The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
THE STAGE HERE AND ABROAD
RrFFALO TRAGEDY LIKELY TO
RE ONE OF ITS NEXT FEATURES.
vho'n Ride Into the Quarry IN the Auto
mobile ThouEh?-Demand fer Realism
There-George Lederer to Revive the
Old.StyIe Ballet for His Roof Garden.

mobile ThouEh:-Demand fer Realism
There-Georse Lederer to Revive the
Oid.styie Ballet for His Roof Garden.
Among his many accomplishments Ferdi-
nand Gottschalk plays the piano very well.
He is a great card in society, but is careful
always to pick out the white meat Of tho
social chicken: In a word this clever actor
does not 60 to a house simply because
lie is asked Last Sunday-or was Il Sum-
day eight days before?-he was taken out
by friend to dinner. The affair was
gorgeous the host lavish. too lavish, and
the cooking too noisy for -Ferdie's" epi-
c,rean taste. After coffee he was not
allowed to smoke his cigarette in peace. his
hostess dragging him to the picture gallery.
I, was a long. large, vaulted affair. cross
between sarcophagus and beer tunnel.
The pictures were violently new and shiny.
(inttschalk shuddered, and at intervals
measured with his eyes the distance be-
tween himself and liberty. But there was
no escape In sight.
At the upper end Of the gallery-now
fairly well filed with guests-stood con-
cert grand pianoforte. The beeboard was
open and lis grinning white ivory teeth
tangled the sensitive nerves Of the actor.
no was being towed by the lady OF the house
toward the instrument. He resisted as
we'll as his breeding permitted. He praised
In extravagant terms every bad picture
lie passed or paused before. He held his
companions arm In q tenacious grip az he
explained to this jailer Of the establish
rnent that he dotted on still-life. 1t was In
vain. Then he became angry and glared
about threateningly for the friend who had
put him In the way OF such calamity.
Finally. as he glued his eyes TO an extrava-
CANT canvas representing a tame baboon
reeculng parrot from drowning-he could
not sleep for a week after it's crude color
ing-be was led to the pianoforte with the
sOh, dear Mr.. Gottschalkl Just one
pretty tune. Something by Shobang.'
Madam said the victim In his most
only one potato
Then he went away 10 towering rage.
This recalls the old song: I'VE Don't
Give Bread With One Fish Ball!'
Two men sat in shanley's Palais our
Homards yesterday discussing luncheon
and topics theatrical Said one. who
looked like q stage manager: yes, I've
Thought IL all out. The catastrophe will
make the hit Of the season" The other
replied:
But how the dickens are we TO manage
il. A real automobile can't be smashed
ct every performance
-Smashedi Are you crazy? Ill get our
property man to build dummy and we'll
put in two dummies for the leap into the
The second speaker shook a negative
THAT won't do. my boy. Now II Dave
handled the stage he would have a real
automobile every night and wouldn't care
a hang for the expense
But how about the actors who are sup
posed to commit suicide?'
"Oh, Dave would have real ones. No
papier mache dummies for him. He would
make them take thirty-foot header over
the cliffs every night and fall into real
water. And by golly he would have a
real ambulance with real surgeons outside
every time In case OF broken bones. 1
tell you right now that Dave believes In the
real thing or nothing
The other man was silenced.
From all Of which We may infer that
New York viii soon eco sensational melo-
drama with an automobile a. the pro-
tagonist Else why was Theodore Kremer
Of Fatal Wedding fame in such hurry
Yesterday on the Tenderloin part OF Broad
way?
Manager George Lederer il always plan
ming for at least one year ahead. That In
why he gives such profound personal pleas
ure to his business rivals. His new scheme
concerns the roof garden on the New York
Theatre next summer He has realized
that roof gardens are become tho most
hackneyed form OF amusement; he proposes
TO supply something novel and entertaining.
We suggested that a roof garden without
but simply to consist OF a slice of primeval
nature carved from the heart Of a virgin
forest, would be the ideal.
Where are you going to find such forest
always practical and somewhat Of cynic.
Why not have garden without any people
at alp"
So he detailed his own plan. He is going
back to BLACK Crook days for something
new. Instead OF dainty gauze draperies
and mosquito-nettng ballets. the old
fashioned girl in old-fashioned tights ia to
lie revived 1t Is 70 long since she was In
her glory that she will be ben frordto for
the new generation. II will bring back
Potter and Helen Marlborough were liter
ally pillars Of strength and beauty on the
stage-with Isabella Urquhart in the centre.
a female Atlas carrying the show on her
shapely shoulders. However, Mr.. Lederer
will not dispense with the -broilers.- Popu:
lar taste has set In favor for squads, and
tho smaller they are the better. Neverthe-
less an old-time ballet will draw big crowds
during the dog days
We made a personal canvass yesterday
along Rump Row OF all the actors we en-
countered. The result was astonishing.
To a man, every one agreed that the stage
lrishman ought to be banished from the
boards. And there were not few who i'm
personated such q character. 1t seems that
the red hair, green whiskers and white
liver Is a triad OF hues too much for artistic
sisceptibilitesA Query; Need the whiskers
be emerald? Must tho wig be carnelian?
Can't the liver be jaundiced?
Odder stil was the general statement
that the Hebrew IL not caricatured on the
stage. Phew! The mote and the beam
Of pious allegorists would be in order during
this silly discussion.
One Of the last stories told Of the vener-
able Ernest Legouve is that he went to the
Renaissance Theatre In Paris to see Alfred
Capus's la ChAtelaine,' and for amuse-
ment rewrote the final act according to
his own notion and sent II TO the author.
II Is hardly necessary to add that the clever
dramatist treasures the manuscript greatly.
Pierre Deoourcelle Is angry at the state
ments appearing in the English papers
that 10 bn,xhS sUarfharr from, Crisa ft,li