The evening world., 1902-12-15
Manager of Society Playhouse
Has Announced Her APP
preaching Closing, Yet Hopes
to Keep Open.
MISS MUNRO KEEPS SILENCE.
Drlna De Wolfe, Of the "Fad and
Folly" Company, Gets Out from
Under and Moves to the BlJou to
Act with Henry Miller.

Society may support Mrs. osborn's
dressmaklnF shop. but that It will not
support her playhouse Is proved in the
announcement hat Fad and Folly" will
go out Of fashion a week from Saturday
night, whep the company will be scat
tered to the four winds OF Gotham.
With n hand clinging to the wreck
and the other held valiantly aloft Mrs.
Osborn pluckily proclaims she Is not
ready to say die. and intimates that the
electric sign In Forty-fourth street may
be kept burning for a brighter and bet
ter day.
Meanwhile Miss Munro is silent. Moth
Ing Is heard from her quarter rave the
dull, leaden sounds which bespeak the
counting OF financial losses. Whether
she will aid Mrs. Osborn in a further at
tempt to keep the doubtful enterprise
afioat she does not say. 1t is plainly a
case where money will have to talk.
and talk IL 4 good. loud tone, II any
thing further is to be doing.
Society must evidently be left out OF
the question. 1t has shown 1t can't be
depended upon for more than a week or
two at a time. Apparently 1t doesn't
care to have a toy theatre OF Its own.
1t has too many other toys with which
to amuse itself, and. like a tickle child.
1t Is constantly turning from one to
another.
SOM time ago Mrs. Osborn announced
h had purchased the rights to a play
the title Of which implied 1t bad some
thing to do with q scandal. What as
surance has h that society will care
any moro for this than 1t did for Tommy
Rot or Fad and FollyT' Again, she
might consider that society has scandals
OF Its own. the majority OF them, 1t is
safe to assume. a heap sight more In
terestlng and entertaining than the
stage brand which she might offer.
As for the general run OF people, they
want something better In the way of
amusement than has been provided at
the playhouse. Blanche Rings spirits
and singing have been the life of the
piece from the drst and of late the
French chansonettes SO artlstlcally sung
by Miss Margaret Hubbard Aver have
been a welcome Interpolation. But It
takes more than a couple of excellent
features to make a satisfying show. In
fact, 1t will require some extraordinary
attraction TO draw amusement seekers
from Broadway to the out-of-the-way
place where Mrs. Osborn has EAST her lot
and Miss Munro her pennies
Perhaps IL Harry Conor had been given
a larger atomizer 1t would have helped
some.
Drina De Wolfe, who has been one of
the olhef drawing cards for the "John-
MES" at Mrs. Osborn's. seems to have
heard the crash coming and has gotten
out from UNDER by finding a place N
''The Tanning OF Helen" company. now
rehearsinH at the Bljou. She has am
billions to become a full-fiedged actress
and In the Richard Harding Davis paw
she will have the role OF a society young
woman.
That she has the Society instinct
was amusingly illustrated the other day.
At rehearsal she was In the midst OF a
strenuous scene with Henry Miller, when
Mr.. Miller's dog. '"Twister," scampered
or the stage. At sight OF the little fel-
low Miss De Wolfe stopped short In her
lines to exclaim:
Isn't he q dear little dog!'
Then she stopped down to pet the
"purp," while Mr.. Miller, red In the face,
~Staiksd over 10 Mr.. Davis and said some
thing entirely remote from the play.
That was a meal trick OF Mabelle
Gilman's to turn over to her press agent
those love letters from the Prince OF
J Siam. But a prince-or pauper-who
writes "poetry" to a soubrette should
he nreharad for the Worgt