New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-12

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list of headners at present offering one-act pavs
;scoSes no fewer than twenty actors and actresses ~
ability. There are Robert Edeson, Thomas
Wise Bertha Kalish, Blanche Walsh and, until recently
there was Nat {. Goodwin who, truth to tell drewa
ho salary less because of his really great htronic than
because of his matrimonial versatility Frank Keenan,
Edward Ables and NIaclyn Arbuckle (who has made
hit in Robert Davis clever comedietta, "The Wecherr1
have been stars within easy recollection and are now
IN vaudeville as are also Amelia Bingham, W. H
Thompson, Mabel Taliafcrro Edmund Breese, Nora
Raves sam Chip. and Mary Marble. Vaudeville nro'
dces its own uminares too; Cisse Lotus, for example
and Elsie Janis who did a speciality" for years before
She was taken up by Charles Dillingham;
MANY of the clevercst entertainers in the world are
identified exclusively with the varieties. There are
Yvette Gubert, Albert Chevalier, Harry Lauder, and
Alice I1ovd each of whom has following large and
apprecative as that of Maude Adams or John Drew
year after year making themselves solid with a class Of
iheaergOers that has come TO depend upon them for
half an hour of amusement. CreSSy and Dayne are
among these as are Mr. and Mrs Perkins ID. Fisher
Clayton White Carrie de Mar irene riailk4' ana ION
Nawn. George Cohans career began in vaudeville, and
no one who has owed twenty minutes OF laughter to his
ah;Iitv as raconteur will forget the late Ezra
Kendall. Such men as Jesse Lasky and Joseph Hart,
recognizing the opportunities OF the TWO Gay, have
made elaborate productions of what really little
musical comedies and have presented them as part Of
regular variety bills Mr.. Laskys The Love Waltz
and AT the Country Club were as pretentiously
STAGED as anV single act IN comic opera
TT 6 not NV desire or disposition to deny the clever
ness Of these people or the attracvencss Of their turns
doubt that today the most wearled theaergoer could
find vaudeville bill without one or two numbers that
vod entertain him. The point IS that tins amusement
nl,rr world be obliged to take vast quantity Of chat
with his wheat to review endless procession Of clog
dancers trick bicycsts, wire walkers, trained animals
tramp comedians acrobatS, and equlDnSS before com.
ing TO that part Of the program when mgnI 'T hm
q he qu,a
inspiring quality Of their English and for Their persist
ence in performing dangerous teatS that, |acn per.
formed add nothing TO the sum total OF human happi.
ness knowledge or pleasure haven been abe 70 dis
cover v,hv ANYBODY should want TO see lion ,and on
its head or gentleman tie his legs in true lovers knot
and shall never understand the public penc an for
hearing "The Anvil Chorus played on TIN cans, since
il can be PLAYED 50 much better on piano Oh, always
thinks Of the wit who, being informed 'tcaly
that some stunt or other was very diIcuIN replied
81 wish it were impossible.
The worst of the matter IS that, there beng CON.
Darativclv few performers OF merit the same people
doing the same things, return again ana again 70 the
came thcatcrs | remember having seen one team Of
nncdy acrobats Rice and Provost, times in the
,nacc Of single season, at the end OF which period
had ceased 10 laugh uproariously when one q the two
humorists fell from table and struck his face ioenty
on the floor In New York, for instance hall Tire turns
at the Victoria this Saturday may be at the Colonial
next Monday; 50 that unless you wish your n'cr,an
ncnt like your wine, well aged, you would Go well e
make YOUR vaudeville excursions 70 one thoa'Dr It's
too much 70 expect the average variety performer e
change his act more often than once in decade and
then he is likely to retain everything that has beer
specially well received OF course. you remember
George AIDES friends, Zoroaster and Zendayes,a who
at the end of five years substituted green Wasacrs io
red and advertised Everything New
The managers certainly doing their bes' 70 be II.
Of Zoroasters and Zendayestas. Their agents search
every capital Of Europe for talent and no one make
a hit in the music halls Of London or Paris or Berlin
without Immediately receiving an offer % come Z
America Norris there any limit to the figure mentioned
in such an offer The salaries paid both for iportec
and for native talent supposed TO have reached
their utmost height in the palny days Of Keith
Proctor; but they have doubled since oscar Hammer