The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-01-03

/ clouded with Cluny lace and soft ribbons.
F! The robe was long and trailed with mus
ical rustic as she moved about like tenn
porarily animated statue. She is one OF
those rare embodiments of physical beau
/ ty, who bewitch the eyes into stealing
1 glances ait her when she does not know
she is watched Her coloring is exquisite
like the heart of a wild rose-and her
stature dwarfs most men and quite OBJ
! scures the average woman. In proper
ton Mrs Sothern is absolutely faultless;
/ the symmetry OF her waist and hip-lines
is superb and her neck from the chin
dimple to the shOulder-curve is exactly
like the bella di Tiziano' Of the palaZ-
no Pitt. She wore her hair in two heavy
braids, bound close to her head and
tumbling down in careless little straight
fringes over her ears; it is golden-brown
and beautifully brought close to her tenn
pie veins and over the nape of her lovely
neck. Not q brush of powder, a vain
decoration, or a jewel, divided attention
with the famous Harmed PROJECTIONS and
1t was a pleasure to look at her.
What possessed you to so into train
ing for Trilby?' ! asked, wondering what
art endeavor could induce so perfect a
woman to Interfere with her figure.
Well, to meet the requirements of Du
Maurier's bony ideal. / was not too
plump. | was tOo-ah, towel what
shall | say" foundered the beauty try
ing not to acknowledge she was too sym
metrical for Trilby's angular superiority
ut is not a matter OF being fat or lean,
it is a matter of being absolutely salts
Factory. For some people to be thin
would be ludicrous, for others to be fat
would be equally grotesque but when
weight is adapted to personality it is ex-
adtly right, no matter what it is. Some
famous beauties have been cadayerous,
others almost obese, but they were beau
| tiful just the same inasmuch as beauty
! Is harmony" preached Mr. Sothern, gal
lantly adding:
'For my part, / can always be what
ever like, because Ira the living skele-
ton and can pad to the extent required
BY the way, it is q study to watch
Beerbohm Tree make up. He is mas
ter-tradesman In the neglected art and
it takes him no longer to put himself in
to the monster carcass OF fat Jack Falls
taft tfan it does me to slip into the spurs
and beard OF the Huguenot captain.
Il had a most entertaining experience
one small dressing room were Crane,
Tree, Felix Morris, who is fussy, and
Gillette, who is quiz and stall as a cool
day. Tree came in about the same time
/ did and before / had the background
4 OF my ffuguenos face par in there SAT-
a Falstaff the like Of which / never saw
away from Shakespeare's books. Tree
leaned back, folded his hands over his
enormous paunch and talked brilliantly
upon the subject of the legitimate drama
| Morris was continually interrupting
apologizing for being ON earth and par
ticularly that cramped portion of it
| when so much celebrity was waiting a
bout for a glance in the looking glass
Crane came in, scowled at himself and
smiled at everybody else through the
medium of hand-glass and Strengthened
his necktie-that was his makeup.
was fretted, disturbed, unhappy and In
a fuster before could coax the wthiskers
of my rebel to stick on my miserable face
1t taught me lesson to behold the Sc
renity of Tree, the only man who had
any sort of a difficult makeup to accom-
piish. Gillette sat making other people
say clever things and adding something
himself by parenthesis, but / was still
when the curtain called Tree away. Ac-
tors spend entirely too much force Of
/ nerves and thought at the dressing ia
bic. All sorts of worriments chase most
OF Us there; things do not go right, acct
dents happen, people are annoying and
wahiskers won't work. / think if all ac-
tors could study to make up as a light
ming sketch artist reels off his exact char
. /,
attic saving of vital force and nerve pow
er. | am not very strong, and know, and
by the time / ann dressed | am exhausted,
and it is only the elation OF enthusiasm
in my work which gives me the strength
to play weIl-as well as / can, at least.
My governor has never been credited
| with the enthusiasm and intense love Of
art which was part Of his nature Most
of his acquaintance overlook it and all
Of his following which laughed with him
during his entire successful lifetime. But
ne was nervous as | am, careful of pleas
ing his audience and severely conscien-
tious"
1t is exceedingly beautiful to hear
young Sothern speak deyotedly OF his gay
and talented father, who was never half
so brilliant an actor as his gifted son,
/
mate friends and quite as many admirers
| perhaps. Life was huge joke to the
father and the delightful son takes It
more seriously, takes art more seriously
| "Murat Hailstead was a great friend
Of nay Governors and he patronizes me
benevolently upon occasion and / ana
really tremendously fond of him and ap-
preciate his mental worth, Of course. One
day last month l was going in to the
| Hoffman House to take a Turkish bath
when discovered somebody hailing nae
from the next block. 1t proved to be
Halstead and he was bound for the bath,
too. He went in pufing and scoIding
/ cheerily and said to the attendant:
Give me one Of those yellow novels
you keep here for me-
"a gaudy specimen OF French literature
was handed him, as Murat stalked into
! the hot room.
/ always read these things in here
explained the politician; can't stand the