The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-27
ACTORS ARE supERsTITIous.
Some Saturated With Stnge Fads
and Fancies That influence Their
From the phlladeInhia TIme..


From the Philadelphia Times.
Nowhere else is there found such estab-
nshed superstition as upon the stage. Viola
Allen, for instance. of the Empire theater
company, which is playing at the Broad
street theater, always carries with her
what she calls lucky bone. 1t is the sec
ond joint of the second finger Of the left
hand of negro criminal, and was sent to
Miss Allen by Robert Pinkerton, chief of
the secret service
Elsie De Wolfe, of the same organization,
would have terrible misgIving were, she to
hear dog bowling under her window be-
tween the hours of IL o'clock in the even
ing and l o'clock in the morning. A crick-
ct chirplng in her room or spider weav-
ing q web over her bed indicates to her
success in the near future.
Ida Conquest. another leading member
made her first appearance on the stage
about five years in ago as Suzanne in "A
Scrap of Paper" In that play she wore a
very pretty light blue silk bodice, and al
though II is now rather faded and frayed,
she carries 1t In the bottom or her trunk,
feeling that there Is some favorable in
fiuence cast upon her stage career be-
cause of this fact.
May ROBSON mas Deen Known TO Walk ali
around block In order to avoid passing
under a ladder, and she would as soon
think of leaping into a lime kiln as to cross
the street between carriages in a funeral
procession.
If a white cat should cross his path in
the alleyway leading to the stage door VIII
liam Faxersham would walk around the
block and make three signs before enter
ing the theater Should anyone open an
h. efo or in a auditorium
during a rehearsal of new play. Mr.. Fa-
Versham would Immediately throw down
his part on the ground that the incident
killed all possibility Of the plays success.
]. f. Dodson, character actor of the
company, is positive that post sepa-
rates friendship and will under no eircum-
stances travel on a train with corpse,
feeling that such trip would blast his
career.
The only thing that upsets Ferdinand
Gottschalks equanimity is to pass flock
of sheep and to meet a collection of pigs
of the four-legged kinds in his opinion
an augury of good things to come.
Mrs. Thomas Whiffen will never wear
yellow or have that color for any of the
tapestries in her room, as she has all her
life felt it is an unluclSy color. Robert Ed
eson has no objection to making his first
appearance in a new part on the vast ma
jorlties of Mondays. There are certain
Mondays when he would under no circum-
stances make his debut in "a play, These
Mondays are the first in January, when
Sodom and Gomorrah were COMPOUNDED;
the first Monday in April, which is the
date that Cain was born and his brother
Abel was slain, and the last Monday in
December, which marks the date that Ju-
das Iscariot was born. F."
William II. Crompton would be COM
pletely upset if anyone were to whistle in
dressing room. Jameson Lee Finney
was with great difficulty induced to enter
new theater which the Empire Com
pany dedicated, because a woman in
stead of a man was the first to go inside
of it, and there is not a member of the
entire Empire Company that would not
become very much detected were anyone
to turn a chair completely around in their
presence on the evening of the first per-
Torrance of new play.