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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-29
Long Cloaks for Autumn. -

Although its advance has been more or
less hesitating. the long cloak will be
adopted generally in the early autumn,
says Harper's Bazaar. This garment will
be made to serve all sorts Of functions, and
will appear In thin and heavy fabrics. but
with a larger representation in plain and
fancy silks. AS has been stated in pre-
vious numbers the empire garment form is
leading all others The tendency toward
this form Is being accumulated each sue
ceeding week. For carriage use exceedingly
bright colors are appearing in these gar
ments. One. q very charming output OF
French make. Is made Of hydrangea- blue
taffeta, which u attached to a white silly
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The very daintiest and most fetching
OF ideas seem always to be at the tip
OF the Partisan dressmaker's fingers.
The bow Of ribbon here and the fluff of
lace there are the things that 20 TO
make up the magic of what one calls
style. And 1 do not think there has
ever been a season that developed as
many fetching modes as the present
one has.
Along the line Of novelties in the
summer girls outfit there is the silk
parasol that is hand painted. The wide,
smooth surface of a parasol has always
been temptation to the one who loves
to trim and decorate, and at last the
painting of floral designs has been at
tempted and the result is altogether be-
witchIng.
A white silk parasol has an appliqued
border Of black lace and a painted de
sign in purple and white fleur-de-lis
with long green stems and leaves.
Scenes from the Louis XVI period and
Vatican groups are also drawn upon
for designs to decorate my hdy's sun
shade. 1 have previously told OF the
painted afternoon and evening slippers.
And there are long. white ribbon ties,
with sprays Of flowers painted ut the
ends. These are indeed very pretty.
An ivory-white satin ribbon has Il few
marguerites with golden centers and
pale green stems. The painted tie will
be one of the fall fancies in Paris. The
girl with leisure this summer and who
Is handy with the brush may enjoy
painting several OF the long satin ties
for wear in the cooler season if not just
now.
Cluny lace Is much used for collar
bands and is let in thin materials in
skirts and bodices. II has stylish air
about il that is very fetching.
Tuckings and pleatings are much
more to be seen in thin materials than
putfings and rulings Lawn dresses
with skirts having deep flounceS tucked
Up and down for several inches ut tie
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-29
THE MASCULINE CRITIC.
He Does Not Mind in the Least if You Think
Him Ungallant.

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
The masculine critic is abroad in the land.
Run girls. run, and hide away in some re-
mote corner. for. like the bogy-man, he'll
catch you II he can" But no. on second
thought. would advise you not TO run. but
TO meet him fairly and squarely, and never
let him guess that you fear him in the least,
even If in truth you do.
Now comes the masculine critic and
sayeth:
1T is most unbecoming way that In
which women are arranging their hair.
The way they lift their skirts is ungracefui.'
and SO on and so on, through long list
Of what women do and what women dc
not do.
The masculine critic Is usually quite a
good-looking fellow, and he assumes an IN
difference to the charms of all maidens'
which, my dears. he does not feel. else
would he be a critic? But this bit of a
secret you must keep, for when he pre-
tends that fine Indifference you must play
your little part too. which is that you be-
lieve him to be just as Indifferent as he
would have you think him.
The masculine critic is rather a new
product. Somebody discovered the new
woman and exploited her. do not claim
credit for the discovery OF the masculine
critic In fact. so many of US. who are
women. have been studying him and his
ways of late that 1 fancy 1t would be a
hard matter to bestow the honor-medal just
where 1t belongs. 1 am quite certain. how
ever, that some one will fasten the blame
Of the masculine critics existence upon the
new woman" any way. Some one will be
sure to say that the new woman" and her
ways have created him. called him Into be-
ing.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-29

garden party gown Of pink silk null has
| bOlero of white silk embroidered in
pink silk and pearls and n blouse and
undersleeves of white net. A blue veil
Ing gown is lined with blue satin and
has sleeves slashed up above the elbow
to show undersleeves Of cobwebby
lace.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-29

Special Correspondence Of The Sunday Republic
Paris. July 12.-The sleeve question
Ias been in an unsettled state ever
since the departure of the big sleeve
hat pulled and pulled and then passed
away, leaving women lamentinS us
going, for, somehow, 1t won much de-
sotion. But Dame Fashion needed not
the tears and protests and flew to the
pther extreme-the plain, tight sleeve
HAT was becoming only 10 the very few.
1t did not take long to discover that
something must be done in the sleeve
line, and SO designers set 10 work 10
plan something entirely new, but turn
ing back the leaves OF fashion they
we're impressed with the artistic posi-
bilities Of the 'undersleeye" OF our
. mothers an9 Grandmothers. So here we
are with the greatest sort Of variety in
pretty sleeve models to suit all sorts Of
Armstrong arms and short arms, plump
arms and slim arms.
OF course, the amount Of baGginess
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is regulated TO suit the material and
lawns and veilinGs are made TO show
much of an undersleeve, while with the
cloth gowns only little will show.
Perhaps the most popular sleeve of
the moment is long. with a turned-back
cuff. with only one puff Of an under
sleeve at the wrist. The cloth tailor
gown that is being made now and will
be worn throughout the autumn fares
slightly at the bottom. and is opened
Just a bit TO show 4 cuff beneath The
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-29

arms with narrow pink ribbons A lit
tie bolero was Of pink silk. trimmed
with bands of Oriental embroidery. The
sketch plainly shows the flarins cuff
that finished the sleeve of the bolero.
There is not the least doubt but the
season. Already one sees il in many Of
the daintiest and newest of little gowns
for indoor and outdoor occasions. \
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come attention on her. She is also loved
by a half-breed Indian named Gevinoma,
and he and Col. Harvey, who Is an I'M
scrupulous villain, are foiled and spurned
in all their villainous plots by Margaret.
A novel side romance is told In the
love manifested by Red Birds&a young
squaw, for Capt. Sterling, who, in spite
of his lack of devotion, finds her loyal
to him and useful at critical periods.
During the action of the play this red
faced heroine aids him materially by
capturing dispatches which have been
stolen by the Indians. In one scene
she knocks the pistol out of the hand
Of a would-be, murderer, and in one of
the most sensational episodes of the play
"a man at the stake-she cuts the cords
that bind Capt. Sterling, and he is car
ried to safety by Margaret.
One of the novel scenes of the play is
that of an Indian camp at night, repre-
senting real Indian chiefs from various
tribes of the far West, which is a decid-
edly new fea ture on the stage.
A ghost dance will be introduced in all
it's weird FORMS and a vision of the
Happy Hunting Grounds is also shown.
Incidental to this act Miss Booth will
present her famous artistic poses, which
have been seen and have made her
famous throughout America and Europe.
In the last act one of the most SEN
sational scenes of the play occurs; the
defense of the blockhouse by a handful
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Of New England seafolk Caleb West
which viii be the attraction at the Met
ropolitan opera house of this charming
seashOre idyl was made for Jacob Lift
by Michael Morton, and Mr.. Morton has
given the play a beautiful and elaborate
setting. 1t is not always possible to
follow closely the story of the novelist,
but in this instance, it is said, that Mr..
Morton has been extremely happy in
preserving not only the atmosphere of
Mr.. Smiths story, but the main points
of the story itself. The play was pro-
duced early in September at the Man.
haitian theater, New York, and played
there for weeks to crowded houses;
thence it went to McVickers theater,
Chicago, and now it reaches us after
q triumphant run in the Windy City.
It's success was the theme Of conversa-
ton all over Chicago and the big theater
was packed to the doors every night
during the engagement.
Caleb West is homely story and
simple one, told with that force and di-
rectness for which Mr. Smith Is justly
famous. It has delightful blending of
humor and pathos and is full of dramatic
scenes and action. The interest never
flags for a moment after the rising Of
the curtain. Jacob Lift is reported to
have given the play a setting as original
and novel as anything seen here in q
long time The company Is SpecldA
organization made up with reference to
the fitness of the various persons for the
roles they were to play.
The cast is as follows:
Caleb West, Master Diver
Capt Joe, Superintendent of the
He a5T5 Sanford, Engineer Of The
Light Observation-Disclosures. Franklin Richie
Bill Lacey, Assistant Diver
Malcolm Williams
Lonny Bowles, from Noank-
Ernest c. Lamson
Capt Bob, Assistant superintend-
Mr.. Carleton, Government In
spector .........-........ Charles B. WeIes
Gen. Barton, Chief of Light
Deacon Potts, a Pillar. Harry Holiday
Betty West, Caleb's Wife,. Alice Hunt
Mrs. Leroy, q Summer Resi-
Aunty Bell, Capt. Joes Wife
Miss PEBBLES, the schoolmistress-
Ada Gilman
Miss Taft, spinster. Emily Wakeman
Village Milliners-
Miss Ann NevlnS.. Gertrude Bell
Miss Rebecca Nevins. Helen King Russell
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MISS COGHLAN AS BECKY SHARP.
AT THE NE TROPOLITAN

company. 1t was in New Orleans that
from the short-skirted soubrette to the
position of leading woman for Lawrence
Barrett. 1 was the Julie to his Richelieu;
Ophelia tC his Hamlet; and played Mis-
tress Alice in 'Yorick's Love He came
to me on Monday night and said: ON
Wednesday night you play Mistress
Alice You are crazy, man, I answered.
I can't do it!' NONSENSE he said, and
that settled it. I studied the part that
night walked through rehearsal
the next morning, studied again in the
afternoon and had second rehearsal
Wednesday morning; played a matinee
Wednesday afternoon and was letter
perfect in Mistress Alice for the night
performance. I had wonderful study
in those days. Why I have studied and
played seven new parts in a week with
John Owens. and blank verse parts at
that. 1 don't know what these modern
actors would. do under such strain
Why, they require weeks and weeks to
study d part and weeks more to re-
hearse it.
do you know that played Louise in
the Two Orphans all through the South
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VETERANS OF The STAGE
GLIMPSES OF THREE TALENTED
MEMBERS IN THE CAST OF
''CALEB WEST,
PLAYED WITH GREAT STARS
The Trio Are NJ. B. Snyder, Kate VII
son and Ada Gilman, Known
to All Followers of
Dramatics.

There are three veteran players in the
cast of Caleb West" whose career on
athe stage has extended through the
''paimy'' days of stock companies, and
who are still in active and admired
service. They. are NJ. B. Snyder, Kate
Denim Wilson and Ada Gilman.
Mrs. Wilson was one of the famous
Denim sisters, who. as infant prodigies''
toured the country with great success.
They played the tragedies and comedies
of Shakespeare. When they were grown
they continued@to act and one OF the
girls, Susan, played juliet to the Romeo
of the great Charlotte Clls.lman. Matt
Snyder.s career as an actor and stage
manager is well known to followers OF
.dramatics and needs no comment. The
other member of this trio, Ada Gilman
plays the little schooima am in 'tCa;eb
West and plays it delightfully."-. she
gives just the right touch to the part
and the result is a character laugnabie
without being a caricoture.
This little woman began her career "a
many years ago. as the old song puts
it, and she has seen all the vicsSitude5
that hefall the lot OF the player, together
with the Joys and the triunphs incident
to life behind the footlights. She has
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before Kate ClaxtQn went through that
part of the country? 1t seems funny
to talk of my playing those pathetic parts
but I did and got great notice for them.
In our company there was McVicker,
Louis James, Tom Whiffen, Harry Lee,
beautiful Helen Tracy and Agnes Proctor
went to California with Lester Wal
lack and played Rose Leigh in Rose
dale" with him. Then 1 was in the Cal
ifornia stock company with Dion BiOuci-
cault and played all the pretty little
colleens in his Irish plays. That was a
fine company. We had Tom Keene, Marie
Prescott, Jeffreys Lewis, E. J. Buckley
]. D. Billings. Feliz Morris, Mrs Judah,
Frank Lawler and Charles Welles. We
played everything from farce to tragedy
and everybody got great schooling.
L was in Augustin Days company
for two years playing Raitch in 'Pique'
You know that was the piece in which
poor Fanny Davenport made her first
great hit. In 1880 I was cast by Steele
Mackaye FOR Dolly button in Hazel
Kirke' and then began the pleasantest
episode in my stage carer.
Steele Mackaye was a genius. err
ractic but marvellous and he suuand-
cred money like water He had stupen-
deus ideas and he was fortunate in hav-
ing several fortunes placed IN his hands
to spend and he spent them like a mad
prince. I was under his management at
that time and after the fiat failure of
Hazel K1rke' under the title The Iron
WILL when it was produced in Phila-
delphia, the Mallorys who owned the
Churchman built the Madison Square
theater for him with the proviso that
it should be closed on Sundays and Good
Friday.
Mackaye changed, the name of the
play to Hazel Kirke'' and everybody
knows of it's instantaneous success and
its wonderful run at the Madison Square.
l had been loaned to the Boston Theatre
company to play in Drink with Tom
Keene-the play which started him to
starring so. Gabriel Du Saudi played
Dolly for two or three weeks at nrst
until I could be free from my engage
ment and get into the new part. In
the original cast were Ellie Etlsler as
Hazel; W. c.. CouldoclI as Dunstan Kirke
Mrs. Whifen as Mercy; Dominick Muir
ray as Squire Rodney; Henry Miller as
Lord Travers; Tom Whiffen as Pitticus
Green, Billy CahilI as Barney and N.Y.
self as Dolly Dutton. There were several
changes in the cast from time TO time
and we had several men as Pitticus G. cen
They were w. G.. Ferguson, George How
ard, Charles -BoWser, John Dillon and
DE Wolf Hopper. or these I have al
ways ranked Ferguson first; then Bow
ser and Whiffen But De Wolf Hopper
made a great hit III the part. Do you
know when he knelt down and I stood
up, our heads were On a level. The play
ran for three seasons in New York and
1 played in it there almost the entire
time, except for little while when Mr.
Hopper and L starred in One Hundred
Wives in which made the hit OF nv
life as Sophronia .MeGulley. But the
title OF the play killed it and we went
back to Hazel Kirke
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about asking me to play the part, but
finally sent for me and of course l
jumped at the chance. I had never seen
the play nor did l know anything about
the part | read it at the afternoon re-
hearsal and at night was letter perfect
and made great hit The company was
astonished and it's members refused to
believe my assertion that I hadn't played
Polly before. My success was such that
/ was soon called on to play again, this
time with Edwin Forrest in Richard Ill.,
in which did the Prince of Wales. The
great tragedian was so astonished with
me that at the close Of my scene with
him he put his hand on my shoulder and
said, in that big, deep voice of his, Good,
very good
After that I was engaged for the stock
company at the Boston Museum and L
made such progress that 1 was given a
benefit II those days all the leading
people of the stock companies had bene-
fits and to be given one in my first sea-
son made me very proud. | shall never
forget my feelings when L saw my name
up in big letters for the first time. The
bills read First Benefit to Miss Ada
Gilman Why I nearly walked myself
to death looking for them and stopping
to read them. All, that was fine COM
pany! There was William Warren, the
famous comedian; Mrs. J. R. Vincent,
Annie Clarke. now playing with
Julia Marlowe Charles Barron, Miss
Louisa Myers and a lot of other prom
inent men and women. I remained three
seasons with the Museum company and
then came out to Chicago. but my
! Western experiences were not very
pleasant.
Before I let Boston was for time
in the Clobe theater stock company, with
w E Sheridan who PLAYED Louis XII
so magnifcently; George Boniface ST.,
John T. Raymond, John E. Owens, Harry
and James Peakes, Mrs. Thomas Barry
and Amy Ames. You see many of those
names are really historical from the
stage standpoint.
81 went to New Orleans from Chicago
and played in stock company headed
by John E. Ownes4 I remember Laura
Don and New Thorne were also in the
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played everything from the broadest
farce to tragedy, and for two or three
seasons was leading woman for I4aw-
renee Barrett when that actor was at the
height of his fame 1t must certainly
have been curious to see this diminutive
creature strut about as a tragedy queen,
but when it is remembered that Barrett
was small man, the difference in height
was not so noticeable. Miss Gilman gos>
sips delightfully."- about her experiences
as player and has many stories to tell
of the famous casts in which she played.
Miss Gilman made her entrance on the
stage through an accident. AS an
amateur she had appeared in can that
Critters is not Gold" she playing Martha
Gibbs to the Toby Twinkle of James
Lewis This was in 1869 Shortly after
ward when Caste was announced for
production at the Continental theater.
Boston. the woman who was to play
Polly Eccles-it was a Miss Belle Howetl
was suddenly taken i'll and Mr.. Lewis,
then a. member eff the company, suggest
ed Miss Gilman. Speaking OF this ex-
perience Miss Gilman says.
1.-THE manager was little doubtful
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
SNAPSHOTS OF THE STAGE.

j. H. Nevin,s arrangement of the lead
ing incidents of Thackeray'se VANITY
Fair is now the vehicle in which Del
cher and Hennessy are starring Gertrude
Coghlan, the attractive and clever daugh-
ter of the late Charles Coghlan.
The Rogers Brothers, in 1.-THE Rogers
Brothers in Central Park" have aver
aged $1,000 a performance since they
opened in New York, Sept. II.
Peter F. Daley, in Hodge, Podge &
Co." will make long run at the Madi-
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THEIR Bills ARE VARIED
THIS WEEKS THEATRICAL AT
FRACTIONS RUN THE GAMuT
OF DRAMATIC ART
COMEDY, DRAMA, PASTORAL
s'Vanity Fair and "CaIeb Vest al
the Observation-Disclosures at
the Grand and BurIesque
at the Star.

Successful novels do mot always make
successful plays, yet a successful novel,
when trans lated into -stageland, seems
to be more popular with the theatergo-
ing public than an original play There
are many reasons for this, one of the
best being that readers of books are good
patrons of the theater and, being familiar
with the story, have natural curl
osity to see what a dramatist will do
with it. One of this seasons plays Is
F. Hopkinson Smiths delightful story
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From all accounts it would seem thar
Mod1eska's much talked Of revival of
Shakespeare's tragedy of king John.
winch Will be Seen on the local stage
during the present season, promises one
of those genuine treats which occur hut
at rare intervals
Women have risen to great heights as
au5 s actresses, painters, scientists
ures ere in the drama, poetry, sculp
ture and chitecture-Gertrude Ather-
ton, in New York Journal
sydney is to have three pantomimes at
Barlow as principal boy; another at the
Lyceum, with Nellie Stewart in the name
part, and third, with John F. Sheri-
dan, at the Royal.
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mcndous outlay having been made for
scenery, properties, etc. Ten horses and
ponies, soldiers, cowboys, real Indians
and a stage coach are carried by the COM
pany and are introduced in a number of
lifelike pictures on the frontier.
The play is stirring and thrilling in ac-
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of men and women against a band Of
bloodthirsty Indians. The defenders Irs
about to give up all hope when detach-
ment of the United States army regulars
arrive and put the Indians to rout.
The producing company is said to be an
exceptionally capable one, and the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
MORNING GLoRrEs TRULY GAY.
Happy Bin Promised Patrons of tn,

happy bItA PROMISED Patrons of the
Star This week.
Manager Singer of the Star theater.
will offer his patrons a theatrical trKat
OF the season when the Gay Morning
Glories appear this afternoon. All lovers
OF burlesquers know the Morning Glor es,
reputation is built upon the rock of in
teLlgent comprehension OF what the pub
lie desires successfully carried out The
burlesquers are witty and tuneful the
girls are shanely, the comedians clever
and the costumes and staging superb.
The performance opens with THE Birds
OF Broadway on the Beach This is
followed by a strong olio of well known
artists. The show concludes with "A Cav
Reception, or MuI Hayes Visit"
Among the vaudeville artists Of special
note are Miss Gertrude Darrell and the
visible choir, Dryden and Leslie: the
Timber girl and the Tad, the Broadway
trio Americas favorite singers, Kherns
and Cole, German comedy stars; McCabe
Sabine and Mile. Vera, the Irish con-
tractors and the typewriter; Judge and
Smith, acrobats; Wills and Barron, and
others too numerous to mention
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celebrated role of Celia Pryce in THE
Royal Box and she lnterprets it with
the same supreme art. This is, too, the
most elaborate production ever made by
Delcher & Hennessy. Mr.. Nevins' play
is founded upon the adventures of Becky,
as Thackeray described them, and it is
introduces, as a glance at the following
cast of principals will show, most of the
prominent persons that figure in the
novel
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GENE FROM WAR ON WOMEN" AT THE GRAND

ton and scenes, but the serious move
ments are offset by some pretty love adj
ventures and deal of bright comedy
Margaret Prescott, the heroine, is the
central figure and will be impersonated
by Miss Hope Booth, and it is said to
be one of the best characterization she
has ever appeared in. The uncle of this
girl is a United States general. She is
hero, whom she also loves, and Col.
Harvey, a traitor, who forces his unwel-
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scenic effects, properties and electrical eff
fects are promised to be the most eIa0
crate and complete seen here in soma
time.
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''vANITY FAIR" is COMING,
With Miss Gertrude COghIan as
Becky Sharp.

Among the dramatic events of the
week in st. Paul is Miss Coghlan's
debut at the Metropolitan theater next
Thursday as star in the role of Becky
of Thackeray's great masterpiece, CYAN
ity Fair" This version is securing
brilliant success, and has added fresh
character of Thackeray's little serpent of
an upstart gOverness physically fits the
talented actress for more than did her