The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-05
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

Tho presence In town Of a number of serious
elocutionists calls attention to the fact that
this art In one of the most familiar forms has
to q largo extent disappeared. The parlor elo-
cutionist is u thing of the past. The young
woman who stepped out into the centre Of an
admiring circle Of friends and admirers to
recito "of all the operas that Verdi wrote" or
You must wake and call mo early" has evil
IDENTITY passed away for good. Nobody secs or
hears her now, and abe has disappeared along
with those other young women who used to
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opt Of sight in Ssw York. wSesa&or they SsTp sur.
yive In other cities or not. Tho elocution
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so completely from metropolitan view. As q
public performer tho elocutionist has nearly
Dor Of them who travelled with great prosper
ity through tho country, but now few, II any,
readers and sometimes reoitationists, and very
popular they. were.
Under ordinary circumstances there would be
good grounds for suspecting the exact truth
about tho actress who has started East after
having won 10000 in ten days on q st. Louis
racecourse. This young woman Is no longer
an actress, but that fact need not be consid-
cred strong enough to make It certain that she
really has won tho money, for In abandoning
her work on,the stage she took other allied duties
that mako 1t seem moro improbable than ever
that abe really has the money with her. She be-
came the woman press agent Of o theatrical COM
pany and has acted successfully In nearly every
business capacity connected with theatrical
@sssSe To act h 800 sRo is % nos enough TsSs sh m her sne c ass
to prove beyond question the stories OF her luck
on the, Western rasecourse Women press
cess; and they have covered parts Of It not CON.
templated BY the most active-minded men until
this line Of work. One New York woman who %
"a Interested In various schemes Of philanthro-
P py,r sed to culture u pns,iS yi hhS%fed BEING g, b In the in,, Issss
has employed for several years a a young woman Woman
as an advertising. agent. The agent is an
ers case forward in much moro sympathetic
and attractive form than a pan ever could.
guishod herself By showing how paramount is
her regard for business. She was divorced re-
Gently; and i' a said ,h to haze siS Il, been a,5 married ID. to 9, an,
going INTO partnership, with her first husband
when he began to pubish an advertising sheet.
BILE for tho controversy that was carried on last
winter between Moody and Yyette Guilbert,
manager. to get Moody to abuse her so Snnagss.f .
In q box at IN uptown theatre there sat tho
other night q man who was evidently wholly
interested In the audience and regarded the
proceedings on the stage with apparent in
difference. He sat In q position which made It
possible for him to see both the spectators and
tho players with equal ease, but 1t was toward
the audience that he looked. He was con-
cerned. In fact, with what went on among the
and It was with the object Of observing their
effect on tho spectators that he watched the
or joke 10 looked along every row. and tried to
ssara nun Jun. vi aSs s1 e. Sslas Of Of the the I Ps9R!!s s ssssss
was. In this way he learns Just what Is worth
replaced with something more likely to amuss
performance is stu closely followed in this way
where change 10 necessary or what features OF
the entertainment arc strong enough with tho
theory e that tie enjoyment Of the audience as
1t 10 expressed In the appearance and actions Of
the person. Ss'us that SD eS0%P mp re. IT L tn the ts real II test sts Of a
constant application
Anthony Hope ia TO be the lecturing celebrity
of the coming season. and It win be interesting
to see whether he viii share the fortunes of Ian
Maolaren or Conan Doyle. The latter author
lectured hero three winters ago, when he was
about the most conspicuous figure among tho
popular writer's Of the day, but In spite of that
tho audiences which greeted him were embar-
rassingly small. He lectured once at Daly's
dnSasEo his dS 's sueoe eesn was S~'n srea He&pt eu;ts sss of Of
enySo 5y.1 DE- . Wat SON. on On tSs P other hand D.
was NO Better known. he carried back a sub
s~tantial sum to England. Ono of the reasons
{arity with public speaking, while Conan Doyle
was without any particular experience in this
SiF' 6 very snG ma wa:; m 'psfsSnssns Re' f TSs fses
that DIR. Watson's novels were popular with tho
sort Of people that went to lectures was given
two years ago than he win DO merit winter, but
win b. Observed that Mt, Richard tis e Gall.
enne,. in spite Of his black satin bicycle
breocheS. trimmed with old yellow lace, is not
turers.
Tho Increase In the traffic on tho streets az
well as the introduction OF the cable cars" said
an old New Yorker yesterday, "seems to mo to
have had an effect totally different from what
ono might have expected. I think that people
on the streets now are less careful than for
merly. The same thing is true OF persons who
cross railroad tracks. and I don't believe that
pedestrians or drivers take the Same precau-
tions that they did when the necessity for caro-
was very much less than 1t Is now. Now there
;, zoe e, to s. be 2 ts1 oa . 1Ss to Pint the or r; ~ 91dbmsy
or tho driver TO such an extent that, tho indi-
viduals arc very much less careful than they
ought to be. Ton Year, ago when q man hoard a
street car bell It meant that he was to look out
for himself and not stroll ACROSS tho street In
tho way that happened to please him. It was
the same, way II a driver came to cross a rail-
road track. II made no difference whether tho
bell had runE 0, whethsr any warming had boel
wait and make sure that y was safe TO cross tho
dent With q very small share Of caution on his
man than ever before, and he 10 expected to do
all tho watching. I notice this especially. in
tho case OF persons passing In front Of the cablo
cars. who frequently. walk as slowly as possible
man who thinks It a joke TO walk so slowly that
tho car Is nearly on him Is familiar to every
body, and he Ia merely an Instance Of the In
creased tendency to put responsibility for acct
dent on some person other than the victim"
Tho inexperienced passer who secs the hot
griddle and the white-capped cooks as they
watch tho browning buttor cakos must feel a
shock when he enters ono Of those establish
p4aSnts Of which tho cooking sinker Ia the sign
and receives tho real article. No butter cake