The evening world. Newspaper, May 11, 1912, Page 3

or GL LEAVING HER SENELESS LOT Miss Wickham Tells About ’Em Grand Opera Singer Who Became a Light Opera Success in a Night, Recounts Her Sensations “Robin Hood's” Coniralta Is Not From Brooklyn! “IN GRAND amd we'll not Whe money to the end of | the world, Oh, not’ \ RECEIVES TWO OFFERS THAT FAIRLY STAGGER HER. “and yet there may be money tn Nght opera?’ I suggested. “There must be,” she agreed, “for I received two offers this week that fairly staggered me The explanation is, I that I'm a contralto and take the part of a boy.” ul Fy pt begin ‘The tact ts, Wlorence Wickham, with A Deore We sparse ‘a o “find,” and Broadway managers the essault, are evidently just beginning to make thie @ascovery. tte all new to me,” she remarked, ‘T’'ve never seen @ performance of ‘Robin Hood.’ But the first time I went to a theatre T saw ‘Wang.’ I thought De Wolf Hopper very funny, and the 4 oP thet ageazees @en gushing toward her. Then she te- ecived a crushing blow en the head and fnew ao more are!’ den pessing wee Gaye of going on the stage, though wre eos geaivercparc the time came, as tt does to nearly ‘wagon at One Hundred end Yorty-ffth % every girl, when I felt I should like to “ ie largety after midnight {hie morning and was ‘At the Metropotitan acting murprised to see the brighthaired girl o matter of fore, ond, orietnaltty, 19 fm the place with the mep. He met} Miss Whokham’ bes enoes se eae yaa ane wildly in the air when we wish to ex- prese emotion. By this beautifully #! ple method every emotion may be ex-| pressed. But on the light opera stage least, have the Lingolenpind to touch of color. act in your own indtviduel way, 1 4ook inside the lunch wagon. nese aon 1 be able to learn something ‘As he reached the wagon mered: "Mefore Fou went abroad to study you groans from the ‘darkne “This—1s—your—first—eeason—to—?" v inger in Brooklyn?” eant lot at One Hundred and Forty-| Mgnt," finished Miss Wickham, first strect. He traced the sound untll|smilingly. “Or perhaps you meant to he stumbled across the unconscious | gay light operat” ainger!—Brooktyn!—where did you ever form of the girl. Without waiting for! 7 was more than willing to let the get that tdea? I Mid sing for six weeks man gathered in @ church in Allegheny.’ ee emntnulane an Sathere; | Conversation take its course, and, with Sa vou're from Pennaytvants z. rie MSlexander avenue station, ® woman's quick intuition, Miss Wick- | “Yes—Beaver. ‘so not at all Ike A detective then went back and ar-| am seemed -to understand my awit Brooklyn; {t's more We Pitteburgh. Did wested Walter Johnson, the keeper of Ward ailence. you ever hear of Pittsburgh? I sang | the Junch wagon, who was alone when| YEg, IT’S HER FIRST APPEAR- X s* | Ge detective arrived. Upon informa- Ne e tion given by him the police picked up ICE IN TIGHT: ‘Wiliam aapery eles: Litagay oo bis she eaid, pursuing the pleasant —_———s— | No. ‘oncom’ aven' subject, “this 1o q feel ost oneeees ini tus Meecrissnie | Pact ticcens mie: may ther ere MOCK BATTLE FOR RED CROSS} t this morning before Magistrate] 1, 4 poy part I've ever played was| that he would feel highly flattered. For|a. oo of wursee Led by Society ~AMEUEPLY. | see questioning ‘he lunch |Oftrud one night at the Metropolitan.|® lght opera composer to write muso -_ swagon man was released, but Englert You know ‘Lohengrin’t” that could exhaust # great opera singer Women Take Part in Drill. Mean eld under $2,000 bail on a charge| “But 1 didn't know Ortrud was) Wes @ rare achievement, Ati, tm fome|) wasHINGTON, May 11.—Deed and @f criminal assault for further exam: | ever’— amazement, I repeated, “The most G!M@-| aang istered the park around Wash- feation Monday. “Nor did I until that night," she| cult role you've ever had?” ington'’s Monument this afternoon. sereenoninre aa laughingly interrupted. “But on this] “tes,” reiterated Miss Wickham. “Fou and blooddhed made @ gory SHOOTS WIFE ANO HOLDS particular occasion Ortrud just missed| #€%" she explained, “you can't et down | Sectacio like « battlefield. But tt was being @ boy, This is how it happened:| im tights. That's the worst/of tt! Ilan make belleve’—the drille of teams PURSUING MOB AT BAY.| Ay usun, 1 was wearing ‘kniokers,’ but| Reve to stand all the time But I'm| Stinging the Intemational Red Cros , My maid forgot the skirt that should yned A sein ae for peg conference Men playing dead and Mrs While | have come next, and as the mantle that Mttie wounded made @ most realistic epecta- Perfor» Woursied ordinarily covers a multitude of clothes} Propping myeif up in tt when I'm not! ow, and the “dead end dying” en- YOne Man of Group She Was wa Dressed as a Boy for the First Time—And Charles Charters Brings Suit} Thomas Verdoh, Whose Kind- | SHE’S SEEKING DIVORCE 1} SEVEN MEN BEAT Very Latest Novelty in Tights; siOngonrm NE EVE KO Is EKA STUDENT OF CRIME Sleuths Say They Found Loot and ‘Library of 1,000 Vol- ness Has Won Third Avenue, umes in His Home. OF WIFE ASKED BY | “PHILANTHROPIST,” SCTENGE HEALER} ILL IN HOSPITAL Against Thomas L. L. Tem- ple of Texas for Alienation, Has Spinal Meningitis. Lillian Young Charters, Reader in Eddy Cult Church, Says Husband Was Cruel. 3 i TRENTON, N. J., May t1.—Okeries Chartera, Ohrietian ictenoe healer, i i g: HH F E whose family trouble: have deen in ro nae on oe the courts for the inet few weeks, has streete, | Sbrary ctime, more then one thou- foRowed up his Gret ‘ictory, when bis won for wife wes refused alimony pending her the store pete homage Aedlpp Givorce suit, by bringing suit for 610, — o_aere 000 against Thomas L. L, Temple, «| Three weeks ago Thomas was ‘Third | Holmen, oa oan miltionatre Texan, for alleged attene-| "venue end Forty-second stree tion of the affections of Charters he was accosted by a man and wi wife, ‘The new complaint, filed late| Who described thomscives as Mise yesterday, @14 mot become public until |%0n and Homer Croy, mbere to-day, Adventure Club tn No. L a Charters and hte wife, Litttan Young| “Could you do me « tavor—thet Chasters, are both Christian Science |@ little money were involved!” seked honlers. Mra, Charters ie second reader of the Fitth Oburoh of Christ (@ctentist). Oharters's name hes not been im the Journal, the oficial organ the Church, «ince names S & divorce Pong ta ag Col | the case; that he had lost tis Puree George Wilder of England. and thet he did not have even carefai Temple, the defendant in the altenation | With WhHsh to wet fo she hay Tome wult, @ & widower with two daughters “That’e all right, wae decane and @ eon. He and his family visited Artie icherif | into man's the Chart. ‘complati band. “ ‘ene atares preerty eda a vitieasee, ‘The man and woman boarded @ down- Jersey City; Texarkana, Tex., and other | *°7" © ‘The next day they called et places euoceeded in “changing ihe Ws the Emright home. They found the toward the busbana vy various arte, vent due and Bittle food in the kitchen. tutvances, “I am going to pay back a bean I owe your son,” said the man, laying several bills in the mother’s inp, Late had ‘le posit b “Thomas neevr ™ ee Theeep it" oaid the maa. “Tv incledes Peay York in 1908 and ieter ¢o Patisade, They remained there until January of inet] TEN-YEAR-OLDS MISSING. year when, ft la charged by Charcere COMMODORE SAILS Ire wite deserted him. On the contrary, |Mother of One Relieves They Are irs, Charters eaye ahe waa dri by cruclty and that eheret ie bas Seeking Work on Farm. band {s guilty of desertion. ‘The police were asked to-day to send had @ conversation during which he| *# ‘Wednesday morning. They and thereupon, he continues, she de- agein, withdrawn, Her suit for divorce is bow pending. —_—_. $1,000,000 to Promote Farmi; not go in. wee the mmodore off. tifle farming, as planned by the counci!| tall, and wore gold-xmmed glasses. | showered with questions nounced to-dey that he would ‘give| coat. The other boy Mved with rela-| funny little belle meant. Removing Belongings From [was slit up the side, you can imagine] om the stage.” foyed it, a0 weM ea en immense andi- Home, She Was Leaving. the result, As I came on with tho| 4 ich contraito laegh ie good tohear | ince comprising the Diplomatic and Pterfer of No, 18 Linden |D&ses holdffig up the hem of the robe —and Mise Wicthem laughs as well 88|Congresrional compe and ali officiel T happened to glance down and see my| She sings. We @renue, Minspeth, shot and serionely | sown ‘knickers’ appearing on the scene | “But 2'll probably feo! leas tired when | Society women, beaded br ° ‘wounded hie wife, Mary, in Ir home| ‘Um Himmel’s wilien, last faiten!” 1 1 get weed to tights,” she went on, “In marion Ofver, on pA Aaviat- to-day when the latter returned efter | cs5oq to the girle behind me, and thank | sTO4 operu. of course, there is a great | Are, & poet Bay Hy went} Ght.weske absence to remove er heaven! they d!@ let it fall before the | ¢®! of standing around to be Gone on| ho.) 104 rived teams of Red Cross fongings permanently. At the Germen | syajence could see the way I had dressed | the stage In thot, you often have time | narges. Hospital it was found that the Bullet | ine part, It was lucky thing for me,| enough to write @ letter or plan &/ Explosion of en ertifioiel ooat mine which hed struck Mre. Pfenfer over! onan, that I spoke to,the girle in| house while you're over in @ corner|was another epectacular feature of the Qe lett eye, had not penetrated the | German." waiting for your turn to sing. Light|dritis, A coal mine relief car was used, @hull and that she would recover. ‘Miss Wickham didn’t meation the] Pe seems @ much more vitel thing, with all first aid appliances for mint “The man who @id the shooting !s At!.,\ginge she used in epeaking to her| Fer one thing, you can see the faces of % fargo. ‘Threatening a crowd of noigi-| maid afterwand. he proceeded to tell| the sudicnce, and it comes home to you Bors who tited to pursue, and holdingy now she felt in the more stmple costume | Mat you're doing something. This te them at tay with « revotver, he boarded | or Aian-a-Dale. M°| g distinotive sort of thing. I don’t mean Pao © trolley car bound for Brooklyn. Al «Ag frat,” she confessed, “tt seemed—| that Tm not golng to be true to my tn, MoCoskry Butt safle, qeneral alarm hae been sent out for}.,_or—very strange to me. I decked grand se am bore 4 Nght at the New York “ah to approach that last-act costume by] SPOT ity coneidered Srand| cononal Guard, @ distant relation of Gix weeks ago Mre Pferfer left her easy stages. You may have noticed opera age jes an advantage, bald President Taft's fougband with her Afteen-year-old son, especially with contraltos—poor things! | Maier Archibald Butt, Secon, by another marriage, and went | (at in the first aot Tam the only one|/ TO": rity they are ‘promising, and | site Who test hie life on the ‘Titanto, Sovthe home of her parents in Jersey |Who wears boots, T had to make al 1% “tli ime hope of getting to the | mulled for his anmuad trip to Europe on City. When she returned to Maspeth | special plea for those gray boots, Then, | 1 ti ‘Atter forty th he! he Philadetphia of the American Line ee x forty they are ‘too | aay, Gen. Butt recalled his own ex- Ghehouse, Upon her refoaal to @o he| boots for all of us, so that wasn't so| 14,’ and they have no hope of getting | Kerience on the Ville de Havre, which Ro-day her husband ordered her from|in the aécond act there were brown anywhere. And, of course,” she added ‘after @ collision tm 1872, when 228 eae rarcivey end whet her a 00 SA Sle oer prepared myecit| with another priceless laugh, “we don't mans were lost, and he was one of tbe ‘WAR ON INTERBOROUGH But I've not had an nay time of tt by like money; we never did Uke money, | twenty-seven paved. means. In t, ie most SUBWAY PLAN REOPENED. | ‘imcuit role i've ever had. After the ff | two performances on Wednesday I W (Aldermanic President Mitchel Again] neariy ee aa Lots of Soft, avy, F lu y " I was hinking eginald le oven In- Harness, Will Protest Of- | would be pleased to know this; indeed, Hair and No More Dandruff. ficially and as Citizen. Chairman Willeox of the Publtc Ser- ; ‘ wice Commission returned to his desk | At Fountains & Elsewhere! Get a 25-cent bottle of Dan-|slling hair, Millions of men and Nye gg ie a PLA toed ‘ Y . women tsé Knowlton's Danderine and | having informed himself of the atti Ask for * derine and just try this— She, sever have d Snare _itehy scalp B ' h 4: hee ee fl ’ stops falling hair at once _| keeps the scalp clean and healthy and terday, announced that the Commission \ ey makes the hair grow heavy, long and | Board con: | Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy | beautiful. pears mae; mae Boers of Raeraete oon: Tho Original and Genuine | bair is’ mute evidence of a neglected] Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton’s| 9 Wile Ser vige Comsat | scalp; of dandruff-—that awful scurf.|Danderine from any drug store or sion's office at 10.80 4. Mt. Monday, | A AL TE DD MELA) there is nothing 20, destructive to} toilet counter, and after the first ap- At this meetin, ‘as said, Prest- | the hai dandruff. It robs the hair tion you will say it was the best dent Mitchel, who has returned sicctly| The Food-drink for All Ages. | of its lustre, i h ent you ever made, Your hair 4mproved in health, will make a direct ‘tang, | life: eventually i will immediately take on that life, appeal for the rejection of the Int . el) 9 ness and itching of the lustre aod luxuriance which is eo SOE err diane to ceaih et p 0 if not remedied, causes beautiful. It become wavy and ms onal appeal 8 the public eon au. .. | to shrink, loosen and die—then the Bally and td the sppeerenee of port at.nectings in roughou' ty + < Al id but Sey ul ntee'the capers ot comp: | @ geet, bench propered las, teats: will sure | eas tid te elie fen gine tours’ sie Br re sacle the aia | gaa ‘aati eee i din tebing| of Hass dovay haircare balengred Bot to be entirely je to the Inter. ppet ing ine, downy hair—ae ow- ‘Permush’s. offer. i | Mot ln Any Milk Treet will coase and there wili be n0 more] ing all over the scalp. HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS BETTER _ HEALTH : q bs | nh By i) The first step toward poor health is a weak stomach. From this arises afl such ills as Heartburn, Bloating, Vomiting, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Cos« tiveness, Headache, Bitlousness and Malaria! Disorders. Therefore—be wise In time and get @ bottle of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. A few doses at the first sign of stomach weakness will save much suffering lateron. Thousands know this to be true. We urge a trial today—AN Druggists and Dealers. EE i ee eee When Henry Helfing wes eretgued tn 7 arrested Antonio, Tex. in 189% They went to New| interest on the loa! Fourth avenue police station, —_———— wad oe A CARGO OF 275 They're From Wadleigh High. Charters mmintains that four out a general alarm for two ten-year | School and Bench Warmers Wake atter last Christmas he and his iye|old toys who have been missing siace Up When They Embark. are) two hundred and seventy-five girls told her that abe was not the same | Tearee Cordoss of No. 6 Sith awenue! trom Wadleigh High School. started since she had returned from Texas, He| 824 Joseph Haskell of No. 0 Stuth|o@ trom che Battery on an outing this declared that her affection had changea | Venue. Brooktya. morning in the steamer Cominodore to Both boys attended Patite Schoot No. | aati around Manhattan eed take run clared that ahe would never 39, at Sixth avenue and Eighth street, | 4 dy Hook aud Staten Island. - talk to nim | tia early Wednesday morning lett thelr | ““Raaigese was gumpended on the Bat- Charters and his wife then separated | respective homes to go to thetr lessons. | tory while the girls embarked. Th and he began a suit against hia wite, | 72° last time they were seon, as far as| bench wermers, who wouldn't ral harging desert! their relatives can ascertain, was about} themselves on their elbow: ‘ Hon. This was later! s orctock that morning. They wore to-| whole fleet of Lusitanias steam into setber 1m front of the school. Subse. | Pottgn shouted instructions end ferry tf re ieee evoeney a a oe passengers missed a boat in order to CHICAGO, May 11—To promote Young Cordosa was 4 feet 2 inches! ‘Tne skipper of the Commodore was of grain exhanges, Julius Rosenwald, | When he left home he had on ® cordu- | Mey wanted to know what he wes do- president of Beara, Roebuck & Co., an.| roy coat, blue trousers and @ gray over-|ing with that wheel and what those $1,000,000, Of thie fund °100,000 is to be| tives and formerly worked on « farm|rings meant Coffee and rolla and one made evailable at once, and the gemain- | near Orange, N. J. The Cordosa boy’s| was ham and eggs for the crew. It der when it demonstrated that the| mother deliev two boys ran away ined to be & mighty instructive pian is @ succes. to work during the summer on @ farm. oe the etrle, eps fsb, ed | Hi WITH PEACHES: ‘by the girls. ‘He anid two mI GAVE SISTER HER JEWELS, THEN PLUNGED TO DEA Mrs. Katz Narrowly Misses Painier in Fall Into Grand P Street. Gam Cohen, a painter, was working on his scaffold in front of the apartment, buiting at No. 460 Grand street at 'cloc this morning when flash of white before his eyes, a bit cloth whipped his face ‘thud on the sidewalk below. Katz, an attractive youns the mother of two children, on the third floor of the fun to the roof in her Juarped to death, She wae Frank Katz, a prosperous tacturer. Mra, Minnie Schuman, her sister, after the tragedy that all that a women could cently she had been a lenting insomnia which Nerves to the breaking point. MITCHELL THE TAILOR: FROM BOSTON * “Ta ST. AND ROADWAY SToPt Don’t rob yourself! ‘ Don't lose the best laugh ef the \