The Washington times., 1901-10-27

get into pink tights and perform on A
trapeze l would be the nroudest and han
piest thing In the world
| My athletic training. by the way, was
great help to me when / played the
soubrette role with Corbett. There vas a
gymnasium scene where, in the soubrette
1 Tying rings a dozen feet above the stage
and refused to take me down untn
promised to kiss him. / used to hang
| there at arms length for a full ten min.
utes without the least discomfort.
| II love this part OF the little girl in
Lovers Lane, although was In despair
~ lns earlier rehearsals. and felt that /
should fail miserably Simplicity Johnson
Is a waywerd child not yet in teens but
mere is nothing bad about her To me
eueIe Is something pathetic and appealing
on ~ NY ShIdish love Tor the minister.
an; Un; no; l 90 not expect to go on playing
fttle children. OF course / shall never he
pig ana stately, and nobody wifi ever ca st
ine Ior Lady Macbeth. Yet | have played
S"lht very peculiar parts. In one Of Mr.
Bradys melodramas | appeared as n
| young woman who had been married
twice and carried a live baby. ii / keep
bio a. -, tlits rate suppose | shall be eiigi-
Then you find your diminutiye size
| something of a drawback?''
1t has many drawbacks" confessed
| Miss James gravely. Il can't be an in
spired emotional actress. can't even
| BUY clothes like other people: they must
be made for me. One | went into a New
| YORK department store and bought a
| dress, twelve-year-old size which | much
| coveted. When / got home it had to be
pulled to pieces and taken In everywhere
The clothes / wear in Lovers Lane are
ten-year-old size.
mo, l do not like II as Joke at all
II Is very much OF nuisance. Still.
am glad that Simplicity Johnson has
| pieased and l was never so self-satisfed
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| performance and said it pleased him A
| very humorous man, my father and
| much addicted to practical joking but
honestly believe that in this instance he
I was really serious.
| And / want to tell you" added Miss
James, with display of gratitude un-
| common in one of her calling, how much
| am indebted to Mr.. Brady for his as
| sfstance. He gave me opportunity and
| encouragement. But for him / should
/ never have had the part, and but for his
| hours of personal coaching and rehearsal
| would never have succeeded in 1t. You
| may not know it, but Brady Is one of the
| most skillful stage managers in America
| think he outclasses all the rest Of
| them"
| Nevada Hefron plays the part OF a
| slavey in Lady Huntworth's Experi-
| men," Keziah the housemaid in the fam
lily of the vicar. Keziah is not the slavey
| of comic opera. nor yet the ordinary
| slavey to whom those who are ford OF
| witnessing modern comedy dramas have
| become used. Keziah is in class by her
| self. not only in so far as her dialect is
concerned, but her garmentry. Keziah
has only twenty-six lines to speak. but
| she looks volumes, a whole comic library
| in fact.
! The crisis arrives in her mortal career
when she goes to a penny reading in the
! neighboring village. When she submits
| herself for Lady Huntworth's inspection
in the rig with which she proposes to
honor the penny reading. she would make
angels weep. Conspicuous among the fea-
lures of this startling costume is a pair
of black gloves which make her hands
look like weird. misshapen fourth cousins
| of hands.
Miss Hefron always buys her gloves in
a certain New York shop and of a cer-
tain saleswoman. When she was ac-
cumulatiug the articles for her penny
reading costume. she went into the store
and found a seat at the counter alongside
Of other women who were buying gloves.
Ella she said to her special sales
woman, what size glove do I wear?"
About a six, SAID Ella
Give me d nve in black" ordered Miss
Hefron. careleSsly.
Ella produced the No. 3. and began to
try one on her customer. She tugged
and rubbed and rubbed and pulled, until
she was purple in the face. The glove
came about half way upon Miss Hefron's
hand. and squeezed it together until it
looked deformed as a Chinese woman's
foot. Meanwhile the women along the
counter were watching the performance
with open scOrn and disgust. They said.
in looks, that 1t was the most colossal
exhibition of vanity they had ever seen.
Those who knew each other said so in
on as far as they would go. Miss Hefron
held her absurd-lOOking hands up in front
of her. regarded them critically for an
instant. and then said:
These will do nicely. Ella; send me
half dozen pairs, pleaser'
Mary Marble, the comedienne of Chase's
Stock Company, is as soft of heart as she
is small and pretty. Suffering humanity
or afflicted brutes have only to let her
know of their troubles to be Immediately
relieved.
The members of the stock company
have great fun with Miss Marble. and
whenever opportunity presents itself they
do not fail to perpetrate a joke upon her.
Lame dogs and kittens, guinea pigs,
white rats, and the like, have been sent
to Miss Marble at different times for
sympathy and relief. She never becomes
angry.
Two or three years ago Miss Marble
was playing in Denver, Col One night
after the performance she was return
ing to her hotel with her manager. when
she heard a kitten whining pitifully The
night was dark and stormy, but Miss
Marble insisted that the kitten be found.
When it was discovered the animal was
shivering from the cold. and was wet and
hungry. The actress took it to the hotel,
fed it hot milk, ard insisted that 1t
be put to bed. The next day she tried
to induce the proprietor of the hotel to
keep the kitten. but he would not have
it. The manager of the theatre thereupon
volunteered to give it a home at the the
atre- 1t was at once christened Mary
Marble. and became a great favOrite
with the employees of the house. Miss
Marble left Denver with the parting in
Junction to the manager that no harm
should come TO her kitten. Not long ago
she received telegram, and, on opening
it. read: Mary Marble has kittens"
ThercupCn Miss Marble felt it incumbent
upon her to buy supper for the members
ol the company. which the chrOnicler OF
Miss Marbles doings AYERS she aid.
Regarding the recent withdrawal Of
Richard Lovelace'' from the stage of the
Garden Theatre. Mr.. Sothern announces
that the play is not permanently taken
from his repertory. but will be seen lat
er in the season in New York.
Despite its unevenness. the general
opinion of the critics was that Mr.. Irv-
ings play contained excellent material
and afforded Mr. Sothern splendid oppor-
tunities. The author, who is now in New
York has fallen in with Mr.. Sotherns
views and has submitted a revised scena-
rio that, while retaining the most effec-
tive scenes of the play. would. in ;he
opinions of those interested, transform it
into a brilliant piece of work.
The business done at the Garden Thea
tire with the original was by no means
discouraging. and, save for the desire TO
reconstruct the piece, it couid have been
retained in the Diii much longer
There has been some talk of giving
snecial matinee Of Orchard LOVelace'