The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-08
EITTERYFELEERS AT THE SHOW
ARNOLD day TREATS 10 TWO
ROT NDS OF DRAMA.

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Theatre that Was Once Mrs. Osborn's and
Is Now Arnold Days For a While. IL was
all on Mr.. Daily. II didn't cost the literary
fellers a cent and a pleasant time was had.
There we're a few moments Of gloom
between the first and the second numbers
on the programme. Early in the afternoon
all hands instructed in the magazine game
got wise ~ the fact that somewhere in the
interior Of that gray jungle that grew in the
right hand stage box there lurked the no
doubt expressive features of Edwin Mark
IAN. Under the circumstances it was
perhaps perfectly natural that a rumor
should gain currency that the management
had been requested to ask the good gay
poet 10 recite The Man With the Hoe
behind "A net. This unfounded report
seemed TO originate somewhere about
T22, but fortunately before it had reached
Go il was Overtaken by a semi-official
denial. Public confidence was at once
restored and the plans already made to
issue clearing house certificates were can
celled. BY the time the furniture movers
came in the third piece on the bill normal
Condl tons had been almost restored.
though a few Of the very minor poets in
the house still kept peering uneasily through
the foliage in that stage box. as II fearing
that Mr.. Markham might leap out from
his ambush at any moment.
One OF the most weighty reasons that
influenced MIR. DAILY in extending his in
Vitation TO the word painters was doubt
less his desire TO obtain a really apprecia-
tive hearing for the canned drama Did he
succeed! Apparently, yes. At all events
one OF the female literary persons present.
after II was all over, met a friend who had
Just emerged from observing the Hippo
drOme mermaids in thu tank and thus de-
scribed the plot OF the hrst piece on the bill:
1T was all just too thrilling for anything,
my dear. There was a handsome girl in
white with a maid in black. and it all took
place in her ~bedroom-nOt the maids. the
girl's-and she was infatuated with a man
in a dress suit who didn't care about il
much. | thought, though he had a lovely
Emperor William mustache. | don't know
how he happened to get in there nj midnight.
Maybe he told. but | was looking AZ that
perfectly sweet little Billie Burke, who sat
in one OF the boxes at the time. and maybe
l overlooked II; but anyhow there he was.
and he had borrowed some money from
the husband. and when hs heard him COM
ing in he jumped out of the window on
top Of two policemen and the husband, and
they didn't like it, any of them. and my
opera glasses dropped On the iioor Just
then. and when l had got them they were
all breaking into the house again like mad,
and what do you suppose? They found
that the wife was lying dead o. a perfectly
splendid white rug and the husband told
VIC BoNlNVIANClh NAlAt AAC ONAAF AlalAl AAAAA u
and the other man got extremely indi -
nant and walked behind % ortiz y AID
shot himself and then came back where
We could all see him and fell down N d died.
oh. il was trem ,rdously thrilling"
II any further proof he needed that Mr..
Days experiment was a dazzling success
IL may he had from n conversation. a frag-
ment OF which was overheard not by any
shopping but just because i couldn't be
helped by any device short of donning ear
NUTS.
First Citizeness-Oh, nave you seen
Madame Nazimova in The Master
Second Citizeness--Oh yes, indeed; nv
gracious, l guess | have. Isn't she
splendid?
First Citizeness-Perfectl sweet. l just
fell in love with her. such aCtingl But
what is that play all about?
Second C~itizeness- Mercy! IdOn't know.
Mamie went with me and she didn't know
either, but we both thought NaZimOva
was perfectly grand. We went to have
tea with Carrie the very next day. Now
you know Carrie has brains real brains
she thought Of going 10 Nassar once-but
she didn't know what the play was about
any more than we did.
First Citizeness- Didn't she like Nazi-
nova?
Second Citizeness-Oh. yes. indeed
thought she was perfectly. grand.
First CitiSeness-Is that true what l
hear about Carrie?
NttOIlu NlNlLFhfbr AlIbs ~ NNil NhC 4
I couldn't make up my mind. but hope
10 is. They have money, you know, and
could afford il perfectly well.
Whatever the rumor about Carrie may
have been, il il impossible to set IL down
here for the reason that the curtain rose
Just then upon the appearance of Nme,
Hanako, the champion bantamweight aC-
trees Of the world. Nine. Hanako entered the
ring at just seventy pounds, and her seconds
said she didn't have to train down at that.
OF course it was only an exhibition one
round 90, but il can't be denied that the
foreigner made a strong impression, 1t
was said that her managers are anxious
90 match her against Marie DOro. give and
take five pounds, the WHINE TO fight Mabel
Taliaferro, sixteen button suede gloves to
be worn and Clyde Fitch rules to govern.
How about jiu-jitsu?" was the pertinent
inquiry of Rex Beach, one of the literary
gathering at the ringside yesterday, when
he heard OF the projected match. Got to
nave some stipulation about that or the Jap
will put it all over the localtalent.'
IL was at once pointed out that as the
Clyde Fitch rules bar scratching and insist
on no hatpinss in a clinch and a clean break
away the inference was that j~iu-jit5u would
have to be cut out. But the managers OF
the little Jap have so much confidence in
her that there isn't likely TO be any trouble
over stipulations. Certainly her footwork
az exhibited yesterday IN avoiding the
snickersnee OF one Masou-O wa quite I'M
common.
fOllOwlnR are the OplnIOnS Oh NaLiOuS
literary persons present regarding the
canned drama. either IA they expressed
them or AZ they doubtless would have done
had they done so:
.. Henry-Quite the most humorous
thing | have seen this afternoon. l am a
humorist. you know. and | see humor IN
everything when there is airy.
Joseph G. Lincoln swabbe my dead
lights at all the weepy parts. shiver me
timbers " | didn't.
iss Maude Fulton-Don't remember
ever to have been more amused by any
body. not even by Eddie Foy,
Charles q. ID. R~oherts-Fine bearskln
that in the first ~piece-never shot a better
one in any magazine.
Witter Bynner-Great possibilities in
the canned drama. | must dramatize
my Ode To Harvard and get Mr.. Daly
70 do IL.
Lloyd OsbourDe-Fine example OF the
art that consoles itself.
Richard LIE Gallienne-Did you ever
chance 20 read my "Odes From the Divan
Of Haiz? Well. in the fourth line OF the
fifth ODE business u running.
After the party was ever a number OF
the elect remained>m met the champion light
weight actress Of the world and inquired
Of her regarding The present state OF the
best contempOraneOus thought in Nippon.
SUMNER COTTAGE BURNED.
The Charred Body Of the Aged Keeper
Ws.n.a la m MAMMA