Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-05

have been cOoped up on Broadway all
winter get a chance to get a fresh air
Vacation while earning their board and
also it is good for those who have play
ed on role continuously through a sea,
son to brush up by learning a new part
zach week.
The stars do not all cling to the vi.
&inity of New York for summer work.
Marguerite Clark has been for some
time appearing in st. Louis in a sum
lner stock theater bearing her name,
and Mabel Taliaferro, divorced wife
cf Frederick Thompson, has just be.
gnn an engagement at Suburban Gar
den in that city. That was the first
open air summer theater to engage
stars in the United States, and for
Years James X. Hackett, Amelia Bing-
hhm, Wilton Lackaye, Marguerite
Clark and others of equal regulations
have done summer work there, with a
Permanent. stock supporting company.
Denver also attracts some of the lead
ing lights of the Rialto in the hot
months and some get as far west as
Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The latest addition to summer stock
amusement in the vicinity of New
York is the aggregation at Long Beach
headed by Edwin Arden and Mary
Bowland. A great many people well
Known on Broadway are with the com
pany. The Long Beach theater, which
b backed by a former state senator,
% a distinct summer novelty. The
stage is Of wood and brick but the big
auditorium is regulation "big top"
sent such as are used by circusses. The
,setting up of the unique theatre was
watched with absorbing interest by the
invenile Vanderbilts and Whitneys and
eome of the grown-ups. Half hun
dred of New York s aristocratic socie-
" leaders with their children, maids
shd governesses are quartered at the
Hotel Nassau, and most of them at
iended the opening Of the tent show
bis week. ga Butterfly on the
Wheel was the premiere production.
Though it required the perspiring eff
tOrts of more than a dozen ushers to
lng down the aisle of Hammersteins
Yoof garden the mountain of roses that
gfeeted Lady Constance Stewart Rich.
ardson on her initial appearance in this
fDuntry, and her popularity has grown
NJ leaps and bounds ever since her
ANirst night, the noted English barefoot
Uaneer declares her New York en-.
Bagement will end her American tour
40 this time. She will hurry back to
Europe on the first boat that sails af-
ter theexpiration of her contract with
the Victoria management, she says.
rhough New Workers. of experience
Hound their June weather remarkably
mild, Lady Constance thought the heat
Nnbearable and vowed she would not
Vance in such temperature for many
nOre thousands that she received. She
leclared that one night 8 dancing here
Exhausted her more than a whole week
Qf work at home and she refuses to do
any more hot weather dancing in Amer
iea.
Lady Constance says she will come
back here in the fall if any American
Manager will pay her enough money.
Unbiased theater.goers who have seen
ihe English dancer are unanimous in
beir verdict that her popularity is
Npsed almost entirely upon her title
Her cleveness is not above the aver
age, dozen or more native dancers
appearing in New York every season
who can hop about just as gracefully
Hs Lady Constance, with just as few
flothes.
N While Lady Constance is complain.
lng thatNew York is too hot, literally
mother eccentric dancer, Mrs. Jackson
Houroud performed many weird dances
that gave Anthony Comstock vexatior
N spirits, and had town and country
houses luxuriousy fitted in Orienta
fashion, but she says New York did mol
appreciate her terpsichorean art and
she will hereafter live in Paris, where
the says, "real Bohemia" can b,
found, pulsating with the warmest ap
Nreciation Of the dance.