The Detroit times., 1909-06-29
Rl0DOILED ACTORS
EARN GLAD RELIEF.
Financial Losses Do Not Worry
Them When Heat Brings Down
a Fire Curtains

NEW YORK, June z5-WNh no
lamentations or long-drawn signs OF
regret, even though II meant the for
felt OF the weekly salary envelope.
which every player. by bitter expert
ence In summer, has learned to hold
doubly dear. the 80 actors In five
dramas--stragglers of the defunct the
atricaI season--wiped the makeup
from their perspiring faces and liked
for the woods, seashore or other cool
places.
The financial aspect OF the situation
did not appeal to them: they were
glad TO get out OF the infernos or
stages and stuffy dressing rooms alive.
AT no time in years in New York
have actors suffered the torrents they
have undergone this season. Heat
waves--both humid and sizzling-have
hit Broadway before. but they have
generally arrived after the last cur.
tains have fallen on the plays.
The cool weather of the early part
of the month encouraged many man
FHRers Of comedies to try for summer
runs. There had been a boast that
\ curtains would remain up until Sep
Aeemed well founded. Only a fortnight
ago Sir Charles Wyndham and Miss
Mary Moore were crowding the En-
!, pire and Miss Julia Marlowe and Ed
ward II. Sothern were making new
records at the Academy.
As II by some power OF divination
these prominent artists were content
4 TO quit week ago.
Then came the Sahara blast. In the
:aatter of personal comfort there are
probably no places in New York less
calculated to provide II than theater
dressing-rooms-particularly in the old
houses. These apartments the paying
public does not see, so the luxury is
lavished on the other side OF the cur
tain.
Some OF these dressing -rooms last
week were of the temperature OF bake
ovens. Their whiting occupants were
obliged In some cases TO make three
or four complete changes OF apparel in
three hours, and frequently to wear
0vercoats and gloves.
They wer also expected to appear
spick-and-span. unruffled and well
groomed on the stage. They found II
q hard task to present dignified ap-
strips OF soggy tape three minutes af
ter they were put on. or In shirt fronts
behind which rivulets Of Precipitation
coursed until they collapsed into crum
pied and shapeless masses.
They found II trying to make ardent
love In temperature OF 95 degrees; II
was even worse to fly into passions
OF mimic rage. However letter per
feet they We're In their lines. ii wasn't
an easy matter to rattle of dialogue
when they were morally sure that TIE
black pencillings OF their eyebrows
were sliding In small streams down
their cheeks and over their chins.
Ii would have been a salutary les
son for stage-struck girl to have had
one quick glance behind any of the
curtains at the seething members OF
the profession whom she was ambi
tious to emulate.
So the curtains in five theaters have
slid down silently and with no regrets
The Man from Home" at the Astor.
1.-THE Man from Mexico" at the Gar.
rick. THE Third Degree" at the Hud-
son, THE House Next Door" AZ the
Gaiety and "Going Some" at Maxine
Eilfott's theater sang their swan
songs. but the melodies were Of jubi-
lation.
Most OF the actors, men and women.
Loot no time In putting the greatest
possible distance between themselves
and Broadway. At last accounts they
we're all headed northward and still
going.