The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-01
New York People A1rluse Them.
selves in Public Places.
DANCES AND DOGS VS.. DIyAS.

by such speciality features as 0ould b
snapped up at the moment, and among
them was Loie Fuller, Young woman
who began her career with opera and nov
rounds it up with skirt dance. She wa.
engaged to come in somewhere at the tag
of the vaudeville and CITRATE N new form
of posturing called serpentiae dance.
The management thought ''Uncle Ce
1estin" had caught the popular fancy, fol
the about town contingent was out il
force. But orse night Loie Fuller rushed
in to the management and announced thai
her head was swelling She was sure o.
it, and could not possibly go on unles!
they raised her salary from $50 a week
70 $50 The Casino managers requested
time to hunt up new partner witt
fresh capital, but Miss Fuller would nGt
compromise, and did not appear that
night. Then occurred the scene. Wher
the audience found out that there was tt
be no skirt dance it demanded its money
back. 1t hooted, yelled and swore, and
gave the upper Broadway cheer: "Whoop
siss, bang-EUllerl L-O-I-E."
So 1t turns out that the skirt dance kept
"Uncle Celestin" alive, and the upper
Broadway public may be said to bave
served notice that if Fuller is not replaced
it will not tolerate the rest of the fun or
appreciate the music
Our swell friend, Mr.. Richard Mansfield
who never travels without a reporter and
q new play in his reportory, has come to
town with Il version of Warren's "Ten
Thousand Year" in which he plays the
part of TiJmouse Why he should have
done this only those voiuminous common
tators who are deep IN his internal con-
seriousness can tell. The play is hot good
one in any possible aspect, and Mr.. Mans
field lad to make an apology for it on the
first night.
Miss Emma Sheridan, who is said to
have prepared this ragout of the novel, is
a member of Mr.. Manslield's company, and
has shown literary facility in newspaper
work. Her father is the well known Gen
eral George Sheridan, orator and lecturer,
and year or two ago cbristened DE
fender of the Faith" for his able reply to
Colonel Bob Ingersoll But Miss Sheri-
dams success in literature was little too
sudden to last. These girls who go up like
q rocket are not apt to come down like
Mercury, hewitt ul5on heaven kissing
hill. At all events in this play she was
harpered by Mr.. Mansifid's tape line. |
j don't think she was trying to write
good play so much as good vehicle. The
problem, as usual, was how to manipulate
literature so as to get Mr. Mansfield on all
the time. In solving the problem, how
ever, both literature and Mansfield have
suffered, for whenever Mansfield is on the
literature is off, and when the literature is
on Mr. Mansfield is of-way off
l say this with a well preserved respect
for Mr.. Mansfeld's abilities-which of
late have needed exercise. The public go
TO his first nights expectantly, and some
times 90 not go again, because Mr.. Mans
fields material was not worthy of him
This is especially the case in ''Ten Thou
sand a Year" Titmouse is sufficiently
indicated by the name, and for this kind
of grotesque frivolity Mr.. Mansfield has
not the airy and pervasive humor. Mr.
John Sleeper Clarke would have lifted it
with inimitable righteousness to a Hogan
THAN type. Mr.. Crane would have wal
lowed in it joyously, and everybody would
have been drunken with his low comedy
spirits. Mr. Mansfield builds it strenu-
ously like lay figure and you are in some
doubt when he gets through whether he
or his dresser deserves the most credit.
L am sorry to see an actor of sterling
am amused 10 observe that the voluminous
commentators of Mr.. Mansfield cali this
play of character.
i should like to hear Titmouse's charac-
Ger scheduled The fact is Titmouse is a
characterless person, and it was as mega
ton that be was put forward in the book
Does Mr.. Mansfield suppose that particu-
larity in dress consummate nlaunerisms and
character?
Undoubtedly not, but some Of his over
jealous critics do.
simultaneously with this play there was
produced at the Bijou a three act farce
called "Incog," which is from the pen of
a woman, and which exhibited the very
merits which ''Ten Thousand Year"
lacked Mrs. Pacheco constructed a gen.
uine intrigue, tied everything up in knot
and then like magician Strengthened it
all out. | should advise Miss Sheridan 10
study Nine. Pacheco's method
"Incog" is one of the most hilarious alb.
surdities ever saw, but it is the absurdity
of situation. Before the play was over no
body could tell who was who, until the
authoress claimed the laughter and
smoothed out matters This was frank
advertisement, and not juggling with
clothes TO simulate character.
Mr.. Mansfield is an actor who needs a
worthy play. The trouble with him is that
he goes to the wrong sources, and then
handicaps his constructive agent with fool
fish Mansfield conditions This is Harry
Lacyism, which always remarks when a
new actor is announced, Il wonder where
he got his horses"
The dog show at the Madison Square
garden was this year of unusual proper
tions and interest. No one who did not
see the string of private vehicles at the |
entrances and the crowds Of richly dressed
visitors can form al idea OF the popular
character Of this exhibition. Even the |
horse show, which is always as swell an
affair as the PatriArchs' bah. has never ap
pealed to the fashionable class as did this
canine convention.
The attendance was largely made up Of
not hOrSey women. either
They never tired of going around the cir
Gle OF kennels and distributing their al
indisCriminatcly. What may b. |
called the dog sentiment has grown to |
enormous proportions under the fostering |
care of the Westminster Kennel club. |
suppose at least 100000 people visited this |
show before the week was over, and there |
was no other appeal made than that of |
dog, pure and simple
Beside this tranSitcry popularity the |
apathy at the Metropolitan opera house IS |
The Abbey-Grau management |
grinds out a mixed repertory TO listleSs and |
vacant boxes. The "Huguenots' does not |
Interest me stockholders. Faust alone /
fills the house. Even "Lohengrin" could 1
not do it., Little Van Zandt made an ap- /
peal in the voiuytuous "l.akme." but 4
charrainy as size MS there WAS litSle an
swering eutlsasiasn. When one considers /