Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-04

know there's a new one to be cut, and L
want to be the cutter. / know there will
be larger field. 1 will have the finesse OF
management. You have witnessed Klaw &
Erlanger's production of 'Ben-Hur, The
Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, Rogers
Brothers, etc. This new enterprise will be
on the same scale of magnificence as the
aforementioned attractions
Then 1t will not be all minstrelsy?"
ut is our intention to box the compass of
minstrelsy."
This will require considerable money,
will it not?'
'Well, l don't know of anybody in the
theatrical business today who has any more
or who spends it on their productions so
laviShly as the gentlemen l am to be asso-
ciated with next season..
will this company be seen in Washing
TONI
"Certafnly"
Where will the first production occur?"
I'm one of New York'S most exclusive
theaters, the Knickerbocker. Broadway
Are you arranging or writing this min
Strel entertainment?
"Oh. no. John J. McNally of Boston, who
has arranged the Rogers Brothers come
dies. The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast
and others of klaw & Erlanger's produc-
lions and May Twins comedies, etc, will
do that He is at work on it at the present
time 1t will be staged under the personal
supervision of MIR. Ben Teal. who stages all
of klaw & changers productions. This is
certainly guarantee of a perfect enter
tanment Several famous composers Will
you seem to have no doubt OF Its sue
cess"
Success? Supported as I will be K. &
Els brilliant staff. with brand-new crew,
enlarged hull, quadruple expansion engines
and with that able admiral, A. l.. Erlanger,
on the bridge. our ship of minstrelsy cannot
help but pow the deepest channels on the
long green ocean of prosperity
Creatore pronounced Kray-ah to-ray)
was born just thirty-one years ago in Ma
pies, Italy. In the college of the great
Mancini, in his home town, he studiously
acquired the principles Of his art. and at
the age of fourteen years appeared as from
bone solost with the leading band Of Ma
pies but he was so diminutive in stature
that to see him at all while playing IT was
necessary to stand him on a specially con-
structed box on the platform The honors of
a trombonist were too uninviting, and he
hungered to be at the head Of an orchestra
as conductor. Finally he secured permission
to WELD the baton before a local amateur
orchestra, with Auber's Fra Diavolo" over
ture as the first selection. But in the open
ing bars his Interpretation challenged all
tradition and the professor in charge of the
organization protested and Creatore was
not permitted to conclude the piece, and
never again permitted to stand before the
orchestra.
From the orchestra he next turned to the
band, and at nineteen years was appointed
director of the brass organization at Cave,
where he continued for three years, then
going to ALTA for a somewhat longer term.
Glory came to him by degrees, but little of
the lucre that keeps the stomach full and
the body clad, so he took his way to the
United States, arriving here two and one
half years ago, so destitute as to be unable
absolutely to purchase a trombone. Friends
0ayr To he q N
gagement as trombone Soloist at Atlantic
City with the Royal Marine Band, exciting
much favorable mention with his fine work;
not only there, but later also at Willow
Grove, near Philadelphia. But Creatore
chafed under the foutine duties of mere
soloist, and naturally his great executive
genius carried him again to the leadership
of an organization, with which last year
he toured the west and northwest In a blaze
of sensational success. Jealousies disrupt
ed this splendid band, and Creatore was
once more adrft, but again his commanding
personality made itself felt, new band he
formed, and in night, Monday, July %,
of the current year, he gained the lasting
devotion of chilly New Workers. and today
he is the most-talked-of man in that city.
Joseph Hart, who appears in Foxy
Grandpa" made his first appearance on the
stage under ]. L. Kernans management
some years ago. Joes piece de resistance
the banjo, and in this line he has, perhaps.
never been rivaled. During a conversation
with Mr.. Herman at the Hotel Rennert in
Baltimore last week, in company with Mr..
Murray, the manager of the organization,
Herman said of his first meeting with Joe
Hart:
He was engaged to do his speciality at
the old Monumental Theater, and 1t was
really his first try out. He cid not want
any one to have the idea that this was his
first performance, and in order to convey
the fact that he was performer of con-
siderable experience and success, who was
making his first tour in the east, resorted
to all kinds of tricks and subterfuges so
as to make the bluff go. He had just suf
hcient money to pay his railroad fare from
New York to Baltimore, and had carried his
belongings In grip, but. thinking his rep
resentation would seem stronger by the pos
session of trunk. he started out to get one
on what is known as gall He had been
starred considerably in the printing got out
by the paper, and, of course, his name
was more or less Familiarity and favorably
known on this account. at any rate. he
stumbled into a trunk store on Baltimore
street and succeeded in having them send
brand-new trunk to his boarding house. He
was living on the fourth floor in a back
ROOM and in delivering the trunk at the
room the man scratched it numerically in
carrying it up the stairs, much to the cha
grin and modification of Hart, because in
the event of his failure in Baltimore he
would not be able to return the trunk. They
finally landed the box in his room, where he
set about trying to erase the scratches
made in transporting 1t, when he was in
terrupted by knock at the door, and OPEN
ing 1t, found an old variety friend from the
west, who had been on the stage many
years. When he saw Joe trying to rub off
the scratches from the trunk he asked him
what he was doing.
well, said Joe, L have just bought this
trunk, and 1t depends largely on how they
take me at the theater whether l am able to
pay for 1t. so in case l don't make good
want to fix 1t SO / can send it back
- is this your hotel trunk or your thea
ter trunk? asked his friend.
We'll, to tell you the truth, replied Joe
I bought this trunk to send to the theater
a bluff
But, Joe, you don't want to send a
brand-new trunk down to the theater, for
II you do they will think you are an anna
teur. Now you take my advice and batter
and hammer that trunk Scratch 1t all up
Make 1t look as If 1t were an old stagcr
Make 1t look as If 1t had been travelling
with you for three or four seasons, and
chances are that when you send the trunk
to the theater the stage hands and property
man Will think you are the real thing. But
Tor heavens sake, don't let 1t go down there
in it's present condition for then you would
be queered from the start