The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-27
HIGH JINKS AT BEAULlEU
MRS. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, JR.
GIVES A s25, 900 ENTERTAINMENT.
Eddie Foy's show Performs, Negroes
Dance a Cake Walk and Numerous
other Capers Are Cut.

CHICAGO, Aug. 26.-Eddie Foy the COM
edian of the wild Rose" Company. in a
signed dispatch to the Tribune from New
port. r. l.. last night, said: I'VE closed UP
the Knickerbocker Theater in New York
to-day, and the entire White Rose Com
pany-actors, singers, musicians and stage
hands-came 10 Newport TO entertain
Americas representative 400 with a special
performance of The White Rose. On
breaking up to the villa in the afternoon
for rehearsal the gorgeous appearance and
magnitude of the grounds were astounding
"a complete midway at one end and tenn
porary theater that you might call a rose
bower of amusement at the other. Baron
Kap-Herr presented JUNE McCree and my
self to Mr.. and Mrs. Vanderbilt. They are
charming people, who have the natural
knack of making you feel at home. the So
called affectation being conspicuously alb
sent. AS McCree remarked as we rode
away, they are the real goods and no
pikers.'
ITO say that the show was success is
putting it mildly. After the entertainment
the entire company was given a big supper
on the lawn, where a specially engaged
mandolin orchestra played beautiful strains
of classic music, such as The Miserere,'
some Chopin and Wagner, and an appropri-
ate cadenza in B fat from I'm Living
| Easy After supper well wishes were ex-
changed and we bid the vanderbilts fond
adeu. AS Mrs. Van placed her delicate
hand in my brawny grease-paint wielder
tears were rolling down her cheeks, which
thought at first were caused by some or
my local interpretations, but which she said
were tears of joy over the pleasant even
4 fr1or H. ill hot af fhxa
same moment two tears rolled down my
blushing cheeks, and, as they struck the
gravel walk. went off like torpedoes. Mrs.
| Van asked me why this sorrow and re-
piled that l cried to think | was not as
/ rich she, so L could give entertain
ment and have Cornelius Vanderbilt do
cake walk for me and my FIVE kids in Har-
! lem"
The Tribune's regular correspondent at
! Newport says: Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
| jr., spent $4,000 tonight in entertaining
| several hundred guests at Beaulieu. Instead
| of giving a society drama with amateurs
| In the cast Mrs Vanderbilt closed one of
| the entire company, 100 in number, includ-
| ing the orchestra, come to Newport and
1 show on her back lawn for her guests. 1t
| was after 10 o'clock when the first of the
| guests began to arrive at Beaulieu. There
is sweeping, circular driveway from
| Bellevue avenue to the entrance of the
villa, but tonight the guests did not go
! direct to the house. The carriages drove
| inside the gate, where they alighted to
| enter the Midway, through which they
were obliged to pass. The Midway was
| twenty-five feet wide and $50 feet long and
| was a structure lined with red cloth and
| Respondent with flowers and electric lights
| The sides of the Midway were lined with
| palms and hydranges and other Towering
plants, making most striking pictures.
| THE attractions in the Midway were
varied. A negro comedy team made
! decided hit with their song, Ma Castle on
| de Nile, many of the guests joining in the
singing of the chorus. Other features of
| the Midway were Punch and judy wheel
of fortune a gypsy fortune teller, punching
bags, weight machines, doll baby game
the cane At the end of the N1idWav WAS WAS
| the theater ticket office, where the guests
exchanged their cards for seat checks
! Passing up the broad stairway the guests
| were received by Mr.. and Mrs. Vanderbilt
! and escorted to the drawing room. with
| it's decoration of American Beauty roses
| and thence to the theater, which served
| for ballroom later in the evening. All
| around the sides of the ballroom were hung,
| Romanesque garlands of yellow flowers
In the center of each of the several panels
was large Louis XIV basket filled to over
! flowing with wild rose blossoms. trailing
| vines and other flowers, all of which carried
| out the idea of The Wild Rose in keening
with the name and character of the the
| atrical production.
| AT the conclusion of the performance tho
| theater was transformed into a ballroom
| When the dance began The Wild Rose
| Company was entertained at dinner bv Mrs
| Vanderbilt. In the middle of the cotilon a
great surprise was sprung when all were
| asked to be seated and the colored COME
| dams, with their wives, appeared on the
| ballroom floor and executed a cake walk
| Following the cotillon there was a second
supper and then general dancing mill
| morning..