New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-16
FRESH AIR VAUDEVILLE.
Guests at Tribune'S Ashford
Hill Home Take Part.
SOME FEEL DISAPPOINTED
Not Time for All to Show Off,
but Lawn Party May
Give Opportunity.

The dvinC-or dead-theatTiCal season
took a brace last night Broadway may
no, have known it-in fact, probably it
aid motor the evidences Of the brace
took place far from that famous thor
oughfare. and the stars who took part
weren't Of that grasping type that cling
10 the RialtO in the good old summer
time. Not they! They were out at their
country home, enjoying bree2es that
Roadway rocked not of. 1t was a mon
ster house party, and all the notables
were there and did their turns in turn.
In the first place, among the comedians
there was Eddie-but wait.
one Of the verandas Of the country
house had been turned into ali extempo-
rlzed theatre. Up at one end there had
been erected stage. with sumptuous
scenery-composed chiefly OF luxuriant
lunches Of black-eyed Susans-and foot
Nghts-three barn lanterns and another
one.
Before the curtain was raised or low
ered--have II your own way, because there
wasn't any, any way-the gong was sound
ed according to the good OLD custom re-
tic playhouses, Said gong apparently not
producing the expected effect, strong-arm
ushers FASTENED among the audience with
cries of sit down there. kid" the YER
nacular. you will please notice, not being
so remotely suggestive Of Broadway as
the surroundings But to the programme
and the artists and artistes.
Different members OF the critical corps
present offered different opinions as to
which item was really the headliner, but
most agreed upon an antiphonal recita-
ton OF q poem by Aessieurs Levy and
lAntcneln The ygave the piece, as one
might say, prompt page and all show
ing a certain industry in preparation and
q fidelity to the printed page which made
for accuracy # not for artistic effect.
Began the first speaker-after bow, Of
course:
The Landing Of The Pilgrims Felicia
Hemans l793-lS35 the breaking waves
dashed high.
While the second speaker. to whose lot
fen the last stanza ended up:
And they left unstaincd what there they
Freedom to worship God Felicia He
mans.
Then just TO show that the whole show
wasn't to be pervaded by this -ather SOM
bre atmosphere. Monsieur Reilly. virtloso
Of the mouth organ, rendered with tell
ing effect "Everybody's Doing it Now,
and in sooth, soon everybody was
raucously as TO the men and stridenly
as to the woman Of the species IN the
audience. If there was any one over at
the Ardsley Casino, three miles away
and he didn't hear the swelling chorus
he must have been deaf.
The vlg3r with which the song was at
lacked didn't necessarily indicate an OK
elusive taste for rags" however, .or
"Amerlca" and Music IN the Air elected
fully as much noise.
Among the feminine performers Nile.
Freilich. a dainty young lady from Ave
nue. a, won warm applause for her rem
dltion Of
There dandy little feiler.
Who dresses all IN yellcT-
In yeller with an CvercOat or green
With his hair all crisp and curly.
IN tie spTinGtime bright ana carry,
A-tripp,ng Ger the meadow he IS seen.
There was another young lady who
tripped lightly through:
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings OF night
Toward the close she drew from her
hearers some expression Of disgust at
her new Interpretation when she let fall
the. lines:
A feeling OF sadness and longing
That is not king 10 pain.
Like most performances Of the kind
this one did not lack for programme ma
rterial To be quite exact as TO the facts
one or two Of the performers whose
names were well down the list wept when
the final curtain was rung down without
their having had chance TO show their
nstte. But they were pacihed with the
promise that a chance would be given
them at the lawn party on THURSDAY
The show was brought TO close with
song IN which the whole audience
ione6, and which ended with lusty