The evening world., 1911-08-04
ALL BROADWAY
IS bUzz|NG WITH
REHEARSAL NOISE
Everywhere in Theatre Dis
t1ct People Are Saying and
Doing Strange Things.
TT IS A NOVEL SEASON
Vacant Houses, Cafes and Even
Church Used by Busy
Stage Folk.
IT IS A NOVEL SEASON
BY CHARLESDARNTON

By
Everybody along theatrical Broadway
thaos busy days seems either to be go
ING % or coming from rehearsal. For
thAe matter. the scene of this particu-
NJ form Of activity Is by no means
confined to that district where a build
inG without a ~nve-story. Ax-colored
sisOtric sign looks as though It had been
fssrfurly sighted.
% as far as you like of the bruised
- wen as beaten track and you'll still
run the risk OF walking right into a
noup Of strange people. saying strange
things, looking strange things and do
inS strange things.
A far uptown as One Hundred n
Tenth street. for example. there's .
new apartment house. not yet ready. for
people eager 10 pay rent that Is for
tn momen dedicated TO dramatic art.
Part Of It has been thrown open to
actors who couldn't find any other place
in which to rehearse. Drawing room,
dining room Inc kitchen are happily
fitted to the domestic comedy they have
in hand, and 20 they're acting all over
the place, everywhere but in the Ice
chest. Not many blocks away Is a
church, I'm told, thai il making q lit
tie vacation money in the same way.
Here, at least. church and stage have
at last got together!
More novelties are being offered in
the present rehearsal season than ever
before. This fact was proved the other
day, when an enterpr1stng theatrical
manager. who wears the same size col
lar ~ George NJ. Conan. walked into
the dining room Of a we'll known hotel
and ordered-a rehearsal. When the
guests aren't eating there we're re-
hearsing two Of our companies In the
room" he confessed. ''But don't give II
away. II the 8uesus know about II
thy might want us to give en- a free
show during the dinner hour"
A. usual, of course, all Of the thea
tres and halls. not to mention hall
bedrooms, roofs and hr~e-escapes. are
given up to rehearsals of plays. songs.
dances and turkey trots. II you .
a woman singing anywhere within ear
shot Of Long Acre Square o can
mako up your mind that she means
business. PARTICULARLY show business"
WOMAN TRIES HER VOICE IN
THEATRE LOBBY.
Tho other day, for instance. people
In tho Offices OF the Lyric Theatre were
astonished to e someone singing II
the lobby downstairs. Investigar oI
brought out the fact that n Of the
candidate for a place in a Savage oil
Shubert company-voices were beinl
tried OUT on the stage-thought
would be a good plan TO warm up be
fore undergoing the Ice cold test insid'
the theatre. The lobby was big an'
empty, 80 she didn't hesitate TO max
use of It as a recital chamber. She wa
not even dismayed by people from tn
street who gathered in such number
that the house manager finally had I
shoe 'em all out. She san no les
than three numbers from beginning I
end, and did not seem In the least con
sclous that she was doing anythin
unusual.
PERHAPS the most curious rehearsal
of all are those at the Winter Garden
whero the Russian dancers are prepar
ing for the reopening of La Salson DE
Ballots Russes." In order that the
may keep supple while not actual
working the stage has been turned int
a yeritable gymnasium, and here the
perform all sorts of athletic stunts.
Charles Frohman, in his own way,
also qualifying these days as an al
round theatrical athlete, With one lie
IN q sling at the Hotel Kntckerbocke
--as4 tIa nVnlfnl In aRiaA or III
approaching season quite as though "A
attack Of neur1tis had not centered j
self upon a knee that would otherwis
be in particularly active operation 4
this time. However. Mr.. Frohman
NOT 30 seriously handicapped as on
mirht suppose. since he never taxi
personal charge OF rehearsals until h
stars are all on the ground
Just now the star parts" in all bl
one OF tho Frohman plays under r.
hearsal are being played by tho staf
OF the productions, That
10 sag, they read the parts while u
subordinate members OF the vario'
companies run through theirs. IT
single exception TO this rule is Nm
Nazlmova. who is hard at work wi
The Other Mary In which she is
make her first appearance as a Fro
man star. The play Is by a new autho
Algernon Boycsson. 1t to ooihs whlpp'
into shape at tho Empire,
KEEPS ON DANCING TO FIND
NEW STEP.
Donald Brian, who Is to become
star by the grace OF Frohman,
dancing around THE Siren" a music
comedy by the authors OF "The DOLL
Princess" at the Knickerbocker The
tire. When a rehearsal ends he kee'
right on dancing By himself In the hoI
OF CHANGING upon a new STEP ana IN