The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-13
KATIE BARRY DISAPPOINTED.
NOT 4 PLAY IN ENGLAND WORTH
SEEING, SHE SAYS.

Went Over 70 Get Some New songs. bu
There wasn't Anything There she
would Have-Waves Green Flag for
Friend who wasn't There to Meet Her.
Katie Barry, the Coincidence, got back
from Europe yesterday on the steamship
Teutonic. She said that beyond the fact
that she was going to do something in the
way OF musical comedy under the manage-
ment Of John C. Fischer she could not
say. She did know that Harry B.
Smith was writing the book and that Ray
mond Hubbel was doing the music, but she
hadn't heard what the piece was to be
called. Incidentally she had heard that a
comedian Of the name Of John Slavin was
to be in the cast. a
The name Slavin IL familiar to me. !
think there is a pri1eighter Of that name,
is there not1" said Miss Barry.
"Otherwise / don't know who Mr.. Slavin
L.. but l guess he. must be all right. else
they would not have him in the cast"
II has been given out here that the piece
in which Miss Barry is to appear first in
Philadelphia in October IL to be called The
Other Locket.' Later it will come into
town.
Miss Barry was glad to get back to the
United States. When the reporter who met
the ship down the bay first climbed aboard
Miss Barry could not be found. A deck
steward whose hair would have been a de-
light to Mr.. Titan or Mr.. Henner was APP
pealed to.
Hi knows 'er," said the deck steward. Hi
tell you 'ow you can find err He took
of his cap and rubbed his hair.
Does you see this1 Well 'ers his worse
than this"
Miss Barry was leaning against the star
board rail tiptoeing every now and then
In order to get a look at the sky line Of New
York. She had been away ever since
June and she had missed the own terribly.
In spite OF her cockney dialect or, rather
accent, she insisted that she was a New
Yorker.
Il have simply been on the other side
trying to get some songs. But there was
nothing there l would have.
They can't write funny songs any moro
in England-I was very much disappointed. y
Miss Barry seemed disappointed at pretty
nearly everything she had seen in England.
There wasn't a play in London worth going
TO-. she said.
very tired of musical comedies, especially II
one does that sort Of work"
When the Teutonic was of the coast
Of Hoboken preparing to head for her
berth on this side Of the river Miss Barry
fshed a green flag from the folds Of her
skirt and began to wave
.It's for an Irish friendUf mine ashore
Does she know that you will have a
green iag?" Miss Barry was asked:
-Sbe7 She? Who said anything about
she7"
It turned out that there was no one at
all to meet her in the crowd Of joyful ones
outside. Il was some time after the ship
had locked that Miss Barry Jaw her little
brother standing at the fence that divides
the elect from those who have not customs
passes.
She climbed up, kissed him over the fence
and then hurried on to get permission for
him to come inside where she was. 90"
Miss Barry had with her a doll that was
just exactly her height. When she brought
Il down the gang plank she resembled
a Red Cross frst aid TO the injured after
a naval engagement. The doll il going
out TO Michigan to make glad the heart
Of q four-year-old admirer.
Charles Cherry, who 10 TO support Maxine
Elliott; Miss Gladys Morris, Cory Thomas
and Guy Cary, also Of Miss Elliott's COM
pany, were others on the Teutonic.