The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-11

Pale mauve paper covered pamphlets
printed In elephants breath Ink are pour
Ing through the mails TO Old George
welty--ln whose honor, as THE SUN has
said exclusively before. the Century The
atre was named--to Oscar Hammerstein,
the popular husband Young Charley
Burnham. president OF the United states
Theatrical Managers The Dansant Union
Local William Travers Jerome. and his
first night sidekick. the Hon. BIZ llepner !;
Freddy Housman, Charley Dillingham;,
Col Hank Savage, Mare and Abe, Lee
and Jake. Gatti-Gasatz. Cap'n jim
Churchill. the Hon. Dudley Field Malone
Mn Ristrates Corrigan and Harlow
To all these and even to hundreds or
Broadway's lesser folk who on first nights
suffer the occasional degradation OF nav
ing to sit back OF the II row the pale
mauve pamphlets have come slighterins
onto their desks, and already one can see
that Broadway has been physically ana
mentally rejuyenated.
For the pamphlets tell how "one may
enjoy the bright lights. the gayeties and
happiness of this beautiful world indeh-
nItely." why the generous lady whose
name Is signed to the pamphlets selected
these lads in the pink OF physical and
raising literature the pamphlets do not
explain.
In fact IL seems a bit rude TO mail
printed notices to romping colts ike, say.
Young Charley Burnham and even Old
George Welty. wherein promises are made
such as. to quote an opening line IN one
of the mauve pamphlets. "All who take
this elixir can live indefinitely. barring
accident. with all the vitality of youth.
The best OF IL Is that the stun promises
Broadway IL will bring youth PACK. BUT
there's always a killJoy Joker some place
| In the very next paragraph one learns
! that III YOU would restore youth, II must
needs be restored slowly and by degrees
as IL disappeared" or. as explained fur-
/ Their on in the booklet, II YOU began TO
sag from the lines of youthfulness TWEEN
| ty-five or thirty years ago II Will take
! twenty-five or thirty years even Tor the
wonderful new elixir TO bring you around
again TO the salad days OF silken mus
tache. real hair again. a straight front
Ywaistcoat and "A longing TO see Hazel
Kirk'-boyish characteristics, by the
way, that not one OF the eminent pink
checked first nighters mentioned above
have arrived within ten years OF begin
ming to lose.
And get this" said Producer Al Woods
! Cal got one, tool as he read TO the re-
porter from the mauVe pamphlet: IT
says. The ingredients OF a true elixir
must be sought from amongst those COM
patble potentialities that sustain oom-
bustion and fermentation, for II Is by these
processes the body IL sustained in It's
normal chemical integrity
| "Strassman. call an officer. But listen,
In other words. as the potentialiues di-
rect chemical and physical transformation.
IL systematically by synthess-and get
the reserves, Strassman-'and absorption
We use that which the body requires for
tho promotion OF organization we have an
this elixer can live indefinitely barring
II got this dame now from her literary
style" Mr.. Woods interrupted his read
ling to say. Day and night I'm throw
ing away typewriter sheets OF Happy
stuff like that and getting the stage car
penter to write II over. This danes
playwright"
wrapped up in her scheme OF helping
every one that wants TO do SO 10 I've on
broadway forever And they do say that
several, names unknown, have been sneak
ing up to the West Seventy second street
address printed on the last page OF the
pamphlet TO look the elixir over.
some OF the more impetuous or the
Lambs upon noting that the amount OF
, restaurant food checks OF the club has
taken drop since the opening Of the
Rela phantom Rival
, production have been making violent
efforts TO have Guv'nor Belasco hauled uI
on charges at the club. and they cam
understand why the chairman OF the house
committee. above all people, should OPP
pose such drastic action.
In that Cafe in an Uptown Hote
scene in the first act OF the PHANTOM
Rival" where Mr.. Dltrichstein and TIL
others sit at table throughout an entir
meal Realist Belasco sees to II that tn
actors are served with hot steak. practi
, cal potatoes and all the actual trimmings
SO why dine at the club?
The lmpetuous youths who love theil