The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-12
Gay. Brilliant, Wicked Broadway
Casts Of Her Summer Mourn
ing Garments and Pre-
pares for Season.
THEATRES ARE OPENED
Lobster Palaces VIII Soon be Filled
With the Merry Throns Whose
Only Thought is
Pleasure.
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NEW YORK, Sept. Broadway
has DOTTED her summer mourning, for
her children are coming home. Once
again she is arraying herself In her
wondrous garb of incadescents TO
beam welcome to them. The old
street is awakening for another win
ter, and hearkening to the call. from
the far ends of the land, the followers
Of Thespus are Fastening.
The playhouses, refurbished and
smelling of new hangings and fresco /
paint, are swinging wide their doors: /
familiar names flame out against the
sky, and new ones are making their
debut. The cafes, In their marble
and tinsel and lights, are hustle. the
Bohemian" resorts, with their mys-
tic menus and picture puzzle foods.
resound to the nasal chorus of laugh
ter and cabaret songs
Takes pipe out a snort OF Joy. as
they view the increased number OF
dinner coats and dress suits saunter-
ing by. The hat boys and the waxed
mustached walters, whom the elite
now call igarcons,'' are having their
tip pockets looked to, and Mimi, Fiji
and the rest Of them, are hurTying
from the seashore. to supply the
background for it ALL
But It's the children of Broad way,
who are greeting her awakening with
the greatest Joy. Eiated. anxious or
respondent, they are trooping up and
down, in and out of booking offices
and stage entrances. The dignified
'slegits,' whose names are byvords,
the flittering musical comedy people,
and the army OF unknovns, who come
annually into Broadway. hoping 10
stay, and yet knowing that in q
month, they'll be enronte with rom
pany two TO play the tank towns
all are here
Accents that have IanguEshed and
died back home are being reborn
The atmosphere Is Uttered xfth the
remnants Of discarded RS and the
street is filed ~ith footlight pronun
Citations The newcomers. grist 70,
the mil. that needs such big har
vest, fit IN and on. Of the panorama
One tells them al q glance. Ths5
lack the saToire fafre, or in piaiu
American. the four f1ush-that
thrlYes on the var. with only Z
walking stick and shave as scces
soriea.
An, but the abroiiers.- the statues
que shoH girls. the mediums. and the
rest Of the feminine space filters
around which Broadway builds iii
shous. Heavens what an army d
them Arrayed. costumed. bedecket
ana gwathed in sheer-oh such yer.
sheer styles, they drfbbIe liquid,
through the melaHge Of contrasts. dis
pisying remarkable former forms
Last year il was the hobbie. the tigh
skirt and the Low neck, with shor
sleeves This rear neckg are up. bu
skirts-are nearly gone.
It's the .Rohespierree style Of If
dress, that marks the last word O
Broadway this autumn n has q sol
Of military coat. brevet collar an
high tight waist The dresses ar
usually made Of shimuery silk, an
the SKIRT distinctly singular IL rid
and flowing That IS, # is vide an
flowing in 4 perfect calm.
The eat-as-you-go places are rea
ing their temporary hauests Geora
and John and PerciYa' are stir ava
With their mammas and papas
Newport or Atlantic City or Main
Next month they'll be back in Ne