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COMING
bnOAD "Lndy Betty Martingale," now
comedy by John Luther Long and Frnnk
Stnyton, starring Mrs. Flsfce. Monday
night.
GAXIBICK "The Ynllow Ticket," molo
ilramh, by Michael Morton, starring
Florence need. Tuesday nIEht.
CONTINUING
AbBIiPIIT "The Truth," revival of Clyde
Pitch's comedy Grace Qeorgo more dp
llshtful than ever In excellent prosento
tlon of a brilliant play.
CHESTNUT STHCET OPERA HOt'SE
"Pllate'ii DaiiKhter," by I"rnnrls L Ken
xcl. Miracle play spectacularly staseu
Will close October 17 for New Ynrl,
opening.
FOIUlEST-"Chln-Chin." musical far.
fnsy, with music by Inn i nryll Fro
Stone as a Chinese mamiirln. Pa'i
ronnkl, and a lndy bareback rldr t"
hghtful musli . an engnKlng chorus m
glorious girls.
1yrUC "Passlnn Show of 1114," rovu
from the New i oris V Intel Garden
George Monroe nnd Harry Plsher gro
tosnucly funnj. Money saved on clothes
elaborately expindcd on scenery.
WALNTT-"The Hound fp " Excellent
preentntlon of pop ihr drama on Wild
Western life, tilth "Shep ' Camp, cor
pulent and Jnxinl. ns the "untoved" fat
mnn.
BEING FUNNY
A HARD JOB
ON THE STAGE
The Comedian at the Mercy
of His Audience Fred
Stone and Dave Montgom
ery Tell "Secret" of Their
Art.
"Being funny, you know. Is the hardest
Job In tho tiorld. To bo a comedian Is
serious work."
Fred Stone adjusted a wig ivlth a flve
foot queue, added a touch of rouge to
his chocks, and, with a toothbrush, cov
ered with black penciling heated oier a
candle, beaded tho Inshes of his eyes.
FRED STONE
As Lady Bareback Rider.
Turning about, lie v ae the typical China
man one of t" twin mandarins who
come to Ufo in the first act of "Chin
Chin "
Fred Stone and Dave Montgomery are
tho peer comcdlnns In America. Tho
variety of their roles the versatility of
their mimicry, the uproarious laughter
their antics evoke, are perhaps unpar
nlleled In the history of American stage
humor.
How do yoil do it? How do you suc
ceed In masterlns so many parts In
puttlnsr it over""
It was in the rtre&slnc room of Messrs.
Rone and Montgomery at the Forrest
Theatre
' Why, I'll tell you." declared Stone,
cloilng bis eyes in the droll manner that
Is so convincingly Chinese. "We've got
tlrot to conceive th parts How tho
thing s sroing to go we nexsr know. Only
one thing 3 certain In this business our
audience- Is the only Judge, and we've got
to respect our audience We may work
o it all sorts of funny acts and Jokes.
Sometimes they get acrcsj, sometimes
they don't. .Vow with a lot of comedians.
Jf the audience does not respond, they
eec Gee. what an audience!' And they
never try to do any better. That's th
rei-' 11 th-v ,1 r. t nnk. any gnat uc
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DAVE MONTGOMERY
The Coy Widow Pankey.
cesa Now ou cant fae ulth an au
dience. If they d n i lau,h the trouble
lint with them tut with c i Then t
suCifj jou a got lolum t the-n.
i 'U v got to wcrk until y u i i r-ake
thesa laugh. That a w:.y I say being.
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Mrs. Fiske Broad.
funny professionally Is one of tho hardest
Jolis In tho world.'
The call boy announced Mr. Stone's en
try to tho stage.
"You never know In this game what's
going to bring a laugh," declared Dave
Montgomery, as he was "making up" as
the Widow Pankey. who makes her coy
debut in tho third scene. "You never
know until you get out before the audi
ence nnd the response comes. Wo may
be comedians, but wo've got to be con
vincing." "You bet," added Stone. "You've got
to feel tho pait. Now, I play a China
man in this show. I'd never made up fo'
a Chinaman, and how to do It I
didn't know."
"But wo wont to Chinatown, In New
York," Interrupted Montgomery. "And
we watched the Chinese. Wo observed
tholr mannerisms, their way of talking
We wont into their ehops and bought
things, and argued about the price. We'd
say something to nmk them laugh, and
things to make them pore That iay
wo got their expression "
"Before 'The Red Mill' was put on we
traveled In Holland." continued Montgomery-
"We had St.00 worth f cameras
with us, nnd took pictures. Wo i ot only
ued the knowledge wo gnlncd. but the
scenery was made from our plctuies."
"Yes, sir; it's hard work," declared
Stone. "My greatest hit, you know, was
as the Scarecrow in the 'Wizard of Oz ' "
Montgomery leaned over and whispered
admiringly:
"I tell you, Tred was put on -arth to
play the Scarecrow."
I thought of the Scarecrow for
months," confided Stone. "I worked and
worked to conceive the character. My
children helped me In that, too, and when
I got the 'make up' that amused the
children I felt I'd got what would amuse
the audience."
Mr. Stono, having discarded his Chi
nese onilsagement, was making up as
Mr Ignited Paderentkl."
Beforo Mr. Stone, over his dressing
table, was a photograph of the cele
brated Polish pianist.
Mr. Ston was about to appear In a
burltsque of the Rforsald gcniuF Audl
enpos each nicht haie laughed over the
marvelous performance of Stone and the
self-playing piano.
How did you conceive It?" Mr. Stone
was asked.
"I had a machine piano at my house
and played it, and then ran away from
the piano to amuso my children. Then
the idea occurred to me that it would be
amusing to have a piano that would play
after you walked away from It on the
stage. When we put on thts show w
tried to get a piano concern to make a
piano that would do this We had a
great deal of trouble. They wanted me
to fako the thins to make the audtenco
believe I actually played a player and
then to stop. I said no I would not de
celvo the audience. So wo finally got a
piano made that played automatically
after I If ft It. and then the audltnce
knew I d faked my own playing."
"But do jou plan your effects upon the
audience' Don't you work tricks to get
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velop tho lady bareback stunt on the
hnrae?"
"Mr. Ignited Paderowskl" bowed.
"I never work tricks: I never know
how an audience Is going to take my
stunts I h-ive no sense beforehand of
what Is gi'ing to get across After the
first performance I know what Is good
and what Isn't When t had to do the
ladv baiobatk rider stunt I worked on It
worked on it for months I thought
over the tricks that would amuse fall
ing off tho horse hanging In midair.
Finall I got the trick Take the ven
trlloqust stunt where I appear with what
geems a dummy on my kneo. But It's a
manntkln that does the talking. I do
the pretending Now I ntver thought
that would make a hit, which It has.
"Last Christmas wo were playing in
'The Lady and the Slipper' in Boston,
and the company decided to give n
Christmas pam Everybody was to do
something. I told my wife I'd be stage
manager 'No, Fred.' eald she. 'jou'ie
got to do something Why don't you
tako little Oeorge Phelps, the manni
kln in the show and fake him as a ven
triloquist's dummy"
"So I did it. NoDooy in tne audience i
of actors knew that I had a "rear dum
my on my knee. Well. Charles Dilling
ham saw the thing and said he wanted It
in a new show. As I say, I neier thought
it would make a hit I'd studied ven-trilnqiii'-ta.
knew their manners you see.
I ie been fa ml iar with the circus all my
life And when I faked a mannlkin as a
leal dummy it struck the audience If
it hadn t. I'd have killed It, of course
You can t put anything over with an
American audience,' concluded Mr. Stone
'Eierv Bhow needs new stunts. When
I run out of new stunts I 11 quit I'll quit
I hem before they quit me That's my
whole fte.lng Whn there's no applauso
any more I'll get off tho stage "
The Small Boys West
As to the big realistic scale on which It
is pioduced, Ua beautiful fcenery. Its nu
merous and good actors. Its bucking bron
cho, its abundant "Kun-pU),' Its rever
berant battle between the ranchmen and
the Apache Indians In the desert moun
tains, ' The Round Up," at the Walnut
Street Theatre, In the apotheosis of the
Wild W'wt." It fulfills the small boy s '
dream, and it perfect!) sets forth tl,
stirring life of the con bo ) as Imagined
by the city dwelUr
At tbe head of the many able men in j
tha east Shep Camp affords a delightful
portrajal of "Sum ' Hoover, the Sheriff '
In bia more serious moments Mr Camp
demonstrates his tested talent In his ex
cellsnt comedy Mr Camp, hk some other !
plump Southerners recalls n accent and '
chuckla tho unctuous sympathetic humor I
of a. kindly, fun-lovlns Negro, j
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Mrs. Fiske, the Woman
Mrs. riske and her supporting company
of plajers. under tho direction of Har
rison Grey Fiske. will como to the Broad
Street Thtatre net Monday night for an
engagement of two weeks In "Lady Betty
Martingale, or. The Adventures of a
Lively Hussy," n new comedy by John
Luther Long and Frank Stayton. While
the comedy lt.silf Is new. Its action takes
place In KJO, In London.
Mrs Fiske on tho stage, we all know,
with her abrupt movements, her hlgh
pitclud i"ii. her clipj mi hpr. h thut
curiously fascinating woman who sits
still and somehow makes her audienco
believe she 1b acting but Mrs Fiske,
artist, genius, hypnotist, off the boards Is
unknown. Bather unimaginable It is
difficult to conjure up the greatest of
I'-ecky Sharp's, for Instance, In the simple
and rather ordinary taMe of frying pota
toes Vet she (3 human, after all, and one who
knoiis her intimately glies thi3 picture
of her
'She reads a great deal, writes a great
deal, takes long walks and sleeps about
as much, as did Napoleon. Very little of
her Ufo Is glien over to social diversion,
as she has practically no time for it.
Naturally, she spondb much time In read
ing plays, although a winnowing proceaa
relieves her from the personal perusal of
the hundreds that are submitted every
year, but, even so, the task Is one that
taked both time and patience
"Outside of her stago work Mrs. Fiske
devotes the greater part of her time to
tho work with which she has been so
long and so Intimately associated, that of
Justice and mercy to tho dumb creatures
that serie man so faithfull Mrs Fiske
was for many jears a warm friend and
I great admirer of the Itte Oeorge T. An-
fcell. and bhe rh one of the nrst women
of national prominence to enlist In his
humane work
"No one can meet her without acknowl
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New Prima Donna to Appear in "Sari."
edging that he la In the prescne of a
I great personality. Thero are no affecta
tions nbout her manner, thero Is no pos
ing, no talking for effect, no aggresslio
I enforcement of strong opinion; but one
feels that her opinions hae weight and
I authority
"In talking with Mrs riske. you reaiuo
that her artistic method Ih the visible ex
pression of a peculiarly rich mpritnl nnd
spiritual equipment And tho versatility
of her work. Its wide scope, Is an index
to her chniacter. No one whose nature
was not broad as well ns deep, and whoso
tastes were not cultivated In many direc
tions could give uh such versatile work
in the drama.
"Her natural temperament Is sunny.
She has sympathy with Joy and bright
ness, whimsical humor and the eparklo
of wit As we all know, the humorous
temperament has also sympathy with
and Insight Into the tragical."
By Their Voices Ye Shall Know Them
"The American woman has usually a
harsh, strident voice but however bad a
woman's voice may be, she can ncqulre a
muslcnl Intonation." said Florence Reed,
who Is starring In "The Yellow Ticket."
which will open at the Garrlck Theatre
Tuesday night.
' Hvery continental traveler knows In
what ridicule the American olce Is held
abroad Our 'Yankee twang' has earned
more rldlculo than nnj other of oiir sup
posed national eccentricities It Is n sin
gular fact that few women who possess
high-pitched voices are aware of this de
fect "Very few of us have the courage to
see ourseles as others see us, still fewer
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aie willing to hear themselves as others
do. To my mind, nny physical charms
that a woman may have are dispelled
Instantly by a sharp vocal pitch and a
provincial idiom or inflection.
"Those who travel about a gieat deal
are able to tell from what part of Amer
ica strangers hall. Just by listening to
them. It behooves us to lower our speak
ing tone, that Is to say, to produce our
voice tones from the chest rather than
from the nose, and to rid ourselves with
alucrlty of tho provincialisms which are
the wcather-nnes of our 'American lan
guage.' Only In this way can wo hopo
to compete with the charm of our Eng
lish sisters, whoso muslcnl olces and
clear-cut enunciation are the admiration
of all the world."
Miss Iteed Is a daughter of tho late
Roland Reed, for many jears one of our
most noted comedians. Jilts Reed de
clares thut when eho was lendi to make
her debut on tho stugo she discolored a
great detriment to her success In tho pos
session of u nasal voice an Inheritance
from her father, as undoubtedly was her
dramatic talent. How to change her lo
cal pitch In order to fit herself to play
leading roles became nn immediate and I
Important problem. The loung actres-e
decided to take tho matter in hand with
out retourm to a oml InstruUoi.
In tho garden of her country home
Miss Reed practiced half an hour cierj
morning reading aloud ia.-sagos from
hhakespeare nnd lonsclously dropping the
register of tho ocul tones with every
spoken word A favorlto passage for this
purpose was the "Mprcy" speech In the
"Merchant of Venice," which, Miss Reed
declares, Is peculiarly suited for develop
ing and modulating tho iolce
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EUiel Amorita KeUy "Passing Show of 1914"
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"The Truth" -Adelphi.
Lew Dockstader will make his Initial
appearance nt Keith's next week in his
unique and original character of "Teddy"
Roosevelt.
A story of the Southland will be found
In the presentation of a dramatic version
of Irvln S. Cobb's famous story. "Ser
geant Bagby," which appeared In The
Sntuiday Evonlng Post. Mr. Cobb and
Bozeman Bulger have collaborated In
preparing it for the stage, and It Is pre
sentcd with elaborate scenic lniestiture
The art of terplschoro will be shown In
an advance state In the act of MaBelle
and Ballet.
Living portraits of many of the most
famous musicians nnd compofcois of the
world will bo presented bj I.ambeit.
known as The Master Aluslcian "
McDevItt Kelly and Lme. a trio of
Philadelphlnns will aiyuar In "The Piano
Movers and the Actress. '
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PSYCHIC POISONING
TO EXTERMINATE
BAD ACTORS
Harry Fisher, Comedian of
"Passing. Show," Offers
Novel Suggestion to Prob
lem Older Than Shakes
peare. "Bad eggst Brickbats! Cabbages; The
hook! Oh, all theso Uitng3 have been
suggested as n means to rid tho stnge of
bod actors. Tho trouble Is bad actors
Invariably stick. But at last a solution
has been found novol, effective. It
should mako tho bad actor as raro as
the mastodon."
Harry Fisher, who shares tho comedian
honors with Georgo Monroo In "Tho
1 Passing Show of 19H," smiled broadly.
It was In tho dressing room at the Lyrlo
yesterday.
"This Is an c!d problem, I know," he
continued, "and all efforts so far to
obliterate tho bad actor have proved
lneicctual. Now a French physician, a M.
Oscar St. Ormond, has offered a solution,
This Is to Inoculate a had actor with the
Idea that ho must nctually fancy himself
tho person ho represents, after the theory
of Diderot; so In case the character he
enacts bo ono blighted by consumption,
ho must suffer tho pangs of tuberculosis;
If a mad person, then ho must really and
truly consider himself demented. The
result of such careful treatment would be
that all bad actors would presently find
themselves clapped in Jail or confined in
hospitals or asylums.
"Wo And Justification for theso acts of
humanity In n discussion once held bo
tween John Philip Kemblo and Dr. Sam
uel Johnson. Kcmble had told the doctor
that ho was not one of those enthusiasts
who believed himself transformed Into
tho very character ho represents. 'To be
sure not,' replied tho Doctor. 'Tho thing
Is Impossible, and If Garrlck really be
llovcs himself, as he has said, to be the
monster Richard tho Third, ho deserves
to bo hanged the next tlmo he performs
him.' Garrlck, not being a bad actor,
escaped tho halter.
"This plan of eliminating the bad
actors by what might practically be called
self-destruction has Its merits, and Is
i surely worthy of trial A feasible, a work-
1 able, scheme would be to Induce soma
humanitarian manager to ffor his play
house for a scries of matinees and then
Invito all the bad actors, who think them
selves great ones, to present those plays
which were strongest In their fancy. All
the really Immoderately bad ones, who
possess a tragic bent of mind. Imagine
they can play Richard III far better than
Sir Henry Irving, Edwin Booth or even
Garrlck ever dared to. All that would be
necessary, then, would bo to Inoculate
these public tormentors with the St
Ormond Idea nnd wo would presently
have them all fast behind prison bars"
"When It comes to the loac'lng ladles,
'Camllle' would otfer an excellent oppor
tunity to rid the stage of mnny a one
who rightly belongs behind a ribbon
counter. As they refuse to occupy their
time In such like occupations, a few
matinees deioted to the Parisian heroine
would send the whole pesky lot to Ari
zona for their health
"Think, too, of the possibilities of that
great old play 'Jane L'ue' und the
number of acrcsscs that could be shunted
to Bloomlngdnle by a puformanee or
two of Mis Fairfax, the mad wife of
the drama. If, likewise, some of the
really worse ones, in the way of ioman
tic actors and comedians, could be In
duced to give a performance of 'Nathan
Hale.' the halter would be used with
admirable effect.
"A 'wicked' performer named Bond
once yielded himself up to the foics
and Impetuosity or his Imagination so
completely when acting the rolo of Lu
slgnati in the tingcdv of 'Zara that on
the discovery of his daughter's mis
fortune he fainted awiy and soon close 1
his ev,es in death I'llnj, the philoso
pher, j elated tho story of an actor who
imagined the gout so naturally that at
length he bi ought on that dlsoider, while
Mme Clalron, n celebrated French
actress, accounted for ho iiematurdv
aged appeal ance b tho influeme of the
gncf.s and dimnesses w'th which she had
been constant!) oi pi u helmed )car ait r
)ear upon the stage
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