The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-10
OUT AND ABOUT.

The Gibson girl came to Worcester
last evening, but ewing to a variety
of circumstances, there were people
who did not recognize her. For one
| thing, she was not labelled And then
again, she didn't look so Gibsonish as
some Of Mr.. Gibsons Gibson girls,
which made difference, of course.
Miss Jobyna Rowland, who played
the part Of Queen Fiavia in Rupert of
Hentzau." last night, claims the honor
of being the original Gibson girl She
was an actress before she became q
model. and played in the west before
coming to New York but finding that
she was too tall for ordinary parts
being quite six feet in height, she start
ed out one day to visit the artists
| hoping to be accepted as a model for
graceful feminine figures and subjects
Luck guided her to the Life building
and Mr.. Gibson's studio.
Hearing that Mr.. Frohman was
about to produce Rupert of Hentzau."
and knowing that Flavia was a tall
woman, Miss Rowland called upon him
at the Lyceum Theatre. Her height and
general attractiVenesS stood her again
in good stead, as thousands of admirers
who have seen her in the part of Fla
via can testify.
OF course Miss Rowland was pretty
and graceful, but her collar bones
showed in q way which every Gibson
girl should diselaim. An anatomical err
ror of this kind, however, can be for
Biven-it is mild and inoffensiVe, beside
the Unequal aberrattons which marked
Miss Howlanas acting. There are many
excellent people who now and again
murder the Queens English with q
lmeat-aXe, but how a person who
spends her evenings talking In public
can allow herself to de it passes under.
standing. An actress who habituaIly
says ''shubber," "shieep," Hasn't" ana
pasht," and whose only equivalent for
the affirmative monosyllable is "yesh,"
is intolerable.
| Mr.. A. r. Fulton registered at the
Empire in New York Saturday.
The London Spectator, which is usual
ly particular over it's English, has been
using funny word in it's animadver-
sions upon Mr.. Stead. 1t talks about
| Mr.. Stead's "screaminess" What is
''screaminess" and does it mean the
same as Shouting?
|
In review of Pages from a Private
Diary, Literature quotes the following
anecdote, and gives another of the
same order equally good:
| A Roman deacon sent to baptizn a
| baby could find no water, but
there was pot Of tea Tea" he rea-
! soned, contains water. the rest is but
| accident" and proceeded to pour out
a cup. But it was strong, even to
! blackness, so he went in search Of wa
ter, and having found some, watered
| the tea down to a more reasonable
| color, christened the baby with It, and
reported the circumstances, as g case
4! of conscience, to his superior. 1t had
! not occurred to him, having found the
water, to use it by itself.
| The diarist might have paralleled
with this the excellent, if ancient, coEIe
of the cardinal and the casuist. The
| casuist, who was dining with the car
dinal, was famous for beginning every
sentence with the phrase, Il make q
| distinction" and his host wishing to
draw" him for the general entertain
| ment, asked him, as the soup was
| served: Pray, father, can yon tell US
If it is ever lawful to baptize in SOUP"
Il make distinction, your eminence,"
replied the casuist; with ordinary
| Sup ~ 10 ny HO llcdllS iuWIul 10 per-
form baptism but your eminence's
soup is perfectly suitable, as 1t differs
in no way from water"
When does the goth century begin?
In 1900 or in 1901?
! The report that the queen regent Of
Spain has ordered an elevator to be
installed in the palace at Madrid, is
only equalled by the rumor that the
vatican is to be lighted by electricity
AS the Petit Bleu wickedly remarks
Some day the papal blessing may be
| given by telephone"
A great concert and dramatic read
ing will be given under the auspices
of the Mems Union of Old South church
on the evening of January 10, by the
famous Harvard quartet and Mrs. Sid
ney Burrill Moore, elocutionist. This is
the quartet's 18th season, and 1t has
been heard and approved by some OF
the most representative audiences OF
the country. 1t has sung with success
in the Worcester Mechanics course.
i Mrs. Moore Is highly spoken Of as q