The evening world., 1894-02-12
NEWS OF The STAGE WORLD.
Miss Clemmons Uses Ice as an
Advertising Medium.
Something In a Name, as One Actress
Found Out.

MISS hathrlne tlemrnOns IL n uurlnt
young woman. She has adopted method.
OF advertisement that The experienced
stars and leading ladies would regard
superstitiously as suggestive of coming
evil. On saturday night portraits Of tbs
beautiful E~athrine-uho as a prelimi.
nary to her appearance Mt the Fifth Ave
nue. has dropped the e from her baptis.
NAL name-were exhibited on scintillant
Broadway in the middle OF huge blocks
of ice. The blocks had been chopped in
two and from their centre the face OF
the coming star peered coldly. II was
picturesque, but most unfortunate. and
the Rialto people gazed at the odd ad
vertisements In W Said one actor:
III Miss Clemmons is going to make a
frost there is 10 need OF her advising us
of her intentions beforehand" Another
remarked: "She Is chilling her audiences
before they enter the theatre" and u
third ventured to oplne that the Ice had
horribly mortuary suggestions. Miss
Clemmons Is certainly being oddly man
aged. The little paragraphs that are cir
culated TO fascinate readers are strange
ly unsympathetic in their character. The
name Of the author OF THE Lady of
Venice" by the bye, is not noted at all.
Is he ashamed of the play. or does Miss
Clemmons begrudge him the honor Of u
brief mention in her blocks of Ice?
There was once a young feminine star
even more %audacious than Miss Glenn
mons. She dared to star under the name
OF Frost. Managers objected, and actors
were hard to get, but Frost she was
determined to be. Her tour was not
successful, although she was a clever
actress. and nlaD sing Ia lpnlf NJ T., lac-
peration she had to change her name.
or course, there's nothing In these little
superstitions. but theatrical people ike
10 be on the right side.
Eleanor Duse," says DR.. Schiller.
has Just been DECORATED by the Duke
and protect art, and who have done SO
since h time when Goethe lived in
Weimar. Long G they created a spe-
and science. They ii ' to give this IL e or.
der. 1t saves cash. 1 would give a good
deal IL 1 could have seen Buses face
when. she got the order. She has a
tyrants, whether they sit on thrones or
managerial chairs. She tolerates only
one tyranny; that Is her won. / do not
think there is any danger Of Duse wear
instead of her necklace. In the character
Of Marguerite Gautier."
The matinee girls at the METROPOLITAN
Opera-House lave become desperate.
They take their camp stools with them.
A number OF damsels, thus laden, at
tended the performance of Romeo and
Juliet Saturday. afternoon. and sat
through the long intervals. solitary and
apparently happy. According to one of
the ushers,, bench. parties are not un-
usual, and boxes, bearing Enthusiastically
the names Of bakeries and luncheon
rooms. are quite frequently found. There
Is nothing like taking ones music COM
%fortably.
THE Talisman," now running at the
Irving Place Theatre, Is. as already
told here, to be done in London in Eng,
lish. When Beerbohm Tree announced
this to his audience, a man in he gal
goods here. The Londoners deplore thu
familiarity that is caused by actors max
ing speeches from the stage.
During the present season f. S. VII,
lard cancelled his dates at eight theatre
because in these houses the dressing.
rooms were uncomfortable and crude
Several other managers are adopting Mr.
Wizards tactics. and in the twentieth
century actors may not be forced t
dress in pig-sties.
A little whisper has reached this coun'
try telling Of another quarrel-ette be
tween the world-famous collaborateur.
Gilbert and Sullivan. Their latest opera
Utopia Is still doing a capital bushes!
%insinuation Is that they will ~collaborat,
no more.