The evening world., 1903-02-25
Fiddle dee-dee," Weberfields's
Show at Grand 0pera-House,
Even Without Many Original
Z Stars, Draws Crowds.
S0THERN REBUKEs ACTOR.
Mouse Makes lie Debut at P~roctor's
Eleanor FaIk 10 Better-Latest
Doings Of the Stage and Chat Of
the Foyers.

There's no denying that the German
comedian business pays. No knows
this better than Weber & Fields. They
not only rear a rich harvest from pres
ent difficulties with the English Ian
suage. but they keep on fattendng their
wallets with royalties from companies
playing pieces which have long sinco
gone into the scrap-book OF Broadway's
memory.
One of these more than s~elf-Sustainink
aggregattons 10 serving a warmed-over
Weber & Fields dish in Eighth avenue
this week.
"Etddle@Dee-Dee'' 10 singing a song Of
prosperity at the Grand Opera-House
70 The accompaniment of quite as much
laughter as Is heard in the Broadway
music hall. Eighth avenue seems very
well satisfied with substitutes, ana where
Ignorance 10 bliss. It's folly to spend
w dollars.
1t would be more than odious to make
comparisons In such a case. Charles o.
Rice and Fred Cody are not Weber &
Fields, 10 be sure. But that's not their
fault, and they're probably IS sorry
about II as we were last night.
But the chorus girls are real chorus
girls, and are strong and healthy and
willing workers. and sing like every
thing. and are amiable and attractive
and number twenty-six-eount EN-
twenty-six!
80 what does the rest matter, any
way2
Even though Henrietta Lee hasn't had
n cigars m after her she gets
along very we'll in Lillian Russell's old
shoes, knows the secret of style" and
has a voice which isn't to be picked up
on every. bargain counter.
md linen -. t nbs Dorothy Drew: Some
Q better imitation of Fay Templeton
than Dorothy does.
But-remember again. please-Mary's
bus selling matches.
( Sothern Rebukes an Actor,
A member of E. H. sothern's COM
pany. known for hds desire Of notoriety.
went to Mr.. Sothern asked II he
could not ave his photos in h LOBBY
of the Garden Theatre. Mr.. Sothern
turned to his acting manager. Mr.. Ken
needy. and said, with q twinkle in his
aye Kennedy. you will have a small
settee placed in the lobby with oom for
Miss LOTUS and myself and the leading
members Of the company to sit upon.
You will have all the photos Of the
different members arranged conspiol-
Fously. and see that faint lights are
placed about them to illuminate them in
san artistic manner We are then to re-
pair to the lobby at a given time each
afternoon, ait there. admire ourselves.
read aloud poems which we have writ
8 ten about ourselves, and
Mr.. Sothern did not finish, for the
actor In earch OF notoriety a fed,
and no moro requests have been re-
= ceived from him.
Mouse a Star at ProctOr's.
: A woman wildly pointing at something
on the door attracted the attention OF
6upt. King at Proctor's One Hundred
and Twenty-ffth Street Theatre the
other evening. Hurrying to where she
stood, he saw. Oh. horrors!-a mousel
A grab, squeeze and a faint squeak and
all was over. An usher removed the
mouse and the lady was getting ready
10 faint, when the curtain went up
and she concluded she would rather see
the play.
Eleanor FnIk Improved.
There was a great snap at the Casino
last night. The press agent removed the
rubber bandage from Eleanor Falk's
sprained ankle.