The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-20

ono day UP at the White Rats club
house that Ned had dropped him and
signed up me a. a collaboration merely
because I'm q faster man On the type
writer than Gus IL. However, II Gus
Thomas thinks that
But the less said tho soonest mended.
Let bygones he bygones.
Die walkuere" Is similar to "a
Certain Party In that both are in
three acts. The first act OF the show
of "D!e Walkuere." that isis laid
in a bungalow In the Maine Woods. al
limited at earlier here. The second act
il supposed 10 take place on the Pail
sades, and the las act occurs on Q
rainy day amid a scene which the pro.
gramme fails to describe. hut which.
to judge from the bunkers and and
traps all about, evidently is supposed
TO represent n golf links after the
course has been st!ffened up despite
the protests OF the older golfers Of the
club. who prefer an easy course.
Playwright Wagner with an idea 1t
turning ont a succession of shows.
each a seque, to its predecessor. or
along the lines Of the yearly output
Of Potash and Perlmutter" pieces,
had intended. So It has been said to
use the same characters in Die Wal
! kuere" which he had used in the
solemn affair which failed here a week
before, "pas Rhe.ngold." AT the last
moment, however, wiser counsel IN
said to have prevailed to the extent
Of causing Playwright Wagner to drop
several of the "Rheingold' characters,
He lid retain two OF the "~Rhelngold'
heavies, however, known as Mr.. and
Mrs. Gus Wotdn. The programme as
completed WAS therefore as follows:
DIE wALKUERE.
\ Mus.,a! show In Three Spasms
Book and Lyrics by Charles Henry Mel'z~r
and Richard Wagner.
Music by Richard Wagner,
''a'" heir mrs mrs, n "pp.aranee: ' VI
Sigmund Wotan. alias sig the wolf'
Mr.. slslinae Huna,ns. at,.rward Mrs.
siemund wo'rn. a war bride. Melanie Kur.
Jacob HundiUr tho .wronsed husband. q
boss ~ Nibe helm .......... Carr IRA n
Kat. nrunnhildc, the Pride OF the Pali-.
Mr.. Fricka Wotan, Guss better half
Marguerite Ober
m. following show girls and ladies' of
IN" chorus:
The Misses renora sparkle. Helm warrum,
Vera curtis. Rita Fornia. F~lorrnce
Milford, Julia Heinrich, Marie
Mattfoli and Lila Robson.
tho Bethlonem S,ee, Company and ORourks
Engineering nni CONSTRUCTION Company.
Miss Gaiskis hats In Act designed
can Company,
Mechani,!l effects by the Baldwin Loco
motive Words Of Philadelphia. Pa.
TIE original manuscript OF the show
calls for line borses, M each for
kotic BrunnhiIdc and the eight show
girls. and for two Harlem goats IA
drag Mrs. Gus Wotan's pom cart onto
the stage. The only horses In evil
dence around the Opera House last
Thursday afternoon, however. were the
two bay truck horses belonging tc
CAIN. the s%torehousc man. waiting
patiently outside, AS for goats. they
were noticeable only in the audience
II has been learned from an %authorita-
tive source hat after looking over a
rehearsal OF the show agents from
the Society for uhe Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals refused to permit
nine innocent horses to appear in 'Die
Walkuere."
In retailing broadway gossip In ths
middle of n critical review OF die
! Walkuere' perhaps there is q viola
tion of the principle Of Esthetics known
as unity, nevertheless n cannot helE
but succumb To the temptation 20 di.
verge here for a line or two and spread
broadcast "A fact which all Broadway
knows. Since Playwright Wagner
started in not long & to try hi
shows out here Mr.. Cain, the store
house man. has had a brass pole
erected which leads from his sleeping
quarters straight dow TO the seat %
his emergency wagon Just below, Also
he has had sets Of trick harness slnrr
from cords above his team Of fast
stepping bays as in fire houses. Their
tho moment an alarm is turned in /,
~acquaint Mr.. Cain with the fact tn
Prof Arturo IIodanzky, leader OF rh'
Metropolitan Opera Honse Silver Cor
net Band. has begun The overture nj
another Wagner hivvcr Mr.. cain slides
down the brass pole and gal!ops I'M
Team over 20 the Opera House aat