New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-05
RAID By CHORUS GIRLS.
1t FoIIours Closing of Shoz1 IN the
Princess Theatre.

The career Of The WEST Point Cadet - IN
which Miss Della Fox sought last Friday night
10 win over again Broadway favor. after a re-
tiremant OF some years from the stage, came to
an abrupt ard somewhat stormy end yesterday
terminating in the evening with raid on the
dressing rooms Of the Princess Theatre. where
the play was housed. by the chorus girls OF the
company. At noon the chorus went to the the
atra for rehearsal. but was dismissed At l
o'clock the principals reported. and were met by
Miss Fox and a nurse bearing a certificate
signed Charles c. Rice, n. D.. No. 125 East
Nineteenth-st-.' which stated that Miss Fox
was suffering from laryrgitis, and could not sing
for week at least. Under the circumstances it
was decided TO close the show. at any rate for a
time Accordingly the box ONCE and front en-
trance we're shut up. and when evening came
no electric signs Jared over the sidewalk
But when evening came, came all the chorus
girls. They had heard all sorts OF ruTuors. and
as they had not received their pay-V ednesday.
according TO members OF the company, being
pay day-they became worried and much ex-
cited. About twenty OF them rushed the stage
doorkeeper. who stands at the head Of dight
OF iron stairs on the outside of the Twenty
ninth-st. face Of the building and began TO pack
up their belongings IN the dressing rooms. A
great crowd began 20 collect in the street to
watch the fun. and several roundsmen were kept
busy. Presently the girls began to reappear
from within, again rushing the doorkeeper out
Of their path and filing hurriedly down the
stairs dragging bundles OF half concealed gar
uleRts with them. The crowd sweIIed IA hun
ureds, and RoUndsuan Cory ran around TO the
front OF the house TO tell the managers that they
were being robbed The only man he found was
a representatives Of the Shuberts. who control
only the theatre and he would make no COM
plant so long as the seats and curtain and four
walls were not removed, he said So the girls
were not molested, two of them even being al
lowed to take away trunk between them
Edwin AbeleS the leading man of the COM
pany, who was Tent" by Charles Frohrnan to
Miss Fox, said later that the girls removed only
thelr personal belongings from the house, so Tar
as ne saw. and he was II the theatre al the time
for 1t was generally understood in the company
that Diamond jack Levy. Miss Fox's husband.
was behind the show as its bacEer, and would
pay Up to-day at o'clock. the regular payJtrue.
He was unahie to say when If at all. the play
would resume life.
Neither Miss Fox nor her husband, Mr.. Levy.
was seen last night. At Mr.. Levy'S JeWelry
store. in Long Acre Square, in Broadway two
men were found last evening engaged IN putting
the counter and window displays into safety
boxes much before the regular closing hour Mr..
Levy, they said. was no longer connected with
the store. Nor was he to be found az his home.
No doctor by the name OF c. c. Rice could be
round at the address given.
It is an Open secret that The West Point
Cadet" which iambasted by all the
dramatic reviewers. had done next 10 no bust
ness since its opening. and it is as little or a
secret that 10 further effort VIII, in all human
probability be made 70 show il on the stage. The
Shuberts' production OF Taps" with Herbert
Kelley and Miss shannon, will probably come
into the Princess in a week or two. since its run
at the Lyric is about to end. TO make way for
Otis Skinner