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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04
UNION SQUARE.

At the Union Square Theatre during the
coming week will appear the dainty VI
vacious and altogether charming little
Isabelle Diamond and her capable part
ner. Frank Carter. who have Just re
turned from a tour OF the foreign halls
Another feature will be the Empire Com
edy Four. the oldest quartet IN existence.
having been together over fifteen years.
During that time they have appeared all
over the world and have given many
command" performances before royalty.
The playIct Made Good" as presented
by Billy "Swede" Hall and company, Is a
farcical comedy from beginning 10 end
and contains so many laughs that 10 re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04
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LONDON LIKES OUR SHOWS
Vogue Of American Vaudeville Artists-A Typica
Broadway Production and Its Reception
Familiar Songs and Faces

with Gertrude Hoffman. and Marie Bald
win.
There is no question but that money
has been spent layishly on the produc-
ton. and the marvellous costumlng prob
ably exceeds anything ever seen In New
York The parade down the gansway
between the seats-not long before the
last curtain fall-makes the women gasp
with envy and the men delighted to be
near enough almost 20 shake hands with
this huge bunch OF American beauties.
II is an open secret now that Wilson
Miner, that eccentric Broadway figure
who once denied that ne did not come to
New York as an adventurer. because when
he got there he had s. 80 in his pocket
really pulled the revue out OF the slough
OF despond. The opening was adver-
tised for Saturday night. but that morn
ing the London newspapers swallowed
clumsy piece OF press agent work by
printing stories TO the effect that the big
tank had sprung a leak and the produc-
ton was postponed. II was not the
tank: II was the book that would not
hold water. for Max Pemberton's lines
were so few and far between that the
actors were very hard put 10 it 20 create
enough business" 10 I'll the gaps Miner
jumped I'm and completely rewrote the
book in three DAYS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04
ALHAM 3 RA.

A. the Alhambra Theatre this week
Maurice Levi and his Invisible Band VIII
be among the topllners. Ninie DAILY the
american prma donna soprano, will make
her Harlem debut here. and the balance
OF the bill will include Wellington Cross
and Lois Josephine. I'm songs and dances;
The Movies" a tabloid burlesque on the
picture craze. Bayard Ne.ller's one-act
play. "The Diamond Dinner; Bert Mel
rose, the daredevil clown. Henry and
Francis. I'm Just Nonsense" Ergotti and
Liliputians. European rsley acrobats;
Edisons kinetophone. showing Mayor
Gaynor with the heads OF some Of the
city departments. each making short ad-
dress: Handlers and Milllss. Englands &C.
centric dancing pianis,s. and Bertish, the
ideal athlete. Concerts will take place to-
day rs usual.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04
At THE VARIETIES
Freshness and Novelty Are
Found in Many Acts.
COLONIAL,

Jose Collins and Maurice Farkoa will be
seen at the Colonial Theatre next week
in a singing and dancing number. Mayor
Gaynor. with the heads Of some Of the
city departments. will be shown on the
Edison kinetophone. each one Of them
making a short address. The remainder
OF the bill will include: Beatrice oxford
and her wonderful elephants; Juliet in
character approximations, Charlie case,
the man who talks about his father; Ray
Dooley and the Metropolitan Minstrels
Van Hoven "the dippy. mad magician;
MacRae and Clegg. The Intruder and the
Queen Of the Wheel. Farber Girls dainty
sOngbirds. and the De Lasso Troupe. In
a casting act. Sunday concerts will he
given ae Usual
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04
NEW YORK FAVORITES.

The touch of familiarity was enhanced
by the appearance of Arthur DEACON.
Charles Hart. who made a big hit In black
face and perhaps unconsciously, maybe
not used all the mannerisms of Bert VIII
Jams Perle Bart. who used to under
study i'm The Rose Maid. Bessie Clif-
ford. Frank Sturgis Claudia Carlstedt
Featured as the ex-wife of a Cleveland
Millionaire. Gallatin Wheeler Grace
Washburn. the duel girl. and the others.
not forgetting Theodore Kosloff. so long
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04
BRONX.

Nat NJ Wills the happy tramp. vii!
top the programme at the Bronx Theatre
for tho coming week. Others will include
Sam and Kitty Morton. in Back to
Where They Started. the Florentinc
Singers, in operate selections; Beatrice
Moreland and company. I'm "Dr. Billie
joy. Adler and Airline. in "a New
Idea; the Gee Jays, with their miniature
stage productions: Roehm's Athletic Girie.
physical culturists; Boyle and Brazil.
singers and dancers; Edsons talking mo-
ton pictures. showing new subjects, and
La Nler. in dauntess dongs aloft The
usual concerts will be given to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04

10 a high class colorcd organization ~
singers dancers and comedians. known as
The Smart Set" \ musical comedy called
'Do, tor Reaus. Of Boston will be pro-
scented. The cast Is headed by $ H. bud
10y. ana in the company arc James Burris.
Henry Troy Arthur Talbot. Bessie Payne.
Lotue Grady and Alberta Ormes. who's
names are familiar to colored people all
over { - countr'.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04
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cord them would be- an impossiblity.
Thomas A. Edison presents during this
oyentful week tho twelfth series OF his
wonderful "knetaphone' talking pict-
ures. the selections this time being Mayor
Gaynor and Private Secretary Adamson,
Police Commissioner Waldo. Fire Com
missioner Johnson and street Cleaning
Commissioner Edwards
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FROM AN ORCHESTRA CHAIR
A Satisfactory Week in the Playhouses AmazonS
and "Arizona" -Strindberg's Rapid Passing
dramatic Sprngltis

actresses while except as a stunt The
number Of American theatresoers willing
to give the Swedish dramatist hearing
must have been greatly reduced by this
exhibition. lbSen is reported 10 have
said before Strindbergs picture: There
= one greater than l." Whether this b.
true or rot. let us 90 back 10 him. if We
are 10 have the Scandinavian drama on
our stage. He. at least. gives us some
Trims more and better worth while than
mere theatrical virtuOsity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04

Are You Crook which opened New
Nork's latest playhouse. H. II. Frazee IS
Longacre Theatre. last Thursday night.
has so capital a central idea that II is a
pity its authors did not keep il back until
revision had put it in the shape IN which
il surely could have won success.
plays are not written: they are re-
written" said Dion Boucicault, and the
dictum is truest of farce. This play IS
worth rewriting. Still more does ii need
rebuilding. for. somehow or other. the
constant changing from hand to hand OF
the two stolen necklaces invariably misses
making the point it should In the irst
act the authors amply prove that they
can write clever lines. but thereafter they
almost entirely neglect to exercise this
talent. and without acceleration Of the
plot or benefit TO its coherency Still
here is a promising light summer show In
The bud. and there is room for such an
entertainment I'm this city at the present
moment. especially when il gives us an
opportunity to see our own dainty. grace
ful. comely Marguerite Clark, who, too.
has personality" and who pays for her
popularity with really clever work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04

The Passing OF the Idle Rich is
violent case OF dramatic springitis. Not
even the best Of acting could have saved
it: as produced it IS Of no Importance
whatever. II is not even unconsciousiy
diverting for long. But, TO console US.
there are "Tne Amazons" aCd Arizona
certainly not bad record for single
week i'm New York theatricals at the fas
end OF the season.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04

not too ouch TO assert that Gustav
suhaoerg's pvsthumous dramatic boom
:" 'nis country received its death-blow
.SN Monday afternoon at the special per-
,O'mance Of his strongest" play-his
masterpiece Countess Julia" Ger
sm II is. at any rate. that this I'M
s'.0iy' degenerate. iGnoble mess has been
.e"ni'eiy disposed OF in this country,
Earring perhaps a sporadic performance
''e and there that can only serve to
sary II all the deeper under contempt and
sSsust The inadequacy to the require
"'ns OF the title part OF the woman who
"OSe II TO make her debut as an actress
nothing 70 do with the matter. 1t is
"'soso pant 10 be sure. 1t proves
:, more that strindberg had the sense
we theatre, but II is SO offensive. so
Aiess In every way except that Of
,s.u0slty' so void Of appeal TO sympathy
Is really not worth a great
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04
HAM M ERSTEiN'S.

a bill OF eleven acts will he offered at
Hammersten's Victoria Theatre. begin
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04
BROADWAY SHOW IN LONDON.

OF course. after all. the revue is really
nothing but Broadway show. and so the
chief complaint OF the British critics. thar
there is no perceptiblc plot can readily be
understood in the neighborhood OF the
Forty second street Country Club. How
ever. even il the production has no plot.
it certainly has girls, Americans. and
beauties. too. They are the usual big
stalwart Broadway show girls with whom
New York has been familiar for so many
years. but their dash fine presence and
dynamic energy as we'll as their good
looks. make the New Yorker In London
believe that they must have been picked
out with a microscope. To look at them is
20 be certain that every one OF them was
named Gladeyes as soon as she was born.
Many Of the numbers in the revue are
old 10 Broadway. but new TO London, and
so they scored just as much OF success
as they did when America first saw them
In fact. they date as far back as the
Bessie Mccoy made-famous song wanna
Yama" this time done by Bessie Clifford
and a chorus Of nappers. My Venetian
Queen another song hit is nothing after
all but MY Little Persian Rose with
some OF the lines changed to make II III a
scene in which a gondola floats I'm tank
used speotacularly a few minutes later
when chorus of girls walk down the
steps and disappear in the water the
erstwhie piece de resistance at the New
York Hippodrome. When the Midnight
Choo-Choo Leaves for Aabam,' My
Sumurun Girl "Goodby Everybody and
Jingle Bells" are other song numbers
entirely new on this side OF the Atlantic
as we'll as "On the Mississippi" All the
London newspapers. and the public. too.
received with tumultous applause the race
between the train and the automobile down
the mountainsidc. and Gothamites I'm tue
audience sighed and thought OF the Win
ter Garden
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04

ning with tho matinee Mondsy. The
feature Will he the first appearance boo
vaudeville In two years Of Naleska sur
raft. assisted by George Bai Bertha
Craig and Robert Henderson ~ musical
fantasy. entitled Black Crepe and Dia-
monds" This fantasy was written by
George Baldwin. who cnacts one of the
principal parts. and the music. which ON
braces strains from Chopin. Grieg and
Mendclssohn. wa compiled and arranged
by Carl Krusada. Another feature will
be tho first appearance at this theatre OF
Elizabeth Murray. late feature oi
Madame sherry, who will ofcr a rep
ertory OF songs which have never before
been heard The novelty OF the bin viii
be John f. Conroy. assisted by his two
female diving models. In diving and
swimming exhibition. W. &. Fields. VINO
recently terminated a successful tour of
the world will present a Juggling novelty.
Bert FitZgihbons. the popular eccentric
comedian. has n new act or comedy con
eIomeration and Alexander and Scott.
from the land Of Dixie. have a new offer
Ing Of coon songs. The popular song
writer and publisher. Albert vor Tilzer.
VIII sing SfAtidl OF ms ldl'Si anu i'S'
songs Tho Great Howard, a versatile
Scotch ventriloqust. makes his first ap-
pearanec at this house.
NEW YORK.
The bill Al the New York Theatre re- ,
tains Diane. the Partisan singing com
cdienne as the headiner this week owing
70 the success OF her last weeks engage /
ment Others on the scventeen-act bill
include the original Carmenclta and her
troupe OF Spanish dancers; Riccobono's
horses an exhibition OF equine intelli- /
gence. Alexander and Mack. somewhat =
different comedians. Crushing and Glass. /
singers and dancers. be Armo, eccentric |
juggler. and others. with knemacolor |
pictures and first run photopays. Sou |
venirs will be presented AT all matinees.
on the New York Roof Garden, which |
now possesses one OF the largest dance |
floors i'm the city, there will he held an |
International dance carnival and contest /
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04

Arizona" ON the other hand, still has
many years Of vigorous life before it.
Revival" is perhaps not the right word
10 apply 10 its reintroduction to New
YORK In first class production for il may
he said with truth that ever since its first
performance somebody has always been
PRODUCING IT somewhere in this country
remains 2 good stirring. satisfying
pay, capably planned and soundly con-
Hrueted. its action and thrills progressing
VITA Increasing tension until at the fall
ol The last curtain one realizes with salts
iaction and gratitude that he has been
uAen out Of himself. that he has been led
70 forget for few hours the daily grind
mat ne has participated with all his at
.ehuon In the simulated life on the stage
We are never too sophisticated 10 sur
iehaer 10 the spell OF a play that can give
" 'his boon. And Mr. Thomas does It I'm
fullest measure in Arizona"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04

London. April EFT is really extraord-
inarily odd as they say over here, how
the London theatre public is going mad
over American offerings. For months
vaudeville performers. some well known on
Rroa.way and others famous only IN
Paterson. y j.. have been receiving fat
salaries every saturday night. instead OF
the hook made famous at Miners. and
have been greeted by British audiences
with wild enthusiasm that Is, as wild en-
thusiasm as British audiences are able 10
manifest.
It has remained rowever. for London
IN get It's first really adequate idea Of
what a New York production Is In come
over Here" the new revue at the London
Opera House As a matter Of fact, roar
ing Broadway has been set down tenn
porarly IN peaceful Kingsway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04

Tho rast week In the New NOrk theatres
has been one of much mixed emotions
from frank enjoyment TO bewilderment At
the dramatc outbreaks Of spring. Still.
on the whole. pleasure. and profitable
sane pleasure. has predominated. thanks
10 the revival al the Empire Of Pinero's
The Amazons." and. i'm a more substan-
,ial fashion TO that Of Augustus Thomas
Arizona" AZ tho Lyric.
OF course. there was Billie Burke. but
there were also Fritz Williams and Ferdi-
nsnd Gottschalk, both inseparable from
the melcory of The plays first production
in this city i'm the minds of the Contem-
poraries Of ina: welcome event That
The Amazons" will survive their fond
"reminiscences and win the ,ntere~t Of
Younger generation may well be doubted.
i last Monday II showed its aee but
little il did show il. nevertheless. Here
after II is doomed to grow old and old
fashioned and thin with increasing rapid
ity. for even as n vehicle for the display
M an attractive personality like Miss
Burkes il Is none too well adapted since
ii was written with no such purpose IN
mind That II is made 20 serve that pur-
pose to some extent in the present revival
is true: still. the part Of Lord Noeline 10
lar more important and has far more
body than that Of Lord" Thomasine,
end II is IN capable hands. Indeed, it IS
the general excellence Of the performance
~ the Empire that does at least as much
for The Amazons' on its return TO the
stage as does the captivating personality
Of Miss Burke on the other hand. after
having seen her, one could not well i'm
sgne what the play would be like and
What would be its fortunes, without her.
As the boy observed I'm his school exer-
Csc: Salt Is vha, spoils the broth when
Il is not in g."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-20
BY PROF. J.. RAY BALDERSTON.
.-hooI Of Practical Arts. Teachers College.
Columbia I niVer-ifv

The que ton SIS asked by many women.
.,ybat can . do one answer comes I'm
tro form of demand, Where can get
trained women To manage our iaundrY?'
This demand comes from all parts Of the
l-nitcd states. The following needs have
very recently come 10 my attention: a
superintendent for laundry i'm q hospital
is wanted. "a laundry instructor iu a
trade school for girls" ~ laundry super
irtcrdcnt aud instructor iu "a reform
school where the work of the girls is a
commercial project; - forcwomau OF q
commercial laundry, "a manager of a
laundry iu a cooperative effort. IAN in
structor and manager OF laundry i'm 4
SCHOOL in Alaska" Besides these institu-
t'onal needs comes the demand for people
who can give private instruction, either
10 the mistress or 10 the maid. So far.
unhappilv. we have few 10 send 70 these
various positions. because SO few women
are trained Tor this new profession. We
are perfectly justified IN calling IL a pro-
fcssion. because in each case quoted above
WAS required not only tho woman with
experience. derived from much practice,
but also the woman with technical train
INK TO enable her 10 use the best methods
"a every case.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-20

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-20
HEAD WORK ERS.

With tho growth of flats or apartments,
big hospitals and schools and colleges.
the demand for proficient head workers
should increase. These institution laun-
dries should he presided over by trained
worker. and the commercial or community
laundry 0or such We may call the apart
ment laundry and the little basement
luundres under stores should be in
spected as 10 their sanitary conditions
and their use and abuse of clothing.
Trained women as inspectors should. and
in time viii play = very important part,
] believe. iu the licensed laundry
What should we ask for? This: a per-
son at the head of every laundry depart
ment In every institution who has made
the matter a study. whose word is taken
as authority. whose scientific research can
be proved. whose interest is for the GOOD
Of humanity, by providing healthful, well
ventilated workrooms far from dark,
damp and poorly ventilated cellars We
also ask for an interest for humanity out
side the laundry. shown by placing at the
head a person with a knowledge Of right
methods Of washing, proper proportions
of soap and water for clean clothes. the
pest KIM OF soaps ana a knONleuBe OF
whether they are loaded with surplus
alkali or weighted with rosin. We should
ask for a person who knows the use and
abuse of bleaches. their necessity or their
uselessness; who knows the various
fabrics. their structure. their dye and
how they may be cleaned to the best
advantage TO save color and texture. We
should ask for a person who knows
enough of chemicals TO make them of the
most help in setting colors and in remov-
ing stains and still do little harm TO the
fabrics. We ask in fine. for a person
whose scientific principles will so hand
in hand with practical knowledge and
personal exertion.
1t is no light task for a woman 10 fulfil
all these requirements; but there are very
few women in the field now-and now is
the time 10 begin.
This il the third article of the series of
vocational interest 10 women. The fourth one
will appear next sunday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-20

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