The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-26
NEW YORK TALKING OF
TWO FAMOUS WOMEN
Mrs Ormiston Chant Mosic Half Reformer, and Fay
Temp1eton, Music Hall Performer.

: only eight years old, that she made her
initial bow upon a New York stage.
She was a member of Augustin Days
| company then playing in Jim Fisk S
/ Grand Opera House.
Fay Templeton's father was John
Templeton sometimes known as "Old
john" He and the child's mother
headed a strolling company that used
to work the southern circuit with
plays of the East Lynne" type.
1t was after a performance of East
Lynne" in a Southern theater that her
mother led the child before the smoky
oil lamps that served for footlights for
| the first time. Fay was then only four
years old-Gerry and his anti-cruelty
society had not yet begun their work
she had been bribed with pair of gild-
ed shoes to sing, but stage fright got
her, and she chung desperately to her
mothers skirts, turning her head per-
sistently away from the audience.
When the piano struck the chords of
up in a Balloon however. the little
miss straightway began to take no
tice," and before the first bar had been
played through. all signs of bashful-
ness had disappeared. When it came
time for her to begin the song she
stepped boldly to the front, and al
most instantly won the applause of the
audience.
Years afterward she appeared in
"Pinafore," and almost all the other
Gilbert and Sullivan operas. 1t was
she also who sang the leading female
part of Gabriel in "Evangeline," the
first of long series of musical ex-
travaganzas that captured this town,
and practically all the rest of the
United States. and held their ground
for years. "Evangeline," it will be re-
nnembered, had run of q hundred
nights, then almost unheard of even
in New York, though now such a run
is thought not at all remarkable. II
was in "Evangeline," it will also be
remembered that the famous Lone
Fisherman and the equally famous
heifer appeared, Nat Goodwin playing
the hind legs of the heifer.
No stage animal had then remotely
approached the success of that long
famous heifer and, in truth, it was a
funny conception, most humorsomely
wrought out, though there have beer
many better since. Just now the lior
in 1.-THE Wizard of or is the funniest
stage beast going and its antics, to-
gether with the beautiful stage settings
and a generally harmonious cast are
making THE Wizard" quite as much
OF d SUCCESS DIS he fLundWdyS.
So far as the advertisements go,
both these shows are to continue in
definitely, but a good long twist of
such scorching weather as that i'm
mediately following the Fourth will
probably shut them both and the two
other theaters still open as we'll Then
the roof-gardens will be the only
amusements for New Workers. nearer
than Coney Island, until the begin
ming of the regular fall season, which
is bound to be unusually late this year.
1t is now nearly a month since the
backbone of the subway strike was
broken, and the most skeptical even
are beginning to admit that the big
ditch is apparently in a fair way of
being dug and covered from the City
Hall at least to 104th street before
snow flies.
Whether it will be sufficiently COM
pleted to run trains even that distance
this year or not is still question, of
course. That without a strike trains
would have been gliding underground
in New York this year, there is little
doubt, and the progress made since
the resumption of work has been truly
remarkable.
| The small number of accidents