The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-07
BAB'S CHAT.
Does the Modern Actor OutdiStanCe
the Peacock in Vanity?

Footlight Favorites Who Long TOT
Adulation and Scandals-Some Ac-
tresses Who Should Say Goodbye
TO the Public - Metallic-Throated
soubrettes Women Who Should
More Thoroughly Learn the Art Of
Good Cooking.
New York. Jan. ct came about in
this way: The colonel had dropped in to
see if a residence in New York had made
my maternal parent lose her ability as
far as egg nog was concerned. When he
reached the third glass, or rather, goblet,
for she serves it that way, he said that
''once you know a little thing well you
never forget it," And gave look which
meant that it would be agreeable to have
his goblet refilled. / laughed and re-
minded him that actors once knowing
their lines, frequently forgot them, and
he slowly murmered:
Actors my dear, there is to-day no
more overappreciated human being IN the
world than the actor. / have the honor
to number among my acquaintances la
dies and gentlemen, and when say TINS
mean in the finest sense OF the word,
who are actors, but not one OF them
on the stage The actor considers him
self a god-he may be a thu one, with
CLAW feet The actor demands continual
pity, and vet when he can do anything
at all, he makes more money and does
less work than any other man IN the
world. He poses as a genius, and ne IS
not even original, for he speaks oCner
mems words, and the mimetic quality
which he possesses, he has the honor OF
sharing in common with the monkey ana
the baby. He has concluded that the
duties other men owe society DO not at
tach themselves to him, consequently, he
fails to see why he should pay his debts
or save his money. When he is making
hundred dollars week, he is spending
hundred and fifty, and the reponsibili-
ties of husband and father hang very
lightly on his shoulders.
WHEN ACTORS ARE GOOD FELLOWS.
When actors are in trouble, somebody
gets up benefit for him, or takes up
collection because he Is such q good fell
low, and being good fellow among actors
seems to mean hanging around the bars
and treating everybody who wants TO be
treated and giving away heedlessly, and,
as ! call it, dishonesty. No man mas
right to give dollar TO beggar when he
owes his landlady. The world IS IN
clined 10 attach a sickly sentimentality TO
the actor He is believed TO be so over
flowing with goodheartedness that he
can't stop to think out any of the other
virtues, and least of all is he supposed
to consider money matters. Now, l
have the words Of a good many
actors for one thing, and that is the
actors lack OF charity. They see moth
ing good in any other actors work: they
are inveterate gossips, and they are as
delighted over a scandal as a woman is
over good cup of tea. AS for vanity,
my dear, the peacock isn't in 1t with
them. You can spot them as you would
the leprosy. Each walks down Broad
way with an air that tells am Mr. Mont
morency Howard, born McSweeny, play
ing leading parts in the Lost Soul, or
How Did He Win Her." Company. Mr..
Montmorency Howard is out for the ad-
miration of the world; he gets 1t from a
few silly girls, and he seems to have no
compunctions as to accepting whatever
that admiration may mean.
sin Shakespeare's time.
THE ACTOR WAS A vAaABoND,
strolling about from place to place, and
it seems to me he was more loVable than
when he knew something, and his
clothes was not over fine, than now
when he knows little and is the adver-
Using block for the tailor. Severe2 No,
my dear, / am just. The actor rings up
a doctor at o'clock in the morning,
and thinks that the doctor ought to be
glad TO attend him for nothing; he
meets the Honorable Mr.. Justice and
says causally. Are you a professionals
And MIR. Justice calmly says, Yes
Then he asks, What Company9' And
MIR. Justice responds, I'm a lawyer and
the actor saws, ''Oh, l thought YOU were
one of u.s. To him there is only one pro-
fession, for so he has the impudence to
call acting. He forgets that in France he
was not even citizen until the days of
Robespierre, and he doesn't know that to-
day, in Holland, he must prove himself
gentleman and appear in that capacity
before he can enter a respectable house.
j am sick and tired of seeing the actor
brought into social life without any re-
gard to his manners and his morals, and
think the worst evidence Of the deca-
dence of the times is to find Mr.. Mont
morency Howard talking to my Lady
Splendid. Now understand my dear,
there are men and women on the stage
who are my dear friends, but they were
ladies and gentlemen by heart and by
birth before they were actors.
interrupted the colonel here, and said,
"Yet you go to the theater great deall''
$50 / do he answered; II went the
other night and came away Disguised
That merry knave who has PLAYED the
fool so advantageously. Oscar Wilde,
has written what he is pleased to call q
play. and so went to see it, 1t was
called 1.-THE Woman of No Importance" /;
1t ought have been called "A Play of No
Impor lance"
ACTED BY WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN.
II was given in a theater that would
have Mortified Mr.. Wilde's artistic tastes
by its vulgarity. 1t was supposed to be
epigrammatic. If you win kindly set
it down to the strength of the eggnog, and
permit me to sayit should like to call it
damnably tiresome. In the first act, the
hero, who is given over TO the trousers
habit, by which I mean that he stood
with his hands in his pockets the greater
part of the time, answered questions asked
by a lot of oyerdressed women, who
would never have been seen in a decent
English house, and who, thank heaven.
are equally unknown in America off the
stage; and at other times he asked them
questions. The women all looked as if
they had been ground up in the mills of
the gods quite slowly, and put on fine
frocks to hide the effects. One lanky in
dividual was my idea Of "She" after the
fire. The questions were something af-
ter this style: Dear Lord Wiggle- Wag-
gle, isn't vice deliciousl" Then Lord Wig
gle-Waggle dropped his monocle, and
says; LAS perfect as a sunset on the Med
iterranean. But, Lady Don't Care, are
there any good women2"
"Then Lady Don't Care turned her back