The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1903, Page 5

Basha tat ANNIE RUSSE * Mark Twain 4s il at his Riverdas Actress Who Got Such a Cold Exhibiting _Her Tootsy-Wootsies That She Had to Stop Playing in ‘Mice and Wien.” and Close the Theatre, Tells Some interesting Facts. “Bome people who witnessed my per- formance of ‘Mice and Men’ actually @oubted that they saw my real feet rmtren as Peggy I ran barefooted across the stage. “I @uppose they tmagined I wore flesh- fogs, and I am sorry they were wrong tm thinking 80. For I attribute my pres- ext illness directly to my ghocless and @tookingless appearance on the boards."’ ‘This opinion was expressed by Miss Annie Russell, who for the last weok tas been confined to her rooms with a gevere cold caught by appearing bare- @eoted before the curtain. Bare Feet Caused Dlness, Gince the announcement that Miss} Bussell was to tll to appear at tlie Gar- Mek Theatre she has been under the care of her physicians, and as a result ft 4 hoped that she will be able to take part in the performance to-night. The craze for bare feet on the stage Gates, of course, from the dramatization of “Trilby."" Women hed appeared baro- footed before that time. but not until Du Maurler’s large-hearted heroine cap- tured the public fancy with her statu- @eque extremities was the custom fre- quent on the stage. Before that women hardly knew they had feet. Perhaps they looked at a Gaintily turned French-heeled slipper or an embroidered silk stocking with ad- miration, but the discovery of the un- aGorned human foot must be credited to Du Maurier. The part of Trilby called for bare, Deautiful feet. And Virginia Harned filled it, including the pedal require- ments, to everybody's satisfaction. After that, Trilbies, amateur and professional, @prang up all over the country. And @ven when the Trilby craze had become LL DISCUSSES BARE FEET AS AN ART. EXHIBIT. i ‘ i of the Saint OF Me Hooke: Whon St Amihony grants a wish the maid always pays he: trid- ute to the poorox, Recontly at the Princess Theatre, after the conolusion of the firet act of “The Frisky Mrs. ce and con- Jobnaon,” where serpentin nival fett! are thrown in the cae Mies Bingham disc some diamond wa: of her rings, 3 @tartied and after a vain a seach gave up the Jewel ax lost. At the conohialon of the matinee per- formance tho stage hands went over the ata carefully, accompanied by the maid, who prayed to St. Anthony to restore the diamond, and io and be- hold, ‘the missing gem ‘wax found, She Tushed to the ‘phone called up Miss Bingham, you owe St. An- messige was garbled, It was Anthony ilar?” exolaimed aion’t ‘ine kno him foe, mit 1 Ar pay it." Finally telephonic. communication became cloarer when the discovery of the gem was made known to the actress and the maid was told to give St Anthony . ff th Bal Av iy The Evil of Free Tickets, It hag remained for Hubert Henry Davies to recognize, In cbramatic form, the potent influence of the free theatre tloket. ere's. no truer touch In Cynthia” than that where the un- budiness-like young wife propitiates her dunaing manlourist and hadrdreeser with two tickets to the Empire. More allur- Ing, even, than Elsie de Woife's gowns are those two green pleces of paste- doard which Qynthia presents (othe avi Mies Barker. Their magical effect fe felt noross the footlights, for |t ts fust such gerutuitous passponts to pleas- ure that have won many a woman's affection; broken up countless happy homes; tamed tho haughty spirit of the fanitor; gained the favor of the rich and avtocratlo; made room on the seats of the mighty: caused the temoted office- boy to Jose his Job, and ed the hapless dramatic editor to wish himself on a desert Isle. EYLON TEA ANNIE RUSSELL. @ thing outworn, the fad for bare feet remained. Very probably no actress ever kicked er bare feet before the footlights for the first time without contracting a eold—slight or serious, as she was lucky or unlucky. “Even in the best regulated theatres there are Intermittent draughts from the wings, and exposure to these will surely result in sickness,” said Miss Russell. “Of course, our necks are bared to them every night, but there scems to be a special dispensation of Provi- dence, or Hippocrates, in favor of women who wear low-necked dresses that gives them immunity from cold. Most Seunitive to Cold. “Doctors all tell us that, provided our feet are dry and warm, we need not fear exposure. They are really the part of the body most seneitive to cold, I don’t know yet how I am going to manage about my feet, but I will certainly be more careful in the future, “Till Mrs. Ryley wrot ‘Mice ond Men’ for me I had never had a barefooted part. I /didn’t*inow the risk I was running. “The scene in which Poggy runs across the stage with her hair disor- dered and her bare feet twinkling be- neath her skirts 4s one of the prettlest fm the play. They symbolize her tree- dom, her unsophistication, and youth- ful spirits, You know Pesgy is quite different from any part I have ever played before, and in same ways | Uke her beter. “She is not, strictly speaking, what most people would cali an Annie Rus- @oll part. I think the phrase cur- ries with it the idea of poise, of faint elusive charm, of sedateness even. At Jeast that has come to be the public conception of the roles it thinks me miont fitted to play. “Peggy is younger than any cherac- ter in which I have appeared recently. Like the rest, she is, if I may use an old-fashioned exprasston, a lady, but she is a very young one. In many ways, indeed, she is a child. “To indicate Peggy's youthful free- @om, her defiance of set rules, Mrs. Riley imagined the episode of the bare feet. It certainly expresses her per- fectly, "I confess that the first night I ap- peared barefooted before a New York @udience I felt decidedly. queer. Not Like Trilby’s Feet. “1 don't use any make-up on them @t all. I was more nervous concerning what the critles would say about my Spoeasance with bare feet than about 6 feet themselves, for more than once when I was at school my feet were modelled or sketched by the girls study- art, and they used to tell me they ‘were really a very good shape. “They are not Trilby feet, though, at all, for they are muoh longer an silmmer than those of the famous model loved by LAttle, Billee and Taffy and the Laird. I don’t know how to classify them, Suppose you call them Annie Russell feet! ‘That will be safe, at least, and will be lke the great majority of the criticisms I hear. “For when people with a mama for classifying try to place any one of my Physical or mental pecullarities they generally call them Annie Russell. “T was not at all surprised to catch as @ result of my barefooted ex- though I certainly did not expect Of course, any le cold plot, to be laid up for da; 4 | wright, came back from Burops early in STARS ILLNESS MOST EXPENSIVE Never Were so Many Noted Actors and Actresses Out of the Bills of Current Shows at One Time. Illness of prominent stars this season has cost New York theatrical managers, according {o their statements, over half a million dollars. Never before has there, in this respect, ‘been so unfortunate a seaso.;. Nervous prostration and grip have been the two chief causes which compelled an wu: precedented number of prominent play- ers and others connected with the the- atre to rest from thelr labors. Miss Maude Adams, declared by Mr. Alf Hayman to be the greatest money- getting star in America, has been obliged to rest the entire season, and some idea of the financial loss resulting from her enforced retirement may be gained from the assertion of Charles Frohman's representative that ordinar- lly Miss Adams plays a season of forty weeks, with the box-office receipts av aging in the neighborhood of $12,000 a week. Many Stars Are Laid Up Ml. Others of Mr, Frohman’s stars whose more or less serious indispositions have led to the closing of theatres in which they were appearing are Miss Bthel Barrymore, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Mr. E. H, Sothern, and, lestly, Miss Annie Russell, who resumes this evening for the first time since last Monday night her role of Peggy !n ‘Mice and Men" at the Garrick Theatre, Mme. Duse's tour was constantly tn- terrupted by filness, entailing a lose es- timated at $20,000 by Mr. George C. Ty- ler, general representative of Liebler & Co. Manager Charles B. Dillingham figures & loss of about $15,000 by reason of the month's illness of Miss Julia Marlowe. Though her voice was not in the lrast affected. Mme. Emma Eames, by reason of nervous prostration, was obliged at the height of the grand-opera season to retire, necessary to appoint a successor to the er of the Metropolitan Opera- House. Clyde Fitoh, the indefatigable play- the season little less than a nervous wreok, and recently sought rest at At lantlc City, as did also David Belasco. Stage Work Is Killing Midwinter drove Miss Elisabeth Mar~ bury, the playbroker, to the South, and Stage Manager Joseph Humphreys end Joseph W. Wheelock, jr,, are still in the ‘Weat for the benef of their lungs, ous of many cases which to prove the it fay ataue work. ing effects of presen' actress who pia: footed is itable |**% ee ee Aye ut ates afl, wise]. Ehere never has been a season when can jo about “Bare feet have come to express some- a ‘thing—to have a definite symboliem as 1t | fa us strain, The one takes risks in acting just were—end @s in any other profession, MARK. TWAIN ILL PUTS FAME ASIDE, 4 Mad Chance to Become Famous by nerv: average person has @ ridiculously false idea of the life of an actress, It ts th: Private Branch Exchang Bying, but Tells Doctor He ) Thrust It from Him, “home, suffering from bronchial trouble. Dr, George Holmer, of No. 136 Madison venue, who spent yesterday with him, The correct service for large users of the telephone. It obviates ™ “busy” report. a and Maurice Grau's health be-| DY, magi came so gravely undermined that {t was} Koch Ty ‘These are merely the more conspicu-|¢h BLACK or GREEN “The tea with general Impression that she {!s constantly courted, and that each night after the performance finds her enjoying a sum; the taste you'll {ious supper at a fashionable caf’. On e oo like. she tae ar peteng or her agtet"ene | Oniformiy Excellent. instead of being the centre of an admir- ing company, she usually ts driven alone CEYLON TEA in a cab to her apartments. where. a a sandwich, she goes to bed and tries to go to sleep. More often than not her excited nerves grevent her getting the Fest she 80 greatly needs. ‘The belief that the successful star has only to ‘ile down to pleasant dreams’ is a fallacy. Miss Barrymore’s Real Tears. eople say, for in Tymore doesn’ “I've often heard stance, that Ethel t than "fy (hc ‘every time” she. plays | Half Pound 30c. All Grocers. when she comes off the stage her eyes and cheeks are wet. And it ts just such strains as these that lead siago folk into nervous prostration.”’ ee Four Beautios in One Play. Charles B. Dilingham might increase interest in his coming production of Richard Harding Davis's play ‘Nhe Taming of Helen” at the Bavoy Theatre by announcing a beauty contest. ‘The any contains a quartet of br Miss Jessie Milward, cy Pe years ago ' ‘of the Empire Stock Com. Gfaue Biliteen, tho econ Uhusilt t, is a beautiful Mem- ot quarte: phis girl, who ‘made her dramatic de-| but in Danie! Froaman s Lycedta 9 Beautiful new patterns in Carpets and Rugs. Easy to buy, because but one profit between you and the looms, on attracted tention of Mr. Miler while laying Bonita in ‘Arig rina de Walfe, who plays a society adventuress in “The Taming of Helen.’' 1s another beauty, Miss Martha Wal. 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