New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
FEATURING THE FOYS
Eddie Has His Troubles with the Stars in His ActProfes
sonal jealousy and Natural Incidence Create
Havoc in the Brood

o-Brysn. are YOU ever going to get up
Q-Charlie. youn be late if sou don
hurry
o-Dick. will YOU ever desert that bed
Q-Mary. don't you realize that it's
/! o'clock?
Q-Madelainc. do YOU want on, booking
cancelled?
Q-Eddie, Is sleep all you care about?
Q-Irvlug. won't YOU let me dress YOU?
A.-Aw. make the kids get up first.
A.-They can't 80 ahead with the show
without ne.
A.-Gec. If / were a manager l could
sleep AN day.
A.-rm tompcramental. so I'm going to
sleep.
Say. I'm tired or bcin = actress.
A-Vhy don't you make Pop get up?
allah,
This is part of the dialogue tnat begins
the day in a house on the Post Road in
New Rochelle about II o'clock every
morning that Edwin Fitzgerald FOy and
MS seven kids" are playing in or around
New York, which was the case last week
when they appeared at iIammerstein'
Victoria Theatre So that the above "tes-
timony" will not puzzle you it is here set
down that Bryan is seventeen, Charlie
sixteen. Dick fourteen, Mary twelve. Mad
elaine eleven, Eddie, jr, eight, aud lrylTs
four.
Mrs. Foy has the sweet task Of making
the children separate themselves from the
quilts in the morning. They refuse 10 get
up before n o'clock a. m.
They think they're regular actors. -
tho father explains.
We'll, and / guess We are remarked
Charlie. when the famous comedian told
OF the trials Of domesticity in his dressing
room at Hammerstein's yesterday.
They certainly are trying to make me
believe it," Toy said TO the Tribune man
Il have been paying each OF them eN-
cep the Youngest s. a week. Last week
Bryan. the leading heavy. struck for $50.
had TO give il to him. Then Charlie de-
clsred himself a hoid-out unless / boosted
him the extra Eve 7 had 10 come across.
The other kids don't know about it yet,
but III be nailed when they do
With his seven kids. and Mrs. Foy
the comedian breeZes down from New
Rochelle at noon every day in his ma
chine, the head Of the troupe driving.
When the car approached Doc Patter-
sons soda water studio. in Main street.
Foy would point out the beauty OF the
clouds, for Madelaine and Mary are
deyotees of the colored fizZ water.
las soon as we strike town" Foy said,
we hit a hotel where the food is good !
have spent the last five years Of my life
trying 10 induce walters who attend our
table 10 announce that they are out OF
everything but one or two kinds of meat.
But they can't seem to understand. i
don't mind buying food for the kids but
! wish they'd have some unanimity of
choice. If you and ] went into res
taurant we'd probably split a steak or
take something that could be divided.
But these actors and actresses Of mine
conceive an immediate dislike for any
thing ordered by the other person. II,
on the way 10 the hotel Mary says she'd
Ike some lamb chops, and when we get
into the dining room Eddie orders lamb
chops. Mary remarks that she never did
like lamb chops, and then orders chicken
or liver and bacon. Not darned one OF
them viii split an order. II costs me about
70 every time we squint at a menu.
Time comes for appearance at the the
atre. Last week they went on at 3:O5 p. m.
They got into the theatre at 2:SO o'clock.
Go in and get dressed. Hurry up, for
I've got 10 make up"
Foy says that at every performance, and
us necessary. They had one dressing
room, and il was so cluttered up with
garments that it resembled a clothing
store. Coats. trousers and shirts were
suspended from everything from whicf
anything could be suspended. AS Mrs
10Y doesn't make up. she hasn't mucf
sccas!on 10 use the room.
But those kids" don't hurry up a hit
hough the time Is limited. Mary slips
cut into the wings and watches the earlier
acn. Mrs Foy chases her, and ther
Iour-year-old Irving escapes. Mrs. Fog
"nos him In the arms OF an actress
nose turn comes much later. Then
'heH the whole brood is corrallcd. D:cl
osSerts that while he wasn't looking
.nariie "swiped" his clean sailors blouse
500 10y comes in to ouiet the beiliRercnti