The evening world. Newspaper, November 29, 1913, Page 7

ever devised by mendicant mountebdaniks GQEonae 7 @ BROADHURST "Who SAID AUTHORS 1913 VAUDEVILLE EGLIPSES SHOWS OF 30 YEARS AGO How the Improvements Were Made Told by Manager E. F. Albee. It took @ Punch and Judy show—one of the ollest forms of entertainment —te give modern, high-class vaudeville the impetus that has carried it from the dingy and di utuble “variety the most branch of the show busin tion among the realiy ereat industries of the day. It happened this way: V 1883 B. F. Keith, already an expe showman, conceived te idea “continuous performance.” ducting a two-story “palac * of tainment in Bostun known as the Gaye Upstairs was the and Musee. cluster of freaks downstairs a sin Ave stake. It we Open Musee at morning and keep uptul 10.90 at night. Nobody knew Just how he was fo do it=nat even Keith hi often admitted afterward. threw up their hands and de crazy and eve: tried to dissua Duilt that way. On phe first day, ther straggiers who fount the Musee in th afternoon wore Firat they lete upstatry exhioiiion escorted below aad hall The vari t then began over aga USED PUNCH AND JIDY AS A “CHASER.” But wheo night can asseinbied it was & differ: Er cour a diminu- 3 idea to in the wo both ows going | crowds frat big batch of curious ones were | shuttled up irs und enterta'ned by the | lecturer, 5. K. Hodgdon, now on ¢ chief officials In the United OMce, the organization that almost the entire frst class va field, and at the head of wh' {te founder, stil! rules. After Hodgdon had ended his lecture, | the crowd was sent below to the music hail and another batch let into the curto floor, But when the hours’ pro-! gramme of varlety turns lad come to! an end and it was time to let the second big crowd into the hall trom upstairs not one of the persons in the audience made a move to gt oult. Then Mr. Keith thought of the Punch and Judy Show conducted by old Jim Campbell upstairs in the curio hall. He had Jim rushed down below, set up his puppet theatre and rang up the curtain for the third time. The moment the audience saw those painted dolls—of which it had tired in the hall above before coming down-dt roma tn a hody and marched out. THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF VAUDEVILLE Tho thirtieth anniversary of the foun- dation of American vaudeville—a term adapted from the French by Keith—le about to be celebrated In all the houses comtrolied by the U. %. ©, throughout the country, Gala programmes, spectal decoration of theatres wud souvenire of various forma have provided for tie commemoration of vaudevillo'® thir. Meth birthday, land Fleld used to play the old hails, "Ay i Hoepe HIS HAIR” ? Palaces that to-Gay house this most | KREMER! from | Keith's humble beginning in the Boston | Popular form of entertainment; ety Musee to the final perfected or- nization of the U. B. 0. Into a systein that controls about 126 first-class vaude- Ville houses 1d a weekly pay-roll of $0,000—business enterprises represent- ing in all a capital of approximately 000,000, How this was accomplished was summed up drlefly for The Evening World to-day by E. F. Albee, the ge: eral manager of the U. B. O. and Kelt right hand man for all the thirty years of the development of the great enter- brine. “From the outset,” sald Albee, “our main idea was to clean up the vaude- Ville stage #0 thoroughly that no father would be ashamed to take his daughter to see the show, With this end in mind we confronted the performers engaged to play in our theatres and when their acts showed elements of the sort of thing we did not want we commanded | it cut out, We found some of the old- time players défficult to convince, but our best argumont always avatied. That was to ask him one question: ‘How would you lke to have your sister or daughter sit out front and hear you say those lines or do that piece of stage business? That always won them over to our side. “This was only the first step. The Second Ww theatres and the the buiiding of m: psycholog' Iticent ady of what form of entertainment the people wanted, We have had to arrange our programmes with the idea of playing the human emotions and never sliowing our audienzes to get too much of one thing at any thne, The balanc- hg of & vaudeville bill from opening act to close is one of the finest studies we have to make, o:d when you figure nto what proportions our business has ® »wn you may well see that the week- ing of all theatres under our n# inceasant work, the ut- and Many am argument and on mont cai battle, play vauceville supplies the favor- ertaiament of millions upon mil- of men, women and children and represents & gigantic business enter- pr.se. Only the most thoroughgoing type of showman én the world can pos- sibly succeed aa a vaudeville manager have In responsible eli been trained from the mi ite « round up." With the advancement of vaudeville began the gradual increase of te vaude- ville performer's PX, until within the last few years the stare of the firet magnitude in the so-called ‘legitimate fleld” have been attracted to the music hall by the enormous offere they hava received, Only Recently Sarah Bernhardt made a tour of the principal cities of this country and was pald $7,000 a week net. $3, and Eddie Foy Some Idea of the ice between vaudeville salaries of nd those of tho old variety days {a gleaned from the faot that Weber and bin Kide afte such as Tony Pa on the Rowery, sand the Londo it $40 a week betw It is a tar ery from the dingy Ittte hall with sawduet wtrews floors tn which rough and tumble comedians and shigers of 4 tontt enka Us @Mieriuin audiences of men to the hem 1 used to ve called upon to give ae many fourteen wea day in the early days of the “continuous,” A'S LOST Ms it i THE EVENING WORLD, "DIAMOND Sim? BRADY aocoo AKRAM TRO OR RN THD New P.ays for Coming Week, & Mme. Kalich in “‘Rachel.” Louis Mann in “‘Children of To-Day.” RDC MOAR HH MO HO HO CAT HI ME. BERTHA KALICH comes to M he Knickerbocker Theatre on Monday night In 1, romantic drama. by Carina Jordan deal- | ing with events In the life of the great French actreas. The play first reveals Rachel girl when treet singer in Lyons, where she at~ tracts the attention of the Duchess of Orleans, who brings her to Paris and Places her in the Conservatory of Mu- sic for instruction. The second act shows Rachel four years later when claim her excellence while she is play- ing in the Gymnase. In the third Rachel is acknowledged as the greatest tragedienne of her time, The bloodless revolution of 188 breaks out and; Rachel's patroness, the Duchess, and her lover, Maurice, have fled to her home seeking safety from the mob. A Jealous admirer knows the fugitives have sought refuge with Iachel, and at the head of the citizen soldiery starts to search the house while the| mob outside clamors for the head of; the actress, harangues the mob, Waves the tri-color and, chanting the national anthem, sways the infuriated mob to her way of thinking and saves the lives of the Duchess and her lover, The laat ac: shows the green room of the Theatre Francaise, with Chopin, fired by the occasion, playing for the first time hia fumous waltz for the dance before the wedding of Rac and = Maurice. Among others in the support of Mme. I'ilich will be Sydney Booth, George Hawsell, Walter Armin, Edward Fos- berg, Ina Brooks, Ferike Boris, Ida Darling and Edna Archer Crawford, eee Beginning Monday evening at the Harris Theatre, Louls Mana will be seen in @ four-act play by Clara Lip- man and Samuel Shipman, entitled “Children of To-Day." ‘The scenes are laid In New York City and the story deals with the perversion of parental thority, A widow has two children, weventeen and ¢ghteen respectively, Possessed of ultra-modern ideas as to Authority im the home The mother permits her children to ride rough-shod over her, Im their faise notion of ethics they are led by an extremist pa.nter and a French cocotte, When matters assume @ gra’ aspect an old sweetheart of the mother enters upon the scene and controls the situation. The support ng company includes Emily Ann Wellman, Adoni Fovier!, Lorin Kaker, Maude Turner Gordon, Robert Strange, Margaret Tempieton ani Charles Balsar, eee At the Shubert Theatre Forbes-ltob- ertwon will appear in “Paesing of the Third Floor. Back” and “The Sacra- ment of Judas’ on Monday and Satur- day nighta, in “Mice and Men” on Tuesday night, in “The Merchant of Venice’ on Wednesday afternoon, wita reduced prices for sohoul obildren, and on Friday night; in “The Light That Fatied” on Wednesday night, and ia “Hamlet” on Thuraday aight end Bat- urday afternoon, . Alfred and Sigrid Ness, ice skaters from the Ice Palace in Berlin, ba been added to "The Pleasure Seekers at the Winter Garden, ‘ne Five Frankfurtere” the Grand Opera House, Henrietta Crosman in "The Tongues of Man" moves to the West End The- atre. ‘A Romance of the Underworld” will will be at the Harlem Opera House. ‘The Star and Garter Bhow’ seen at the Columoia, The Murray Hill Theatre will have “Beauty, Youth and Folly,” will be Olympic. At Miner's People's Theatre will be Miner's "Big Frolic.” VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS, Nina Barbour, discovered in an oom @ her debut ae @ singer et The Paiace Theatre Others on the pro- gramme will be Zelda Bears in “The ‘ardrove Woman," Frank Sheriéan in “Blackmall," and Ethel Green, The Colonial Theatre will have Pau! Armstrong's sketch, ‘Woman Pro- poses"; Jack Wileon, Clark and Hamii- | |ton, Adelaide and Hughes, Keno and Roeo Green, Florence Tempest and Bert Errol, Alhambra Theatre, where other featur: wil be “The Purple Lady,” Barry and & From her balcony she | be presented by the stock company at| "The Monte Carlo Gane” come te the| Olga Petrova will head the bill at the | , Wolford, Bernard Granville, Ota Cygt, j vionni mi Ray Conlin, At Keith's Union Square Theatre will be John and Emma Ray tn “On the Rio Grande,” Belle Blanche in new songe, Arthur Deagon, Vera Mersereau, dancer, and others. “Any Night," which was presented at the Princess Theatre last season, wil! be given at the Forty-fourth Streat Music Hall. Other new foatures will be Rosika Dolly, Felix Adler, and Mike Bernard and Willle Weston, Liane Carréra, Anna Held's daughte: whl make her debut at Hammerstein's ;in & musical sketch written by Irving | Berlin. On the bill will also be Jack Norworth, “Dope,” James and Bonale | Thornton, and Raymond and Caverly, David Bispham will be the headliner at Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre. [Others will be Clayton White in “Cherie,” Claude Gillingwater in ‘The Miliionaire's Wife,” and Josle Heather, At the Twenty-third Street Theatre will |be Harry Wrst in “The Marriage | Broker.” The Fifty-elghth Street The- atre will have Madame Mary and Her |Dhree-Iting Circus, The One Hundred fifth Street Theatre will first place to Madame Oberite in a dancing spectacle, IN THE BRONX, “Tho Passing Show of 1912" will be seen at the Royal Theatre, The Bronx Opera House will hay “The Conspiracy." Da Marion brings his company to Miner's. ‘The bill at Kelth’s wit include Ray Cox In new character songs, Joseph Jef- ferson in ‘20r Old Jim,” “The Green Beetle,” Deiro with his plano accordion, and Paul Morton and Naomi Glass in ‘My Lady of the Bungalow.” BROOKLYN THEATRES. Thomas KE. Shea will appear at the Guyety in “The Whirlpool,” “The Bells and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The Behman Show will be seen ai the Empire, ————EE BOARD OF EDUCATION’S RECITALS NEXT WEEK. The Board of Kducation announc the following recitals for next week: Sunday afternoon, at the Girls’ High School, organ recital by Jules 8. Joannes; at Ethical Culture School, or- gan recital by Gottfried H. Federlein, and at Morris High School, organ re- cital by Paul Mardn jr. Sunday eve- ning, et Public sehool No. 101, “Die Waikuere.” Monday, at Public Scheoi No. 44 “Composers and Musto of Ame- loa,"" by Clarence De Vaux. Thuraday, at Public School No. 100, “Russian Foi« and Peasant Songs,” by Kdward Brom vers. Friday, at Public Sohool No. 6, “Welsh Music,” by Mary E. Cheney Writing recently of the Gwent Welsh Male Bingers, I ventured to suggest that the letters L. RA. M. after s name meant, probably, of the Londom Royal Acadamy of Music Mise ¥. D. Parks Very oourteously corrects me, She writes, “Tie Royal and London Acad mies of Music are separate organizi Hons, L. RA, M. (Licentiate of the Royai Academy of Music) is a Utle con- ferred by the Royai Academy on non- etudents who pass examinations eitner |4n London or one of the local centr and which are open to vocaliete and in- strumentauste of all kinds. It entitles | the bearer to rank as a proteasomal, as | @ither teacher or performer.” For the benefit of the German Pol!- | blinkk @ musicale sad afternoon tea with be given by the Ladies’ Auxiliary Soctety in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria next Tuesday aftar- noon, Mra, Kennedy-Fraser of Sootland, | guest of the MacDowell Ciud, will lec- ture on "Songs of the Hebrides’ neat Tuesday evening. ‘There will be @ free organ recital next Monday evening im the Old First | Prof. Samuel A. Baldwin will give free organ recitals at the City College on to-morrow and Wednesday aftemoons | at 4 o'clock, ——____ | Deer Season Coste 28 Lives. | MYLWAUKBE, Nov, 99.—The deer sei leon, which will close to-day, has cost twenty killed, twenty-three hurt in Wis- consin, and eight killed, twelve wounded ia Upper Michigan, SATURDAY, “JHE CANDY «S$ 1 Show won't” , | Presbyterian Church by Haroié Vincent cane TF OTHE “BILL” BRADY AT 41S OWN FIRST NIGHT: \Didur’ 8 Boris a Masterpiece the Orchestra That Weave the Web of Fas- cination About the Listeners—Two New- comers in Cast. By Sylvester Rawling. 66TQ ORS GopuNorr” B for the firt at the Dicur repeated hit peronation of Bor atic ata standing but the charm of the work {i furnished by the chorus and the orch inherent in Russian mus! splendid “Gloria!” that in the act; and what @ withering mockery o! it was in the third, the mobs hustied and marche‘ the Kremlin tolled above ¢ the orchestra, the enchantment, curtain calls were Giullo Betti, chorus Jv'sa Speck stage manager. At any 1: of each was worthy of recognition. Two nowcomers there were in the cast. One, Sophie Breslau, was making her Gebut at the Metropolitan. fhe took the part of Theodore, Boris's aon and heir to the throne, and ehe dinclosed an attractive comtralto voice and no little acting ability. The other was Margareta Ober, who was Marina, the sweetheart of the false Dinitri, who made her de- but last week as Ortrud In “Lohengrii Hhe confirmed last night the good im- Pression made then, Her voice Is of lovely quallty, she knows how to use iy and she has a fine presence. ‘aul Althouse, who made hie debut weasun as Dimitr, bia ankle, but he kept on with his part Perhaps the accident may have had something to do with it, but Mr. Ait- house last night hardly fuiflied tne promise that he held Lenora Bparkes as Xen: ter; Maria Duchene as a nurse, Jeanne Maubourg as tho Innkeeper, acting ne De Begurola, a jolly old, monk, were familar. Mr, ‘Toscanini, who conducted master- fully, made some cuts in the ecore tha were well made. ‘The polonaise in the hand-drinking danced as wel as it was last season. PHILHARMONIC PLAYS A CLASSIC PROGRAMME. ‘Mr. Stransky’ classic programme’ WORK wi WHILE | WOVEMBER 29, On Opera Stage But It lathe Ch the Chorus and} con te Roy as solotet, and Haydn's wan sung time this season ropolitaa Opera House last night, making as deep an impression upon @ very large audience! an it made when first it was produced, toward the clone of lust season. Adamo remarkably fine im- It tg @ histriontc masterpiece of the contemporary oper- melodramatic if you will, but! psychic envugh also to fire the under- Moussorgeky's opera, episodic as it is, | 0 tells an absorbing story of which Boris) and Wienta wax! is always the central figure, absent or | cow. tra, which carry it along on haunting | himaclf—"In Ruder chants with the strange appeal that is | spiel” and his Polonaise, No. 2, in K Mr. What a! flat. And how naturally seethed and And how tie great bell of swirl of It was all moving, and the audience came under the spell of | al never uttering sound until each suce: curtain fell. Then they show tion in ho measured fashion, Not everybody, perhaps, knew that the two gentlemen in evening clothes who responded to the the the work amall part delightfully; Rothier, Badu, | garden of the Cautle of Michek wae not FEEL HEADACHY, DIZZY. BILIOUS? CLEAN YOUR LIVER'—A DIME A BLK Bick headaches! Always trace them to Iasy liver; delayed, fermenting food in the bowels or a sick stomoch. Poisonous, constipated matter, gases and bile gener- ated in the bowels, instead of being car- rhed out of the system, is reabsorbesl into the blood. W! this poison reaches the delicate briia it causes eongestion od that dull, sickening headache, Cas- 10 CENT BOXES “ANY DRUG STORE 1918 Ro$ZindA DOLLY or tHe DANCINeS { 4 1 14 1 | y fer the Philharmonio Orchertra'’s play- ing at Carnegie Hell yesterday after- Noon was not very exhilarating. It be- fan with Bach's Brandeburg eoncerte, No. 3, and ended with Bethoven's "Pas toral” symphony, the latter piayet for the third time in New York within « week, Between them were Monart's clarinet cuncerto im A major, with Henet good “hand” for Mr. Le Roy from a large audience, but the applause was per- functory for the rest until the fimieh of Beethoven's work. The orchestra played weil, But dear old taire" symphony, while very pretty, te not atrong meat to modern taste Is it now, Mr. Stransky? EDWARD GRASSE GIVES CONCERT.A~ AEOLIAN, Edward Grasse, the New York com- poser, violinist and pianist, who te blind, wave @ concert at Aeolian Hall last night. He Was assisted by J. Lorens Smith, violin; Joseph Kovarek, “vi William = Durieux, ‘cello, and George Falkenstein, piano, Most of the com- ‘The programme opened with his quartet in D minor, ep. Then Mr. Grasse | played three violin Coed an arta fron lyg, ‘Then, with Mr, | Played his sonata in EB minogy op. 3. | He finished with three violtn Boot, Grasse's compositions are and pleasing, and his play- ing of both the violin and piano is ex- cellent. A large audience gave him bleuty of appiau melod! it i “FAUST” AT THE CENTURY BEGINNING ON TUESDAY, “Faust” will be ths bill at the Century Opera House next week beginning on Tuesday evening. The cast for the opening performance will be: Margue- rite, Mme. La Patna; Faust, Walter Whe Mephistopheles, Herbert ; Martha, Kathleen Howard. The alternating singers wii be the Misses Ewell, Beott and Jordan, aad the Messrs, Bergman, Kavfmen and Kreidl At the popular @unday night cencert to-morrow nearly ed the leading singers | will appear. ‘The Century is to be remodelled after the present season ao that the seating capacity next eeason will be 8800, in- @tend ef 2,100, an at St present The second of Nahan Frank's popa- ler orchestral concerts will de give im the Hippodrome to-morrow evening. The principal soloist will be Wilhelm Hachaus, pianist, who will play the Lisst concerto in E flat as his principal num- ber, Cordelia Lee, violinist, whe wee took the part recently heard in recital, and Alfrede again last night. Im leaping out of 4| Tima, an Arabian baritone, whe has window in the second act he aprained come to America after meeting with orchestra are scheduled for works ef | Bach, Auber, Rossini and Wagner. The Kaufman Quartet wilt give the coma chamber concert of the Peopli Symphony Club at Cooper Union Hi next Monday evening. The programme will Include Dvorak'a “American Quar- tet,” Schumann's quintet for plano and atrin with Iaeta Hartley at piano, and @ lecture Cheshire, with Charles Bokuetse as s0- lout. Frans Egenieff, a German baritone, who hag won reputation in his own country, will make hia New York det: move the cause by stima- » making the bile Aa eon- on move on aad out of the aken to-night straightens ‘4 10-cent box will cep your head clear, stomack aweet, liver nnd bowels regilar, and make you feel bright and cheat’ for teuabe Children weed Cascareta, too, carets leting the li stipation pe bowels, One CANDY CATHARTIC 50 CENT BOXES = WHAT BO YOu Tint Cree cits acon bussy and Augusta Holmes. Gamrect Mensch, a young Ameriena plantet, who made hie debut in Aeolian Hall last year, will give a recital in the game piace om the evening of Des, citale given by Mra. George Lee at tne home of Mra. pre cet oot Lamont, neat Wednesdays subjects will be the third act of “Slegfrie’” and the Prologue to “Eke Gotterdam- | merung. AMUSEMENTS, XWOUIAN HALE, There. Aft. De. @ ot &! ao THE LUI PLAYHOUSE #) yaa Wea bs THE FAMILY af si WEST Et ienk am A ri Newt Wn =Henriette. Crovman ADLER DEWEY T THEATRE eS Jacob P. Adler in. in "Mendel Bailis _ oa ayy at ay Fora, a aes Jone "g ARDING ARMY-NAVI_ TEs Mth a. 14th ot, Loving § ‘pl, Mas.« ACHOEMY ita’ Shop Window F oe a at Mie at The TEMPERAMENIAL »OURINEY } with L2Q DITRICHSTEIN. ities al yee ABT c BROOKLYN AMUSEMENTS, TAR te 2 Bees, ote, | LEW hiLLY and aon y_— Rivers. Sunder. Two Bis You SLEEP