Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1921, Page 55

THE ' SUNDAY STAR, "WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE 26, 1921—PART ‘4. IN A FRIEND TRILBY CALLS IVE Inez three or four days to - chew over a proposition and she'll generally come, through with' some :ppropriate remark. She had about gone the limit when she Lurprises me with this one, just as we're tackling our prune whip dessert at Miss Wellby's. -Why Unote Nels no come she asks. < How should 1 know?" says L s your uncie, not mine. What's your —_—— HE RAMBLER/CONTINUES STORY OF- OLD THEATERS AND PRODUCTIONS OF THE CGFI¥ RAVELING Companies of Players That w5 T Came to Washington Many Years Ago. _Some of the Old Stage Favorites and Their | Successcs—After the Theater, a Dish of Ice | Cream at One of the Shops on the Avenue. | By Sewell Ford I T |y retired in 1 which was the P | marr uge to Cart Strakosch of m’:lufl'l-lm name | vided sifice that ti family of that Her time had ai- She weat to Ttaly States and Italy. full, until the war broke out, and returseq in the spring to Ler country bome. - Slie liad passed much of Ler youth is Oon- ¢ afier I family moved to the Bepth. wix boin at Sumterville, 8, C. o Vs when M'ss Kellogg ds of music. Kie was $ré ger in 1601, when ‘see T must touch the memory of many | of those who read these lines to see again In print the names of “companies, actors and their plays| which follow. There were the Bos-| tonians, in “Robin Hood". Rhen, as the czarina, as Josephine, Napoleon's wife, and as Catherine Howard, the wife of Henry VILI; the Boston Ideal | round. | | | guess?" : e St Company, in “Carmen,” with Zelie de - “Maybe,” says Inez. tho A Lussan as the bewitching star. . v - reaching for viece of luyer «'taki :l in “The Elixir of Love" and Popularlty of the Little I{ound-toppe.‘l Mart’le had noxl«-rh'd_.' ‘maybe he forzel Paughter of the Regiment”; Herrman, ; bl | It ow where we live. - the great magician; Rudolph Aron- Table. 4 i | e suppimed that Minie: Tk America “Those in sino Company ogruphy Miss Kel Not that old bird."” says L son's New York . . yes o ¢ not & 5 i ashed out Ik Crat They take I a’ “Erminie.” with Bertha Ricci, Addie {omor” 11 e e as watching ‘em while el Cora Reed, Mary Stuart, Georgie Den- f nenteyin dely was with us the other day and they | nin and Fannie Corey Daboll: LewNs | were busy °}'°d-'ls['f°“l:‘-ul‘1‘l‘}":; he Morrison, in “Faust”; Will T. Carl- HE clipping says that Miss Xl A o Sout new Atrap pumps ton's Opera Company, in “The Gon-| loge retired in 1587 1t maybe do the'batik tm‘xk.p de!‘}‘x‘l‘:l‘\ "J‘:nomlgowx f"i'r'i"f;..(-}.fi'é‘-'-“i‘fm?&:;?.‘12"‘(‘.'-7‘:’.."42;'.'." that she did, but the Clara 1%us. T rest humber on the back of an nie Winston us the devil's brother and | | Kellogs English Opera CompBny envelope. Oh, he's got us placed, ali sometimes wilh Will Carlecon in that | sang at Albaugh's during the week e Sope. O, role, and Will Prucits ax the funny | beginning Monday, December e at o ing ric] andit, Beppo, an morita_or : Ton e ek ISyl e Whitsantide. ih Florence; Helen La- 1888. She had been in ‘Washingfon U Caiten that Edison question- mont's company in “Irmini many times before, singing in opfira “I'm no Washington Opera Comjpuny in * t the National and in concertfat says L. H But allow me idn’t know maire stuff, will you jgnorant college grad. t to suggest, Inez. that you di the Mc: Lincoln Hall, which for the bem@fit of new Washingtonians the Ramfbjer Caull Op with Chauncy Compuny, Olcott, he was a plute uncle at the time. Not ] UadliTd trailed him up and made & A e Bk Harsar Sautine | will tell stood at the northeast €or- report. And you didn't treat him as and.in; - The Black Susssd auline.} ner of 9th and D street. Hudgon 4 avi I Hall's Comic Ope Com in Fax 2 ape, either: So he might have been e anie and. oatadnme| Taylor bought that ground ‘in -}453 peeved. Anyway. he's i queer old Favart”: Imry Kiralfy's “Mazulm, the and built a brick residence om it m, Hudson Taylor kept one of the gid no telling_what he’ll Weren't figuring on him so quick, were Night Owl,” ‘and_“Around tae World in Eighty Days”; Robert Downing as Spartacus, with William Muldoon a8 boy and there’ do, if anything. cashing in on Washington book stores, and s jdid his brother, Franck Taylor, iived at Indiana avenue. Strect Opera House. | There was—sn- other fire and the next building¥on the site is that which stands there now and was opened as the Academy of “Music.* | think it was buil in This is from The Star of Sat- . December 13, 1884 work 6f remodeling and erranging Lin- Hall is being rapidly pushed forward. T p the Fighting Gaul; Muggie Mitchell! sk it and him Y et o N et SURE OF GETTING A LAUGH WHEN THEY PICK OUT TALL, K DELEGATES LIKE UNCLE NELS To | Cricket, Jane Eyre and the Little 1869 and Lincoln Hall was built sgbn T know.” says J. ooThe generall . .l 0 i WITH, 3 Maverick: Stuart Robson as Berty th, after that date. The hall burned.and “Smpression among the boarders. since | GE Lamb in “The Henrictta,” as TonS\i by g R ol i that squad ‘;‘. :’:lslp“nhil:“l:\:n‘l;:’ hdens " Lumpkins in “She Stoops to Conqu | medeled m‘]‘ opened in llllcu 3 r: up, seems to be that we huh! Didn't even leave his name and|in the gloaming, gazing Jp into the says Barry. “Leave it to me.” and as Horace the Henpecked in “ls} {mgs Museum, later Tersog's h o] 3 ale just to make ourselves 2 rich uncle tale j ! they ddn't see any! He's a great little plotter, Barry. In- If they do it hasn't|side of sn hour he comes hunting us flat lines. | up with a_whole scenario developed. Look, Trilby May,” says he enthu- rumors to that effect. l “How does he strike you. Inez?’ siastic. “Isn’l the idea to give Uncle Nels a good” time?" K 1 asks as we make for Broadway and| the glittering lights. “Barry boy, 1! number. and. if I hadn't done a little quick sleuthing he'd have been just { s, much lost as before gl “Oh. I say!" savs Barryl +! him, did you? That was clever. What does he 100k like? “That's the funny part.” says I. “He gets himself up like he'd just blown in cigarette smok: lovely. picture. carroty red hair or my long Nope. At least, I've never heard any “Hey™' says Inez, staring at me. “They think we faked an Uncle Nels, says I “It's natural enough. Yo talked a lot about him, and then al that_is printed in the papers. and still no uncle appears. Here comes that Young reporter person now; Barry Plat ollowed “Renee. and “Alixe. It is necessary to call a short halt here o rest your eycs, wipe your glasses. “'Absolutely,” says L ¥ ok CE ¥ nho gave yoit the freciadverts ing. Lets meu’??-te; Pl e et B RO s e GHEN why not make it a big[perhaps to brush away a tear. as some Mr. Dauiel Ierzog, the successfol museus é that sort of thing: and if it isn, Why | voh ] kaow ™ savs I He doesn't night” he goes on. “Why ‘be|0ld fair picture comes into your mind e e e s * k¥ % H, yes, he did. All the opening I gave him as he drifted by was a Toll of the ey and he promptly turns ~to camp down in an empty chajr at our ble. asks. ‘with her uncle hun urges Inez. “Tell him, Trilby May.’ s, do,” says he. ) o Wouldn't 1 be the simp if I did> @ays I. “Say. Barry boy, do I look like | advise. & human bulietin board? And you know we haven't signed any conmtract to let 30U Write US UD in your paper once a Week. So check out, old dear, check out! He's no hardened wretch, though. even if he is a bit careless about what he )nocks off on his typewriter. [ might Yave guessed that by the slick light hair and the mild eyes. He has a soothing. confidential way of talking to you. too “I'm sorry,” says he. “But when fellow is holding ontd his. job with his eyelids he's liable to “grab anything. You see, I was trying to make good with the city editor. and that lost uncle story of yours looked like sure fire hokum. It was, tos I was due to be let out L pay day, and they let me ride on » | his smooth chin. | day for a yeur. : o ow-up | | yeu g % i i SOt rae e Saark. Of course, It did | may be wrong at that. 1 might be able i Well. we're still doing the window d'l'hf:‘ huv‘,’" h""h‘a.‘r’ Someind! lLet us pause again. Some one of those | the cvening you and I are thinking And do you know that a flood of The executive staff of the theater = i trick you see.” : o L7 = names has surely touched a tender cf. You may have taken her to Sad-happy recollections came to lh*;;'t"n_n""-d Joseph ]g(. .'Slrnhurser. - zood husines r. put you in a hole for a while there, bu Yeu_certainly handled the thing well. “Thirk'#0?" says I. " prilliant dome work. I call it “That's what I told the “Oh. yes” says 1. ¥*Especially that line about my having Portia looking like a tongue-tied old maid. Do you know, Darry, I'd just as soon omit being written up like that again? “No fear,” says he. t unless you break out in an entirely new spot. I shot the Uncle Nels yarn for all it was worth. It would be old stuff now. and I was only asking about him—well, just to make talk. You thought him up. I suppose?” “Thought who up?" I demands. “Why, the rich uncle, says Barry. hanks for the left-hander.” says but I did nothing of the kind. "I Raven't that sort of mind. Miss Pe- | tersen’s Uncle Nels is just as much of | a live one as you are. “Reall, got track of him. have you? for publication, understan says Barry. | s says 1, “Inez may let off | gome of the indignation she has bot-| 'Well. how's the heirehk'& getting along\ aw what they | | | Barry, plush sofa. should he wear a hick regalia when he can afford to live in a Park avenue apartment house where the doorman looks like a rear admiral dressed up to review the fleet? . He's got me guessing, Uncle Nels has.” “‘We—we might ask him ‘round, eh?" suggests Inez. “And give away how {him?" says I “That would get hi | picious of our motives. He'd be surejall i then that you had the.net out for him. [her eyes and so o No. Inez, thut's the last thing I should x k% % Of course, 1 never had a richi el uncle ‘myseif; but if one should be ] JMASN'T planning on any campaigh :}luhu}r o’:\ n;e I'm sure I shouldn’t rush : to work Barry in. either. Honest. 1 him off his feet. . TQuite right, “1t's his | What happened during the next few ove riow. ldays just came naturally. It opened “Huh!" says Inez. pouty. | with our running across Uncle Nels iagain the next night. He was wait- {ing in our block as we came home “Indicating.” sa; 1 to Barry, ‘‘gen- leral dissent on the part of Miss Peter- from the store. 1 eaught sight of the led ragged musetache and the Bald- stack up with Bill Hart, or a lot of your full dress ruit heroes of the iscreen: but he isn't exactly poisonous, jis he? i Ail I can get out of Inez. though, is a shouldér shrug. She simply can't see 'em unless they're at least six feet high or have a dark cropped mus- So why waste time telling her he'd sqid about I shadowed {hiEh % ware|all the mice things says Barry. sen. ¥ x E turns for a close look at her. [ I coukd have told him that was a | \in,0Pje cheeks ten doofy off and risky thing to do. for somchow it's al- | ways the little fellows who fall hardest ! |for Inez. Barry Platt doesn't seem to be blonde-proof. s here again.” says L. she, fluttery. 3 . “but don’t get emo- H ‘tionul about it. Greet him casual and e stares and rubs off-hand, like you'd seen him every And leave the rest to Uncle Nels nods to both of us and o dope something out. Let's adjourn to | he parlor.” . “I gotta go get ready “Pjcture show." ““All right.” say see if Barry has worth while and 3 t ves us the inventory size-up. you,_get good pAy for-thas? “Qh, it doesn't make us round- i i shouldered carrying it home Satur- L. “I'll just stay and ! gay nights.” says I. “But it's enough anything on his mind | {0 pacify the landlady.” yorih wt you may bring dW"i .He nods approving. sirls sMould! “Stunning_eves, haswt sher: says| ORI ERYE TE (INCY Som't et into . as we park- ourselves on the old | Trpan 1ney and 1 are ax safe as i we were locked in a convent, You get good meals here?" ds, nodding at Miss Wellby's front says Inez. “Rather placid.” says L “Like a calm sea under a gray s! he goes on. “They're common enough in Minne- sota,” says I. “where the Petersens and Olsens are thick.” can’t believe it,” says he. “Won- derful eyes, I call them. And with that wheat-colored hair and her rose-leaf complexion—" “There'®® such a lot of complexion, 1 breaks i “But keep on. I'm about hearing you rave looks. So different from | {doo; “Oh-s0," says I. “Not much danger of overeating or of contracting gout, but if vou're fond of goulash and liver pud- ding one can get along.” Uncle Nels hesitates a minute and then he comes out with a draggy in- vite. *“You—you like to go to restau- itant with me for—for supper?" says he. “I saw a place by the corner. I'd seen it, toosix courses for 75 cents, glass-topped tables and paper "tgo, simply crazy over Inez's T i washers for our daily bread? I .ask boarding-house pikers? The old chap 1ooks as though.he’d never seen much life. Let's give him a peek. I'll go fitty-fifty an it. How about a cabaret roof dinner?"” b “I'm game, says I, “but I can’ see Uncle Nets in a crowd like that. ‘Wouldn't he look like he’d been planted as part of a vaudeville act? ot after I get through fixing him ‘Oh!" says I. “And what about us? ) How far do you want us to go in the ! costume line?" i “The limit. i “Rash youth ys 1. “But then, 1 isuppose you couldn’t guess just how 1 8piffy we can array ourselves if we take the pick of our wardrobe.” 3 “The spiffier' the better.” says Barry. ‘My motio is, nothing’s too good for a {rich uncle. {10 look it away for the week-end and he's a fancy dresser. had that extra hour. And maybe you remember the two evening dresses we won when we igot mixed up with the Junius Stokeses? Well. by 5:30 we were home with the few little touches I was able | to add with an eyebrow pencil and a, rabbit's foot 1 had her looking daz- Zling enough to crash in anywhere in the lobster district. Took me all of | half an hour. though. to ease her into that black net affair, after which | 1 had her pin me into the pink one. | vould anybody guess, Inez.” says hat we demonstrated electric! you. now “We look swell, eh?” says she. try-| ing to get a full length view in_the burcau mirror. “Maybe Uncle Nels get surprised.” “If he doesn't.” says I. “he’s a hu man_shock absorber. Anyway. the| thought. should come home to him that he has a niece who would be a credit to him if he ever decided to loosen up his grip on the check book for her benefit. “Oh!" says Inez. her eyes widen- “That's why we do this, hey?" You didn't think it was wl a case| in napkins Also I'd noted the sloppy fnen waiters and the class of people who pa- tronized the joint. So I didn’t yearn for | that kind of a blow. But just as } was framing up an alibi T got this sudden’ hunch. . “Couldn’t think of sponging on you. Uncle Nels,” says I. t just gbe- says Barry, pinking up “You're a differerft es,” says L suppose you don’t care so murh for gooseberry green eyes? Bub don't they remind you of spinach night. says I, “and then we'll all have time wl fix up. Here comes a young friend of j of family affection. did you?" says I “You know, Inez. I suspect that your dear uncle is one of these mnice old boys who would squeeze a kel un- ti' the buffalo dripped blood. But he may have his soft side. That's Bar- ry's notion. too, and he's a bright show. Eh? Was that a knock at the door? Oh. ves. Ruby! Tell the gentle- men we'll be right down.’ And T'll never doubt Barry Platt's skill as an uncle persuader again. For here on the edge of the plush sofa n the parlor sits Uncle Nels in full} evening regalia. “True. he wears it somewhat as a woodshed might a tile roof, holding his neck away from i Anyway, we're all set.’” So it's lucky we'd planned this forj | Saturday when we remember!” * * % % T let us now be on with the re- B¢ Song That Reached My Heart liam Gillette,' in and to may to vourself “I remember: I view and across our memory pass Thatcher, Primrose and West, and we “All the Comforts of Home Joe Emmet, hat well remembered Sleep. My Lena, Dear.’ and those rolicking carols, Climl, Climb; Climb Up the Mounta High,” and, “The Cuckoo Is Calling' Richard Marisfield, in *'Den Juan,’ Brummell” and “‘Prince Karl” liams, in “Keppler's Fortunes™; Huntington, in *‘Paul Jones™: i Company. in *T1 and Bartiey Campbeli's Davenport, in “Fedora” sell as Hosea Howe. In “Peaceful Val- a happy memory., a joyous memory. Some one of those names must bring @ picture to your mind! You thought the picture faded, but it stands Defore you in colors fresh and bright as though they had been 1 sterday. You have flung away thjrty or foriy years. The spell of that particular even- £ comes upon yocu. The perfume of the flowers you bought for her, the rustle of her skirt, of her fan, of her program; the luster of her hair, of her eyes; the melody uf her chatter about the pla She was your sweetheart—perhaps the only one, perhaps one of many. One evening above all others, comes back to you—just as one, or more—come back to the man who is writing this. Tt is a delicicus memory. Perhaps she is with you yet and her hair is graying and she is a little stouter and you love to think that she since that evening when you called for her in a hack, bore her proudly away to the theater and after the show went to Voight's, on the Avenue, for two saucers of ice cream, probably strawberry and vanille. You remember that simple little “joint” with u row of marble-top tables down cach side of the long. narrow room and the big coffee urn Lehind a counter that was covered with a glass case full of cakes, can- memory seem to have come out of a great who is now your wife used to go in there for lunch after she had shopped at Lansburgh's, the Boston House, the Palais Royal, Kann's, King’s Palace. the Bon Marche, Baum's, Guinnip's. Strasburger's and Perry's. It was one of the early signs of that kind, and the Rambler believes it was the first to_appear in Washington. It stood out the collar points liké he was afraid of puncturing his windpipe, and with his watery blue eves set in an agon- the table. He didn't, though. He just got on a simple smirk and acted as though some one had thrown a squash Fritz in Ire- Potter of s changed but little | on the sidewalk near the curb long | before Frank Ward opened his first | Alderney Dairy Lunch on 15th street and, of course, long before he get up the tall red brick buildinz on the north side of D street between 9th That_little sign. “French and Rells. 10 Cents, little marble-topped ta- to go. * ok ok ok F course. You may not have taken Schwing & Clarke's, at the southeast corner of 7th and G; or over to So- {lari’s, 1409-1413 Pennsyivania avenue lor to John Trego's place, “The Berke- !ley,” which used to be at 1313 Penn- | aylvania’ ~«venue; or to Charlie ! eisClmati'®. on the Avenue across [frem Willa or to_ Burkhart the southcast cornercof F &fid i | or. if you wanted to show her what a spender you could be, perhaps you went up to Welcker's. on 15th street about where the Hibbs nad, the Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey buildings | stand ‘Bow; jor it be that .u v.ent ovar to. Wormley's, at the soutn- | west corner of 15th and H, where the | Union Trust building stands today. 1t yoy arc thinking of that one de- lightful-evening, think on it now, and | hereafter do not wait for the Rambler ! to recall it. eep it in mind. At that time you would not think of lighting a cigar_in her; presence, and now you ask -her to‘bring you your pipe. matches and tobacco because you do not ant to” leave your easy chair. You should tell her that she hasn't changed. a bit. Mollie, Sallie and Cor- delia_are lookivg old, but she looks just the slip of a girl she was when you took her 1o hear Stuart Robson.| in “The Arrant Knave"; Henry iE ENTRANCE OF ALBAU at | doesn’t care a hang ah have become too conser formal. which is a polite way o1 sa ing that you have become dull and prosy. You have become a good deal of a bore to the giri you took o the heater in a hack. lo these many vears and the rustle of whose fan and atter of whose tongue you than the songs Cary and Clara to sing. You talk grocery bill, the hoes. the fur- nace. the strict economy, the beautics of (hrift. the eXtravagance of women and the degeneracy of thc .. Try violets' The movies are run the lights in the eafes are ou. You ative and o wrot Cary The spiri Rambler a8 he names “Annie Louire Loouise Kdiloge. fine women. wio charmed thers and mothers and delighte when we were Young, are in the skies and it is a fair assumption that they also haunt the carth and hever. ahout us as we ging the songs they sang. The' RSB nows thai he has 6lip- piges FEIIME: to these singers, and ausE gEpEeves s, Wil interest h hem out from a great pile of fur¥e~Annic Louise Cary died April ar, at the age of Seventyiminteycars. On the day the wires flaehed- the message of -her death. the mewspapers carried long storics about- her. and here follows a condensation of ongof those.stor those n ore of wax st 0 at th woman 1o ap- gnerian role. akbough the opera t concert_and ot ap- Regi- T | ! rofa-| cd us | . who d'ed at her home | b & fine entertainment, Jennie Kimball's An advertisement in The Star says: Iiiggos's, New Museum (late Lincoln Hall) ot Wd’ D stre opens for the seaso: 22, with Jennie Kimbaii's in Audran’s zreatest ‘The Mascot. Evers scene niew from the brush of Mr. Jumes am Betwesn acts one and two wilt be d Mr. aud Mrs. Gen. Mite, the mar- circle, 10 cents: amis- 0 ceuts. Seats may be. re- in advance without extra Box cfice cpen from 10 a.m. Yo 10 Two performances daily during the sea- son. Noors open at 1 and 7 p.m.; overture ome bour later. N Carriages at 4:10 and 10:10, The Rambler has a program of the | opening night and the contpany were: | Mattie Danielle, Kate Bauer, George ! Paxton, Thomas Martin, Frederick i Ravmond., Henri Kimball, James Hoyt, George Bleekman, ' Charles Drew, Genie Vale, Agnes Yale, Win- nie Dean, May Shreve, Marguefite Keene, George Tyler, Bertha Wilson manager: . M. Davis, treasurer; Grant Parish, press agent; Daniel B. Immich, leader of orche tra William Easton, advertising agent; John Sawinson, master mi hanic; E. W. Carpenter, scenic ar- tist, and Harry Funk, master of prop- | ertics. Many shows played there, and { among them, was Miss Louise Pome- | roy. whose .company put on “Romeo iarmd Juliet,” “Tweifth Night” “As You Like It “Hamlet.’ Miss Pomeroy piayed there the week of November 23, 1885, She took the part of Romeo and the others were: Mer- cutio, Charles Thoraton; Tyhalt, Robert Burnaby; Friar Lawrence, 'W. H. Whedon; Benvolio, Walter Remson: Paris, Manes Fuld: Capulet, Charles Bulkley: Apothecary, Edmund Bept- ley; Balthaser, Miss Katherin Doug- Peter. Frank Ferguson: e to ris, Fred Johnson: Juliet, Miss Mer- ced Malarini; Lady Capulet, Miss Genevieve Lytton, and Nurse, Agnes Maynard. * ¥ ¥ % e TO set back to the Kellogg Com- pany at Albaugh's. The Ram- bler has two of the programs, bor- rowed fromthe famous collectiofi of a collectorgwho works in the sur- | qause you'e a relation of nes. ‘Witats | FPMD. 1" ST JoME e W wuceedn | dies and even bies, Those fanmy lic- | vevor's ofife at the District bujd- our gaest? Let's sce, this 1s bolled beer | in making Uncle Nels look less like {{le marbiestonped, (Ables 2ig RoF 1900+ ing. One of these programs is of How about it 2 oty commissioner who's . Just the “Bohemian Girl.,” Thursday evén- Qu—you want me? ks, feel- | 7€ 2 With number of old parlors. You recall 1i = 2 8 get shaved today o sign which read, “French Drip Cof- corys g : ‘O, well, call it tomorrow night, | all the attention from the cabaret|ges oni' Rolls. 10 Cents” The lady :;:?eimT;‘:;‘:;:’Lyfl‘:“;\lofe‘:;l{:{;: Thomas Persse; Devilshoof, George Fox; captain of the guard, S. N. Lang- lois: queen of gypsies, Fannié @ A. Myers, and Buda, Kate Brandt. The program of “Carmen,” Friday even- ing, December 21, 1388, shows Miss Kellogg on the bill. Others in the cast are Signor Perugini, William H. Lee, H. Hoveman, W. Francis, Syl- vain Langlois, Thomas Persse, Hattie B. Downing, Fannie A. Myers and Harriet Avery. Speaking of memo ries of the stige mbler picks {ized stare. But aside from that and|{ P - Spt™ ie at him. back in the 80's, the \the bulge in his pleated shirt-bosom (P SBont You think, Barry.” says 1. out of his pocketbook & scrap of pa and the way his feet are toed in. he's | «tnat jv's-high time we took Uncle Nels per which he has been carrying for & a work of art. “How did you ever do it?" T whis- ers to Barry, after the fond greet- ost of the afternoon.” says Barry. “and T had to borrow about all thet my roommate had in %is trunk. The old boy was inclined | home? “Decidedly,” says Barry. “Just a mo- ment until 1 p.’ And when the waiter produced what looked like a taxi bill for a whole town- ship Uncle Nels made his first remark. “How—how much it cost, all this?” he asks. Barry lets him have a peek at the long time, and had forgot about..It from The Star of Satu rday, Aughust 25, 1888, and here it i - “Plans of Washington Actors—&o many actors and actresses are now on the stage whom Washingion claims as her own_that they deserve special attention. Robert L. Downing will remain under the management of was_take! ! to be balky at first, but when I ex- i nlained what classy dressers you and ! Inez were when you dined out he J. H. Mack this season and will tour the country with an extended rer:r- ays staggering total. [ tory. The chief addjtion to his pi “Huh Uncle Nels, hunching:his AS HE DRIFTED BY WAS .A ROLL OF THE EYES, AND HE PROMPTLY ALL THE OPENING I GAVE HIM i something? Ever see an old brick pit half full of water?” He shakes his head protesting. . says he, “but I've seen a plece of Chinese jade with the sun shining through, and a greenish opal that seemed to have a young bonfire in- side of it. “Nice boy!" says I. “And to think hut he’s wasting an imagination like that on mere newspaper work. ‘Barry Platt has a cute trick of | dropping his chin and registering ours—Mr. Barry Platt. I'm going to ask him to sit in, too, and we'll have a regular party of it. I say, Barry! Come and meet Miss Petersen's Uncle Nels, | the one you've heard about.” e “May I P 1" says Barry. ask the name again?" us, bul rry is pping him the hand and favoring him with one of his kiddich smiles, so he has to come says he, “Nelson wazey,"-sounding the w as in vinegar. “‘We're starting a little four-handed finally gave in. And say. T didn't{ stretch the truth any. at that. My. but you two look stunning! Especiali Inez. _Why. she's a dream J “Hfvy sweet of you to put it that way." says I. “Oh. man! Even Uncle Nels. See, she's got him in a trance | l gawping at her-as fascinated as a rabbit watching a boa constrictor. “I believe it's ‘working," 1 says to Barry on the side. “Like a chafm,” says he. . “But bring him out of it. I've got a taxi walting and they'll hold the table only until 7:30. I don't know which-gave a better ‘Ymitation of a wax dummy: Uncle Nels in his first dress suit or. Inez making her debut al roof garden. We couldn't get a syllable out of either of ‘em. The only life motions they made was when food was put shoulders. “We better go.” 4 “During the ride uptown he seeined thoughtful, and when we dropped him at his mumber he didn’'t waste any breath in saying what a nice time he's had. Nothink like that. “What I do with these?” he asks Bar- indicating the evening clothes. gratitude is JDever going to make him 2 2" “Never mind.” says Barry, cheerful. *He's a deep thinker, I'll bet.” And not until about 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon did Barry know how right he was. It was half an hour after that when he came back to Miss Wellby's with the suit case ahd borrowed clothes. s “How did you find Uncle Nels to- day?”’ I asked him. Barry springs that crooked smile of his and there's a.queer look in his; eyes. “I didn’t find him at all,” says he, “and I don’t think you will again right away. g “What?' says 1. *“You don’t mean Dixie, in “Adonis’ “Hoodman Blin in * Patch”; Florence, in under the direction of Theodore In Jume of that year she was mar- Miss Cary was born in Wayne, Me., in will be St. Marc, a strong drama pur- chased from the estate of the late E. L. Davenport, which Mr. Downing, will put on the stage in an elaborate man- ner. Mr. Charles B. Hanford remains with the Booth-Barret combination with which he added so much to his ‘Washington so soon.” e h, I'll drop around and get 'em reputation last sedson. | tomorrow some time,” says Barry. will give to the stage another. s$tar TS a fact. He's just sitting there| ‘“Well!" says I, as we rolls on. “His this season in the person of Miss La n venia Shannon, who goes on tour ) Lady - Audly" Secref Mr. -Will Lackey (Wilton Lackaye on, the boards) expects to continue with tne Paul Kauvar Company, in which,he made a hit last season. B “Tim Murphy will go with Hoyt's ‘Brass Monkey' company. Bertie Crawford will support Corimne. Crypti Palmoni will be with the Capt. Jack Crawford Company. Whitman Osgood _and James A. Mahoney will be in ‘The Hand of Fate’' Rlanche Chapman leads the Kimball Opera Company. Arthur Bell will also be in this troupe. A. T. Riddle will manage ‘Natural Gas.' g pears in ‘Philip Herne. TURNS TO CAMP DOWN IN AN modesty. “If you don't mind my |dinner party for tomorrow ni; befobre th They didn’t mis cl s ight, Bar- em. ey n't miss any of| bey & Son™; Miss Martinot, in . She first sang publicly in the Rowe | has signed with Roland Reed. Waiter EMPTY CHAIR AT OUR TABLE. |#aying 50, ‘Trilby May.” says he, “I'm |y says I, “and we're counting you In, | that. T'll say they didn't. Of course, |that e, “Mov ate C e Btreet Baptist Church, Boston. at the age of i i t in “The sl ol Sl getting to be rather partial to both | 131t all Hght " e I'rather ‘expected Ines to nourish | -Vanished: save Barry. [Hoved ‘é“"““' e o e o | iEbieen. Bhe wan{zratuaied from the Gorham | S12va RS Pnac Bhise “aMppOFta-W /1led up. about Uncle Nel: 1 didn't hear about picked us up on the struet at the front steps. you printed that brous:ht h, ef he Your e, Inez. Tell him “He did come, so there!” says Ines, ifting that Goddess of Liberty chin ers. “Last Friday. ys I ahd left us wasn't what . either, He No, you wouldn't, a, I Never saw any of th pleces. just spotted Inez in her window dem- onstration act and she looked so 3 1 i nuch like his sister that he took a He's the real thing. Rich ctly bully. ¢h? s 80, does a't it strictly candid, Barry, we're a, it doubjful thay it means much. Un: lw Nels hus known where his favor. niece lives for nearly a week und 10 date he hadn't worn any holes “Perfe says Barr “List " calm brickyard ppols under gray- of you. “This is so abrupt, Barry,” says I. “Still, if you think Miss '~Wellby wouldn’t object to a little. hand-hold. ing in her front: parlor— *“Now you're kidding m ays Re. ot that I'm sensitive, but what I want to say is that I'm more or less grateful for the -good turn you did me. That uncle story, you know. It was 2 job saver. And If there is any, little thing I ca ‘do n return I hepe you'll let me kni “Fair enowgh, Barry/’ says L. “Right now I don't figure how you can be especially useful, but later on I may zive you a .«call. Ah! The fair Ines -omes toting my one and only lid. Bong swar, Barrie. Don’t dream of “Perfectly,” says Barry. “In_honor of Uncle Nels, eh? TI'll be there. In fact, I'll do better than that. I'll stop Swazey, and _bring yor Let’s see, your number is —' And before -Uncle Nels can sidestep he has made him call it. < " says Uncle Nels. ings out Barry cordial. ¥About six-thirty tomorrow night,” ‘There's nothing sluggish about Platt's mental processes. L expect his ne'lmq.: ‘work keeps him in high gear, but he ‘surely did extract all the per- =onal statistics from Uncle Nels smooth and easy. I could see that he was going to be a great help at the reunion. “If I don't collect him *he may reni explains Barry. ‘Looks like a shifty old boy. Beg pardon, Miss Inez.” “I wish he get hair cut,” says Inez. “He could stand a lttle barbering.” ht o B e ¢ ing club 5 aly = a card to a pressing club mi, That's all, For as a vamp I'm 8adly | give him a Bt that they're not wear in need of practice. Oh, I.can deal|’em this ‘season,” I puts in. “If out a line of chatter that keeps 'em | we're going to exhibit a richsuncle, why from. nodding in their chairs: but |not have en» fhat leoks the part five minutes afterwards, as ‘they sitl “Say,. thats worth over,” green skies or anything like that. We're not twins, remember.” And we swapped friendly smiles. T T S i Aren't they. the those’cabaret ¢ B herself generously. That's her long Byit, and she gallops jauntily through the ‘whole program, from fruit cock- tall to cafe parfait. with no skips and nothing left to scPape, from the plates. And’ Uncle Nels is right with Hher. How a. gried-up little old shrimp -like that could’ hold so much without even easing. off -a. vest button .is: a_mystery We won't dwell upon. But he made the rade just as easy as though he fit to wear 40, fs alim. “And * | ¥ black cigar ‘that ‘when the demi tasses were nsents to look at what's going on in ‘the dancing space.. i ‘bieces, some of ¥ Janes? . And I sup- they’re ‘sure of getting a laugh wl they pick = out tall-stick delc- ites like Uncle Nels to get fresh with. was bad _enough when one henna- ired vamp' costumed chiefly in purple tulle danced up and tickled him under the chin with her feather fan, but when she finished her act by bounding on his lap and giving him a bear hug i tJooked slop: hisn: to coawl. right ynder chorus, when' addres: ‘Nor any word?” says L “Oh, yes,” says Barr an_envelope. “Thi Inside was 2 single sheet of paper with one line scribbled in lead penci 1 read it aloud: % “iA niece llke that would:be too expensive—Uncle Nels. Gosh!™ says L “Tough luck!” says Barry.-“And we blew in twenty-four fifty on that-old tightwad! But it looked, like & good hunch to me. “Yes, 80 you said at the time,” says I “And I agreed with you. I'm afraid, though, Barry, that as uncle connoisseurs we're good ~ judges of cheese. Twenty-four fifty! That's over eight apiece we spent to lose what we've been so long finding. I holding out preak the sad:-news to Ines.” - “She's that fond of him, is she?" asks Be ihe's awtully fond of elght dbl- lars,” says L “l maker as once it was. uck, ; “Fantasma”, Frank Bangs, in Silver King"; Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew, Lotta‘or John T. Raymond. Yes, tell her that she hasn't changed a bit.“Tell her you cannot see a single line in her face or neck. Tell her that her hats are too quiet and éedate, and that she ought to wear gayer things. Tell her that she gives up too much time to the children and the house, and that she ousht to:go to the theater ofteper. Tell her it is better to go to the movies than to sit around the houge #6 much. Ask her down to lunch at one-of the new. and revelrous cafes (put an acute accent over that “e") where thére is a jass orchestra. Now and then ‘send her a bunch of violets. Taking home & box of fried ioysters is not so povirtnl a peace- ake it violets. Somehow or other & bunch of violets gets closer-to & girl's heart than most anything else. Brush off some of the cobwebs that time and spiders have woven on you. Never mind about talk- ing 8o much on the need for uplifting for a time under Lyman W. Wheel ton. In 1860 she went to Europe and studied under Corsi, in Milan. Two vears later she made her eperatic debut at Copenhagen. In September, 1670, she made her first pro- fessional appearance in America in concert. She and Christine Nilsson, soprano, and Vieu- temps, violinist, formed a concert troupe Whiks' toared. the United States, In 1674 Aiss Cary went abroad and appeared in opera with Adelina Patti. Annie Loulse Cary married Charles M. Raymond of New York and she survived himya good many years. I know that ambng people as old as the Rambler, and even among those who name of Annie Louise ry mu up_sweet memories. In her time her vocal art was a house- hold word. And there is Clara Louise Kellogg. | Her soul took its flight in May, 1916, ‘when she was seventy-six years old. Here is part of a clipping which The Rambler saved: Clara Louise Kellogg died home in Hartford, Conn.. after a long iHness. She was seventy-six sears old. One of L most moted soprauvs of the last ceatury, she 3 . are younger, the call yesterday at her < The parliamentary origin of the term “whip” goes back to 1767 In that year, according to Sir Col Tbert, clerk of thé British houss'of commons from 1902 to 1921, therd_as a great debate in the house on a peti- tion against the return of Col. Lut- trell for Westminster in place of Jehn ‘Wilkes, who had been u?&““ > 'he govern- the house by its order. e ment made strenuous efforts to El*:' together «ll their ‘followers for Edmund - Burke, refer- ring scornfully to the mann le Yk ened the actlvity of the: minis! officials b "Q:lrl division, and which men had been summoned haste even m the continen! e the whipping-in of & pack of hounds. The phrase caught on. The trei e “whippers-in,’ by~ rapid ?row of ablreviation, whips. p o8 :