The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-06
VIRTUE, IN A COMMON CANTER
VULtINY SHOWS EARLY SPEED,
mr. FINISHES ABSOLUTELY.
which I;pltomiyes "a chorus Girls Luck I'm
New IOrk"-Bsd Man May Have been
n Good Painter. hut He was No Artist
Win Drugged wine Its Here to Read.

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Playwright John Oliver had as much
tyoutl, trying to get a suitable leading
yomap for his new wheeze. "A Chorus
Gir's Luck in New York. y which marked
the real opening Of the Fourteenth Street
Thea wires season Of art last night--there
was a premiere on Saturday night. but
that vas Just to see whether the scenery
could stand the strain without extra shor-
ipe-as he had last season 70 get q reliable
Nellie for his other masterpiece Nellie.
the Beautiful Cloak Modul.'
Broadway still remembers the disquie-
tnde Of John Oliver. or Owen Davis-he
writes EN- as well under one name az the
other-when Maude Adams. Margaret
Anelin. Percy Hsswell, Cecilia LOTUS.
Nine. Nazimova, Marie Cshill. Bob Hill
hard, Marie Dressler and others refused
| the rart ~ Nellie when the job was
/ offered them through the medium Of
\ the newspapers The press agent dis
| tinc'ly stated then that there we're tSS
1 per and an accident policy for the wise
! girl that took the job. Everybody named
had a contract or something that interfered.
That was the time the AL Woods press
agent said he was finally driven TO heating
the cables 10 Spain, only to get the follow
ing answer cabled back, so the press agent
saws, in eighteen minutes:
Thanks for generous offer but I'm out Of
the big top biz for good simple life for mine
regards to empire comedy four.
MARY ANDERSON.
MRS. NAvARRo)
As the new play. A Chorus Girl's Luck
in New York" began to take on a more
tangible form than that Of a sad. sweet
dream in the brain Of a creative genius.
the playwright Jaw there was only one
living artistic to take the title part. the
beautiful Vivian Blackburn. Vivian is
the genial show girl Of hat name who 30
ably supported Chloe Weber and n spear
during recent seasons Of Weberfieldian
esthetics. She is the one show girl who
ran rest herself by standing on only one
leE-on only one limb-while supporting
the other side with a spear with sbso-
mtelv M fear that the audience will mis-
take the spear for the other le-limb.
Playwright John Oliver offered Vivian
Blackburn, over his own name Of Owen
DAVIS. the leading part in the play at the
Fourteent' this week and a contract OF
SIS per and found the very day he ordered
the revolvere, the property champagne
bottle and the cask ~ drugsed wine that
are the principal props used in "A Chorus
Girls Luck in New York" In spite Of
the tempting offer Miss Blackburn an
swered on robins egg blue note paper
that "a soon IA she and frankie Bailey
get back from their annual vacation AZ a
swell SIS per joint fastened to the Riviera
and take a couple Of wallops out Of Paris.
France. she's thinking OF rivalling Vida
Whitmore by opening a butter and egg
shack on Sixth avenue around the corner
from vida's new dressmaking deppo in
Forty fifth street.
When Vivian chucked the job IL was
Put let's get at this play.
Walter Atherton. an Artist and Man About
Town. began tn kick the sweet faced Kate
Carroll in the studio last night st SIS
o'clock. as the curtain rises promptly AT
SIS. and when the curtain was all the way
I'D he began to choke her. Already you
have guessed that this great big stiff who
makes you feel like going right up to him
and giving him a good hiss every time he
comes on tho stage. is the villain. The
samples Of his paintings tackled up around
The studio are enough nv themselves to let
Won see what a lowdown pun Walter Ather-
ton can be when he sets his course to he
mean.
Some time previous to the overture by
the orchestra Artist Walter tricked the wan
kdte Carroll into a mock marriage that was
as false as his chiaroscuro. Body and soul
he ruined her and then he treated her like
she was dot under his feet. You'd think
that after baby was born he'd get a bunch
about himself; that the tiny, tender clasp
Of pink little fingers, the dimpled smile that
played across baby's face as angels whis-
pered softly to IL while IL slept; the coo ola
Iftla Xntpa that AMID sGNn 0nn c1iUnnf
Papa. gumpf. Goo goo2"-you'd think
some Of this aope baby was handing out
would make Walter stop acting like an
onion.
Walter would actually listen to baby's
cooling at times and his face would seem TO
soften and he would walk over to baby's
mother and take her in his arms. And
then when he was tired OF choking her he
would kick her in tn stats until Looie Mem
bNmcr. the funny jew, or handsome
'hdriic Raymond, the virtuous wine agent,
or Hero John Baird. the young gold miner
from Nevadar with an income Of SIS every
minute he lived, or heroine Grdce Carroll.
a Chorus Girl and sister TO baby's mother
well, the artist would continue to paste
haby's mother till one Of these good persons.
or often all Of them, rushed in and had the
brute covered with "a calibres quicker than
q blast furnace could scorch a feather boa.
During the first few scenes OF the fifteen
IN the play poor Mother Kate Of the sad
lamps was being choked so constantly that
ste rarely had time to warm baby's bottle
u doodle up the dishes and things. But
after d while mothers little bright eyed
S,stl!h, Grace the chorus girl. comes TO New
York ard gets a job in the Casino at as
a week, or - better than the also-rans.
After the chorus girl comes to town the vii
Ialnous artist lets up on baby's mother
altogether and starts in to drug Grace,
who is now the real heroine Of the show
chorus girling is merely a potboiler with
Grac'. Her real work in life is to make
ne h~eartless artist marry baby's mother;
rot that the chorus girl is keen for having
such trash as a brother-in-law. but she and
hahy''s mother think that perhaps a real
marriage would stop some OF III knock
ing OF the neighbors back home. All the
1ther chorus girls in the Casino thought
ne same thing. The wronged mothers
glrlish dreams Of a happy married life had
long ago been put all TO the pazaz, but still.
as me other Casino girls agreed with Grace.
a real marriage would help some.
there was no use letting the wronged
mother stroll all over New York this way,
WITH a stingy shawl over her shoulders
ana no lid and with shivsry music dog
glng her tracks. Grace the chorus girl told
ms 10 the artist villain AZ soon as abe came