New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-02
0o. This Is Not a
Moving Picture
Story.
SOME DATA ABOUT
THE FAMOUS CLOWN
s.h.I Hackney's VIII, Which
Has Just Been
Probated.
Nv ACTON DAVIES,

!. f,r as the youngsters are con-
..,n.d. quite the most important event
- ne theatrical season is the return
= N,resline 70 the Hippodrome IN
IN. wars Of the World" next Satur-
s,y night What Msrceline is to do
...,,v doesn't matter at all. Whether
:. -ovLs As hard as ever trying to
,ssts his stage work, or whether he
-, and falls and turns hip-haps over
IN ~, furniture in sight, just as he
A.. always done since he first appeared
= .Ae Hippodrome, won't make a scrap
- difference. So long as he wears that
,.,oteh Of more than apoplectie rouge
r,on his nose. and so long as his head
& crowned with that dilapidsted high
k,,-a head as we'll known and revered
az vet even more beloved than the
,mmortal topper" of Mr.. Oscar Ham
..vst,in-so long, in fact as Mar
.eiips comes back his old self I'M
.ssneed and unabridged, the children
sfHew York will be perfectly satisfied
iensyations in MRreeline's perform
snss would be regarded as little short
a sserilege by his hosts OF juvenile
Ssgosees. Like the Russell Brothers
IN their aboriginal sketch, The irish
SbFvant Girls" he can never nope 20
ssaai and surely never can eclipse, his
original speciality with which ne first
eel al the kiddies chortling at the
HiPDcdrome.
81 long as his nose is red and his
hat is properly denied in, no matter
Nav "The Wars of the World" may
ware, this way or that, there is sure 70
Be an uproarious welcome home for
Mareeline at the Hippodrome on Sstur-
ssy night.
Like all other great artists, who are
rarely. If ever. contented with their lot,
Nsrceline, when he retired from the
Hiupodrome after FIVE years Of active
service, decided that the task of max
ing two huge audiences a day for six
dsys 4 week laugh their heads off was
IA too serious an undertaking 10 be
pursued any further. In other words,
he sighed for the simple life, and after
saving enough money from his salary
10 Be able TO indulge in as many long
br,sths as ne cared to he sought the
seelusion which Greenwich Village
giants, and purchased for a quite pre-
pssterous sum what looked TO him like
sn exceedingly prosperous fruit stand.
That fruit stand proved to be, If not
TIE tragedy, az least the collie Of poor
Mareeline's life His intimate friends
never mention the word fruit in front
Of him now. And what Marceline has
not called the perfdious Italian who
iured him into buying that fruit stand
esanst be printed here, for no such ex-
eletiye exists. He has exhausted the
entire vocabulary Of Bilfingsgate, and
now whenever he thinks of that fruit
yender he is struck speechless, simply
because he has used every adjective in
his vocabulary until it Is black and
blue from over usage. So, if any of his
thousands of youthful friends are
thinking of sending Mareeline any little
token Of affection on his opening night
let them make their offerings flowers
on no account fruit.
All reports from London agree that
while theatrical affairs throughout the
British Isles are practically at stand
still, in London, where many Of the
thestres and nearly all the music halls
are still open, business is almost be-
yond belief.
Many Of the actresses are giving their
salaries entirely to the Red Cross
Fund, and Sir J. NJ. Barrie has set the
zane example to all the dramatists by
hRhding over all his royalties to the
seme good cause.
Sir Herbert Tree, outside Of the sal
aries which he pays his company, is
giving all the profits of Drake" TO the
Req Cross also. Posted up outside
His Majesty's Theatre is the following
appeal; sit is hoped that the public
will as far as possible support the
thsptres during this period of stress.
By 50 doing they will keep in employ.
nent a vast number of men and
women" Drake" alone affords en-
pleYment 10 over 400 people.
The estate Of Mabel Hackney, who
with her husband, Laurence Irving
psnshed on the Empress of Ireland
last May, has just been probated. The
actress left over $4,000.