The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-13
THEATRICAL INCIDENTS.
ONE MORE OF OUR THEATRES OPENED
FOR THE HINTER SEASON.
Two New Short Plays in Vaudeville, can Ar !
tIst'a Dilemma and "Bob Rackett's

Two New Short Plays in Vaudeville, can Ar
lists Dilemma" and "Bob Racketts
PRjamas IA Long One for the Bowery,
"a Factory WRifn-Camillo Urso's Violin.
The Herald Square Theatre was reopened
last night. 1t had the aspect OF a new house.
The former bright and rather garish colorings
OF the auditorium had given way to darker
and aesthetic hues. New carpets and
upholstery impaired q further effect of
richness. The French Maid last springs
musical farce on that STAGE. was performed
again. The company was headed by Charles
Blgelow, an auept in those eccentricities
which are deemed essential in that style of
entertainment His representation OF a
waiter, whose obsequiousness hides wound
ed pride and rancorous resentment, was
quite rs clever and amusing as before.
OF course It's exaggeration carried It beyond
characterization into caricature, but. consider
ing 1t from the travesty point OF view. 1t was
well to accept 1t as fun without going
into art particulars. While there was a
manifest disposition to give additional
Importance to Mr.. Bigelow. that object was
not attained through any appreciable belittle-
ment OF others. The company retained some
Of its former members, and. collectively, was
as efficient as before. The ballad OF the
stalwart sailor. sung by Hallen Mostyn.
had q new pertinency since the war
with Spain. Olive Redpath was the
maid from France. and she was less French
than cosmopolitan In her freshness. but she
danced nimbly and was dlyerting. Yolande
Wallace was again the most notable, wearer OF
tights. The audience crowded the theatre, ana
was so extremely enthusiastic that encores eX-
tended the entertainm emit until half past IL
o'clock.
A play which had been written to order was
IAN Artists Dilemma" at Proctor's yesterday
afternoon. 1t was by Herbert Hall Winslow.
COR Mr.. and Mrs. Charles I. Ellis. The actor 10
q German dialect comedian Of the type which
the late Joseph X. Emmett originated. He
looks like that once idolized comedian. and
has a high tenor voice to yodel with. There
| fore the author made him an artist in a some
what picturesque garb. and gave him a child
| to sing to and caress right after the curtain
went UT. The actress is fat and Jolly. with a
comic face and a brogue at command. So for
her was provided the part OF q rough Irish
woman. These two personages were brought
together in a studio. into which the woman
Numbered instead OF a physicians Office
next door. and where the artist was expect
ing q Hawaiian princess to come and sit for q
portrait. Their MISUNDERSTANDING OF each
other were ludicrous enough to make the
audience laugh satisfactorily. Mr.. Winslow had
devised some original talk. plain and simple
enough to avoid all danger OF puzzling the
meanest mind, while at the same time clean
and wholesome. Mrs. Ellis spoke her share OF
it with good. broad humor: Mr.. Ellis was less
clever with it, but he had sung himself into
fair favor before that, and afterward he got an
other chance Tor his pleasant voice ~ a pa
whose mother incurred his death on the
sunken Maine; That was the climax OF the
play, and while he sang. it Mrs. Ellis posed
trate the verses. How did the dramatis con
triye to make that conclusion reasonableT He
a Hny,A ~ rIa Rti n n n "a rEnn n "a
the proof OF a new song Of his had come from
the printer. and he would examine II to find
the errors. Then he sang 1t very well. and the
people heard nothing about any misprints in
1t. but saw the solid wall open and shut Tor "a
series IL Of d pIdpe Idf aste1is fasMle Ta EIiits I al elP and
why. should the spectators marvel IN their satis-
fac ionf
Camille Urso's advent in continuous vaude-
Vile occurred at Keith's yesterday. In two
snowy selections she proved to variety show
followers that young women who are very
bright as to cheeks. yellow as to hair. and
short as to skirt and bodice are not the only
holm players. For some moments in the:open-
ing number the gods missed an air. She
showed an artists hand. but produced no tune
that the hearers could take away with them.
and during that time some of them were. no
doubt, preparing to decide in favor OF the
short-skirt sisterhood. But it wasn't long be-
fore even the blacked-up 'mokes' who fiddle
the newest coon songs were hopelessly out
of memory. and when the melody was reached
and was almost as long as the technically fine
iiat1oid ! an ne gallery and Sp iSiHs 6f9 Hieo IN 9e-
They treated the second selection in the same
manner. and. as there was not a measure OF it
fine compliment TO the player. In the same
pin Harry Lacy. he wis. was for several years
tered local vaudeville. playing a short new
farce entitled Bob, Rackett's Paiamas;" The
garments OF the title were IN sight during half
evidence, At one time it Looked as il the actor
was TO disrobe publicly, His shoes came Of,
She. snapped a tailor GOWN for Them, but
stage. swinging Indian clubs and echoing her
laughter over her difficulties with the unfa-
miliqr garments: In them. she was mistaken
them Oft. At the point where the owner was
to use force Ss in reco Hs ing MS aSi P 3nIr Z h}3y w SfS
his Jacket the underiiannel that. covered the
top half of him and the affair changed from
clergyman was coming upstairs on the Jump
to make the two one. because IL thew were not
900 legacy. The author of this rather re-
markable dramatic propositipn was not
named 1SdnUb + " Ea +! IfiS Ssf al eln to thRss T ShS sSSs
seemed in u good majority.
Labor agitators were potent in The Factory
Waif." the new melodrama disclosed last night
at the Peoples. During four acts and eleven
scenes the mischief coming from the opposition
of grasping employers and stubborn workmen
was dominant. This though the play COM
(, menced with 80 happy a picture as the presen-
tation OF a watch by the millhands to the wide
browed foreman. He was one OF them. to APP
parent danger to mill discipline at times.
but ever to the pleasure of the gallery. He
was one of q committee Of strikers who
waited upon their employer with an ulti-
matum: he was about to patent an invention
that was TO make his everlasting fortune. and
whose completed drawings he left about. with
tracing paper handy. and he was the sutton for
a young woman to whom a r~ascally mill owner
| nNtanlnl nIIAnIlnna Ihnf WARE for q time mora