The Detroit times., 1909-06-30
PARBO|[ED ACTORS
EARN GLAD RELIEF
Financial Losses Do Not Worry
Them When Heat Brings Down
Fire Curtains.

NEW YORK. June 29.-With no
lamentations or long-drawn signs Oh
regret, even though IL 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 90 actors In hve
dramas-stragglers OF the defunct the
atrical season-wiped the makeup
from their perspiring faces and mixed
for the woods. seashore or other cool
places.
The financial aspect OF the situation
did not appeal to them: they We're
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 torments they
have undergone this season. Heat
waves-both humid and sizzling-hayc
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
ayers OF comedies TO try for summer
runs. There had been boast that
curtains would remain up until Sep
ttUnDtT. fOT Il Time the dubltipallOitH
seemed well founded only fortnight
ago Sir Charles Wyndham and Miss
Mary Moore were crowding the En-
pire and Miss Julia Marlowe and Ed
ward III. Sothern were making new
records at the Academy.
AS II by some power OF divination
these prominent artists were content
TO Quit week ago.
fls.C sahn nCff In NO
matter OF personal comfort there are
probably no places in New York Jess
calculated TO provide II than theater
dressing rooms-pa particularly In the old
houses These apartments the paying
public does not see. so the luxury IL
lavished on the other side OF the cur
tain.
Some of these dresslng.rooms last
week were OF the temperature OF bate
ovens. Their whiting occupants were
obliged in some cases TO make three
or four complete changes OF apparel in
three hours. and frequently TO werr
overcoats and gloves.
They wer also expected to appear
spick-and-span, unruffled and well
groomed on the stage They found II
hard task to present a dignifed ap
pearance In collars that wilted irtc
strips OF soggy tape three minutes AZ
ter they were put on, or in shirt trort'
behind which rivulets OF perspiration
coursed until they collapsed into crum
pied and shapeless masses.
They found II trying 10 make ardent
love I'm temperature OF 95 degrees II
was even worse 10 fy into passions
~ mimic rage. However letter per
feet they were In their lines. II WASH
an easy matter to rattle of dialogue
when they we're morally sure that tie
black pencillings OF their eyebrow
were sliding In small streams dowr
their cheeks and over their chins.
IL would have been a salutary les
son for stage-struck girl to have haC
one quick glance behind any of the
curtains at the seething members Of
the profession whom she was amti
tious to emulate
So the curtains in five theaters have
slid down silently and with no regrets
1.-The Man from Home" at the Astor
"The Man from Mexico" at the Gar
rick. The Third Degree" at the Hud
son. THE House Next Door" n the
Gaiety and Going Some" at Maxine
Elliotts theater sang their swar
songs, but the melodies were Of JUDI
iation
Most o. the actors, men and women
lott no time in putting the greatest
possible distance between themselves
and Broadway. At last accounts they
were all headed northward and still
going