The sun., 1909-11-07

ftereon too noticed tho touch oi cotoT
provided by the girls who are to guide
the .playgOars TO their seats In their
quiet gray uniforms with bit OF white
i-at their wrists and throats and splash
OF red in the little reticules that hung
from their waists IL needed only the big
stiGf black bows In their hair to give them
all The attractive air of inofiensive imper-
ztinence that was very pleasing Trim
young persons. those girls
R the ones inside were busw admiring
those who had goneout ON self-conducted
tours OF inspection were having more
than they could do. They were H'ong the
foyer at the hack OF the boxes they were
J M the promenade where an orchestra was
playing and they were getting lost on
. the system OF double decked staircases
that never seem to take you anywhere
and really land you at n given spot much
. more quickly than you expected. They
were looking in ON The tea room snu
perhaus stopping to sit down at one OF
y the little round tables to have one OF the
snniformed attendants bring them some
4 thing over against the dinner hour. they
Z were investigating the coat rooms, where
a check OF certain color belongs to each
room, and they were mounting TO the
'rtop balcony to get look downward az
the investigating parties even wandered
!, balow stairs, where a papeIied room OF
generous proportions with more little
/, round tables offered sustenance for those
who were thirstier than they were hungry
They all were back in their seats or in
other persons seats. however, before
! ithings began TO happen. The footlights
had been turned up moderately Tor some
time and there We're sounds Of the gather
4 pit when Elliott Schenck. the musical
) director raised his arms above his eighty
musicians and there were sounded the
first strains of Beethoven's The Dedica-
ton OF the House"
GREAT FOLKS ON THE STAGE.
when the-red velvet curtains parted a
the house There sat the men who had
planned and built the theatre and the
men who had made it possible Tor them
to do il. And besides there were the CHIEF
guests OF the day.
seated at the right sf a table at the centre
Of the stage. Opposite him sat Coy
Hughes. next to ". N. Vanderbilt. On
Mr. Morgan's right was Senator Elihu
Reots Behind the rows OF guests was
hack ground of palms and boxed bay trees.
andabove them rose the Egyptian columns
that form a setting in Antony and Cleo
on The stage also were Woodrow Will
son, president OF Princeton University;
Nicholas Murray Butler. president Of
Columbia University; Chancellor Henry
Mitchell MacCracken of New York Uni
versity; John H. Finley. president OF me
II. Choate, former Ambassador to Great
Britain: Gen Horace Porter. former Am
bassador to France; William Lyon Phelps,
professor of English literature at Yale
University; Brander Matthews. professor
of dramatic literature at Columbia; VIII,
lam Dean Howells; DR.. Felix Adler. head
Of the Society for Ethical Culture; Hamil-
ton W. Mabie; Richard Watson Glider.
editor OF the Century Magazine Thomas
A. Edison. Prof Schelling Of the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania; George Pierce
Baker. professor of English at Harvard;
Prof HI Fairfield Osborn, vice. president
of the American Museum OF Natural His
tory William Winter, John Bigeiow; wal
Henry Lee Higginson OF Boston and Will
lam Archer and A. b. Walkley. the dra-
matte critics from London.
Among the invited guests Occupying
HGgt-s. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. Mr..
and Mrs. William L. Bull, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Goelet, DR.. and Mrs. w. Seward
Webb, Mr. and Mrs Philip Lydig. Mr.. and
w. Bayard Cutting. Mr.: and Mrs. {. b.
Alexander, Mr.. and Mrs. William O..
Rocker, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hartman. (.
Mrs. Buchanan Winthrop, Miss Mary Win
throp. Mr.. and Mrs. Adrian lselin. Jr.,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert de Forest. Mr.. and
Mrs r. d. Morgan, Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald
de Koven, Mr. and Mrs. Egerton l.. Win
throp. Mr.. and Mrs. c. l: Hudson. Mr.; and
Mrs James W. Gerard. Mr.: and Mrs.
Stuyvesant ChanIer Charles Templeton
Crocker. Mrs. William Ames. Mr.. and Mrs.
A. ID. Juilliard. Justice and Mrs. Morgan
OBrien, Mr.. and Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Morton. Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob HI. Schif. Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer j.;
Schif. Mr.. and Mrs. James Clews. Mr.. and
Z Mrs Clarence Porter. Mrs. Frederick
Nathan, Mr. and Mrs. John Magee. Schuy-
: her Parsons. Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Havemeyer.
I u. ID. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. v. p. Sny-
! der, DIR. and Mrs Holbrcok Curtss, Mr..
and Mrs W. +. Sheehan. Baron Won Esch-
: bach. Justice and Mrs. Charles II. Truax.
Mr.. and Mrs William +. Loeb. Mr. and Mrs.
Z Timothy l.. Woodruff, Mr and Mrs. Rob
ert Eidlitz. Mr.. and Mrs. @. W. Wanmaker.
/. Borough President Ahearn and Mrs.
; Ahearn, Magistrate Frederic KeTnochan,
Mrs. Daniel $. Lamont: Mr.. and Mrs.
) Samuel Hoffman. the Rev. and Mrs.
Charles H. Parkhurst. the Rev. and Mrs.
J Charles y. jefferson. the Rev. Percy =.
Grant. the Rev. John p. Peters, Mrs.
Joseph JeRerson, st. Clair Mckelway
7 Herman Ridder, Mr. and Mrs; Percy
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Damrosch.
Otto nj. Eidlitz. builder Of the theatre.
arose. -In April. 1908, l was commits
stoned by you arcMtects. he began,
> of Carrere & Hastings. who advanced
with his partner to meet Mr., Eidlitz.
with the erection of this the New
Theatre. II is now completed. l there
fore deliver to you the keys
He handed MIR. Hastings pair of silver
keys designed by Mrs. William Q. Deming
aworker In silver who is a granddaughter
Of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
in accepting these keys from you.
Mr.. Eidlitz." said the architect, I'VE musI
express our profound appreciation not
only of your services as a builder but oi
those rarer qualities OF administration
executivsssbility and energy which have
contributed to che success OF this under
taking Then turning to Mr. Morgan
he said:
ITO you. Mr.. Morgan. representing the
founders Of the New Theatre. we delivel
these keys and declare that tits well and
truly built"
Behind : Mr.. Morgan sat most ol
the men who have financed the
theatre. They were George F. Baker
Edmund l.. Baylies, Cortlandt FielC
Bishop, Frederick q. Bourne. Alexander
Cochran pauI Gravath William n