The evening world., 1908-01-22
: Former Edith Kingdom Returns
to Stage for One Matinee
In the Star Role of "ME.
Van Vechten's Divorce
Dance" Supported by Kyrle
Bellew.
APPLAUDED BY SOCIETY
NJ THE PROFESSION.
Great Crowd Listens to Play
let at Mrs. Martins Musicale
Tea, and They Were All
"Somebodies," Too, in
Costly Furs and Gowns.

M oours. you wsnt TO MRS. Var
v~hsn.. Divorce Dance At h Plaza
YESTERDAY afternooni No? What a
nifty. old grill Beasty .hame vol
hnidn't look in. old chap!
Yea there VA a mob. Evsryoody wa
there, and everybody was someooS OK
cent for q few newspaper persons
u-know. There were the Goulds and the
.Astora and the Vanderbdlts and as fal
along as you cared to go IN tho socia'
hp>rister. not to mention a few torelsh
l.ounts-anyhow they brushed their hair
that a
You never saw suoh q crush! Inc
ballroom was fairly squeezed. and a lot
Of us chaps had to foot 1t through the
performance just like the people suAho-
ing In the back Of the opera ohe
humorous fellow-doubtless a newspa-
per person-was heard to remark ne
had been IN society 30 much this week
xhat his feet were sore-vulgar. but fuh-
ny, wasn't lit .,
There were any number Of the old
boys there, from the trust companies
and other downtown causes OF distrusI
II was really remarkable to see the
number of gray old jollyboys who had
Knocked of work early just to chus
ND to Mrs. Van vechten's Divorce
Dance" But of course there's very lit
tie money for them TO take In now
poor old chaps!
The women were all furs and feath-
,ers. Maxine Elliott's furs were as black
as her hair. and the rest OF her was
black velvet She wasn't the least bill
theatrical, and she went home very
quietly at the end Ethel Barrymore
stopped to talk and her hat and things
had a few words to say for themselves
Arnold Daily, who's going to be a
drawing-room actor, wal there TOO
rather taking II away from the society
actresses.
Isn't 1t funny, by the a that soci-
ETY. people will go out OF their way TO
see acting when It's all around them
TO morning again!
Crush Delayed the Start.
But we're a long time getting to Mrs
Van Vechten's Dance" aren't we? It
was quite like that yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Frederick Townsend Martin, who
lured US into the thing. CAV 1t out that
the play would begin at 4.So, but 1t was
some time after that before the ushers
could take a long breath. They were all
from the front families, but only those
IN the know could tell them from the
hotel people.
At last George jay Gould, jr., and
IT. - r.Nr-al n,t ttyNnn the
sta ge In silk Knockers, powdered Wigs
n all that sort of thing, looking as
silly as you please as pages. and then
douse went the glim tout Went the
lights, " know. and there you were
taking a peek into Mrs. Vans oudoi
That author chap. Edward Van Alle'
who dashed off the thing, knew what ne
was abo when he started like that iot
there's nothing quite so "intimate as a
boudoir scene. with pink slippers and
other pink things about.
Marie turned up the lights, and chat-
tered a bit in French and English JUST
to give everybody an equal chance TO
understand her. Mrs. Pruyn was Marie
Then Mrs. Gould-Mrs. George. y'know,
who used to be Edith Kingdom down
at Daly's-came on as Mrs. Van, looking
as fit as the fiddle that was playing for
her divorce dance off stage. She was
plump and pleasant and she belonged
to her gown. She sat at her dressing
table, tossing a word or two at Marie
and reading a note or three. There
was one from Freddie Martin-fancy
that!-and You should ave heard the
audience laugh when his name popped
out! Freddie wrote that he couldn't go
70 sleep without telling her OF the de-
light she had given ham by coming to
his tea. Freddie tailed off with a word
bout the passion that burned under
his calm exterior and then came this:
"P. S.-Don't drop this in the Plaza"
The Divorce Dance.
Another note was from one OF Mrs.
Vans divorced friends in Sioux Falls,
She wasn't at all enthusiastic about
South Dakota, and she congratulated
Mrs. Van upon having secured a home
made divorce. But she was enthusiastic
about divorce.
'They say" shc wrote. that the
Bottled ONLY In Dublin.