Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-02
Written for The Evening Star.

forward eagerly toward next season. The
question most frequently heard is: Will the
variety show farces hold their popularity
through another winter? Yes and no are
| equally used in the reply. Indeed nobody
knows. But letter received from New Eng
land insane asylum makes it sure that at least
| one OF the violently grotesqus farcical per-
formers will not resume. He is Tom DAILY, ono
OF those DAILY brothers who used to cut such
furious capers in Vacation" Tom introduced
some knock-about feats, and ono of these con-
sisted OF leap from springboard to con-
cealed mattress, where he struck on his back.
IL was rough and difficult thing to do and
very often he fell on the back Of his neck. The
repeated conclusion to his brain resulted in
insanity and for months he has been secluded
In an asylum. almost hopeless Of recovery.
NO TIGHTS ALLOWED.
AT least one Of the managers Of theaters pro-
poses to have something to say as to the char
acter OF the visiting companies. He owns .
new temple of Thespis at Worcester, and in
stead Of antagonizing the clergy and their con-
gregatlons he proposes to make them friendly
He writes to all the booking agencies in this
city that they need calculate upon sending no
leg shows (Which, being interpreted, means
plays In which tights are needlessly worm to
MS mouse. Even in cases Of operas and dramas
wherein the women may legitimately expose
tneir neither limbs, as the Minnesota bill ex-
presses 1t, he stipulates that the hosiery must
De OF plain black or dark color, 80 that ma
kedness shall not be simulated"
THE ROW OF THE WEEK
in theatrical matters is about Arthur Dacre
He is the actor who was declared incompetent
by Mrs. Leslie Carter and discharged from her
employ. He is suing her for salary during his
ensuing idleness. but the new rumpus is not
connected with that legal sauabble Actors are
apt TO have queer notions Of self-dependence
Dacre received $50 week while with Mrs.
carter. since his dismissal he has had offers
ranging from $50 to S75 but he disdalnfully de-
cllneS to lower his fixed rate of wages. How
ever, MS dignity did not prevent him from
gong to other English players in town. repre-
sentlng his Impecunious condition to them, and
sohcltins them to appear at charity matinee
LOT MS oeneht Rosina Vokes, Rose Coghlan
and the kendals all promised to do
so, and the entertainment was advertised. II ia
now indefinitely postponed. Miss Vokes found
out. SO she said, that her strength would not
permit her to give an extra performance.
Then Miss Coghlan discovered that as she was
going to play regularly in the same theater
this week 1t wouldn't be proper for her to take
part there at special matinee. Finally the
kendals sent check for a hundred dollars
along with their politely expressed regret that
mad to redeem the tickets sold and az to the
preliminary expenses incurred-well the row
relates TO their settlement The curious thing
about It, OF course, is the readiness of foreign
actors to become objects of public charity
rather than work for less pay than they believe
themselves to be worth. Americans are not thus
affected, as a rule, by employment on the stage.
STATUE OF CHARLOTTE CUsHMAy.
Americas greatest actress, if judged by her
n 10 rfDrv
alike, may possibly get a public monument
soon. An association has just been formed to
raise money for statue of Charlotte Cushman.
Inc nSnre 10 be reprcSen ted is already settled
upon. 1t is a bronze likeness. heroic In size of
Miss, Cushman in the character of LttIy
HGcbth. A small clay model has been made
and photographed. 1t looks well. The actress
Is posed cominandinsly. her face is an excel
lent portrait and a pedestal holds her I'D to a
height which, in the final construction, would
make the whole thing sixteen feet high Ger
tral Park is the place chosen to put it in. All
this Is easy enough to arrange. But about the
money: An energetic committee has made
something OF canvass. They met with sue
cess at the start by getting promise of
a thousand dollars from Edwin Booth Then
they were hopeful, for only Sl5, 900 was wanted
altogether. But the further encouragement
has been next to nothing. Other folks than
managers and actors seem ayerse to honorinp
an actress. Severa; of our foremost million
aires wives have positively declined to give
any thing, and others have put off IN answer
The theatrical people themselves are cener-
ally too poor to be liberal. and SO hard work
remains to be done If Cushman is to be glori-
fed. Still, the projectors are not going to give
1t up, and they declare that the statue shall be
erected.
GOOD STORIES AND PLAYS.
Three playwrights, Augustus Thomas Sidney
Rosenfeld and Clay N. Greene, were ENJOYING
dinner with wine at the Lambs Club. SONG
how they hit on the idea of amalgamating the
anecdotes of the occasion, with Others into a
farce. Thereupon they agreed to each write
an act of the projected play and use true incl
dents only. \ manager, Chas. Frohman, was so
sample stories so funny, that he agreed TO nav
a Thousand dollars for the manuscript. that
money to be forfeited If he decided not to
put 1t on the stage and to let it stand against
that much Of royalties in case he did exploit it,
Well, the farce will not be used. The three
writers have received the thousand dollars and
the disappointed manager will lose it, The
three stories didn't make a good play. Yet
they were good, and here is one Of them:
Augustus Thomas lad just had play pro-
actors. very old and ugly actress showed
some fight when put off and so he took her
card to pacify her. He put the card, which bore
Jewish name, in his hat, saying he would send
for her if something turned up. That night he
supped with a lot of actors, one Of whom was
man whose cameo profile and muscular frame
mark him for admiration. We will call him
King. Across the room two pretty girls supped,
One, dark-eyed Jewess. cast sweet glances at
King and-oh, well. King returned them in
kind. The Irritation was interrupted By an
imperative message to King from a man in the
hallway. When the footlight hero returned the
girls were gone. Soon afterward he took a hasty
departure to catch his train for the place where
his wife waited him.
"By Jove. boys" said Thomas. when the
party broke up, king took my hat
Meanwhile, King had kissed his wife and said
YEARLY: Take my things. Mousy."
Mousy spoke back something pretty Then
her eyes became riveted upon the hat she held.
"A-a-ah. sir ~ said she.
'What?' said he.
A-g-gain," said she.
"What?' said he.
Whereat, with gingerly fingers, she took from
the inner hat band a card.
mo" shouted King, II am innocent"
King observed the name. 1t was jewish He
remembered the pretty Jewess and thought he
took in the situation. That girl had slipped
her card into his hat while he went out To see
the man! Clever grill While he protested to
his wife he cursed himselffo for not having found
the card before.
King got into town early next morning and
later he turned up at the thsater in a bad
temper. Nobody knows any more. but it il
wondered if he called on the ugly old actress
and what happened whom he found that she
wasn't the pretty girl