The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-11
HAVE Gotta NEW DANCE STEP
THE "TAR AND TARTER" GIRLS As
SISTED ny FLEES
When You SEQ Them Mop Askew That's
Fica-Fieas Get Into Their Shoes and
Down Their Backs, and Even Escort
Them Home from tho Theatre.

When HOu sec Them HOP Askew Tnope
Fica-Fieas Get Into Their Shoes ana
Down Their Backs, and Even Escort
Them Home from tho Theatre.
In the midst OF the lively tomfoolery in the
medley OF national airs in Tho Tar and Tar
tar" at Palmer's Theatre last Saturday night.
tho audience were astonished to sec
little Annie Myers. who 10 gotten up
etunninEly in white Isle tights and
white satin slippers. grow suddenly
very solemn in tho face. and begin to hop up and
down In the liveiest possible fashion. 1t was
very surprising caper. She stopped singing
Dixie" too. and edged of quickly toward the
wings.
LAURA Joyce Boil and Josephine Knapp
stared at her wonderingly. In the wings the
little actress lifted her right foot and kicked
herself in the left calf vigorously. Then
che hoped up and down again. and
then came back and finished Dixie" There
were four encores. and the little actress kept up
the hopping like marionette on wires. Aer
face wore an expression OF agony.
She dashed pell NELL up the stairs to her
dressing room afterwnrd. slipped OF the lott
leg Of the tights and kicked or one slipper.
Then she wet her hand, grabbed her left calf
clnched her little fist, and opene 1t very care
fully before the gas jet in wire cage
Great heavens!" she gasped. it's fea."
| Last night the chorus girls caught the fever
SSnerinT about ne stage in s1 eccentric
hSy bIRod ths sbarn . she hs
| pine frames and then pinched themselves
one chorus girl sat down on stool in the
wings. In an instant she sprang to her ieet
nnd dashed TO her dressing room. There here's. she
sons time later Mrs: Ell. III fiery by.
and stamped her heel he With almost vicious
| Vehsmence. ,,,, A..
sntire comrsny tackled the mansssr. The,
fieas ip the theatre aud that It was making
NE ba sa,a TINT tbo napue began in
small way about month ago. and had In
creased steadily until week ago the neas
psRs n:% IN The a" eF01Sh
Ths, ssId Msnssss ASK y that The iIsss 81 i
to 'n each Ths ehorus
they said were oSer,un With i,saS .,. Pretty tIs
robe and thst the psstiferous insect had gone
home with her and mae some OF her niHhts
pyss s y,e r ss s 5S Il
on anyihiDs Y You 1S give them. had ons in the
Of . ' WIsteh in iii he s sSi
STOCKING" The actress showed a hole in the
| heel OF her silk stocking and solemnly said
s sSR 81. SssS.d he yss
Weather, from the stage for good. Sloppy
Weather is three leet long and eight inches
He Is the dog tina! ex- senator kierns an re;
sented to C9m as Bell las. week Mr.; b.
49,. FIeas never bits me" Comedian Bell said.
1T doesn't do them any 7 ~, good But they have
she eho1as sr. Saturday to
rum and larkspur., BE was going 70 try it on
He coneluded last night tina. It was mean
way Q waste good rum. for the feas were. II
The Chorus girls now blame the feas on the
digging up Of broadway Tor tho cable road.
They declare that there weren't any teas until
and cart sand to the thoroushfare.
The ep St hays got into he Casino apa the
Manager Barton said that there were some
nHs ssId It i was csday,sS iauIt. Gsday is
MANAGER Ben stevens Of IT, D. Wolf HOPPER
n. thu S
lis ear ever since ssturdaS. AA' AAN . D'a -
the ninstlss TRe insde q the eephae
aS SoSeP and
| II don't think New York actors have got any
specisl reason 10 Kick about feas." said Man.
Palmer $ aren't marker to the sand fieas that
| iniest tho California theatres"
"San Francisco is city Of fleas anyhow. And
IN London thsntres. why fleas are so common
that everybody has got used to them They 90
| right into the audi Drum Of some OF the older
the tenderer members OF the audience. Car
pets will breed feas IN any theatre. That's
| why tho well-equipped theatres use painted
stage cloth instead Of carpets nowadays
1T was said last night that after every sum-
mer vacation a dozen Of tho Gotham managers
have to hire gangs Of cleaners to 20 through
| their playhouses and drive ont tho feas that
| have organized q free-lis club while the the.
| aires have been closed.