Evening star., 1903-08-01
THERE'S PATH0S, TOO
Broadway Strollers Who Pre-
tend to Be Gay.
MAKING BOLD FRONT
MISS MAG. THE SEA AND HER
MIDDAY MEAL.
A New Industry in the Line Of
9urglarizing Start
ed.
MAKING BOLD FRONT

| NEW YORK. July 81 1903.
Now Is the season when the actors and
actorines own Broadway. But this joy
| should not be begrudged them. Most Of
| them look If they needed to own some
| thing. One out of ten of the men has A
| well-kept look. The other nineteen are
frowsy. dandruffy. unshorn. unkempt. The
reason for this is an easy one. There are
too many actors. just as there are too many
sand feas and barrel organs. Most of
these Broadway corner loungers Of the
stage look healthy enough. yet few, if. in
deed. any, of them seem to have heard OF
the imminent need for farm hands in Kan
sas. This In itself is bit strange. consid
ering that slews and slathers of the Broad
way lollers. when they work" cover the
hanky -pank circuit. which includes Kansas.
The actor with the shave and the brush
| off-that one out of the twenty--joss along
Broadway with a furtive. not to say
hunted, look In his eye. Well might his
eye wear that look. He is kept busy from
fiag-fall to finish ducking the touches of
the unkempt. At this of the year
| an actor with 81 in his clothes virtually
carries his life in his hands when he takes
the Broadway air. The dandruffy bunch
Will do everything to shred him OF the
/ tirlug dime or the Secretive and baSnful
two bits but benumb him with q piece Of
gas pipe wrapped in a newspaper-and
they'll even think a couple Of times about
that. 1t Is an interesting spectacle to be-
hold fourteen actors awaiting their turns
| to touch one of their mates with whole
pair OF shoes and an unfnked hatband for
| the laundry money. Speaking of laundry.
these theatrical loungerS OF Broadway en-
| Dloy an ingenious scheme at this busted
| season of the year. They wrap their lin
| gerfe up into many different little parcels
and take 1t to as many different laundries.
| Thus, shirt, collar and pair OF cuffs here
| a pair of cuffs. collar and shirt there. This
simplifies matters for them They do not
| have to annex the price wherewith to re-
deem whole package Of lingerie at one
| fell. collaps!ng swoop. And they have the
! satisfactory feeling that at any time they re
able to snag out the merry. mocking IL
| cents they'll be able to redeem one shirt
| one collar and one pair of cuffs anyhow
| all cleansed. froned and reauy for use In
| making front and flash. Oh there's
pathos in the annals of the busted hams,
Inc actorines VINO traipse around the
Broadway theatrical agencies looking for
work have. too. for the most part that
| urscree1able look which unerringly be-
| tokens helpless. if hustling, impecuniosiiy
lhey swish voile skirts that are very much
| vGile indeed. and they TIA ia" and "HeIlo'
each other with a stimulation of cheerful
| ness that weakly wells their internal worri-
mont over the frequent and clamOrous
visits OF the flat agent and the installnent
man.
Swirling. then. In the middle of the ty-
| phoon of trouble that. for most of Them is
destined to know no alleviatOn. do any OF
| theSe actors or actoriReS ever think of re-
| linquishing the tie that binds them to the
stage? Well, ask any Of them-him or her
TEey never dream of such a thing If the
radlum OF optimism sold at ST7I,op' an ounce
as the radium of commerce does your aver
| age actor could hook himself for millions
and live splendiferously for the remainder
OF his days. Hope never dies in the midrff
of the ham-or of the hamette. The Broad
way-strutting actor patrols his free lunch
beat along the great white lane during this
caioric dog-day season. minus the price OF
three-for-1ve Porto Rico smoke stick ami
ne exudeS the south breeze about the ia
oilers that he's already had to ''go OUT 1T
two hundred and half a week with just
as much chic abandon as If he believed
his listeners believed him. He knows that
they do not believe him-does he beIiey.
them when they deliver their counter-ex-
uGations about their own multitudinous
offers at three hundred and a quarter a
week but that dee Snt bother him. The
summer-becalmed actor on Broadway totes
within his torso just much hot air which
and 1t be not liberated through his teeth, is
! liable to carry him uD into the air on
tangent. Therefore he literates it and
| feels better.
Similarly. the winsome and vivacious
actorfne-whose French heels you observe
are so run over that the wood in them
| protudes in sad splintery way-is not
going to think of "yong OUT this year
unless she is booked for straight forty
two weeks at leading business, with the
| emolument Of at least two hundred per
no. indeed. she isn't-watch little Leonora,
| She's tired of understanding sticks Of wo-
men who have got about much idea of
| the art of acting as Chinese carrots-oh
nothing but leads for her'n this ap-
! preaching seaSon-just you wait and see,
| Hopeful. hilarious lot the stage folks,
| Gay dogs. too, under the most adverse
conditions. Hear them make the Broadway
welkin ring with their minor league. one
night-stand. ten-twent.-thirt. witticisms, !,
| Observe how. even in the midst of their
inward speculation whara he Inn. n
money is to come from, they critically ex-
anime the conformation and jib-cut of the
annoyed women whose business compels
them to pass through the double row of
| ogling actors on Broadway. and listen to
tie acute. not to say the anatomical. criti-
cisms which they raucously deliver upon
must inevitably hear them-such village
cut-ups. such township leases. such mad
wags. these lounging Broadway actors
are. to be sure, Note with what tender in
fexion they address the modestly pretty
shop girl who is obliged to pass their
corner baby and little wan and
.'p cous petite" 1t must be true, then.
that axiom. Boys will be boys and yet
some of these Broadway loungers of the
stage have rhinOsceros folds in their faces
from many years of close shaving the
hair of many of them is scanty-and yet.
Oh what eut-ups,
Like the Fun.
How keenly the New Workers enjoy it
| to be on the financial rocks. During the
great Wall street dump last week the word
was passed around town. Jim Keene is
| broke" And. positively, the town looked
delighted. A little later. when 1t was found
that not only was Jim Keene not broke.
but that he was very far indeed from ..ly
$ lch dismal coEditiN~. t0"- d!sHN-'s'+ad
the New Workers looked. They looked i'm
rcsed upon-wh,t right haH in ''He
not to be broke, anyhow Mr.. James r.
I>eene tinancier most aStute Well
daring has been down and OUT many
times during his long, comet-like career
on the market. but it is pretty slfe
presumption that he never felt SO hH"'y
about it at any time, as the New York
ers seemed to feel when il was announced.
this time that he really not down
and out again. Why? 1t would be hard
t. answer that question.
Mr.. Keene has been pretty friendly to this
community He has spent great many
millions of dollars here. He is the sort of
man who stands by his friends. He has
got rich about dozen different times by
minding his own business. And yet the
New Yorkers wore joyously sardonic smiles
OF contentment when 1t was thought that
Mr.. Keene had not only gone to the wall,
but that he was hopslessly In the hole.
And 1t Is the same with all of the other