The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-25

ldCt lnat sue mas Decn out OF town our
ing this week of nine first night per-
foTmances.
Miss Janis had to go out to California
II few weeks ago to act up in front of the
movie cameras. Mrs. Janis, after think
ing the matter over for some time. de-
cided to accompany Miss Janis. Hence
the president of the Merely Their Mothers
Club has escaped the nine first night per-
formances crowded into six nights. not 10
mention II dress rehearsal OF the Douglas
Fairbanks In "lu the l.imclight" piece Mt
the Hudson the night before last and the
first production on any stage of Mr..
Brady's sinners" ut Sing Sing to-day.
But with the rank and file of the or
canization-gosh. the pace Is killing
Also with about all the actor persons in
the world Except. OF course. those lucky
enough to be acting up on top of the stage
at the first night performances mentioned)
absolutely at rest during this. in "A man
ner OF speaking, delightfully."- happy holi-
day season. any one could lay bet OF
eight to five that he could call the roll
and name everybody In the first twelve
rows
Miss Willie Burke and husband. Flo."
Present" Miss Margaret Wycher,ey
and "riend Husband. Bayard WELLER"
Present" The Hon. Eoi Cooper Me-
crue and q Certain rahty'" Present 80
MIR. and Mrs. Jane Cowl." Present"
AN the Sclwyns." present" Mr.
quiet. please, quiet-Mis-tar Jawn Drew"
Present. old chap, present" MIR. Paul
Armstrong" Nit me, kid =" Miss Julie
opp" present ="
playwright Wilson Mzn-" "Sof;
pedal. hottie house detective ia with
us" MIR. William Courtleigh and en-
tire family" An present" Chairman
OF the Lambs House Committee. Frank
Case" Always present. and thank
you" Mi. and Mrs. Margaret Mayo"
present in the Selwyn section And
bv any chance have we with US tonight
the Hon Diamond Jim Bra" PRES
ENT, -"
Bat It's up In the balcony where the
Merely Their Mothers members have been
having the time Of their lives all week,
or were having until exhaustion began
To set IN las: night rs they raced from
act to act of The Lie" and "To-nights
the Night" and vice versa. They seem
to prefer the balcony seats, the Merely
Their Mothers club women do. although
while daughter is In town Mrs william
Burke has to submit TO the torture OF sit
ting right down in an orchestra chair.
one slant along any balcony row at
any first night Of the week and YOU saw
l why the beauties OF Broadway are so
! scrumptiOus looking. Just glance, say
| at Miss Gail kane's mother. Miss Hazel
/ Dawu's mother. MISS Josephine Drake
! Ethel Amorita kclly's mother. Miss Venita
3 FI;zhugh's mother Miss Julia Sands's
mother. Miss Pauline Fredericks's mother,
! and the mother OF the Misses Dana.
/ Gladys and Ethel Sykes. who is certainly
/ too youthful looking to have given three
/ CONS to the Spanish war; but undoubtedly
/ has given three daughters TO the cast Of
"Wotcher step"
Perhaps in their present moments OF
/ exhaustion it will cheer up these and
other members Of the Merely Their
/ Mothers club to he told that when IL
/ have their dear little household sunshines
! hoileriug for help.
Two things have just happened TO J.
7 Hartley Manners over in London. where
his wife. Laurctte Taylor. is standing 'em
up with MIR. Mauners's Peg o My Heart
For one thing, the playwright while max
I ing a dash across Patton street in Lon
/ don recently was bumped by an electric
automobile and suffered II broken lee.
\ happier happening to Mr.. Manners
is that a play which he completed Just
before he was injured has so impressed
Sir George Alexander that Sir George has
next door to promised that he will come
to America soon to play in IT, All of which
! is a theatrical event OF Importance es-
pecialiy as Sir George hasn't played here
since long before he was knighted. or bac!,
/ i'm the DAYS OF Mary Andersons triumphs,
when plain George Alexander he was In
the supporting cast OF the then Miss
Anderson in 1854
II YOU stop to think OF II, this young
Eddie Sheldon Is some lad when II comes
to turning out successful plays concern
ing things and places he has had next 70
! no personal contact With AS some one
was SAYING between acts at the opening
OF his song OF Songs" Tuesday night:
Eddie, right out OF Harvard, wrote
about the Sums of New York In SALIVA
ton Nell and he'd never been east, west
or south OF the Harvard club. And he
wrote THE Niger and he'd never been
south OF North Bayonne,'
And not only that" interpolated old
Irv cobb, who's always present with a
lot OF bright jestS and merry sayings. "he
wrote this Song OF Songs and Eddie
doesn't know any more about singing than
a fish"
Eddie Foy on Tuesday last sold the
moving picture rights Of his new winter
overcout and OF two or three OF his nobby
trick street hats. Efforts were made al
the same time to obtain the moving pic
ture rights to Mr., Foys street clothes. but
! that detail Of the deal fell through Eddie
| hasn't any street clothes.
incidentally, %ir. Foy was the first &c
enroll hls entire family in the preparatory
department of dear Old Tellegen, that new
Free University OF Acting that Loo's press
agent says LOO is about to open-the
young Foys thereby monopolizng the in
stitutlon's prep school department unit
larger quarters can ne obtained,
II was "A dead secret, that dress re-
! h,arsal OF James Forbes's new comedy
| "In the LimeliCnt" at the Hudson Thea
I ire Wednesday night. Nobody was IN
! vited wherefore il may he guessed that
| nobody was eNpected--or wanted.
But rs out of the question to try
| TO keep the general reception committed
Of the Ancient and Honorable Society Ut
| First Nighters out of hrst performances
The lajrhanks-c oliuge- elda Sears B2zy
Icy Sidney combination was back stag
All set for the starting pistol, and Jimmie
| Forbes was about To yell CO. from al
| orchestra seat when out from under thu
| chcestcloth that covers orchestra chairs
when the theatre Is dark crawled all thai
pa,t of the -WyCherley-Jan Cow
Elaubcr- Obj Helen TYLER Ma garet Mayo
Dudley FiOid Malone Mcgruc-Case-ilar
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