The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1904, Page 9

Ree eS re NT et cea cy Ye AY OA t Star of ''Ranson's Folly" DéaJs Dread- ful Blow to Fair Admi:ers—Boldly Declares that Perfect Man Is a No: bler Work Than Beautitul Woman —Deftes Press Agent by Caling Himselt “Short and Stout''—Eight Dollars’ Worth of Admiration in One Row Wasted on This Modest Ingrate—But Don't You Believe Mor; Than Half of This, Girls. ‘T’S a shame to do this. To bring sadness into many homes—and through the Home Magazine, too!—is some- thing to shrink from. But this is not a matter of choice. Truth must prevail even at the cost of feminine wails of anguish or silent heartaches. It were better, perhaps, that the cruel words had never been spoken, but it is too late to re- call them now. It is meet—though not meat—that worshipful womankind should know the worst in the earlfest possible edition, I only trust that what is to follow here does not fajl under the blue and brown and black eyes vf the rapturous row of adoring fair, ones who “Oh-ed!" and “Ah-ed!” and exclaimed in turn mm Wednesday afternoon: “Isn't he splendid!” 't he grand!” 't he handsome!" “Isn't he brave!” May their dainty, perfumed handkerchiefs never | know the mojst sorrow of bitter disillusion! With this brief preface—as the confiding au- thor says after he has dashed off an eighty-four | page defense of his story—I might as well pitch right In and deal the dreadful blow. ad rd rd Rd wt a O break it gently, Ranson’s folly—whatever T else It may be—isn’t matine» girls. This came out in a chat with Robert Bde- son just after he had escaped from a flock of fe- males who had swooped down on him the minute | the curtain had fallen, and got in the way of busy, unsentimental stage hands. Deg Fok Se) ee Mr. Edeson declared the sentimental matinee girl had gone out, but whether for a walk or for all eternity he didn’t say. He laughed at the remark that several of her apparently had just gone out. “Oh!” in good-natured remonstrance, “you surely woudn’t call them matinee girls. They're only friends of my wife who came to folly me along a bit. But, I was saying, the silly, sen- timental matinee girl is merely a memory of the past. That is, she ts so far as the two-dollar thea- tres are concerned. You may find a few of her surviving In the cheaper houses, where stock com- panies are maintained, but she has disapfeared from the higher-priced houses. Two dollars for a seat is calculated to discourage sentiment.” Cd a a Cd s “ UT how about the daughter of the rich—does B she let two dollars stand in the way of sentiment?” _ “No; it isn't a matter of money with her, and it isn't a matter of sentiment, either,” Mr. Edeson answered. “The modern young woman Is quite a different creature than her sentimental sister of yesterday. Not that she hasn't sent!- ment, for, of course, girls will always be girls, just as boys will always be boys. But she doesn't go around .wearing her heart on her—her—'er— well, whatever she happens to ‘be wearing at the time. She is a healthy, sensible, clear-mrnded young woman, who goes to the theatre as a man goes—for entertainment. And when the play is over she goes home instead of around to the stage door.” “And you? Do you ever feel a pang of disap- pointment at not seeing her there?” ee! no,” was the unromantic exclama- I'm not @ matinee idol, I'm not the ki 1 of stage hero girls lose their hearts to. I'm tod short and too stout for that, you know,” And only a féw minutes before I had heard: “Isn't he splendid!” “Isn't he grand!" “Isn't he handsome!” “Isn't he brave!" Eight dollars’ worth of admiration for an actor who now coldly and calmly called himself “short and stout” and indulged in a commonplace, “Oh, | Bee!” I had liked Lieut. Ranson, though he w-s a bit | foolish. And now I liked Robert Edeson because he was so sensible. * * Pad s wt os T was extremely novel to hear an actor talk of himself in this strain. Lucky thing for bim his press agent wasn’t | around! There are no such words as “short” and “stout” “FLOATING WORKERS.” Some interesting returns have been published by the Department of Agri-| sulture for Ireland on the subject of the} annual migrations of the Irish harvest} taborers, The yearly influx Into England| and Scotland} which has been going on| way for at least al Js now not nearly 80 great a ie days of over- ponuledion ey Ireland ee the fam- but this year there were still nearly ig-000 drishmen who adopted ‘the old fneans of lining ‘thelr pockets ‘against the winter. More than three-quarters of them were from the province of Con- naught, the rest being Ulster men, and them were ‘from And ever in I love thee Love shadow more than half of County Mayo. — THE PRICE OF BLOOD. Wars of the last 3,000 years are ~Samuel M! countries of Europe to-day toumainiain an varmed neutrality” small sum of $60 per second. ———_— vine AN deficiency of + minating oll THE NAMES OF THE PRIZE WINNERS OF The Girl in Green ’ STORY CONTEST WILL APPEAR IN Monday's Evening World. | | Standard ou | 000,000 gallons in 1902, juereed 2” “I snow it. hungry that heart to turn ord-Herald, I love thee as the wind of night Adores the summer rose, His homage With joy, because her lovely face Hath bound him with a m woo, ‘because her His song can never tell, ‘The fragile woodland fern, murmuring At every pebbled turn; With rapture, that site bends so near, ‘The shy and trembling leaf! In pain, he cannot stay to hear Sweet answer to his erief. ‘Transcript. It is reported that there has been a last nine months, ert HOW TO SUCCEED. “What made you buy that book, "How, it never read it." | peddling {t looked so blamed poor and ValbeTIin ROUTKT . Acodemy 5: OF MUSIC in the bright lexicon of the publicity promoter. T hadn't noticed that Mr. Edeson was “short and ‘der of matinec girl?” ww asked, passing the cigar- stout,” but I was willing to take him at his word. relentless, truth-defying press agent. “Please go on,” I begged. Not divining my sinister, vengeful motive, Mr. WA. Fine, Big, Grodd hae FP Mou/dered. GA | "De you kn ettes again, | less stage. w& THE # EVENING »# WORLD'S # HOME » MAGAZINE ¥ VIGOla, Horne a Crité e/IORD Beate: rides, shoots, plays golf, swims; in fact, gives you almost any kind of a good, exhilarating game you may want, and the chances are beats you at it. If you go to see her on Sunday she doesn’t want you to sit holding her hand in a dimly-lighted corner. She's much more apt to rush you off to a country club and lead you a lively dance over meadow and hill. Not that this sort of girl hasn't a heart—for she has, and when 40u win It—pro- good, true, healthy heart. Girls of that sort make the best wives and the best mot! MONG the Interesting theatrical events of next week will be the return of Virginia Harned, Annie Russell and Robert Hilliard in new plays, the appearance of Ada Rehan and Otis Skinner in ‘The School for Scan- dal," the reorganization of the Murray Mill stock company and a®generally excellent class of attrac- tions in the combination houses, At the Criterion Theatre, where she scored such & success in “Iris last feason, Miss Harned will on Monday night begin her third annual engagement as a Charles Frohman star in a romantle play, “The Light That Lies in Woman's Eyes,"’ written by het husband, EB, H. Sothern, ‘This time Miss Harned will not be turned out of a flat and the furniture reduced to kindling wood, but will be comfortably established in Anne Hathaway's famous cottage at Stratford- ‘on-Avon, and will be concerned in a series of adven- tures which would haje done credit to even the imagination of Shakespeare, Miss Harned’s company includes William Courtney, Henry Jewett, J, Hartley Manners, Mabel Snider, Margaret Gordon, Fanny Ad- iron Pitt, Stanley Dark, Eugene Santley, Sumner Gard, Theodore Marston, Frederick Burt, Lawrence Eddinger, 4 eo 8 8, Ruasell's new play, which will be seen at Tuesday evening, is named “The Younger Mrs, Parling.” It is an adaptation from the French by C. Haddon Chambers, Miss Russell's role will be a more serious one than those in which we have been accustomed to seo her. The daughter of a mother charming but frail and of a father has never known, Jacqueline Carstairs makes the mistake of marrying an intolerant provincial, the mnie the Garrick on | prejudices and tyranny of whose family finally cause 3 4 her to walk out of his house his life. It is gratl- < fysng to know that the beloved Mrs. Gilbert has so ION. recovered from her recent illness that she will S, b to resume her place in the cast. Others in amet ce | Mise Ttusscli's support are John Mason, John Gien- donning, Oswald Yorke, Mrs, Dellenbaugh ‘and Mrs. Glendenning. \ ow wh «3 brought the new or- Seen Are. Frances Hodgson Burnett's Iatest play, “That “Well, \G.vss I miss my guess, it’s Ii isn’t every day one has a chance to thwart the | fresh air and plenty of exercise. Presh alr and | exerefse will cure anything, from love to consump- | tlon, provided the disease hasn’t reached the hope- Nowadays a girl, instead of brooding Man and I," will be offered at the Savoy Theatre on Monday evening, with Robert Hilliard as the star. Mrs, Burnett has utilized a lumber of the incidents iu her well-known novel, “In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim" for the groundwork of her play. The story recites the consequi | Three New Plays and an Ada Rehan Revival. After all, what could be nicer than this for the Home Magazine? rd ed rd Cd rd - ERE, however, is where this essay should be tied with a knot of crep2. “T admire men more than I do, women!” This statement of Mr. Edeson’s fel! with orash- ing force on the temple his fancy kad erected In henor of the new matinee girl “What I mean is," he explained, piowing a cloud of smoke in the direction of his dresser, Who stood patient and motionless In a corner, “that I'd rather see a fine spcsclmen of manhood than a beautiful woman. I have often turned to look at a tig, athletic chap as he went swinging along the street with full, easy stride, but t never turn to glance at women,” Yo one coughed. “There are any number of aandsome women, especially in this city of beautiful women, but one rarely sees a peally fine, physical type of man. A man wio stands; say, about six feet two, with broad, square shoulders, a good complexion and a clear eye always fills me with a feeling of envy.” “and if you were such a man do you think you would be an actor?” “Don't know,” answered Edeson. “Sach pliysi- vided you're lucky—you're pretty sure to find it a] eal perfection might inspire In me 4 strong temp- tation us beceme a prize-fighter.” CHARLES DARNTON. of his best friend, Dick Latimer. Margery dies, but her child, named Felicity, blossoms toto a beautiful girl. Felicity wedding day Is at hand when the cir- cumstances of her birth are divulged. ‘ ee 8 Ada Rehan and Otis Skinner, whose engagement at the Lyric ‘Theatre has thus far been a brilitant success, will next week appear in “The School for Scandal,” Migs Rehan's uady Teazle bas long been recognized as a famous portrayal, but Mr. Sirinner will essay for the Arst time here the character of | that amiable scamp, Charles Surface, Special Session Over a Bug. A little bug, almost too small for Indivicual notice, fs taking up the time of several great States, and has even caused the Louisiana Legislature to be called into a "special session, says the Baltimore Sun, This ltue boll weevil scems a very small © matter to the people of the country at large, but. to cotton growers iis coming te fraught with pro- digious evil. The Louisiana Special Commission has recommend- _ 4 to the Legisiature that a non-cotton growing belt be created between that State and Texas, by which ft 1s expected to starve out the weevil and stay its further progress northward. Alrendy the loss by this insect is probably $2,000,000, and experts of the National and State governments _ are doing everything fn their power to d>vise some means to check this Texas terror, i A Primitive People. If it 's hard to know anything about the surface; Ufe of the Bigoudines, It is still more diMcult to penctrate their thought; to know whether thar brains are agitated by anything but the simple ideas of the very primitive peoples, the naive reveries of children, or whether they have preserved some valuable traditions of the upheavals of humanity which have ended by casting them upon this ex- treme point of land, They speak a language which has no afiligtion with any ordinary tongue. It ts Breton, But a Breton full of unknowa wozds and strange idioms, as yet unstudied by any philologist ‘As to the French language, they Ignore it, intention= ally lgnore {t. 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