The evening world. Newspaper, December 13, 1913, Page 7

y n i . c : 5 J Oo nmnnnnnnnnnnn, | BROADWAY MANAGERS IN CARICATURE GEORGE COHAN LEB SHUBERT Funny Women of the Stage Pin Lady Macbeth, Laughs Elizabeth Murray A Woman Must Be Born With a Sense of Humor, but a Man Can Culti- vate One and Become a Comedian--Tell This to Your Wife at D‘nner' Just to Start a Happy, Evening — Then Try} Your Dialect on That} Story About Emma, the; Colored Cook. EVERY FUNNY oy By Charles Darnton. \T was as good as a variety show, and during the course! of her remarks Elizabeth] Murray looked like Frereeif, Marie Tempest, Fanny Brough, Mme. Bchumann-Avink, | Magote Cline, . | \ Marie Dressler. ‘Phere were almost ax many diferent ialects, with here and there a dit of song, im the high jinka that made me v@ry happy to meet the clever woman bo Ie the life of thone at the Lyric ‘Theatre, When you see a funny woman om the stage you feel pretty ure she Stage. don't ou? very common mistake,"* Pointed cut. “Tn nine ten—if there were that meny—the funny women of the stage are aad by nature and devoted to tears, felth the exception of Muy Irwin. Both in the theatre and out of it Miss Irwin wees the funny side of life. But when it comes to herself the average woman who makes a business of jollying people up hasn't any sense of humor. Nhe {s qauitively tragic, Léfe, she wil tell you 7 - if you give her the chance, has treated | bungrtarter, The hard part of musical comedy is that you have to drag others after you. In vaudeville it's simply a matter of yourself, and you get @ bet- ter chance to express yourself because her wrong. 1! doesnt know what she je Mitted for—and her volce,breaks. | know, What I'm fitted for~a cook.” Evidently here was another exced tion, for Miss Murray threw back her hoad and latighed extravagantly at her| ou choose your own material, Bingtn own expense. Of course, if you sald|@ dialect song in vaudeville fe lik what she said it might go bard wilh eating ple. Another joy of vaudeville you, It ie wise to recall in such clr [{4 to watch the ‘legit’ who comes In to cuma@tances how Di looked | ‘elevate’ it" then he reflected, “Iie couldn't taxe a| Miss Murray lifted her top hair with No, | shouldn't describe Miss }a lofty gesture, and, “holding the pio- Mureay as a weak womai ture" for a moment, ramarked: Marie Dressler once sald to me,’ she| They say 1 iook tke Marie Tempest. Vlixabeth, there isn’t a funn: |The first time T went on bone In my body. sWhy, she would | mma said 1 looked weep over a 5) in the middle | was the colored cook of the family, and of winter! F the | she watched my career with great mis- stage iw secretly p.ning to play lady] piving 1 bad no (dea at the atart of Macbeth or Lady lsabetle st | following the at Phil h knew Lynne,’ while here and there you willfour family in Philadelphia, and as T had sung at little entertainments in find one who has her heart Ket on‘ ine Forsaken.’ ghe ‘st part{cular so]Washington during President Cleve- Jong as whe can make an acdieace ery [land's adminstration Mr, Nash asked tr gend cold shivers down (ty apne, Tie/me to go on at Keith's in Philadelphia ‘one thing she yearns to do is to bring] to do the sole part in a big musical toars to people's ayer. (C8 sad i's} oumber, ‘The next day f asked Emma tru how Hike the singing. She shook Tagen Pr for a womat too funny [her head and enid: ‘Mebbe you all calle than # ma thet singin but 1 ka'n't see no use “Yea, T tink 80. Wan swer Ain them songs nohow. Give me ‘Throw woinan must be born fe wheraas 4}Out the Life Line’ or ‘Ive Anchored ae can @ mor § woman Soul in a Haven of Rest'that's hae (i, or she hasn't; notniag can change} what 1 calls: regilar singin’ When rer. Take avy man and you'll tind thet] Mr. Nash proposed that 1 should go thinge are goin well le is Joli. and} to Boston the follow week Emma te pots ag much) comedy as he can into/ threw up both handy. ‘Look heah, 1 tife, Hut a womnon who hasn't] honey,’ she said, ‘what's all this wild- A pense of humor wih keep right on]ness that's come on you? What you wanting things 19 go better stl). And] mean to go travellin’ all ovah this the feet iw that ife ix much harder forlcountenance ‘way out to Boston toh? no ooeh. especial ) New where | What you know ‘bout that Boston any- he 4 to take the town by throat] how Fust thing you know you git to win the fight he's moking froze in the up theah in the No'th if you're spotiing for trouble reallan’ when they thaw you out in the few jines to your wife, and then] spring you won't have no moh git-up- tialiy, “There's a woman who lelan'-go in you than an oystah.’ [ got ow philosopher!” Be that as it may my negro dialect from Emma and my Hilbabeth Murray isone of the few Iisi) righ dialect from two old aunts, whom owreven left on the stage. was always imitating. When they “yy ty so," Khe agreed, with an|caught me at it I got something more. ompvatic nod. "or the fe of ime T]he rest just happened, It wasn't my dont Enow what bas become of all] fault, 1 had no designs on the stage. the Irian Who were on the aiage « fow]1 went on it quite by chance fifteen penis ago. They may have been crowd-| years ago, At that time 1 wae-WAIT 1 out or starved out to make room| A MINUTE! When it comes to telling for :ew faces. And {t was the Irah|my age I'm just as funny as the nest made vaudeville woat It ts to-day. | woman." orn in Treland, and f mar. man, but so far as the stage w! Iwoee ried ati > is te Over, s concerned Un aa Trish Anarcvist.| Mies Christina Rounds, a Brooklyn im always fighting for the chorus i(lied yesterday in her nome, yeople and others who won't fight ¢ nton avenue, Bhe was aev- t nae) And you may weil be |o2ty7two. years old. Mina Rounds sae ee sy cuary oppurtvaity. form {came t Brooklyn in 1868, She Joined “| the staf of Polytechnic Institute, and afy t when @ stage manager starts @/ eight years later founded @ sehool for rebesrval with o chisel, am axe and a|giris on Clinton avenue. WINTHROP AMES THEY SAY TLOOR LIKE MARIE TENRP Forbes-Robertson To Play ‘Othello’ First Time Here hello at the @hubert Theatre on Monday night, with Gertrude Biliott as Deademonsa. The Pnglish actor-knight firet played the role in Manchester In 1897. “Othello” will be repeated on Tuemlay night and Saturday afternoon, “The Merchant of Venice” will be given on Wednesday afternoon with reduced prices for achool children and again on Friday night. ‘Mice and Men” will be the hill on Wednesday night, “Hamlet” on Thursday night and ‘The Light That Failed” on Saturday night eee On Monday night at the Lyceum ‘Me: | atre "The Cassis Engagement,” a medy by St. John Mankin, will be! presented by the Stage Society. Rosa- lind Ivan. Alison Skipworth, Anuie Esmond a. others will be in the cast, ° ° . Tom Robertson's old English comedy “School” will be presented by Ruth Shepley, in aid of St, Filzabeth's Col- loge, at the Playhouse on Tuesday afternoon, Among others in the cast will Alice Brady, Marjory et ~Vryling, Charles Cherry, Ernest Glendinning and Wallace eo. in Panama” the attraction at the Grand House ‘The stock company at the Harlem Opera House will offer “Plerre of the Plains.” “Girls of the White Way’ geen at the Cokwnbia. The Murray Hil Theatre will have Rovie'» “Beauty bao Hurtig @ Seamen open their new the- atre m One Hundred and Twenty-ffth atreet, nesr Eighth avenue, with the Behman shew. ‘The Girle From Starland" come to Miner's People's Theatre. At the Olympic will be “The iris! From the Follies.” VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS, Henrietta Crosman will appear tn “Dolly Madison" at the Palace Theatre. Others will be Adelaide and J. J. Hughes {n classic dances, Cruikshank, the Eng- Meh clown; Chris Richarde, comedian, and the Marvellous Millers. “Mutt and Jeft will be Opera win be e to Play est EMMA Muate Hall. Laut Hammerstein's, Liane Carrera, the clown. ‘The Colonial wR! have Blossom Besley and Rube Marquard, Wellington Crons and Lots Josephine, Charles Rosa and Mabel Fenton, Belle Blanche, Joseph Jefferson and other At the Alhambra will be “The Euro- pean Mysteries,” Ceci! Lean in songs, Jack Gardner, “The uirl From Milwau- kee,” and Migs Norton and Pau! Nichol- WATCHED AY CARRIER WITH PIS GIVING THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1919, CKARLES FROHMAN will continue at the Forty-fourth Street Lorraine will head the bill at where others will Anna Hell's daughter; Ktaiph Hers, Maggie Cline and Stivers, @on in “A Dramatic Cartoon.” Jack Norworth will head the bill at the Union Square Theatre, where htere in “The Come- Meredith and Snooser and Max will also be W. Bt. J On," and Mabdel Ford Fritzt Scheff will be the headliner at | Fitth Avenue Theatre The aleo include Rert French and | , the Empire Comedy Four, and eth, einger. RTBON will make bia'to the North Pole” will be the feature firet American appearance 48 /ut the Twenty-third Street Theatre, The offering at the Fifty-etenth Street Thes- Prootor’ thi wil Alice Ets, Mary Bit “Coney I tre whl be “Thirtesn Girls in Blue. Conroy Lemaire Players will main attraction at the One Hundred and be Twenty-Afth Atreet ‘Nheatre. atre. “The Old Homestead Bronx The bil) at Keith's will include Jense| A# to the ultimate value of much aj organ recitals at the City College on Lasky's “Clownland,” John ©. Rice {compoaition who shall say at « firat| to-morrow und Welnesday afternoons and Satty Cohen in “Mary and John," | hearing! But that 1a too long—it took | at 4 o'cloe h __ __ Gertrude Vanderbit and George Moore|thirty-two minutes ti unfold- thera caa i in songs and dances, and the Doria[he mo question. 1 awo tacks clearnens| QUAKER CITY FIGHT ENDS. Wilson Trio in “Through the Looking |and only at rare intervals is melodic. | =e Giaea” Without tie composer's index {t would) Marcas § IN BROOKLYN. seen at the Empire “LILY'S” COMPANION DEAD. ed Mre. ney Lily, twenty years home, Forty-second atreet and Polk ave- he Star and «aries Hegeman Accom: Langtry in World-Wide T Mre. Augusta Hegeman, who was em- ployed as companion by Wily Langtry, the actress, and travelled ali over th United States and Europe with the Jer- will be the at- Opera Hou will be "The Kosey Posey Show" 0, died at nue, Corona, Queens, lant night, Hi Mr years old, man, wae the w Hegeman. She was Mi her marriage, She was with Mrs. Langtry tor several years, She is sur- vived by her husband, two o daughter, who wae forty-sla ife of Chri —_———— ‘Woman Dies ie Theatre. taken to the lobby, the Clifton Paper where she dled Rhe was fifty-four years old and aout: focignetion ie said to have caused death, ler ts one of the proprietors Eve Tanguey and her own company | of Mule. Siegel before nd one DAVID BELASCO Morgan Kingston, John Bardstey, | *‘Tannhauser’”’ i Indifferently Sung Last Night dan and Mary Caron. Chicago Opera Compan: ternoon. ‘onnell, Curl, Hour Changes in the Cast, and Mr. Hertz In- disposed. baritoni organist. and Dr. ‘The former will and work mann’ latter will play a Guilmai firet, in B flat, op. 9. By Sylvester Rawling. 60 Tne erro wan put on at the Metropolitan Opera House Jast night for the first time this reason. To mwy the beat of tt, Derformance was an Indifferent one. | Eleventh hour changes in the cast not wholly reaponaibte for this, It was unfortunate that the continued !1l- ness of Geraldine Farrar made neces- wary the withdrawal of Emmy Deatinn ne Ellsnbeth so that she tight sing | ¢ in "Madama Butterfly” thin afternoon; that Olive Fremstad, an ideal Venus, wan required to sing Elisabeth, @ part! NEXT WEEK’! she has never presented in New York, and that Margarete Matsenauer was called upon to aing Venus, both without rehearsal. But Jacques Urtus, the ‘annhauser, was in poor votes, and hfs characterization lacked distinction; Hermann Well waa not at bis beat as Wolfram, and Mr, Hertz, who conduct- 4, wot out of a wick bed to mave tho] vital by Joseph F. Donnelly performance. Frematad’n “Dich theure at the moment of her firat ap- mething of exalta-| 4 “Composers and Muslc of Rusa but her impersonation grew by ¢ ateadily and her saving of Tannhauser from the fary of the nobles was epion-| fritinh Isler? by Mand: didly done. Later she eang the prayer! wriday, at Public School No. 6, very beautifully, Mme, Matzonauer volce proved rather heavy for the Venua| tnay, Carl Broun was the Landgraf, Althouse was Walther and Carl] voice,” by Frangeaka Bo Schlegel, Jutlus Bayer and Basil Ru: ‘nel were the other Minatre! Knights. Lenora Sparkes aang the Shepherd Boy! gongs of Germany, delightfully, aa ahe always does, and] Ropert the great chorus in the Hall of Song Crar'n birthday Russian Embasey at the proper way to dance the tango. RECITALS The Board of Education week: Bunday afternoo! ture Scnool, organ rect Federiein; at Morris High 8 Monday eventn at Public Schoo! No. 100, be and at Pubito School No, Mr. Urlus has accepted an invitation | a1 from Siegtried Wagner to eing all the| French music to-morrow evening at Bayreuth next summer, ELGAR’S “FALSTAFF” ‘erand at the GETS A FIRST HEARING, | Tete, Gerville- Walter Damronch reserved for the inst | 100 Wil! sing: | number of the Symphony Society's cor des Etats-Unia te tendering to Rita-Cariton. ‘The annual Chri noon @ new symphonic study, “ staff.” by Sir Faward Elgar, played for| Astor on Tuesday evening. the first time in America. It wan com: posed only last October for the Leeds Featival, Mr. Damrosch haa always had |e Uking for Flgar's works and has bean |approved for presenting them, but it lim doubtfnt that “Falstaft’ will find |much favor, In the Society's Bulletin [appeared copious notes by the composer analyzing the work. These Mr, Dam- rosch supplemented hy pointing out on! .” 4 the piano the vartoun themes, He must | Wakefield Calman. have felt the drynesa of them becauso he declared they would sound better in the orchestra, But did they? and The the Freund, ame! Behool © a Jon “The Uplift in Musto in Amertoa. the composer, | afternoon. Samuel A be hard to find in the music any indl-| pe]oation of Shakespeare's Fai Mr, MILLADELPHIA, Pa, Deo. The iaginheny Coeuyviea nin Masada eles et nova deville producare t thelr a Buinbes potween vader m feft the hall B number of people) ig city ended last night # left the hall before the end was reached, The rest of the program:ne for the tra couwated of Dvorak’s aymn- » “From the New Work,” and three Russian folk sonks by Liadow.| man, B. F. Magsle Teyte was the soloist, winning | linger and Jules Mastbaum. much favor by her ainging of Bruck's| ‘Ave Maria and songs by Dupe Gretry and Dalayrac, agreement waa reached by which cun Loew turns over his interest | will _be ended. her] Gertrude Auld gave a song recital at) Acolian Hall last night, her firet ap-| Pearance here. She has bean singin: abroad. Mme. Auld's voice te ight, bu { after ghe got over her nervousnces it} Proved pleasing to a friendly audience. | adways eady an “THE BOHEMIAN GIRL” AT | THE CENTURY NEXT WEEK. Balfo's “The Hohemian Girl" is to be next week's bill at the Century Opera House, beginning on Tuesday evening. The Menara, Adorn revived this once fa- ay Arline | out; to the moruing ¢ rt as the Gypsy Queen. My. Nicoats will conduct. ‘he wecond act of Flotow’s “Martha” will be eung at ¢he popular Sunday night @ “cold” mill te gone, RADWAY & CO., NEW YORK. A. bh. ERLANGER concert to-morrow, as well as arian by bert Waterous, Lois Ewell, Mary Jor- Guetaf Bergman of the Century Opera Company fe in Chicago to aing Feuat to-night at the Auditorium, with the Jacques Urlus Not in| ,re Peovle's symphony Orcheatca, an. ler ‘ang X. Arena, will give tt a Good Voice, Eleventh |concert tn Carnegio Hall Roamanenwecars Tho woloista will be Horatio Wiltam ©, eine ndel's “O Ruddier Than tho Cherry’ The symphony ts to be Schu- Arma Paviowa and her forty dancera wit make @ farewell appearance at th Metropolitan Opera House next Friday | afternoon for the benefit of the Musi School Settlement in East Third street, of which David Mannes is tthe director. | TelThe date was chosen because It ta the and membera of the) hington have promised to attend. There will be « the dansant in the foyer after the per- formance and Mme, Paviowa will show IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. announoss | the following lecture recitals for next at Ethical Cut- by Gottfried ool, organ | recital by Carl Wieseamann, and at the Girls’ High School, Brooklyn. organ re Sunday evening at Public School No, 101, “Got- terdammeruns” by Mary Well Brown at Public School No. rence De Vaux Royer. Thursday, | Bonga of the | Hargreaves, von: tent of Muste,"" by May Josephine Wie: “Breuthing Gymnastics and the Human | Saturday. at the Public Livrary, No. 65 West One Hundred and Forty-fifth street, “Folk yy Welter L. The Schola Cantorem, Kurt Sciindler ctor, will present a programme of | Stogtrieds at the Wegner Festival in] reception which the Lnatitute Francais the French Ambassador and Madame Jus- Maggie and Dink Giily; man feativel of the cert at Aeolian Hall yesterday after-|MacDowell Club for the benefit of the rai-| student fund will be held at the Hotel) | ‘There will be @ free organ recital en Monday evening at the Old Iiret Prea-) byterian Church by T. Scott Buarman. otitor of Musica! will lecture at the Van Ende Music next Tuesday evening ‘There will be a reception to Charles a | the Mustotann’ Club next Wednesday | Baldwin will give tres in Metropolitan Opera House and Chestnut | Street Opera House to J. Fred Zimmer- Kelth, Pred G. Nixon, Nird- All iitigution which was started by | the varioun parties in the controversy Reliet Mre. Wiliam Henry Norman jas: pight left her home, No, 100 rook. | Mar work after it had lain fallow for| Apts Radway's Ready Rell to the throat and | nue, lakeview, N. J., and, acconi.| VAM yearn, sent road companies to pre- | chert until face emarta and revieve, (live ‘panied by her daughter, Mrs. Anni | 8%! It ail over the country and won dow 0 will fwaly more | Davideon, went to @ performance at a|% cress with It everywhere In tha cast Passale theatre. During the firat ac, | *1!! be Herbert Waterous as Count Arn- Norman was taken ti and wa etm. John Bardsley or Walter Wheat- | once to ted, A profuse perpiration will breek FOR SORE THROAT As the crowds leave the theatre you hear such exclamations as: EMPIRE * 3. by; ETWEL BARRYMORE * "s,'<%, Bertha KALICH i; LYCEUM Wins it arate Elsie Ferguson "wens" CRITERION /* £} eee) DAVID W THE MAN INSIDE GARRICK fh pee. ssh: FANNIE WARIS hari br e New Amsterdam yho'tii% Bis i THE LITTLE CAPE Mea MR-CYRIC MAUDE sysfs GATETY (5 i i Wel ee ae sy SEVEN “KEYS” 48° BAL DBATE OO CONAN'S Th? B00 fey Arh Mae TASH AND PERLMUTTER. GRAND Opera TH Mat Tide, 216 jan Malti 2g St. ebay Dona d Brian Mh Nex Mon, MUTT NA URTIG & SEAMOW'G WEW THEATRE F West 125ih At, wear Sth Ay BURLESOUF DE LUXE SACK BINGEM premantn f LEW KELLY AND THE NEW BEHMAN SHOW A Great Assemblage of Stare, MAT. EVE, 100 eck, THE OLD HOMESTRAD.” GEORGE TYLER. Mouth te mouth talk and made “TO-DAY” the sensational hit ef the century. 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