New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28
FLORENCE MOORE
Happy To Be Back, Head
liner in Vaudeville.

There's no place like home And
home-the stage. home-of Miss Flor
ence Moore, who with Montgomery will
head the unusually clever warm
weather" bill at B. +. Keith's Palace
Theatre this week, is vaudeville.
Not that musical comedy, from which
she has just deserted, did not treat her
well--the reverse was the case, as she
was very popular-but vaudeville to
her is pleasure-she loves IT,
Miss Moore says so herself, so it
must be true. 1t was vaudeville, or
rather the successes she scored in
vaudeville, that resulted in her "eleva-
ton" to stardom, first in "Hanky
Panky," of beloved memory, and later
in "The Pleasure Seekers BY a
process Of reciprocity, her successes
in those comedies have added to her
drawing power in vaudeville.
"This is the life" smiled Miss Moore
yesterday. yes, that's 'mOdern-day
talk but it, like so many other express
sions of the sort, Just fits. This Nsu'ie-
Vile is truly the life. Why do | pre-
fer il to musical comedy? That would
be rather hard to tell intelligently. II
is an undefnable feeling oi satisIac-
tion at getting back-Ge;ting back
will be nv last. Nv first serious work
on the stsge-if you cali my method
of entertaining serious-vas done IN
vaudeville, and ] suppose ! am van
devillian to the core. Musical comedy
is splendid in way, AMI it does RAJ n
er give one prestige to ne starred n
such shows as | have been fortunate
enough to lead, with slr Montgomery
Of course; but. really, J prefer NLnje-
VILE its people, its atmosphere, us
everything. ! feel 50 happy just now:
We are starting on a seven weeks
booking; then, following a briet va
cation, we begin a years solid WORK
The prospect Of it is 10 me dengntlul.
The only thing | regret IS that | can I
eat what want TO for all those weeks.
No, I don't diet, nor starve mysed 10
keen down my weight or anything OF
that sort ] just waat 20 really eat
Everywhere We go sc are At hoteIS'
The very finest is served, ! adntt; DI'
| long and long for 4 real old-iash'
toned dinner such as ] had years ago
In my home in Philadelphia II couId
have the pleasure Of sitting do"n 70
great big heaping dish OF cornc" neei
and cabbage. or boiled New fnS'aLd
dinner. | would be, oh, so happy: " 5
a terrible ambition is 1t not! buV
really. those dinners were so satlsly-
ing, the memory Of them fingers !e''
al il can't be shut out by later mem
"ries Of chicken a Ia king, pate de
foie oras. or any of the fancy concoc-
tions Of hiph priced chefs. | wish some
IF those chefs would really learn 10
cook. pL1odoIrbia
opd II was there that | acquired the
taste for home cooking. Some years
400 sang in church choirs, and IL was
fTop, 2 choir that I went on the stage
1Jv brother issued the call, and 1oT
same time | played in stock. Ihen l
started in vaudeville, and with the ex-
contion Of the few seasons during
which we we're in musical COMEDY
have been in it since. Ihat SOUNDS
&c though I were old, doesn't 1t! ~
does seem quite a time since ! staTIeu'
,,et in years it is not so terribly long.
Ind those years have been tull OF
-,Ioasuro II IS a pleasure to me no"
70 on through all those crazy adVert's-
;,,o, sstnnts' we formerly did. get A
- deal of fun from them, but at
Srsti I shall never forget II. was
srbedrIed. unbeknownst TO me, to make
> ssnoech, al an adman's club. II was
~ bardest kind of work. l had never
had Fa stage fright when l first appeared !,
INT I had il then, and IN great pig
n oTv managed to scramble
tb tTo the part of the programme ne:
' 1I,U was allotted to me, but rear
~ ~ hearers were very much surprised
and disappointed at my attempts 70
Give a humorous talk. | kno" e VIZ,
: gN eon,t talk much, anyhow, of the
s+a1e reserve most Of my talking
For the audience, which, l suppose, IS
~ Great relief to my associates IN pri-
yate life"