Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-02-28
Lively "Reminiscences of Old Weber
Field DAYS.

Special matinee SUNDAY afternoon.
In the eyes Of the gentle high-hroW
the coming to this city Of Weber and
Fields is not fraught with paramount
interest: nor does the announcement
wllion the intellectual spasm that in
dicates the approach Of an lbsen re-
viyal; but TO the common or garden
variety Of playgoer, It was an event Of
rare moment.
"Be that as IL may" as George Mon
roe is wont TO coyly observe, II IS a
fact that pretty much every one ia
miliar with the stage has heard In one
way or another Of Weber and Fields;
OF their tiny has heard in one way or
another Of Weber and Fields; Of their
tiny music hall; Of their coterie Of
stars, par excellence, and of the
beauty Of what has become known to
nearly two generations as the Weber
Fled girl" For instance, a frankie
Bailey or Bonnie Maginn is better
known from the Battery TO Harlem IN
New York than Herr Professor Rein
hardt There are great many people
I'm this world who would much rather
study Weber-feld girls figure than
spend an evening IN cloistor studying
Maetorinck There is no accounting
for the popular taste, but the taste Is
there.
Very likely much Of this popularity
comes from sentiment on the part Of
the playgoing public. The partners
when they reunited last February
had been separated for eight years
and they had played together twenty
seven years. in that period It is not
an exaggeration to say that they have
seen IN public by several million per
sons. The Offices of the newly united
firm received hundreds Of letters each
week from all over the world
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II remember" one would write from
the Yukon or some other remote spot
when | used to pay ten cents for a
gallery seat and see You in the pool
table scene" while another would
relate in six rseven pages Of glee
how he used to enjoy seeing Weber
Fields Lillian Russell, Willie Collier
Pete DALEY, Sam bernard and Dave"
Warneld "at the hail" The yalways
speak Of the little theater at Broad
way and Twenty-seventh street as the
hall"
Shortly after the reunion of Weber
and Fields in New York a year ago,
it was my privilege to take n small
group of newspaper men TO a rehear-
sal of the chorus. There We're few
cubs" in the party. A majority Of
them could remember the first per
Torrance Of The Art of Maryland"
and The Geezer," and so on down
for the succeeding decade. There was
was a medley that embraced such
Stromberg songs as Rosie, You Are
My Posie," "Dinah," Bring Back My
Honey Boy to Ma" and "Coe Down
Ny Evening Star" The chorus girls
were full Of ginger and grace and
abandon as they sang and danced, but
not one Of the "old boys among the
newspaper group even smiled.
What are you DOING" l asked one
of them.
Just thinking" he answered, slow
ly.
] imagine that is one Of the secrets
Of all this remarkable interest in the
Weber and Fields shows. 1t starts
people all over the country Just
thinking" There is so much to think
about, too. There Is the laughter
that arose from what one writer call
ed years ago Exquisite foollng.' -
There was an intimacy that seemed to
exist between the auditors and the
players. 1t was one big. happy fam
lily.