The evening world. Newspaper, May 8, 1920, Page 11

ATURDAY, MAY 8,, 1920 Original Stage Vamp Gone; ‘Won Kings and Princes; ~~ Given a Peck of Pearls Born, Hortense Schneider, She Became Known as “La Belle Helene” and Won Fame as Can-Can Artiste. i hea By Marguerite Dean. tie Pe a. tote, iy the ‘Pree, Pubtiting Co, (The New York Bening World.) the déath, just announced, of Hortense Schneider, “La Belle Helene,” “La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein"—as she was affec- Uoaately named for her creation of two roles in Offenbach’s operas, «way tack in the days of the Second Empire—passes a suger-siren whose love affairs with royalty and nobility were the talk of Burope and who was said te have “kicked herseif into the and greatest can-caniste. aforation of male Paris," as the first Hortense Schneider, a 100 per cent. “vamp” more than half a century before the word came into vogue, died at the age of eigbty-wo. She was born'In Bordeaux, went on the stage at fifteen, but it was in 1864 when ohe was a blonde beauty of twenty-six, that she ruled as the uncrowned ayeen in the gay Paris of Napoteon {1L' He himself was mad over ber and wave her, in her own words, “a peck of Jewels.” She began her Parisian career m one of the little summer theatres of the Champs Elysees, But her real ddbut was at the Comic Theatre in the title role of the Princgss in Of- fenbuch’s “La Belle Helewe” From tie contemporary dewortption ef her appearance, one gathers she would have made the same sort of hit denc- ing the “shimmy” to @ Broadway theatre of to-day. Princes and Dukes were at her feet—and paid royally for the privi- lewe of being there. When she wan Starring tn another Otrenbuch opera, “La Grande Ducheswe de Gervistetn,” Cear Alexanier [L of Russia, tele- sraphed ahead to have 4 box re- served at her theatre and begged ner to. eup with him after the perform- ance, Napoleon and the Empress Bugenié were virtually smubbed by , him, for the muke of “La Grande Ducheswe,” since he begyed vf from & state dinner the French calers had ermnged at the piace to rush tr Hortense. Nor was he the ouly vistting reyulty who gald greater humage tothe qaven af the opera Douffe than to the Enapress uf the ¥rench. ‘Among fHorteme’s eanitrere wus owe wf the most fumous Loveluces of the duy, the Duke de Grammot Cader- vuse, She nearly ruined him, then teat him 12,000 francs, ttimating that she expected t by rumiembered im his will--his heatth tad-Deenoun- ~ Ing thie title _—— dertrined by his excewes, “Frit his lawyer she exacted a receipt in which » cipher bad oven added to the 12,- 000 franca, making !t 120,000. She cot the money, after the Duke's death. ° fhe was ould to Rave recetved gen- ons “hush money” from the Duke de ‘Lynes and the Duke de Talley- wand, and whe had a series of hectic @dventures with the Prince de Demi- dof. ‘After ner success in the role, she called herself “La Grande Duch- ease de Geroistein.” and by floarish- once won the royal right to drive into the Champ de ‘Mars when the great international exhfbitien was held there in 1867. Unti the mall ef the Second Em- tre @e could 4 any theatre in What One Critic Thought of Her: “Her voloe wasn't much nor her beauty @ magnet, but she threw inte the fascivious undulations of the can-can @ verve, a meaning, an indescribable ion thi maddened the je aywey blood lights and the musi warmed her up, and the delicious indecency of her pirouet- found ao restraint. The my tery of it lay in a sort of con- vulaive, halt. eubling f the body, ao " okwa, then S\intan ef toe Giny font dems ing a parabula in the airy Parts, DOurtng The frranco-Prussian wur she hid herself, but returned to Parts with the accession of Mac- Mahon and putt herself a fantastic villa ut the entrance of the Bois de Boulogne, the ganten uf which ad- ‘olned Prinve Murat’, later James yordou Benuott’s, There he Kaye wouiertul enter- (duments at which the heirs ap- brent of half the kingdoms of E rope were present. Naturally, she ti | mrany muitors, but she refused all offers until, in 1881, she surprised all ‘er friends by accepting the hand 4nd oame of an Itullan, « Comte de Biou.ne. They soun separated, Hor- tens« claiming that her husband was squandering her large fortune. Also there was surne yuestion as to the validity uf his title She witharew to a convent, but 24 uot Jong remain there, Her last appeansume mm che wows was in 1915, when she pivwented her beautiful villa at Fecamp tw the Orphettant des arta, a society forthed to care for the orphaned children of soldiers who had been in une of the artistic professions. At that time te was ivi In at" Autoutl “with only the mania ith of her romuutio Baye, careét us queen of Lycille-the Wattress. Govertaht, 1990, by The Prew Pubtishing On (Tee New York Evenms Work) 66¥ DON'T see much in the papers ] cece flying these days,” said Lucile, the Waitress, as the Wriendly Patron moved his. apple- sauce out of the way of his neighbor's elbow et the lunch ovunter, “That's Lecuuwe the war ts over,” he replied. “I guess that's right,” she went on. “When all those battle submarines were flying around in the air every- :. wedy was talking about aeronostics. he ‘We had a fellow in here this morning who claimed to know a lot about fly- «ing. He said he was in the war, but he got rather tiresome with his chat- ter. First thing he eays after he takes @ seat on a stool Is: “Lucile, do you ever go up in the air? , “Not often!’ I says, ‘TI manage to keep my temper pretty well’ EAR EVERYBODY: It appears that three, words are being worked overtime these days! IF, SUT and WHY? A careful use of your ears will tell you that this is true, When I was young I scratched the wore “Li” out of my dictionary and iater on in life . stopped asking “Wr? Now 1 am careful about the word “BUT.” “BUT” {s the most misused of the three, jt undoes everything that has been done. I would be a wealthy man BUT— Iam a wealthy man--wh-? Imply- ing @ doubt. ‘And so it gous, “When we state a proposition clearly there is no use for I, BUT or WHY, ‘They are used, aud wrongly, when we have ‘no clear idea of what we are to say before we start, Yours truly, _ ALFALFA SMITH. “ don’t mean that,’ be says, 7 mean go up on an aeroplane.’ “‘Not me, I says. ‘They ain't any chance to get out and walk when the kipperflapper goes wrong. All those flying machines allow you is just one mistake.’ “*Pooh!" he ways. ‘I few all through the war. I got medals for what I did. 1 felt just as sufe uy there us I do in here.’ “"You had a right to,’ 1 myw. “Any- body who takes his daily substenance here ts taking chances, too. What did they give you the meailis for, did you say? “For bravery," he says, ‘TI sure put those German flyers to flight.’ “‘Took a lot of nerve, eh? “'Yes, but I got the nerve,’ “*Pretty brave, eh?’ “Well, I hate to talk about mysulf, but I gluess I stack up with the best of ‘em. What's the use of being afraid of anything?’ “No use I says. Just then I eee Tké Koppel, who loans money, coming in. This brave guy ketches a sight of him in the mirror and begins to get pale. “‘Gee!’ he says. “There's Koppel, I dont want him to see me’ He is trembling like a leaf. I just grin. “ ‘Say,’ he says, ‘I want to see Leon, the chef, Cancel my order till I come back.’ “He beats it out Into the kitchen and through the back door, scared as @ March hair-cut. I have to laugh, Pretty brave guy, eh?" “Hardly!” came trom the Friendly Patron “The funny part of it," Lucile euid, “was that Koppel wanted to see me. T owed him a ten spot when he came in” “And you paid him, I presume?” “Say, when he went out I owed him thirty! I gbess I ought 'a’ done some of that fying in France and got some medals, ent” SATURDAY, Such Is Life! MY HUSBAND “IS ACAVE HAN, | SHouLD SAY \ HE. DOES! lay, } BLACK AND, BLUE ALUOVER = ° FEEL THIS BUMP ON SEE THAT SCAR ON MY BACK FUSSING FRONT TOOTH"? BRYN MAWR’S MAY DAY REVELS Miss Raymonde Neel und Miss Mildred Voorhees of New York, who will take the part of “‘clowns” at the revels. ‘Be Ewonting World OuijaLdtor Asks Gopretamt, 1990, by The Prem Publimmmg Co, (The New York Evening Word.) OT 80 enthusiastic to-day! Who? Why, the New York boys and girls who are discussing the Outja Editor's latest question: “Can People be happily married on $35 a week?” ‘Would you take a chance? What's your opinion. SHOULD A GIRL MARRY A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS MAKING ONLY $35 A WEEK? Write your answer to-day and mail it to The Ouija Editor, The Evening World, N. Y. C. Here are the answers received to-day: Henna, Washington Heights, N. Y. C.—I cannot understand why a clever girl with a good position and income should plunge herself into marriage with 4 man making only $35 a week. She has all the pleasures and free- dom that she can desire. Of course it all sounds so fine and looks so rosy—until they try it. But, oh, how soon they tire of that existence and seek pleasures elsewhere! Peg, Downtown, Brooklyn.—The big wages that the girls are making ays are making them too in- dependent and spoiling a good many chances of marriage for them. It all depends on how much the girl makes, of course—but the trouble is that a girl making $30 a week doesn't want to marry a man inuking $36, X. Y. Z. Brooklyn —A friend of mine recently said, “lL would like to choke the iuaa who said that two can live as cheaply us one,” too, Sweet Sixteen, Jersey—Thirty five dollars a week! Why, my dear, what do you think we girls are coming to. That wouldn't buy a bat; would just 4bout keep me in pin money (shows, &e.) Why, you can't get a dozen good pairs of stockings for that in these H. C. L. days. I think a man is crasy to marry on thirty five a week. L. George—The fact is that those earning about $36 @ week are just the ones most in need of being assisted by the gods of marriage. Cogitate— the boss in ecstacy raises your sulary $10 or $16 or wo. The little fat dowry of the bride and the wedding gifts of almost 1-870 of the recently married Vanderbilt jr—all help along the bank roll. MM, _N. Y. C.—-How can I live on love? ‘I've got an appetite! EDITOR'S NOTE: for next week's ouija 's of vital He kavuws, es: interest & me A Prayer for Mother Mothers’ Day, May 9, 1920. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Goprright, 1990, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World.) AY you be well. May the days yon have toiled, the nights you have worried, the agony of your body and your heart, the cumulative, crushing burden of the billion “little things” you have done for your children, may the great weariness that is on you, slip off into the limbo of years, as Christian's burden fell at last from his aching shoulders. May you, when again your own woman, re- acquire the balance of perfect health, which you overdrew sv recklessly in your service to youth, May you love wisely—love well enough to let alone, Every human mother hen hatches ducklings—boys and girls who would go their own way and be free. May you love with your heart-—not with interfering hands upon another generation, May you LOVE—not nag. May you live in the market-place and not in the chim- ney corner—in the market-place with sunlight and blue sky overhead, with friendly folk and laughter on either side, with interesting tasks, with the world at your elbow, instead of you shut out from the world, For it is you whom the world needs, more than grown children need you. ‘give up”—oh, for many years! refuse to May you May yours be a golden afternoon, » Pauline furlongs Queries Om Health Covpright, 1920, by The Pres Publuhing Co, For Dark Complexion—GRACE J.: Whenever convenient apply some of the following lotion: Lactic acid, four ounces; glycerine, two ounces; rose water, one ounce, Bow Lege—LEM M.; After you are grown nothing can be done to cor- rect this condition, In youth they may be operated upon. Growing Taller—MAY L.: Accord- ing to experts, you grow until you are twenty-four, and as you are yet 60 very young it. 1s foolish to worry yourself needlessly. Large Caives—-BERTHA &; To re- duce excessively large lower legs, try the heel and toe raising exercise, Boguty (The New York Evening World.) Tennis, stationary running and other strenuous leg exercises wil} help to reduce them, Do not massage them, bowever, Large Pores—SALLIB G.: Dilute lemon juice slightly, always using cold water. As this is very Grying to the skin, it will serve to reduce large pores, Equal. parts.of alcobol and witch hagel applied to the skin with 4 putt of cotton, is also very bene- ficial to large pores and oily skin, Laxative Fruite-MAS. W. Pi: Figs, dates, apples and prunes are excellent laxatives. Drink plenty of water and use bran products as often as possible. Trunk exercises tuken at, night will eradicate symptoms of con- stipation, The Present-Day Servant Has as Much Brass as a Flock of Pawnbroker's Calling Cards, & matter of history. Today we know, what made ‘em free, but nobody knows what made ‘em so blooming independent! Servants today are so independent they live without work ing! Ask (he man who owns @he.. The only bell « maid will answer is the dinner Dell. The meal hour is the one time she uses two hands to do anything. From her taattress te her botied exgs, the mald has every thing pretty soft ‘The only thing bard about servants is getting ‘em, The war changed things in the household iine the way it changed everything else, ‘The Madein-Ger- many Is as écuree on goods ds the maid in America js searee In the kitchen. After the armistice was aigned servant gals were harder to get than the Kalser. And it. was just us hard to give ‘ema trial The girls that used (o get $6 a week demanded $20 In spite of all pleading. ‘The only thing they’d wke of were the eve nings, és In spite of what you may way abuut wervanta, you've gut to admit they’re scarce, Maids and the lke are so bard tw get éectety is doing much less entertaining this year, You tow find afl the auvetety queens’ pames on servant's tho same as a visit from the stork. It means the head of the house has another mouth to feed. — another arrival to buy dresses for, another persomto Worry about. . On the stage they, do lots of talking and no dirty work, and in the home it's the same thing. The servants of the.stage work 40 weeks @ year, but rarely in the same house, and you can make that ditto for the other kind. When the Government needed help {t gave.a silver chevron on the arm for every six months of domestic Wérvice, Tt worked fine, but to-day it’s a different proposition. “Any guy that can Keep a maid for six months’ domestic service now ta willing to give her a silver loving cup for each arm and a platinum tavall for her neck If our men wat ts now, they go to employmentiagencies and fight for ‘em. ‘The day of the old family, servant 4s certainly past. There are still plenty of old families, but the ser vants they have are always hew! ‘And that’s the trouble with hired help today! You can only. get “em com ing and gotngt . murat, 19%, ay Tho sree Publining On (The Mew Yurk Eroning World,’ PPE, gumne 65 cents to ‘buy ® school cap mit colors, Tike all the boys at our school has mit our ashvol ovlorm- which \# orangve color ana black, like Princetown Colleget’* At this plea, heard at his elbow, Mr. Jarre turned on the street by the store doorway of Mr, Slavinsky, to behold the, neighborhood's glazier being thus appealed to by his young- est boy, Ladure-—generally called leay. “Nu! For why ta ‘it you should want a color cap like it is a monkey should wear?" Mr, Jarr heard the Ider Slavineky inquire. “Why, all the boys is wearing them, and when we see a kid what has a cap what ain't our school colors we whop bio!” exclauued Master Sla- vinsky. Mr, Jarr now understood why, since his own son and heir had been wear- ing a yisorless cup of strident color, he had been coming home with an occasional nose of red and eye of purple, and with no explanation of the general polychromatic scheme except that he “was ruaping and fell.” “school it 1s out In Chune, ain't it?” Mr. Jarr heard Mr. Slavingky inquire, “Then in the summer, maybe, you get a color cap for nothing, second hand. For fifty-five cents I could buy something What,used to test me ten cents before the war. Hun away now and play busuball in the stree! and don’t let amybody cuteh you breaking windowe—if yuu should break any!” Master Slavinwky, despite his hav- ing been given the freedom of the city by his father, turned into the store sniffiing to beg his mother for the price of a school-colors cap--as he had done every Saturday since the sohool-colors cap had been in vogue. “For educationing my children I would buy anything,” remarged Mr. Slavinsky to Mr. Jarr, for de now noted his neighbor had overhgard the colloquy. “But if you knew whet plate glass © when you can get any at all, you should sooner cut your throa! than be in the glass-put-in business. “Oh, don't be a pessimist, be a profiteer like all rest of the “What do you oats you when you pags the cost on to the ultimate con- eumer?” “I don’t know them wolds,” replied Mr. Slavinsky, “go if you are kidding me I don't care. I only know woids don't mean ‘anything! money taiks.” “Bo you believe no one and trust no one?’ Mr. Jarr asked, “L believe you but I don't trust no- body any more, Spot cash I pay and “ t cash you got to pay me,” replied ir. Slavinancy x “I Was not speaking of trust in the sense of credit”. began Mr, Jarr. “There ain't any sense in credit ut all,” Mr, Blavineky interrupted. “T said youwere a pessimist; and « pee you are,” said Mr Jagr, ; ing. a “I ain't @ pestermist or a pepper- mint or anything of the kind,” Mr. Slavinsky insisted. *T am @ business man getting the woist of it. Nobody trusts me and I don't trust nobody.” “Well,” said Mr. Jarr, “I. think otherwise, and to prove it I am going to ask you to lend, me $5 till [ sev you again.” ‘Will I be a pestermist or a pep vermint if I don’t lend it to you?” asked Mr. Slavinsky dolefully, Mr. Jarr nodded and Mr. Slavinsky handed over $5. ruefully . : “Aud now I guess I'm the candy kid" he said. “What my litile Ieey calls an all-day sucker—suy when ty. it I will see you again, whun you'll have my afternoon” A DoYou Know? Copyright, 1920, by The Pre Publishing Co, (The Now York Dreniog World.) d LL What was Edison's first inven- tion? 2, On what continent is the Hamitic language spoken? 3. What grain {8 called “worn” ty Ireland? 4. Who was king of the Jews at th time of the massacre ef the ehildres in Bethlehem? 6. Under what Grecian ph¥osopli did Alexander the Great study? 6 What President was called “Tho Little Magician?” 7, Who wrote “Rocked in the Cradiv of the Deep?” & What was the nationality of Queen Victoria's husband? % Who commended! the rere), Army at Austerlita when the Irmalan and Austrians wee deierteu 10, From what card game 15 th» term “four flush” deri 11, Who is the best d:nown Jap ints motion picture gétor in the Unjied State? 12, In what State dia Thomiay Wat- son get the niost popular vote In the Democratic Presidentig! primarics? | ANSWERS TO QUESTIO