New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21
ACTORS VACATIONS.
Where Popular FaUorites Wtu Spend
Time When Theatres Close.

One by one, as May runs its course and the hot
weather approaches the playhouses of Broadway
are dropping their vacation curtains and boarding
I'D their front entrances, said boards being duly
decorated with promises of early. opening in
something new. One by one the road companies
beginning to struggle IN after more or less sue
cessful seasons and the stars who are touring
the country in private approaching the end
OF their routes
Vacation time for actor and actresses is at hand,
and no class appreciates vacations more. Yet they
find the problem of what to do with the precious
weeks between the time of final closing and the day
when first rehearsal is called at the end of summer
a difficult 1t is surprising how many have
no definite plans at this late day.
1T is simply impossible make a choice of the
dozen vacations that appeal to me-" said young
woman who has delighted Broadway audiences for
hundred and "steen' nights this last winter. Il
have so many kind friends, and they all to
want me this summer and there is Europe, and
yachting, and automobile tour. and oh. and
everything but trip in airship. l do wish some
one would come along with nice big airship!'
But. seriously, the effort to get the most out of
the few short weeks of pIaytime is problem and
The Tribune has learned how a number have
solved it.
There is just place on all the earth for
summers rest-and that is home" said I avid
Warheld And home to me is California
want to see my mother She is out there all alone:
and in spite of success and its rewards the time
comes when feel only too glad to set them aside
and forget them, just to live the simple life once
more, alone with my mother at home 1t has
been long season ia The Music Mnster-nearly
300 n!ghts-and really 1 feeling tired: not tired
OF the part and the play. for both are so human
as to be always new, but physically and mentally
tlTeu from the strain and responsibility which the
conscientious actor always feels toward his a1I-
dlence SO am going to where there is only an
audience of one, and that my mother; and we
VIII talk over old times. and drive about Frisco
together. and I shall tell her how good and kind
faraway New-York has been to me- She will be
more pleased and contented than if this success
were her own, and I shall take more delight in
her praise and quiet applause than I have had
from all the three hundred crowded houses of
this long season Meantime, all this will be the
best kind Of a rest. and then back again to New
York with fresh store Of energy and enthu-
siasm to please the people whom 1 have always
found appreciative and generous"
Arnold DAILY who has registered such a success
with You Never Can Tell" starts shortly for a
long holiday abroad. He will spend time with
George Bernard Shaw whose plays Daily has at
last succeeded in making profitable. They will
meet at some quiet country place outside of Lon
| don and go Mrs Warren's Profession" and
! John Bulls Other Island which to be pro-
| duced here next year.
| The vacation of John H. Stoddart, who, now that
| Jefferson has been called TO his fathers, Is the
veteran actor OF the American stage, has already
| begun. Part of it enforced vacation, as he
| broke down while playing Beside the Bonnie
| Brier Bush in Canada. He has a country place
| at Sewaren, y. J., quiet country village and
| there he will rest and endeavor to recover his
| health. 1t has been seventy years since he
| first appeared on the. stage and IN that time he
| never disappointed audience before his break
! down in Toronto April 10.
| John Drew takes about the sort Of a vaca-
ton every year. He has a beautiful country home
| on the sandy dunes near East Hampton, Long ISL
and and he goes there with his wife and his daugh-
| ter Miss Louise Drew, who has already appeared
| on the stage in several productions. For Few
| weeks he plays golf with his netghbor Or. JACOB
Gould Schurman of Cornell University, and others
| of the Easthampton set. He drives and rides over
| the beautiful roads in that part Of Long Island
| When he is back to form, Europe calls MIN, ana
ne sdenos and te on the Continent picking up
English society play With Thch sort the name u
| Miss Marie Tempest has some weeks Of work still
June and play for five weeks in the British capital,
E Nh 60 for brief rest to her summer place in
Chauncey Olcott is still welded to Saratoga
! Springs, where he has house which ATTRACTS all
visitors II Is known as rhe Of no 5ouse faces
| away from the street on beautiful old fashioneq
garden which is Mrs Qlco parTcHiar PTGe, co aa
Portable dwelling, thoroughly Colonial even 10 the
! and their turnouts attract much attention even
! in the racing season. when Saratoga goes morse
Mrs. Minnie Madden Fiske's vacation this sum
me- T De nt s6e has Visited the Pacific Coast
| and the Northwest Her tour will end the first
| week in July After a trip through Yellowstone
| National Park she will go to her favorite spot in
| The Ad5rondacks, to remain until rehearsals sum-
| mon her back to New-York. During rehearsals
| Mrs Ffske escapes the hot summer nights by liv-
| ing at a country club not far from town
| IS one Of the undecided california will
| probably call again this summer" she said
| to a Tribune reporter. although it is my fixed
| Intention at present 10 spend the few vacation
| months abroad. I would not be surprised however
! If June found my much loved Western ranch
| Diistn Farnum. The Nirginian is also between
the devil and the deep sea as to vacation plans
TIe has hunting lodge UP the river from BuckpOrt
| Me and a yacht Massachusetts Bay, in which
| he usually cruises up and down the coast. He has
| TIE automobile craze and would like TO tour through
! France in a powerful machine Then again there
! IS a most enticng invitation from Mr. Moncrief
! the brother of the Duke of Sutherland, and man
! aeer of the AnRlo-Amercan Cattle Company. ia
| ride with mighty roundup over thousand
! miles OF wyoming range country. The ride will
! cover the haunts in which Owen Wister found the
original characters Of his romance. and it is more
| than likely that Farnum will join Frank Campeau
| who plays Trampus in The Virginian," in this
| roundup.
Miss Maude Adams will spend part of her, vaca-
ton on the beautiful country estate which she has
| laid out the centre of Long Island, Lake
| RonkonKoma. She leads sort of hermit life oil