Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-28

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| The surmiSes are many. and some of them are
| malicious. The indisputabie fact remains
however. that he Is 4 complete wreck, and will
not act after this engagement
| THEATRICAL PEOPLE EXCLUDED.
The theatrical people are excited by being
shut ont from the spectacle of the iisa bled
| Pooth's final struggles for histrionic life. Or
| they are compelled to buy tickets il they go in.
and that IL tantamount to exclusion. One Of
the late Lawrence Barretts last &C Is as partner
and manager OF Booth was to order an utter
| abolition OF the dramatic free list No matter
| how well known the actor or manager might
| be his card was not to be good in lieu OF a
| ticket. That rule has been rigidiy enforced.
Surprise and anger are the result.
THE reason for our action" said one of the
business managers. lis a good and simple one.
The show folks came here, saw the disability of
Mr.. Booth and went away to spread reports Of
it. II they had been content with merely tell
| ing what they actually saw and heard we
wouldn't grnmble; but they have started sto-
ries that Mr.. Booth is insane; that he is on a
long spree; that he is an opium eater; that he
| has paress, and the Lord knows what else SO
we simply shut out this horde of ungrateful,
| unsympathetic, gossiping people. We have
turned them back at every performance as
many as 100 in one day. They shall not come
| In here to bray at dead lion."
Is THE FARCE COMEDY DOOMED?
Something that can be spared from our stage
| much better than Booth is that form of enter
| tainment commonly styled farce comedy"
but which might be called farce circus more
| appropriately. So extremely prosperous have
these slightly dramatic variety shows been
| throughout the present season that they will be
| multiplied for next winter and the outright
variety field has been hunted high and low for
| grotesque talent. At one of the Broadway the
| aters this week that kind Of ''plny' has
| been given newly. 1t was not an untried en-
| terprise. but had won whooping success in
| several other cities. The company included a
| careful and costly selection of violently comic
men and enchanting women. These performers
| did the best Of the ''acts" which had made
| them famous separately. Thus all the condi-
tons of farcicA success were there. But, to the
amazement Of the actors and managers and
even to the gratifed astonishment of the carp
ing critics, n considerable portion of the andi-
ence departed in disgust at the end of the first
act, while a second depletion took place at the
next fall of the curtain. While it was
and delighted to the end of the
evening, the lower part of the house lost WELL
nigh half its assemblage, and few Of those who
remained were pleased. This seems to mean
that upper Broadway has had enough Of farce
variety show acts. No other deduction can be
reached from the facts rs here accurately
given. And if that be SO there is good season
for the panic that followed among owners and
projectors of similar ventures for next season.
Discussion of the situation is rife in all the
places where managers meet.
ONE CuR,ous rrPycr
IL ,ho, .ho ,,o,Lat ,ro,,.;,,,s o..
comedians have taken drop. Until this week
the demand for such actors had been SO brisk
az to raise salaries to high figures Men who
used to be glad to do two turns o night in q va
riety show for forty or fifty dollars q week com.
manded easily hundred Negro Ministries,
whose line Of business has been poor of late,
had been engaged in considerable numbers
to appear with their faces white. one
farce manager hiring four TO mt int
single play. Ouartets of men singers
if their voices were exceptionally GOOD
lifted their terms to fnliv donhI.
what would have satisfied them too ar tbrae
wears ago. Bat the slumu has come and ali in
consequence of the failure 7descrihed Itmav
be that this is what the doctors would call If Il
were matter OF physical sicknesss !, snaradic
case and that no fatal ciseate is to i,,con9e chi;
demic among the farce comedies" knybdw
the manapers of that sort of thine b.ya .,on.
too far i'm premrations for the ncyt 900 80, y.
back ont. and 80 their sIumbers will he lis
turbed awhile by nightmares of disaster
pyoronp ,,v. az ryr,rn,o., -.
" "oAhN'
II ID II "eu-hho"h TACT thal theasricai women
take far better photographs than those out of
the profession. and the rather stupid question
is often asked why this should be. A Broad
| trouble he had with his unprofessionai ems.
| toners because he failed to make as striking
| mixtures of them AS he did the staEe hnant;os
| II am tired of explaininp TO ladies' ) anil bo
.that as long as thew do not LOOK lik,. actresses
| ont of a nietI,re tIey sbonld NOT ey,ect "a ;s
one. Yon will find hat the yerv woms,, who aa
would disdain to have a theatrical annes,ance
| on the street is set on having il iS q nboto-
graph. She wishes to lock dashing. asseriiye
and passionate, and Is never satisfied. when
produce her own sweet sen Now, 1 cannot
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sera'aons VI VIC ac.ress are tonea down her
eyes heIeiy zoos large anu beautiful and her
hou.n ciearis uenneo. ~ the same way with
tne men. An Moor knows now 70 pose, to begin
Win aiia as genera thin8 ne makes up his
| lace. as ne INVARIABLY does on tho Stage. There