New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-14
Third Degree for Vaudeville

THILE moving pictures have dominated amuse
w ncnts for which pays a fixed sum, they
W haven't been able 10 eliminate vaudeville The
;d form, of entertainment is too strongly ntrcnChed
even for the films SO has come about that either the
moving picture thcatcrs have included Vaude''' OF the
vaudeville thcatcrs have taken IN motion Pc1Wo Inc
union appears be particularly happy ana one
That which used be called the variety 'np" seems
r. sts some sort Of human need, else would not have
endured 50 long and grown 50 big Nothing IS more Ia
miar than the vaudeville show, ana, ike inoS1 I"ldr
things we accept it matter OF course "iIn''l Ieuy
knowing much about it beyond the fact that certain per-
formers are funny The most talked about performers are
always the fun makers. In TACT the Cn'i l'''o' VI '0
Vile is TO make people laugh. m
MANY neon1e have tried to tell about vaudeville; but
tbovhavent been able to present the real spirit Of IT, the
thing that explains its hold people and Just no" nat
hold Is maintained The true vaudevlst, who USED 2" De
called variety actor in the days before b. r. h9t' l-
tered the performance and galczed IT'S name Is curious
and cannish creature living his own he and jealous ' Us
secrets.
Ross IS one Of them In fact he IS an exceptional nan
from almost any angle in which you care 70 we" .n'
For nearly thirty years he has made audiences from ne
end Of the country the other laugh when ne cho -
make them laugh He could make them cry just as ca y,
because that IS the test Of Jle ledi Oo'Io"ii % "
quished from the buffoon.
Ross has been playing the buffoon most OF ms me- -
he is 50 successful because he IS one OF the most mi 20
actors the stage. He could play Hamlet better "h
many q
ncri0r as light comedian in this country. He IS -e-
rarkable dancer and is 50 clever that most people r
him as a fine singer well.
Rut his intelligent capacity for making people laugh
chained Charles J. Ross to vaudeville tor nearly l
wears. Sometimes he has appeared in Broadway mu. al
Shows. which are mostly vaudeville with chorus al. j.
He knows this form Of entertainment as few know It,
he can tell what he knows He proves this IN our next
SUNDAY MAGAZINE. .-,.,
GIVING VAUDEVILLE THE THIRD DEGREE IS
1 q ;.a arl4l,p one u
he devotcs himself to consideration Of laughter lie las
worked out lot of rifles and forrnule He proves prey
concusvev that the the vaudevsts give the an IL
ences old Jokes is because the audiences haven't any par
tclar use for new ones, understanding OF them AZ
together is an interesting and astonishing revelation
THE CAPTAIN OF THE KINROSS is romance #
the Great Lakes by Edward Balmer 1t IS IT,
uarkable fact that the inland Of the United states
and Canada are 50 full Of romance Of drama, OF significant
happcnngs that fiction writers have been loath TO present
them 1t takes skill and understanding to interpret the
for lake sailors are different from those Of salt water Tbs
story in our next issue shows you something OF the quality
Of the life and of the drama in It.
THE PASSING OF MRS. SHARK is another story by
the Social Promoter. in which an ambitious woman
shows way Of getting into society that the promoter had
never dreamed Of which proved 20 be as certain as II was
slow But like 50 many other people, Mrs. Shark found
easier to get into the game than was TO stay there rs
usual the Promoter gives illuminating picture OF the
way the social bee affects the rich.
A FEW SOUIRMS BY BAYARD is the first Of 'he
IA experiences of Shorty McCabe and the promote o
whom Pyramid Gordon left the burden Of rghng certain
wrongs committed by the financial pirate IN his career.
1t plain from the very start that old Gordon made DO
mistake There are few people who have so human a
sense Of abstract justice Shorty He has entered upon
a new career and it is interesting than The
things he has done in the past This IS another way