The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-06
HERE'S THE COLLEGE WHOEVER
DOHICILED IN A GIRLS COLLEGE
AND ADEPT Az FOOTBALL.
College Boys Innumerabe Make His APP
pearance at the weber Music Hall
Memorable and Joyous Marie Dress
Ter q Half Back-Scrimmages Great.


Ter Half Back-Scrlmmages Great
The College Nidower" an effort to
have fun at the expense OF George AIDE
was whirled through for the first time
before an audience at the Weber Music
Hall last night The audience was nearly
AS much Of the show as the people on the
stage. The stage boxes were filed with
groups Of representatives OF various in
stitutions of learning, who lent the trad
tonal cheers of their colleges to aid in the
general approval Of the funmakers on the
stage.
sThe College Widower- does not pretend
to be a travesty on the plot and dialogue of
Mr.. AIDES latest play. But it does reach
out with long and merciless swipes in
satirzing the over appreciation OF them
selves and their athletes which is oharac-
teri.ic Of the undergraduates of this day
and generation.
The plot whirs up and down the campus
of Backwater College, an institution for
Young women. The son Of President
Wt6erodioou, a blasG and aTectionate in
diyidial il the college widower. Joe Web
her "a SiHbby a Woody blonde who goes
10 college TO keep the football team up to
endowment of $4,000 is going to bingham
Seminary a Baptist institution for men
unless Backwater wins II football game
from Bingham and gets the money. Shbby
is for getting outside players" at once.
But where will we get them?' asks
Prfsident Wuhoredloon.
Why, say says Stubbv. with visibly
suppressed enthusiasm, Il know a PAIR OF
scnbwomen down in the hotel who '
II there was any more Of that particular
sreech nobody in the audience heard it
There was also much approval for Stubby's
announcement that Sissy Tom pkins Is no
half back she's a drawback
Bonnie Magin and May Mckenzie had
A 70 with eight ounce gloves which lacked
nothing except police raid to diTerentiate
it from occasions which used to be legalized
by the Horton law. but don't go now. Miss
Magin got one on the nose which closed
the bout somewhat prematureiy. though
she did not stay down for the full count.
There are many who expressed the intent
10 60 back tonight, and for a few more
nights until the young women get rid Of
q little Of the animus which seemed to
exist for the few seconds Of the conflict
The Backwoter folks get hold OF Tiilg
Buiin. an alias that did not screen the
Dressler Rdty McGovu announced, 10
the great glee of Miss Dresslers friends on
and of the stage that If her muscles were
rs hard as her face the whole Bingham
team would be in the hospital ten minutes
after the game began.
TiHy Bldtin, left at Backwater by her
mother. the Queen Of the Hashouses. who
has a chain Of college boarding houses
from Maine 70 California, is provided with
check for IS 100000. She is Just prepar
ing TO lift her skirt and put the check where
it belongs when Mrs. Buitin happens to
mention that II is signed Andrew Carnegie.
whereupon 7iHy gives the check to Study to
light her pipe with
Ma says" explains Tiliy, with pathetic
simplicity. when asked why her mother
does not start a boarding house at Back
water that Presbyterians make bum
boarders-they are full Of prunos before
they begin.
There were surprises in the action. None
Of them was greater than that Of the APP
Tearanoe OF Aimee Angeles as a prim and
awkward postmistress OF Squashtonville,
with his freshman daughter Bdge Slick
Miss Angeles got 10 work in her character
and made it 40 angular and bashful and
quaint that it seemed honestly and truly
out Of place with Weber surroundings.
Without he aid of triangulation instrl-
ments il is impossible TO say how tall the !
young woman is. but certainly she is about
the tallest woman in the world
The greatest tumult and the shouting |
came when the six anaemic Baptists of the |
Bingham team eve won't take advantage |
Of you, said Stubby, well let you play |
with six If you want 10 , were followed |
on the stage by the ten pretty girls Of the |
Baokwater team in light blue and white.
The Columbia delegation in the lower right |
hand boxes broke out with a "ray-ray-
ay-C-o-l-u-m-b -i-a Backwater' Prince |
ton In the box across the theatre came /
back with the skyrocket cheer and Yale and |
Harvard came close behind.
Then Marie Diessler came out and with !
all respect for that capacous lady and for
the altogether lovahls overgrown hash !
hlness with which she played her part, it |
must he said that she was not beautiful. |
She had a canvas corsage and rubber |
nose shield and a pair of shoes Of which |
she had occasion to soy: Il know that |
they re too small guess the shoe man was |
night when he told me | ought 10 wear the |
box The colleges had to cheer all over |
again for Miss Dressler
The action stopped altogether before /
the young men got over their enthusiasm;
II seemed, somehow. to be as thoroughly /,
appreciated of the stage as on. The |
the field in bad order and pretty wellstripped .
Of clothing and there was n grand riot Of
celebration in which the boxes joined all I
over gain.
There is a boarding house song by Miss |
nressler and Joe Weber in the first part Of /
the new skit which will not render MIR. /
Edgar smith who built the thing the least |
hlt popular in the neighborhood of the |
lower Twenty streets but which seemed /
10 ii1d deep and sustained echo Of sym
patty IN most Of last night audience