The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-02
. HE bill Of comparative comedy
which the Washington Square
L Players have been giving
~ the Bandbox Theatre will

NftE Dill OF comparative comedy
which the Washington Square
Players have been giving
~ the Bandbox Theatre will
be Withdrawn at The close %.
mex week and the third bill of the
season will ~ presented for the frs
time on Monday evening, January 10.
There will he three one act plays and
n pantomime on the new hill. The
foreign play to bc given is The Ten
or" Il comedy by Wcdckiud. translated
from the German by Andre Tr.don.
This will he its first presentation IN
this country. Helen Wesley. Frank
Conroy. Walter Frank AMI Ralph
Roeder have the principal parts. In
The Clod." by Lewis Beach. will I've
seen Josephine A.. Meyer. I,obcr;
Strange. Edward j. B%allantine John
King and Spaulding Han. THE Road
house In Arden by Philip Moeller.
author nj "Helcna's Husband" IL de-
scribed AS "A whimsicality. Noel Had
don. Helen Westley. Roland Young,
Walter Frank. Edward j. Billan-
tine and Frank Conroy viii appear IN
IL. Tho pantomime. The Red Cloak"
is by Josephine \. Meyer and Basil
Lawrence. Among those in 1t are
Lydia Iopokova. Florence Enright,
Charles Edwards and /. II. Freedman.
This afternoon ut 2:30 o'clock III"
Junior Players of the Ncighborhood
Playhouse will give an extra perform
ance of The Gift of the Fairies" "a
four-act play by Meta Syrctt.
Tonight at $3.50. at the Neighbour
hood Playhouse. Constance Ramsay
Gideon ard Henry l.. Gideon Will be
heard in the folk songs of many ma
tons. including the French. English
and Italian as well as the German and
Yiddlsh.
Katie Schmidt. the beautiful little
widow in Flirting vt st. loritz."
closing novelty in the great Hippo
drome show. is = trained athlete 4
much cnown in her native city on the
other side OF the water. The beauty
Of her spectacular skating in the ice
ballet reveals something OF her varied
abilities in feats where agility and
physical strength are concerned.
Horseback riding il one of her
Cil'Stl uI'NiofN bl h'eth TX III EoOn
athletic condition when there is no
skating To he had. She SAYS that this
vigorous sport. especially with n fiery
animal which she has never ridden be.
fore. is about the only tning COM
parable TO ice skating. In her opinion
ice skating is n Amer mental exercise,
but it lacks the quick action and re-
sodrcefulress necessary for the man
agement of "a spirited horrc. She has
had much experience riding the best
animals employed in some of the crack
regiments now ut the battle front OF
the European war. II she had not
become a star skater she might have
chosen a place IN the circus.
Another of her special pleasures Is
swimming. Nothing hut swimming
and skating, In her opinion, produce
the smooth and silky muscles which
she says are the only kind any woma n
wants To have. Evening gowns and
h~lacNsmith's muscles. she says. are
not the most satisfactory companiors.
Women. especially women who follow
social lines of life. should not permit
their muscles To become bulky or
knottcd. They should. even I'm their
choice of pastimes for indoor or out
duce the finer grained tissue. The
beauty Of Miss Schmidt's theory j.
that she herself is a living picture of
the result of the right choice of ath-
letic pursuits.