The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1920, Page 25

Patan Te THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,, 1920 THE LAST OF DALYS: THEATRE By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. - coming down. ALY'S is Wreckers are busy at last with the historic, tradition-haunted Playhouse at Broadway and 80th Street, the scene of some of New York's most popular and artistic stage successes, the dramatte cradle, #0 to speak, of many of tho stars of the theatre of to-day. After declining to the estate of a home for burlesque and! for the movies, after going “dark” tor Months at a stretch, Daly's is being razed to tht ground to make way for a» half-million-dollar business struct and will continue to exist only im the memories of New York men and women. ' But they will not soon forget the — — Le moving or merely delightful plays, ind in “As You*Like It,” and. Hen- Me fine and finished acting, the rietta Crossman was in the cast. This nique personality behind this land- W&* but one of a group of fine pe noes of Shakespeare, Sherid Idsmith at Daly's. Miss Rehan’ ite part Was Portia, and she w: ty admired as tharine in “The ng of the Shrew." Blanche Bates was Colla in “As You Like It." “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” “Twelfth * “The Merry Wives of W: mark in the city’s theatrical At Daly's were to be scen John Drew “and Ada Rehan, Mrs. G. F. Gilbert and James Lewis—Daly’s “Big Four’ Were these. Daly's playbills of the fate 80's and carly contain such wor fames as Julia Marlowe, Raymond mpest” and “The Two istichootk, Rabert Mésoun, “Mindte Gentlemen of Verona" wore all to be é ween at Daly's Dupree and Clara, Bloodgood. At Richard Mansfield first performed Daly's the beautiful Mrs. George “rhe Scarlet Letter” there in 1892. Gould, then Edith Kingdon, mado her debut in “She Would and She Would Row" Modjeska played in “Mary about this time. James K. Hackett, Henry BE. Dixey and Maxine Elilott played to Daly audietices, One of the tuart” at Four Stars, Who Appeared at Daly's, Are Now Dead. ce of entertainment, the old most successful of opercttas was a Playhouse actually has a record of Daly sh elisha.” ("For she way th el ¢ . the Geisha, the more than half a century—an incred- & , recap ea : ‘ = Geisha!") In the cast Edwin y long tir any New York Stevens and Mabelle Gilman (now * building to the purpose for Mrs. William E. Corey), Which tt was design epened June 17 Museum, being 4. Daly's firat Banvard's at st a score of years after Augustin y. producer, stage manager, adupt- all@round man of the the- over his theatre, his death first er, auth: atre, th scture erected in Monhattan solely for in Paris was announced to his com- Museum purposes. That autumn the matinee performance of Rame was changed to Panvard's eat Ruby.” A notice was placed aarti In the foyer: “In consequence of the " museum formances bein ©, theatric given afterho. death of M Daly this theatre will be closed forever.” ne and evenings in auditorium. The But in @ little over a month the opening attraction was “The Devil's hoary eer mite \ leg ed of . és = wuly's greatest rival nie Frohman. ‘ Auction," and in the cast were Rob- ang {ts « ays were not all over ert McWado, Fanny Reeves and Hat- EB. H n and Virginia Harned tie Thorne. appeared that autumn, September, > . 59, dramatization of “The Thre George Wood, to whom had been 1% 'n nree se Wood, to whom had heen’ a7, rs" by Dumas. Mary Man- transferred the good will of Barnum's pering and Clasico Loftus were in the Museum, took s theatre the Frohmen stock company at Drly's. next yeur ame Wood's Lewis Waller, the famous Englisn ac- Museum and ‘thomas Whif- tor, had a season and Robert Mantel) F tfen appeared in the operetta of the 4 appeared in Shakewpearian roles. frat day's bill, while Maggie Mitchell The playhouse itself was leased to t wr . Brain ae These Stars Ail Played Daly's and Are Living To-Day. and Sol Smith were co be seen in the Kigw and r, then to the Shu- @vening. in the next few seasons berts tide of Hey inhuabe those popular idols, Tony Pastor, m own. In 19M, after teing Thomas W. Keene, Laura k 1 veral years, Daly's saw a r and Mrs, B. 1. Da sud and solemn fallure, old-fash- Robson and Rose Eytinge pthc pte vial, Pea igiy ey at the playhouse. There was a re r even a worse fate befell me : Jar stock company with two perfor it Waw-oloand by ik e ae es daily, at 2 and & P. M., and Deduct on Ae! rig police, jeanon of fifty-two weeks in the year, of @ buriseay After being | call the Broadway a ri a ll & 2 Theatre for three years, Days fine 220 art r sons,’ § became Daly's when It bared a ita present fate ts but the over by Augustin Daly, in nd of a Ungering death, 1879. \The next twenty 5 == the golden age of the old t ‘4 the golden age of Americ Ev : i t according to veteran o Wi Idl ‘A double bill, “Love's Young ening Worldlings 4 Dream,” and “Newport, or the Swim- = ' imer, the rand the Cipher," com- Rioting reported in Balbriggan Posed the first of Mr. Daly’s first mioy should have turned on the hose nights, In the cast of one we fin o 8 8 4 the name of Ada Rehan, “discavere: ; f by Augustin Daly und’ as nearly a Many of the labor "“vacattoni f ‘star’ as he permitted anyone to be; weem to be shy a recurn ticket | tn the other cast was John Drew. The 2". f 1d favorite and fam ua? in wis, made hig Duel n Mexico haa been stopped by First Fam- armed men. There is hope for Mexiso with Laura Joyce and Mrs, G. yot t in his support. In “Odette,” e+e wo years later, He 5 Mifor t 4 4 tw rs later, Henry California despatches speak of the and sen which opened “Misin queen." She must be the one of 1883-84 at Daly's, | whowe m ‘8 in @ constant ferment hae oe ast James Lew Ada ieban, Willlam Co Goddard really wishes to barony eon he should Inw:n With 1920 price lists and rent and 1 ¢ mame #8 and Boys.” Io 8 e 1884 Otis Skipner acted in “Ul. B. drink record lower tn 1919 Twentyreisht.” Overs seen at Daly's than in any year since 1870!" ‘This Paethe 40's included ra Morris, bone-dry counwy drank only a paltry Yth Kingdon, Effie Shannon, Kitty lions of wi Watham, Annic Yeamans and Wilton the same per capita of 9.17 gallons, counting the ye \e Rehan made her debut as Rosa- children and babies. \ Can You Beat It! Ce balie oo, ‘York Brening IT- PROBABLY a CONES FROM A BAD TooTH > RHEUMATISN Qn i? GENERALLY NCEDED THAT. BAD TEETH —~% POISON THE WHOLE SYSTEN Most TROUBLE OF THAT KIND COMES FRONY BAD TEETH You OUGHT 7 SEE A DENTIST. MAY BE YOu HAVE SOME TROUBLE You DON'T NOW I Don’T THINK SO ZAM SURE HER, TEETH ARE LERIGHT DAD SAW In) HOTHER'S TEETH FALSE. SHE py EERS EN INA AT NIGHT. one, with the telsure of @ man on & desert island. During this bat-trying process a tew of the girls bad gone within the eacred precincts and spoken to Mr. Ziegfeld. I could not hear the con- versations, but some of them came out all smiles and others In tears. “There goes ooor Minnie,” sald one of the girls, looking after a small figure of a girl who had spent about a two-thirds of the five-hour wait + bathed in her own tears, The Ambitious Small-Toun Girl Is Shown the Broadway Metho of Ge'ting a Theatrical Job By Mildred E. Phillips. dunt, 1920. by the Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Yrening World.) i § The friendly girl told me Minnte’s years, areicla faire enone are seeiee ot tragic story. She had been with rather brutal departed an up-State city of 137,- @egteld in 914 and had fallen in 00 population to try her luck in a love with a dancer, ‘The boy hadn't own of nearly six and one-half been away from the “old town” long enc d+ fashioned all his aillion, + ta married, He was again,” draft i uway to France. on the atreot. He never returned! Ulesfeld wo arrive wie” tn chorus girl, who with @ stifled “Dam- after stree the office were very ch she mit" hustled within the Kirschner tre [ went in aly fom: "Do theatrical mas decorated office. No tears were vis- rm ever make love to youl" Now tvad on. ible upon her feturn; just a Utte cynical amile, wad passing —_— jo on in, kid.” she dtrected me, mather aimleualy “gon't baw! whatever you do.” And like Boadicea the Romans [ sallied sanctum sanctorum. going to meet forth into the GUARDED lodk came over the A girl's face. "Well," abe said and [ veritably slowly, “Not at the beginning. Delleve that the directions were the at vahiearens ball ik the counter 4 ania cases, After an tn Siagvioata wens Of course after you're started”— Mr. Ziegfeld said in @ SA GHETRtS tae cae the eantetioo waa Interrupted by Pine of dismissal, “Come back to-mor- heatricel compories. : row." doorway it the left came the liquid the sound a voice in the This is Broadway. Full of prom- La Donna e Mobile,” from porrider, & chorus of “good morn ne for to-day, blind hope for to-mor broken and intermittent < r ‘good: morn row, which when it comes will be a8 with directionn given in Italian. The ings,’ although it was early af- se sania i's door was flur ) suddenly, and a - rt. ther io Mr, Ziegteld’s oMce T went bulky Ital out Into the hail ternoon, and Mr. Zlegfold breesed In, aireet to the offices of Won- witha “Hacre + Another Italian fre om Long Beach. He is the Dodge This bare Punch followed, and a flood of bi ing, ‘ cubby-hole was a tremendous seething Italian verbs and adjectives same Ziegfeld you read about und see ee camrparison with he Whee BUA tie tea the ei in pictures, except that he tm't a MILORED © PaiLLins in office In the New Amaterdam. — ‘The next instalment of Mise Phil i 5 "Come back In two weeks," said the line's experiences will appear on thie young Romeo any longer, He's get- wecretary page Saturday. ting a bit thick-set and his hair ts ittle variety introduced ‘into the theme of broadway, but still the same graying considerably, but his dark minute be gets in and wants to know {heme ° eyes are just as keen, and he still if the kid's all although be "And thus {t wae from then on. A W)) does ten th per second. left bom ts iF . foing any caaung D) lo onde ' weren't The next few minu ceo einer 1 wond girls weren't The next few minut nem, Binaah ea Silat et SS more enthusiastic and hopeful at the with swiftly mov Paatiuee i eet ZAR People: CONCENTRATE, ir; Ziaateid. ‘There wae think them. ove ing the trails in Oh, magte word that un no visible change in the atmosphere, Mr. Rosenbaum, 1 Phe hopes of finding an‘engagement with the secrets of success nd me of the faces r od Follies, 2cCas da litth raala starting rrow what dots t word mean? i Abi pi eg } Hut no such thing ever happened Aw I understand 4t, concentration Surely, now that Mr. Ziegfeld is om the part of the girls. Hoe was evi Y dian ceverat hours tor een ak oT ) nt ra here, things won't be so bad," I ag- dently very muoh perturbed, but this ind Analy gave up hopes, means “to bring to, or meat in, a com sured myself. bothered Mr. Ziegfeld not at all. He wh or who had just come out SRB contre ¢ 1 om. eon ny Dan if hore that ¢ tre? But for more than a half hour not opened his mail, dictated to his sec iy Tha: auked oe to. Witie tomt a girl moved, Through the alf-open fre , signed tks, and a8 a fina ner to the Wint mien. How do you reach it? dour, | suw Mr. Ziegfeld go first to coup d'etat to the room full of g ng.” but when tiie direc: sone way: Write a letter phone, and hold a long ant- eome of whom would probably have t U could neither sing nor orda to yourself and jot down the telephone, and hold @ long anl- # ale ’ dance, and bad no experience and had every thine your mind JUMPS. mated conversation with someone he pawn thelr summer hats for thetr jeep Pebet Me de te oe spl A ee nate ah nitte eames tn called “Biljle." next meal usileas he gave them a job, \indly tad WAY you can write 600 words with “He's asking about the kid," the tho famous Beauty-Man had twent Why ko to Roseland having your mind sump girl by my side informed me, He's poarl gray soft hats sent over from TIRNL over there? and my pretty it. tthe hoppers do the as mad us he can be about her. Al- an exclusive batt establtsiment, ; retained and proceeded to try them on, one by toward «@ «pointed the way large theatre building ways calls up Billie Burke the trat the way. My sense of distance and balance 1 wandered through street and when I saw a the- and dazed, asking the same old question and receiving the same old reply along Sixth Avenue one afternoon when I heard music and singing, and noticed that it came from a building called Bryant Hall ak for Gus Edwards, and MAKE him see you. He's rehearsing over there,” 1 found Gus Edwards without aim- culty, because the doors were open and no dragon-eyed secretary barred Imagine my surprise when I saw a crowd of youngsters, probably between the ages of six and ten, re- hearsing steps and singing songs for “Kida ’ Follies” which be plans to n inless you go back a few this director told me with a should have started at their ages,” pointing to the children, “and then there would have been none of this hunting around now, All ready, kids, lkugh, “You at Inet ot nd [ found myself once more rather blindly late sincerely ALFALIA SMITH For Eight Lil’ Iron Men a Customer This Fall Gets Something’ Worth While to Toss the Next Time Babe Ruth Gets a Homer. By Neal R. O'Hara. ‘ Copyright, 1090, ny The Pree Publishing Oo (The New York Brentag Wert). ’ HEY'VE got Ponsl chained In the coop; but the fall hat saleamam i still at large. The kelly auctioneers are now promising more for & E> derby hat than the boy stamp sticker of Beantown ever guarantesd for a sucker's bankroll, They are moulding stiff felt on stiffer skulle and tagging you with the stiffest price. A male hat joint sees that you get the brown derby without buying’ it. ; The fall housing problem for his upper story ls always ‘a crisis tm . & guy's life, When the lease expires on the hay belmet he must @n@ shelter under a new roof at any cost. And then's when the hat clerk takes him in. For eight bones, a customer this fall gets something worth while. “ to toas the next time Babe Ruth get»a homer, t This fall's styles in male lid finery ~~ are more exquisite, aristocratic and back free. { It is the only chapesa’ a modish than ever before. We get this straight from the ad writers. The superlative quality of the 1920 goods is due to the handsome, dull finish of made this season that is scorn-proog in the restaurant zone. It sells for $46, Which Ws a flattening initial cost, but remember, its upkeep is nothing, I did not realize later that Bryant Hall was tho This same ash-can model is non-die+ appearing in the one-arm meas halla, where the cashier alono has the hold-up privilege. . ‘The election hat. the sweatband. Experts have aweated for twenty years to bring It to its present state of perfection, Other epochal improvements are six alr- holes instead of four, as recom~ Manufacturer's No! Any Good Fall Hat Costs $8 This Season Ove the Collapse of the South African Felt Mines, mended by the International Hat solls for $3, Price especially de- Congress at Danbury last spring. . signed for the wimps that bet « bat Specialties in which the hat sculp- on election after reading the expest tors have abiding faith are as fol- political hash, : lows: ‘The campaign hat. For wear at ‘Pho golt cap for non-golfera, Gives Tallies and other politico-social events, Equipped with earlaps. a swagger effect to any ribbon clerk vl » oO PR. thal over. jarvied a ead. eee contribution Ret Large checks in it. card, When worn at a rakish angle =p ral bi het. it gives the wearer that devil-may- brown derby. care, two-nbove-par look. Expected |The cloth hat One of the season's iIdest povelties, Manufactured to have a ready sale among the same W' boys that never misa the annual auto ‘rom wool direst @rem the boll show and always ride on the trolley weevil districts, Each hat comes tn cars. varying sizes, depending on the bass The no-tip hat. For wear to and rainfall, from restaurants, cafes and other gyD Manufacturer's Note.—Any good fall hat coste $8 this season, due to the failure of the hatband crop and the collapse of the South African felt mines, The manufacturers predict that winter hate will come down, however, That is, they'll come, down over the ears, ? jointa where juventle banditt! grab your hat as you enter and your Up ‘This hat looks like 15 {s less than the hat- You get It am you leave, cents, which boy expects from you. See how clean! H-O is scientifically cleaned in the Hornby Kitchens, e Only the nourishing meat of the oat gets into the HO package. This table is from U. 8, Health Education Bulletin No. 2,’ See how Oatmeal! leads in nourishment! Oatmeal 2,500 Bae howe, « 1,460 Force #300 Corn .. 1,480 A wheat cereal 2,200 Macaroni... .; 1,360 Graham flour . 2,200 ‘Another cereal’; 1,350 Barley 1,160 Farina » 1,360 THE H-O COMPANY Dept. B, Buffalo, N. Y. “I want some more” H-O HORNBY'S OATMEAL \ sai a lly 7 ee eee awe ee ee a