The evening world. Newspaper, November 15, 1913, Page 10

EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1913. There Are So Many Plays, Says Belasco, New Yorkers Don’t Know What’s Going On KEEP UE WITH THE PRODUCTIONS ates CATRA 6} ym KeATREN Matte KaEATIS ED ER Gia MAD ON THe ROAD New YORK tS BEwiLveERED BY THE GREAT NUMBER OF THEATRES y AND PLAYS- ‘There wae an indulgent smile at my! expense, and “Let me tell you something, times @ production costs i hundred dollare. “Five thou— “No, five hundred. The producer who aking a chance to the storehouse, w he needs at bargain pri he gets what | for a moment, do you, that th: of failures is burned, | ing a simile and recalling at the same | time that a William Collier theatre had added to the gayety of managers, {se usually what managers the costumes freak succems, a play that happet Producer of a play can go to the store- | house and get anything from a kitchen to m palace with for very ilttle mone he hasn't lost mi win a fortune. wome apecial is the one thing | make half a million dollar tt and you'll find it 1s not a really Yet it will stand fire and occurs every If the play fails and if it succeeds Why, do you! nn Creane> rather confusing. This phenomenon | season, oF ut least every second season. There's no accounting for it. who knows Some one avks you, this town wh the road in this wa: My heart went out to Other centres of speculat agreed that things must be ompanies ready truth Is there nothing about the theatre eldental success will he knows just what the public wants and that he {x a ‘good picker. of this, he feels he must have his own house in walch to produce other plays— and up goes another theatre! ing down from ten to twenty thousand dollars he can get some one theatre costing thourend dollars, his own house because he tum- bled aguinat one success, and in case ate | he should hit upon a failure he ts al- Ways pretty certain of finding some one rental in order ew York hearing for a play. | Theatre-building in > Hh Bb: .|of the room and gazed despairingly at] come very largely an enterprise of real Which Has Gone “‘Girle | green potestal that stood like a sen- {estate speculators, Give them a year's tine! near the door.- Get him in that | rental and the: | mood and you're sure to get dark green | It's a gamble, and everyone in {t al- | ways figures that tt conclude. | who stands to lose “But there's the cost of producing a * 1 suggested ‘Sparkles of Real Irish Wit From ‘‘General John Regan.’’ —inat come hopelessly We can't keep up To Make the Situation | More Muddled the Be-| with tre productions that are off red wildered Public Has No | Where Half the New Theatres Are—De- ‘ elares Present Theatri-| cal Conditions Are the Worst in Twenty-five Years, but Finds Bur- lesque Shows mixed in the mind. onvinee him that them all would wear out the most en and he saw it himself | before he got very far in saying | “The burlesque shows 4 of the busin They're girl-mad covered that on a tour I'y . Everywhere the Creoles and the! Blondes and the Ro: are playing to packed ho Pass opt quickly, like the cir that wan here to-day And in a wa clreus, thix Jong p New York alone sees more plays in the course of a season than several pean capitals combined prod This ta the gr rical city in the world, but 1 « how it can possibly go on at this rate.” and gone to-mor- wade of plays. Sand the Posies found the brains of the country lawyers: and gentlemen—and The theatres that don't lack for audiences, I ntee a month’ hin chair back Into the darkest corr “it furnivh you a theatre. York, But I don’t belteve six big plays running at the same turn people away, time here could And yet there are so many plays that New Yorkers don't know what's going on." the other fellow By Charle: Darnton. E-FOURTIL moment are the David Belas- co's estimate, at this, but ive the truth Just the sa New York is rushed to the theatre night | night to keep the country going ex out of town must have attrac Bew plays outnumber the week, as has been the case for @ fortnight or more, how can any-| {is and New York ts depended upon) a iii, nas seen, heard and laughed ohe manage to get around to them ait before Sunday’ ing critic, who is 1 give it up as an unfinished job, Sat- | «!t! urday night leaves him an easy-going the days of to supply them, It Isn't alone that there | ore theatres here than the public | ® ‘There should be Golligher—It's ranny of the landiords Genera) John Regan,” and the town Even the pant- cay id to go, has to theatres throughout the country, on the road are Worse than they backward In Ireland; but believe you a Billing—The frat thing T want to see} when once we get home rule it'll be dit. ix the statue of Ge: eral John Regan of strength | or commuting friend in East Orange lightly terms a thea-!1 1 trical hang-over the flesh that sinks into an orches-| T¢¥" tra chair night to be considered, of a fair question whet! more than enough plays iw & tremendous strain ar of @ compa ¢ Heht and is imp atue or other memorial. in writing the first that hus given up| your eands prop- ng buck to town nd country are overcrowded." While 4 map may seam to make th whole world kin, engaged, gentlemen, | complete life of that soldier statesman. immortal found: republic of Bolivi of the liberties we can hardly Speak up, Thady ard to the statue fo go round ave capital things. i him to do so, many of them ina without an audiency Mr. Belasco see riven from pillar cos tn the falling snow, her soul marohing on. Hany productions do you think am over-hanging silvery lock out Of Now York mould have in a week? Bis eyes, he answ “New York is bewildered by great number of theatres and plays with which it is confron New York gocs theatre regularly, but | don't think but ur one-third of the public knows where half of the new theatres are. the life of me, I don't. else would you KO collecting such traditions 1 propose to faced the question. Then, brashing as survive in the locality libraries of the prin opean cles and to gat sible information, Golligher--With regard t ed general—- Billing The place where {tt ought (pointing to | squarer in the centre of the principal | IM his native city. all pos- | y, oO the MANE) droperiy draped | Interfere wit! tive purity of the Irish race | ment to any i A play may t it scores a wonderful suc emblematical of the Un with the harp that on ) ; Reis Peg vets i with the harp that once through Tara's |raiiswa on roadway neednt eay,| may life before, {a Its oWvn excuse for being, we are told, few who Heck 10] to eae ta that trcrarg Amhara meanine | planted upon a grazing ranch, en except by a few who see to say {6 that there's no statue at the in thé etape of the British out for ite fine qualities, ee ene that pething sown singe, It {s bucted beneath bad or indifferent, and lew the pile of obner ‘There ts, of | present time. term "Sine tee w Qe fe pO and colored red. Lady, of course, don marble ‘EVERY Woman in City With a Pretty Ankle Is Crazy to Show It,’’ Says Burr McIntosh Psat ia id PRU aaa ee a a i aa Sa as ST sa al aad Mew fH OLD Tay To Look 4 YOUNG HUSBANDS DO AS MUCH LOOKING AS THE WOMEN DO SHOWING BURR MSINTOSH NO EVIDENCE OP HARD — FRom THE WAY “HOY FOR FOOD AT RESTAURANTS ¥$0 MANY GRAY-NAIRED MEN OP. we MSINTOSHU SYSTEM FOR" GOING STRAIGHT’ = MARRIED COUPLES Go OUT TOGETHER, AEN IOI IN roeciog detected menenenpID EY 2 | “Girls Wear Ridiculous Clothes, the Marrow Slit! *' Skirt Is Outlandish, Fashions Are Absurd Little' Schoolgirls Paint and Powder Up to Look Like Old Women-—Women Dress Like Young Girls.”’ | By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. The trouble with New York is not that it's bad but that {t's bored It makes large, convulsive efforts to show ftself a good time, and {t fall down hard on every trial. The men on Fifth avenue and Broadway ar haggard, furtive and old before their time; the women are painted, artificial caricatures of what they used to} be, There isn’t one person in five hundred who doesn’t! measure his work, his play and his friends by the} dollar standard. In thr hemianism, the insouciant youth and gayety of the}! Great White Way has been swallowed up in cabarets! and tea trotteries, Now if New York likes this sort of thing it may] “go to Ii for all Burr McIntosh cares, That genial | | VaAwe4Ace combination of actor, editor, photographer and man of; the world posiiively and definitely refuses to add the role of reformer fe the others in his repertoire. He is not of the unco’ good and rigidly righteous who open shocked eyes at the Paris of America and say: “How devilish!” Rather, Mr, McIntosh settles | fo seventy-five his tall, wide self in the mort comfort-| changes between now month, but 1 able corner of the most comfortable} #0. And, so far as Tai concerned, you); sofa at the Waldorf and blandly in-| C8n leave me our ered in vi this turkey trottln Tt can be ‘ timates that Broadway has gone craay| , '#Ke this turk j a millionaire t ein a pl way, + but T swim would frighten me, and yet the| didn’t glorify th since he left At three years ago for the! don't helieve tie majority of PEFsON®! men with moderate incomes apparently | the destructive." Pacific Const, Broadway should not} woo dunce ti day and night are inspired) cal) no halt on thelr apending. One| What remady have you to suggest for Nactly relish the criticilam. It'a one} by any delight in the rhythm. It's Just| view with another, and the satisfaction |the present state of affaire?” 1 asked . ye 's the happy, human Bo- Fs lowe, ABIEUBAENENENE NESE NSUBIENENNE NEN Nant own wives find consolation promptly. #| Everybody's doing !t. But it wasn't a@l- i ways like this, I can tell you. I'm no joctogenarian, but I remember the time when honest friendliness and loyalty |and aimpilclty covered a multitude of PRO REROE |ohemian fatlings. The dollar-chasers ENE NEN | wore rather Inughed at in those ; omt men who carn fifty and| Those who sought pleasure were ex- nd a hundred dotiara a/ tTavagant of laughter and lavished high ye hanged If 1 gee how |sPirita, bat there was something whol all as living {s conaid-|#0%e about them. Thetr favorite pla York, Why, if 1 were | didn't make heroes out of criminals and » coat of keeping in the|Reroines out of white slay. rtificial, the wi papers seving the wud three years mer, But 1 car thing to be naughty, and quite another] that they want the personal contact.| if absolutely antificlal needs goes on|as Mr, McIntosh paused for a moment. to be nutty, A man ora city may take} And their a jon as a part of the] ang on I'f teil you," we elabotated, a certain artistic pride in superlative] seneral craziy the interest in un-| “Do you think real happiness {s ever ought to get together in unite wickedness, but havdty in lunacy. whe Le sls ia ae) of dependent on dollars and cents? Ilof four and six and eight, married rating, I'm not a asked. couples who haven't lost every vestige CHANGE IN SPIRIT OF MAN-) cuestion ) a moral point “Of course not.” said Mr. MeTntosh lor munity, Fach ¢ ple, aamrtiting that HATTAN LIFE. Mr, Meintos epeatert What “And yet you won't find one person in they possess eome remnants of affec- An& Mr, MoIntosh himself 1@ such a) esis ie is at the folks wito ol five hundred in New York to-day whose tion for each other, ought to promise a big, syne, Wholesome sort of @ person,| from cabaret to cabaret don't seem to with foothall shoulders, a ruddy com-) be Ketting any enjoyment eh eee mo. Ye b programe, They must levi that sort yy Be eee ene ae ivetieg| of life hecause they want to; cortainty abulary—the last two characterise) | i oay compels them. But if they are ng almost unnatural in an actor! i055. they don't look the part Nelther has he a near-Fngtish votce,| 7 thought of the mask-like women's the chronic diseases back of thé) races ong sve in the neighborhood of tights, In succinct, straight-hitting | porty.socond strest—faces apparently American talk he told me of what he| ganarated from souls separated honesAy velleves to be the disastrous) aerogtos seas change in the splint of Manhattan life. | yoy of the nea “Gee!” he burst forth, “you know, foxes, ke sheep, like wolves, Uke the when T was here 0 £0) 7008 OO ne ne etttor the pan| WHEREIN THE WOMEN ARE vhole plan of existence isn’t based on |loyal good comradeship with the other vy. Wirst he concentrates on get-|couples—platonic friendships and affine Then he selects the most ex- |ittes barred, They ought all to unite in pensive forins of plearure, so that he|ieaving the crazy crowds alone, end can spend as much as possible, Fur-|they ought to interest themselves in thermore, all his friends, down to the|some of tha eane, worth while things most casual acquaintances, are chosen lof Mfe, In that way they'll enjoy their for thetr financial atanding. The ques-| good times all the more. When a aum- | tion always asked is: ‘What has hejctent number of these group units is hy A curtain of} gore 1 formed foclety will be put on a difter- ed the men habdite| "sand the women?" Iauggested. “Are/ent basis. New York will begin to je urants, men Uke! they ag money-crazy as the men?’ | happy again, ‘Remember, though, I'm NOT a pro- sional reformer! = Mr. Mc need to like to walk up Fifth ave- (jainiont of Circe s wand, And T wasn't CRAZY. bstorer ie aes ait atone nue because I could see crowds Of surprised that Me Melntosh found no "Now Tm not going to aay that the!) toon my teav " heer, as tho nicest, prettiest, beget geal | happiness tn them. women have changed any in their! 7 mopely } t him of being one of foam gitls—the dandiest girls to a hearts," Mr, MeIntosh responded with | a Sr, eee found anywhere im the world, And HIGH COST OF A FROLIC IN NEw wallant f His hand went auddenty | now Sifted mort who know how to read platitudes hac ward Into wisdom ~for instance now what do you to the northeast quarter-sectlon ye there? Girls YORK. wearing the most ridiculous clothes, To has to be paid) waisteoat. “T love all womankir Be happy and: you will the narrow, slit skirts, the outland- he vei, “and the pele 1] pronounced, solemnly. Then he tnpsed toh, absurd fachions; girle with Up all tie tine fais augaenteanden their hair brought down over their | ‘New York ncn are crazier after “Every woman in New York with cheeks like thia”—the actor's hands | the dollar than over before, They & protty ankle is crazy to show it," | Cleanse Your Geucribed parabolic curves from | riust have moncy to pay for all the | he accused. “And she knows just | eyebrows to eare—‘ittle school extravagances of the women, and | how to go to work, just the way | Liver and Bowels girls painted ani rouged aud pow- thoy will do anything. sacrifice any- to hold her dress, just the proper ered up to look like old women, body, to got monoy. That'g what curve of her leg, It's mighty hard | SURE CONSTIPATION, BILIOVSN EA, And all the womon painted and pow- | gives them their haunted, weary, on women who have been happily OUR STOMACH, BAD BREATH, PC, dered and dressed like young girls, | furtive oxprossious, They aro speed- married, up till recently. For the | BRADFORD’S Thore never was anything like it ing up the pace to the last notch | husbands are just as busy looking | befor and beyond, and it's the pace that as the ankles are busy showing.” | “New York has simply gone cragy,| Kills, I've seen more young men | Mont elected to mention | ff 442 excellent corrostive of ah di Jang df it wants to, all right! Lord | with gray heir since my return to |t the views may leave much to be | fi stipation, ph A canes fi knows, | don't want to interfere, ‘The| Mew ¥ork than I've ever seen in | desired, if not to be Imagined. Benuty | Dantes Abd gaaew without healthy, ‘Nout complexion ‘asia ‘What's he knocking for? Haven't we Liverybhody’s takling bh & right to do as we like? Sure they|the high cost of living, yet I notice} hasn't even that excuse to stand on. have. 1 don't want to regulate any | they sect to find money for new clothes| ‘Men are continually chasing around on 3 bi 5 Wans $0 pege ap p re-] Aad seslayrant suppers. 1 read in the with the wives of other mom and thelr ee ase id pi, EON 2 EAs. sear = d times and| but the average wearer of the alit skirt