The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-26
NOW ON MAP
ASA PRODUCING CENTRE
Granville Barker Gets Away From Dinners and
Luncheons Long Enough to Open and Close
In One at Long Island Village.

The exclusive and all important an
nouncement IL made herein this morning
that last Sunday afternoon Granville
BARKER. the noted English producer VINO
is now in this country attending dinners
personally conducted a performance al
Baldwin. wherever that is.
All that has been learned about Bald
win at this writing t. that Parsonage
Creek runs through the village. that
Baldwin is on Long Island and that It's
chief industry therefore IL the raising OF
Philadelphia capon. Maryland turkey
and New orleans noldsecS. fut uHt'l
7 Mr.. Barker opened aud closed in one at
Baldwin last sunday the village has hg-
ured almost not ut all as a theatIlcdl
producing centre.
Partly TO get away from dinners and
~luncheons and partly to brace himself
for the theatrical mems dinner OF l'~t
SUNDAY night NJ. Barker went down 10
Long Beach saturday night. SUNDAY at
noon he dashed into the dining room OF
the Nassau and with memories OF terra
pin. pate de fois gras. salads running
largely to scrambled picked English
walnuts and ices. Mr.. Barker with a
d scream Of relief told the head waiter
TO bring him nv, dollars worth ~ nam
and eggs, two dollars worth of red 'db-
bagc and a large tin pail OF black cote''
More, than an hour later Mi Barker
came M for air and left the dining room.
Then with q little playmate, John VIII.
iams. he started inland for a stroll ana
at last met up with the village OF bhIu-
win. The sign on the Baldwin Inn
caught his fancy and simultaneously he
remembered that by nightfall he must
eturn to Manhattan to begin another
week. Of ices. SQUAD and nessolrode puh-
dings.
II, went into the Baldwin Inn. there
fore. to take q tinal fan OUT CT some
Iiis-' kuucklrs. shuerkraut and mashed
Yellow turnips Inside the place the
English producer came upon an insti-
tuition wholly new to him, one OF those
trick pianos which when q nickel is
Inserted becomes positively glfted-ml-
sic begins. cuckoos come out or HttIe
doors and cuck. drums and timpanl
F crash and there's the deuce TO play
generally
\ %syucopated version Of MY old
kentucky Home with bass drum. TIL
angle and tinwarc accompaniment burst
forth IS soon as Mr.. Barker dropped
his nickel into the piano slot. But
the actual piano accompaniment was
A bit too thin to suit tie English pro-
ldu,er. there were too many piano Keys
idle at a uivcu moment
Whereupou Mr.. Barker sat NJ the
piano and banged whatever Keys were
no, mechanically In action. He plays
we'll. this Barker lad does In next
to no tlmc. therefore. Baldwin began
to assemble and the first Granville
Barker production Lorg Island had wit
messed was on.
Baldwin couldn't have given more en-
thusiastic attention 10 the performance
II IL had known row d stinyuished was
the performer entertaining. SundaI
afternoon ~loun-ers crowded up and
slammed tho Barker shoulders oncour.
agingly when he had finished his frs'
number. After that Baldwin let hin
pu, nickel after nickel into the con,
traption ard sat around ~eurapturec
while Mr.. Barker added 10 the ns
thetlc atmosphere OF TIE recital IN
going through the process known lo
cally as t.cklin. the worries.
An announcement OF the booking o
Mr.. Barker over the Long Island cir
, cuit has not been definitely wordcd b
. Broadway as Yet. Strous pressure /
= being brought - bear upon him, how
ever. - give a series of ~rccitals q
the automatic pianos n celebrated road
houses at Naphauk. Smithville, Roth
page Junction, Syossct, the tour 70 cor
o clude With a grand Gotta before N
a Friendly Sons or -. Patrick AT ArNeTn
on the night OF March II.
. Willie on the suhjcc, ~ these ce',
- brated artists and their rccreations II
e fact should not be overlooked that IN
e eminent Billy r. Van Of vaudeville fan
n has just beer elected a Justice OF T.
Peace in his home town on the shore
II Lake Sunapee. y ~.
= The chief interest to Broadway
fI- It, 4, .1x F..N Il
a letter from Justice OF tho Peace Va
70 was received AT tho United BooN ny .
L fee recently, in which tho judge ask,
II that broadway he Informed tina. ne
~ "uow I'm y position to perform mRrrIa-'
4. for ANYBODY around Forty-seconi sire
and broadway who feels tho need
IS such a ceremony, all my marriages h
p ing performed for nothing
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