The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1905, Page 9

Craving for Sympathy Causes Women’ to Tell Secrets-~Appeal to Their Vanity and They-Will Unbosom Their Souls— Man, Too, Says. Miss Walsh, Who De- clares Him More Vain Than Woman— Actress Studied Types in the Tombs V.hen Her Father Was Warden There. | HY, sah,” said the cocoa-colored maid, “como right in, Mis’ 66 Walsh tol’ to mo to ast yo’ to walt ‘bout fifteen minits, 4 She's gone to her doctah’s, She's got a ver’ soah throat, sah. Won't yo' rest yore coat and hat, sah?4 Perhaps the coat and hat looked as though they needed arrest. At any rate, I hadn't the heart to deny them, They. ‘were duly “rested,” and 1 went into a pleasant room to walt. There was a real fite crackling in’a réal grate, and just enough objets d'art to make very good company for 4 o'clook in the afterhoon, There were pictures sugges tive of the gay, gladsome days when we leave off our winter underwoar, and bronze ladies eupporting lamps and vases with that emiling fortitude 60 characteristic of them. Gauze-robod creatures of the artist's fancy and bronsp ladies balanced lightly on big toe or rounded heel are very much nicér at 4 o'clock on a winter's afternoon than raucous office boys chaffing Mary, the apple-woman; the fretful clicking of telegraph instruments, the nervous chattering of typewritera, and the desperate cries of “Copy!— copy “ip!” trom ‘the tiréd-eyed slaves whose lives are one series of ‘edi tons,” f . Yes, it was very comfortable in that armchair by the window. I was perfectly willing to wait and forget that thete was such a thing as working for a living, , 4 Acyoss the street, in a looming apartment-house, there came to a wine dow from time 'to time a blonde boing in a white wrapper, She hold a paper-covered book in ‘her hand, but she didn’t look painfully intellectual. he looked delightfully indolent and fitted into the picture beautifully, She wasn't working for a living, Bloades always seem to have such an easy time of It. Why should any one have to—— “How do you do?” This ought to be printed in thin, gray type, it was such a weird, wan whisper. ‘ , ’ “Laryngitis,” gasped Miss Blanche Walsh, tapping. her throat and smil- ing sadly. rl T wanted to go and spare her, Interviews” are cruel enough at beat, This seemed positively merciless, prawing on Miss Walsh’s voice was like drawing on an enfeebled bank account, It was apt to become exhausted at any moment, She looked very well, though—very well, indeed, fn her red coat and higr red hat, 1 couldn't understand how any bne with clothes like those could catch cold, oO Ry o o id UT Miss Walsh wasn't as badly off as she sounded, “I'm saving my voice for to-night,” she whispered, “I strained {t rehearsing that scene at the end of tho first act elght times on Friday, "Phat’s where the wear and tear comes, Those eight rewearsale Were equal to eight performances, But it won't hurt me to talk this way, if you don’t mind,” Mind! No, indecd, ‘There was a ghostly ‘fascination about It all, though {t must be confessed Miss Walsh looked reassuringly material, So, a a when she had thrown off. her coat and emerged {n'a white shirt walat, we) dvew our chairs closer to the cheery re and talked about the woman in Beveral cases, Miss Waleh took tho aflrmative side of the question as to whether a wife in real lite would be likely to brave the terrors of the Tenderloin to fave her husband from the clutches of tho law. “Of course she woull—why not?’ demanded Miss Walsh, "That vouldn’t be doing very much, A woman often does very much more than that fow the man she loves,” “And do you think that a woman with a secret will tell it eventually toa woman with whom she constantly associates?” “Yes, she's pretty sure to do so soon or late, Yes, even though she leeps sober, In Mr. Fitch’s play wine merely hastens the result, You know what they say about woman's ability to keep a secret, All that’s suctiayy ti most cases is ‘to flatter her vanity, Make her think she's a wondo-ful woman, It’s seldom difficult to make a woman bellove that, The same tactics will work the same ‘way with aman, You know, of course con't you, that a man’s vanity is much greater than'a woman's?” Miss Walsh 4rdiled maliciously and nodded her head with a conviction yraich left no room for protest, A woman whi knows how to go about It can always get a man to tell ‘er what she wants to know, A man will invariably unbosom himself to a sympathetic woman, There are some women who will tell thelr secrets only {) a man, though most of ‘them are usually ready to confide in one of their own sex, But thore « » women who never take their husbands into their confidence. For myself, if I had a secret I would not tell it to elther a man or a woman. No power on earth could drag it trom me, Yes, 1 euppose It 48 a craving for sympathy that makes people tell secrets, But learned self-control early in life, No, % never crave sympathy, I don't want, it, It to the eternal craving for something or other that makes oo many women ‘ eortcalupres Atchle Guan,’ ata Ras of low ri creatures to the Tombs, ‘where they w “best ae y were kept until Monday, was twelve ing at and talking: to the prisoners, woman who killed her husband, You quite a stir at the time,’ The woman was determined to atarve take food in no othen way. I afte to life imprisonment, and told hua the story of her life, eter play, and the role which Miss Oy \ ‘WEST BNO THEATRE: | Marin -\ ES Bi SaMiCr, THEAT Ep EA Aes MARGARET DALY-VoKEsp WEW YorRK THEATRE, unhappy. For wkon they get what they want they find that after all ft 1s merely Dead Sea fruit,” # i] a wo ee od ry SUSPICION that Miss Walsh might prefer to play the dizzy sho girl Instead of tho gelf-sacrificing wife in “The Woman in the Case” was removed by her saying: “No; I'd rather play the wife, for the reason that she has two sides to her charactor, ‘She is not simply the’ colorle#s ‘good’ woman, ‘That type Is always deadly, on or off the stage, By the ‘good’ or ‘bad’ woman I do not mean necessarily the woman who is moral or immoral, © But the simply ‘Good’ woman seldom leaves an impression, Take the women of history, Where |s there one so-called ‘good’ ‘woman, with perhaps the exception of Joan of Arc, who 1s remembered ?” Miss Walsh admitted that her observation of unhappy creatures in the Tombs when her thther was warden there had aided her greatly in depict {ng a certain type of woman, particularly Maglova in “Resurrection,” “There used to be at the Tombs what was called when they I was there for two years, from the time I until I,was fourteen, and every sent to the Island, T gained an influence over an Italian may remember the case, death, but I finally managed to get her to eal horsett 49) ® petition was made to have the womans sentence Sentence was com- muted, and when I laet saw the woman at Auburn she was quite happy in the hope that che would be pardoned. ‘No, even as a child I was never shooked qt what I saw in the Tombs! The prisoners interested me as char- acters, I remember one night whon I had strawberries and cream I thought that a murderer who was to he executed next morning might like some, | So I took him a bowl and ete mino with him Jn his cell,” Maude Adams in a New Role; Ada Rehan to Johnny end Emma Ray in “Down the | Frinceas: ke," Ghion ers Brothers in Parla’ will will appear in at the Fourteent! agement at the Liberty Theatre, The first week will be devoted to ‘Nhe Taming of the Shrew" and the second to “The Sohal for Scandal,’ Miss Re+ han's leading man this season is |} |Charles Richman, and other members |* Of ler support are Oliver Doud Byron, Gharles Swickard, Joseph Weaver an Williank Redmond, Miss Mola La Fol |lette, daughter of the Governor of Wis- consin, will make her stago debut on in & laundry tn the big city, and there! Monday evening, fRcounters such romareo ax the reads | et | Ing of cheap sensational novels has'| ‘The Brighter Side," in which B: 6, prepared her for, Willurd will appear at the Knick érbockor Theatre on Monday night, is |@ translation by Louls N. Parker from |the French of Alfred Capus’s comedy, “La Chatelaine,” which ran an entire season In the Theatre Renaissance, Danis, ‘The story tells of a young man | Who has spent the fortune left to him | & |in gambling, and whon all 4s gone come to the reatlization that he has to AUDE ADAMS, at the Empire M Theatre on Monday night, will ad@ a cuntuin-raiser, 'Op o' Me Thumb," to ‘lhe Litue Minister.’ The piece was written by Frederick Venn and Richard Pryoo, It 1s @ char. Adams will create in it is that of a London drudge who after escaping from a workhouse obtains employment ce) Ada Rehan will return to New York on Monday night for a fortnight’s en- 1134 Domestics And succeeds, The comploations arisy ut this point. In looking for a country | Chambermalds, Cooks, {home neets, @ Ll dia paler ; Nurses, Houseworkers, | |self, gambled all his and her proper jaway, “Ho falle in with her a. Laundresses, Waitresses, jbuys the castle at double tte value in|‘ ‘der to give her an income for her- f ond hoy, The husband here turns | |p and refuses to grant her the divorce he had agreed to while she had no money, Mr, Willard will have a now | |leading dady in Allee Lonnon | Wand and Vokes in A Pair of Pinks’? {will begin a brief engagement at the |New York Theatre on Monday evening, Henrietta Crosman in ‘ Rellairs” ‘comes to the Academy of Music on Mond, were offered good wages and homes by New York families last week through World Help Wants About 2,000 Positions will be offered to-morrow through the Sunday World’s Want Directory. wate’ saeawean ‘oa a “Does the acone in days in the Tombs?” “Not particularly, ‘The visitors’ toom in those days looked altogether | different.: I argued with my managers about the ‘set’ used in bhe play) but was told that It fu an exact reproduction ofthe present vititors’ room.” 1 the gecond act of your play remind /you of the old NB can study chavacter in the streets as well as‘in the Tonvbs,” wont on Miss Walsh, “For instance, there are two cities in this vountry—Boston and Chicago—where a decent woman can't 0 | out on the etréet alone after 9 o’clock/at night, There you can see all orts of wretched ‘wemen. You can also eee them here in Now. York, in every large city In tact. Lifé {7 the great! school in which to study character, Did you notice the way in which my hair was done u | Galre Forster's flat? The sort of pully roll—droesy-tps; | that atyle of hair-dressing {8 a characteristic of the woman of that stamp, ; You see her in tho street onrs, in, the ‘restaurants and other plwes, And if | you ake the pains to notice, you will see that she'ls forever {cling of her She can't forget that it’s false and she’s constantl: ‘The Sunday Morning ‘will come down, And there is an indefinable something about this woman its on Saturday night would bring hordes of these| Which suggests that she knows she {s a8 falso as her hair." \ As to the character of Claire Forster having been suggésted by. the Nan atterson case, Miss Walsh sald: ‘That can hardly be posaible, ag the play. ‘Sunday I used to, go about look.) was contracted for long before Caesar Young was killed,” es and gripped her chair when reference was igs Dorothy Dorr experienced in Rochester, “T ghall never forget the horror of the moment when I caught-her by from my fingers, She would) the throat, and because of @ leg of her chair catching in the rng threw her nward went to Goy. Hill at Albany, when | head against the plano, When I saw her limp and white I thought I had muted from death | broken her neck, and in the brief moment that I calleds'Tompeon, did you | hear—iid you hear?’ I saw mywelf arrested for murder, arraigned in \court, and the remainder of my life darkened by a terrible tragedy, Miss | Dorr bruises very easily, Every night the marks of my fingers are left on ‘her throat, But she doosn’'t mind, She keeps telling me, ‘Don’t handle mo NEXT WEDNESDAY _ Owing to Accident to rincipal Tickets Purchased Will Be Rxohauged or A A ‘alsh closed her It created | made e accident Which Brown,” nsiostain d re Rtembjer, Mamie Rem! WEBER hich it would seom hat the woman In the case stands a good chance of becoming the woman in the hospital. CHARLES DARNTON, Return Frital Scheft in Brondway Theatre. MUSIC BALL t. Toe to Ley} cae ower "BIG FOUR.” Henrietta’ & Vaudeville a bia PASTOR'S Sifts e) !lver epoons with the actress In the bowls. wi The end of Miss oll's engageinent ts annotinced for Theodora Kroemer’s thriller, Life in New York,’ youls Mann in “The Second Fiddle” hen xe ‘the attraction at the Hariem 2, \ * will retura to New York ngugement at tho West nd will be at the AM ARR S TRIN'S alps fig DO, 2h BROOKEVN AMU ) | TONIGHT, 7 24th Aunnal Mesa Ball “|| FARMERS’ CLUB: % || Arion Hall, Brookl ARION PLACE, NBAR BROADWAML. ful ay ee WY ROG Bato the Season, i | Hitchcock CLIPS, A The stock company at the Yorkville will orewent “Paul Revere.” Dan McAvoy In "Hts F of Had Bowory" will go to the Metro- ven’ {mon |é aute Slaves" is a 1.00. Laat Ma | NEXT WEEK *% Wil PAVGRSHAI to LBTY N'xt W'k—Rogers Bros, in Parls Phone 106-88, Rv, 8. 15. 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