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IERICANSHE!
PARIS FOR ART,
RACE!
Three Rival Salons and Many
Smaller Exhibitions Adequate
Attractions in This Line.
Good Comedy Is Offering This Week at the Atlanta iA/EDDING PLANS OF
Forsyth to Present Feature Bill of Vaudeville GERA/IAN PRINCESS
Lyric May Open With Stock—The
Old Fashioned Dances Versus Turkey Trot
By ANN TEEK-
(^TWO PRINCIPALS IN THEATERS THIS WEEfQ
Bijou Program Makes Bid
for Popular Favor.
F olks who at thi.
year begin to \
BESNARD ON “MASTERPIECE”
titled “Peace” for the Palace
at The Hague.
reason of the
rry over hot
nts need not
indulge in their
eat her am us
! lie awake at night tc
! favorite pastime, bet
- j thing that if Atlantans show by their
f patronage that they want the thea-
Painting a Decorative Panel En • tera kept open throughout the sum-
i mer they’ll be kept open. The man
j agers are more than willing to meet
j their patron* half way. It’s strictly
; up to local theatergoers.
As things now stand it is highly
probable that there will be another
By CHARLES HENRY MELTZER.
Special Cable ti> The American.
PARIS, May 3.—A week of summer
sunshine, following a long rain, has.
for the time being, transformed Paris
from an abode of gloom into Its happy
self.
Stranger# are flocking in from every
side. The advance guard of Ameri
cans is arriving from England, Oer-
stock company bidding for popu
larity in Atlanta before many weeks
have passed. The management of the
Lyric is negotiating for a company to.
present popular stock plays at that
house. When the curtain was rung
down on the last act of “Hilly the
Kid’’ last night plana were imme
diately set on foot to have the house
thoroughly renovated, if it is de
cided to put stock on at the Lyric
j i ♦ Via I the theater will be In readiness for it.
many and Italy. Day after day the , Mjsg B1) | y j j0n(s and hpr (apa blc
•.uburban race courses are thronged company begin the third week of the
4t night the leading theaters arc i stock season at the Atlanta to-mor-
a eked and in our Elyslan fields the j row evening and the new offering is
pai *cu »«.u ... — 7 I a comedy. "The Girl From Out Yon-
chestnuts bloom. j der.” The company is composed of
Throe rival salons are attracting art j first-class players and all should ap-
lovers The smaller art shows also I P*ar toadvantage in this clever com
edy.
have their patrons. Girls In white j , np(>s Wednesday and Saturday,
muslin frocks stream along through j The Forsyth, which was long the
the streets on their first communions, home of Keith vaudeville, seems
There will he the usual mat-
snd Paris has forgotten the unpleas
ant frontier Incidents which threat- j
ened war.
Peace, however, may at any moment j
be compromised by a rash act of this ;
nr that great power, by an tndlscre- |
tlon of the Montenegrin King, or by
more frontier Incidents.
Paris, meanwhile, may thank the
bloodthirsty Apache* for various
thrills. Unchecked by the execution
of three of the auto bandits, one man,
several nights ago, amused himself by
, arving up three harmless Arabs who
were drinking and ohatting together
In a cafe. Then he escaped.
The night before a band of Apaches
robbed the suburban railway station
at Sevres and Chavllle) after shooting
and beating the station masters.
Many Arrests Made.
Various arrests have been made,
but the real criminals are said to be
still at large.
An Organization of mysterious
thieves, known as the “Collection-
neurs'/’ or “art collectors." have also
<aused the police a lot of worry.
One of these ‘'collectors’' might be
kin to Arsene Lupin. His special line
is to rob churches ancTpilloge art gal
leries.
Three months ago this band got
away with some priceless tapestry be
longing to Albert Duval, which has
not since been heard of. It is sup
posed the thieves hope to sell their
swag abroad, probably In America.
The appointment of that great
painter, Albert Besnard, as director
of the Villa Medlds, at Rome, in the
place of Carclus Duran, is widely ap
proved. Besnard now is working on
a large decorative panel which soon
will adorn the celling of the palace at
The Hague. His theme is “Peace.”
One of the most Interesting guests
at the recent reception given by the
Duchess De Rohan waN Mrs. Wilson
Howe, sister of President Woodrow
Wilson. Among those present also
were Princess Delatour De Auvergne,
the Marquis De Chambrun, the latter
formerly Miss Rives Nichols, of New
York, and Due De Montmorency.
Represents Uncle.
Junius B. Morgan will represent his
late uncle, J. Pierpont Morgan, at the
opening of the Aix les Baines hospital
on May 15, when the local authorities
will present him with a gold medal
• truck In honor of the dead flnan-
have come into its own since
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Amusement Bills
For All This Week
Atlanta—Miss Billy Long Stock
Company in “The Girl From
Out Yonder” all week. Mat
inees Wednesday and Satur
day.
Forsyth Keith vaudeville all
week, Gus Edwards’ Kid Kab-
nret headliner. Matinees daily,
beginning to-morrow.
Bijou Family vaudeville and mo
tion pictures all week. Mat
inees daily, beginning to-mor
row.
Lyric—I >ark.
X'OMCJ
VTOCJC CO
SvLc ATLAJVJJt
transferred back to it from the Grand.
The bill last week was a good one
and all the performances were w r ell
attended, Indicating that the manage
ment had made no mistake when it
reopened that cozy house for an in
definite run of high-class vaudeville.
At the Bijou this week a well-
arrangecl bill of family vaudeville and
motion pictures will be offered to the
patrons of that all-the-year-round
I playhouse.
c,er Play Full of Comedy
The American polo team formed to Offering at Atlanta.
take part in the contest for the Frank |
J. Mackay cup includes Herman H.
Harjes and P. D. Mills, of New York,
and F. H. Prince, Jr., of Boston.
Ex-JSenator Nelson A. Aldrich, of
Rhode Island, is now resting at Aix les
Baines.
Among the recent American arrlv- I
als tn Paris or© Captain A. Sacky,
Mrs. Roger Watts, Mr. and Mrs. H. ;
Sprinter. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Mur-
ray, Mr. and .Mrs. C. A. Dana. Julius '
Adler and family, Mrs. C. Ledyard I
Bla.ir, Mrs. L. S. Chanler, Miss A.
Chanler, Mrs. M. J. Pearson and fam
ily, Miss Choate. Henry Hadley, Win-
throp Ames. Miss Marie Doro. all of
New York; Mrs. Katt^ Vibey. Mrs. V.
E. Sackville, Mr. and Mrs. H. Ames.
• if Boston; Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Doug
lass. Mr. and Mrs. A. Larsen, of Los j
Angeles; A. A. Walton, C. P. Per- j
kins, Maurice Metzger and Mrs. W. j
Carey Lewis, of Chicago.
“The Girl From Out Yonder’’ will
I be- presented by the Miss Billy Long
j company at the Atlanta Theater this
week and it should prove a most ex
cellent offering, for there is plenty
I of comedy, the dramatic situtions are
I strong and the love interest is a
feature. The play was written by
j Pauline Phelps and Marion Short.
The role of Flotsam, the girl who
I has been brought up on Lighthouse
| Island, is finely adapted to Miss Hilly
' Long and she Is sure to add to her
j great popularity during the week.
The story of the play Is an inter
sting one. Mrs. Elmer, a New York
oman, has been rescued
vning but doe* not know
,1 her. To her friends she
her rescuer as a mere lad.
tsam appears on the scene
a oil-skins and vVearing a
* she is recognised by Mrs.
till taken for a boy.
■overs that she has
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been rescued by a girl her surprise |
is great. She feels her indebtedness j
to Flotsam, and taking a fancy to
the girl, asks Cap’n Amos Barton,;
Flotsam’s father for permission to
educate her.
Mrs. Elmer’s adopted son. Edward
Elmer, is drawn to Flotsam from the |
first and his interest in her soon
grows to love. This causes jealousy
on the part of Joey Clarke, a fisher
lad, who is in love with Flotsam.
Joey, while nursing Cap’n Amos
through a severe illness learns an
Important secret which the captain
has been keeping to himself for many
years. Some 20 years before the
story opens, the captain, in a quarrel
on shipboard, strikes a man and. as!
he believes, kills him. This man was
none other than Elmer’s father. In |
order to prevent Elmer from marrying
Flotsam, Joey tells the secret and the j
captain determines to take his pun- |
lshment like a man. Flotsam flatly
refuses to go away to school but
says she will stay at the lighthouse
during the captain’s imprisonment. L
The fact that the captain was wrong
ly accused is brought out llnally and
all ends happily.
Miss Long has played the role of|
FldVtsam before and she says it is one
of the most fascinating ever assigned
to her. Edwin Vail, Joseph E.
Kirkham. Allan Robinson. Al Warren. !
Kathryn Sheldon and Ralph Marthyj
are all i ast for congenial roles.
Fa'nily Vaudeville
At the Bijou.
The bill of excellent vaudeville and
motion pictures which tht Bijou
Theater offers this week is one that
is expected to jirove a rare treat
for the patrons of that theater. The
four acts have been selected with a
view to variety and the different
numbers are certain to be most ac
ceptable. Especial attention has been
given to the matter of selecting the
moving pictures ami‘those who care
for this class of entertainment wifi
have every reason to be glad they
itended the show at the Bijou this
The bill is headed by the Four Mus
ical Gate*, styled as “the Saxophone
Kings.” Their act is a real musical
treat. Wesley and White, the eleven
entertainers. have an act that is
bound to please. The Three Empires
will furnish mirth, melody and music,
while Marie Walsh, who makes her
first appearance in Atlanta, will ap
pear to splendid advantage. The mo
tion pictures presented at the Bijou
are changed daily.
I
Last Cooking Lessons Being
Given Kaiser’s Daughter by
French Chef.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE TAUGHT
Kid Kabaret Heads
Bill at Forsyth.
What promises to prove one of the
most likable bills of Keith vaudeville
ever offered in Atlanta will be pre
sented to patrons of the Forsyth
Theater this week, the first perform
ance taking place to-morrow- after
noon. Thtire Is plenty of variety in
the arrangement of the program and
an abundance of material to please
all lovers of amusement.
The Forsyth is peculiarly adapted
to warm weather entertainment. IF
is cosy, yet comfortably cool. The
theater Is equipped with a specially
constructed cooling plant and the
temperature of the house is easily
regulated.
The headliner of this week’s bill is
Gus Edwards’ Kid Kabaret and the
act is said Uxbe one of the real hits
of vaudeville. Broadway and the big
cities in the North have given the
stamp of approval to this act, which
is reported to be even better than
Gus Edwards’ Song Revue, and that
was a huge hit in Atlanta.
The act is composed of fifteen girls
and boys who were personally / drilled
in songs and dances by he famous
song writer himself. It is full of
specialties. It is a travesty on the
Ne w York co barets.
Another prime feature will be Belle
Storey, dainty singer of sweet songs.
She is regarded as one of the prettiest
girls on the vaudeville stage. Wil
liams, Thompson and Copeland will
present a comedy skit entitled “The
Burglars’ Union,” while Hart’s Six
Steppers will offer a splendid dancing
act number.
Other featured acts are those of
Edwards and Company, Risner and
Gores and the Musical Alvlnos.
Mat I trees daily, beginning to-mor
row.
French Actresses
Insuring Persons
Feet, Eyes, Bust and Voice Covered
by Large Policies Against
Loss.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS. May 3.—Several well-
known Fi t m h actresses have insured
themselves for large sums, and some
! of the policies contain peculiar
clauses.
Th<‘ famous dancer. Mile. Napier-
skowska, insured her feet for $50,000.
The ey.s of Mile. Frfel are valued at
$10,000, and the long and beautiful
hair of Mile. Vallandri is Insured for
$20,000.
Mile. Maude Harry insured her
shoulders for $5t‘.000, while Mile. Re
gina Badet has taken out a policy for
$100,000 against any injury to her
bust, and another of $200,000 on her
voice.
83, MARRIES FOURTH HUSBAND.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 3.-—At the age
S3. Mrs. Jane Evans, of Llandarog,
Carmanthenshire, has married as her
fourth husband a bachelor of 33, Da
vid Jones.
Trousseau Very Elaborate and
All Evening Gowns Coming
From Paris.
BY STEVEN BURNETT.
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, May 3.—With the wed
ding of the Kaiser’s daughter only
three weeks off everything is bust
ling within the imperial castle. The
young princess herself is getting her
iast lessons In the culinary art from
a famous French chef, and when her
time Is not taken up with cooking,
she gets lessons in domestic economy,
bookkeeping and the management of
servants from the Kalserin person
ally. The princess’ first establish
ment in a comparatively small garri
son town will be on a rather small
scale and her associates will prin
cipally consist of the wives of her
husband’s brother officers, and her so
cial success will largely depend on
her own ability to manage her home,
as she will have very few servants.
But she is determined that the
small dinner parties ana suppers to
which she will have to invite her
husband’s friends and their wives
shall be able to pass the criticism
to which they will be exposed. There
is absolutely no snobbery among
German officers and no mercy will be
shown the wife of a junior officer
because she happens to be the Kais
er’s daughter. So she will have
every reason to congratulate herself
on the sensible education she has re
ceived from her mother.
A certain part of each day is set
aside for the shopping, for the Prin
cess herself selects and buys every
article of her trousseau that is to be
bought in Berlin. She Is very often
accompanied on her shopping expedi
t|f>ns by Crown Princess Cecile and
the latter’s factotum and bosom
friend, Miss Geraldine Farrar.
It speaks well for the tact of the
Berliners that although there is not
one among the chopping crowd who
does not know their favorite Prin
cess Victoria Louise, nobody for a
moment thinks of running after her
to see what she buys, as the women
of most countries would do. And she
is permitted to do her shopping at
Wertheim’s or any of the other large
stores as undisturbed as if she were
a mere jiobody.
The Kalserin was very much im
pressed by an article in a Berlin
paper by the author Karin MichaelU
Stangeland on the subject of the
trousseaus of princesses in which she
stated that it was certainly the duty
of royalty to support the industry of
real hand-made lace, and not a single
inch of the machine article will be
used in Princess Victoria Louise’s
trousseau.
All the evening gowns of the prin
cess as well as her wedding gown
will come from Paris
The guests at the wedding will be
a very imposing crowd. The King
and Queen of England have already
announced their coming. The Czar
and Czarina have almost promised to
come, and beside we shall see the
King and Queen of Italy, the heir ap
parent of Austria, the King and con
sort of Denmark, and possibly the
Kaiser’s sister, the new Queen, and
her consort, King Constantine of
Greece.
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T HE Turkey Trot is not confined
exclusively to the younger set.
In fact. Turkey Trotting is em
phatically a dance for the older mem
bers of society, and there are club
women in Atlanta who dance it with
as much grace and agility as do the
young matrons and debutantes. Of
course these women do not “rag” it,
but give it the dignity it deserves
as a health-inducing exercise.
“The Turkey Trot is all right,” .said
a wed-known club woman of middle
age. “I like it. There is* a fascina
tion about Its measure, and the little
effort it takes to do it, that makes
It delightful.”
“Have you danced the Sarafan?”
asked another and more youthful
member of one of the patriotic socie
ties. "Abroad it is all the rage. My
mother and grandmother danced it
in Charleston in their girlhood, and
it is one of the most beautiful and
inspiring dances I know of. It is rol-
licksome and frolicksome, and gives
a glow to your cheeky and a grace to
your body. All Spanish dances do
that.
“I have a friend in London who
writes me that the Sarafan is very
popular at the week-end house parties
in England now, and it.is sure to
become popular In Atlanta. To dance
the Sarafan you must have a leader.
The leader is usually a man. who
starts the dance by gliding lightly
over the ball room floor, snapping his
finger*', or playing upon some small
stringed instrument. One by one the
couples get up and follow’ him, as
he leads them in and out of the
rooms of the house, up and down
the stairways and halls, and even out
into the street and through the gar
den. Always the dancers follow in
twos, in fours, in couples, never alone.
There is an added charm lent the
Sarafan If the dancers will carry Iignt
scarfs, or cas'ternets. My mother has
been in Sanafan dances when there
were fifty collides in the dance. All
sorts of fancy steps are introduced
and the music changes by turns from
light-winged waltzes x to lively polkas
and frisky gallops, then a march will
be introduced, so the dancers can
catch their breath. Oh, but it is
glorious! And when it reaches At
lanta, and is danced at the Driving
Club, or in some of the beautiful
homes out the Peachtree Road, where
there is room to move long distances,
it will be lovely. Before many moons
I expect to see the Sarafan danced
here. And as long as men and women
can dance, I hope and believe the
Turkey Trot will be in vogue, for it
not only rests the nerves but is pecu
liarly fitted to the rheumatic and
sciatic back and limbs'. It is good
for young and old alike.”
“Have you ever danced. Put Your
Little Foot Down There?” asked a
member of the party. “It is really
called la Vasuveanne or the Vasu-
veanna, and has a motion and grace
that belongs to no other of the old-
faphion dances. Many times have I
seen my mother’s little foot, velvet-
slippered with its high French heel
and beaded toe, point out every time
the band played the music tjjat be
longs exclusively to the Vas'uveana
With its lilt that seemed to say, ’Put
your little foot down there.’
“And do you remember the hop
waltz, and the dip and the polka and
the gallop? Just where the Cen
tury Building stands was the first
dancing school in Atlanta. I remem
ber about that time the higher you
could spring off the floor every time
your feet made a turn, the better
dancer you were considered. Then
came the day when the lady laid her
head upon her partner’s shoulder, and
the Bunny Hug was not in it com
pared to the languishment and prox
imity of the dancers.
“And the fancy steps taken by the
women and men who danced the old-
fashion quadrille and lancers.”
laughed another club woman who re
members things. “I have sashayed
nearly the full length of the ball
room when the fiddler called ‘bal
ance all.* and the times my feet have
locked in the rocking step is like the
sands of the ^*ea. But those were
good old days, and the dances were
all right, albeit they were springy
and hoppy.
“Going back to the Turkey Trot.”
said the first speaker, “how many of
you club women have ever seen the
Chicken Dance? I mean a real chick
en dance? At the break of day when
the barnyard awakens, there is a flut
tering of wings, a marshaling together
of his harem ladies, and the rooster
hops from his perch and crows. That
is a signal for the hens to get down
and dance, and they do, their feet
making tracks in the earth, and their
wings opening and shutting like big
fans. Every once in a while the
chicken hops high in the air and
this continues for several minutes.
Then Old Mr. Roos*ter struts off. fol
lowed by his ladies, and by the time
the sun is well up, the dance is ended.
“Negroes are very superstitious
about the chicken dance, and at the
suggestion of my cook, I got up one
morning last spring and witnessed
the weird dance, in the ghostly gray
of morning. I believe the super
stition is that every one should see
at least one chicken dance during
his life to insure a protection from
the Evil Eye.
‘The Chicken Dance ig sometimes
called the Devil’s Dance, and believe
me. it is worth seeing.
“The subject of these old-fashion
dances remind me of some of the old-
time games played when the Sarafan
and Vasuveanne were danced,” con
cluded the oldest club woman in the
party. “Grace Hoops was the pret
tiest' game I ever saw. It was played
with two sticks about as long as
your arm and as big around ns your
thumb, ami a hoop covered with gold
guimpe a rid velvet ribbon wound
around it. The hoop was about the
size of a large service plate, On a
lawn 1 have seen as many as twenty
hoops going at one time and the play,
ers catching them learn to he very
dexterous and skillful throwing and
catching them. If you can get every
hoop on your sticks, which you keep
crossed as you throw and catch, yon
are lucky and called a good player.
Grace Hoops was a favorite pastime
for the women of the forties and fif
ties. The game even continued pop
ular dqring the sixties, but other than
my mother’s grace hoops I have never
seen any in Atlanta, and she brought
hers from Charleston, S. C,
“Shuttlecock and Battledore was
another delightful game of the past.
Bats, something like tennis raquets,
and feather-winged balls that were
batted about and never allowed to
rest, were used. These two games
brought into play every muscle of a
woman, made her graceful and light
on her feet and gave her that physi
cal grace that made the women of
the Old South so greatly admired.
“Well, those were good old days
and fine old dances, to hark back to,
"but for real sport give me Turkey
Trotting when it is danced without
ragging the shoulders, or snapping
the fingers, or bending the body. Your
heels should never touch the floor
if you would Turkey Trot correctly.”
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