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

WOO Be" "tne Divorceo London Playgoers More Expressive from the Start, but When They “Boo’’ the Actor-Man- . eger Faces an Ordeal CAITIC SITTING MEAT TOMS REcanT MOTHER-IN-LAW!’ First-Night Audience Bottles Itself Up, Chore aT Then Pulls the Cork, Is Cyril Maude’s Idea'All Hard at Work for Opening *CHARING: CROSS SMASH ED * AY THEATRE | | | GMORUS RENEARSALS GOMG OW, Au THE THe HANS STEINER, Gullo SET Garr! Casazta THE MAI) DINAMO Feverish Activity Every- wherein the Metropoli- tan Opera House, from the Subterranean “Traps’’ to the Roof It- self, Where the Orches- tra of Ninety Pieces Is at Work. ‘ Roars of Harmony and Bursts of Melody Every- WAL ALFRED WERTZ REHEARSING HE, gel A Aud OTTO GORITL one going up now is a brilkant pano- rama of Montmartre, with ite shops and Meghte and gay coloring. As it unfolds from the stage and rides upward upon ray PRWaAte Chorus, Stage Hands, Ballet Girls, Stars, of Grand Opera COPPINIS BALLET- MRAcTIC® STERS EDWARD SIEDLE ‘ | ROOM | —Weiting English Star where—Forty Balle t|!'s sender atect cadics, showing iteelt | weent @ Squao i e-ike, one mon RA DI ie As Who Began His Career Girls Pirouette in Big | sceiss Temi, rea mene | “ns coor STAG $0 He Bae \ as a re ger Reception Room and) trowa vor Varisiann’ diopsriing them: | KE Goes Back to His Board- | o Chorus of 150 Hold |*e!ve with voice and feet after the | XY y Dlanist, and does as much work ag ing House Days in ween THe wes Forth in the Foyers. | revatca thar ne can simon csitarate | @, QE ) oe Semedy “busines and’ wilingyy eat Eighth Street Where the | Landlady Scored a Hit & SLEPT BAR-ROOM PLOORS” ow Out of a vast, ceaseless chorus of in- dustry, the crash of hammers, the whirr the stage hands, almost but not quite, because one of them, as the great ex Panse of painted canvan ascends, lovks up, puckers his mouth and whistles # ge 4 AN aL a Q Sl. ‘ a RY > Feanr GARLCHS HNO & hand to show just how he thinks 9 certain passage should be phrased and acted. And when Gorita and Mme Ober laugh at him, it's with merry ap With a Brickbat Every i Saturday Night. Nand. y in the wings with wet blankets when I| of sewing machines, the swish of mov- went on in ‘Joseph Entangled.’ trying] ing acenery, the whine of violins and 0 look merry and bright and uncon-| sige kindred, the patter of ballet feet stave or two of “Mammy Jinny's Jub leo." Crash! and you're out of Parin and back in New York. Hut the atage Preciation, The room in which thi¢ rehearsal takes place is a email but one does rot realise quite hew By Charles Darnton. J OMBHOW or other you can't help having a soft spot in | your heart for a man who may recall, fed his genius at the free- made the rest of us—poor souls that we “It was through the Shuberts that I cerned. Oh, the actor-manager in Lon- don has hia troubles! The new role he is to piay is by no means the only thing he has on his mind. He must know whether the leading Iady’s dress is cut to muit her taste, whethor the curtain is on its good behavior, and among @ hun- “And, of cours he adder here ts upon @ polished floor, the rising aud falling of choral voices and the ring- ing, stirring notes of distinguished sing- ers—out of this mediey is slowly being resolved the harmony, both musical and mechanical, which is to mark the open- hand should worry! He doen't break up the next one for you, @ charming bit of open wood, a sort of sylvan doll or bosky place. There are beautiful trees, all shimmering in sunlight, and in a moment you are miles from the and adjusting the trap mechanisms to the scene painters on the gallery forty subway and the traffic policeman, The other fellow's whistling. & quick anit, and the ain a wt it, hammer and tongs, small it ts until Gorita releases one ef his thunderous notes, It fairly sete tq piano tingling. MUSIC EVERYWHERE, EVEN UP ON THE ROOF. Now the path leads upward to thy | Is umbrella on the bundie and his hat] h t you. It's “ has slept on @ barroom lo. ie imbrotia ead continued: | 60 @uay to be mistaken Bight oF nine | cota ence, other thinus whether the! ing of the Metropolitan Opera House | whistler door nothing to disenchant you, | Way and calling “Prestot” to them ae Of ninety precsee, where the orehestrt floor. I've never tried it myself—/ piers was another boarding house] ¥eare ago, when I eaw him playing | and the people next them are congenial,| © the night of Nov. 17, Nearly three| it's one of the other fellows, Ite cocks | ley enter. Now proveeda the practic Geen ne tnder the leaderabip but it’s appealing. And when Cyril] in seventh avenue where I waited for) N@thaniel Berry in “Shore Acres” in| Think of the danger an actor-manager| hundred persons are at work upon it] 4" eye at the arboreal prospect and = Mr. Steiner, with muoh enersy, mene! hae ee te ing through é A London, I'd have bet my steamer ticket | would run if he placed # divorced eritic| and it gues round and round the clock | #hAtters all the atinoaphere with: "Kase ‘en them through the avore, Every y janon,” the Maude came right out with it, like a) something to turn up. It was the home ho had never set eyes upon a lght-l nese to bi iT inatienialawit her up a ite, IL." Bill's eaving-up | Mute or two the ainging In stopped and] Ball” and the “Red Cavalier.” Hew man who takes the world as he finds of several actors who were playing 4t! house on these shi Por ona thibgs li oth, staide eee, Re lac youl ee eae department is off In the wings, and ax|® P*sAke sung over and not passed | After hour the music goes on, passage) 5 Wallack’ 4 8 eee eae *} Sir, Maude laughed at the idea yet) ne Opera House Is @ huge workshop, ‘ 1 Until the four cars close beside the plano|®re played and replayed 4 4, I thought of another Englishman, | Wa s, and one of them knew ®/ the dialect he employed was Cornish—|the horror of It lingered in his eyes. he does his work his co-realiste pro- " ved until the tm John Masefeld, whose “Nan” scrubs|!“T Somebody-or-Other at the Old| he explained yesterday, Can you imag- ae With every department working to the | ceed to take the wrinkles out of the | 0" *tisfled, Hirst it's “Koonlgakinder” |tent of the composer is carried out #4 " Hoffman House, where champagne l-|ing James A. Herne with a Cornish |P!RST NIGHT AUDIENCES IN) iimitt of ite oMcioncy, from the subter-| nase! se tree trunks with a beat of the |2%@ then it's “Faust” and then it'e| the beat of an orchestra's ability, the floor of humanity. Masefleld, you) tions gave him a perspective thas] gialect? LONDON AND NEW YORK. ranean spaces where they are testink | hand. Pechapa they crinkled up at the| “uliens"” from German to French with| 80 there ta musle wherever there’ mot mechanical activity. On q ere!) y e would come ' oti t away from thi 4 lunch counter of a Sixth avenue} Wvere'-open our eyes. He would come) ot into ‘Shore Acres,’ Mr. Maude/that unknown quantity—the audience f 150 VERY BUSY CHORUS oe @ wound of It, even saloon and did odd jobs around the| home in tho early hours of the! expiained, ‘They had the Waldorf| generally. One never knowa whether] feet above the ataye, Wherever AND W MEN/ETTORE COPPINI, THE BUSY| one penetrates to the precincts af thy x taut on rning singing ‘What Is Home With-lqheatre at that time, you may remem-|it t# going to boo or cheer, In London | #028 there Im always the sound and mo! OMEN, BALLET MASTER. wardrobe staff. This important depard place to keep body and soul out Of}. , sypnon? and although we did ber. For the last elght years I've had|when an actor comes from a first night| Ment of a great activity, whether It be] Late yesterday afternoon the stage On the floor alove, in the big recep. | Ment of the great work has a reem the. poorhouse, Cyril Maude has/not rise as one man to the question! tng Playhouse—the old Avenue Theatre, | the first thing another actor aske him| that of a machinist at ne ee a people fet up tho entire wetting off tn room adivining the restaurant, |{°MeWHCre Upstairs, Its position na slept in the same atmosphere and] iis interest in the subject survived our! yoy Know. I had remodelled it, and|is, ‘Was there aay boolng? A boo] Dallet air! ae ne Soe ig eae yee Juat to wee how well it could | forty tia kirlt (girls, yes, young | ‘!@4F to this adventurer, as there wert the same country, with his coat for} °!4 indifference to it, ‘His ardor was} iny hopes were high when, one event-| here and there is taken for granted, but} This year the preparations fo he | oe done and then took tt all down again | onew—this in not the Parle opera bal-|%° ™40y corridors to negotiate. There ; frank as a{%t dumpened until one night when he] fui day, the root of the Charing Croas| if the booing becomes violent the actor-| P@ning are a bit more arduous than|and stowed it away with the provision| te (ripping, swaying, weaving, | 0¢ open the door softly, may be a pillow. He's as frank a8 8) wont to sleep in the bathtub and lost station gave way and smashed my| manager might juat as well shut yp| Usual, for the reason that « shipload | of men-of-war's men, Those who eit on plroustting and hitting over the ehiny | #@f of needlewomen busy with tinee “bouncer” and as unspoiled a8 a boy.| nis voice.” theatre. To put {t mildly, I was aston-| shop. A London first night 1s an ordeal,|°f mew scenery ae As Abts he Other aide of the curtain may not] door under the critioul eye of Ettore} 4&4 velvet and silk, The only sound With a bundie under one arm and) iis FIRST PROFESSIONAL AP-| ished, for Charing Crogt ha@ always| though I must say you know at once] France, Sciapeer ice a) Pid CociNAee ot eg ey niMht after the Per} Coppinl, the master of the ballet, The|t® oom eave that of the many me an umbrella beneath the other he PEARANCE. seemed ao reliable, B@énard Shi who| whether the audience likes you or not. oer vittee Mavuart Mianiine Chan eee An an wee ae Motropol-| young girls in thelr voluminous | ches '# the loud protest of @ cage ob walked into his hotel from a visit your mind is still fixed on the bar-4/ve# near by in Adelphi Terrace, must| It is @ very expressive audience, Con- at Pon eed As y is Packed UD) oructice akirte and pink tights and low | Te" parrots, resentful of any intru by 30 your aye @r Ihave been even more amazed, for he| tinental in its attitude, particularly | Pentier’s “Jullen,” a se ouled end oaeried Off to 8 warehouse, Thenl cut unper arrangement tt dry Cone [sia Tee sallow eat-tnere reeiiy we with Forbes-Robertson and = An|roum floor, nave patience, Mr, Maude] igig me afterward that he happened to| when it doesn't care a continental for| Richard Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavaller,’ | ine avene:y for the next opera 1» in. Din GdTKiee ane neetuclatas Ie aecac| an Q0el el the werk irae Moet ’ ¢ fi 0 edico" and # plac et i nounced himself as—well, here's the! was coming to that, be standing at his window when the|the play. A New York first night audi-| Wolf-Ferrari's more Madico’ ang stalled in its place. This is made neces- sult, But that does not hamper him|#/&nces up In @ bored way and settle way it went: “Pinally” ho pursued, “1 was eiventthing came down, He must have/ence, it strikes me, differs from the| Montemernis ‘“l’Amore del tre ite’ | sary by the volume of the acenery used | O19 littin bit, He ean do « tosapin in | Again t0 sleep, Ain opportunity to et away from that} thought he had ‘em, don't you think?| London variety by mot letting you know| The produotion of these five worke en- Jand the ‘mpousibility of atoring At in| n® littl" Mit He can do @ toeepin Bull higher up te the A KNOWS NEW YORK BOARDING | seventh avenue home without a ayphon—|1 gidn't know what to think. I should| what it thinks while the play ts in| tall# an inconceivable amount of work | the fies. trouera, Hat ls She. daspale oC the Bala] Te! Nara UP is she Rearen of Frans HOUSES INTIMATELY. but with ® poker game, First I musi lave been a ruined man if the railway | progress. In the middie of the frat act| DY every one on the staf of the Opera] “At tniv time the stage of the opera] tt, Ad ie krepe the girla busy every | TOs, te head of | the Pisagaegci “To go back to the beginning, I'm/tell you about that poker game, If only | company hadn't Anally settled the dam-| on the opening night here I said to my| House, the preparation of sconery and | iouse ts the only unmusical region im At the pinno—tnece seems to be ® plano| !MM castles and peasant bute poy woeds really a Colorado actor, you know. My|!® Warning. There was one actor who daughter: ‘It's no use, They don't like] the training and rehearsing of an army | the building, overlooking the “Mammy err ot) tha Matronane n, | 4nd city squares with the ald of brush a oon the English stage came| Mave! it for all we were wort. The) .oroe | MANAGER TROUBLES | \%: they don't want us.’ When the cur-| of singers, Jinny's Jubliee” performance, But you] Sing a OF aleped a Hie ae mace ine rere experienc i i ruel part of it was that one night his tain fell the applause astonished me, 1]ALL PAY STRICT ATTENTION TO] -annot venture anywhere eisy without} ane a spectrum. It's something to be later, From the time T was six years! wite came out of ner room and called,| CAUSE PLENTY OF WORRY, | coiian't believe my ears, The unex- THEIR OWN AFFAIRS, encountering an outburst of melody. In|" aes state a aad af & Gotecbnete niece ee old I wanted to be an actor, but my egory, come up here; 1 know you're! “That falling roof reminded me of a| pected response made me very bappy. cate i fat the foyer on the ‘hirty-ninth atreet | “U&™ times in “Paralte we mf Te eit, Cane ORM tenn ae health, unfortunately, waw of first con-|iosing ail your money.’ Ovediently,| play that ‘Calle down’ in nlght. ‘Ten| ‘perhaps they do. ae ene a UR CANELS a epan, Jade ik where you frat come upon it in| ©? Ft ue Waar ip taersa rer rane oramumatan ie, 2 drogced +) cu seul [hi agit 4 + o ant! | K : uy of bis Job, but not so Mr. unda tle ine we or twa, !deration to my parents, so they shipped | Gregory went up with all our money'| yeara ago # London manager with u|eaid to my daughter; ‘per).ips they do ; poar [cull baat @ Giulio Settl, the — off tomy brother In Canada, where| And now that the bourd is cleared ['ll| fairly good play waa almost sure of Ket-| want us’ I've never experlenced any-| ‘it any one Reo through the | nora manter, 1 husy with his charges, | CobPHt ‘4 ping, ping on the| THE LITTLE ROOM THE PLAY led the life of a farmer tll I felt) ke @ clean start. Daniel Bandmann| ting his money back, But now tt is thing #0 exhilarating as that applause.” | 2e® > ee Popa ape ‘sales is eure one hundred and Atty of| Keys and trip, trip, trip on the floor ERS LIKE BEST, 1 eu ‘ took me to Denver, where I played|over in a night if the play ts at alll a New York firat-night audience | Me Complete detachment o h depart tho men and woinen about equanly | Wit! the Akira ace learned. Then it'@] From the heights one descends to thy strong enough to beard the drama int i) veurly all tue small parte in ‘Hamlet.'| weak. ‘Thon, too, there In always the] porties ituelf up, then pull the cork. | ment of the work. While pane really , and they have to be drilied and| “la @sminted” and tae ballet girls earthly regions, thase of Mr. Gatun den, The parilesiar den that attracted rmat was my first appearance on the posslbility of accent, of something Ko- ‘a Cyril Maude's {dea as 1 caught tt aay te AUT eGR eS peat util Chey must sing an thet MUM UP (nen lnk Dagm every one | Cagasaa, the general manager of the me was New York, and pending the) professional stage, so you see I am,|ing wrong. For example, on the night tat sort of thing does buck | partment d a , In the Of the inciosed "8¥ & b4ke—and wkip Off to the dressing | Metropolitan, who ts In supreme eon! roar of the lion in answer to the call J] tirst of wll, a vrado actor, I played| [ opened the old Haymarket @ fire was} one up, doesn't it?" he glowed, "“it's|tion to that one nor that ene to am | ee ig a plano, with Hans Steiner, who ‘dy for exit to the! of wil the activities about the phoney was sending out I walted in a board-laimost everything from the Second| smouldering under the stage, Men stood| like a friendly slap on the back." other, Stage hands, machinists, charts Finoky kn Bll Nyv at the Mr they punch 4 tne] There is also Kdward Siedle, the “dym : = : Biravallécer.uavandikoumh { wae wens ee copie, ballet dancers, the wtara of opera | city wands beside hm and tre chor noth out, because that'a| mo” of the Opers H Ing house down in Eighth street aveiiguer up, : hors pera House, the man whe 0) o see the star the dressing | these elements are busy with thei ite in a ow 1 le, singing most {the rule of the houne, [in in co hand of th Ly C. it was that the real meaning of melo- | anxious to see bed ° Pinar ad aaeeee W « : : : . the physical pare of drama dawned upon me, of perhaps 1) "vom Kent calling me 0 versixentty| Anna Held Tells Story of Her Childhood |r s:vtar ataire soa one neve | sinauicai treet loting bent foe ada parton un ch wank that fh everything hat ag vat ad to tear myself away ie fo note the other passing | ing erent ror of I Mr ttl another Hix irs to the grand|to do with activith ack Oo! should say descended upon me with the) cnteved any reputation during tha:| Dining with friends @ fow evenings search for ma nightly In the Avenue! q Laliet girl, all white and Mutty, pad | tate tne with vl manda Me Stone tax 7 wid one comes uzon Dr.|tcin. Hate busy any ania titan setting aun, For the landiady was of|¢gagement it must have been as go Anna Hina told the following story Madeleine and ally me a franc, If buss) ding along a red carpeted corridor hun 4 out on th sand, wnen! Hertz, the conductor with the massive! time we a epirituous, rather than a spiritual na-|sick-change artist. ‘The tour that fol-| of her young daya in Parts: nose waa bad, so that T would be sure! ining to herself and carrying in w evasion demands it, singing in a brown beard, the eyeglasses and the| And now we come to the ture, and every Saturday nignt she|lowed was not Without its hardships | “1 Was poor at one time,” @he eaid. of something to eat the next day, I) hand a momt matter-of-fact and anow tad net voles, the salo HW pongee Moritz, the | the most sought after om in oe would collect bricks and other lite|I'vye siept on varroom floors In towns| In fact, awfully poor, and used to sell never forgot him and I never go to) jug black handtag, would seem to be When time for the horus tone, and ® Hew! tre structure, the room of Boor! r f the neighborhood and} without hotels where trains had to be| flowers on the boulevards of Paris for a Paria without looking him up. For he |qomething to wee, butt no one © ke | men toc NW s 4 Viderour bang soprano, Uirovgh the paces Der Gatlonk WRET Henmae ine ave, the windows of my otierwise {caught on tae fly, But when one is|frms or two franca a bunch, Some-|'# poor now, and I find in} The place of mysteries in Jand @ pod and the seventy-five voicea| iusenkavalier.” AL the far end of tel comm: that the ghee tt ie in ale amas the windows of my otlermise} twenty-one a bed IN @ small mutter| mes, as I look back on those daya,| helping him <1 he helped me." opera house Iw popularly held to be “ve | rapond with 4 thunder that shaken the grand piano atund the two Wngors, Mr.| ton sonra Mr, Garten a, FOr sta peaceful home. i ee Peeps Ny | in the course of my Wanderings at that|they seem to have been the happlert —-—: hind Yhe scenes,” that wonderful space | walle. Morgenstein Is at’the k land atleaiaries of the Opera House, tea tant fully expensive, ut ane didn't teem line 1 met Edward H, Sothern, We lite, for no one knew me His Aim hebind the vurtain, Hut jist now it \s | GOING AT THE OPERAS HAMMER tix right is Dr. Herts with the scoro|of Caruso to that of the mochante mt count the cost. en, of late, I've! were boys together, always hoping for be poor and ye HAWS the matter with that’tau | devoid of anything but th oat mK AND TONGS, read be mo And if ‘one | der the ‘Tho pay roll le men thought of her as the original militant) rig nest and seizing a ham sandwich |hapry, you ow, There were days OW ‘here on 8 comer, who is unio tg | Moston ve ite BIAMOT ANd rouance, Hix| Gutaide in t idor the Wonen of Wants tO Bee a conductor Wio enjoys| AvOUL $3 var, and in his thm euffragette, intent upon makeing "he |} where we could find it.” when I used to go barefooted the face and lo waring his arme tise; Wase Hands in overalls, widet by a the chorus are awaiting their turn, | rehcareing @ ecore au It r of service Mr, Garlicha has paid at gemplacent Fase 6 Bit Herve PLAYED IN “SHORE ACRES” In| nach Ro Fauane and Lh ‘ tty windimiii'* ws manager down centre and a man at an sitting he stairway talking | it, go Wake @ look at Dr. Hi mare than F008, 0, And the itt » full of un- slept in @ little attic room, which was >, that'e Blob ke - ectric winch down rlght, are engaged ara Nn cond’ woritkiine oh & ledge over which this money has paase certainty and brickbat A CORNISH DIALECT, cold and DATFON., ‘There wae only One| eridegie titok te wale mete niet l ee aeeding co lole Gre nee eames FADA GASTR WALCINN Che. a kook tutniciivig OF comely in tig just a little square of} wood, jugs ‘Mn, Maude closed his large blue eyes| And there you are! You are not 8 | who befriended me in those days, and be codes te comaon woes view of f aita| acenery, tue Wide, deep "Uiops,” palsited | jen nave. heen riled, the woien ane pasties thet tine cenductot sete ote | wood, Just @ small square—two millions nt A i: FAA 0-08 - Nannie OE MAIN ATOR Mga! 8 ay St nek She ee aris ba Koguarage fed aig” Ths | calle 1a, Ms SalUi audio os se ovr) GbAe WHA Lip eiDKer alsa wigh *” | serteeg gurthar edb co sompaeeel Se itt ET eee ty \ . the wealth,