Evening star., 1901-11-02


some of the luxuries as well. This time l
shall return with plenty of clothes-fie,
new ones, too. They are what Madam
Siedel and Mr.. Dazfan assure me were the
very latest in the days of Henry of Ma
varre. Better than new clothes, however
/ shall bring a new play.
Little Antoinette Walker of the Bellows
Stock Company has never quite forgiven
John T. Sullivan for that fairy tale of his
about the capture of mountain lion dur
ing his vacation in the Rockies last sum-
mer. Whenever thereafter he attempted to
entertain her with similar episodes the air
grew suddenly frigid
But. woman like, she has had her re-
venge. Mr.. Sullivan, who. as everybody
knows. possesses very smart trap and a
magnificent black horse. known to every
matinee girl in Washington as Bobby"
With a view of raising the temperature to
a degree In keeping with the friendship
which formerly existed between the lead
ing heavy and the ingenue Mr.. Sullivan one
day this week very graciously proffered the
services of Bobby" and the trap to Miss
Walker and Miss Clinton for a drive to
Fort Myer. When these two interesting
members of the stock company returned
from their outing little Miss Walker was in
tears. Mr.. Sullivan has since described
them as real, hot, scalding tears Accord
ing to the story she told Bobby" had be-
come bit fractions near the fort and was
the cause of crushing out the life of a tiny
pet donkey belonging to the little daughter
of one of the officers at the fort That she
had been an innocent accomplice Of Bob
bys" seemed to have fairly broken Miss
Walkers heart.
1t is a well-known fact to the members of
the company that Miss Walker insists
upon acting out or illustrating every Incl
dent that enters into the pretty routine of
W
tell the story between her sobs everybody
gathered about her, ready to aid in any
requisite illustration of the sad tale.
you see,'' she said in a voice choking
with emotion, I'VE were driving along the
road close to the wall when We met the
little girl driving a donkey to a tiny little
dog cart-you are the wall, Fred'-thiS lat
ter to Fred Sullivan.
Frederick Immediately assumed a station
ary position, at the same time exclaiming,
Yes, yes, Miss Walker; am the wall
Yes, that's it; you are the wall; and
now here was the cart-I am the cart"
Just at this moment Mr.. John T. Sulli-
van, full of excitement, broke in with the
exclamation, Yes, yes! Girl, for heavens
sake tell us how it happened? Fred is the
wall; you are the CART
And you are the donkey" put in Miss
Walker, still sobbing softly to herself
Yes, yes, I am the donkey" John ex-
Claimed, now in a very fever of excitement
Instantly the tears dried in Miss Walk
pretty head she cast a withering glance
upon her victim: Eyes, Mr.. Sullivan YOU
are the donkey-the first that ever cap
tured a mountain lion alive"
The silence that followed was only inter-
rupted by the coarse laughter of the COM
edian, Harry Corson Clarke, who stood in
the wings fairly gloating over his COL
leagues discontinue
Every now and then in glancing over the
play bills ones eye rests on a familiar
name-not always so because it's owner has
won merited recognition from the public,
but because he or she belongs to Washing
ton, which grows more proud Of its stage
children as time goes on. An instance CT
this kind happened last week. when Rus
sian count made his appearance in the Sec
ond act of MANS Enemy at the Acad-H
emy of Music, and opposite the name of
the character appeared that of Thad Shine,
who must be known to everybody in WASH
ington and few people IN other cities. Mr.
Shine was in his dressing room one evening
during the week when an interviewer bore
down on him with the usual question.
Il had government position, getting
81. 400 year, when 1 became convinced
that 1 ought to be an actor said Mr. Shine
in the course of conversation MANY a
time / have wished for the fourteen hun
dredi But, anyhow, l secured an engage
ment with John Mccullough and Joined
him at the old National Theater. The first
shock / received was when they told me
that must learn ten different parts in so
many plays. 1 got the second shock when
l saw the parts. The opening bill was to
be Ingomar, and l purchased CODY cf
the play having been told that I was to
play the herald. I spent the night looking
for that part in the book, and not finding
1t l went to the stage manager next morn
ing. l learned that the part was just five
words which on the opening night I pro-
ceeded to forget and promptly interpolated
few of my own. l was standing there
in terror, when long hand reached out
from the wings and gently removed me
from public gaze. 1t was the stage man
ager, who notified me that / was a bad
study, and gave me some instructions
couched in very plain English. That was
not a startling debut. was it, considered
from an artistic viewpoint, but I have
never regretted 1t, for it was the beginning
of a career that has had many happy asso-
Citations was In Mary Anderson's sup
port some time after that, and my con-
nection with her company will always re-
main among my most pleasant remem-
brances. Then 1 Joined Annie Pixley and
spent some time with William H. Crane
and in Charles Frohman's companies I
toured England, Ireland and Scotland with
the late w. ]. Scanlon, and-well, I've done
a whole lot more, but all I know is that
l invariably land here safe and sound and
I'm right glad, after all, that Columbus
discovered America"
During the palmy days of the old Roster
and Bial Music Hall, when the house on 23d
street, New York, was a rendezvous for
the devotees Of burlesque and vaudeville
famous lights In the music han world Of
that day contributed to the performances
on the little stage and afterward made
merry in the famous cork room," one day
there came a Spanish woman. Her name
" nnif nd
her entrance to the Roster and Bial ranks
she had not gone through one half of her
dance before the world-weary habitues Of
the place awakened to the fact that here
was new sensation, a woman not only
strikingly beautiful. but graceful and be-
witching, well.
The career of Carmencita at the Roster
and Bal resort is now a matter of theatre
cal history. Almost everybody connected
with theatrical matters is cognizant of the
fact that she built the place into a great
success, where the fashionables of gotham s
society were wont to congregate and enjoy
the somewhat-for them-unique perform
ances.
But when the Spanish dancer had peen
on the Roster and Bial program for a mat
ter of four or five months an opposition
manager, perhaps more alert and ener-
getic than the proprietors of the Roster