The evening world. Newspaper, October 24, 1903, Page 9

*% i New Star of the Vaudeville Theatre Has a Real as Well as a Stage Appetite—Eating as Fine ! | ee an Art as Crying or Kissing—Madame Feels Dizzy in Her Tenth-Story Apartment and Is Distracted by New VYork’s Noise—When You Speak Madame’s Name Begin with a “Vv” and End with a Gasp. HAT could have been more natural—more idyllic!—than to have found Mme. Wiehe eating? Mme. Wiehe who eats so deliciously on the stage! stage! ... Mon Dieu! And e couple of Sapristis! Tt was not at un souper d’adieu we foun] Mme. Wiehe. it, in her hotel. The charming actress of appetite who speaks not a word of English, eats in all languages, was in ecstasles over her oatmeal, She had met the sustaining American cereal in plain morning dress before Ee marvelled at its new guise and studied it wonderingly by the spoon- Mme, Wiehe who eats so graphically off the It was at “Tt is eo funny to have it come first like th! “In my country we have it last, for dessert—yes!”* But Mme. Wiehe liked it this way. She looked her liking 60 obviously that we couldn’t help thinking one of those enterprising breakfast food pe agents would give a good deal to have Mme. Wiehe Bending over a 1 of their food on an advertising card. she said in French, Her ex jon of rapt delight and satisfaction was quite enough to bonvert New York's entire elevated train @nd street railway traffic to batmeal. “TI eat so much,” she cooed over her spoon, “that I will become like this,” puffing out her cheeks and extending her arms in illustration of @ rotundity. en she laughed, light and musically, and helped herself to another spoonful, It was almost as good as a meal watching Mme. Wiehe swallow bysters at the Vaudeville Wednesday evening, It was an aid to digestion Beeing her enjoy her oatmeal at her hotel. Bhe knows the art of eating as well as the art of acting. } “Hating is an art, is it not, madame?” To which she who knows sighed deeply, and with much feeling replied: “When you cry, you must cry; when you kiss, you must kiss; when Tou eat, you must eat!” oo o Cad ead Pad o od ae Danish woman by birth, this French’ woman by adoption, is a natural actress, an artiste to her dainty finger-tips. Almost every word is illumined with a vivid look or gesture. Pantomime {s second ha- ture to her, yet she declared she found unspoken plays to be much more Wificult of interpretation. “They are so Yatiguing,” she explained, with a weary iittie grimace. *¥ou must tell everything with your hunds, your feet, your eyes, your tyebrows, your nose, your mouth—but you must keep the tongue very still, which’—with a laugh at the expense of her sex—“is very diMcult lor a woman to do,” Pentomime, Madame said, had been taught her since childhood, When & girl of six she began her stage carcer as a dancer at the Royal Opera- House in Coperhagen. But she liltes comedy beet of all, and she was tlad that Now York seemed to Illce her'as a comedjenne, “I was afraid rhe confeescd, “that Americans might not xe we, 1 had been fold Americans were ccld. ‘his made mo ehiver. But I soon Was Walm again tint fret night in a strange country. Tho audience was} to Kind, cortet, [ forget my fra, Tt seemed as if T had not left y Maris, .aere were £o m Broych people there, And I was go g. Pg log myself.’ ‘Ya,ander that we might understand ‘how she hugged horseif, Madame Svopped ‘Wer fork skfast had reachicd the omelet stage) and gaye a pragtlonl deuionst: ation, a 2 oa ro 2 1 didn't Mine,, Withe bow the Hed New Yerk, for there wero Lr many locae things onthe table which might be+ “row, he yolun- toered her wplaloa. os. ~ ie ihe paca ‘aXe “exclaimed, ‘bey even opening wide and her hands going up. What an exact, expressive estimate this was! How many of you have attempted to describe our torn-up condition in Just such terms? The sky-scrapers astonished her most. “C'est merveilleux! Patant!” she ejaculated. Jn Paris she lives four stories above the ground. Here her apart- ments are in the tenth story. She moaned she could not accustom her- self to such dizzy. heights. “It seems when I am in my apartments they go this way.” , She swayed back and forth in her chair, until three walters, think- ing she impatiently wanted something, hurried to her table, “And the noise in New York!” Madame held her hands to her ears, She marvelled at the method of building in the New World. She had never seen “iron houses” before. She had stood in the streets watching the erection of giant frames—carcasses, she called them. One day, she related, she went out to buy a pair of shoes, and wan- dered around, lost, for an hour. “{ thought I should wear out my other\pair before I find where I am,” she added. * The English superlative “beautiful!” found its way to her tongue when she spoke of Central Park. “Those tiny little animals with round talls’— the squirrels—have a great friend and admirer in Madame. They ate out of Madame’s hand. “Ah! how they ate!” Madame’s enthusiasm again led her to her plate. Did Madame fall into the subway? “Oh, non!” | But she saw many men with little red flags in the siro.\s. aud she thought at first (listen to this!) that the city was celebrating a fete day! H os * Bd ad a rd oe FTER our lady from abroad had made a tour of the department stores, |many other things, among them the proper pronounciation of her name. ne: Wiehe, ocier Paiituimist Diseusses Breakfast, fet, skyscrapers and sd Sauleels tea "Dovaperent wew Amsterdane THETTK-e+ ve Lena 4 Several of our theatres. A question as torwhich Au. of John Drew to her lips. “D-r-r-e-w," she repeated, rolling the Empire star on her tongue. he is like good wine—so dry, so quiet, yet every word carries, D-r-r-ew, he is nice; he {s good.” She also liked Mr, Sothern and “The Proud Prince.” She liked Mr. Sothern's acting so much, she said, that she wanted to go behind the scenes and speak to him. ffl “The Darling of the Gods,” however, called forth her greatest praise. “Quel effet feerique!" she rapturously exclaimed, sending her eyes ceilingward, adding that Belasco’s scenes were the most beautiful she had ever witnessed in a theatre, Mme. Wiche, before she had finished her breakfast, told between bites ican actor she Iked best brought the name “Ah, Yes, “Not W-e-e-eh, but V-e-e—ah,” she explained, forming her hands. Into a letter V. ‘Th speak the name correctly, start out strong, then lose your breath, she found “very big, very wonderful and very dear,” she visited CHARLES DARNTON. Irving, Goodwin, Bellew Will Be Next Week’s Stars. the public Monday evening, with N. Goodwin in thelr production of “A Mi summer Night's Dream," is in Forty-| first street, with Its main entrance in Forty-second street, just of Broadway. The structure consi! an cleven-story office building in For second street, and the theatre bullding With Sir Henry Irving appearing in ‘Dart>.* Nat C, Goodwin opening a new \ieatre with “A Midsummer Night s Dream,” and Kyrle Bellew in- troducing us to that gentlemanly burglar Raffles, next week ought to keep playgoers pretty well Interested, This time Ellen Terry does not ac- sompany Bir Henry, for the reason, per- has been rumored, that which will be seen at the Broadway Theatre Monday night, does not contain a part worthy her powers The ‘play is a dramatveation by Vic- (orlen Sardou and Emile Moreau of in- cldents in the life of the Italian poet. Sardou has said of It: “Thore is more of the soul than of Ss street. The main, or New Amsterdam Theatre, beara superimposed upon tt another, or roof theatre, which Is con- structed on the same lines, but is some- what smalier. The New Amsterdam ‘Theatre will seat 1,80) people, and the | roof theatre about 1,200, ‘The latter will be opencd to the publi in December. the body of Dante in our drama. We| “4 modelled torra cotta. Tho keynote of | y have. personified In him a lover of the decorations ts tho Art Nouveau! Uberty, a flerce hater of persecution, of idea, or the ornamentation of the arch! | sppreasion and of clerical domination,| teoture along constructional lines, with folluge, Mowers, frults, birds and ani- historical Dagte: Our Dante Is not We have talten| ‘18 where their forms may be properly it {a the, moral Dan OF him 19 big full grandeur as a symbol of ey ana 2 ets particularly notce- Wig 1s the spactous grand promenade liberty, Tt was thls conception of (9 opesit fhe, gaasious arand, promensi hero that we offered to Henry Irving.| trance. the general rec Politics pags away, accessoricn fade:, Amste what moVes us is the dominant idea room af the post, his attitudo of z veninet the Injustice of men. ‘urough the miit of the mmer Night's Dream,” Yon An avorate ae arse Mleeee AMAUEL. HACKNEY ster, Wallis, Law rt, 2 ° and Mab nd Mersrs, William Moliison, beur Irving, Ger- ald Pee H, b, Stanford, Vincent terproyd, Fra ren, Jr. Wore ment nt the Princess on Tucs-| the tuipeotion of, Gay nat, progonting f Bardou, Carpraat, amuble,| hore "Raffles, the Amateur venaiy and Rertin, » | trken from KW. Hornung’s interesting * Lider, The Now ‘Atpelassahe Theatre, which jn AAW oe Se will throw open id haa 1s 100 feot wide by 160 feet in Forty-firgt i) | The house tn built of gray ilmeatone | , ongage-| Tho play js discribed as similar} } coi BABES IN With T SEATS Baa and Co, of BEST SEAT: ROUT OR ORRIN JOHNSON if “NRY IRVING | NEW EMP! John Drew HERALDSQ. SOT HERN “a Ce =) aie My iN 3 WG an} see Mon Diev! Gael patig dans cette ville Amuxeriontas ws ate Brune es S eta ns eee YER LAE: Amusements. AJESTIC oxikh Ev.8 rp. Mats. Tdy & Wed 3 ABE! TOvLA bi tse me sul y a Mon. LA FORGE, ie Hearts Courageous. 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