The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1914, Page 7

SSE CN RRO aha cette maemo \ i ye pWORLO.oveR, wrY Avuoience 1% Susr ae + Adour-THE JHE ACTOR ‘Who PLAY Berone iz, phest Response Given ‘to Humor That Is ‘Spontaneous and Best ts From the Joke That Ie Concealed— Timing Essential to Success of Comedy _Lines—‘‘He Who Laughs Last Is a ‘First Nighter.” By William Collier. fi 4 tl hankered ten years for a chance to run this depart- > meet for a whole edition; and at last the regular runner, Mr. Darn- into the Hudson (the the the river), breaks his arm Weisc-4g a good notice of me, and @ » Zam. I could die content to ferrow—not because Mr. Darnton ws broken his arm, but because I've. finally got out the dramatic feature of a Saturday Evening Wertd. Now that I have the privi- lege of writing this article for this paper I consider the world is mine. that is humor fs the same world over. I think the Fiji Isl- laugh in the same way at the kinds of things as the Manhat- Islanders. In fact, I've seen it On the way to Australia, ‘we went seven years ago to “The Dictator,” we stopped the island of Sura, with nobody ‘he island but savages and our . I met one of them face to reseed just as they look in Lite well as life. To get a laugh from eer enenen? which is a hard 414 a few of my s0- Bak fm front of bim, I have done before New ee ne Sete tough be of laughter, though he conan have understood a word I yes eaying. ( Wagtishmen are amused at precisély the eame types of humor as those that amuse the Americans or Irish, ené to say that Englishmen are slow tg eatehing the point of « joke is itwelt @ Joke, One can only speak from one’s own experience. But two sea- ‘gms 2 London with “On the Quist” “The Dictator” cured me of all to an Englishman's quick- 00 Of @ joke, no matter what quickest at the | { sin fet have an auditor sneese fa an annoyance to actors; it’s a sure laugh to me. ‘audience can be kept laughing by pemesien whe who continues his solici- SALLOW Pole and Thin Faces Made Fresh ual Bais by Dr. Gio "sMervura i == tive, your cheeks pisity, lines of Dertect eal! 0 be! pale wo re "sure to. be help falas thle iabrvellcue ‘medicine as i te world wit Begin it ae te ak re hThette atta Minin longest glasses of it, but that I had funny a man will sit all through an act and laugh and at tha end of the act go out to have a smile? He'll pay $3 for » la'.gh and 15 cents for a smile. at his own comedy, and undersay rather than oversay any bit of humor. In the yacht scene of “A Little Water on the Bide” it is discovered that more liquor than food has been brought on board, When thie is found out I gave one of the characters this line to poys “This isn't a cruise; Hi Then he burst into fite of laughter at the line, But the audience didn't, I was eager for the laughter I ex- pected that line would bring; so I took the man aside who spoke it; told him not to laugh when he utters the line and then to cut it down to seven words instead of nine; for one word too much can spoil a comical speech. When he did this the line got all the laughter it deserved, half spoken, letting the audience think out the conclusion, get more laughter than the same line uttered word for word, Thus in the second act of “A Little Water on the Side,” when the young country girl aitting at the Plano, says: “What shall I play?” To which my answer is: I'm going out.” the line by turning on “I don't care,” delivering the rest of the line with my back to the audience as I go out. I never look into the faces of audi- encés, I only see them in the mass, 1 know they come to the theatre eager to laugh, and that they will laugh as heartily one night as another—the weather permitting, weather—rainy or humid days—dis- inclines audiences to laughter. I don’t think there is such a thing as a de- | the lberately people seem to think, and every audt- ence is just as intelligent as to the points of a play as the most intelll- gent actor in it, I always give my auditors credit for the same amount of intelligence as any actor on tho stage—even after looking at them. Kk. | encyclopedias, © 7 OWLY THE WEATHER AFPaCTS THER OF RUMOR, INTBLUGENT AY AS total est tous personal conversation with the tal eatats itor, lone sneezer. Only last night after he second act of “A Little Water on I was about to respond to Speech when five les in the front row started to go out. They had been so jolly al! evening—laughing even at the asbes- | |: tos curtain when it went up—that I could not resist the opportunity, so I made the speech directly at them— telling them just what they were go- ing out for; bemoaning my fa‘ cause I could not go with them; tell- ig them where they could get the my dressing room a glass of the me thing twice as long. Isn't it But no comedian should ever laugh spoke it this wa; ; this is a booze,” In the same way humorous lines “I don't care, My rule is to break I kwow WHERE You AW GET A ALL a, a | RRR Orde arses, N, Jy {ts face al achooln town, of them. By a unanimous vote the Montctair, wd of Education has eet inst any reference to sex |hymione, or kindred that Recently several parents of boys and girls in Montctair’s schools have learned that there wae very lit- tle about the facts of life that their children didn't know. of them displayed more knowledge than the parents thought good for TRE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, lliam Collier Tells of Devices To Make Theatrical Audiences Laugh NO MORE SEX HYGIENE CAN BE TAUGHT YOUNG ,NMONTCLAR SCHOOLS Parents Horrifed at at How Much Their Children | Education Board Acts. Know— topics, In the much-advertised In fact so * Investigation showed that several teachers, and notably one echool prin- cipal, had made @ practice not only of discussing such topics before their classes, but had also tecommended books on sex and disease to their APPRAISALS OF ESTATES. Mrs. Garab Adeline Jackson, died May al total estate $94,588, net value §80,- In passing Bridget Curry, died Dec. 14, 1912; total estate $28,163, net value $24,431. Mrs. Hel.n C. Baker of Danbury, Conn., died Out. 7, 1918; New York as- sete total value 14,760, net value $4,133. George Enser, died May #7, 1913; total estate $63,129, net valuo $61,118. Caroline Hauck, died June 7, 1898; to- tal estate $9,410, net value $4,071. David H. Scully, died Aug. 19, 1908; total estate $6,913; net value $1,066. Mrs, Fanny Keliar, died Oct. 16, 1913; estate $10,613, net yalve 1 fried erank’ di died De batt Bd) ae Gi the catate ia insol- vXnate ‘Tro os an 13; total ‘i, ile! D. La igne sof N. J., died New York assets ralue $60,151. Jul Ayes tot sy Bet valle sear David Banks, died March 11, 1911; to- tal eatate $606,312, net Ps, val Mrs. J itolair, olICC) a otNew York’ 700, 1 333. Whaabeth tos aerzaig and ‘dled atl WASHINGTON, Jas tative Padgett hes fn the House proposing to oreate United States Vice-Admirals at @ eal- ary of $11,000 a year each. At present there are eighteen Rear-Admirals and one Admiral, rathy Dewey, whose title will expire with hi jeath. “The Laughing Husband,” a musi- cal play still running in London, will be brought to the Knickerbocker) neq’ gy, ‘Theatre on Monday night. Accord- Yentrloautat, ing to report, the first act is musical | comedy, the second takes a dramatic turn and the third is farce. The music is by Edmund Eysler, a com- poser said to be given to the Viennese walts measure. The husband, who supposedly delights in laughing, is a retired manufacturer with a wife in- tent upon writing a novel. To this end she goes in for experience of a eeutimental nature, deliberately en- gaging in a flirtation with a profes- sional “lady killer.” But she neglects to make a confidagg of her husband, with the result that be calls in a divorce lawyer and makes things alto- gether lively for her, Courtice Pounds, whose last a was in “The Duchess Ut Dantsict at at Ethel Green in Brothers, new songs, Ahearn Trou and others. a Looking For only bad “cold audience” as some ju can take that any way you hot at somebody, great deal in “timing” a » I think the moat trivial line should be dolivered with all tho x |seriousness of Hamlet's soliloquy— and I've heard even that get laughs, Timing a laugh is usually called a trick, but it’s really an art. Hence why does one eomedian make an au- dience yell with la one mi n audi delivering the same line? In conclusion, I have consulted the most expensive dictionaries, Webster to Wagenhals and Kemper, and even the most beautifully bound from Chambers to Tante, and still 1 can't define humor, nor can anybody else, Sowhy try? is a burden and sorrow at its bei why sit at home and worry and mope when for two dollars (at the box of- fice, or two dollars and a half at th hotels) you can go and for two hours eae hours ana a half sit and | 04) os drotnaightes, from | py Daly's Theatre, bas come over to play the husband. Others in the cast witl_ be Betty Callish, Venita Fits- hugh, Frances Demurest, Josie In- tropiat, ‘William Norris, Gustav Wer- ner, Fred Walton, Roy Atwell, John Daly Murpby om: Nigel! Barrie. ° anche Rig ps ts the Thirty- ninth Street Theatre o ‘vnday ning in “When Claudia Smiles, farce with bh aon written by Anne Caldwell, Miss Hing will be seen in role of a Broadway show girl who jumps from a divorce into vio- lent flirtations with two elderly ad- mirere solely for the purpose of mak. have the er Leade: ‘ariton Hotel. ers. upporting company will Connor, Anna Laughiin, Mann, Florence Edney, Nellie Fill- more, Charles J, Winninger, Harry Hilliard and Jobn J. Scannell. Mabel and Edith Taliaferro in “Young Wisdom" move to the Gaiety from the Criterion Theatre, which ia/ to be devoted to motion pictures, “Maria Rosa,” with Dorothy Don. nelly and Lou-Tellogen, ia to be trans, ferred to the Longacre Theatre cn) Monday night. Chauncey Olcott begins an engage- ment at the Grand Opera House or Monday e' lag in “Shameen Dhu,” a comedy by Rida Johnson Young. The play is based on events in the Revolutionary War, and during its course Mr. Olcott’ sing five new songs. misery Tho ‘House of Bondage” will be| “pape shown in motion pictures at the West Law" will remain at| the Manhattan Opera House, “Robin Hood” will be the change) The “Queens of Paris" will be seen | nin at the Columbia. feveriahnes: color photo play at the Park Theatre. The Murray Hill Theatre will havo “Girls of the White Way.” Fiftieth Anniversary week Miner's People's Theatre will ed by ‘the “Ginger Girls,” Vaudeville Attractions. ‘Waled in o aketch of Rus- [Seenvenlanes. oad oat 8! head—not at be Compound, New Plays for Coming Week “The Laughing Husband” and Blanche Ring in “When Claudia Smile pupils, Horrified, the parents laid the matter before the Board of Education, which was prompt to act. their resolutions last night the members of the board de- cided to send notices to all teachers and school principals notifying them that prompt dismissal would follow the alightest intimation that the pu- pile in their echools or classes were being lectured to on sex subjects, A woman doctor is advertised to speak to-morrow at the Unity (Unitarian) | be Church in Montclair; the title of ber lecture being such as to cause the conservative to gasp and several of the church members to protest. MAILERS TO DANCE. Mailers’ Union No. 6 of the politan District will have {i entertainment and ball at Pi | oem Fifty-eighth street, near third avenue, next Monday night. ‘The committeemen in boned 4 of the Pa Ms and Cornelius Nellaon, will be floor manager. Mcers are: William J. J. Bipkldyend pire: joods, John McArdle eyed |“RiQoLeTTo” THE BILL “The Countess Nadin bill at the Palace T! and Ryan and Lee in Bpolled win Sloane and Grace Field in tango dances, Bud Fisher, Ladate curr, Schenck, Bison City Four and Cosi Louls Mann in @ condensed oo of “Elevating a Husband” ‘wil the headliner at the Colonial, Sues other acts will Sally Fisher in Dainty Marie and the The ‘Alhambra will hay will be A. Bald- cartoonist; songs, Seven Brack Van and Rigoletto Brothers, Ryan and Lee Bert Williams will head the bill at Proctor’s Fifth Avenue. Other num- bers will be Doris Wilson in “Through Glass,” the Gliding OMes- ras in dances, and Willard Simms. ‘The Twenty-third Street Theatre will “A Dutch, Spernie. ad ory ill be the nov- Prairie Roman aity at the Fifty-eighth Street ‘The. atre. Sherman and will be the feature at the One Hiun- dred and Twenty-fifth Street The- Lewis, dancers, “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” with Charlotte Walker, will be pre- sented at the Bronx Opera House, “At Seer will be the attraction at ait 's Bronx Theatre will be Irving Timmons in “Ni ) Joseph Howard and Mabel in songs, 8am Mann in cirhe’ hed " Florence Tempest and oth- Le hit Theatre the "Beauty ‘HEAD AND NOSTRILS STUFFED FROM GOLD “Pape’s Cold Compound” Ends a cold or grippe in a few hours, Your cold will break aa all gri i id after takin, yen Pes Cold Compouns hours until three doses are taken. ‘evey two clogged-up _nos- passages in the head, ing el h prompt relief an ns which costs o1 at at any drug st store. testes pice, |stops nasty discharge or nose run- relieves sick headache, dullness- Quit blowing your throbbing in the th It 4 without ind causes no Damrosch Gives Sibelius’s Second Sym- Orchestra remembered it. entered upon the stage of Aeolian Hall to conduct the seventh Friday afternoon concert he was greeted by |S'Ng and that he mut take the hearty applause from the players, as well as from the audience, and he|hard to work he went at the score, found the conductor's stand decorated | Shortly before the performance was to tear off the wreath and present it JANUARY 31, 1914. will include the quintet, Op. 34; the | sonatina, for violin and piano, Op. 100, the American quartet. Mircha Eiman, the violinist, will Give hin first recital of the season at Carnegic Hall this afternoon. A Fine Concert On His Birthd TETRAZZINI AND RUFFO IN HIPPODROME CONCERT. Luisa Tetrazsini, the famous col- orature soprano, and Titta Ruffo, the pad & night baritone, assisted b; jahan Franko and his orchestra, will give a concert at the Hippodrome to- morrow ni int will sing phony and Paderewshki’s Piano Concerto, With Katherine Goodson 101 the Soloist, the Principal) mea, s Salles Hamlet” ane Numbe Tive Rum ‘arian ‘will be. trom | uffo's solo jae am aii haa “Don Giovanni,” “William Tell” and y want /_ Toxether they yd ak By Sylcester Rawling. St eee ALTER DAMROSCH had «|, Putnam birthday yesterday and the mombers of the Symphony ‘When he Griswold, the popular erican baritone of the Metropoli- tan Opera Company, went over to Boston this week to sing Pogner in Gn Meistersinger,” with the Boston Opera Company. When he arrived be was told tha Rags Ludikar, who ‘was cast for 8 Sachs, could = ft Mr. Griswold was delighted, for Hane Sachs is one of his ambitions, So Ludikar turned up, say- With @ wreath and banked with flow- | fog that Be Hat eee ete, ers, That he appreciated the cour-|and, after all, it was Pogner that tesy was shown by the abandon of bis | Mr. Griswold Conducting, wang. He fairly danced through} rh» Bcheol Settlement in the last movement of the Padereweki | Fast rhe atroat will give @ fourth Plano concerto and, at {ts close, tried | Public rehearsal to: wee to Katherine Goodson, the soloist. {Pree PUBLIC SCHOOL RECITALS NEXT WEEK. Board of Education announces and that the only|the weual free organ recitals for to- new one, Granville Bantock’s Bapphic| Morrow afternoon at Ethical Culture oem, a solo for ‘cello, proved rather Loge stand ae unimaginative, although jacques Renard of thi hestra di his best‘to make it interesting. sah Boe pit oe, aes Biba- not new, is infant far, "Tt holds Me a ‘Das Rheingold,” by Mary a Brown, and at the Public Library in East Ninety-sixth street, “Aida,” by Caroline K. Goldber ‘fuesday, at Public School No. 90, ir “Mendelssohn,” Pes John 8. Van Cleve, and at Public School No. mi “Wagner,” by Dr. John H. Randall. jureday, a Publ Bchool No. 39, “Hansel and Gretel,” by Caroline K. Goldberg. mosaic, but full Pellllegtty, and “sympatoncale ee by Miss n, Who well deserved the The New York Banks’ Glee Club, H. R. Humphries, conductor, will give &@ second concert at Carnegie Hall on ‘Thursday evening. Frank A. Vander- lip ie president of the club, ‘The one hundredth free organ re- eital in the popular geries under the direction of Dr. William C, Carl will be given on Monday evening ia the od First Presbyterian Church by Harry Oliver Hirt. ; ea to. the cant of jast ni ropolitan Opera Ho' cg: tee ie of a crowded house, cellent voice and 1: {net Be teten Prof, Samuel A, Baldwin will give free organ recitals at the City Col- lege on to-morrow and Wednesday afternoons at 4 o'clock. Racways eady elief fees ee gee Ce] — be foaprdioey ly 08 Alda was an al singing Prag tosps 6 hs Pee ‘acting other rine Bciia Alten, Dink Gilly; Didier Ane jan, Pint- Racky and ete Rothi F, the Pig ee e@ most of line, fe Polacce Conducted, paid AT THE CENTURY NEXT WERK. “Rigoletto” is the opera in English to be presented at the Century Opera House next week, beginning on Tues- day arenas. ‘The cast will Louls Kreidler in t' le part, Orville Yare Lois Ewell as Gilda, eee aoeare as Madalena and aufman Sparafuctk NEM ESEN tir dan sea a jal will sing songs in English at the Sunday ng gooey in| BA Spey cert to-morrow night. pGther soloists |, will be Beatrice La Pi Kingston, Loute ‘Kreldien will be sung, | flosest, violiniat, will play Dvora! “Humoreaqi The Messrs. Aborn have ai in March. Mr. Herbert has soared his sailing for Europe to direct the rehearsals. Carl Flesch, the Hungarian violin- ist, who made his debut last week with the Philharmonic Orchestra, will | Tet give a recital at Carnegie Hall Lego Thuraday afternoon. His program: includes compositions by Nardin, Bach, Schumann, Schubert, Dvorak and Paganini, Isabel Hauser, planist, and the Saslavéky Quartet, give a concert at the Belasco Theatre to-morrow ejevening. The programme, all Dvorak, Try One More|| een Dianer MAN i. CEA WATER 1 ret iis to SW iiaeaioy promote ‘7008 aig digestion. Send for ‘Acker, Merrall & Condit Co. and all First-Class Druggists and Grocers, ———————— SASLAVSKY STRING oe 8 cy fee aa tate ate 30 TO CLOSING in “JARDING DANSE Teas 3.30 to 6.30 Time Bit, BURLESQUE Fb.,, ats BEN WELCH 4i RE! ¥. Ade. 3 ote te prac IC Be aad Morris High School, and |= aaa ELSIE FERGUSON Seeeiane Hs 7.5 itt . ne! So CORTES ieee ed Onn ACADEMY 3x, "4sie- “THE BANDIT NG te | KINEMACOL KINE téoton , WEBER et ul eels ie he Pie Ling HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. BROOKLYN AMUSEMENTS. 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