New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-25
STAGE CHILDREN IN
CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL.
They and Their Elders Have
Merry Time in Annual Event
at Criterion Theatre.
THEN COMES SANTA CLAUS
Later Youngsters of the Foot
lights Depart with stomachs
Full of Supper and Arms
Bullying with Toys.

Miss Ynez seabury, one ~ the most no
table performers on the contemporary
stage I'm parts requiring the righteousness
Of youth. appeared last night at the Cri-
torion Theatre and delighted a large audi
ance of trained observers I'm matters theat-
riral I'm the portrayal Of little girl or FOUR
years telling Of the intimate desires OF ner
heart that must be realized to make her
life a perfect and UnclOuded dream
According TO Miss Seabury's account the
child whom she represented was the
daughter Of a successful broker. ana sne
lived I'm an apartment house with eighteen
elevators and a corresponding number OF
rubber plants in the entrance hall but
rcvt door there lived another little girl
whose hair hung down her back IN TWO
long braids that were done up In the morn
ing and lasted through TO the next morn
inc She did not have 10 be careful OF her
fruIs and she ran free In the streets ana
know the milkman and the grocer's boy
and all the other important persons OF the
reighborhood. in fact. she was the JAM
tors daughter. and Miss seabury's plant
vas. WHY was [ born a brokers' child in
stead Of the ianitor's daughter
II was an extremely natural complaint IN
the New York Of the present day. though
few years ago the great desire or chiidhoou
was 70 be a car driver and sit on the one
legged stool which In those glorious DAYS
hung rom the dashboard OF the bob-tailed
car and nonchalantly twirl the brake
handle and say "Gid-dar," to the horses
and mass unnoticed old women standing on
the street corner and franucally waving
parasols. and stop for all the pretty girls.
But NOWADAYS there is only the janitors
daughter for the child Of the rich 70 envy,
and Miss Seaburv expressed her envy Win
all the artIessness OF a very little glrl
conDding her troubles 20 ner dollie.
You see. Miss Seabury is four years Ole
herself and so she knows all about how
little girl Of that age talks and acts and
lust what she wants. The occasion or her
presentation Of this difficult part last night
was the stage children's Christmas tesu-
val and she was only one Of some thirty
Of those youngsters who, II not actuaHy
born behind the footlights, know a great
deal OF what goes on IN that land OF de-
Ughtf,n mystery, and entertained their ELDERS
and friends last night with their concep-
ton Of the proper style for doings on the
stage.
This. however, was only one part OF the
stage children's festival. After the per
Torrance there was a supper in style and
quantity 70 suit the appetite Of childhood
in the concert room Of the New York The
atra. and there a Christmas tree was I'M
yelled and each of the children received
as many presents as he could carry away
But Miss Seabury does not alone deserve
mention among those who took part IN
iast nights performance. There were. for
exanple Miss Helen Ghetto and Miss
Helen Wilmington. who played the young
elopsrs I'm a brief play written for them by
Augustus Thomas Miss Chieffo, az Mas
ter Harry. could not have been asked to be
more careful Of his inamorata; but Miss
Wilmington, az Norah. gave excellent adj
vice 20 eome Of her elders I'm the audience
when sh- aid at supper in the Holly Tree
Inn. wh-.. hey were waiting for the cart
10 take to Gretna Green: 7 don't
want 20 BE- ssed so much. l want 70 eat
Master Kenneth Casey, who was exhibited
on the programme as the youngest cornetist
In the world, dashed on the stage in suit
OF yellow satin B. Y. DIS and a pair or
legs that would have passed through his
cornet easily had It not been for his knees
His lungs. however, accomplished what his
legs could not have done and filed the cor
net excellenuy. Master Kenneth, in re-
Spouse 10 an encore. appeared more modest
~ attlred and sang a couple OF ditties, one
OF which related 10 the dangerous arts Of
Jimmy Valentine, when he gets out again.
and the other described the singers sad and
neglected life. and declared his intention 10
eat a frog and croak and thus make every
one sorry they had neglected him so.
The performance ended with the dances
Of the nations. the last Of which was the
American dance. by Miss Margaret Not
worthy II was easily TO be recognized "a
an American dance by the costume Of the
dancer and the patriotic airs % which she
applied her graceful agility. The Entwisie
sisters did the Highland sword dance.