Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-14
ROOF GARDENS AGAIN
DRAWING BIG CROWDS
Beau Rialto Finds Thousands Are At
tracted to Cool Places, Where
Vaudeville Is Gard.
By Beau Rialto.
(Written for the United Prese.

den again has come into its own on
Broadway. Lew Fields, after trying
out his summer jumble "All Aboard"
at Atlantic City Che denied emphati'
cally that there was any conection be-
tween Gan Aboard" and the board
walk) gave the show its New York
premiere the other night at the Lew
Fields roof garden, and the Hammer
stems already had moved their vaude-
vile to the roof Of the Victoria. Flo
Ziegfield's "Follies" again are ap-
pesring on thereof, and several other
roof entertainments are running.
In the wake Of the real roof garden,
fitted up on the tower OF sky.scraper,
hotel or theater has come another
Great White Way innovation-the
roofless theater. The Globe and sew
eral other well.known downtown the
aters are now equipped with roofs that
can be removed in hot weather when
it is fair, exposing the seats to the
open sky. The theaters so arranged
are thus notifications Of the "air
domes'' so prevalent throughout the
western circuits a few years ago. The
pioneer roof gardener Of the theatrical
world was the late lamented "Ted"
Marks. When he conceived the idea
of real open air theater, the other
managers gasped and said it would
never do. In those days even the
summer theaters, Of which Suburban
Garden in st. Louis was the first; were
rooted, though open at the sides. Marks
went ahead and put up his roof gar
den, with adjustable tarpaulins that
could be rolled over the audience in
the event Of rain. The thing was a
60 from tho start, and the idea spread
like wild-fire, every large city in the
country was soon boasting its roof
gardens. The "airdomes followed,
and now have come the winter theaters
with removable roofs. Probably the
roof garden achieved its greatest no
toriety when Harry Kendall Thaw
chose the Madison Square roof to stage
the killing of Architect Stanford
White. It was that open air theater,
high above the head and noise Of the
city, that the Pittsburgher picked as
the place to shoot the man whom Eve
lyn Nesbit Thaw blamed for her down.
fall, and when the next mornings
newspapers appeared thousands Of men
and women in every corner Of America,
who never before had heard of roof
gardens, knew all about them and
wanted to see one. The New York
roof garden did " land office bust.
ness" that summer.
Some folk think that Ethel Barry
more, the popular young actress is in
her prime despite the fact that she
is very much domesticated and the
mother Of two handsome and healthy
children. Westeners who desire to see
her plays hereafter will have to come
to New York to crafty their cravings
for the Barrymore brand of drama, for
she says that never again will she go
more than a days journey away from
the Colt rooftree. The little Colts
are her excuse. She says that her
babies require their mother at night,
and she viii never act again where she
cannot return to them after the per.
formance, That means no more road
tours for Miss Barrymore, who in pri.
vate life is Mrs, Russell Griswold Colt.
Miss Barrymore recently was en-.
gagged for week 3 revival Of her fav.
orte "Twelve Pound Look" at n sea.
side vaudeville theater, and in the
meantime, her youngest, less than two
years old, caught severe cold, The
family doctor said it looked like diph.
iberia, and when the frantic mother
rushed the tot to contagious disease
sanitarium, the DOCTORS suspicious
were confirmed To her amazemont,
Miss Barrymore was told that she her.
self would have TO romain at the hos.
pital in quarantine as long az the child
WAS sick. She promptly cancelled her
engagement and also passage to Flu.
ropo which she had booked, and said
she never again would leave her chill.
dren for theator or anything else. She
will never act again, she says, except
in thoaters In and around New York.
Well possibly she might go az far as
Philadelphia, for there are hourly
trains from their TO tho Metropolis.
They say that Miss Barrymorc's deter.
mination to stay to tho Colt homo is
in part due to the fact that there may
soon bo five in the Colt famiyl
Everybody's doin IT, Doing what 7
Going in for vaudeville, A middle
western newspaper cartoonist (uovcr
mind his name; that would be tclliug)
heard about all the money that Martin
Beck was paying a we'll known car.
tOonist for drawing few pictures
twice day, and he determined to do
likewise, he is god cartoonist too,