Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-20

other places, you are likely to see supping
Miss Barrimore, Miss Taliaferro, Miss
LOTUS, Miss Scheff and a score more
women stars, when in town, generally
patronize the grill room. In the white
room Oscar Hammerstein usually takes
~supper-dinner. it really is, though midnight
at a corner of the white room, all alone.
P~Iayrights Are Social.
The playwrights seem to be social and
not jealous, for you may see so many of
them gathered that tables are Joined to
accommodate the number. Paul Arm
strong, James Forbes, Henry Blossom.
George Broadhurst and George AIDE may
be seen in one group and the artists fore
gather, too, for viii Fisher-it's "Fisher
girls" now. not Gibson ~girls-Archie Gum.
Eddie Unit, who designs and paints
scenery; Will Barnes, who designs the stun
ming costumes of the stage, and Hy Mayor,
who draws funny things in English, French
and German, hobnob at one table. Victor
Herbert, who really is Irish, in spite of his
slight German accent, comes into a grill
room, a white room or any other kind
of a supper place like a breeze, watts about
from liable to table until he has said
"Howdy" to half the people in the place
before ordering a modest repast impair
TALLY composed of French. American, Ger
man and Irish dishes. If George Conan and
| Sam Harris are not there for supper they
surely are for lunch, for they belong to
a "Knick' lunch club, and every member
must stand for the price of the lunch and
a tip for the waiter, whether he is present
or not.
other managers drop in with friends
George Tyler, who looks ever so much
more as II he had just come ashore from
a private yacht than coming from counting
the house at half a dozen theaters; Frederic
Thompson, so absurdly young looking that
strangers have to be treasured that it is the
genuine Frederic; the Shuberts, suave,
bandyboxy looking, and now and then
Mayer Livingston, little known by the pub
lis, but who is said to be the financial
manager of the theater syndicate.
Homes for the Actors.
Few actors, the reader observes, per-
haps? No, the stars and leading men have
their own clubs, the Players and the
Lambs. and the latter claims most of
those who sup in the Acre district. The
others, the lesser men players, do not sup
at such places as have been considered, for
obvious reasons, or an obvious reason
the price.
The lesser women Of the profession sup
numerously in the high priced places of the
Acre, generally in the company of non
professional men. They sup well, too, and
their presence lends liveliness to many OF
the places.
Leaving the "Knick" and going north II
the Acre. Shamley's and Rector's are mex
in line. The managers of these two famous
places will assert, with some heat per
haps, that there is a distinction betweeI
the class of patrons OF their respective
places. There may be; to the casual OBJ
server those who sup there are much alike
In shanley's perhaps there are more New
Workers, strangers being more likely Il
favor Rector's, but those strangers ar
people of about the same class APPARENT.
in their native Pittsburg, Boston. Phila
delphia or wherever as the natives in tn
other shop.
In Rector's there is a division Of classes
so old patrons assert, which is physical,
marked by a certain aisle. North Of tha
the ushers seat those they size up as OF
certain financial or social standing, sout
OF the line those OF another class financial
a or socially. 1t would, Of course, be unfai
10 tell which, according to the ushers, ar
4 the goats and which the sheep. Perhap
. IL isn't so at all. but the belief that 1t
cannot be disturbed In the minds of thos
a who hold 1t.
Look for Good Food.
9 At the many supper rooms OF the Asto
4 the patrons are not so much OF the elias
who frequent the Acre at that hour pecaus
Il is the Acre. They are more. rathei
q people who are In search Of good foo'
e drink, music ana agreeable surrounding