New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-04
The Theatrical Folk Are AL
ready Hoeing and Raking
and Cultivating, and 1t
Will Be Ready Soon.

I-,HE roof gardeners are mighty ouSE
just now and 1t won't be long De-
- fore their roofs will sprout and bios
,om with the dramatic and thirst quench-
ing fruits of their efforts.
MANY theatres along Broadway have re-
tired behind boarded doors bearing the let
tered announcements 10 whom 1t may con-
Germ that they have done with the season OF
1901 and will reopen at the old stand
early in august with positively the hottest
thing in musical comedy that this innateiy
warm form Of art has seen for many long
wears. Chorus girls have gone to spend the
hot days at summer resorts, where they
are allowed 10 enjoy themselves as long as
II doesn't interfere with their dish hustllng
and cashier stand work.
Others, whose rabbit feet are working for
them, have secured engagements IN the
choruses of summer garden shows. Others
still more fortunate. won't have to leave
their beloved Broadway-may It's shadow
never grow less
There aren't many Of these ultra lucky
chickens The simple answer is that only
one Broadway roof garden is going to nave
a chorus with its show this year. That is
Ziegfeld's racy Jardn de Paris, on the top
Of the New York Theatre.
In there under the roof gardens roof
these afternoons stan OF callous man
ayers and directors with voices like flint
are showing a small army of lucky chorus
broiers and luckier stars just how TO nam
die themselves and the songs.
Here. here you. Miss Babette de Boola-
booa," yells a coatless stage director to
Young thing Of thirty-odd who is going TO
be dressed in a four-year-old costume
haven't you been in the business long
enough 10 know how TO take care or
short line? Don't come down stage like
YOU was approaching your landlady for a
stand-off on your board bill. And II 1t
hurts YOU to get rid Of the words dom
let the audience see 1t. Hide your suffer
ing meath a smiling face, as the poet says.
Now, once more"
And they keep Miss Babette at 1t until
she can shoot that line over the plate
under hand. overland. with either hand. TO
the repressed satisfaction OF the tyrant in
shirtsleeves.
As TO what surprises and sensations there
are TO be In the piece-ah. that would be
telling. They have rule down at the
.Iardin never TO confess what they are
going to spring until they spring it. PA
giarism is abroad in our fair land. and one
can't be too careful with good songs.
When YOU ask them to be specific and say
inst what kind of thrlllers they are going
to spring. they tell you exactly. The an
swer is:
ITS going TO be whizz-a dinger-a
hummer!
Now you know, don't you? One OF their
songs is going to be called Never Again
though. can tell you that much. The
elevator boy who was conducting the hunt
for 1.-THE press agent didn't slam the door
10 in time to hide the view of the chorus
In prosaic everyday dresses with the,'
night hands raised TO high heaven chant
int;
''Never-no ne-e-ever again.
II wouldn't be right to say that the
girls look like everyday girls when they
rehearse in everyday clothes For the
press agent tells US that the show is to
open With 100 of the prettest., classiest.
most charming girls that can be scraped
together with a fine toothed comb. He
ADDS that the scrapins is unusually good