St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-27
Something About the Midget
Star Of the "Still Alarm
Company.
Child in Age and Experience,
but Perfection in Grace
Of Action.
The Tiny Head Not Allowed
to Be Turned by Praise or
AdulatiOn.
Sweetness and Naturalness
on the Stage Duplicated
in the Home Life.

There may be two opinions about child
actresses in general, but there can be
but one opinion about Little Tuesday.
Little Tuesday is as sweet as
sweet can be. Not woman who
sees her OH the stage but wants
to kiss that laughing little baby
mouth. Not child in the audience but
is wild TO know her. She dances like a
sunbeam and frolics about Oh the stage
with funny little airs that make her
irresistibly attractive.
But Little Tuesday off the stage is a
very different person. Anybody can
see her across the footlights. but only
the favored few-the very fcw-can
meet her in daylight, face to face. Lit
tie Tuesdays mother. Mrs. Wood, is a
very careful mother, and newspapers
ana newspaper people are stranger to
her little daughter. Press notices are not
read to her, and she is not allowed
to think that she IS the star of the COM
pany. Santa Claus brother sits way
back in the shadows Of the gallery, and
when the little midget is recalled, he
comes around next day with present
That's why little Tuesday likes TO do
well.
If you're just plain everyday body
who. won't fill the little thing with con-
celted notions, you may meet little
tuesday. She comes in as demurely as
may be with mamma. She is as straight
and shapely child as any mother could
wish. Her quaint red frock falls to the
toes of her slender shoes, and her dane
ing eyes sparkle from under her yellow
bang. She hugs a doll close to her. 1t
is pretty enough doll. as dolls go, even
II you do nave to bang it to get its eyes
open after once they are Shut, and by
and by, when little Tuesday knows you
better, and snuggles up to you, you hear
the history of that doll
All Tuesdays by the way, the
little girls name is really Charlotte Sc
lima Wood. Tuesday being a nickname
her uncle gave her when she was born
dolls are named for holidays. Black
Friday and Christmas are her pets.
Then there was a pony named Tony
PaStOr. and ever so many things that
santa Claus brother brings her. Tues
day has learned Shakespeare and the
legitimate instead of Mother Goose.
''Shall L say Richelieu for you?' she
asks.
You are only too glad to hear it. She
goes over into the corner. Strengthens
out her frock, and waits bit for you to
have done asking mamma questions.
Are you ready"E she SAYS. OF course
you are. Whereupon Tuesday kisses
her hand with low bow. and wrinkling
her face into an abSurdly stern ex-
preston begins. Mark where she
stands" The left baud goes out with
dignity Wound her form | draw
the awful circle of our holy church,
the two hands go sailing out in
mighty circle. Step but a foot" and
the child looks positively threatening.
The Curse of Rome!" IS shouted out
with both hands straight overhead, la
Bernliaidt. The whole thing is so
ridiculous, the action SO good and the
little woman so serious that you are
little Tuesdays bond slave from that
moment.
II can do the skirt dance" says Tues
day, when you have heard that she
went to dancing school at the age of
three, Can you?'
She looks very sorry for you when
you humbly confess that you can't get
beyond the polka, and Straightway goes
dancing off down the room, humming
the dance, and flirting the pretty red
skirts.
She comes back and begins to inter-
view you. She asks just the question
any little girl would ask, and is so SIM
pie and natural yor wonder if she can
be the child the papers are talking of.
She asks you If you know any little
girls when you're going away, and when
you say you do. she asks YOU to bring
them to see her dance with a smile that
makes you determine to borrow an
orphan asylum.
She's only baby, and she doesn't APP
pear every night, nor does she have a
speaking part, but she is the star of the
Still Alarm" and f.you don't see her.
you'll be the only woman in town who
doesn't.