The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-01

There was a large crowd absent
from the annual dinner Of the Associa-
tion OF Theatre Managers the other
night nevertheless Young Charley
Burnham, the first manager to produce
Box and Cox on any stage and now
manager of wallack's n president of
the aforesaid association. should worry
and get a lot OF wrinkles.
Despite the absentees. among whom
were almost all managers n producers
whose offices are not In the New Am
sterdam Theatre Building. this years
dinner was about the happiest the asso-
citation ever has had-what with Jim
F'ord's merry speech and everything.
Even the weighty address OF Rennold
Wolf on "C~ommercisiism in the The
function.
But overinauisitive persons have
been asking since the dinner why George
Michael pronounced Mee-shell) Cohar
pronounced Ko-han) Sam Hennessy
Harris. Al Woods. william a. Brady
lsct SliubtIt, t'OIbt iyltis y 'llu
bert. Flo Ziegfeld. J. Fred Zimmerman
Edgar and Arch Selwyn. John Cort
Young Dave Belasco, Morris Gest ana
c r. to mention but a few. were not OF
hand. Wherefore to stifie the uproa
OF queries THE SUN reporter sought OF
these abscntees yesterday and asked
them why they were SO c~onspicuouslN
absent.
II wa. sitting by the nreside on tn
night IN question said Lee Shubert
while my brother Jake cad aloud T.
me The Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire to see whether there were any
good musical comedy possibilities in it
Jake | said to my brother, the houl
grows late. Dusk has fallen. deaf
brother. Let us away to our respectiN,
private rooms and bath. put on ou'
maxnarxes and go down 10 the Wal
dorf and count the house NJ the theatr'
managers dinner
From his own room while lie dressed
Jake continued TO read aloud to m
from Gibbon. Then while going down IL
the elevator and even when &c got int
the subway Jake continued TO read
aloud from the wonderful book. Bot
OF us were so wrap; up in the worl
that we got IN an uptown train In
stead OF a downtown train.
Jake continued TO read and read an
read. At last the train came to Z
stop FAR away. some place where Their
were pine trees all around covered will
snow. The train was shunted into .
siding. Jake read on and on and whe'
finally he had finished the book it wa
almost 4 A.. Man hour so late tina
we could not think OF going TO th'
dinner then And that's why We weren
there. That's all. There ism, an
more. There isn't any more. Their
isn't any"
why wasn't I at the dinner" re
peaied Al Woods. Well. | started 70
II all right, 7 let my boarding hous
in East Forty-Second street aud aske,
II con when | got as far wes,'as Ave
nue. \ how 10 &c, to Fifth avenue
where. according TO tho dinner card
this Waldorf shack IL located. He tol,
me TO count the avenues as Wake,
west | walked and walked. Couutin,
off First. second and Third avenues
Then | got into trouble. I took /
for granted that the next avenue ives
would he Fourth avenue ana that FIT
must hc next TO this. Tor, .f / do say Il a
shouldn't. I always was q bear AT arith
mstlc. But the next avenue 7 ran int
after Third avenue was letter.d Lev
ington avenue. I thought little of thi
at the time. taking It for granted agaii
that some one had slipped an odd ave
nue. in between.
SO on | went and. believe g. ur iu.
the next avenue Vas called Paris
stood around FOR n while ard wake
back 10 Avenue \ 70 start an owe
again And oEce more came 10 tai
Lexington and PARK and got al nike
ny over again. Just 10 see whether
was nuttv or no. l rave auctue. tN'
1ue n trv and found II was called Mad.
sol avenue ~ the moment t., cnl
i.irg ! could figure out was tAat TNir
Avenue was the highest numbered ave-
nue. there s, 50 ! duit look M for F.f'
avenue Il turned east ard So % he,
only to-day | found out that II
had gone just one block further 7 woul
nave come to this street they can lNf'
i.onue And that's VIII, ! missed tn
dirner'
And SO II went with the othe" anseute
managers interviewed Al Sad tie
bad hCen invited ~ the Dime and ce'
tajniy would have been there y IL wer
not that one thing after another turrc