The evening world. Newspaper, December 6, 1913, Page 10

© Toyland © @ Actors Won _> ! In Spite of Hard Theatri- | cal Times, the Only One| Who Need Worry Is the| Poor Manager—The Ac-| ] tor Gets His Price or| | Turns on His Heel Into the‘‘Movie: -But Even * Shubert Admits There Are Too Many Theatres. ‘BY CHARLES DARNTON T was an actor on bis way to the Players’ Club who paused to remark that one {inevitable result of present) teeatrical conditions would be @ re- @uction in the salaries of actors. He argued so many companies were} coming in from the road and that Dusiness generally was so bad that THE TELEPHONE the actor was bound to suffer. GIAL DREAMS ‘ “Thank heaven I'm in the movies OF BRING A 4 ‘and able to buy my usual Christmas LEADING LADY } sents without going in debt for a ri”? ‘After congratulating him 1 felt #0 erry for the other fellow that 1 asked Lee Shubert if salaries were to be cut. More in sorrow than in elation that thoroughly business-like manager gured me the actor had nothing to t worry about. “In fact,” fae ig about the only one who hi eause for worry, His salary re- mains fixed in spite of business changes fa the theatrical world, He gets what ke or he goes into moving pictur the situation with him, and he to control it. The man- i h knows how ager, on the other hand, must face It} j said Mr. Shubert, “the and pull through somehow, The man must pussese nerve . perhaps, i8 of for with the man- ager it is a gamble over night of forty very often, etting his money That's or fifty thousand dollars with no chance of hi Deck if luck Is against him, the gume, and it requires nerv: Mr, Shubert: dispiayed every 9 Ket together and arrive n of of the survive! of the Attest, the crack of doom would probably not be done?” Til tell you what must he done,” he anowered, til forward fh his chair and gripping a desk telephone. “All the interests of the theatrical world will have to get together and eliminate the superfluous theatres, The fleld i# over- qrewded, there's no denying this fact ‘There are too many theatres, not only here in New York, but throughout the country. And by thie I do not meav alene the so-called legitimate theatres but amusement places generally, The country Is being given more entertain: ment than it needs; there isn't a town of any size anywhere that hasn't more theatres than it can support. Look at @ moving picture houses that are Inging up everywhere! There are so y of them that can't possibly Jive, especially when the whole co ntry ig dance-mad and the resteuranta have become variety theatres. As I maid, all he amusement _intereata—theatrica! “Do you think," I inquired, closed?” of the hounes he answered. doesn't spell calamity. considered a crime along Broadw. may close fc without having lost it Pproval of the pwbil That's true, Occasionally a ft manager who Springs and com: and 4 fresh smile, you may rest. en to French make you feel bully; they cleanse and sweeten the remove the sour, unvligested fer ering food and fo I gases: tuke "the eaves bile from liver and carry “@l the constipated waste matter and ¥ poison from the bowels, nig't straig’ a 10-cent vox from a. your Stomach rg tl Liver and Bowes i ’t Have Their Salaries Cut; Here’s Lee Shubert’s Word for It vaudeville and moving plcture—will have some un- derstanding aa to how many houses of various kinds a town can support, With Heving a ened | Various kinds , | back In nie office chair calmly toning ||!" (henisical mancxers and thelr pro- 1 off thousands In his quiet way. Even ai Here in New York jt ts only the pla core! | @isturb him, though he might be mildly | |, Mincrola Misses that SHreate ae | tgterested in watching hie friend Brady | seontion, Even then its success 16 } Jamp. As for conditions that are now | ively to be a matter of alow growth, | Qusiug general uneasiness, he took this| tor new plays follow one another #0 eurprisingly tranquil view rapidly that the public reads a review «There's always a slump @ few weeks | of inis one to-day and that one to-mor- efore Christmas. That's to be ex-|row, and by the end of the week gots pected. no confused that it doesn't know one “Then you see nothing unusual in the | from the other, The really good play | situation?” han to have time in which to work ite | « “It's not so very unusual for this time) way out of this general confusion. | of year.” York can hardly straighten out all the “But if it @oesn't cha what's t0| theatres in ita m "that the new year will see a number of theatres “It is not at all unlikely that some y be dark for a um But that, to my mind, It_used to be to close @ house for a night or two, but that time has passed, and now @ house @ time and open again standing pro- vided {t offers a play that wins the ap- Just ax much in need of a rest as the back with new plany Lut Lee Shubert, have noticed, never taco He keeps right on gving, Jump- ing from {he telephone to bis automobile thout ever turning a hair of hin re- GASCARETS TONIGHT! IF BILIOUS, CONSTIPATED—10 CENTS A Cascaret to- you e ¢ by mor fig— y druggist keeps Head cleur and months, Don't forget the children, ——————— ‘The Proposal{. THE TICKET AGENCY IS THE GREATEST ME TOTHR SHOW Business tHe acTaets 1 AUbICAL COME OY 18 Eve w BeTtER| e business may de bad.” York will eventually hav a-half theatre?” I fel ask. “No, T don’ “The dollar-and- was the quick answer. play 4s good. But even then the bul- ati picture and others—that a competition too strong for the general good, doesn't suffer, He stands etill and watches his salary go up, week. into moving pictures, The | wets four, five, al dred a week. drawing markably level head, and changing hin headquartera an often as he builds a new theatre., And here he was, for the firet time in hin life, declaring there} are too many theatres. More interesting however, was his statement: “The ticket agency is the greatest nace to the show business,” “Then why not put it out of busl- near?” I sugkested, “Thin can be done only by legtsla- tion," he said, “and it is not an easy matter, There should be a law making it a criminal offense to sell a ticket out- sido the, box-office at an advanced pric Wut until auch @ law ts enacted a man- ager is powerless, Ho doesn't know what the man who buys a ticket at the box-office is going to do with it, and he can't control him, “But how about the any other Une of work, to be a truck drt better off. cut." bert turned to it I turned to the door. Outside, and bustle, reined tn his dorsed every on the subject of actora’ salaries, do you know," he confided, that with my kno theatres that and get five & equare dea! with the publ “Well,” * Tasked. | "he conailered, “it In exactly |Uvente! |in restaurants that put an extra price avest fin, me eee only a part of the life of the town that makes this demand. At other times “Do you think this means that New privileged to trouble doean't He in the two- dollar section of the house. The or- chestra seats are easily sold when the cony and gallery are often bad, We have to look above the first floor to keep things going, and to bring about the condition so necessary to the the- we must all get togther and elim- inate the unnecessary theatres—moving making The actor ts tif. one person who “An actor who is any good at all can command his two and three hundred a If you don't pay him what he asks he turns on his heel and goos ding man even seven hun- I could name one actor even hundred who couldn't earn more than ten dollars a week in He has a men- tal equipment that would fit him only The actress, es- pecially 4f she is in musical comedy, 4s No, the actors and actresses needn't worry—thelr salaries won't be ‘The telephone rang, and as Mr, Bhu- where everything was hustle feverian preas agent loping typewriter and In- hing Mr. Shubert had sald vledge of the thentre @ thelr prices on holidaya—ta that [Ant ® Mite practice f gould start in eer rar rer aerators: Seeing New York Through Rube Eyes From the Outside _> | Newspaper Stand Where Nothing But Out-of- Town Papers Are Sold— Check. Boy’s Graft — To Get a _ Decent Table You Must Tip the Head Waiter Secretly. It takes @ stranger to see the queer ights of a city. Two strangers in New York, men who had never been in @ city of more than 100,000 Inhabitants defore in their ives, eat in the lobby of one of the big uptown hotels a night or two ago and discussed the town and its ways. All people who come to York do that. Both men were young and both Inquisitive, with the cager thirst for knowledge so frequently seen in those who were reared tp the country. “I wonder many queer things one could see if one kept one's eyes open,” the fret.man conjectured. The second man wacrossed -hie lege end sat up, an interested look in his eyes. ‘ “Let's try it and eee,” he suggested enthusiastically, “It's almost dinner time now, Let's start odt fight now end keep our eyes open for the remain- der of the oven! ‘And go the t ut. ‘Their firat destination Was a revtaurant situ. ated near Times re and they hur- ried acroad the atréet, dodging taxicabs and mail troche, keeping a4 apprenen- tive eye on the clanging street cars. “That's one thing these city people Never notice," said the second man, | 8nd each !magines that perhaps he is pointing to the traffic equad man stand- | ooking on eome noted New Yorker.” ing in the centre of the street. ‘“See| “There's another thing that would how he ts kept busy all the time dodg. |™ake the people in Homeburg sit up| ing atreet cara and gutomobiies and|#"4 throw @ scundalized spasm if it pulling other people out of the way? | h&rpened even in @ private home,” said | He doesn't seem to be consdjous of it| the second man, nodding toward 4 | At all, but I'll bet ‘an average of forty | NeAF-by table where two women and perdona an hour'aak hit questions, thelr escort were opening a bottle of forced to pull each one of these| Weve. “Whs, at home they think it's persona ‘out'of the way of some vehicle | *¥ fl ie Noman. 0 /Grok At al He never while women ever thinks of taking & drint in public. Here the women! drink as they ke and whatever they would almost take an oath that he stands in one place all during his time on duty.’ not the only thing they do," responded the first man. “I never saw & woman smoke in my; life until I got to New York last week, and one can't] enter a restaurant without seeing from one to fifty women puffing away at their little cigarettes. But the New Yorkers don't notice that.” ‘The two paused for a moment as the orchestra struck into a lively bit of rag- time, and watched In undingulsed amazement ae a thinly clad’ woman be- gan an Oriental dance. “And down home they won't even} allow burlesque shows,” commented the fret mi diy, "Why, this woman hann't enough on to clothe a three-| year-old kid. I saw one at Iammer-j stein‘e the other day that even shocked the New Yorkers. ‘8 another," responded the other man, “Look at that newsetand where ont-of-town papers are for sale.’ Not a single New York paper is sold there, yet & constant stream of peop! purchasing papers from their home town, The news, dealer tells me that he eells an erage of 8,600 dailies a gay, And that stand is only one of many in this town.” The two entered the restaurant to- gether and handed over their coats and hate to the check boy. ‘A beastly graft,” grumbled the sec- ond man. "They must get rich on it." “Yes, but not all the coln goes to the man buying the checking privileg id swered the first. ‘Do you know, these the tune of about $3 a night. He puts elastic bands about his underclothes at his knees, and drops an ov ‘onal dime or quar- ter down Inside his collar, When th alght's work ts done he has a nice litt! mi “The first day I was in town qj chased over to Fifth avenue and Forty- | | second street and stood there for two hours walting for a daringly appar- elled dame] to gratify my curious eye, ing that entire tlne 1 did not sce a) on thelr tables on New Years tive, ir| * step further towards the door| Sm stored away tn the two catch-alis.” skirt, a tghtly fitting yown, nor Ahead di a : 5 brousat me to the telephone girl, who] “Here's another cormplaint 1 have to) seductive glimpse of anything #up- | wey do that sort of thing, why shouldn't ed to. bw dreaming. of the day {Make about these big restaurant peed to be Hiadem. ¢ scmitine: i tneires tee she ake wie Would be a leading lady with | she Second man aa they were ted to aj yon teense qracaettiet ee ee demand is great ato and you must admit that demands a great deal, ain times, |her salary in large numbers The actor worry! for? Oddities in the KAIUS are dropping and high pri News may break, DOCTOR says President has the xrip. Congress agrees. BEFORE CHRISTMAS the old broom also sweeps clean, HETCHY js likely to hetch in Congress to-day, it is announced. MINARET IDEA of peg-iop skirte for women, now calls for wired tunics. DESPONDENT FOREIGNER turned on the gas in his room uptown without lahting it, hanged himself to the door and fired a bullet through his head. He dled. AMBRICAN who disappeared in Paris finds limeelf again; no explanation of his absence is given, but he immediately went to sleep. PROF. TRIEBAL, sculptor and academician of the Royal Academy of Rome, ways the American girl is all right except for her hands and feet. MICHIGAN MAN hi transfusion, his wife supplying the blood. feats an uncontrollable desire to wash the Me has entirely recovered, but as dishes, ches What's @ manager been released from an insane asylum after bloed table in a part of the room remote from| Have New Nork exaggerates its bud. | the cabaret performers, "You nave ta | Reem oF daring, Just for the suke of| tip the head waiter @ little fortune to| °ect j | natin aecant 440) The two finished their dinner in “You may ‘lave to tip him quite al [ence and the first man pald the chee! wad," admitted the fret. “But if you| Wile Als friend was thus engaged | do It openty he's as insulted as an Irian] the second man was guzing wt the | nobleman who's called an Englishman, |¢fOW4: Suddenly he turned. | No, you thust slip your two or five dol- ‘Do you remember how we worried jara unodtrusively tuto hin hand wile} Over Our evening clothes before we no one le looking. The dignity of his| left home—wondering if they would ap- | position forbids him accepting a ttp|P%ir old-faahioned here?” he asked. | openly. At least, that’s the way ne| “Has it atruck you before that there | ‘fereme to look at st, and the New York-|@re more men in business suite h era don't see anything amusing in bis|to-night then men in evening clothe IT have notice’ that meveral times, 1 @ regular mob in here," ad-| Wonder If the day of the open-face is vanoed first man as he swept his eye| Waning, so far as restaurant 1) over the dinner crowd. The second ayan | concerned?’ gazed about for a moment and tile eyes} The fret man nodded. twinkled. tes At ap uptown show after the firat act “Tile place ‘9 popaler,” ha admitted.| the house sevmed to empty itacif, eo “The funny thing about it is that most aulanly ae the majority of the men i rash out, peed te grt eM Ma eg New| “Why, practically every husband here inman! But,'do sen\ kobe Wat: thats left hie wife while he gets a drink.” see ae hete | exclaimed the first man. are two or three rather noted ‘restaur-| “The wives are not the only deserted ante near here that are patronized ai-| ones," commented the second man. “If moht exclusively by people from Podunk | my eyes don't deceive me there are & and Littletown. And they dud: flancees diners, who bear, having two shifts of | MINES GIVE TOYLAND NEWS: IP'SDIREET FROM OLD SANTA CLAUS How the Gnomes Make the Preity Things for the Christmas Trees. By Eleanor Schorer. it of The ARCTIC REGIC tre of the Giant as beet hol- lowed out into @ monster ¢ ad ts serving e8 a factory for » s tree ornaments. It !s being ran on a very 1m) ptter sy! than {t was last dron. Uttie fellow las a long- stemmed pipe with which he blows bubbles of the substance which slzzles and bolls in the huge pot before hin, The boliing su eis a made of metted 3 stones, Mile Hons uf dollars’ worth of i jewels are beings linported lute the 3 ng for this purpose. ch cauldron bolls a different jew The melted rubies inake blood-red bub- bles that gleam lke flames. The dia monds muke white ones, oright and shining like great, round Sap- pilres turn into deep-biue spheres, tore quoise make pale-blue balla Which look like the summer sky, and 60 © the bubbles grow the des! size the workmen sha! them gently off their pipes on he {co floor, Here they are allowed to rest unt! they are frozen into hard, round, shiny, wonderfully colored bright balla to hang on kiddies Christmas trees It ig estimated that e five hundred finished OUTPUT OF GOLD TO MAKE TINSEL, ‘The great Klondyke gold mines are being worked day and night to supp! the demands of another room of the Groat Glacler, where shousands of workers sit atrin: atrips of shredded gold on threads to make ti trim: mings for the trees. They wear great epectacies on, the ends of their little round noses, for this work 49 a great strain on the eyes, Each string |s one mile long and each gnome completes three of these @ day, che ggg oe By M. Held {Sometimes when all these places are | Med he e [thot one often ace! pla lox workers, | an ont But _m me ae from any which we, Who do not live a8 check base ere hot supposed to get @| tine they don't notice f NEA a i eH a san Ronee |e |the North Pole, have ever seen. 2 ages. 3 hift. The day workers come on at! “they ee ‘And heen Pt A By, en Mere Sat ree ba ae bias tA. tend alay Anh VO One re ene ane hee san aoe 7 single pocket in thelr uniforms, Tho| sig nnd be applacden? on @* | mand of t sleep, walle the other {Would call them Gnomes or Elves, tus privilege man “does everything he can | uyeg aye ate part of ft all ie works Bante ovis ten tole moar lar 6 of tt all ts We , lneteht, mischievous e keep them from.grafting @ part of | that we are constantly roading in the | Each of the workers site squat upon! with delight over thelr pretty handle the tip Bit one of the: ber told me| papers about the daring way Pizen te floor in front of « blazing fire, over | work, the merriest 1AUEHS Qnd averteat aat nigh 6 mai 10 got ahe ‘ | which Is suspended a hugo black cal-|\\ttle voices which keep up & continuos cf eciviae ait avenue trotters dress,” sald the necond | Le 'W. L. DOUCLAS ''32°4 &'42 SHozs Silver tinsel {8 also made in the same way. ‘The fashion tn tree trimming de- mands thq lavish use of this gorgeous adornment. NO STOREROOMS FOR SANTA CLAUS, Santa has no need for storerocome im which to stack bis firished toys am@ tree decorations. The demand fe se reat and immediate that directly 9 are finished they are loaded on to !mmense sleighs and @&ip- ped to special stations which be has situated In every city all over the world and usually in such places es @e partment stores or toy and candy chops, an en hides them in odd cernems of people's houses. ‘That ts how it comes lentally will @e@ vd away in the most unuguad j things tuc! ‘3 ago le would use his rein@ear to carry the loaded ¢leighs to statoge und often they were so worn eat ap overwork that they were unfit éor driving on Christmas Eve, But new tt < quite different, Since motor have come into use Santa has bought three hundred and twenty-elght t de this heavy work for him, someting ought to be told the kidéles of the character and habits of the #ttle tollers who make their tore. 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