The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-15
AND BEAUTY AT
The WINTER GARDEN
IA World Of Pleasure" Title
Of the Production Seen
Last Night.
RIOT OF TUNEFCL COLOR
"A World Of Pleasure"-At the Winter

Yvette. Stella Mayhem
The Dancing Diners. The Mosconi Bros.
A Ballet Matter. Theodore Koslon
Miss GOTHAM. ...... .......f Rosie quinn J
The number OF New York's musical
shows or whatever they should be called
WAS increased ast night, when the Win
ter Garden. which provides entertain
ment for mankind. including Diamond
Jim Brady. WAS opened with its fall
Offering. 1t might be said that the
novelty. at which the audience laughed
and which 1t applauded strenuously. not
only Increased the musical plays numeri-
caAiy but added 10 their supply of hu-
NOR. grace and melody. For "A World
Of Pleasure Is as fine a specimen Of the
,nnA Of extravaganza turned out al the
southeast corner of Broadway and Fifty
nrst street as New York could wish TO
sea 1t has w. c." blown In the
bottle.
Dor its beauty there ia among others
many othev-Kitty Gordon with her
We're dc We're features still in q good
STATE Of preservation; for fun there is
Chfton Crawford. who ss uncommonly
neat and finished in method. as we'll as
stella Mayhem: for its melody Venita
Fitxhugh and Ada Meade; for Us grace
Frances Prbtchard and Kosloff: for dam
tiness Frances Pritchard; for its occa-
siona atmosphere of ~politeness frances
Prit-that Is to say a number of grace
} full u women. Then there was a
spectacular finish to the frst act which
equals any of the merely visual appeals
thu this stage has ever offered and a
scene Of New York harbor's battleships
which continued the patriotic appeal
the nrst epicode had aroused. Then. with
its constant succession OF beautiful
scenes and with striking costumes
which wore attributed to Mrs. J. ]. Shu-
bert on the programme, was the defer
ence to the eye which these Winter Gar
oon PRODUCTS always pay.
Amazingly Gowned Actress.
KITTY Gordon-Eneiand must have felt
nat u lost = national when
she left it-was amazingly gowned. and
the wonder grew until abe ultimately
seemed 70 have only diamond hoops sus-
pended about her. Miss Corridor always
suggeo1 ~tctcles. but these were b~rilliants
Of Nj kind or another. Venita FIFTH
hugh's blasineSy btond beauty fitted
we'll into the Winter Garden frame and
she was seer to much better advantage
than ever before. Frances P~ritchard's
girlteh demeanor not only gave her a
charn all her own but was OF the great
est value 10 the proceedings whenever
she appeared. since she imparts to every
scene al atmosphere Of daintiness which
- more difficult to obtain than silk or
satin. Ada Meade sang Justify abou
the melting pot In the scene that brought
the first of the two acts to n close.
And u was a most stirring close. Lit
tie soldiers out OF the toy shop had
! been parading about in mechanical
7 fashion. They represented the armies OF
all the nations. But hen they marched
. up the marble steps under the festoone1
a Stars and Stripes and the melting pot
began to bubble they marched down the
steps again perfectly good Americans
waiting to receive the Star Spaigled
Banner which, fiuttering about a pretty
girl, o down through the air from the
balcony. No Winter Garden first aci
ever ended In more thrilling fashion,
There had been other novel episodes In
this act The toy shop. with its dancing
dolls, h Kitty Gordon singing abou,
Down in C~attycorner." and dancing
girls SO realistically catlike a. to have
even tiny whiskers, and Rosie Quinn
showing the best of the traditional steps
a the Winter Garden. since she learned
them all there, preceded the patriotic
ending Of the first half Of the piece.
= The Dancing q Feature.
There were still to be seen SALARY.
Deli. a dancer with muscles to show
and not the slightest Discrimination to ex,
hibit them. who danced much as Little
Egypt of blessed memory did in III,
dim and furtive days of our youth. witt
the exception that she swept the horizon
with her neither limbs just as the repre-.
sentatives OF the classic ballet are &C.
customed to do: there was the ragtim,
sailor dancing OF Moon and Morris, tn,
amusing burlesque dancing of the Mos
conf brothers. who did some most laugh
able ''patter.' as it is called in Long
- acre Square society the "Wop Cabaret
OF Stella Mayhem. who was in excellen'
form throughout the whole evening. ant
"Ragtime Carnival" which ended tn,
\ play.
II was all excellent three star Winter
Garden. from the bare pelt of SALARY
Dell to the exposing and provocativ.
dresses that most OF the women on tn,
stage wore, The harlequin suits in tn,
last act would seem to represent tn
very last word in this kind of stage at
tire, but 1t Is dangerous to say so, sino
Flo Ziegfeld has probably alread!
thought out something much worse TO
next summers Foli!es. Bare knees seen
vieux jeu to-day with the stripped won
snhood that scrambled over the White,
Garden stage last night.
show Moves swiftly. ,
Only in a probable exaggeratlon o
this feature of Winter Garden perform
ances Ia there any change to be noted
There are the same rapidity of action
IN the same riot Of colo and the same ful
n as we'll as the same ~vulgarity. Las
nights book was written by that traine,
laureate of the establishment Haroit
Atterbridge. who also had the glory O
the lyrics on his shoulders. 1t was j
G, Huffman who made the play NOV
50 quickly. and the show was squire,
on splendddly by the music OF Sigmun'
"opberg. which was far above the aver
st- OF this type OF iii Pan Alley com
position.
So New York has a new Winter Gar
den show. 1t is Of the kim that ha
kept this place OF amusement 70 popu
lar during it's existence and II contain
! In It's best estate all that the theatr
stands for. So that ought to be enoug
what?
Among those in the audience wer
Mayor and Mrs. Mitchell. George No