The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-06


did not consider her ~ associate for
their sons and daughters, merely because
she was an actress. Others say that these
women were merely jealous of Miss
Cranes charms-fcr she Is very beautiful
Miss Crane refuses 10 wear tights be-
cause she does net think I, womanly 10
do so--and she loves 10 be won,anlv. Fur
thermore. she promised her mother when
she adopted the stags caree- that she
would not change her STYLE or dress But
the desire 10 be good woman that a rasss
Of % should be. is her strongest reason Tor
refusing % WELD TO The opportunities or
stage managers to appear in skin-nsting
garments.
Il love more than anything else 10 por-
tray on the stage the character OF good
woman" said Miss Crane. like the limo
cent Isabel Irving that l played IN Ala
bama' last year. To listen TO or portray
a bad character leaves bad taste in my
mouth. i will not wear tights. but | have
nothing TO say against actresses w.o 90,
for there are lots of good women who
wear them, not because they Ike 20 do so.
but because they have TO-"
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America has given one OF Englands
most conspicuous actors his charming
leading woman Miss Maud Jefferies. VINO
has gone TO Australia TO support Wilson
Barrett was born no longer ago than lsso.
way down South in Dixie land, on cot
ton plantation in Mississippi. where she
lived In quiet and solitude with her family
until she was Is years old. She went 10
college in Columbia. Tenn. and while IN
school was easily leader in all dramatic
entertainments and programmes. Sae left
college at Is. Feeling the sudden necessity
of earning her living. she wrote TO August
Daily. and secured place in his company.
She conceived an admiration for Wilson
Barrett. and communicating with him. re-
ceived an offer TO join his company. She
accompanied him to England TO play small
parts. making her first appearance at
Liverpool. Shortly after their arrival In
London, Mr.. Barrett experienced some
difficulty with leading woman, and in
the end he asked Miss Jefferies TO take
the place. She declined at first. but was
afterwards prevailed upon by her friends.
and prepared fourteen parts in three
weeks as her first venture. She has been
Mr.. Barrett's leading support seven years.
playing a great variety of roles She is
as greatly admired for her sweet DISPOSE
ton and iovable nature as for her ability,
and was happy in the sanction OF her
parents when she turned TO the stage for
her livelihood.
Here's Sousa story that Is funny
enough TO warrant forgetfulness Of serac-
ity or probability. The March King is
credited with telling of his first appear
anee as vioIinlst. when he was only II
years old. He says:
My initial bow as solo performer was
maue before an audience composed almost
entirely of lunatics. Just outside or the
city of Washington is the St. Elizabeth
insane asylum. which Is maintained by
the United States government, and IL WAS
the custom for local musicians to give oc-
ct1 nj rEs. i4try for pa
amusement of the unfortunate confined
there. My music teacher, John Esputa,
frequently managed these affairs, and on
one occasion, finding himself short of tai
ent, he sent word TO my house that /
should hold myself in readiness to assis.
him with violin solo. / didn't want to
so Bit but as Esputa was a martinez
for discipline l knew 1t would be idle to
protest So 1 resorted to subterfuge.
Shortly before ii was time to start for the
asylum presented myself at my teachers
house with the excuse that did not have
a clean shirt at home. and it would be ex-
tremeiy improper for me to appear In pup
lie with untidy linen.
But Esputa made me so TO his room
and don one of his shirts. which proved
many sizes too large for a boy of ii. /
remember painfully that 1t was wrapped
around me almost twice, and tho collar
was pinned on fore and aft. If there was
q more uncomfortable boy in tho city Of
Washington than myself on that night
he must have suffered the very ecstacy Of
misery l wandered around gioomiiy I'M
I'll my number on the programme was
reached. and then stumbled on the plat
form. The thought OF that borrowed
shirt and the idea that / was playing to
crazy people must have unnerved me, for
I had not played more than a dozen bars
of my solo before ! forgot every note and
was on the point Of breaking down. At
this point 1 glanced hopelessiy at my
teacher seated az the piano TO play my
accompaniment and the wild glance OF
that met my look frightened me to re-
newed efforts, so / began to improvise.
/ could hear Esputa swearing at me I'M
der his breath as he tried TO follow the
wild flights OF my fancy. Then the pin
that held the voluminous collar encircling
my neck slipped It's mornings. while the
collar made Wild dash over my ears.
This was too much for me, and despite
the torrid imprecatlons or my teacher, !
brought my Unique solo TO a sudden end
with a strong chord and then made a
frantic effort to escape. For punishment
l was deprived of my supper that night"
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The Cincinnati Enquirer Is responsible
for the story that Jacob Essential won
a bet in Terre Haute last week. He, along
with the agent or The Girl From Paris
Company, landed in the Hoosier metropo-
Lis at /: 30 a. m. Jacob thirsted for news
paper space 10 announce he coming Of
What Happened 10 Jones'" He wanted
a big announcement In the leading morn
ing papers he wanted 1t SO badly that he
made a wager that he could get half a
column IN a morning paper before IL went
20 press.
The wager accepted, the Irresistible,
flaming Jacob ran as fast as his 100
pounds would take him 10 fhe newspaper
Office. On the way he picked up n small
boy, whom he offered a quarter TO 30
along with him. Arriving at the office
Jacob Invested himself OF his hat and
coat. handed them 20 the boy 10 hold:
then ran almost breathiessly into the city
EDITORS room and screamed that he had
been assaulted and robbed by "A fooipad.
He gave fun particulars. and more espe-
cially to his own identjty--that the unfor-
tunate was nom other than the renowned
Jacob Rosenthal. Jacob now thinks that
there Is no use going 70 the kIoniike
when gold bricks" are so cheap right here
a. home.
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