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The great department store proprie
tors of Ne York have for months been
exercised over the proposed invasion of
their field by a big Chicago firm, which
has erected a great shop on Sixth
avenue in the' center of the retail dis
trict. These Chicago adventurers, it is
said, propose to innovate in many ways,
and they will no doubt make matters
interesting to the mere lookers-on as
well as exciting to competitors and en
gaging to the army of the fair who
have reduced domestic purchasing to a
science. One of the novelties that like
ly rumor has mentioned in connection
with this new enterprise is a vaudeville
theatre within -the walls of the new
building. This theatre, it is said, will
be the scene of a continuous perform
ance, admission to which will be free to
a1! purchasers of goods, and the seats
graded to correspond with the value of
purchases.
It will be difficult for other shops to
compete with this kind of enterprise,
under conditions otherwise regular; and
the vaudeville theatres in the vicinity
that depend upon the shoppers for their
day performances will be forced to de
vise some sort of original "counter'' at
traction. Of course it will be out of
the question for them to lay in stocks
of dry goods and turn about competi
tively by givini ribbons, gloves, drees
patterns, millinery, lingerie and what
not as premiums on tickets bought for
the show. What they may do in the
way of retaliation is yet to be devised.
Perhaps they will be forced to give en
tertainments so much better than those
offered by the dry goods firm that the
pleasures and profits of shopping itself
one of the dearest of women's pastimes
will be discounted. If the other dry
goods firms establish theatres also, it
may truly be said, at a moment when
vaudeville speras to have reached the
pinnacle of its possibilities, that really
vaudeville is in its infancy.
William Dean Howells's adaptation of
his own novel, "The Rise of Silas Lap
ham," was made with the help of Paul
Kester. Mr. Howolls has offered it to
William H. Crane, Joseph Jefferron and
Sol Smith Russell. As yet the play
haB gone a-begging.
A handsome three sheet poster of
Charles H. Hopper, after the painting
by Ernest Vos, has just been finished
and will be used on Mr. Hopper's com
ing tour with Chimmie Fadden. The
original painting was for some time on
exhibition in Schaus's art gallery and
attracted considerable attention. The
poster is said to be one of the costliest
and most artistic ever turned out.
Mcaame de Thebes, the renowned
palmist, was recently sent a photograph
of the pretty band of Madame Rejane,
who hit New York so hard as Sans Gene
not long back. The palmist, of course,
knew not whose hand the photograph
depicted, but she sized it up thus:
"Energetic acd intelligent hand. The
forked head line indicates a mixtuie of
imagination and practical instinct. The
thumb is big; great tenacity of purpose,
obstinacy. Mercury and Venus pre
dominate in this hand. Mars is pro
nounced; hard worker. Struggles in
dicated by the sun-line beginning in the
plane of Mars. The mount of the sun
joins that of Mercury; consequently,
gaiety and exuberance. Venus gives it
grace and naturalness. Hand of a
dancer or actre?, in any case it indi
cates an aptitude for the stage and
dancing. Venus has favored it so much
that music would have been equally her
forte."
Very gcod guese-work. was it not?
There are some things about court
theatres interesting to the profession of
this country, where a governmental
subsidy need never be expected. The
Emperor of Germany, finding that the
royal theatres of Berlin cannot compete
with assisted theatres in' other parts of
Europe has increased the subsidy for
them 200,000 marks out of his privy
purde, although the administration of
the Berlin court theatres under Count
Hochberg seems to be so economically
keyed that possibly a new intendent
rather than an increased allowance will
be necessary before the Emperor's ideas
of sumrtuosity shall find fulfillment.
From Dresder, however, there recently
came intelligence of more legitimate
note to those concerned in the theatre
here. It appears that the director of
Dresden Court theatre appropriated as
his own the play another submitted for
his judgment. The theft was estab
lished, and. upon the demand of the
pres9 the director was forced to resign.
This, certainly, is one admirable illus
tration of the justice that sometimes
marks the conduct of the foreign theat
ers, whose directors are held responsible
in more ways than one.
An enterprising firm of managers who
believe in a style of drama akin to a
form of literature which critical cus
tom has designated as yellow covered
show consistency upon occasion by em
ploying as actors in such plays notor
ious persons or outlaws whose individu
alities fit the particular dramatic crime.
One of this firm's latest ventures is a
piece that will 6eek to realistically rep
resent the exciting robbery of a train,
and several toughs who. have in the
past made a specialty of this sort of
enterprise in the west are announced to
give a lesson in their handicraft in the
play. To the lover of dignity in the
theatre the disciple of this kind of real
ism may at least remark that while
these train robbers are at work honestly
for pay in a fictitious exposition of their
method, there will be left at large fewer
persons who really rob trains.
It is true that for the coming season
as was the case last season a major
ity of the more pretentious plays an
nounced for production in this country
are of foreign origin. But it is also as
true that there is a larger number of
American plays in prospect for the im
mediate future than usual, as it is that
the relative percentage of dramas that
have failed during the past two seasons
reflects more discouraging! on the
foreign than on the native drama.
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