Evening star., 1901-04-27
CLING TO OLD ROLES
ACTORS DIFFICULTIES AFTER MAX
ING ORIGINAL HITS.
Florence. Raymond, Chnufrau and
Murphy Could Not Divorce Them
selves From Familiar Parts.
rgom ue Chieleo Intcr occan.


McNally farce provided for the Rogers
brothers melted a small Chicago gathering
to "Reminiscences the other night by remark
ing that he had once appeared in A Bunch
of Keys"
And ! saw that farce again in Indiana
awhile ago asserted The Travelling Man
which just goes to prove what have t.,n
contendng for the space OF my natural
hie-that everything gets to Indiana if YOU
give 1t time enough A Bunch OF Keys
was produced nineteen years ago. although
/ guess Harrison wasn't i'm Il at that time
considering that he is still mere child,
and there hasn't been season since that
! II was not on the road When Willie
Edouin first got it-iioyt sold II outright tn
Frank Sanger and Edouin for SJo0-it was
tallure- EdouinS English hUmor WAS too
much for 1t. When it got whipped into
shape and the character work was under
stood II caught on al once. 1t has. as [
said. been played everywhere even I'm In
diana. and I often wonder how Hoyt felt
afterward about giving the thing away a.
he did. Gus Bothncr has a road COMPANY
paying IT now. and the funny thing about
| IL Is that. although Bothner has tried all
! sorts of farces, he gets back TO The Key
,ia aiia rolls up a little money every year. II
! mas had the longest life Of any musical
farce, and even beats the record Of a
faflor Match A lot of good fun originated
ABOUT the time \ Bunch of Keys was pro-
| uCceu-Some OF YOU may recall Dreams
| PhotoS, The Magic Doll Fun on the
| Bristol Fun in a Pullman CAR and Iafcr
! lhe Dazzler. The Hustler etc.-but The
| heE seems 10 have oujlastcd them all
'.Monte Cristo" Survives.
| Some people have found that the pIavs I'm
which they appeared and made early sue
| cesscs have stuck 10 them Ia such a way
| that the public simply will not have any
| thing else. Right now james O'Naul is
back with production Of Monte Cristo.'
| ! thnk he produced it I'm 1SSO Afterward
ne trlcd romance and tragedy and about
everything that didn't suggest Mont, rri.N
| TO- ana Yet he can't get away from q on
| tirely. John T. Raymond had The same ,.y-
| lrSrfehce WIN colonel Sellers and w J.
florence with The Mighty Dollar The
season before Florence died and when h.,
was out with jefferson he told me that ba
intended 10 return to The Mighty Dollar
@ me heNt season. I believe his widow did
| Try tour IN it, but the people dfdn'r u.ant
| II without Florence. Colonel Sellers l,stai
| Ray mond from tN1I until the time of hi
M Ahnlhcr case was Frank Chanfrau's
Hit' the ArkanSaw TraVeicr'-f don't knnr-
mat ne ever played ANYTHING eIse ~
Bt"usht II out in 1865 and paved il rer1lIor-
~ -, LOT 3iNe twelve years, and during that time
ne always opened the season an Tho R,st,,,
iheater with it, The manager would -,
iet anything else in. After he died his son
| Itied IL a while, but not with much success
IL was the old man the pcopla want.9 ii
they wanted him only as Ett I'm - IL
time lie struck 'Pudd n head Wilson, Esra,'t
Mayo was forced TO play 'Davy Crockett'--
lie had some success with .Eorlooi.Ss ''iS .;
Inc Three Guardsmen.' and he nada III
ous experiments. but the time wnuld racnr
to snaI ms 1nanees We're low. SO it was back
~ DaNE crockett and a full purse m.
pay ls good one today | have eee,i a.
itecssm.u9. ana you can't get away from ,bc
hardness of IL. -'Oii 'He
Some Women Stars.
Clara Morris has, in her tim, ,
throush about as much stage erno,tor =,
\
ton and Camille and The Nov. 49,.
easily enough. but you ask the AVERAGE ~.
"hdt he recalls Morris in and # win T. -
refeHseIul lady, Cora In Article A.
& m"s shot IN the face in the first ACT ana
Mtht around the rest of the time Uitb ~.
scar bandaSed. I think II * rbIs fs. ticI
Iiidl makes Morris so well rcmembered IN =,
l. was dlsagreeable, but YOU couldn.t o. -
OUT OF Your head. Effie Ellsl.r bas -, ~
s oaeh INTO View in Barbara Frietchie and
ior some Years she has PLAYED ShalIesnea,-
can roles. but whenever any o,,a 60.
Tt 1rsr the instant thought is of Hazel Kirk,
ihat was the Steele Nackaye pl1y tb1t NJ,
handicapped by a poor nane-iTIc H.
| Will thlnk-and then hIossomed out in,H
huse hit when the name was changed H.
went on at the Madison Square in 1S7o ana
lasted ten or twelve years over the conn
Try. AT present no stock company consij-
@ .s Its season complete without perform
.tiice Io. ol H. ana 1t is fairly good piece of
theatrlcal property Yet. Sol Smith Russell
mas mad more luck than anybody who made
a long run in a play ana Was tbe, erniiaI
70 ger INTO new lines. For a long time he
couldn t live down 'EdgeNood Folks r-bfcb
he put on in 1850 and continued for se,-ey
or eight years But he continued 10 mako
new productions, until he was finally recor-
nized In other characters altbor,cb 7 Mt
man the other day who HADN'T becp IN
side theater for years and who asked me
IL Russell was stu alive and doing Edge
Wcod Folks j. h Emmett struck lead
with his Fritz in Germany, produced along
about 1876. He had other plays but thev
were always called Fritz something or
other and the character was the same in
Thompson to quit playing Joshua Whit
comb His first play was named after that
character. and when he fixed up The Old
Homestead he made Josh the center of H.
Of course. Roland Reed has had some such
luck Russell, for most people have for
gotten his Cheek and 'Humbug' Just as
they have forgotten Nat Goodwin's Hob
bies,' but the old guard-pre JUDGED, natur-
ally-will tell you that Goodwin and Reed
were In the 'palmy days when they had
those pieces out. 1 know man who won't
on the stage since 80, at the latest and
Goodwin gave him a seat for When We
Were Twenty-One' when he was in Chica-
CO. When he met Goodwin he said: Il see
you're tryin' to do one of these modern
dude parts. Now, my advice TO YOU Is 10
cut 1T and get cut that ballet dress and do
something according to your talents Why.
YOU didn't have song or an imitation in
the piece"
Cannot Live Them Down.
"Lewis Morrison put on Faust in 1882 in
San Francisco, and he Is playing it yet.
Nobody has ever been able to account for
his success in it. but it is one Of the biggest
money-makers in the business. Any num-
Der of people have made productions of
Faust but Morrison is the one best
known When he said he was going 10 re-
vive It he was laughed at. Kate Claxton is
alive yet, but IL she were to star in L'Aig-
Ion there would be a howl over The Two
Orphans She made her hit as Louise In
1876 and played that melodrama until very
recently. Once in awhile she would try
something else-'The Sea Of Ice was I'm her
repertoire-but she never got away from
The Two Orphans any farther than Mag
gle Mitchell got away from 'Fanchon,' Lot
IA The Little Detective or Annie Pixley
.sfLiss' Pixley had luck in 'FLiss' and
/ see that some Of the managers think 1t
good enough for these times. and that Nell
lie McHenry is out In 1t. McHenry has
been one of the unfortunates who could
never live down an early farcical hit, and