New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-28
BROADWAY IN SUMMER
Actors Who Do Their Boating,
Bathing and Fishing on
the Great White Way.

The only actors You redQ aDout III SUM
n1er ere those who have their estates in
Maine or in the Thousand Islands or their
Villas along the Mediterranean. And the
pictures to which the worshipping readers
81 theatrical magazines are treated in
summer are those Of Miss So-and-SO TAX
Ing her morning plunge at Mount Desert
1v Mr.. feeding the chickens on his
estate at Rye, or Nine. -, the great
French actress having. her afternoon
coffee in the pergola of her summer home
by the Italian lake.. And one thinks. oh,
hat magic land, the stage; if only had
been born with a talent for acting instead
Of with my genius for bookkeeping or for
selling ribbons
Meantime there e no more actor-popu-
'cus summer resort in the world than the
Great White Way. The theatrical hopes
and ambitions that rise and fall there
every summers Gay between 3Sth and
18th streets far eclipse in volume the cele-
waited tides the Bay Of F1indy, for the
chief sport and pastime along Theatre
lovers Lane during the season OF rest
and recreation is looking for job, And
certainly there Is no sport either amateur
ol' professional. fuller Of thrills. Whether
next fans gagement is to be or not to
De found that day is the question that
Eovers in the air each morning and keeps
.he atmosphere far more tense and full
If "Iumzu interest than any mere wave
washed beach or innane tennis and golf
'CaA mountain resort could be. And
whore beside the Italian lakes could one
find c tootTatl and properly mixed btv-
cfagc with which as d setting and an &C
compartment 70 talk over ones past the
atricaI t-iumpls and to tell OF the brill
!ant offers from BelaSco and Frohman
which one has turned down? Besides, who
knows that the actor who is Dragging to-
day may not have something 10 brag
about tomorrow? The wheel turns fast
Cor the noraad. and the Three Fate Sisters
rs the gpinners of the human wool are
i1aovn in vaudeville seem to take spe-
cial interest in the followers Of the stage
Perhaps the wearcr OF boot and buskir
who weaves tapestried fairy tales about
his past over bis dry Martini to-day may
tomorrow DO aboard a train for the
Southwest TO play Shakespeare to The
indians.
that keeps the air over Theatre Alley
quiverins there are adventures enough
going on every day TO make Alexander
envous. The coubrette. who has been
going the rounds every day for five weeks
from agency to booking office and been
Iurped away with machine-iike regular
ity. until every manager in New York
has had the opportunity of telling her
she cannot act. has decided on strategy
to-day She sits in an anteroom wait
ing for the manager who is least likely
TO remember her. She Is heavily yelled
and dressed In distinctive mode not
native 10 these shores. When sum
tnoned TO the managers sanctum-that
bourne whence most travellers speedily
returIr-she walks with an undulatiDg mo-
lion and quick stem also not native to
these regions.. She has been announced
as Nine Odeska. ana when she sails with
AL the unconscious self-assuredness and
peise Of the OLD World into the presence
of the manager, she breaks into a gush-
ing little speech in a most winsome Rus
rian accent The great man who had
received and scorned her several weeks
ioh in the chorus of a musical show, now
slowly relaxes his set expression at tho
liudulatfcns OF voice and figure which are
beseeching him for an opportunity TO
display in ices new country 10
char-r-rms which won ze plaudeets In
Moscow and Warsaw last year." half
hour later she rushes out with contract
10 play a French maid In a new American
t,laywrights latest attempt to draw a
rank picture Of London drawing room
life. and she waves the contract in the
amazed faces of "a bunch of the kids
whom she finds standing outside on the
street corner wondering what Office they
will try next.
"Trip In" she advises, and try II
yourselves. They won't believe you can
sct if you are on the level with them.
It's some comfort, believe me, to be
actorine enough to take ia one OF those
guys that knows so much about acting
that you can't ever do anything right for
him"
And the crowd on the corner who sll
have told tales Of marvels and miracles
themselves, smile as the ecstatic Crystal
line passes on.
she might know better than TO try 70
put that over on u.s." muses. one Of them
sagely, meantime considering the advisa-
bility of going and doing likewise herself.
Let the attention Of those who laugh at
Hsmfatters Row. as the pitilessly scorn-
ful call the sidewalks OF Theatre Lane in
summer. be called TO the fact that things
and people theatrical form the only color
element there is native TO New York in
these times The loud clothes OF the
actor and the daring ideas of dress en-
braced by the actorine have the advan-
iags at least OF relieving the monotony