San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-11
The 4ai1y Eight.
Office No. 4 East Commerce Street.
DRAMATIC QUEEN.
Once the Star Of a Fine Company
She Is Now Taking Lay
Off" in San Antonio.

who live only to delight the amuse-
ment loving world are peculiarly Be-
hemian in their characters and many
even partake of the old Romany spirit
and love to wander about the country.
You come upon them at every turn,
and while they may not make them
selves known to you in numberless in
stances, once in a while some chance,
expression, action or quotation
dropped may "give them away" and
they are recognized. Thus it was
that LIGHT reporter recently net
an educated and quite pretty blonde.
who at first was very reserved and i'll
disposed to converse. Gradually
he became acquainted. She talked
about everybody and every
thing in unreServed confidence
and by her conversation showed her
to be talented, versatile woman. In
making quotation from an obscure
author, the reporter was interrupted
by her with:
"Do you know the author of those
lines?n
eyes, he said, "but do your
Eyes" she replied and gave the
authors name.
Then a number of quotations in
from well known dramatic authors
were tried upon her and she gave the
authors as we'll as in what works
they could be found. Surprised the
reporter told her so.
"Oh," she said, II ought to know
these quotations. 1t is my business
to learn and commit to memory and
it is no trouble at all. 1 was educated
for the stage and have been in the
profession for the past five years,
though am now taking a rest for the
summer.
"What was your stage name?" the
scribe inquired.
kitty Charlesworth, at your ser
vice." she replied, with a courtesy and
a smile. II will give you short his
tory of myself. tits necessarily short
because | have only been in the pro-
fession for five years, and you see
I'm young yet. / started out in New
York, in the Star theatre, playing
generally the leading parts of light
drama At that time BARLEY Camp
bell, who died last week, had just
written his "White Slave" 1t was a
great success. and Harry Kennedy's
company secured me to take the lead
ing role of Lisa Wiley. l was in San
Antonio in the season of 'S6 and 'S7,
and appeared at the Grand Opera
house." she remarked, in tones sus-
piciously like surprise.
"But the Elisa" of that White
Slave company, my dear young lady,
wore dark hair" the innocent re-
porter observed.
"Ah, you men! you don't know
much, " she remarked in manner very
much the same as often used by Mile.
Rhea, when talking with her friends.
II wore a wig, and of course you
could not see my blonde hair, as it is
now, taking her wavy tresses and
running them, condensation, through
her fingers.) 'Do you know, that so
out of every 100 actresses on the stage
today seldom appear in their natural
hair upon the stage? 1t often suits
them to wear wig, suits the play and
pleases the play-gOers, the last result
being the most important of all to the
actor, you know. Now how would l
have represented Lisa the dark
Southern heiress with my blonde
hail? ?" and she looked at the young
man quizzically.
"How long is it since you left the
white Slave Company questioned
he.
II was with the company until last
season, when it disbanded, and of
course, Isecured another engagement.
1 am going next season right back,
taking second lady's role in "The
Wages of SIM We start from New
York at the opening of the season and
that means, you know, that | must
cut my visit in San Antonio
very short. 1 liked San Antonio so
much when l first saw it that l de-
termined to some time spend the
summer here, and so I have and have
had delightful time. I like the eli
mate and the people, and feel rested
and refreshed. / feel just like dane
ing aud jumping all the time. How's
this?n and she cut a regular Fanny
Rice piroutte on the carpet.
In person Miss Charlesworth is tall
and we'll formed, blonde, with blue
eyes and pearly teeth. She has never
married and says she don't intend to.
She is stopping at private boarding
house, and has made herselfa general
faVorite with her small circle of
friends. San Antonio will probably
see her again, on the boards, though,
as she says, "you must not try to find
me by any regular name, for like
most actresses, we have many NOM
mes du theatre "
THE postmortem on Maxwelps body