The Washington times., 1894-10-07
OSCILLATION ON THE STAGE.

Actors aud Actresses known by the DUAL.
ity of Their Kissing.
If there is one thing that the matinee girl
knows more about than all the rest it is
the stage Kiss. She doesn't go to the
matinee fifty-two times in the year. be-
sides twice in Christmas week, for moth
ing. There are a great many kinds OF
stage kisses, and the matinee girl knows them
all. She chartered about il at the lunch
counter the other day, with her mouth full Of
sweet-bread patties and olives. There's
Henry Miller" she said: when he's telling
the heroine that he loves her he always
closes his eyes and seems TO grow pale
And Jean de Reszke has tender way Of tax
ing the sopranos face between his hands
bending down. and kissing the parting in her
blonde wig that is perfectly Iovely-mak6s the
little cold chills run up and down your back,
ike Paderewskis playing. Mr.. Bell, Maud
Harrlson's husband, Is the most chivalrous,
high-minded lover, and deposits all his kisses
on the soubrette's front hair. In all the times
l have seen him, and they are not few, I
never knew him TO get any nearer her lips
than her bang. You know the stage lover is
so artistic in his respect for bang, too. He
Is satisfied without rumpling il all up and
smoothing it over back until he takes the
curl out Of it, unlike a real lover.
Barrymore sTaggers toward girl with
half sad smile and languid. world-weary
look in his eyes. Sothern either stammers
over it in supposed confusion or comes out
with il deiantly and takes his stand on H.
Manten glares and leans over the back Of her
neck helcey puts so much reverence into
his kisses that don't believe he enjoys il or
the girl either. Otis Skinner is noted as an
electrical kisser, and owes his training 70
Margaret Mather, who IS a realistic kiss
artist. Henry Hallam's kisses are so cold
they just gave the Casino star bronchitis, and
De Wolf Hopper can make YOU laugh more
with his kiss than in any other way. Mr.
Robson as BERTHE, the Lamb, always delighted
the girls. You know he told her he was going
TO kiss her-the most absurd thing. too. She
hung her head. flushed, and yielded As il
any girl would after he asked her no
matter how much she wanted the kiss.
He pecked at her pretty face first,
her forehead. then her cheek. and then at her
lips. But the greatest kiss was Alvary's Sieg-
fried kiss. Forty-two seconds it lasted by the
watch, and the music played sOftlv all the
while. The Cayvan kiss Just makes YOU faint
sometimes, it Is so slow and sweet believe it
was that lingering kiss of hers that gained
her the reputation for womanliness In the
play they have Just discarded the prettiest
scene was the kiss between Miss Cayyan and
Mrs. WhIff1n. Anybody would know that
gentle little Mrs. Within and the leading lady
loved each other by that kiss.
Mrs. Kendall. too, knows how 10 do such
pretty things with kisses. heard man say
once that in The Squire after she had per-
suaded her husband to write and announce
the marriage TO his mother, the way Mrs
Kendall suddenly stopped down and kissed
the hand with which he was writing was the
most fetching thing he ever saw a woman
do, except perhaps letting down her back
hair. You know woman can do
things by letting down her back hair
before a man. especially if the hair is
blonde and wavy and there is plenty of if. that
she cannot do in any other way Mr.. Glen
denning, the man who played leading parts
with Mrs. Kendall on the other side. saws tEat
the first time he played The White Lie
with Mrs. Kendall he was little timid about
making the advance the part called for
and, seeing his embarrassment, she graciOUslv
came to the rescue and told him to act as IN
consrrainedly toward her as he would toward
his wife and not to hesitate to smooth her
hair or caress her all he liked. The very
cutest kissing IS done by Marie Tempest. She
has trick of placing her thumb nails TO her
lips and kissing the space between them,
making distinctly audible sound. To all
appearances she has the tenor's face between
her hands and her lips pressed to his. whereas
there are the hands between them. They say
the tenOrs do not like the Tempest kiss. but it
goes, for Tempest is the prima donna and
they must submit"