The times., 1899-11-26

he was sitting on the floor Of the Academy's
| stage, busily engaged In sewing buttons
/ TO his bell boy suit With a need e as long
as his forearm and a thread as thick as his
! finger. lie hailed the gos sip gatheTer l-cr-
/ rily. raised his chubby hand for a shake
and in response TO q query replied
! How long have been iu this business and
how did I get In it, Well 50 many yea s
| have elapsed since my debut that I have
nearly forgotten. In che first pace. ny
I mind was developed, as are those o. mos
children. By reciting pieces al school
Then. someone discovered that aly vol
was very heavy and started me 60 singing
The eventual result landed me here
through the medium OF such productions
as Humpty Dumpty. the buGlesqge on
Little Lord Fauutieroy. ia which I had
I the title role and The Dazzler TIE iCt
| OF fellow Of my size is uo- @ happy one
/ and many OF the jokes intsrpolated in my
/ monoiogue are matters Of h-s,Ory % me.
There's the cue for that talk nov. Wen
/ nave 20 continue ours later"
And. cutting a dimiuutiye pigeon wing
/ as sort OF preliminary TO his army song
1 the comedian waddIed rapidly to r L. f.
and soon was amusing the listeners in
front
/ A woman may act and act and be a wo-
/ man still Tire Times man after having
\ sent his card 20 Josephine Hail OF three
/ occasions, found that petite bit OF femini-
| u In the cafe at the Regent, where she and
! Jeanette L0wrie were engaged in cenver-
/ sation. The caller was introduced to Miss
/ Lowrie. and seated himself opposite the
/ duo Declining an Offer OF a cocktail. anoth-
/ er OF "a bite % eat" and a third OF permis-
/ sion to go on with his cigar. he waited for
! an opportunity 90 come between the Two,
/ verbally, and. when that opportunity pre-
| santed Itself. mildly suggested that Mss
/ Hall should tell him the story OF her past
i life"
/ ''Oh. don't ask me that now replied the
/ heroine CT The Girl From Maxim's" with
/ a glance that might have been described
/ as appealing I'm so tired that can't tell
whether I'm standing on my feet OF on nv
mead You know I've met with a heavy
/ loss in Washington. When I got my trunk
TO the hotel, discovered that the lock had
been pried on and most of my jeweIry
stolen. All day long have been busy with
detectives and transfer people and property
men. until I am simply done
Poor thing. quoth Miss LOwris SYM
pathetically Was your monogram on any
of the trinkets2"
That should have been worth a column
IN every paper in town. quoth The Times
reporter.
Il didn't want publicity for the affair. E"
answered Miss Hall The police seemed
to think that I would have better chance
OIL getting the gems II We worked in she
dark. Any noise in such a hunt always
serves to scare the quarry
And that stolen diamond dodge has
been worked 10 death. sighed Miss Low
RE. BY the way. I went over to see you
act this afternoon. I think you do ad-
mirably. But the play simply mixed me
all up. And that song you singl It isn't
half as gOod-Or as bad-as the one you
had IN New York What do you call the
thing and who wrote it,"
Miss Hall impalsd an oyster. Il donL
know its name, said she The music is
BY William Furst. OF the Empire Theatre.
and the words by ]. Cheever Goodwin. NV
voice hasn't been IN Order-that's what is
wrong with the song. aud then. Jeannette.
you couldn't have expected me TO do my
best today with my mind on those Jewels.
[ know / ought TO forget them at per-
formances, but / can think OF nothing
else" To the reporter: Now you under
/ stand Why it was impossible for me to talk
with you regarding trivial matters"
There is an excellent east in Mile.
Fif, said The Times man to Miss Low
/ RE.
We think so. returned that charming
I woman. "Of course. Miss Wainwright al
ways is clever. and so are Aubrey Bcuci-
cauit and DOre Davidson. But isn't Thom-
as Burns great? That's an awfully mean
part Of his, and yet every critic along the
line has praised his work in it. I am in
. clined To-"
Where did you go after the matinee,
dear2" asked Miss Hall-Of her ueighbOr
Lightning changei
Miss Lowriss eyes lit up with enthIsi-
asm. and Miss Hall gave every sign of for
getting her jewels. temporarily shop
! ping" exclaimed the wife Of Mile Fin
You can get some things dr5adfulIy cheap
in Washington This veil would have been
every penny of a dollar in New York.
What do you think it cost me here? Eigh-
ty-niDe centst And this"
The interview was over.