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—Evenine © cclurte HOME PAGE Monday, December 23, 1918) A Dozen Roads to Success For the Girl Who Works | By Charlotte Wharton Ayers Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) NO. 5. THE STAGE. to put too slight an emphasis on the arduous work required to rise from the ranks to stardom. scure girl on the stage who has waked in the morning to find herself famous and perhaps envys her her good fortune without stopping to realize that her op- portunity came because she had the grit to keep plod- ding along through a heart-breaking period of dis- appointment after disappointment, and waiting for the chance that never seemed to come. I asked Mr. Harris of the Cohan and Harris com. bination, to give me some rules for the stage struck girl to follow if she would have success in the profes. A CTING always looks 80 easy from the front that one is tempted | One hears occasionally of eome ob | sion. He smiled; «© you trom it.' I don't mean to imply that success on the stage is merely @ matter of untrained fitness or luck or any of those unstable qualities, be- Gamse it does require a lot of hard work the same as in any other pro- fesvion, only it is @ different kind of hard work. “To start with, a girl must have temperament and imagination in or- der to make the character real she interprets. Those are natural quall- ficattons—not acquired. If she has temperament, that means that she will be up in the air one minute and } down in the depths the next. And to the girl of that type, the constant disappointments aro really heart- breaking. But the girl who will live through all the preliminary agonies and finally land on her féet, has got te be game clear through. By the word game, I mean game in the sense [ that @ boxer will take his punish- 1 ment time end time again and stil! come back for more, Groggy and with both eyes closed perhaps—but grit to the backbone. Those are the qualities that will win in the theatri- cal field—regardiess of the popular ) impression that nothing else counts quite eo much as beauty on the stage.” 5 I ventured to say that I too had had ) the tmpression that beauty was the open sesame for the Thespian aspi- rant. Mr, Harris pooh-poohed that theory, “Personality I prefer the rather homely girl with charm and tempera. ment,” he said. “Given certain ob- jectives she will go further and prove & better investment for her manager “Acting {s @ good deal like flirting,” he said. you can’t do it, no one can teach you how. than a dozen show girle who are 60 busy letting their beauty do the work for them that they neglect other qualifications. Nine times out of ten | ) & beautiful girl will be almost ab- normally lazy, and will simply be not equal to the demands our profession ] makes on her time and strength and brains—if she has any. | “But the girl who has no great amount of good looks to depend on will work like a beaver to develop her talents in every way she can, with the result that she will become & good actress and have a means of| tivetthood to depend upon until sho| ~ is too olf to appear on the stage. Of; © course a girl with beauty has a cer- é | * tain place tn the rdnks as a show 1 a@irl and to wear beautiful clothes and | \ ** draw a certain amount of patronage trom those who would rather look at +7 @ Pretty woman than to listen to the greatest actress in the world. But| she has her Mmitations, and at the| © first epproach of age even that ca- “+ pacity has gone and she has nothing loft to take its place, unless she has) he that exceedingly rare combination, we teauty and brains too, ~~ "Getting back to the practical side wot the thing,” he continued, “A girl «must have experience before she can) a@et @nywhere on the stage. | swe “And to get that training she must | o&bde willing to take the groundwork ~~ of drudgery as chorus girl or extra anything that will give her an op- portunity to get out on the stage where she will have a chance to get » weed to the sound of her own voice yand learn to forget that she has such ‘That ex- H things as hands and feet. ~ America’s First Humorist. , HB first author of humorous } * works that were distinctly i! American was Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton, who was born ean Windeor, Nova Scotia, 122 years ago, He was distinguished as a bar- ly erister, legislator and jurist in Nova b Scotia, and the latter part*of his lite sowas spent in England, where he was elected to the House of Commons, weing the first British-American so ‘ “honored. His fame as a humorist rests prin- eelpally on the creation of the char- acter of “Sam Slick.” He was about forty when he began contributing an- onymously to a local paper a series of letters depicting the peculiarities of the genuine Yankee, These sketches, abounding in satirical humor, were collected in book form under the title of “The Clockmaker, or Sayings and Doings of Samuel! Slick of Slickville,”* The book enjoyed a large sale and ‘| great popularity all over the United States as well as in the British pro- vinees and England, and were fol- lowed by a second and third series, “The Attache, or Sam Slick in Eng- “land,” added to Judge Haliburton’s fame as a humorist, and other works, voineluding “Nature and Human Ni ture” and “The Old Judge, or Life in a Coldpy,” were also well received, . Judge vi iburton died in 1866, ' “a If you can—nobody can keep Perience will also accustom her to the audience ‘out front’ The best Possible training for @ beginner is to get into a good stock company and dig at it faithfully and conscien- tiously until the opportunity comes.” 1 asked him to give me in one or two short words what was the most essential thing @ girl required to start with, “Tcan do better than that,” he aid. “T can give it to you in two letters. We call it ‘IT. If you've got ‘IT’ you're all right and on ‘the road to success. If you haven't got ‘IT,’ you might as well quit. I don’t know anything that will take the Place of ‘IT’ either,” he concluded. “The story of how Fay Bainter be- came a star will illustrate the points I have made better than anything else, She worked for years in stock and on the road, trying by every means in her power to get some manager to give her a chance on Broadway. But none of the New York managers would take a chance, She was what wo called a “trouper." Always ready at a moment's notice, for any part a manager would sive her. Well versed in the rudiments, go that @ manager could always depend upon having her make good tn anything he gave her. Capable and efficient and dependable. Then one day we saw her in @ part that she handled with great effectiveness and decided to giver her a chance in Arms and the Girl. The rest you know. She made geod. She is the game kind I'm Speaking about. «She plodded along day after day, doing uncongenial parts, waiting patiently for her chance. When it came shoe was ready fer it. Which proves my theory that it is the game ones w! time.” bo win But Gains the Dunsany Parts With a The Day of Rest RTA Roh AND enough for the atreet Nu eE ‘The winter frock ts SIC .YOU jeovered by @ top coat when in tho CAN'T rs | FROM The Poot ; GET Sonepopy ‘To BAIL Ne ( Diamond, Friendship of Some of the Gang (Copyright by Georve aura Ht Soe I. Doran Compan; SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. called tn to Locate th Ls wv) ~ len pearls of Miss 11 wr) ate AU Moats ee dome ‘issatiatied That) «detective, has. Dean’ amiplored and, ives, Minder some ceyptograme, a) yo ® part in Miss Hamerton's company and. throvah the evidence. of Quarles expla ne ean mnRtIPE, Pearls 'in Holand Quarters fate ted with the Of the tones The, Nas, eft $40,000 by an ‘unknown ‘that be bouxht the pearls wit nt him and he tates Ttence, leeds Enderby to Dalleve that a gang ‘et wel there lnrerees we him ond | case to Alfred Mount, wuo to hare anything to-do with It Teturns incognito and “ebisine: work tie Delp hiin find the thieves. a8 for Londou, Enderby. "A report comes from fam siting abop, from where he sends his reports 1d Whitiieney, “une ‘Black shee reports from his operatives. * ae a ae ti fay arty wash etan a, pecae Sar. ely CHAPTER X11. (Continued) REPORT OF §, F. (SADIE FARRELL). AST evening at 6.15 operative S. C. came into the office with- out instructions, He had been told like the others to mail in his roperts, and keep in touch with Mr, Keenan by telephone, The excuse he gave was that the man he was trailing had led him around so fast And so far that it had used up all his money, I had Mr, Keenan give him some money and call him down, Un- fortunately, it appears to-day that his disobedience has had very unfortu- nate results, This morning I heard loud talking in the front office. Mr, Keenan ex- plained later that a queer old man had come in, and had told a long rambling story’ about being pe cuted. This afternoon shortly before 5 I heard the old man’s voice again tn the outer office, Mr. nan was out and I could r by Miss Reilly's voice that she was very much fright- ened, So I went to her assistance. T saw a bent, old man in shabby black, with wild, straggly hair, broken teeth and red-rimmed eyes. I asked him what he wanted, and he calmed right down. His speech waa unintelligible as if he had some of those tablets in his mouth that ac- tors use to make their voices thick, He made no more trouble, He bowed and smirked and backed out of the door, The last thing I heard was a silly kind of laugh. By this time 1 was full of suspi- cions, He had quieted down much too ‘quickly. Besides, there was something familiar about the old man, I had Miss Reilly inquire of the elevator boys, They wald the old man had been in three times, Last evening as well as twice to-day, Last night he came up in tho elevator with operative 8, C, ‘To-day, I be- lieve, he hung around downstairs un- Ul_he saw Mr, Keenan go out. 8. C, called up about this time to ort that Milbourne had not left Mis boardi house all day, Mr. Keenan q' ed the operative over the phone at my prompting and we discovered that 8, C. had no proot that Milbourne was in the house. We learned that 8, C. had lost Milbourne about 3.80 yesterday among the seve- ral entrances to a department store. He had merely supposed thet he had one home later, I then ventured to call up MU- bourne's boarding house. If he had been there I would of course have lost the connection but he was not. His landlady told me that he had telephoned her yesterday afternoon that he had been called out of town, and not to expect him home until to- night, Stnce talking to this woman I have received D. B.'# report from inside the house confirming what she told me, Do you remember when Milbourne first joined Miss Hamerton's comp. iy he played the part of the old forger, afterward given to Richards? The management thought Milbourne's conception was too realistic but Mil- baurne himself was childishly proud of his makeup in that part, Well, that was the same old man—wrinkles, scraggly hair, mean smile and all, T same cloth It is easy to figure out now what happened, After giving the operative the slip in the department store Mil- bourne went to some friend's room or thieves’ hangout and disguised him- self, He then returned to the nelgh- borhood of the boarding house on 49th Street and watched the watch- ers th When 8. C. was relieved by + at 5 Milbourne followed S.C. into the offce, He was sinart enough to see on hig first visit to-day that Mr, Keenan was not the real head of the office and so he bothered us until I betrayed myself, Hence the laugh when he went out. I have replaced 8, C, with the new man, +. J who came so well recom- what passes for good-humored, with little pig eyes lost in fat, This alleged diamond broker kept me waiting a while, As soon as he took the diamond in his harid I eaw that he knew nothing about stones. mended, I have put S, C. at clerical He didn't even have @ glass to ex- work. Shall I discharge him alto- amine it. Wvidently the word had gether? . been passed to him that a wae on right. But if he knew nothing about REPORT OF J. M. are diamonds he was experienced in hu- manity. He put me through a srueliing cross-examination which I pported asx best I could. My deli- ate problem was to lead him to sus- On Saturday afternoon after work according to your instructions I took one of the unset diamonds with which T am provided to M-——~a pAWnBhOP pect ¢ ws crock, without lettin, at No, — Third Avenue. I was very him think I was a fool. To this en glad to have the wecond uct of the ytianorated” the. story of my. old SOSR, ORe rete iar itee, wife's ement ring. He listened you know, 18a inrge and To)" with q leer in fila little yea, perous three-ball establishment {0 it With a leer naa ee eod ond Fifty-Seventh Street. The pro- ‘ajow! But you needn't take all prietor is a youngish man, a typical that trots ‘with me!” pawnbroker, with eyes as hard and voy ee non a price which was BEET ie Sie ania of mie about a quarter of the stone's value, He of- ‘a. No dowbt he would have had more fered to lend me money on my dia- \ 9 : espect for me if I had held on! mond, but declined to purchase, Ie [pert [or we et of an enor= demanded to know how it had come into my possession. It was our last bit of property, I said, the stone out of my wife's engagement ring The hard eyes gave no sign one way or another. One could hardly expect @ pawnbroker to be moved by @ hard luck story. He told me to come back on Monday at noon and he would sce what he could do for me. I hastened up there as soon as we were released for the lunch hour day. There were two men loitering in the store. M—— himself ignored me for the moment and this precious pair gave me the “once over” as they SAY. o¢ I could feel their eyes boring into me “Good!” he said Ley me 000 like gimlets, However, it is possible tham. Even if you don't want to to be too sharp to be discerning. They jet mo have them, I'll appraise them were deceived, A scarcely perceptible for you so you won't get cheated mous roll of greasy bills, I was sorry to see the stone go. It waa a good one, nearly two carats, It was not safe of course to mark it in any visible way but I have had this and the other decoy diamonds carefully described and photographed, no that we will have no difficulty in identifying them later, As I was about to leave he shook my hand in friendly fashion, and still with that indescribable | leer, expressed a hope that we mtght do further business together. I mumbled something about @ pair rings, wign passed between them and (he Come to me. I'm looking for a bet- pawnbroker, and the, latter suddenly ter office, so you'll find me gone from became aware of the existence of hs here. What's your address? I'll let shabby customer, Ho gave me an ad- dress nearby. I inclone the card. T went there at once, risking a call down from the foreman if 1 was late get- ting back to the shop It was @ room on the second fi of a typical Third Avenue house, shop below, furnished rooms above and the you hear from me. I declined to give It, “Cautious, eh?" he laughed uproar fously. “You needn't mind me! M: (the pawnbroker) will tell you where you can find me.’ I got back to my*work just in time to avoid a fine, elevated road pounding by the wit Th dows. Behind the desk sat a fat man rolling @ cigar between his thick lips REPORT OF J. M. NO. 6. and trying to look as if he were not June 18th expecting me. His face was red and I suspected that I might be trailed THE ISLAND OF INTRIGUE By Isabel Ostrander The Elusive, Fascinating Mystery Story of an Oil King's Daughter and Wny She Goes to an iIsiand in the Atlantic BEGINS NEXT MONDAY ON THIS PAGE By Maurice Ketten Daily” Magazine Original Fashion Designs For The Evening World's Home Dressmakers | By Mildred Lodewick dresa as it Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Hvening World) | | I has been pop- The Winter Frock. jularly kno wo * through the spring and fall seasons suft- fers no waning of popularity through the winter, Its chai acter, however, is HE one-piece slightly changed, for the restraint in line and effect that made the spring and fall frocks conservative | street, and ‘therefore | may indulge in more | individual colors, |atyles and fabrics. Simplicity, however, is the dominant foa- ture, though richness of effect is always achloved, Sometimes it may be credited qi to the fabric, some- | tim to elegant em- | proidery, or some- times to an unusual | combination of col- ors or fabrics, A beautiful duvetyn or heavy beaver | satin would be de- | lightful for the in- | terpretation of my | design to-day. Any desired color is sult- able, a very modish one being an olive drab, Dark blue is also beginning its drive, while dark red and beige are good also, ‘The distino- tive feature of this frock is the line of French button- holes bound with braid, which mark the centre front line, and offer a most attractive place for little cloth cov- ered balls to drop through. A wide panel covers the front of the bodice | and continues down the skirt, turning near the bottom to form a wide band, around the aides and back, into which) OLICE the upper portion of ekirt is) | slightly gathered, Tho sleeves are) a day or two Sadie, seeing that Miss / Hamerton could be left alone, woud | in fact be better alone, returned, and | took up her work on the case as hus been seon, Later, that is about the Ist of June, Miss Hamerton was 80 fur recovered as to be able to go to Southampton and open her cottage | for the season, Now, toward the end of the month I learned that she had | come to town for a few daya to talk | over next season's plans with her manager. One day as I was returning to the office after lunch | met her strolling up the avenue with Mount, I watched her coming for half @ block before she saw me, She seemed well; she from the alleged diamond broker's office back to my work, and I hoped that I might be, Evidently I was yesterday. On my way to my luncheon place on Thirty-fourth Street { ran into my fat friend. He came towards me with his coat- taila flying. He has very large feet which slap the pavement resounding- ly. His knees give a little which furnishes an undulatory motion, a roll to his walk. He hailed mo blithely, and im- mediately announced that he was looking for a bite to eat, Somewhat sullenly, for I did not wish to ap- Pear too glad to see him, 1 confessed that I was on the same errand, and we turned into the dairy restaurant had a good color, and her face was | together, Nothing was said, how vivacious—more ‘vivacious than it over, about his business oF mine used to be, @ little too vivacio I stuck to my lately-arrived imml- “sie walked through the crowd with | grant story, and he sympathized with the beautiful unconsoiousness that ty lonesomeness in a atrange land. Hs was part of her training, Alfred was a bachelor he said, and oftenlone- Mount, who was no child in the some himself. ‘This line led presently to an invitation for mo to join him last night for a little sociability at the Turtlo Bay Cafe on Lexington Avenue, I accepted it I am sure by his eager- noas to cultivate my acquaintance that he knows I work in Dunsany’s. 1 met him at & o'clock and we se- cured @ little table to ourselves in a sort of alcove. ‘The Turtle Bay is just one of the usual @aloons, mahogany, plate glass und electric lights. world, could not quite hide his pride at being seen with her, He, too, Was gorgeously arrayed, @ little too well dressed for @ man of his age. I raised my hat, and was for kee, Ing on, but she stopped short. “Are you going to pass me by?” she cried. Mount’s greeting was affable and chilly—like winter sunshine, 1 fell into step beside them. “Why haven't you been to see met” My fat friend was liberally hosptt- «Why didn't =e let me know you able. 1 allowed my suspicious sullen were in town?" I countered, manner to be charmed away by de- “I didn't like to bother one so grees, busy.” she said, “Lite 19 a bank,” he said, “that's got “sow is business, Enderby?" to be busted into if a man wants to Mount asked in a@ faintly sneering enjoy any of the good thin| IT am to call him Goorge Pi We have a date to meet at the Turtle Bay again to-morrow night. 1 hinted that I might have another diamond or two. tone. I said calmly, “Everybody rs to be behaving themselves,” hi" said he. “What stories he could tell us tf he | effect of such mater- would!” Miss Hamerton said admir- I was glad to hear from you that this ingly. man 18 undoubtedly one of the gang. T amiled, as I suppose was expected JM. of me. tle did she suspect that the Spay only case I had was hers CHAPTER XIV. We walked on chatting idly. pep $ At 42d Street they were turning | DON'T want to give you too west and, excusing mysif early on much of the operatives’ reports, the ploa of business, I went direct to and, Here ahead of my 8 I find I am a little So I will go on with my story I t told have not tol in the ordinary way, After the catastrophe, it will be bie Pines, OoPeu DANN remembered, Miss Hamerton and Sa- as in everything else, he was die had gone into the country to a ee IP pyr) 4 n extremist, and he had cut himself off absolutely from hiv former life Now, he had sold everything he Possessed, and with the proceeds had pensioned off his old servant with an annuity. The mysterious legacy which had counted so against him, he had | turned over to me with instructions to use it in bringing the thieves of Irma's pearls to Justice, IT couldn't very well refuse the money without confessing that Walter Dunsany was little retreat I chose for them. After not even Sadie, was to know of the relations between Mr, Dunaany and me, » Besides, if I hadn't taken It, he would have done something more foolish with it, So I was holding it in trust t (To Be Continued.) A backing me, and no one in the world, | been working for you,” he queried, in« UNUSUAL COSTUME FOR AFTERNOONS AND TEA AFFAIRS. unusual, with an opening at the el- bow which emerges into @ seam Up the back, marked by a braid binding. A wide sash which makes the front’ and bi panels of the waist to blouse @ little, tes in a bow on the left hip, while dropping a little low on the right. Fashion Baitor, The Bvening World: Belng a reader of your fashions, I am asking some personal advice as to a auitabdle style for an evening dress. [ am forty years of age, large” bust, rather high: 5 fer 5 inches © tail, weigh 153 pounds. 1 “have gray hair, good color, dark complexion, dark eyes. MRS. M. J. Dull rose-red vel- vet would be pretty, Same color net sleeves, Same color ribbom or self-cord binding scal- lops, Ribbon or stiver Drocade band on bod- fee, Brown fur straps, Fashion Biter, Evening World I would like a sug- gestion on how to combine two colors of chiffon and satin for @ dress, I think the jals is dressy and would be pretty per haps in tan and brick red. Am twenty-five years of age, 5 feet 3 inches tall; bust 34, hips 37, Thanking you, MISS. C. R. Tan or gray satin, red Georgette. Ted chenille or floss em- broidery. I have 2% yards of rose faille silk, which I would like to make into an evening dress, also using four yards of silver lace 7 inches wide, The empire ¢! fects always look best on me, if they are still stylish, Ama 22 years of age. MISS O, P, H Loop in the beck gore of your shert into @ diagonal tunic effect, and open the front gore to show @ panel of silver lace, A corded flower ef- fect of rose silk joins the shoulder drapery of lace in front, and silver ribbon en- twines the waist line, WORKING FOUR HOURS, VISITOR to the large busines office was being shown round, “How long has that clerk dicating one, “About four hours,” replied the “I seem to remember ” an- swered the visitor. “T thought be had been here r than “So he hall * here for months." —Ij w tad Pe i ne é