The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-08
LIVE rorros ABOUT Town.

doyo Posb tho nelHnOOtnOOu VI III hniChcE"
booker Theatre has been brilliant with white
duck and dark blue cloth. Many Of the wo-
men, however. are extremely quiet in appear
ancc, and Off the stage seem wholly different
from tho Gaiety girl as their performances
paint that alluring parsonage. One OF these
women sat in the dining room OF an uptown
hotel tho other evening. She was slim and
blond, and her nair was brushed back severely
from her forehead. On her nose was a pair of
glasses with tortoisoshcll rims, and she might
have been an English school teacher or univor-
sity graduate. With her at dinner was her
husband. who was a mild hammered man with a
brown mustache, who looked as little rs though
he belonged to one OF the Gaiety companies as
his wife did. But they we're both members Of
tho organization. Several OF the girls are quar-.
tered in u hotel on Fourth avenue, and II was
there that they stopped on their first visit sew
eral years ago.
One OF the women who Is now here came to tho
United states first several years ago accompa-
man who sang In the chorus. She grew very
popular, but when it came to supping or dining
presence detracted from the spectacular effect OF
the scene. So he was left behind when his wife
came oyer this year. Another young man who
lowered about the original company when 1t
came here to act three years ago Is missing
now. He was q member of a well-known Eng
n ssn tSm ~ S Sna a5 rss%is TN the pc p%srttSSr r nsrsons w sni
gagged In 1t. His failure to return with tho
troupe this year Is said to be due to the fact that
he is locked up in an insane asylum. Even a
more picturesque adjunct to the old company
is lacking this season. He was a Turk. and the
vora6io attention so strongly is not now in this
country. After the performance on Monday
night one Of the best known beauties in this
company entered an al.night restaurant up
town which Is not especially exclusive. II was
more her toilet than her beauty that aston.
o'clock. The woman was dressed in a light
co!ored silk gown, cut very low in the neck, and
s ~ !, Win she n Mnre an T ehor inUn o sSs wn ma. w SSr,
so man. that she flashed like the cut. glass coun.
tiers in a department store. MOI, all OF the young
ylasscs and look like Grton graduates, but there
are some that do.
One Of the French newspapers recently print
cd . paragraph that will prove rather astonish-
ing news to the American friends Of Mrs. Brad
ley-Martin- In Q description of the opera in
London the article said that black ties were for
hidden by the management, and that in order
to make the prohibition less OF a hardship,
white lawn ties were sold in the lobby of the
theatre. Over this booth Mrs. Bradley-Martin
and Lady do Grey were said to preside on alter
nate evenings. This privilege, the account
said, was allowed only to women Of very ex-
allied social position. There is, OF course, no
truth in any phase OF the story. excepting, per
hAps, that black necktie5 are not mucn worn at
the opera in London or any where else. A black
Io va AuAA oAOSS oAA 40 "a oAS
seen, and means usually that tho wearer is in
mourning. With q dinner coat they are nee.
that ever raised the dinner coat to the dignity
OF a dress garment In, England it is but sell
dom seen in public. and the men who wear IT
in matters Of dress. fGe men in Germany Who
made their dressing a matter of thought seized
upon the dinner coat as a dress garment that
was appropriate for any hour OF the day or
night, and the result was that the most popular
article OF mems dress in Germany several years
AVn was n dinner coat worn with a low waist
coat and a co.ored tour-in-hand necktie. That
combination has never lost its popularity in
Germany where the dinner coat Is more highly
valued than in any other country excepting
our own The French have always used II in
much the same way the English do. But they
are not given to national vaSaries in the mat
ter OF neckties, and it would seem no more sur
prist1s to them that q man should DO com
Bradley Martin or Lady de Grey should consent
10 sell it
There Is already a distrust among wheelmen
OF the road houses which have repair shops run.
ming in connection with their bicycle racks.
and there Is one place in particular which has
come to be regarded with suspicion by persons
who have had their wheels suddenly fall vic
tins to incapacity whom least expected. One
philanthropiss who was anxious to ascertain IL
the grounds for his distrust were good. several
times submitted his wheel when 1t was in per-
feet condition to the care Of the boys in charge
OF the Racks. Every time 1t was injured. On
sunday one man found a cut plainly made by q
sudden slash with a knife in a tire at this same
place, and there were, within the experience OF
o very small circle OF persons, several acct
dents OF the same character. The result was
that the man in charge OF the repair shop WAS
busy all day. and there was not a bicycle under
his care that had not been handed over TO the
there by the guests. There are already a mum
Der Of patrons OF the place who are convinced
that the boys in charge OF the racks have some
interest in seeing the repair shop prosper. This
Is conducted by a young man who runs IL en-
tirely on his own responsibility. With the tack
tends supposed to be at work on the approaches
TO the cycle path and the other parts Of the
suburbs, beset with little danger TO wheels, bt-
cycling is taking on new terrors. But there Is
none OF them more difficult to avoid than these
accidents that are SO closely connected with
the attentions Of the rack boys at the suburban
road house.
One of the diversions of Q New York million
aire Is q variety show or a vaudeville per-
Torrance, as tho advertising agents love to
hear 1t called, that Is given every Sunday night
in the oarlors of his own house. Certain physi-
cal reasons prevent him from going TO the
theatre, and it Is indeed a question II he Is able
held for his benefit. But he can hear it all, and
actors and singers congregate In his drawing
room with the same regularity every Sunday.
A certain agent has charge of the arrange
ment Of the programmes. and he employs the
actors TO be engaged in thes@ with
as much care as though they were 70 be on view
Al NhS "a S~o "a pm A'AA SHaAJ
the millionaire and a few of his friends ever
see or hear the performance.
The old Marshall O.. Roberts residence. at the
southeast corner OF Eighteenth street and Fifth
avenue, has grown more desolate looking with
in recent months than 1t had ever been before
during its long period Of vacancy. Until the
pictures and furniture were sold the blinds OF
the house were kept closed. and It looked as
though there might be some intention to occupy
the building again at q future date. But now
that the house has been emptied OF its con-
tents, care is no longer taken to make II look
habltable. and the faded white blinds hang in
the dusty windows, drawn down at irregular
intervals. The only person about the house is
q venerable butler. who sits al his ease at the
side door In the afternoons and seems little
moro active than the rest OF the quiet house.
hold. 1t is said that tho house cannot be- sold
by the Marshall =. Roberts estate until one OF
the heirs comes of age. Since 1t was occupied
by Cornelius vanderbilts family, several years
ago, the building has not been tenanted, and
as there is little demand for SO expensive a resi-
dence in that part Of the city, it Is said that the
building will be sold as soon as the provisions
of the will have been complied with and the heir
IN question: he Is a son OF the late Mr.. Roberts
has Gonna NJ aye