The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-21
""RECRUITS FROM SOCIETY,"
TME FOR 4 REGULAR FEATURE Oh
THE THEATRICAL SEASON.

Women on the Stage Are MRde-Theil
Uses in the Economy of the Manager
Actresses who Are Really In Society.
The recruit from society - is a regular fea.
ture Of the theatrical scnson. She comes in
with August as regularly as the oysters arrive
with the following month.
Tho manager. sitting in his office. concludes
some engagement for an approaching produce
ton. Any pulling that he can get for IL from
the newspapers appears valuable to his eyes.
How about a competition for the name3"
asks the press agent.
Too played out; besides. we did II on the
last show replics tho manager.
why not lose the manuscript and advertise
forit?" ''
That's another dead one,
Tho press agent looks contemplative. The
manager gets the inspiration first.
I've got It'll What's the name Of that girl I
Just engaged for the chorus? Gimme those
photographs out OF that box. Then go call ub
Blank on the telephone and say I've got a good
story for him-society girl gone on the stage;
swell. bang-up. good family. and all that. I'll
only tell him about 1t. too. Nobody else shall
hear q word about It,"
The press agent threw Town a bunch OF pho
tographs and went toward the telephone. The
manager looked over the pictures. They might
have been considered to suggest youth. beauty.
talent or anything else In the world than socl-
ETY.. They did not look much like that.
Cant use that last girl" Rrumbled the
manager. as the agent approached with the in
formation that Blank was sending up a re-
porter; she's got tights on. Even Blank
wouldn't stand for a society girl that was pho
toRraphed in tights"
What's the matter with this one here7 She
looks all right" suggested the agent. lifting
from the bunch the picture Of a woman who
uau nj lanai olothad In fha o,,efopo orr
Of society; shed look the part best OF ALL"
"0ld Mile Haines. who's been in every show
here for the past five years and Is In the back
row now? Forget it'll Send up the one In the
tights and cut of the photograph at the waist.
What's the name? Bertha Swadinscki. But
she calls herself Vaughn, Tell her to come up
on the stage, Tell her to s~traighten herself up
a 1IG ! not look like sloppy weather, the way she
Within a few minutes a card came up to the
m ma se SGw folI 1Siia 9 3Ss q r%epGTter; He Ks was 6 asked ID
glass of beer in one of the dressing rooms. The
~ WASN'T ths real tSiPE: aP%ho oyS'SS She S't said a.
every german the club gave, There was three
Fl them. and f bicycle rides s after IN the summer.
wei. wipe that piece Of cheese of your
upper lip and come upstairs. He's waiting"
Inc manager returned 10 the OtGc6.
"Hada hard time to make her come. !" said he
to the reporter. Hates to get anything in the
papers n1a!g d hb9p tor her o going ON on t 3, st stage : Her cid
nent families in the society Of Eikhart. Ind"
1T is. true" said Miss Vaughn when she
was finally induced to talk Of her intention,to
take,up the stage as a career. that l have de-
one Of the best knoTn N the Snake Grass re-
S %dFa Ps ssta lstessirlM and ta the 81 f any an %ss
s SstRar e S,t that part 81 q The h., ffGaas5y: TheH ny
OF his great fortune. i had crqmbled away.
and it became evident that 1 had to make my
for my friends and once or twice for charita-
bic bHor eeate eF hIEPe Organized BY the society
my, VOICE further and went to Paris and studied
under Marchesi. Viardot-Garcia, Sbriglia,. Mo-
pean teachers. Just as I was about to make Ee my
debut at the Grand Opera in Paris as :yuliete.
a ID INV Career re- my I iaTiry Sde 10 tbis eon me 70
fit myself qnablss e, resist the ttenptations 81
Profession re Iioined the Bon dsETf Ton opera Comia Que
dd Sy pa 3 boat %fif bnii KaY ie a P leEe mean pes twice I,
have no patience with those persons who want
to begin at the top Of the ladder, SO I Joined the
Whacks in Roast Ham, Here I am com
through my own talents without the aid Of my
wealth or my social prominence"
Miss giagG 70 el sSld th tSe shs had Snt no 8d idSa of Of
labors.
another recruit from society had been gained
recruits had figured during the preced-
ing season; The photograph Of this distin-
printed. and appeared along With the Interview
with her under the title Another Recruit
course. intimafed in the article that her SdsS debut
to be made in the forthcoming burlesque
to be given At such a date with unprecedented
the next morning, and the subject scarcely rec:
herself in the account Of her social
Z I'm all that, " she said to the manager. II
to be worth more than S14 per".
= ,oo odW ,h3t wSpId you be If Blank wasn't
er This fr Is sh sot sER3iesHl sss o%e9IR%ss she g m sas come onS,
drS %bo Sne d RSFt OF the res country Kan and mdt at Others =. from
the town in which she lived. Some Of tho
families in the country. but few II anyHof them
we're ever in society before they became pro-
ty of them come. Mrs. Potter is an exception to
before her marriage. as well as in New
York afterward. and to this day she moves In a
,ertaln SET OF LIonuon society. Three weeks ago
she gave a luncheon to the Duchess Of Man
been there II he hadn't broken his kneecap.
Marie Wainwright belongs to q good American
iirard. New York has recently contributed to
M stage some, women who were really on
Zones. who Rs Rita Hone was an actress for
,sveEaL seasons, Mrs. Sidney Harris. Mrs. John
gith a right to make that claim. OF these
Mss de Wolfe is the only one that stuck to tho
YORK, and Mrs. Bloodgood. began such a short
With the Sta1a is utill M oarfaJn