The times., 1898-12-25

not pleasant. Sometimes zay toIiow me
an In a big stor-re yesterday gay KEEP
ar-round me so Eat l Good not buy any
sing. But Washington is beautiful. Eet
must be a great ceety for exercise. Won
may ride ze bicycle-vot You call ze
wheel-or ze horse in zis ceety wizout
trouble. Personally i am fond of ex-
cercise. i tax much of Get efery day.
For zat reason L should like to lif in
Westinghouse l wanted to stay anyvair."
Godfrey Stein, who came to the Column
bia last week, has played characters
from so many different countries that he
is becoming puzzled regarding his own
nativity. DO you know" he remarked a
few days ago. that, while this may
sound like a joke. I am actually getting
mixed concerning myself. This is not so
much true now as it was when | was here
with the stock company. Then l was a
Frenchman one week, an Englishman the
next, an Irishman the third and a Span
lard the fourth. with the result that an at
tempt to talk either brought out dozens
of accents / had stored in my mind. or
even words from the three or four Ian
guages of which | had become partial
master 1 caught myself asking waiter
for a second dish of desert one night in
this wise: VIII you kindly mach mir
bringen I'm pocita de dulce encore 1
haven't the faintest idea that / was
speaking correctly in any of the four IAN
guages. although that didn't worry the
waiter He only thought that ! was crazy.
After time became fearful that l would
catch the characteristics, too Then l left
the company. A man who did things in
as many ways as l spoke lingos would
soon be adjudged insane. Think of sitting
down to a meal consisting of Spanish
onion. a French sardine. a hunk of roast
beef, a piece of pie and glass of beer.
Doctor
.since making my debut on the stage I
have played in comic opera clear around
the world and, partially in consequence,
am greatly interested in our country s
now acquisitions in the Philippines. said
Eva Davenport, while waiting her cue at
| The French Maid yesterday afternoon.
There is a great deal of money to be
| made in some theater In Manila, particu-
| larly for the manager who will alternate
French and American opera there. While
| all the people love music, the costumes
must be quite elaborate in order to effect
| the required contrast with those or the
natives. If more of our profession would
| educate themselves in contemporary Ian
| guages l believe there would be fewer
out of employment. My French helps me
greatly, especially in the character roles
| am doing at present
1.-The proper study of mankind is wom-
| an and there is no class OF the gentier
sex more interesting, If more ridiculous,
| than the matinee girl. Washington has
| a goodly number of this sect. and many
| of them have made themselves so con-
| snicuous by their attentions to players OF
| note that they have achieved certain
| degree of notoriety. One of the best
. known of these hero -worshipers-ont
who has been given sobriauet that Is
| familiar to every local theatergoer-was
| introduced to Times man last week and
/ discoursed at length on the subject Of
her friends and her idols. There are
! ever so many matinee girls here she
said, land the number seems to increase
regularly 1 don't think that there are
more in New York or any of the bigger
cities. They rany anywhere from the
top of the ladder to the bottom. Ny
chum is the daughter of a Western Sen
ator and both of US have noticed among
those with whom we are thrown in con
tact the sister of scrub woman in ons
of the uptown places of amusement
Connecticut Avenue and South Washing
ton both lend their portions to the ranks
..The average feminine hero worshiper !:
merely stage-struck. She does not con.
fine her attentions to the matinees alone
hut goes continually to evening perform
ances and always gets as near the foo.
lights as she can. After the show Is ovel
she invariably waits on the sidewalk unit
her idol comes out. Sometimes she vii
attempt to flirt with or speak to him. ans