The Fort Worth Record and Register (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 101, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 24, 1909 Page: 18 of 38
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meeting of suffragettes in Trafalgar
square, London. The heroine has suf-
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mendous character. Her mind delves
with great earnestness Into the depths
of the problems, vet she is quicK to
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JO8LPH JEFFERSON IN "THE RIVALS," AT THE BYERS MONDAY.
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Hartlelgh in the act of Entering the
room and stealing from the sleeping
poet the details of a novel which he
has in mind, but which he has not yet
begun to write.
The entire company in "The Vam-
pire" includes John E. Kellard. Kath-
erine Florence, John Westley, Warner
Oland, Lonise Dempsey, Mark Smith,
Richard Baker and George Pauncefort.
The play was staged by Albert Cowles.
Climax of the drama is
i Allene. braving scandal.
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GIVE A MINSTREI. SHoW. strongly dramatic climaxes. That 8
f The Benevolent and protective order i where many plays are found lucking.
“h ive a minstrel show at 1 Ann he must be abie tn write Engiish
“h h " *n * which has a strength of brevity. -in
reading a book the mind is concentrt-
Hable not only
achers who km
Hunter Wilson’s topic ariil be "What
I Do When I Go Fox Hunting."
Colonel Newton Lassiter will felt
"How I Came to Be the Human En-
cyclopedia on What's the Matter With
the Rallraads -
she dancer with a
•ted but expect- play of • Evei
chancellor, who posed voice
leigh, the mystery of th* mental apa-
thy which overcomes all members of
this Vampire household is finally
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army la,? instead of a muftragette. A
congenial audience applaudvd the read-
ing of "Votes for Women," but aside
from ita episode in Trafalgar square.
in the Wal lan wo id mountains. Five
years ha%e elapsed, and for three vesrs
KAasa has been a deserted but
id she has developed into
against all the aggres-
inst women. She is an
. ”1 will buy ypur drama outright, or
pay you a royalty.” Charles Frohman
------- had sqid to her in London.
"but for one of itsfouractson}, To
_ put into another play.”
"My work has a political purpose.”
she replied, "and must be acted all or
However his anger had disappeared.
.----- . ------- --- Another actress who is gifted with
FHoken of in her presence she said tact is Lily Langtry. When she was
To see Mrs Fiske in any of the In-
tellectual roles that make up her rep-
ertoire no one would imagine that this
exponent of the ultra modern in the
dramatic art was another of the grad-
nates from altar to the stage.
Since her meteoric return to the
sfaa« after a period of absence from
It. Mrs. Fiske has. taken a dominating
t ace as perhaps the most modern or
all our actresses.
spiritual performances of Emma Gram-
matica. Once when Milibran was
But wonderful as wil be the first
portion of the show with its stupen- '
dous collection of britttant and original i
____ Iunmakers, the olio will be the most ;
reclierche form of efkeftainment ever
givenh on the-stage of any Fort. Worth
theater Besides the .work of trained
solved. The
•THE VAMPIHE"
PSDHOLOGICAL DRAMA
first New York performance of
The Vampire,^- thepsycho-ftent
drama by Edgar Allan Woolf and
George Sylvester Vlereck, will take
Pice at the Hackett theater tomorrow
afternoon. Although the premier will
be a matinee there will also be a reg-
ular performance Monday night.
•'The Vampire” 4s the joint work of
Edgar Allan WooTf and George Syl-
vester Vlereck. "The Vampire” takes
up the problem of thought transference
in which is claimed to be an entirely
new and novel manner on the stage.
The title role of "The Vampire” is
played by John E. Kellard. The Varz-
pfre of this drama is,a literary “gen-
fus, who gathers his Inspirations and
8teals his ideas from the younger peo-
whom he surrounds himself.
Recently Duse has become very
gray, and when acting is compelled to
resort to wigs, but off the stage she
does not seek to cnceal the ravages
of time, and is very proud of her whtce
hair.
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-it to vote. Suddenly in the mass of
faces at the meeting she espies that of ,---------- -
the man who led her astray. The grasp Jest or satire,
sight of him after many years rouses
her to oratory that convinces him of
one man’s cruelty to one girl. That
eads to their reunion in a happy mar-
riage. By chance, exactly the same
motive is used in "Salvation Neil,” but
Mrs. Fiske personates a Salvation
FROM CONVENT
TO THE STAGE.
Hard a< it U to think pf the altar
as a recruiting place for he stage. it
is a fact that many of the most suc-
cessful of Amarican actresses spent
their young Ifves in the ecstacy of re-
1glous preparation.
Spending their young lives in the
convent and expecting to devote th
future to religfous work, they fell un-
der the lure of the footlights and took
Up the profession of Thespis,
Not less than five women holding
BIDS FOR FAVOR.
Mrs. Leslie Carter gave the first .per-
formance of her new play, "Kassa,, by
John Luther Long, at the Iberty the-
ater Saturday evening, Jan. 28.
"Kassa” is the story of the
wretched Prime Kassa. or the first ves- — ------
tal. of the fictitious convent of St. slon of men agul
Lauka. Hungary. Kassa. "the daughter eloquent advocate
of a hundred kings. hereditary prin- righi
cess and protected by the empire, on
the day before she is to—receive the
black veil is lured away to « festival
by Prince Bela Balvanoss. She has
been longing for a vision of the outside
world, she has been reading the forbid-
den Hunnish book, she has met the
prince in the fofest by accident, and
after her entrance, bearing the sacred
diadem and escorted by a procession of
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principally with the experiences of.
Caryl Fielding, a young poet, who is
taken into the house of the Vampire,
Patl Hartlelgh. and who is subjected
by him into this burglary of the brai.
ttheassistaneeefAena Arden.
country one-third the gross govern- ____ __________
ment revenne. Can you imagine that— | the charm that
a cointry spending a third of all its
income for the keeping up of a fight-
ing force? {France is richer and spends
the French army costing $180.-
080.088, and Haiv mhTT—rm tic llunxarv
spend each $80 000,003 annually. Now
taking these five countries Great
Britain, Germany, France, Austria. and
having first entered into an agreement
with the reporter whereby Laura shall
write a letter to him should she re-
consider her promise of marriage and
return to her life with Brockton.
—.Notwithstanding Duse’s
fame and success, says Ferruggia, the
Italian publisher, a veil of suffering
and sorrow seems constantly to envelop
the actress. There is sadness even in
her smile: She is no longer young, yet
she is still a remarkably attractive
woman. In each of her movements
there is classicbeauty, and in giving
expression to her thoughts she always
does so in a pee iliarly fascinating
manner, says the Theater Magazine.
In contrast to many other great art-
ists. Duse is not jealous of her fellow
pinyers: Sheris.prteteriyattacned-
to those whom she knew in her young-
er days. She admires the talent of
Mariani, the grace of Tina di Lorenzo
the fire of Virginia Reiter ana the
peztuous scene, attempts to stab the
prince to death. the child’s call stays
the dagger thrust. With mocking
laughter on his lips the prince reveals
his duplicity, advises her that he is
going to revel with her sucessor, and
Kassa, about to seek revenge, is again
halted by her child.
In the fourth act Kassa is hired to
the home of Varsova to witness the fui)-
perfidy of the prince, but even seeing
she refuses to betray him.
In the last act, utterly broken, she
is carried back to the convent. there to
live and die, mercifully resting in the
belief that she has been absent but a
day-but for the child Istran,
Charles Mtiward plays- the roe of
Prince Bela. Robert Commins is the
ind Athen Atwell Davis has
.. the son. There are thirty-
four speaking parts in the cast.
After eight encores to the "Yams
Girl" number in •Three Twins” at the
Adelphi the other night. Bessie McCoy
When David , lelasco presented . —.—,
Frances Starr in Eugene Walter's I chancellor. a
latest play "The Easlest Way.' at thelthe part of t
Belasco tuyvesant theater in * "hu"----
York Tuesday evening it was
actress* first appearance as a
Italy-, and adding their army expensea
together we have $660 000.000 which
the armies cost in actual outlay, and
when that is multiplied by three, which
is the estimate made for the lose tn
the country in the earning capacity of
a man removed from civilian pursuits
for army life, we have the appalling to-
tal of $2.080000.000. Is not such an an-
nual cost for fighting forces enough to
appal’ anyone —-— ——=—
But if our army of 25,000 men had
to be ontrasted merely by numbers
with that of any European: nation, it
Would seem pitifully small But you
cannot measure foreign armies end th*
American army man for man Our boys
in khaki have the best of it on very
part of the ground Yet I think that
some such system as has been intro-
duced in Australia would be very ad-
visable for adoption in America. Fine*
Europe maintains such high armies and
cnstant,shewsa —dispositiom.: te_be
rety to fight on th* slightest provo-
cation. We must always be ready lo
meet any to> half wav. The Austra-
Ilan system begins with giving a mili-
tary training in the public schools,
which continues by e system somewhat
resembling our militia system to keen
the men in training up to 35 years of
age Ry this means, though avoidng
the nyjwtw tiding nnm^_
Australla. will be able within twentv
years to nnt into the field a well
trained army of citizen soldiers, which
will include practically the entire pop-
ulatioh within active military age Mili-
tary training. physical and moral Is
of great value, per se. And teaching
every citizen to bear arms and bear
them eclentifically makes a better man
of him and a better and mor- patri-
otic citizens. By such a system as that
Australia has We would be able, as
General Grant said, to raise an army of
a million men in a single day, if ner-
essarv Then why waste time and
money ahd energy and best of ait.
young manhood on such a system as
maintained throughout Europe*
"Tn my mind no greater truth was
ever spoken than when Sherman
tersely described war, and like all lova)
patriotic Americans I hope that the
cal to arms will never again startle
America and that never again will
American blond be spllled in the de-
fense of the right, but should it ever
come, at it has in th* past, like a.
thunderbolt from a clear sky and eome
to the man behind the counter, the
man at the forge snA the man at the
plow. Just as it has in avs gone by,
recruiting an army untaught in all kave
fhatgreateat. of tactiee. the toys of
home the love of country and Hie leva
of thetstars and stripes still will th*
fighting fofres of America lead as
thy have always led to victory for
the American makes the finest soldier
the world ean produce.
—--------------- BROOKES.
covets Kassa, appears and seeks to win
her, and also hopes to get her to be-
tray the prince. The prince unexpect-
edly appears, accuses her of infidelity,
denies his child, and a* Kassa, in a tem-
playing in New York one of the news-
papers roasted her. Instead of r.
tallating in thejmanner of some Dial,
era she found out the name of the
writer and made up her mind to meet
him. It was arranged that her man-
ager should dine with him and that
Mrs Langtry should “unexpectediy
have dinner at the same place.
During the dinner the manager, with
ever¥ efeet °r 8urprise, exclaimed:
"W hy. there is Nrs. Langtry. Would
you like to meet her?
Upon the writer answering in the af-
firmative be week led over and intro-
duced to the actress. It was no time
before she had completely won him
over and the next article that appeared
in the paper gave a glorious account
of the actress.
It it were not for the fact that Helen
Ware l. ted with tact ah, never
could act Along with Arnold Daly, with
whom she l» apgearing in —Th, keen
irpuempiaydnalopaigeg tH
and if anyome demnrs he says "You
are arguing Therefore from exper-
ence she has found that the best thing
to do is to Av t as he says at rehearsai
with a sigh:,"Ah, what supreme hap-
piness to die young at the height of
one’s fame:* Duse is a woman of tre-
cardinals arehbishops. prfests, nuns,
monks, pilgrims, and acolytes, she
again meets the prince and runs away
with him to the marriage mart, where
she becomes the victim of a mock mar-
riage. the prince neglecting to have the
ceremony repeated before a priest, thus
rendering it void.
The scene, shifts to the mountain
home of Kassa and her child Istran.
now 4 vears old It is a ptincely home
AT THE BYINS- e
Mondny—Joseph and wimam Jefferson im “The Rival."
Thiers day—Blauehe Walan l® “The TesL"
Friday—AMrs. Temple’s Telegram."
Saturdny—Ronabel Morrihon la “Faust."
charm for her. She has a veritable pas-
fortune to finance musi al comedies,
and through his influence Laura Mar-
dock attain! to some prominence in
the theatrical profession At the o,en-
Ing of the play Laura has been filling
an engagement with a summer stock
company in Denver, Here she baa
met a young reporter named John
Madison and each falls deeply"in love
with the other. Although Manson is
cognizant ot ih« n»jit life of Laum „■„ -------—___.gu.
and i aware of her associations with —ThestoryofurHean
Brockton, he asks the girl to become — "
his wife. in spite of the fact that he
himself is in straitened circumstances
It is at this time that Brockton ar-
Fives in Denver from the East to take ...
Jaurabackto.NewYorkandtearns With
of the girl’s love for Madison. Al- a you
though considering the woman as his
own property, there is an agreement
existing between them to the effect
that fither shall be free to sever rela-
tions with the other at any time, and
to this agreement Brockton adheres.
Madison and the girl become engaged
and the broker returns to New York. Caryl
WORK OF
TWO WOMEN.
Two women who may be named for
doing dignified theatrical things un-
conmercjally, writes Franklin Fyles,
are Mrs. Elizabeth Robins, for her po-
litical drama of "Votes for Women.’
and Katrina Trask, for her religions
drama of “The Fmall Town of Bethle-
hem.” It was Elizabeth Robins who.
with Janet Achirrch, -was first to act
Ibsen in London, and she brought
"Hedda Gabler” to New York, but went
right back with it after one unappre-
ciated performance That was ten
years ago, and Ibsn meant nothing
here. She and he"husband, Josepn
Pennell, were intimates of Whistler,
and their biography of the dad artist
is the subject of a lawsuit hrourht by
an heir to forbid the uar of his letters.
Mrs -Pennelttsrap ardent-fuffragette.
and wrote "Votes for Women" o propa-
gate in a play the doctrinc of her
sex’s equality at the polls. It wasn’t
acted but read in a New York theater
by Olga Nethersole to an atidience of
suffragettes and a few managers.
His presence was indicated by an Il-
lumination. Mrs. Trask's composition
reverently introduces the immediate
influemCe of Christ, but not allegvri-
rally. In a quite sublunary story of
Faustina, a koman beauty. In a pro-
logue Joseph ayrives at Bethlehem
with Mary, who is ill, and ne might
get lodging for her at an inn if the
arrogant girl, Faustina, would but give
up one of her many rooms. So Mary
has to be taken to a stable. The birth
of the Christ child in a manger and
the worship of Him by the wise men
from—the_East are given with few
words, mainly quoted from the New
Testament, and illustrated with copies
of Tissot paintings.
The play takes up the romance of
Faustina's love of Cariston, a young
Greek poet, whose wooing she rejects
to wed a wealthy man chosen by her
parents. The poet goes disconsolately
to some distant land, and the beauty
becomes a leper, to be driven into the
wilderness, an outeast. This is written
TToHJiy. poeth-alty ami in- the theatric
manner of the dramas of early Chris-
tianity in Rome and Greece that Wil-
son Barrett used to delight in sonor-
ously.
It recalls, too. that play, of leprosy
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tion, then following the dire:tion to
whjch that conception points
As the life of the convent teaches
I aura so
t she was
furnished
sion fur flowers and at her country
place, Porzuncola, in Tuscany, she la
surrounded by 2,000 rose bushes which
she cultivates with the beat of care.
them and rode with them, saw them at
work and at play and while being ex-
tremely interesting it was also the
means by which I was abte to meke 19-
vestigation and orparison between
the rmy system n America and that
abroad which otberwis ’would have
taken me several summers to complete.
"I think that I was so impressed with
th* size and th» expanse of maintaining
European armies that to say I was ap-
palled is the only way tn express the
feeling To consider that every twe’ve
months sees 300,000 young men, the
very flower of the youth of the Ger-
man empire withrawn from industrial
pursuits and recruited into the -Ger-
man army, is enough to make any
American man thank God that here we
have another and better system Ger-
many spends abnuaHy $160,000,000 for
the maintenance of her army and Great
Britain spends an equal sum and in
both instances the army ousts the
The portion thar Frohman Ikea is
PALL GILMORE TALKS
OP FLAYS AND ARMIES.
'Tan never tried to get a play did
>ou2* asked Paul Gilmore.
& I shook my head and intimated that
my experience, scant as it is on that
lne, 4a pretty apt to remain bo
T knew It. else you'd never have
asked me why I selected a military pla
--yoH‛d never ask any acbor why ne
happened to select any play, no matter
what it might be.
“The pubite has nbselutelypcon-
veption of how hard it is to get plays
—good plays. I mean. I read p ays and
read plays until I was weary unto
death, and I couldn’t find one that in
toy Judgment Was really good Just
Yet a playwright make one suecess and
Bhow the slightest indication of abtl-
ity to repeat it and the Frohmans or
- Schrberu startle his huridlng gm
1U* with a dzzingt tsy gp contrart
price to give them the option on all
the p.ays he may write for a term o’
years varying from two to ten And
even then they get a lot of things that
are hopeless failu^s Take Willie Col-
Her for Instance—why he had elgnt
failures tn one season, and there's Nat
Goodwin, who had bad plays one time
right after the other until he simply,
couldn't get a house— people wouldn’d
go to see him because he had such had
plays. And if you’ll remember hov
long a time goes by during which you
-hear orhing of a popular player or
hear only of them through some p'ay
that has failed you will understand the
difflculty of getting anything that is
sufficiently entertaining to make the
PubIe m- $2 f9 to $2 a seat for it
{ A»d money is no object to an aetor
ft king for a really worthy play- IM
pay any amount for a play of real
ptrength or merit or even a play with
the foundation upon which something
Eo0douid be buitt But they are not
"Yet it Beams at if in a country
ere, there, are so many people dab-
bling in writing •• there are in Amer-
tea that a few good playwrights would
develop.
Yes, we have wrijarg enough " he
Agreed, "but the tronble 4e +hat thay
do not understand the needs -of the
■tags. A playmaker muet have -a dra-
malic education as well as an eAus~
♦Ion tn English omposition. He must
Anderstan the limitation*, the necew-
esarlly artificiality of the stag- and be
"preparedrto -meet ____ ____________Ha
months she has endeavored to obtain
an engagement, but lacking the influ-
ence of Brockton, who practically
controls the theatrical situation, her
efforts have proved futile. Finally she
abandons all hope of success without
Brockton's intercession, and she de-
cides that the easiest way is to return
to him. Brockton compels the zirl to
write to Madison advising him of her
intention. This she decides to do, but
after the broker has left her alone she
burns the letter.
The third and fourth acta, which oc-
cur several months later, find I Aura
and Brockton living together in a
fashionable hotel. Madison in the
meantime has struck it rich out West
and comes to New York to claim Laura
as his bride, firmly believing that she
has held fast to her promise to lead a
life of decency. He discovers the true
state.of affairs, however, and after
forcing a confesston from th# gbl
leaves her to continue her life’ with
Brockton.
Miss Starr’s supporting company in-
cludes Miss Emma Dunn. Miss Uur«
Nelson Hall, Joseph Kilgour, Willlam
Sampson and Edward Robins.
that Henry Irving's son, Lawrence,
wrote for Bllen Terry. In which a
beautiful woman was adored by a
painter, who, with an artist’s eyes, ad-
mired her especially for the white
translucence of her skin, not suspect-
ing tt was the pallor of the dreadful,
disease that would soon make her
hideous.—Faustina has beep in ttjfi
llvion of the •'unclean” many years
when Cariston learns of her plight,
and sets out to Yind her. He would
marry her and share her doom; but
she will not accept the sacrifice and
eludes him by flight At Length the
time of Christ’s miracles .come and she-
is healed by him—by the same Christ
whose birth in a stable was due to
her exclusion of Mary from an inn.
"The Little Town of Bethlehem” is
likely to hold a place in the Greet
repertory, but hardly can gain general
popularity.
In this idyllic spot she spends quiet
but never idle day. Her motto 18
short, containing. but one word—
"Work/’
Margaret Anglin never in her youth
figured that life would lead her the
way of the stage. She was most de-
voutly religious, and remairs most de-
voutly religious, and though some of
the roles she has enacted would indi-
cate a marked departure from the
lines laid out by the teaching of a
convent. nevertheless Miss ’Anglin has
-never abated one jot the religious
regime that she grew up to.
FRANCES STAHR _
AGAIN A STAR.
of New York. For
it contain’ no vlue for the stage.
Christ is not an acted character in
"The Ittle Town of Bethlehem,” writ-
ten by Spencer Trask’s wife, the Ka-
trina Fsask of poetry, and acted dur-
ing a fortnight to make money for
several charities—afte}Ben- Greet has
been paid for the services of himself
and his company. It WAs Greet, you
know, who presented the old morality
monkey*, trick muies, monologues will
characterise this olio, and while the
comnrttee announces only a portion of
these who will participate and the
. Fubjects of their monologues, this one
bart of the show promises tq be worth
several times what will be charged for
the whole evening's entertainment. The
comimittee announces the following;
— gJohnB.Hawleywilltell-What
Didn't Find Out About the Panama
Canal"
Morgan Jennings - Bryan will tell
-"The Difference Between William Jen-
ninEs Bryan and Myself ”
Oliver H Ross ‘will be introduced as
a rare singer of, sentimental balrds,
his repertoire ineluding "Love Me and
the World Is Mine. My Heaven Is in
Your Eyes.” "I only Live to Love You '
and other sizrilar "classic"* composi-
tions
Bobby Oat on will tell "What I Don’t
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The plot at •'the Easiest Way" deals
with the life of Laura Murdock, who
at the age of 16 years had come to
America from Australia and who, after
having been twice married, each time
unhappy, meets a wealthy broker by
the name of Willard Brockton Brock-
ton has in several instances used his
early ideas there is
to the will of other
ow, but -also to the
of her own con-
—Whenthta. beautiful young actress
first made her appearance there was
get eral astonishment at the extent of
her resources. She not only had all
the qheri that goes with youth but
she had evidently delved deeply’ into
history and literature while making
her* preparations for delineating the
great characters of Shakespeare and
-Qthef classical characters
There was nothing raw. Immature'
or unfinished about her work. While
still a young , girl she came to the
front a finished actress from her first
appearance.
Folks wondered. But the answer
was simple. Miss Marlowe barf spent
her entire youth as a student it is
true that her researches had not been
directed to the lore of the stage, she
was, to fact another dweller in a con
vent But in its quiet walls she had
learned the habit of thinking deeply
Fana.onxnowinghow to to ihe
truths of history:
In many roles an netresa com-
pelled to show rellglous rMiine for
many or the groat emotiona ot the
Kreat role, for women have their
wiorre in the 4evotion of the chanac
terr. Here Ml,, Marlowe J, supreme-
ly at home. As Jeanne d’Arc, for ex-
ample she had a nfatehless chance,
and all who have seen that beautiful
portrayal of the dreamy, thoughtful
patriotic French maiden who finally
Eoes to martyrdom, win bear witness
to tts fFtthfulneaa, ___________
Maude Adams another of the most
popular actresses progreseed from
the qulet, thoughtful life of the eon
vent to the nash and glitter of the
f, e hghta As » youngster she was
Trall and her health was so poor that
ir was feared that her chances of ma-
faring to robust Womanhood wore
Even now no one who saw
the ctrEs tn Pcter-Pan, fer in-
stance, would Accuse her of being an
Amazon, but she has the endurance to
withstand the rigors of long tours,
and of the jump* from one ona-night
stand to another without discomtOrt,
so it can be said that she has no ae-
rions complaint on the subject of
health.
A. J. Sandegard will tell •What T
Know About Fast Horses and Pretty
Women and the programme raker is
warned on penalty of his life not to
juggle with those adjectives.
. Dudley Keith will explain "Hw to
Manage an Elk Club for Six Months So
as to Be Able to Buy a Hotel of Your
OW n, ’
Billy Laird, whose abilities as a mo-
nologist are wel) known, will give the
name one he gave two years sgo—the
monologue that made Laird’ famous.
_ Bob Littlejohn will explain "Why I
Believe Old Bachelors Should Be Os-
lerized."
J. E. Head will discuss "Why I Don’t
Indorse the Sheath Skirt.”
—. Other equally brilliant speakers will
he ineluded inter on
• The entire entertainment is to be
“directed by Miller & Draper, who are
particularly successful in ’ getting to-
gether amateur shows. They bring
with them such costumes as neither
Folomon in all his glory nor those un-
toiling lilies ever wore The morning
y re-eding the show as many Elk* as
---Wli'l be p , b t.»
tbese costumes and turned loose upon
the Btreets for dress parade. Warning
is thus given in abundant time so that
All damages to frightened women chil-
dren ana horses "will be avoided It is
well to know how much one can stand
before one tries it and unless you’ve
Been an Elk parade before it might be
we to take this one in sections
-•And the proceeds, large or small—.
and lets all hop* they’ll be more than
large—will be expended by the best
charity on earth" at the guidance of
a curious public tdrmd ujp
sins and individual foibles.
Eesadhaanumaseummacezstaaudmandzuki
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roliicking abandon and unstudied free-
dom to a Philadelphia North American
man. She just ran on, and, after sh
had coeled own, asked what she had
been talking about. In fact, she had
discussed wallpaper, newspaper critics,
and pretty much Everything But after
she got her bearings she _ became se-
Hous enough when talkng of hr
dancing-----
"Hard work? Well, yes. Vllewgg
months with only one working day off
in this strenuous show is hard wonk,
for a fact. But it’s all right With a
house like that dhe out. there ” I
Ing through her dressing room door,
"you could work till you dropped,"' 1
"I have been told by some very kid
and very competent eritics and dancing
teachers that my stsle bf dancing is
entirely individual ntd unique. If that
is so, it just came by accident. I didn’t
work it out by any plan. LfKe Topgy,
it 'just growed.’
"A whole lot of it is changing all the
time--Mew uHeess puLlaconstant-
ly. I don’t think I ever do the waltz
and yama twice alike. It is a kind of
natural expression of myown-diep08l-
lion Tor rough house and good fun.
"Practice? Not a bit of it. I never
get'stiff. I don’t get a chance to, and
I manage to get constant variety njo
my work by changing it on the spot
all the time
"But look here, don't think I've got
y
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THE FORT WORTH RECORD: SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1909. —PART TWO.
Important places on our stage come
uniderthis classification. #
Miss Dorothy Donnelly, long before
she had a chance to show her powers
n*George Bernard Shaws Candida.’
and beore the author of "The Lion
and the Mouse" had even put a pen
e—paper,—WAs__confined within the
walls of a coo vent. It had 1«*cn her
choice as a young girl, and even after
leaving the quiet home of her. child-
hood and bidding farewelt to the sis-
ter*. she had malntamned such en
effect for the Academy of the
Sacred Heart, that every time her
engagements bring her to New York
she spends a considerable part of her
time at the beautiful convent.
While Miss Donnelly was going to
this school of religious instruction in
_New York .another now famous, agt-
ress is as Tti!I<>wlng~H~~stntBar course in
Philadelphia, only 100 miles away,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
This girl bore a name honored in
American stage annals. She was
Fthel Barrymore, daughter of Mau-
rice Barrymore and Georgie Drew
Harrymere. On Her mothers side
she had the blood of the famous Drew
famHy Mrs. , John Drew was her
grandmother. John and Sidney Drew
her uncles.
' It had been about determined by
the family that this one girl should
pot follow the traditions of the fam
fly. Rut Mies Barrymore developed
such marked talents that it was m-
possible to deny the trenti of the Drew
blood, and Ethel went on the stage to
become one of its ornaments.
Similarly another actress famed for
her charm and the extent of her study
spent her life in early devotion Miss
Julla Marlowe.
lof Eiks will gtu. _ ———
Athe Brers during the month of March,
i. Maybe that doesn’t startle you—
mnaybe you think that's a very com _____
- sort of announcement. If ing.-thoug
1/8o, there is information waiting you gra sped. * _ _
through the box office of the Byers • cessful must understand “the trick of
on the night thi grand appregationconveying the greatest meaning in the
of aughmakers is brought together. | fewest words Long prea< by spe eches
This iinstrel show is to be.a minstrel I are difticuit.o follow. Oh, yes I know
ghow different from anything of the then aresome nnt Ale exceptions—the
Rort.Worth has tver seen Mod-lepeech or the wire in Hernstein’s -Th,
ssty forbid, them, but truth.com-lFherisoneorchem,butiaToesn
pels shem to say that Amerca ha, solaiprpve i" rule. It's mer u no-
Ear.anvrureen 11”, r9un1 There.areltabie'exceptan 10 “ Ald 1 Aetor.
qolurgnonnybpunhcoisanominutrsnaethoueh no Dlaywrieh. understanis
The fellows who made those book,— -----------------------
know at-d a g nin-trei wha 23,502166-
>ou 11 know wh-n the Fik- get nrougn ; 12888 8BS8hggc'eh - - *-2.2
She was called the “American
Due" when the noted Italian wan
just building up her fame n this coun-
try npd the title has steadily tlung
to her and deservdly.
Mrs Fiske got her first ideas of
life in the Qulet convent. Perhaps ah*
couldn't have gone right on the stage
as an actress of the great modern
part* AR noon a* she came into the
world egain from the walls of her
plce oF retreat It took some little
ome getting into the current
But the actress says -that theeontom-
Pintive atmosphere of th© convent is
the right place to get the idea* prop-
Tl¥ fixed 8o that in mature contact
with any aft problem it is possible to
follow the right idea* first exerting
tha intellect to get the right coy ep- £ant wife Varsova, the
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uenta
AT THE MAJESTIC
___________________Far tAa Week. __ -______'______
Galetti’s Educated Monkeys.
Fruuk H. Tenner, Comedian sad Triek Panit.
Delane Troupe, Acrobats.
Carrie Ester and Jonette Webb in “The Actress and the Maid"
Charlie Harris, Character Eomrdian.
Greewtxon, insing Cemedlenne-- ------------------------
White Zola. "Queen of the Black Art."
Majestograph.
that, and he la continually at. work
trying to improve what he has been
given as finished- I've changed and
changed the lines of 'The Boys of Com-
pany B” until there's hardly a whole
*peech in it as it was original!;
’ But I rather lke this Tony Allen
I am playing, though of course I would
have mch preferred had it been pos-
sibie to have a new piny, but pinee- l
couldn’t get one I took this after Ar-
nold Daly had done it in New York.
"And it being a military play it was
the cause of my making some very in
teresting studies and comparisons of
the armies of America and European
countries. I was all last summer in
JBtirope and through letters of intro-
duetion~from friends Hr ~nnr owr- F}
I was able to meet and know officers
and men in the British, the German
and French armies I messed with
THE Pt. { 1 ERS. •
Tact is an uncommon gift. Yet there
are save nd players notable for their
tact.__
Conspicuous among thia number is
the name of Viola Allen. Some years
ago Henry Miller and Viola Allen were
playing together. It was after the
big fcene in the play Mr Miller had
been called before the curtain again
and again. But in spite of this ra
the actor called the company together
and asked each one if he knew any-
thing about the tremendous nolse
which had been going on all through
his scene.________
No on«; seemed to know anything '
about it. Mr. Miller was by this time
in a blind rage and used languae
more expressive than Megant. Still lie
could not find out who was to biaie
for the noise. Turning to Miss Allen. - ,
he said his voice trembling with rage:
"You certainly heard that terriie
noise. You surely can tell me what
caused it?”
This is where Miss Allen’s tact came
in. She responded:
•’Why, Mr. Miller, was there a noise?
I was so 4eal A my Admiration for
intensity of your acting that I heard
nothing but what you were saying.''
Mr. Miller gave her one look ahd
said: "You are too d—d sweet.”
ping for radium.
——A—ln_the first place this is going to be
a n amateur ahow * There wtt—be—ne
heareprofessionals, proven or alleged
The committee has decided that some
tbings are so bad they are funny, as
for instance the hopeful but acknowi-
edged amateur, and that there are
things so bad they are pathetic, as in
the case of the alleged professional
Tunny man who isn't. The line between
the real amateur and the real profes-
sional has been so sharply drawn that
a good manY well established amuse-
ment man will not appear. Such real
professional big hits as Hy Manning,
Ferry Francisco, Bobby Cheatham, Rob
May and John Fanuing have declined
to go on the bH.-'They fully under-
etand they are not included when the
talk is about amateurs. And of course
it is uuite^ right thal—.they bhouid not
appear—it would hardly be fair to put
eprouting but immature genius along-
aide of such seasoned and mellowed
talent.
The committee has not made full re
---ports assetbutfrom incomplete plans
which are in themselves ver th re reel- < -
ng. they have determined that either
the Hon. Newton Lassiter or Colonel
Paul Waples will be interlocutor The
fitness and wisdom of such a choice is
instantly manifest to all. The end
men. tne bones and the tambos are to
be selected from a list including Cap-
tain B R. Paddock. F. M Roger*. Sam
Davidson. Uncle George Mulkey Jack
Lehane. M. R. Sanguinet C. A. Wheeler.’
John B. Hawley. JU-M Elwee Judge i
Tom Simmons, Louis J Wortham and
Oscar Menefee in addition to the sing-
ing of sentimental and comic ballads
ibis grand aggregation of unsurpassed
tlent will give a marvelous terpsicho-
rean exhibit. Mr. Mulkey is scheduled
to do a Balome dance. Captain Paddock
W1I1 «io a flame dance and Sam David-
son wili do a Scotch dance in costume,
•• Judge Tom Simmons playing the bag I
pipe accompaniment R is further
promised that during the first half of
the show net a guilty man in town I
---will eyesuc having the pitiless eye of I
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