The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-24

Vine Bertha NaliSch mas
or will at least Just as soon
as Madame sees At, which probably
will he within a few days, to an
nounce publicly. ITO My Friends
Henceforth Please Call Me kalich-
just K-a-l-i-c-h."
And from those thrifty lads who
and rent TO theatre managers the
big ~incandescent bulb studded block
that are used to spell out the
of stars and attractions over
theatre entrances there has begun TO
swell forth tas the electric light lads
note the growing tendency OF stage
STAR 10 use only one name) a roar OF
pain almost as loud as the shout OF
JOY they gave n day a few seasons
ago when somebody sold a play called
The Fool Hath Said In His Heart.
There Is No God which was the
greatest day In the Broadway electric
light business.
Mrs. kalisch goes too far BY far.
wept Johnny Monk. electric letter type
setter at the Palace Theatre yesterday
W 'lu WI hllNSSi'ss -
bad enough for her to drop the Mime
period and the B-o-r-t-h-a, but whynell
kick the GOOD letter S out of tho last
name too
The answer TO n part of Johnny
Monks question is that with Modieska,
Rejane, Siddons and other artists who
wrote their name in one. now but menu
Dries and with little likelihood Of the
great Bernhard ever appearing or
Broadway again. some one of the man!
upnn whose shoulders the Rejane-Bern-
hardt mantle has fallen must step right
forward and take their places.
When Nine. Kal-when kalich makes
her entrance at the Palace next week
therefore in OSsip Dymow's playlet. THE
Victim" only the new name will dec
crate theatre facade n programme.
Thus Madame will rave the jump on
Miss Trixie Friganza, Miss Maggie
cline and others. For Miss Friganza
SAID in her dressing room at Hammer
stems a fortnight or 40 ago that she
had il all framed up 10 resume merely
the last part of the old Huguenot fam
lis name she was known by In her school
DAYS In Ohio. Miss t~'risdnza is to be
billed simply as O'Caliahan. dropping the
Della eut!rely.
Mss Florence and Miss Mary an
nouns~d that they intend to toss a coin
TO see which sister wins the privilege
OF succeeding Bernhard merely as
Mash" Thereupon Jack Barrymore was
hit with an idea that appealed to his
sporting blood. JacF' and Lionel and
Sister Ethel will. II they follow Jacks
advice, match pennies, odd man out. un'
al the mighty questiop is decided as
TO which member OF the family Is to bt
known neuceforth simply as Barrymore.
ono thing that has been overlooked Ii
that Harry Kelly's dog In Watch Your
Stcp" long ago beat all other Broadway
performers 70 the new fashion. kelly's
/ dog has always been known simply as
! Lizzie to his frlends--and his Il USED
ady.sedly because Lizzie isn't that kline
OF "A dog. Lizzie mas his faults ano
al hat and he-,but his is about enough
about that.
Broadway learned Yesterday for N,
! frst t.me Of the serious illness in Chi
cago OF raul Armstrong. the playwright:
! After partia. recovery fr, an attach
OF heart trouble recently MI Arrnstronl
went 10 Chicago 70 receive treatmer
! from an old time physician friend OF hi
in that city. pr. Mcnamara Mr.. Arm
strong Is confined 10 his bed at tn
sherman in Chicago 1t was sai'
al his office here Yesterday that he {
'fEdA'.E 'H'
John Mccormack, the fine big hrotl
G, , tenor. who has 10 sing in = c!rcu
tent 4: the tail grass town doesn't ow'
an armory explained TO the repor;e
on Sunday all about the flstlcuffs, a
John Mccormack called them, tina
Thomas Egan, another celebrated hrot
q 4 tencr, INDUCED in last Saturday
The fact that Saturday was N
: vindup ~ the exciting week NJ m
Seventeenth Of lre!9ud may or ma
not have had something 20 do with Tor
Exams enthusiasm Whatever II wa
when Egan was about TO enter III
stage door Of the Palace or SATURDAY
where he vas the hesdliner last wesl
an importunate person served him wit
a that had something or othe
to do with the settlement II 4 bill whic
Tom Egan insists he doesn't owe.
When the process serve hecam me, !
Big Tom Ecan's way OF thinkin', 10
Unfortunate. the fists began TO Ny-'
least. the Egan fists did.
And sure, why shouldn't my goo
friend Tom ECan act ar he did ssi
John Mccormack. Hes an lrlshmaI
isn't me- He IS. He's on the stag
isn't he? He Is. Then he's a stag
Irishmar. isn't he' He is.
Now, SO much being admitted, I n
YOU what rule of dramatic constructIo
j. so rigid a. the one which says thi
. tnr stage Irishman ~hero-and Toms
hero too-muht always drive his Nv
fsts through any other character thi