The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1907, Page 9

a The oe ee Daily Madazine, Saturday, December 14 PCLB! PEE BEE E@EE ESSESEE 19077 eeaeeee @LESOOPLE LDSESS EGA TOS | CECELIA LOFTVS Says Lhe Cas Born | Under a Star Just as Vnlucky as Herself ‘for me. Even at that time I felt Ijand by thinking of the original sing- could act, atid here at last, I thought, ks I forgot my surroundings for the 83 a way of getting on the stage. 1|moment and got See the first didn't realize then that it was the| verse. worst way.” “ ‘Splendid!’ cried the’ ‘rstiagd ‘A Ditter-sweet smile stole over the | ‘It's just like ‘er, so it is! Now giva By Charles Darnton. gE TALKED in the cold gray light of her unlucky star. “Lm beaten,” said Miss Cecelia Lofing, white and tired and sick of tt all : Why say that?” “Recanse there ‘s might as well admit it to give me @ charming young part” voice "When Mr. F Her. lips tightened for a moment, nothing #lse to say.” shec replied Why Keep struggling alone in the h that noms day | may get my chance? It will probably come when: I eighty, By the ime | ani old enough to qie it may ovenr to some manage rohan, Gr any other wanager for that’ matter, hns a then she continued ih a low, gentle story. Planned to Rin Away. ambition, and I am certain she never ae ". euspected me of having the least bit : of talenf. In-t Tam sure she) thought mie hopelessly stupid. for J! | come here asking for an engagemenit! ° “My mother knew nothing of my:!Learn the rest of the song and as us the rest of ft" : i “That's all I know,’ I told bite. - ““What!' he exclaimed. ‘And yott © many others as you can. Be ready ‘fo gO on to-morrow “night. [ll give you live pounds a week. By the bed who are you?’ young part to be filled he never thiuks of me. He wonders Whether i} will’ . fitit Merie Doro, or Ethel or--bnt why go on with the lst? “My name isn't” on it—that much | know. For lx years | have been crawling the oarth sim ply asking for work, but 1 have been unable to get it. When « manage: thought of me at all it was an ‘Cissy Loftus, the mimic.’ If he wanted me for anything f for ‘Imitation: — “Or bad plays,” 1 suggested. D Bate fT can do and I have gone along Plays Always Bad, [ene after year hoping and hoping “Yea!"‘the agreed, “they've alwaye tet ome day 1 would get m) been bad And T have always known (nent eS nee fiom the frnt that they were bad. In| 'poro fle Batming But ‘lemons “the case of “The Lancers’ I signed a/ i bs ah contract before I had ween the mafu- teens: and flippant. It was as bitter script, Mr. Miller merely telling me an{** ‘Be smile that withered tt : \ idealized story of the plot. And thu! Her Unlucky Star. Rs came the infest trying five weel« 1) “I must have been born under a very ' have ever putin on the stage. During} unlucky star. Yes, I'am sure of tt," all that time I worked at the theatre/she added with emphasis. “f have ‘fiom 11 until 5 or 6 every day and | been led to belleve that I have talent, | then went on in the evening to be) yet the managers will not belleve tt] “blithe and gay’ with nothing but dis-'1 knaw that I could play a serious mal failure to took forward to when | part, a fine part. Modjeska, Elien| ihe jlece r-avhed New Yor. The final! Terry, Sir Henry Irving and Mr was painfully shy and had never Keen : chin to-do anvening before apvone,| Back to Mother. : So ‘I sald nothing to her now, but! “When I told him that my mother I siirted mohite my plans ‘without a was playing in his theatre, he took ingle day's delay, First, [ must run’ te to her, much against my will, and fra ist arrange informed her that Iwas a wonder i. hone, and I r ye sheler, 1 found a little ul cbitd ees over a baker's shop which “What can she do?” asked me | would cost five shillings » week, and/ mother, gazing at me in surprise. : jb) Mving on three buns and a bottle, ‘She con make you believe she ts. jef mflk a day I calculated I could sometody cls2, and she can draw @ |eet along very weil on a pound a aalary of five. pounds a week if vee |week With these details settled inj say the word.’ 'my mind, I went to the music hall! “ ‘Very well,’ sald my mother. 1 jand asked for afi engagement. you can drag anything out of her | “What can you-do?'-asked the/ you're xelcome to It.’ ¢ , ea } “And that's bow it happened,” cos | ‘Impersonations,’ 1 annwered, al-) eluded “Miss Loftus. “The second ay mort choking over the word. And| week my, salary was advanced to one then, fearfi) of what 1 had said, T) hundred pounds.” added: ‘Songs, sir.’ © | “Anu so sou weren't obliged to ras ‘Here we are, then!’ ho cried, call- | away nh home and lve on three iing a man to the plano and saying, | {buns andAs bottle of milk?” a t : An « attempt to change {t inio a musical | Sothern have waid to me, ‘Clasy, you | My ‘IMITA TIONS! (ee Play ‘er whatever she likes. Ne © replied refectively, “but fomedy with American chorus gisis!can do anything?’ But the pciaeopad HAVE a By this time 1 was feirly petrified, 1 feel now as though I should lke to Folug to Canada was the finishing :eem to think I can do nothing but KEPT ME 5 [bat 1 somehow managed to hea RWRY: and bury myself some- 4 blow. After that I didn't care what |‘imitations.:. My ‘imitations’ have FROM GETTING the name of the song. 1 had heard,| where” o happened, wn: {uid feel sorry for the | kept me from geting @ good part. It) A4GOOO PART," . Poor, disappointed people whe came |] had stayed in vaudeville for a cou- i i fo the theatre in the hope of parsits/ ple of yearn I might have Ga an unlucky day for ms when A pleasant evening. To the few who enough money to get a play of my I first saw ‘imitations.’ ” are still coming ivr sone reason orjown But 1 didn't, and I haven't! There was a story In Misa Lc other, I am giving one or two ‘imita- any money. I am fearfully improvi. es, and it w : The Plumber’ Ss Love Cure. ; E, GRANGE outhor of the “History of Primitt * referred In tha, W ourte of « ure in Boston to the nmiodern cyn view of love tha: prey i ¢ tus's & soon forthcoming. Hons! just to entertain them fur a few jdent. It is only when I have bilis'to! “I wax unly iourteen at the tir rotiaies: spe oe ee anes aratring Ave vera calinary cen a * omOMienth ipay thet moner means anything tolehe said. as hein offeriic nee: ard thie ayer, ‘tont If you are terribly in love the way te 4 hen you are not tired of Sivingimo. 1 ant always horribly in debt.” jas an ¢xcuse. “It was at a mualc k ren away." é ae EES She leaned back among the cush-/in London whcre my, mother was ij) Feat ce MMO TRG ANALAN O€ fed: Canons Tired!” She dropped-her hands into! -cus in the window seai and smiled{ pearing that 1 sow a youne wont EF Soe Re aiGee prod Cad: volt cunt away corm tbe witty her lap. “Lam n+ ficed of chat sort of | at her plight |xive tmperaouations of well-kaoan te Bork that [ am willing to make al-| “That Je why 1 : bs 0 back Into vaude- | performers. One of them struck me = t most any sacrifice in order to es: pe ville from time to time.” she ex. | as purttenlarly ba’ and when tsa! $ l ,500,000 for Weather Tips. from {t. { went Into “Ih> Lwucers'! piained, “Unfortunately, 1 am obliged | home T sat down at the piano and 3 A : because I didn't know tt wes going to} Nioleatn tay own jivings anaveottheral ealdscNow thla’ls thewas whe anould you know: that Tincle Sam spends a million and a halt dollars each year be a musical comedy. J have kept out youare! If the stupidity of managers | have sung.’ And then it suddenly Se ie ee eeaile aR Lee pee Sean Si fo a of musical comedy and refused sev-i will uot permit them to ses ma in|struck me that I was giving a better ’ i © a large insurance company, which | eral big salaries simply because T tiave| anything but ‘imitations’ have noth-]{mitation than the one I had seen thought the Weathes Bureau was overrated, started out to gather statistics about j feit J could do something better. fam! ing left but vaudevT for I pre-|and that if that woman could get an Ht. They came to tho gonclusion that hrough the warnings cf the weather man: hota concelted woman, but 1 know fer xauerile i area comedy, Tk It engagement there might be a sien no less than $0140,0% wax raved to the people of the United Ptates each year. H e os bee als sk gee TEHIOOHBOLGOMOEOD 2000 cigoocouadbacucccoococoucG oe 5 io sooo SCOOT ASON NOGOM ? POTS ‘ gee) : a th’s’” t, but Resol to Tak i h es Kirk Fails to Fathom the Mysterious “Mr. Smith's Secret, but Reso ves fo lake All C ances; . g Ti A, 1€ Oat S. for I rinidad, and on the Boat feets the air oor eeper a edwor reeti . aomsasaonsoconsenssd FOOGON nder that Kirk was disarmed. He and misery. He knew not what to He wax groping for the door handis “Come.” le sald. and with that he to smile in spite of himself. = ink—what to hopes 2 , When the ship pany nee rhe a ee mero ate Gi aoe eateey God knows I re-| “You are-a dear. fellow,” rhe ed off and awoke again. The! Was @ jangle of bell In the, engine- [che vr in im. ey Tye never cared{ rent on, “Perhaps 1 had, to resiet al decane Ba Riese etatr gees nt | oom, sleepy. aucrulous orSére, the hands lke children, laughing aa they; Mant. | little bit tayself, It hurt mo when You !ssy watch showed {t to be nearly 1/ ‘Tamp of feet, a shivering Impact a cee neal along, and making fun ef the q Hf from | Said it humiliated you—to care for me. | Where wan Felleldad?. De} the vessel ground paaaice Care Thole edventure, To all “appearance jon dow-| It lant humiliating at alldt ough: to always aniiincompetens had | STOMane wall: of pileac Ae a foes | ths on tats ae pening eens across a fle and a denying movement of her} ard you—not for your sake, not besfuse| he a Uberal education.” | Hilsealoulated hit position. The {TR and almone 6 to seen testers, erent, ie the binding | Lloyd OsKourae. N due ume, after an uneventful voy-| sraceful head, ax though fate ¢ J Wax generous, or anything of bhat| They both Tiughea. Her charm -was dlmeliat tinnderacetonveltheribandshes| Sitos: ta taincees dias pape feded Lepnahandil ¢ = IT age, Kirk reached Port of spain | thus be trined with. Kind—it because I’m a proud dsan/ irresistible. Kirk was filled w traved no. sign. of habitation. The| ‘‘Felicdaay'" said the latter, erumpily. ipesaa tal Polat corer. them. | (Copyright, 1907, by—D. Appiston & Cot | xo message greeted him, and, hait-| Kirk telt_t5P her hand inthe dark| who lates to humiliate: himsel? A unreasoning elatfon ee ie wheel tarned tonotonously, | All that Kirk could ee was a small tae renal ne voice, 4 % | despairing of recelying one, he went tol and pressed it. She gently drew Her fac mautiful and unrelenting him to wring { admission from 1 Teviea aad though {t bad all the reat | | whart to which they were being made | “Friend!” oried De Ruyter. the principal hotel and waited with | away. Tithe sta es Allied him with a aud-| MOwever whimaically and mockingly BR elke i tas! It. Kirk looked | fast. Whatever else Felicidad consisted | 1° ioalslinct eae pane t he—cal 7 ‘No. no, ¥ I whe exctaim- | den bitter Ho leaned over the jaa it, . for the nigh’! before St, rl 1 | ot waa hidden in the darkness. There| twas seen, rifle i ‘ap what patience he-canld. To his amaze,} ‘0. no, you must not!" she n p r De A tsatcog olnnt leita) ta ineratn ere hand. 5 vn jon the day of his arrival he was con- ¢d, Impetuoumly arresting the words gazing in dejection at the. w. Was no one to meet them—no sign of { Medway, of the ‘ont Mal) S. 3 ings under tle stare, were fast fi Nas grown very hard,” he said. and’t <a | MonedUI A to nail from Southampton on |into’ the past, memories, irrevocable, moodily, “I wouldn't be a man‘ if 1) bay Noy. 21. ‘ | precious, not to be recalled without «| had not loved y | pang. Kirk expressed the hope’ that. sisted all 1 cou! + = » the steamer would strike a Sank, andj for the role of: the hopeless su CHAPTER IX. * ‘ tou delay the catastrophe of parting. | I've tried all along to "e ne vation th a | alipps that so Across the World. Vera let the observation pass with «| #lipping into tha iThe Adventurer ey | 1 ald not 4, SYNOPSIS oF P be eta w, I must pack up and ‘ o forte, 1 , Save the sink- In that you,” inquired the eaptais. o Ebceatiets tara : Me! cronted, in the corridor, by-the baauti- which rose to bis lips, ‘Let it end | low. Shy-came over and nestled oloee| pa e added, and before he Hs hes epee cold, and he waked | ¢@ oF animation.” All wes ghostly.) sclis cur gootalt replied’ the sentry, 4 Arise’ He fe examined by the ndvortistt, « ful girl who had, in-ttir-zulse of a rer )a8 It began—an idyll—untarnished, .un-. beside hir t she had fled and Ap! Bs ees ara tea tend usttea tan neaselts jess and silent. Kirk got his bag and/j, 4, nasal and) familiar v 3 Tarasiuarecrory eae naa vant, admitted him-to the house in Ted-| Vulgarized, ethereal axa dream. This) “Voor little Babex in the Woods,’ nthe companton. + Bia lyon ore ‘ s$epped ashore, joining the captain «nd grounding hist ‘weapon ng whether to go below or to} \y.. “AWeathrook, who were ewalting | shaking ha and nde Kirk and Vara. arew 8 x y tried so hand to keep} Lhd i ature, of the ‘enteroriay, TSmita aivee Kirk| worth street, She made no sign of #4 What made me Ike you~you have! cxclaimed Kirk remained on deck, smoking cigar can } 1 i Uttle apart, as there male 8 £100 pote SaphVand tells mon it be can] MOT aire een fo chivatrour. s0 ‘good. #0 men-|the serpent out of thelr paradise, but!atier cigar in the darkness, He wan in sick 12 out Ure SOT im, De Ruyter held a lantern whch | pared talicauy” bebeoen Ba Bust Tig will be accepted for the expeditivn, there! A: the @nd of the sccond day an en-|@rous and forbearing, Don't Aisappoint | the horrid thing would get ints !a whirl of confliccing emotions, under- | decided ong ep he raised as Kirk approached. yawning | the stranger. ore oe ; race pre ea ei enue u nae meaiag ee emttmenton uate ume Hey Ching et cihat aman taeaNs jme now when R is ail over! Her tone wax s0 contrite, so piquant golng all the alterations of happiness | the lower dep as he did: so, ase enmee! : eee : r > 1 sonar ee ibaa aad at { saeaeaoaae COO COOOOO DATOOOOQOOODODOOQODOHOODHHHDOOHOOHHIOS Sl8e ne of these pth WEOSOYS TOODOOD, Pass Lewis Kirkpatrick up the River.’’| The necond was an unsigned note did- W it 1e t-O : ding him take certain craay.atermer| he venian Or Art Aub emt ers le) ae or ‘ about to sail up the Orinoco, To hia LOOK amaze, the xr, whore name he dla-| oy covered wi Vera Westbrook, was to| WOLDOSOGOQOGOOOOOGOQOOOGSOGHIOSHOONML & OBOOSO) CIO OAG® Ne Amongthe young Evening World} Islan3, N. Y. CHAPTER VIII. ee aa Ne LYN consequence of the excellent work |! tv0 artists who have ven in most com-| sfarguerite Worth, No. 1571 Boone| It Was From These om These Gut-Outs ER °. borne At flan cen antaeskeds ne done bythe voling: worlatecgoung pulairimeritiand Ku Pi dabielwone weneaiek (ineve' arteut’ | eccteraeaee: in y (Continued.) ompantonahip and ection during or | at ing Up this’ fascinating and outs are the following J. Exther Gelling No. 16% Bast Fir Children oe Their Work. artists upon the Art Cut-Outs a eat the namie UME | sarurday. last and of ‘Tuerday of thls | week. it has been decided to. reproduc | 1 here offer feveral of the most beautiful efforts | which ay perhaps b Mr. Smith's Alias. ~* | the coming trip. Kirk’ Id way US closed Kirk's mouth. It was made it quite clear that she wou! impossibie to press Mr. Tregurtia | 9° word as to-what wtesknew of their any further without appearing | destination. Nor would she permit him| wore: Miss Jennie Freedman, No. 10 South] J Ot pecoklyn, Churman street. New Brunswick J 5, Harry Bressler, No, 100 Willett street, erat Van otCt, Glenwood Landing, pecaec| i Bans i Margaret Keogh Kipp avenue, Has-| Anita Scott, care Mra, 8. F, Michael, k Hhights, N. J No. #9 West One Hundred and Fifty- ymaeWklted, No 2% Bloomfield eighth street, city. | 47 Hoboken, No J Flerence Dongan. No. 7 Barrows i Adrian © Smith. ar pl City street, New York City. | AaviC\ {from among the grea mder of fine | nxiows to Improve. In drawing @ tah! Hoth rude emi inquisitive. Overstep the bounds of formal a = ithe compositions received. The twe']or a stove, r to make It nar- ‘Tregurtha rose, QUAIALAN CE cuts showing two' /cit-outa fron {t recedes from you. ‘This i a will have to excl OLtETE na aE duoua Journey, by. buat Whton the children workhd are also we All perspec tn he remarked. “You might be and « he two found tneniasveal Sera reproduced in reduced size.’ As music or noise lows to enough to walt In the outer office ‘J can send some one for your ticket. I hope You will not mind its being secona Dper Vehshiek OF the river. Here vplass,” he xtded. “I am apending other re, Vera appeared to Re ‘people's money, You know. and even as} known by thelb conductors and com-! (tte—in your matter, I mean—I am a!-|manded vaaz respect from them. Even} Yeady unduly stretching my authot! yy steamer, commanded by a hman, De Ruyter by name, plying! jwhen it fs at a dia lesson as they recede from xo muck, however, that th i 0 only appear | Follow this rile and vou {pleture will look Tess Mat and t fas the mystery deepened, Kirkpatrick “Now, my dear man,’ said ‘Tree felt himaeif, growing more and more| holding out his hand to Kirk,” i] dosply, uncontrottably jn love with his) wish you good-by and good luck, Mr./ fair companion. One evening De Ruye! ‘Timms has taken charge of your affair, | ter anndunced they would reach Fe jand you will simply walt till ic Im set-| toidad by midnight. “Kirk had no {dea tled. Au for myaelf, important bueiness| whatsoevar where. or what. Felicidsd + calle me elaowhera. 1 cannot tell YOU! nent ne. how much I respect y determination A sad evening sveceeded dinner. Ve to take ail chances and conquer. all ob: # preoceupied 'and ‘ald: Mities They: atacies, You will probably fail for Ve! ag teen so happy tomether, #0 happy. already told you of the odds agalnat) ond now tt wan ail over, They indiily * | you. But, by Jove, { admire your xplrit. jin some im! irehtul reo ollegtions: ia'hes From the bottom of /my heart £ wim] fiowed thelr from Fou suce \ > Ivar to the An hour tater, In Ne outtr-olce, a Marek to the Moltive, ting ar erk handed Kirk a Lickel, they brouxct beek every little inchient | Kirk snatched it from him, The tn-|o¢ thet: va tensity of his curiosity was agonizing. | jaughier o: ‘His eyes leaped to the type, and to tis] nag a no rage in blanks, with their stubby writs | betwect wien each’ reinained allen ‘ ~~ Separation impended, strangers, dok, NO. 678 East Qhe Hundred and 'Thirty-elghih street hte Geatination was Porl of Spaln,/order of toings. Those long, brig auc en Onna ae ee vue. et te find ‘eat indies, Bee was the aye Weaethery these fehaltl ey even: ‘again Mour”’ is a good name, * tuced reproduction of the art lesson priced {n last.Saturday's Even- ing World. “| And your ad Spurney, But itawas the aentinent, In whieh the: of tears, Wilh long pauses! Niion atreet, Brooklyn. Your picture is maser jaa ine title,