The evening world. Newspaper, November 29, 1913, Page 10

ee IE “‘New York Wants the ‘Punch’ in Everything | It’s After ‘a Thrill’ in Books, Dances, Comedy’’ —De Wolf Hopper. AUSICAL COMEDY AUST HAVE A MELODY THAT GRABS YOU AND WON'TLET ao Fifty Encounters Does) :\"70ve cis ny hat nraie Not Believe That Mu-|,% ssi wotaicd bt, wing tne sical Comedy Will] sim sien mined io eve I anh ot Be Knocked Out — Oyen‘ sntmcunis tet, me s Course a Hard-Up Mon- arch Isn't as Funny as He Might Be, When Money's as Tight as the Dram in the Orchestra. that might meet him when he made hii the second act of “Hop v' “You see,” he explained, “I always have my hate heated. In this life one cannot be certain of anything unless one is glued to it, But to take up that far-reaching tanff question again: It has affected everything. And with money ux ght as it im, speaking non-alcoholicly, can you see me playing a sympathetic part in Chicago as that impoverixhed monaroh in ‘Caprice’ who was trying to Negotiate a loan? \When people are hard up you can’t send thein into par- oxysme of laughter by reminding them of it, No, the paychological moment for Ught-hearted mirth at the expense of & monarch who can't pay the hired help fs not now. And then, too, we had a Production #0 rich, 60 prodigal and mag- nificent, that it made Rockefeller look ike @ poor old cripple with @ tin cup, All this eplendor may have had the wrong effect, Still, we might have gone along in ‘Caprice,’ skipping gayly trom town to town, if I had not been torn ‘twixt conflicting managerial factions. This terrific struggle ended with my being hurled violently from Chicago to New York, where I found only aix days between me and ‘Hop o' My Thumb. Do you wonder I didn't know my own name in the play on the opening night? “Ww here. “Have you ever noticed what a tre- mendous difference in stature existe be- tween the average man of and the tall men" asked a Westerner a By Charles Darnton. STOMED as he is to public. speaking, Mr. De Wolt Hopper took some- thing for his throat—noth- iag more than a cough drop, I assure Yeu—and proceeded to view, with patience rather than alarm, the musi- @al comedy situation over which Wiseacres are sadly wagging their Beads, You would do well to consider at the outset that this is a serious mat- ter, What, for example, would the Upéia Languish of the chorus do if musical comedy should dic and leave er a widow to the art she wedded Om fifteen per and that faith in the futere which makes her so beautiful Is musical comedy dead or only sleep- fag? Mr. Hopper looked grieved. It might be dozing here and there, ‘What? “Ag I was about to say,” began Mr. Hopper, tossing another cough drop into the alr and catching it with skill that left him open-mouthed, “I feel we still have musical comedy with ui surge up and down the Idiots, city than anywhere else in the world. 2 though for the Meeting moment 1 am |Het !8 Much taller than the average! way in Loudon a couple of y % Got with musical comedy. It is true, 1 Citizen of length in other parts of the! 4 correxpondeit had written a story Sram you, that ‘Caprice’ is no mor IT thought I was tall until 1) about the Wall atreet man wh rein the = eed it ts barely possible that other ex. | © . - He stan ed down at his) latter was mad i say certain Lakai dis amples of this form of art have disap. |#!% feet two inchow and grinned, But) to th Mee Tita eR we peared from this broad and highi; cul- LT have decided that I was wr mi ni Ls a Pk “ y “The average man of this city The result was Hivated lend. But let us sweep the|ig me to be about five foot alx avely affected | “ entive stage with our discerning eye. |in height, which is about tho altitude] and t depression in What de we find? We find, if you will!of our women, ‘nats provaviy ex-| rtocks, Vor when Jacoy T talks on perma me to answer my interesting | plained by the tremendsis numbers of} monoy matiors aml be seldom does the Question, that it is not musical comedy |ghort-vodied foretgners who make up| brokers sit up and listen. Meme that suffers, From what? The! the greater part of Now York's popula-| Tho story reacted oo the foreign mare ~~ Qari. Perhaps I should say the lack, | tion, kets, and the New York office of Mr, uncertuinty of tariff legislation. let I do not claim be the last werd, yet } maintain the gesl@ as it to Sized, or isn't / “Because of the shortness of the ave erage man it is the more surpsising to me to meet, ten or fifteen times a day, fen who tower above me atmos as J ea eat aed New York he stood on the steps of the Astor | Hotel and watched the Broadway throng Paradise of “J believe there are taller men in this and the tall man, when you find him THE EVENING WORLD, DSEMANDS THE PUNCH NW EVERY THING “CAPRICE” WAS SO Rich it MADE ROCKE FELLER Look LIKE A CRIPLE WITHA TIN Cue And can you imagine a quiet, methodi- cal English stage director, one who had never heard a loud word uttered at re- hearsal, speaking softly to those gentle creatures that we of the stage know as ‘grips’? Chaos! But somehow we \got through {t, and now my only fear is that I may step on that dainty and charming ttle English artist, Miss Tris Hawkins, Now that I've found my way about I Uke ft all immensely. A big production ke ‘Hop’ has a ‘punch’ that the audience feels, and it's a pleasure to help ‘put {t over.’ And, after all, thet'’a what every production needs." “You don't Include musical comedy?" Comedian Carle On NEW YORK PROPER—Why It should be called that ig @ mystery, Along Broadway they like a dash of tabasco in thelr theatrical f They are wit dom personified, Kverything you do ‘on the stage they've seen before. BIGHTH AVENUE —At the Grand Opera House they start laughing when they buy thelr tickets, and they dash up to the box-office on roller skates. Everybody knows everybody else, They tower above the average man, I will be willing to bet that the tall men in this city have a greater average belant than in any other piace in the world. | | Does New York Get Its Tall Men?” Asks This Westerner CLINGING WALTZ WO LONGER WOLDS THE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1913. Has the Bug of Pad and Pencil Got You Are You a Telephone Booth Artist? What “Old Masters’”” Do You Commit as You Wait for “‘Bryant-Steen Thousand”’ or “‘Worth- Umpty-Eight?’’—Activ- here, New York is a sensation-loving town, and It demands sensations even in musial comedy. I don't mean by this the clinging waks ending with a kiss that made the Nethersole salute seem cold and ebrupt by comparison. New York, to my mind, has hed quite enough of that Viennese business. But there ust be something out of the ordinary— ngs with aetory that has the ‘punch, or @ melody that grabs you and won’ t let you go. The clinging walts no longer holds the public, and the two great foes theatres are also But 1 don't believe that musical com- in any danger of dying.” “wr a 1 Aaked Mr. Hopper how many musical comedies he had graced with ‘nin all-pervading Lebepaiata he turned hrough his ‘‘make-up, oe aeaie sound like a dying Aah. “1 don't know,” he confessed, matiat a rough guess I should say fifty. The point with me always has been that the piece should Jean, When my mother was allve she always came to the dress rehearsal of a new piece, and it was my pri@g?to feel there wasn't a word to which she could object. The book was always of firet importance to me, though I never could mal this dis- tinction in Gilbert and Sullivan's works, In ‘Pinafore’ and “The Pirates" Sullivan te supreme, but in ‘Patience’ and ‘The Mikado’ Gilbert ‘e pi ‘Iolanthe’ the honors are @ and though Gilbert and gullivan are dead, I feel certain that the musical play tan'e.”” New York Audiences know weeks in advance when you are coming, and they get ly to welcome you. Always loyal, THE BRONX-—Very receptive, and the domestic side of fe makes itself fel across the footlights, WILLIAMSBURG—Will laugh. Family atmosphere. BROOKLYN — Contemplative. They seem to hold themselves aloof trom one enother—and sometimes from the performance, "Can you explain why it is? Th must be freaks or else they came from some other part of the country, New ‘York's population can't produce @uc! ity with Pad and Pencil Only Proves, SaysAlien- ist MacDonald, that the Mind Can Do Two So Cheer Up, You're Not Things at Once, Headed for Matteawan. What kind of things do YOU draw? Or, are you one of the numeral or word artiste? Do you make w Produce architectural or weometric de elgns, or merely a: besques? the fact, but»,ou're one of the million are the involuntary slaves of a master bug which lives in every telephone booth in the clty of New York—in fact, in the \@hdorhood of every telephone in the city, Now, do you begin to t ite Jue think @ moment and call to mind the last time you were in @ booth with Pencil and @ bit of paper handy. Don't you recall that you had to walt while “central” was getting the number? What did you do in the interval? You needn't answer; you took up the Dencil and began to draw or to make curlicues or figures, perhaps to write a name, Now you remember, don't you? Well, you did, at any rate, and yeu do Mt every time you get into a booth, In nine cases out of ten you continue the art work during your conversation, too. And there's only one way in which to avoid this “bug,” that is to go into a booth in which there is no penoll and Paper. Just so sure ag there are writing implements at hand the “bug” will reach out, draw you to him and it's all up with you, You'll grab the pen- cil willy-nilly and start draw'ny This is not mei fact, and whoever go, for example, to the Hotel Knicker- men. I am going to ask some of these six feet wix. inch fellows some day where they did come from, It’ mat- ter of extreme curiosity to me. of a New York newspaper told the fol- lowing story illustrative of Jacob H. Schiff's philanthropy while the fnancler Behift at once got in touch with him at the Hits, He in turn demanded # re- traction of the alleged interview and gave the denial te all the sewapaper “Schiif’s Plea for a Too Ambitious Reporter Dining at the Press Club on Thanks- men of his having been seen or inter- ved. the author of the alleged interview called upon the financler at the Ritz, and though Mr. Schiff at the time was closeted with Sir Ernest Ca and a number of other leading | English bankers, he sent word for the reporter to be shown to hin multe, ‘The reporter's Managing editor was [with him, After being cross-examin |by Mr, Schiff and his editor the re- porter admitted that he had “faked” the story because of his desire to “scoop” | his confederates, Mr SohtM listened, and when the re- had finished the fMnancler arose mut “You have told the truth, and I am aure that you will never regret it," he eaid, in his customary quie: way. Then turniag to the youth's euperior, “What srasped the hand of the ambitious | effect will this have upon the position of this boy?” he asked. “I have no jurisdiction in this ma ter, but will have to act upon the or- ders I receive from the head office, which will probably be to dispense with |this young m.n's services.” was the re- ply. “Oh, [ canna: permit this,” sald th | financier, ax he raised his hand protest- Ingiy. “L have no doubt but what. be was too ambitious and permitted his en- thuslasm to get the better of his good | Judgment, ‘To dixharge him would be | vevere & penalty. I want you to promise that you will do ail in your power to save him, for I belleve this has been a le#son to him not to repeat surh an error again, You will do me a great favor if you will send a cable to-night .o | your office stating that it Is my personat Tequest that he be retained in your em- Dloy, Will you do that?” ‘The manager promised. And he kept bis promise. a N AT THE KNICTERBSOCHER lea? Do you make faces (not your bwn, that ts)? Do you Whether you answer or not, it ea dead certainty that you do one of these things, Probably you're unconscious of and more telephone-booth artists who A MN TET HT ALL OI bocker and watch the people in the booths there. ‘There are eight tele- Phone compartments and each ‘s pro- vided with & pad and pencil. A rea- soanble inference is that these were Placed In the booths to facilitate note- making, but it may be that a far-sight d management was aware of the “bug and promptly supplied the means for ite culture. Watch this man, for instance. He's #@ solld-looking citizen, quite a normal Person, apparently, He gets his num- ber from the operator and into the booth he goes. For about one second 's intent upon the telephone—and then catches a glimpse of the pad and the dangling pencil. Up goes his hand, he clutches the pencil and then, aa the pool ripples widen from the tossed atone, the wigsle-waggles widen on the pad. The man simply can't help it. He doesn't see the art bug of the tele- phone grinning at him, guiding his hand, The poor creature thinks he's doing the drawing himself, but he isn’t; it's the bugs all the time. And when he begins talking to the person at the other end of the wire he doesn't dare stop; got to keep on with the drawing until the bug, with the voice of the apeaker at the other end, says “goodby.’ The matter of this “telephone bug’ Wag referred to no less an authority upon quirks of the mind than Dr. Carlos F, MacDonald, the allenist, He recognized it at once. He mn sald that he himself was a victim, “I firmly believe that nearly every one who uses a telephone,” he said, “is given to scribbling or writing or draw- Ing or figuring on a bit of paper if it be handy, I always do it myself if the r conversation be at all prolonged. It's a curious mental process, Really it's A dual operation of the mind, When a man is waiting, for instance, for 9 telephone number his conscious mind ts directed attentively to waiting for the a answer at the other end Bubcon- sclous mind disengages Itself, and if the pencil and pad be there it turns to them. There i8 no diminution In the in- tentness of the conscluis mind while the hand Is busy tracing the tigures or atnot upon the paper, It ts sust that i the mind {8 capable of doing two things t at once and abil, 4 lemon ton of its th paver at euch a time fully executed, ly BS perser ma the oxo not In any way has thovooghly ra tional attention to the cenversetion or communication — taking « The drawings really make p ‘ally presion on the mind, and I'd vent say that not one man in a could tell you after what he had draw 10 [ne ure to hundred leaving the booth | or written on th you eee, The mind—that is, the sub- @onscious mind, fe focused on the con~ pad. It does not register on the mind, | Hed > RAWING = MEN AND WOMBA “Business” in Wall Street ' Down in Wall street there seems to be as many people as ever, There ere - “to let’ signs in many of the win- dows. The brokers are moving thelr ~ offices into their with more opulent brokers. A etrac | wer to the financial world of New York walked by the Stook Exchange yester- day, He was surprised at the crowds. Men were hurrying to and fro, dodging in and out of the Exchange, sudden dives into hallwaya, into offices as was their wont ip the old days. “My!” exclaimed the stranger, °@ don't see any falling off in business,” A smart office boy leaned againgt & ten- thousand- dollar granite column smoking @ cigarette, He overheard the remark. “You mean those men sunning? Re ked. "Why, yes." returned the stranger. “That would seem to indicate busl- | “Busines?” echoed the smart oMes ; doy. “That ain't business. Those fel- |tows are running away from their credito! ‘ECZEMA ITCHED SO COULD NOT SLEEP - Broke Out on Face. Was a by 2 Pimples Swelled. Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment Entirely Cured, Eczema, —— Versation and is far too intent to be distracted by the other operation, “Some persons draw, others merely scribble. I generally set-down figures— 2, 3, 4, and then write them in reverse |Orter, Often [ go to the very edge of | the paper with the string of digits, It's |® mental process which rarely has any thing to do with the conversution—that 1s, the figures or scrawls or drawings | bear no pictorial relation to the subject of the talk. “I believe, however, that these sub- conacious deductions bear some relation to the character of the individual, jus! as does handwriting. If, say, five hun- dred examples could be collected and| placed in the hands of an expert in| handwriting, I think he could resolve! 311 East Olst St., New York, N. ¥.— the producers into distinct classes, as 1t| “About a year ago eczema broke out on my were, I @hink that the traits of the In-| face and for a time I let it go but I econ Gividual might be found to show in the found that the pimples were Grawings. They are produced with even itching me and I could mot less thought than one must give to the sleep, The itching was se formation of characters in writing, be intense that T scratched them, cause the conscious mind ts busy with| 1 also Was ashamed to meet the talking, but it seems to me that they| my friends as my face wae @ might show the characteristics of the! sight to look at. It was all makers." out of shape as the pimples Accompanying this story are several! swelled and my faco became authentic examples of the sort of things) irritated, ‘The eruptions efter people draw or write in telephone! breaking out looked like big sores and after booths, They were collected without the! ® time came tos nead. of those who had made them! | “I used ———- Soap and -———~ Beap —in fact, they were found in the booths| but they showed no improvement om after the telephono users had finished | face. 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