The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1906, Page 9

| amemmneemeemnamaesiine 4 I cool? | | | i i ; i 1 you like to ride? ; Little by Mttle he brin ey, ( terpolate thelr vocal and acrobatic) specialty, ‘The | | 7¥E Fouwanrd Lady Lineman’ Into the big —speofacular success) | W/TH THE ‘Lemontand,’ that was such a fallure here, but it LIGHTER | was taken out with a cheap company and ay paite |S7UA7 oubled—awelh they Kot In at 3 A. af, having walked | [SYO* AS all the way from the Delaware and Lackawanna | 724,54” Daily Magazine, Saturday, December 22, _The Evening .World’s G00000000000000 % Miss Frances Starr * (HBRE'S a certain, or uncertain, charm that can’t be caught and = cooped up between column rules. It's refreshing to meet an ac- | tress who isn't—oft the stage; but {t's a bit disconcerting. She tales you o% your guard and disarms description, which, after all, is only cr m {nu another form. So I’ll not attempt to describe Misa Frances Starr, except to say that he {sn’t as dark as the Rose of Belasco’s Rancho. A blonde? Not quite. | Bko'g about the color of the day when the day's a good color, with just enonz ble in her She'a the sort of girl | that soothed your maniy breast when you J envy with your firat | Dighhat and planged bravely into that mad dissipation, the Sunday afternoon | “call.” My first impression, that. Miss Starr was ag. dainty and pretty as 4he tea-set {n the corner, was followed by an overwhelming sense of her grace and charm, and without standing on ceremony for more than a ‘mo- ment, I dropped into the first chalr to hide my own constitutional awkward- 1 admit that Miss Starr took me off my feet, Usu- nees, I might as w ally a-‘‘star” doeen't.) But a Frances Starr was a new ‘experience. She yasn't a ‘star.’ She ldughed at the suggestion, leaving me ‘frankly fool- | fab and secretly apologetic. Bofore I*realized-what had ‘happened’ 1 was | dangling of the polnt of her question. | “What is a ‘stat?’ all “Nowada, I floundered, “It ts usually, something that grows big ou | Diliboards and spreads itself Jn programmes. It’s an advertisement” | “Well, then, I'm not.a ‘star,’ am 1?” she argued, in maldenly. triumph, My namo Isn't In big letters, I'm just in the cast, And: that’s mmuctr nicer, | fen’t {t? I should .be afrald to see myself in big letter, They make.one seem so tertibly important, I never*felt {mportant but:once, and that-was | ‘when Mr, Belasco put moa under the care of a doctor. That was the first} step in my ‘tralning’ for ‘The Rosé of the Rancho.’ Mr. Beiasco sald he wished me to be strong, for thera was a great deal of work to be done, Do I love It, To get out exrly in the morning and ride for | three hours was my greatest joy. But the doctor put a stop to that.” “Perhaps he was-right," I yentured, with the drilllancy of a graduate bromide. ; B | “T think he was," agreed Miss Starr, “fof I used to como back pretty well tired out. At any rate, I obeyed instructions, and ‘settled down to work. Was It hard work? No, it didn’t seem lke work at all, Mr, Belas- co has a way of making everything seem easy “He didn’t drag you avout by the hair?” (This Jn the face of his picture ." Cy | on the wall.) | No, he didn’t,” answered Miss Starr, laughing, her front halr over | her eyes. “He was disappointingly gentle, I don’t know just what he did, but I think he coaxed thitfgs out of me. I suppose the public imagines that he stands with a play in his hands and reads, or pounds, a fart {nto | one. But he doesn't do anything of the sort. Ho merely suggests. Ho) doesn't tell you how to act a part. You are left to find out that for your- | eclf. He {s careful not to do anything that may destroy a personallty. $ out your personality and teaches you to act. I really belfeve he could make that book act if he cared to try. The book didn’t deny it. “Mr. Belasco's methods were a revelation to me,” she tripped along. | home and slept until 6. No one dreamed of being sleepy during the long) rehearsal—it was all so interesting. A-Belasco rehearsal {s a rare expe~| rience.” ‘ 4 ‘tWere there other experiences?” “Oh, so many! For weeks I talked Spanish, walked Spanish, ate Span- ‘sh, all {n the hope of acting Spanish. I hunted out Spanish families, “And that first dress rehearsal! Shall I ever forget 1t? It began at 10) spent days In their homes, did everything possible to learn their customs. o'clock one: morning and went steadily on until 10.30 the neXt morning. | I turned my back on American hotels and went to queer little restaurants Tired? Not a bit. We rehearsed only one act, and when {t was‘over Ion the enst side. And the garlic I ate, all on account of Juanita!” could haye danced for an ho longer. I didn’t want to go to bed, so I| She turned her head and smiled at the memory and the North River. took a carriage and drove in the park {1 half-past 2. Then I camo “IT even tried to read Spanish,” she added. ‘See!’ showing me ao “Ghe Garlic I Ate, All on Account of Juanita.’ Gets $1 a Night for Being a Good Little Actress. Rk eR ek Ra KR KR ee RE KR RR ek mR KK Kk kK kK KKK | | Spanish prayer book. “You tried to be good in Spanish?” 5 “Yes, she laughed, ‘‘And'I’m going to tell you something, I get a dollar every night fer boing good." “For belng a good little actress?” “Yes, and_{f l'm particularly good, Mr. Belasco gives me a dollar and a half. I got a dollar and a half last night. He comes to me after every performance and rewards me as though 1 were a little oh{ld. When he Is yery, very plecsed, ke brings mea doll. 1 keep-the dolls In my dressing- room, and I'm hoarding up tho money In n Uttlo ullk bag. I bellove Mr. Belasco would give away everything he owns !f some one dfdn’t watch hin *k *« *& When She's wok ek we wR Kk kw Kk ke Ke KK Very, Very Good Mr, kk KK KR Kk kK kk KKK Kk kk Belasco Gives Her a Kak KKK KK aaa KK HK Dollar and a Half, woe ke me ke kk me ke kk She Tells +c * koe kk ek Rk ee CHARLES DARNTON. Ho would take off bis necktle and givo {t ta-you i? des thought you wanted. {t. The,sran {s the soul of generosity THe pkture on the wall wa w(t was quite apparent that <a Chri toy. } ; “Hnppy! Starr, “It seems foo good tobe true. Bren, Before Invent on the I dreamed of acting In a Helasco company, Isn't about?) When. I 3 foolish to sign a it strange that ft has r made.a contract with Mr, B friends sald 3 of my m I'd rather lave a small part in a Belasco company than one cise. My experlence with stock co: anies wal but I had quite enough of tt. It ts qu be ‘dt! in a stock company, but certain mannerisms are almost sure to be tha] Bad work often wins popularity, while good work makes the actor unpopular, The stook actor runs great danger of being spelled by his audiences. I may have been rescund just in time. ‘Tha opportunity that Mr, Belasco has ylvyen me was wholly unexpected. When I was in ‘The Music Master’ and Mr. Belasco sent for mo I thought 1 was going to lose- my position. And when he asked me ff I could play a guitar I thought he was going to put me {ff musical comedy, It was ‘several co mi, penalty of popularity | weeks before I learned his plans for me. He unfolded them little by little, In order not to frighten me I imagine. But I was fearfully frightened on the fyst night. “No one had ever heard of me—and there I was—oh! T can’t tell you how I felt. Mr. Belasco did everything for me, and as for my contract— |nvell, I shall be only too glad to remain with him as long as he is willing to keep me. That {3 the general feeling athong his actors,” ‘How do. yotk explain this loyalty?” “py one word—lové. He rules his theatre by love. He wins his people to him. 1 should be content to play any part in one of his companies for the rest of my life.” | “You have no ambition beyond Juanita?” “Oh, yes, Lhaye, Lut I'm keeping it a secret, tell what it Is.” Not even a dollar?” Not even a dollar and a half.” Not Ing could make me + The Evening World’s was for keeps so far as the dashing young romantic | r, Charley Face, was concerned. Roy L. McCardell lJoe Miller Discourses on The Week Before Xmas 4 ,.7es Meh Seesped acting shoconaage te sine Closes So Many Shows over chains of- playhouses, ho says, and he vay the Strenuous Yuletide. going to keep in the bright lights from thta on. “He had an awful encounter with a rude fellow <i is who took hla fork away from him at the free lunch By Roy L. McCardell. | counter, : | HER hardly | “And tho fellow told him to go to—but before he | theatre in other towns] could Anish his speech Cnarzloy told him it was no rs that hasn't |more playing the provinces~for him, the Flat Is Full of Fs iends Fs Pern Gere bé ELL, it's the same old W Ch ah Rigtes ieatines the Joke author of Joe Miller's t like patent| ‘McGifn and McGumMin, the kingpins of song and Book, who 1s supposed to have said the ©; . | dance, fa with us, too, ‘They was kindly told we had gone into the discanl years and ‘And for the 0 place for them to sleep, and they told us they years. ago, but is really alive, peddling hia stuff along Broad: way, “everybody thinking about what he has t give and worry ing about what he fs going to Meaning | didn't want to siéep. They were so glad to get |vask that chey“intended to cut out sleeping. ~ ‘ot one of the bunch has a cent, but they are bappy aslarks, and ours in a Gouse of song end there's nothing money, of ‘course, by 3 all fino and fossy | for people in the dusiness who | ure all to the onyx on this | hanpy Mays for all, aa long as our credit for bottled get, plthough most of us might hosaltalliy thing. beer Nolda out In the netshborhogd. dispense with the latter. The We've got so much com-| YOld Man Moneyton dropped jn the other night, but great bulk of Christmas-giving pany at tho flat, eoubrettes, tie didn’t enjoy himacif because he don't care for ranks with putting a safety Ingenues, leading Jadies, all in crowds, and, then, McGiffin and McGuffin have been from the road, vhs ly (doing #idewalk talks in vaudeville so long that they | points to a picture of Santh Claus and saya: ‘Do you siinply can’t get of a mheeze withop knocking on Jove thin old man?’ to me, they're Hable to get a|the knob of whoever they're: talking to, with what. | push in the pan! over they happen to hold tn thelr hands.— f —“Rhore ta two things that » “After Old Man Monpyton had deen slipped about ‘em during the merry Yuletide three chuckles and bad been made to see the point | Street and the othe the thea by being tapped on the bun with an evening paper, “Here in Now York they have pullers-in Insteadof: & Walking stick and an fron ash tray he sneozed | away. razor In the sock of an armless man. “What's the use of feeding the poor with turkey end cranberry sauce and celery and cement mas- querading as plum pudding on Christmas Day and sentencing them to ahuck steak once a week for tho rest of the year? It's a fino business to arrange things so a man has to play them ao close to his chest from Jan. 1 to Dec, 2% that his wis! gets calloused and expect him to give three © for Chrintmas, a pucker put tn | ys. One's yal: Martin Green in ‘his spare moments, manufacture a wagon out ot | a cigar box and four spools, give it to his angel child | and be tiought well of. In those days Christmas { sifts were Christmas gifts. Now they oonstitute a strain. : ‘ “While President Roosevelt 1s simplifying things tt 1 to me he might get in right by simplifying Obristmas. Tf, he would set the pace by giving each | ot his children a 40-cent Teddy bear, and Mrs. Astor} should establish the custom of giving each of her relatives and friends a neat sweater, and John D. Nockofeller should decide that his most expensive Christmas present would be a nico blue Kerosene oll’ barrel appropriately trimmed, and John W. Gates would cofitine his “gifts to boxes of cigars, tho thing | Hi Glasses, in By Iryin insura comes elderly Brother Green Glasses, At Funny Glasses, Va. { sit tt looks to me as if Banta Claus makes a bad Ufo and casualty—every ume he y geertleman with a make- | Three Humorists+trvin s, cobb bracelets and motor cars, he will make himself tonsely “disliked; and if he should go blunde around the marcelled roof of the intoxteated co: houwe that Senator Clark calls a’home, he will got Jost in an tmpenetrable forest of stone flues, anc maybe alide down the front chimney into the baci yard. If he ventures into the aide wtreats he'll find strong opposition, Stout young mien Will be thers putting something in a stocking. The something wilt be a gaspipe, and che young men calculate on giving the slocdng to the paswersby—giving it to them gsood—and making thom see the Christmas sturs. No doubt Santa will make a lot of other errors Jum ea aninine, since, as I take It, he Js getting far in- ing Town, to S. Cobb. AR GRBEN—From where nce risk of himself—fire, to this town, Any probably bring a lot of honorary college degrees. to’ would bo done, . | up lke John Alexander Dowle | some of our leading <ttUzens, forgetting that there’ “But tt mvon't. We'll go right along blowing our-) and a dtspositiin like Andrew | are two letters whioh, printed after a man/s naman’ the itmit of our credit and gefting talked Carnegie thinks he = has—but | Bredstreet‘s, are worth moro, in New York, than r being grouches, Tho more we have tho} hasn't—ts morally certain to|the “Li.D," fixings Harvard ever inflicted on ite Tf we don't want to, more we want to give awny. we haye to, anyhow, #o It ts Just as well to make a when awiuff that we want to. It certainly ta productive of Gratin, Joy to give a five-year-old kid a $60 toy automodtlo and have him tako {t out and push {t under a etreot car, and, Christmas cheer and the tme John D, changed Time waa when we Claus 1s a crue! proposition, could make ta Claus the goat, Nowddays the| from helf-Nelson to 61 1s know that Santa Claus‘s real name js painted) Anyhow, Santa tsn’t on the windows of the department stores, and that | anthropy; he's too promis atalthe coins |team work * all to the kod, “in the most ap-|doddefing, antiquated o hoe never coughs up unless hé “What, t nT sulators in frodt of all the sea-of-tce | ‘ ie ahs i ree et the mes Daakenarneniealves)| “Christmas? Gay, Kid, we'll have to postpone It “It nilght be worse. I knew a man once who got | propriate Christmas gift you have heard of this | Bl¥e a_toy SU pce aes He Seen eee hoarse outbidding for“tho services of abdle-bodied | till after wa get rid of the gang, Wo're playing | @ Christmas present of a horse and he had no p : Hee AERIS us cHeebeares Ser 9 mon who have thelréwn dress suits and don’t object | roverty there'll be- no ostentatious. display +to-keap Jt but in his- flat. Beoldes, the doctor v-Goneral Mayer's break to put the Ice auf ae is" eta chee to night work, ad can furnish a lady friend to |around tho works till that bunch has deat It. st ordered him to walk to and from work cv Hen heiciaelehlyiaweekilongonl san va eatnn nada otk coueen tM Larne, Gssist in Alling-aching volds in auditorkime. |_ “Dopey McKnight has been prom a toy St. | day. Ho had jost his bank roll in Wall street and) the ponds and Inkes up-State aro ehanile biel ha} Sat Est apes eae ere here ‘But to cut’ the cues, Kid, business 1s sure oad, ana | Bernard dog, This {sa raro breed. Dopey anys ho'll | hix wife had presented him, with twins. The rich| frozen golid, appears to me to be the larke: sith Sea Se Te Rmee na IC GaPNG CHES W AEG HereTINeT I IRVeUNO ENT erereslN ER HCE eu) him ‘Hamlet,’ even {f this one won't be a Great | get everyatlnn they, cn Reed and the poor never | {simone and mest lavage plece. of Santa Olgua ror ae yeeapcel pba prmcnoin Heustenny Omni, Be eectiet| ae eR Seas ‘ rane get onything they need. I know of, outside of one Christmas when a whole-|. 1 ere i a 2 sata eee ties Ue aa any ohea Prokenses, | “swWoll, Kid, Marchacca take a steamboat for mine!) “Christman-was a beautiful time all ric! arted philanthroplat rent’ a box of lemons to a{ im & brags Kk which entities him to be Invest- | Recah been einen Toot! Toot!" ‘man. out of heer foyous food nature, could jored Drass band," repliad Joe, Kavad. bureau for two wocke—that ta, “And, when they Close anywhere within reason to — | week a and one afterward—and th our fairclty the actors and actorettes book through {€ they find out he rea Ucket calling for anu to Broadway on a long jump and play no. dates between. eK 1) ‘Not that 1 should say a word but what I'm glad 4a to seo them, becauso who knows but what 6: —= = sate may overtake us and wo be #0 anxlous for iar Ay womething to eat that we'll accept the awful FOLKS ARE PUKE Ov: alternative of tecoming the guest of honor at tho Veo GO 6 fF) | Player Dees. Club, | lard 2oss Le ye! t ‘Every.-girl wo ever met has brought her satchel | |70 AWoiW y : to the house. They are stalling abput “how couldn't keep away fram old Brondwey, but nover all go gut on It at once. Somo stay on go they 74 ; | to get the othets word by wireless that thpro aro) |4/2*04% | meal. {ndications at the fat. | TL SAE, | Bur A BEAT rUL. “Mazle Montreaser, don't you remember readiig | z about hyr holding the swely party at Sherry's—but | |AMA% OUTSIDE STR CASE, aftorwafd the party got away?” 1h gypetaace® AGC OU AED} | NOV OVT OF THE Ions — “Well, Mazto got back from Baltimore with notn-| | 7yepe WEA ARENT. EU ing but Joyous enthusiasm, what she stood and| | gyys : GLAD YOU TAKE hor faithful powder, rag. : | Vwaee Raa a leetane "Goldin Magee, who thought aure sho had a Pitte-| |4voy cf burg millionaire hooked—Dut alas! them dreams in| |/5 not to be—got In from Toronto, reporting severe | 90746 froata all over the British possessions on this con- tinent, so far as she could ace. “Goldie couldn't walt for the clevator boy to leave - Hints from the House Horrible; or, How to— \g <@ By Jean Mohr. BES AT THE \ Berroa 14 BW BING You; STA/R CASE AWD WORK UP L/KE THIS = st © horse's tail he horns of 3 the talophone awitchboard and take her up,.but ran | up thé Avo fights and burst {n on us shouting: ‘I've | come to spend Christmas with you! Aint you giad?’ “Elsie Elmhurst and Corinno Carruthers, who {n- | USING BROWNING, AVO THE Sodio READING FOR Aapot, road of anthracttp! They ;report that things black atc took black’ atons the | | ee ag ye ‘ THE TINK” “Charley Face 1s camping out tn the dining-room, and 's afraid to get off the sofa even to eat, for fear) | rye ft will’be snatched away from him TeP “Qharlle Face says nix for him on the Acme Ag: gregation playing romantic masterpieces at popular 70 COMPLETE. prices, with yaudovillé betweén thy acts and votlne contests’ for an elght-dny stove for the most SIN ALL THE B. R loons FVRILY Popular engaged couple in the towns they played Teer Pas. “They closed for the holidays at Allentown, but tt ak BRS ULULBEA Y, ee reel q GOLLY THATS A 600d CHAPTER ‘Mt Pitta avenue {for ‘ \ find hard sledding ahead of him Netteradle pedan full of peaoe-on- earth-good-will-to-man ts thing of telling the children Qhore {s no Ganta| other sentiments whlch went out of fashion about angio hold, pasted choaen yiotina, He may be dafty enough to give Congress a message, forgetting that our Prosidepy, is now doing mossaging by the day, week, fol 4 running foot. bee pelea On the whole, I guess Santa better. etay tm. the! country where they're old fashioned enough ‘teyap™ preciate him. Well, #o long, Green. Don't take in any bad money—unless you can't get the other kind Yours, on the new phil- es SA uous jn his methods; his May Manton’s Daily Fashions, ades the village of York with his he 5 Now notions crude philanthropy and his grip upon the word or léague, He's euch a halr mattress that ho'd nytime we spend a own we deatro to have It tinware off the | ther this my mind w $ dulge hie {n our metro- ting {nto town In e will arrsst him @ permit or else relty to’ Animate, mon 5 as a protect! ain te ~~ Girl's Empire Coat—Pattern No, 5542, MPIRR coats are very generally! b W is to Ha. younger girls and are very much tn vorue- ls one xives unbroken ines at.front and K and allows of entirely novel trimming and atment, In, the {Ilustration tt en browicloth, with, trimming_of dark green, vel- [vel and elitching of allk, but all cloaking materials that are used for little girls are appropriate. 1 ¥ | be made from velvet or velveteen ax well as loth, while {tf a simpler ‘coat Js desiréd Jare a great many xtures ahd plaids "The qu: erial re} ed forthe imediun sibe (4 1et-yards 27, 3 34 yards 4 or 3 yards 22 with 8-8 yard of velvet to trim ast from thero brea ‘of in. years) 4 Inches ¥ cd. ste tte - TH$B Is cut in alzes for girls of atx, welve yearn of nee Obtain There engings and do! who expect mepine on in yeara and pocsibly {s sort of senile, Ho will: | ts mady of Russian . oy icbudmiis isa nba SE ies Bese mine