Evening star., 1899-03-07

reception, but I've knowed you by sight
for a long time. and now I've got hired
girl who worked at your house once, a
couple of years ago, and she's told me so
much about you that / really feel real well
acquainted with you. Pleasant day. ain t
it? Well if she amt polite to sail off with
out so much as a word! Shows her rasn',
anyhow
The following may read like a yarn to
some people, but, nevertheless, it is a fact.
Llthograph tickets, or window privileges"
as they are sometimes called are given
away by the theaters to those who display
posters and advertising matter in their
store windows.
At. the Garden Theater, one evening dur
ing Mansheld's S run, man presented one of
these tickets at the gallery entrance, and
Immediately upon entering the theater
climbed up on one of the windows in the
rear of the theater, sat down and waited
for the play to begin.
He was discovered by an usher who or
dered him off his perch
Il will not come down." said the man. Il
had a window privilege ticket and paid ten
cents for it, and l am going to stay here:
but you can bet if 1 come here again l will
spend fifty cents and get good seat
An interviewer went to Richard Mans
fields home the other day, and from the
expose he gives of one of Mr.. ManSfieid's S
little devices it is to be supposed that the
Bsmarcks little SC hemes.
You must be much troubled by bores?'
asked the interviewer.
''Oh, 1 am" replied Mr. Mansfield with
no appreeiable trace of double entendre.
How do you get rid of them?"
Very simply. When Mrs. Mansfield
thinks am kept too long she sends SER
want asking that come to her, and the
bore has only one alternative"
Just then servant appeared and an
begged him to come to her The inter-
viewer had no alternative but to bring the
interview to q close.
There are few women in the dramatic
profession who have had the opportunities
to play the number of leading parts in
modern drama that has fallen to the lot
OF Henrietta Crosman. Miss Crosman won
her place in the hearts of the American
theater goers by her performance of Glor-
ianna," which, it will be remembered, was
produced some seasons ago, under the
Frohman management. Her success was
instantaneous and her performance stamp
ed her as a comedienne of the highest
class. The actress is the daughter of a
retired army officer and most of her young
life was spent at the frontier posts. A
strange thing connected with Miss Cros-
mans early life is the antipathy which her
father had for the dramatic profession.
When at boarding school she was not even
permitted to recite the most harmless
poem. Her father left the army, reverSes
came and the daughter was forced to do
something for livelihood. Just why she
turned to the stage the lady admits her
self that she does not know. Still, she did,
and, securing letter to John Elsler, then
running stock company in Pittsburg, she
was received and was accorded hearing.
Mr.. Elsler listened to her story and gave
her some of Juliets speeches to study. A
couple Of days afterward Miss Crosman
read those speeches to the veteran actor
with such effect that she was engaged on
the spot. Her career behind the footlights
has been a varied one, and from her con-
nection with some of the best stock organ
izations in the country she has been called
upon to play nearly every leading part in
the modern drama. Personally the actress
is a most charming woman, and in the
summer time, when she is resting, she is
the mistress of a pretty place down in New
Jersey, where she dispenseS her hospitality
with a liberal hand. Those who have been
fortunate enough to put their feet under
her mahogany state that she is as good a
hostess as she is an actress Her greatest
delight is to minister to the wants of poor
children, and they simply adore her. Miss
Crosman says that her favorite part is
Lady Isabel in East Lynne" but that she
has been identified with comedy so long
that the public will have her in nothing
else Perhaps in the near future, if the
proper play can be found, Miss Crosman
may enter the stellar field, and if she does
her future seems especially bright.
In the English cavalry regiments the
drum horse" occupies much the same po-
sition as does the mascot" of an American
the tympani or cavalry drums He is
usually of a peculiar or distinctive color
piebald, Jet black, dun or roam and general
ly lives to be good old age. One of the
best known drum horses in the army was
Tommy" of the 1st Life Guards, who was
presented to the regiment by H. r. H, the
Duke of Connaught, son of the queen, and
at the time officer of the guards. A
painting was made of Tommy by noted
military artist and presented to the queen.
fFhangs in Windsor Castle, and there is a
replica in Marlboro House. The original
of the drummer on Tommy" is F. E. Boil
ton, who Is now in this country with Lieut..
Dan Godfrey and the English Guards Band
and is the tympani player in this famous
band. Bolton is the champion lightning
drummer of Great Britain. When on
parade he and Tommy were escorted by
corporal and two mounted men, who were
guard for the drums, which are of good
value and were presented by George III.