Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-08


she reads yellow-covered books, IL creeps about
that she is going to star in "Juliet" next sea-
son and she is important, oh, far more import
ant than she will be on the stage next season!
One would think the hard work of the year
would make her dread the noise, clatter and
jumpitiveness Of q summer hotel, but it doesn't.
She reyels in it.
At LrsrRrY N THR CITY.
Some there are before whom stands the re-
cord AT liberty" and such haunt the city.
They live, oh, heaven knows how. Sometimes
tucked away in a corner Of grudging friends
fat. sometimes clubbing in with a chum, some
times in O far up oven in fashionable board
ing house, often in dollar room of big
hotel in which they never take their meals.
The room matters little, for they are ont all
day. and it is wearing, heart-breaking work
seeking an engagement. The agencies are
visited, the managers are logged friends are
chung to. hope is coaxed and pushed and worn
ont. Perhaps q poor luncheon is bought at
some cheap side place, or, perhaps, since it
looks well to be seen there, some eating is
hook or by crook, they get sin 'front.' at q
theater and afterward comes a little supper,
perhaps of cold water and crackers at home; or
Of ale, cheese aud brown bread ''around at
little place know" or, if an old friend is run
across-who has lust struck it,'-a bottle of
wine Is drunk somewhere. Heavy hearts and
tired feet so home to the stufy room. To be
sure, the room may be q suite. All her savings
may be plunged at once on the chance Of get
ting better engagement by seeming to need
places have sorry summers, and no wonder the
life and brightness goes out Of SO many pretty
faces.
AFLYrSo TRIP 70 EUROPE.
Europe gets some tourists from the stage. A
flying trip is not so expensive after all If one is
careful, and the dramatic papers will say you
have gone over to buy costumes. That starts
rumors of starring" and such rnmors do one
no harm. The sea voyage gives back energy
and courage and the utter rest is good. Many
a little actress saves strenuously ali the season
for summer trip abroad, and when summer
comes the savings disappear unregretted
Easy come easy 60 is the motto of
the majority in the profession. Some
few keep house for their friends, as the saving
goes, and many visit such ones. In this pro-
tession OF shifting homelessness hospitality
burns brightly. The couple lucky enough to
own little place will turn it inside out for
their friends, and Jack and Jill and Jane and
John ruin down for few days. all summer
long. They are easy guests and easy hosts
these people. Cots are put up, and when cots
give out the piazza is strung with hammOcks.
Eating goes by pot luck, and pot luck is usually
very good. Actor folk are almost always blessed
with turn for cookery. To be sure, beer and
rarebit and so much beer that who could
complain? Actors go in for camping. Two
weeks tenting 'otf somewhere" sets them mp
into athletes for leading parts, and gives to
them a rudy bronze which supplies color to
their talk Of "up through the lakes with my
friend So-and-So." Now and then little wife
il taken along to attend 10 pots and kettles. and
lucky the little wife is; but q rule the boys
prefer to rough it by themselves. Nopeopie in
the busy world hurl themselves 80 completely
the quiet and the peace, the green and the gold
OF summer way-otfness as do none others. 1t
is all so different from the stuffy theater work,
the railroading and the WEAKNESS.
Summer is great time for getting rid Of
superfluous flesh, and many q soubretto puts
herself through a course that would make John
l.. weary. She walks. she runs. she rows II she
can get hold Of boat. She wears her stage
furs and sits in the sun. She drinks vinegar.
She is rubbed down and rubbed up and rubbed
sideways. She rolls on the floor, she falls up
and down stairs, she stands on her head, she
hangs on the line. She starves She lives on
sawdust and lime juice and nobody guesses her
private fortunes
WHEN SHE LOSES HER HEART.
1t isn't during the season, in the glaring
theater and during the same old talk Of the
play. that an actress loses her heart. II IL in
the summer time, when she puts on q sun bon
net and goes for the COVE with q freckled coun-
try giant, dreams Of herself doing '.Esmeralda"
really and signs for peace and believes the en-
away from the blaze of the footlights, you were
not meant for such O life It is in summer,
when she has eaten too many gooseberries, that
she believes she has mistaken her life and writes
to the leading man that she won't marry him
unless he will 60 and live with her in sunny
Italy-far, far from the stage and its garish
splendors. 1t is in summer time that she
thinks she has discovered the difference be-
tween moonlight and calcium and says she
will marry the dark-eyed somebody or other
ubrN hor d s,, AZ H..
goes back to work to take care of him. It is
in summer that she dreams Of simple joys and
peaceful years; that she loathes bills of fare
and fancies 'porridge with the children clam
bering about her knees" and it is in sumner
when some broad shouldered real lover asks
her to wait till he has won a home for her and
she gets swamped with an ambition to wait.
In the winter when she is playing such fool
nonsense i'll dramas she 10 a practical little bus
mess woman, but in the summer time whom she
is resting and wearing broad hats and
freckles she is as ingenious and confiding as
the most weak-minded of her stage heroiues.
REAL REST.
She 'rests" more in one week than her ais
ter in private life does In year. She throws
away her painted, dressed-up and self-confident
self and if she gets half a chance turns herself
loose, regular kid in the buttercups and
daisies. She will get more salt out OF the sea,
more ozone out Ut the air, more shine from the
sun, more sweet from the flowers than anybody
else Roses will fly to her pale cheeks and
glsten come into her weary eyes with just half
a chance. Her step, grown weary through Q
long season, lifts lightly and the stage ring goes
out of her laugh, leaving it like child's.
She eats bread and butter and falls in
love as easily in August as she will
digest soft-shell crabs and look out for herself
In December. She will look more like simple
country maiden in July than does the simple
country maiden herself, but in January she will
play the part of an actress and dress as never
an actress was heard Of In August her skin is
brown and like velvet; in September it is ala
buster and like satin. She is light hearted and
light headed in summer and she is light
hearted and level headed in winter. When you
see her in the city you very likely will know
her block off. When you see her in the
country you will think that you have at last
found the milkmaid Of whom you have read.
A Contrast.
Two men toiled side by side from sun to sun,
And both were poor;
Both sat with children, when the day was done,
About their door.