The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1913, Page 9

\ “Speech! ” Is Bringing Out the Actor; Hopper’s New One Beats the Carpzt ‘Foun DREW Founp 17 AWkwarnd Vy Ari ward, Christie Mac- Donald Was ‘‘Scared to Death,” and in Report- ing Georgie Cohan Out} of Danger Willie Collier Felt He Wasn’t-—But the Unrivalled De Wolf “‘Obliges’’ Without Turning a Hair. By Charles Darnton. Reee)NLIKE the oyster, which {8 or at least showing a dis- position to meet us half- ‘way—the actor isn't dumb, All that’s wequired to bring him out 1s that ‘Maging word, “Speech!” He may need a little coaxing, but he's bound te yield in the end. He probably feels it's the graceful thing to do, @en though he doesn't do it grace- fully. Curtain-speaking is an art in it- self that has nothing in common with either acting or writing. Some of our best actors make the worst curtain speeches and some of our best curtain-speakers—-but no mat- ter! Some happy few there are that shine equally in and between acts, They could not if they would escape the loud howls of their Insatlate audiences. Moat audiences Ghetr money they take in en entirely natural, of course, | “ lag @ arse nthe theatre, over, # mebined ecenes {na : a eves ot thie pul David Belaseo When Vin on pre@ection I'm called out £ @aad Vike Dr. Munyo m8 He Kept out of sight on the o) night of his latest production bh caume there had been #9 many with @peeches that he felt first-nighters might enjoy a change, Uadeutgetty, the eurtain apecch te nes Ant get to only is osity s It nes the man of the the other 4 ay 1 me John Drew Found It Awk- | once more in our midst—| CHRUSTIC MACDONALD was "Scaane TODEATH” what It was in the good old days when Relasco followed it up with a parade of the Stage Mechanics’ Union Art may have gained something since, but it has lost some of Its simple picturesjuencss it must be admitted that we have n offered an unusually large line of curtaln speeches during the past week or tw ‘Th Thursday night Willle Collier took @ new turn by reporting Georgie Cohan out of danger, We falled to see the humor of {t—in fact a few solemn aouln oroke into sympathetic epplause—until Collier added: “And has been for a Week. I won't be out of danger for another act." Though this ready-fire comedian may not have anything new to say, he can always be trusted to say it) ina new way, | Not to all ts st given to be equanty | felleitous, For example, John Drew, | Pollshed actor that he is, found !t rather awkward to make a “speech” in the| costume of Benedick at his opening per- formance in ‘Much Ado." Mr, Drew got out of It by saying he couldn't descend from pentameters to colloquialiem, and} thia was eo neat that he was eafe in the | wings before any one stopped to think he hadn't indulged in a aingle pen-| ;tameter up to that point—the end of |the third act. But how many in the audience, or on the stage for that mat- ter, recognize the difference between prose and verse these days? An audience is never so cruel in its kindness as when it insists upon hear-| ‘ng from a helpless, terrified actross | Whose nerver can't stand the teat. On the first night of “Sweethearts Miss Christie MacDonald, caught in a atorm of applause and trembling Ike @ leaf, |unquestionadly told the truth when she (Applause and laughter.) and gentlemen, as you doubtiers kno is one who was not, AR. HOPPER *ooLiaes’ witere REPORTS GEORGIE OQuvT OF BELASCO FEELS LIKE DOCTOR MONVON / 2 COLLIER, COMAN DANGER 2a/ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1913. 2 Peacock Feather Hats, Slit Trousers and CORSETS---For MEN This Fall! WHAT The STRAIGHT FRONT ConseT Witt DO FOR THE MEAVIES Plush Vests and the Cut-| est White Silk Socks| That Coyly Tantalize| From the Trouser Slit, Part of the Regalia— Velvet Cuffs Also—.And They Are Only a Step From the Lace Jabot— Next? By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Green and brown will be the fashionable colors for men this season. Hats will be of rough-coated plush in sable, olive or seal shades. Bands will be of pleated silk, with a gay feather either of red, green or showing | | ail sock. Hopper’s Latest to us to-night Js to @ certain extent due to the delicious eimatic condition, When It Is very warm outside the auditor generally ‘ecomes very cold inside, But to- night, with this delightful change in temperature, comes a spiritual wave of temperamental responsiveness which is very refreshing to the @ometimes weary thespian, It i@ very welcom thie mo- ment, because we have been re- hearsing eo long in this theatre to &@ mass of empty seats with no re- sponse to anything that we have done. And inarmuch as the work of yours truly, the buffoon, depen on the laugh {t gets, it is @ terr: ordeal to do anything without a laugh at all. It is discouraging to look out and see about three pale, anxious faces belonging to the ge tlemen who have put up numerous Te special success which comes Here, n to talk declared: “I'm acared to death!” Yet| heard, No production in which he a she managed somehow to expreas her|peara is complete witout his thanks very gracefully peech. And thin y in | Curloasly enough, women who as a} August or rather of it ver at loss for a word fone ti eats the carpet. (If thn he last one-shrink from curt doesn him shriek with ago or ataminer pitiabdly, as I'm through’) Anyhow, Jet's hear waat ‘8 one actress that proves| he has to say the exception, and that's Misg Mary! Speaking In a kevera n Shaw. This may be the} marked this ready spole ' , fact that wf the stage me irtaln xpet 1 < talk about the rights of women and the} this Lam not raw | wrongs of men so eloquently th. oul Perish 1 mean Mt once resolve toc ake th on i \ ou're a man, and to 1 ri studded halo if you're ra t 1 it If 1 may Ko on to ' aieat t y insignificant as tt ‘there ie no hurm in getting close 0 it ts posible that you've had in your| the people mind's eye all this time a certain alu. "L have no making certan speeches tudinous gentleman who takes the cur-|for twenty-two years. My first. ven- tain call at @ single jump. Yeu, it's no| ture into the feld of impromptu oratory lees @ pereca than De Wels 6 1! wee made, 3 believe, at the New York doubloons for this production and are worried as to the result of came, as you can know by thelr exprea- sions, which suggest death masks, Teally come—what relief! T especially need your encourege- ment now, because they are paying onto the roof and held carpet between them, and © long stick in his hand man who wakes up most people wins the game! I don’t know what alse to eay. Ii T had anything verging on ‘would save ft and put it in the . IT know the gentemen who conduct the cabarets are waiting for @ good many of you, and aince I have « coffee exgshake waiting for me, I will bid you @ fond au revoir, opening of ‘Wang’ in 191, On that occasion the audience applauded mo mthusiasticaly that I felt obliged to mething, The next day the news- spoke of my modest effort to © the populace as one of the fea- tures of the show, and from that day to this audences have acemed to ex- pect 8 thing more performance from me, 1 never know what Iam going to say. The secret n speech Hea in taking ad- every Uttle thing that crops If T happen to hear an especially up. ood lauen 1 walk o m one side of the house er to that site of the stage and remark: ‘Here is a man who une forstands v ually draws a \ other part of the ha Kot T play one side against find the things that go beat ty thowe that are suggemted on the Spur of the moment. i my present curtain speech I talk about people beating carpets on the roof of @ hotel because I've really been Gisturbed im ghia way lately. Evideatiy than @ regular | ‘These fall fashion notes were taken |trom Fifth avenue and [roadway at |fret hand. 1 naw all the phenomena | they describe yesterday aternoon, with the exception of the alit trouser which The Evening World artist, being duly \aworn, vows he beheld one day thia week jin the Grand Central station. (There ts story of the Duke of Wellington who, when told of some Incredible marvel by an alleged eyewitness, remained om Straight front corscts will be correct for middle aged men, SUT TRovSEeRY? (so TGHT RS CaN GET OVER. Sioa) the blended splendors of the pea- cock's tall tucked coquettishly at one side. Stocks will be worn of a color con- trasting with the shirt. A favorite combination shows a shirt of pale maize silk with a white stock covered with black polka dots and revealin, a white turnover at the throat, The new derbies have a cut steel buckle also at the left side. Neckties will be of black plush but with an inset piece of contrast- ing silk going around the neck and forming the knot, Watstcoats will be of stamped or brocaded velvet and plush materials, If in doubt as to the correct kind, go to any upholsterers and ask to see the kind of material they keep in readiness for rush furniture orders from Western hotels de luxe. Trousers show a slight slit at one side revealing a suspicion of white “Oh, yen,” replied the Tron Duke, you aay you anw It, I have to helleve It, but,” he added slowly and significantly, it myself 1 ghouldn' have trelleved it!"") If The Fvening Wortd reader enter- tains similar sentiments about the allt trouser 1 won't blame him. Neverthe- | tom one perfectly reputable witness de- |clares that ne has seen It, Aa for the | Why Mr. “Yukesy” Dufty Won't “Show” This Month at his Annual Ball “Twkesy” Duffy, the littie major domo ct Mae Kitchen politics, won't be at | bie ammuel ball on the evening of | September 27, curse the luck! Never in the history of “Yukesy‘s" | rise @ prominence in the affaira of | state around Tenth avenue and West | Forty-second street, where his gang hangs out, has he failed to put in ap- | pearance, Nor haa the price of admtsaton to this grand affair evor been higher than | cents for gents. This tlme no fol Hower of “Yukesy will be permite }to put hia foot inside the | Opera House on the n the | ath untess he ponles up a dollar bit And Harry Thaw'a responwle for tt all. ‘The gang would like to meet | Harry on one of the dark sirests ae Kitchen one of tell him--yea, and hia crantum—the blame for th and not mom “Yulkesy” was one of the wot | boys that went up to Maite | Dick Butler, President of tie |shoremen'y Union and f Assemblyman, and Jobuny blond ant Roger Thompson, t alded tr Phaw This r and for atrikes mom mys! lt that invisivle line yatta separating the |Diayer and the audlence—the fovtlights, of 'Hell’s Kitchen tet ani nea thie happened the ée tectives have been looking for ‘Tue jay" and his pais, with the exception of Roger Thompson, who went right through to Shervrooke, that ultra-hos pitable Canadian village in whose town lock-up Roger ts still languishing. “Yukesy,” Butler and Flood have been hibernatng in some ont-of-ther Way resort since it happened and have j been waiting for things to blow ev [before they wiow up around their ol lhounts, That's the reason why “Yuke- jay" won't be at the ball | Am to the rise in admission price Yukesy” has sent an underground Homey to Nis amwoolates the name the ball ts to beg that he'll fen hinise And, ax the aed for ofit and protection Yukes: there was on keine lo \ half a ur ant o fond a dolor 1 grand y 1 ead with hin de ) 1 den ' s ' 1 witout ways f ‘ At Invented ! and on the ' ene uh 1A eurtain ech may sound funny, but it's really ‘Very merious And yet the “obliges withews murning e hat WAT BANDS MEN wit, BE GOING TO MILLIVERY SHOPS FOR WATS “THHS SEASON other things, the plush neckties, the polka-dot stocks, the peacock feather hawe—with my own eyes hi I looked upon them. And with their memory freah within me I marvel more then |ever that men who wear such things | feet caited to alt in sudgment upon fash- fons for women, Ater all, what do the sartorial eocen- tricities I Rave described mean anyway, except that one by one men are adopt- ing the cast-off fashions of women. ere are corsets, for instance. More 4nd more women are discarding them, @n4 more and more men are appearing im the borrowed glory of straight fronts, Also there are velvet cuffs. For reil- able authorities say these too have made thelr appearance upon the gar menia of m At prenent they are of the same shade } am the coat, but the fashion may veer any intnute to sharp contrasts, and we May #06 & Keniiainan tn &@ light-green sult eporting collara and cults of iid- might blue (the at least would |have a ¢ appeal for him) From velvet collars and cuffs te lace Jubota there t¥ only 4 short step, and au We may expect anytiing aud everything from a sex that has taken to peacocks’ feathers Why not teave the pour peacock hla plumage, anyho towed from him long aro. t Ff \ As for that 1 the wonton Wille to. disorininete 1 va Lie whe dl ho were ¢ yintole of tru n of any true man, Wi jthe low level of tran the unrivalled Hopper | Whom all really manly men draw aside! wi outcast, th hoster, And let Bim aot delude THER if pa himself with the idea that women who. are worth while will take more than & passing interest in the masculine, creature who #o far forgets his gem As to appear in the flaunting fambey- ancy of peacocks’ feathers and plush vests. They ¥ wo out to dinner with him once or twice; they may appear even to be Interested when he lacens, to « risque story, places his fresh young lips to an insidtous cocktatl, ev, even emokes a cigarette, But in the, end they will cast him aside ike @ withered flower. And while he dstnie the bitter dregs of Polly's cup he will see the woman for whom he has given hie all walk gaily to the altar with some husky citizen tm sober Binet; some unpoetic y unadorned, who never heard of, plush neckties and who thinks the @el- low who wears pleated hatbends and peacocks’ feathers should be im Mmt- teawan. ! Well, now, shouldn't he? ! I don't believe anybody but Dr, Brtns ton D Evane would have any doubts about tt. Maybe there is no real reason wey a man shouldn't go about with a dresade . that makes him ike plush sofa In the bridal eulte @ @ Beatie hotel (ar least, T imagine dat eaitie look like @ stout wentieman in a brocade waistcoat, but T ® never been in Seattle), An@ there men shoulda’, wear and plush sesttties the essentjal plush sofas | lis no reason why sid women Rave to “so nard to keep up the trp. tion of their own pulchritudesdhas jit yeally seems unfalr, not to gay tm, our fashions @way Jon yalroue, 10 ston wover, let thet emeo enter int tion with * 1 on . f charm and fas Lining ¢ ntucies haw held our brutaliey tm k— AND WE WILL TBLL WHAT WE noul dedicated to the / ee a 2 WF