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N, tired-looking woman, with her hair stringing down over her face and a mop in one hand, clumped out of the semi-gloom. of a “back-| hall,” and in answer to my inquiry] sald, “Up one filght—knock at any | door. It was one of those narrow east-| Bide streets, swarming with children | and blocked with mothers, echoing | with nolse and quivering with life, | that led to the home of Mme. Nast-| moff, the Russian actress who {s to| become an lish-speaking f. next season. jocle had taken i her up, but it hadn’t taken her up-| wn. Neither had {t spofled her. | Mme. Nasimoff was pu | on a hat—bri star g spring ht flo tul MADAME mossy greet. She makes her ha ALLA NASIMOFE Just as she makes | translates her Orleneff co: came forward L hand, the other exte Then she went stitching as she j | the flowers to stay here, become an Am an pe | ‘star’—no. When one {sa ell is over. Tha to be o ‘star.’ k, | to study, and things. I coul | sila now, and | Would be useless. est in Ife there | T came ay and even he nigh men & Delow and sing at is Impossible to f day Iw he home, but no word your loved ones {1 that th h more dramatic Di nerves, oT > on in the tionary 51) vol w people str one night Ish more quick derstand th to me—th tonaticn of the differen spoil my glish at the y ning. 1 am like a mo: clared, breaking Int I see, I a How many “ have here? Mine. Nasimoff gave her oj ~=n of some of ha fir pointing nowhere at ral keys" them, of brains mething a woman who does She lifts up the mar mention c to ‘or S 9 She is greater thar lure.. A \ memory of another, a smile of amuse-| an should be big fy Ment at the recollection of a { | love, particularly a yo _ ied a gasp at the thought of a fourth, | | true love does not come to a woman i “The American Gesimply and delightf ors play comedy * she said, luntil she {8 for me first Hilda appeals to of all because she is y 5 papnterrupting her litt pantomime. | I cannot play dead roles, They Pa“Willie Colller I liked very much,| be of the present. I a child of Wand May Irwin, too. ntaural, very amusing. jor tragedy the American actors do Enot play simply. Why is It? I can- not understand that. They are artifi- cial; they use what we call ‘the sing-| ing voice.’ In the dramatic school| vhere I studied we were taught to peak lke amateurs, not like actors Here your serious players [are very eimple women,” They are very But in drama this century. I am very bad in c sical roles for that reason, Once I tried to play Ophella, but I was a bad Ophella—very bad!” her hands {n ho’ at t tion, “Do yeu consider women ‘dead roles'?” “If they are not dead roles they She raised recollee- eak, like was her 1 sho’ Dase p! ny. “They do ee th took me years t ought I shou w e rem f Ife So it 1 whe: mn of me 2s ld like to ys, but I I like also she |. en w not interest me be- 1th ders r know “a o s i red w. me.NASIMOFF TRIMMED A WAT BY CHARLES DARNTON <2 Malm to give the] be my chief alm.] must I hope one! th is plenty It {s in the characters | did come at last, and she sald it was I wish I were; not at all shocking. “'THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL x, 1900, “comers eo “tt Here's aWoman Leader | evening. Loulwa comes of rich in everything but mon: parenta plan a rich marrriace for h but shatters their olmhtoen years of age by eloping Paul Bhotland, a poor but honest low. After a year they decide, that money is everything. and to a divorce. After this has brought about Paul discovers that really 1 his wife. he will remain sing! sake, He devotes and in five veara becc In the mean time he of Louisa, me fornia mililonajre ra of matin Hy Farbell d an of an Orchestra of Men hopes ton, agree | been | he and decides that ov + Loulsa’s £ to bus! nes a rich m has lost sight es an aged Ca and passes four tal misery in w 8 and leaves her @ or and in the end she and Sho land) remarry The will be played by Ci ry Van Buren, a e848 tr i nerry and the cast wi Wilson, Doro! es Swicks eee Disrict Leader," a musica Howard, will como t Monday ev the role of @ Jo will Include Harry t and Diamond nd the cai | Florence eau yral well-known songs. . “A Square Deal. ward E: a new play by Fi- Rone, will be offered at reset Thoatre on Mo: deals wih a figh polit! t Lyceum noon fur int “The Red Flower,” ‘The Inspector, natirical comedy he Supper,” a light oy formance will he tn the nature Denefit to Mr. Orleneff and his assoctate players. # ‘ Tho programme for the 1 ft to be given by the Theat hien's poems; Ethel Barrymore, tn ‘Car- rots; Mme, Marcella Sembrich, Mme. | mother of 3 Oliva Frematadt, Mme. mann- ano Heink, Adele Aus hol the H is Walker, Mme. ¥ Lilllan | Mis Blauve! & Co, Francis room after the. performance and told} j me they ught her very nice. And) M Rafe! Fowell, Josetty, one Hilda.) then again when I appeared as Zazs her,| at the Third street theatre I was told! what I| that a Indy of Barnard would not > came|come because ehe had been told my|svid at 31 w {a the| performance was shocking. But she| ‘he Bouse eines jo has been arran bene: to beg! A fine program for the San at the She thought it be something like a circus, be- cause she was advertised Ike one. | There, when a play is given, only the are) title and the names of the players are |* nted, Bernhardt's advertising was | extraordinary, and the people could | scarcely reallze that she was an ac- 2 shake| tress and not a circus, I have never| of/ seen her, but I have heard her on the} the | gramophone, and sf she is like that 1] “The Girl of the 2 not sorry. On the gramophone a-He 180 appear at the is lasoo Theatre on that we play the|she had ‘the singing voice," like this” 2 os ae cue se she ete aa AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS, sperm ave icthaicarceta “ | UNE A ao MENS The Russfan Duse.’| cital with a shrug. “But,” she added Reasons TENPIRES RE Wway & 40t | HIPPODROME play roles such as| “Bernhardt has at least been euccess-| Why Father John's Medicine bullds M : peta on pg juse—she {sa god-|f:l here," Sho laughed merrily as|up the body and makes strength, IAUDE ADAMS; (a aunt pea PaO Popeye mmaneee, to play a drunken |che summed up her own fortune: ‘nt is a pure food meiicine HUDSON | A Society Circus , steal Mia nae Facies taraed ae ere ay Ste He CRANE Waar GInPGeE arline-calaen ine t that w “My only souvenir of the country’! strengthening. Criterion “Ears, A HE etastelisie [i HORSES ft} of millionaires 18 a book of clippings. Haying a gentle laxative eftect, it) | LACS Wilsal SUND AY NIGHT, 8 SHARP. BRONX BOY DIES | A. 0. H. TO GIVE CONCERT VICTIM OF LOCKJAW, FOR THE RELIEF FUND. | Programme Includes Gaelic The Bronx Coroner's office has been Music, notified of the death of seven-year-| ish Songs ar Pace * Gjola Matthias R. Ntogelsperger, ut his Irish) Songs) and/an “Address Mhome, No. 634 Corflandt avenue, of lock. by Mer. Lavelle, ww. Last Saturdty the child #tepr 1) arra nts have been completed m rusty nail hilo playing in th ard w {thother boys. His father, who| {of the concer and lecture under the foreman of the Haffen brewe: auspices of the Anclent Order of Hi- eated the wound with home rem jana to-morrow nisl the Mur Ml Wednesdiy, when the boy re ray Hill Theatre, Fort; stioet to school, Thursday his foot began|and Lexington avenue, for the relief of | ‘swell and he waa selzed with con-| the discressed of San Francisco pris of Dre Ac it Legions who. was President, Major Edwant Filed in, the boy died in the greatest 1 willmpiesida cand aareett ony. ‘The wound that causod death Li as a py ea ecease: wares eatiled nae ity der un eluorate progriuu ic, AMONG Khe Ulu part wil be Mrs. Hyles Siisses 0 Dou agner, FP. fumous disso, Never before jthe An: Orde tested an jer such "B @ very great difference ‘twixt tables, me are built large and sc thon there's the very jot eo high as tho table that's tall. ne small; CASTELLANE GETS MORE ‘Prussian be Dead. TIME IN DIVORCE SUIT ,, tion of tess Bont de ¢ Ap was to hi jay ta rel > had been sum from cancer for tin COUSIN LOUISA. Seats reads e first tribunal of! some time, died early to-day. He w Belasco £¥,.% 3! ACABEMY. NIGHT ave heard the argu- | born In al 1 Wis appointed Minister BLANCHE BALES | aaa TO-M’ he ques- | of Public Works in Juno, 1902 AUDEVILLE rr) : nh huts OS vatwoanllc - —_ SPECIAL! | ACTORS FUND V Wty "earnestly, "I have made friends} drives all impurities out of the « Se UUNS Sore a tuer helt of San Fruncheo Sufferers dearer to me than money./tom, and {ts nourishing qualities LYCEUM sin: Victor Herbert..." 350 (dT like to give, not just to take! build up new tiseu make| }JUSE i The Aschenbrodel Club, Mme. Schu- ay.” CHARLES DARNTON. | strength, KNIGKERBOCKER EES SSN mann-Heink, Miss Blanche Duffield, Nothing equals %t es a tonte and| | FRITZI SC HE FF sahitti, | Eugene Cowles and Chorus of $00, bony builder, Contains no alcohol or| | SAVOY «pcan vou eiunen| BERLIN, April %.—Gen, Von Budde, | -20Tous dru Daly's #oxrh y | n Minister of Public Works, “THE oprittist,” ai AMUS Coun-| = | BENEFIT FOR San Fraticisco Sufi erers, BEI asco DAVID An Ar Mass Meeting ! a, of New ¥ her husbana, | i Special’ Matineo A MAMMOTH bNI RY TAIN EN] i but the hearing was postponed owines to | J Sunday Afternoon, 120, at 8 PM, | sea PN Lun Lap dae : eee Abtomt asus cn, |MnicKerbocKer Theatre| THE GIRL <. FOLDS H WEST core I Ip . aaa ta sae te: proceed orth the | Maite, Ghat, BL | TUESDAY, MAY 1 “f] ri ipa digh a tae BFF CLOSES TON! IGT “ag campa ae soba isccuauaess” Lepage California re > Necesrptea tin Or } int Ay (aR N No date ¢ howring was Axed, ; Sufferers. hme TTA Peet Seog TRB UR LAT MLIART LULN: NENT 3 bug it will be subsequent to May ¢, f Ht ; r econ i @ate of the electic BLANCHE Aaa DA ’ , Minin s “ : eA Ne i An Open- Air Bazaar pS aes aa Lae carat Me |] Unter ner ya ee O10 NIAL Me ( 4 : me Asco fue 1th ; : Ton two whens onty War with Englandt | Bd thus tables surve difterent purposes: | England ond Russia at last have an [he moat ontertuining of all , brought on by the rash | the Sunday World ‘Want Billiard {SS of a young Britiny ollcer. This act | 7 a’ ius ‘consequences are vividly” do- | Ly ou should {n your home one install, | OA lis consequences, are Vivtily dc. phey kk a|ptirring novel by Robert Barr, which oh nd cau-) will begin in the Sunday World May 6, to be accurate ‘ complete in tour coplous instalments, — AWELEON he { HE ii . 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Scheff ‘ many other opera companies will the Ser Mr. Herbent's dl- tion, swelling the total of his orches- horus to 6%, Schumann-Helak, Duffield and Bugene Cowles wilt K the soloists, Aft the con- ere will be a vaudeville pertorm- nee, 11 which Joo Weber, Sam Bernard, tayce Field and other’ favorites will | take part, Marjory Sherwin, violinist, who wil be assisted by Margaret Hubbard Ayer, ontralto, and Victor Herbert's orches- tra In her concert in Carneple Hall on Moaday evening, Will play a Vieuxtemps concerto and solos by Beethoves, Schu- mann and Bazzin!, Miss Ayers group of songs will be by Henschel, Brahms I. The orchestral numberg will “Operon * trom Maasenet’s Maud Powell and Hans Kronola will give jhe Cha Hal a Joint violin and ‘cello recital tn ber Music Hail of Carnegie on Monday evening, Miss Powell's yumbers will be Arensky's con- a Lb agers’ Association tn ald of | am has tho | Philharmonia ore! Sho fa Alling SFeGae? sintnay Mee eronold wit : a8 easy Francisco sufferers at the Metropolitan | distin woman a host of engagements this spring. Her play Thowd variations Sym= CENTURY” Opera-House from 11 A, M. until mid-|leader of an orc ’ orchestra {x t wt rank phouta lea 's “Daughter ef ton Friday will include |York. Her p at tho Waldor! rla—on 3 y for William H, Crane and company, Mrs.|@a the Land are taken Minerva on Carl announces the final Fiake, in a selection from Edwin Mark-|ffom the ny and fant. |organ concert of his spring series for at the First Presbyte- for which no tickets are tre tree. He will Borden-Low, avberg, barl- Tuesday ey Chureh., be sted by noist, pia vance y-cigtith semt- niet, For| so very nice that she wished to buy probab! | the play for the girls at Barnard. WM read Bret’ Harie’s | V a ular," not that delightful?” \s ee Gor- | Ma £228" at Barnara would be better; other f ‘ he pani ras er Cain A {than Bernhardt in a tent. jfavone end Fento re cating # Ure, an Australian song writer, ‘When Bernhardt firet came to fh Opera-11 iets w Fea eo eaieey on tvatwatasrca rere Russia,” sald Mme. Nasimoff, catch- The Sooia ¢ Ente. und her quick re-|ing up the name, “people thought she NAS Sait Crane Setool of Opera ta Chimes of Normandy gle Lyceum on Thursday, ye benefit of the San Fran. 10, . who {s In Milan, has . composer of "Pag- estra from La Scala concerts in the beginning on tred to elght stra must re- n in De- engaged linist, fo: ed States an beginning in November. ~The tour use the ore Mil or the Mr. Canada, AMUSEMENTS. pape, BEST SHOWS Ay TOWN. Too nthas All-star Crickets, nucoftis, Mary Nore Nua 15. 125 Rai ris “Strength ¢ k avedist St Pva WS, Woke Setar ata Janis Vanderbilt Cup Sil AML "BERNARD, ‘ hon tic ik nies, In fe Williams TYANMERSTSIN'S INEG EVGRY DAY, 2ic,, 00 Ans The Social DAY HWowa of Harvard MAIES T1C—Marcaret is 4 Zita A Zp METROPOLITAN fp aa si ROLLER SKATI ‘PINK (av En icaan the aaeawy, ary) MOM TATERN i YORKVILLE MUREG © sHaMoN's wext mow, ME, HEM & I, Gra and: DUSTIN FARNUM io v IRGINIAN WIN, \ Ts Buck Wh MAY IS FIELDS 3. Mats. Waa & MR HOPKINSON. Sunday World Wants Work Monday Morning Wonders,