The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20
POINTS IN PLAYS.
What stands out In the Current
Productions In the Theatres.


Nina Blake, who was in the original
cast of Paul Potte,'s The Girl From
Rector's." which made an important
part of his fortune for 4. II. Woods,
is now "A member of the cast of The
High Cost OF Loving" which is still
amusing its audiences at the Republic
Theatre. 1t was Miss Blake who is
credited with having been the first
actress to make all her frocks for the
play in which she acted Not having
saved enough To buy all her costumes
for THE Girl From ReCtors' from "A
fashionable couturiere. Miss Blake
made them herself She was sufficiently
satisfied with her handlwork until the
morning of the plays production. Then
she lost heart went To the managers
office determined To ask for "A sufficient
advance of salary to 1T herself out.
and then was too much embarrassed to
do 1t. IT happened that Miss Blakes
costumes. home made as they were,
gained so much praise as to he a fea
ture of the performance so identified
with its success that a. II. Woods had
the actresses who followed Miss Blake
in the other companies acting this
farce wear juSt the same kind OF
frocks.
VIII Deming. who had been trying
for a long tiUe to get an appearance
at Broadway theatre. found his oppor-
tunity in at Pays TO Advertise" And
his original, humorous acting made !
much for the success of this amusing |
farce, which is the best specimen OF |
farce writing that the New York stage |
has witnessed in many "A day. He |
started in as an office boy in the employ !
OF the well known manager, Uncle Dick |
Hooley, as he was called i'm Chicago He |
soon got to the stage, acted in the melo- !
dramas Of Lincoln Carter so we'll and I
with such profit that he ultimately !
bought an interest in several of them, |
produced them in the English provinces |
and made some sort OF small fortune |
thereby. He went to his native town of |
jackson in Ohio when he came home |
and is the fortunate owner Of share |
in the coal mines of that neighborhood. |,
AS an actor Of Juvenile roles he played |
with the stock companies in Cincin-
natl and New Orleans with such sue
cess that he soon found himself as
the substitute for John barrymore and |
Douglas Fairbanks when their plays |
came to the stages of the Western |
theatres. Mr.. Deming still longed. how
were to realize this ambition last win
ter when he rehearsed in Birds Of
Prey and Marrying Money" The
former was never acted and Mr.. Dem
ing resigned from the second play be-
fore 1t reached New York. MIR. Deming
may feel now that he is In New York
and on Broadway. moreover, for some
time to come.
Jane Oaker, who plays the leading
role in THE Dummy" was at one of
the dramatic schools until she was
ready to go to the company of Louis
James, where, OF course. She played in
the tragedies OF Shakespeare and other
serious plays Miss Oaker appeared on
various other occasions before she went
to act in this popular play, which Is
lust now nearing the end of its run at
the Hudson Theatre. Now she thinks
that she was always meant for come
dlenne, just as she Is in this clever
play, which is to be acted for only two
weeks longer.
1t Is quite true that Jeffreys Lewis,
who acts so amusingly the suffragette
in THE Third Party" at the Thirty
ninth Street Theatre, was at one time
a serious actress also. She played the
so-called French emotional repertoire
OF the '70s occasionally in New York
and in San Francisco with the produc-
lions OF David Belasco. Miss Lewis
played them well, but always in the
terms of a comedy as 1t were, since she
Is by nature a Coincidence. and even "A
serious role could not change her meth
DDS OF acting.
Ida Fuller writes to THE Sun that
she is responsible for the beautiful ef-
,,Ft.t.
OF the World" which is just now on
view at the Hippodrome. 1t may .e
cutie true that these beauties are the
work of Ida Fuller, but it is equally
certain that the glory Of having in
vented the effects of light on waving
draperies will, in the mind Of the world, !
forever go to Loie Fuller. There have
been no more beautiful spectacles at
the Hippodrome than this one, and the
scenes In which the Ida Fuller devices
are used are among the most beautiful.