour. He is uch a whale for work that when he mt at it he's like @ fish out of gter, But to see him when he "t busy is even harder than to see when he is, All the way over the trip that ended with a column Jmore of announcements this weck ‘Was planning his New York cam- completing details of the pro- he will make here, Frohman Busy Plannin All the Time He’s Crossin Mner @ huge stateroom on the upper deck, a day before the boat leaves the dock, is transformed into a dupitcate of his private office at the Globe Theatre, London, Long office hours on land given to play reading, wireless cor- respondence, the reading of novels that @re to be dramatized and the casting of | plays, go on uninterruptedly on ship-| You Can Go Bathing in Evening Gowns and Full SCENE tw THE FUTURE PRESENT STYLES PROGRE: “THAT'S A SPLENDID Piece OF Business” SENDS winer€ss MESSAGES DAYAND NiGQuT, crowded smoking room seems to him People with so many real actors—but most of all Is he watchful of the tech- nique employed by story-tellers who hold unany listeners spellbound. He has ng alone watching the drama or comedy that flashes forth spontaneously from any group of men absorbed in one another's conversation; g New York Campa g the Atlantic Ocean ALWAYS TALKS To THE BARBER ON Yea yes. nary procedure, he said: aplendid plece of ‘busine In @ play one of these day “That's a I'll put it Ty the sound of a spoon hastily sired in™a cup of coffee at 6 In the morning, Mr, Frohman can be heard beginning the day. Years ago he syn- tematically reduced his sleeping hours until now five and a half or six are for him. Shortly afterward he to his “ship's office’ and is ab- solutely Inolated untll noon. But through 4 door with a card on it marked “Don't enter” can be heard the crackling sound of ortsp manuscript pases quickly turned, It is then @ safe guess that « play entirely new to him is being read by Mr. Frohman. For his way of read- Ing and re-reading plays that are soon to be produced Is nearly always aloud, even when he is alone. To a companion ‘board; long office hours on land become| Or of seeing in an ocean view by night! the reading ts uncommonly interesting, long office hours at sea, ‘The Frohman| environment chang any | works on just the same—never for a, Piduant rem moment giving thought to anything ex- cept plays, playwrights and players. Nothing interests him that Is not of, | for or about the to the most ordinary narrative, what | he Wants to know |s not when or why an incident or accident occurred but| the drama that Is tn it, how Its per-| sonages acted and what the climax was! Uke. He looks on the world aj the terms of the theatre. m at sea fascinates him for its light effects; & crowded promenade dgck interests oe ¥ Dvohman Soards-4n esean dm far its eharacter studies; on equally | at p or of | wae" | heard from pass-| @ magnificent pu admiring as era-by on s | Among the passengers on this last trip was a woman who evidently be-! oddly east in for in the heel of her slipper, enough, she carried money, at the evening, wh ) she usually formed! for Frohman has four or five perfectly distinct yolces, In this way he gives every important chara rv individuality, Actors at rehearsal marvel at hia com plete familiarity with a play, even down to the shortest speech; but that Ix bes heatre. Aw he listens, !€¥ed In putting herself on # cash basis,! cause they do not know of these read- ings. Expeciaily on shipboard, where fin Isolation Is complete, he acta over all his plays, performing each part imposing title, I suppose in the eve ning It's a marine creation, So far as I have been able to ascer- tain waterproof fans are not yet cai ried into the ocean, And’ as yet only & moderate amount of Jewelr: y & tiara, @ couplegof sunburets, a stom- jer ring—are permitted, Men are conspicuous by the simplicity and correctness of their sea attire, and it fs to be hoped that no gentleman will commit the soleciem of wearing a waterproofed flowered waistcoat with his sea dress suit. For morning wear I suppose a plain business sult will answer for the ocean 4ip—that Is uj to 12 o'clock. After that only @ waterproofed frock or cutaway garment wil be considered correct. 90 suddenly have marvels come upon WoT WATERPROOF mutes, r be THIS AINT: WO PLACE Ror V2 us that It seems only yesterday It was considered as bad form to change the cut of one's bathing sult as of on relixion or wife. Today the allt skirt has extended ite Jurisdiction beyond the three mile Imit. Far as the waves can reach the winds can roam, survey its empire and behold {ta home. One of the bathing suite’ iMustrated has not only » slit akirt but & allt Jacket—sides and sleeved bel slashed and then erprovfed and there's the tar: tan ekirt for those who want to look ike Harry Lauder. ‘There's the trouser bathing sult with pockets and suspenders—which {a almply & marine adaptation of the trouser skirt which Paria dumped upon us three Dress Suits---All Wate take one more im. A more conven hows the brocaded coat with a plain skirt or of the game or a different color, But no woman need expect te startle the figh or wake up the mermen with this modeat effect, As for the simplé folk who expect to be presented at the court of Neptune In plain serge or mohair or bive flannel or sebra stripes tHey had better put their sea bath off to another and simpler year, Reading of corsage bouquets, corat satin, cerulean crepe, Roman atripes, | etc., we naturally wonder why there are not sea dances ending with a cotillion ign tive lines attached to programmen and advertisements of Frohman productions, | For example, an {dea for a Cubist poster Wan put on paper with @ few quick strokes the second day out and then Placed In @n envelope directed to the member of his staf who is in charge of the printing, No printer could ponsibly have guessed that the “memo” read: "Car) and Willlams—Doll Girl—Cubist— Everybody thinks I am Spanish, but I'm Irish through and through.” And there, too, was a drawing of the girl—e characteristic example of the Frohman school of art. On a flat top desk in the “ship's office’ nearly all of Mr, Frohman meals are served—nothing but coffes for breakfast, frult for lunch, varied by occasional trips to the dining room of the steamer; dinner principally of fruit, vegetables and aweets, but never &@ drop of anything alcoholic (a plate ofs {ce-cream is found more stimulat- ing); more coffee at the end and one wood sized cixar, half-smoked, after- ward in his cabin, On the lounge near the flat-top dosk are piled, some'imes three feet high, at other times scattered all about, the Manuscripts of plays to be produced, yet to be read, plays submitted, plays to be adapted, acenarios of plays,,un- finished plays, one-act plays, musical comedies, in short, plays without end. But Frohman can get up from @ con- versation on a particular play and atep over to that mixed mass of manuscripts, all in varlous colored wrappers, and within a second pick out the particular one he has been talking about. In tweny-five years of ocean travel & boat accompanied py more than two compantons—generally @ valet and & member of his business staff—more fre- trip he taiked constantly to the barber | white being shaved, possibly to keep the |barber from talking to bin, And for | the first time he walked the deck regu- larly for two hours each day, He never oceupled his #1 per chair, because, aa he explained hate to sit down in }the same place every day. I wouldn't do that for any steamship company. If the chalr were moved about every |day I might drop into it occasio Charles Frohman has never stepped oD | i, the N Population. Stenographers, clerks and th was surging yp and down lo Way the other day when there was no-/OF Wo, but never seemed to wonder! to he in any kind of a hurry to tleed lying on the sidewalk a juley-;W"¥ It had not been picked up alre King wallet—the kind with a strap) Then, a» the crowd gathered around to Iw r P. roof Remember! What You ‘Wear in the Morning Ie - a Bathing Suit—in the Afternoon It' Becomes a “Sea Costume’’—in the Evening It’s «@ ‘Marine Creation.” and aupper to alive them appropriates neas, But do not let us be downeast ‘These, too, may come. A few monthe from now we may read that the “bal marin” given by Mrs. Porterhouse Jones was a huge success, that cotillion was led by the Prince of and Taxis dancing with Miss Porters house and that the favors were water proofed parasols and baskets filled with’ rubber lilies of the valley. Afternoon tea should certainty be served to the wearers of coral “sea costum: Even luncheong might be provided by a caterer equipped with waitera who know how to swim with @ try, balanced on ome hand, Thene delights of course are of the future, but the afternoon and evening bathing auite ere already with us, Not to have them ts to argue yourself behind the times or else possessed of some remnant of common sense aa wanity. ~+ SEG WI SAIN, buses Ah 00 ARGS ie ONDER. IF MY HAT 1S ON STRAIGHT. If George W. Loft gets his franchise Board of Katimate for a fives rent electric bus line, New Yora will get with it nothing less than girl con: », wir; you can't fool New Yorkers as & rule, But once in a while one |x slipped over on our “wise” A typical luncheon hour bosses | r road. tationed at the rear door, rse, you will be glad to have them recetve your fare who was « typical summer visitor from somewhere beyond the rivers He didn't wear 4 haying hat or Uncle Sam | Whiskers, nor did he tote a carpet baw, yet there wis that undetinable some the city, He gazed at the pocketbook a second hin dis prture, picknd It up and opened it, Tk was almost filled with newsp BUT nestling (n their idet | | were four perfectly good twordollar bille one of a little group In the lounge. In-| time and agatn. Say: MachIMAN 1bnk: wirélens ind | stead of » a check when paying] In nearly ail his correspondence, and! aay and night und wan ine around It Pretty much every ona that | emoy the walter, # ould take off her ellp-] invariably in marking manuser MrT cation with London or New York every | passed noticed it, Bume paused and per, move w silde or som 4 mys-| Frohman always uses a bi mM day butane, He says the wireles# helps looked at it rningly, presently to torlous arrangement in the heel and pu!l| His right hand pocket is never without to keep him going, And he smiles when | pass on with a “Nix, L won't be the| clipping out @ bavk note. When Mr. Frohinan's five or six of them well sharpened. The he quotes a London paper that called * minile, | tention was called to thig eatragndi- blue pencil is also the source uf descrip- Dim (To-and-Wro-hmneg,” Fo ia At tength there happened along one and « Live A 1 ) | Get Ready for the Girl. Conductor: ARE PRETTY GIRLS THE caahters, will be on exhibition for New Yorkers to observe. And simultaneously the paragraphers of what remaina of America will wel- ‘ ductors Next week two of the ‘new vehtoles,| come, with thelr readers, a NW quently with no companion at all @x-1 Desens it might be better to refer! fully equipped with thelr winsome TOPIC, cept the valet, Probably tn all that| 2° S'S# -cakemeeaeeensieaseiaaranes << time he has never spoken to or been apaken 19 by ton persons, Bul ch this Hard to Fool Your New Yorkers. On Broadway. This morning at 9.90 a towering auto- mobile truck loaded to the limit with Glistening kegs of beer fresh from the brewery, pulled out from Ann street in throng of (DK that wtamped him @ stranger to| font of @ north-bound Broadway ear, but the car tracks seemed to big fellow, and tt didn't seem tw otorman's persistent clang- difference whatever, nor orman's language, Finally came this from the conductor, Ne, 672, to the motorman: “Aw, for heaven's sake, go ahead Bul, or UM tap it myseiti”