Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-16
DRAMA


duction of Henry w are exceedingly nu-
merOus, and the local talent who were en-
gagged to assist the mob proceeded very
early in the program to organize strike.
They are customarily paid 30 cents per-
Torrance per man and s. per week for girls.
There was some question about the prices
to be paid, the former demanding increased
compensation and the girls wanting So
week.
This difference seems trivial, but when 1t
is remembered that the expenses of this
company for supernumeraries alone
amounts to 81, 900 week it will readily be
seen how the slight increase all along the
line appears on Mr.. Mansfields ledger.
The life of the super is interesting and pic
turesque. Very little is known how he Is
engaged or where he comes from. The pay
he receives seems very small and yet stage
managers are besieged by people who are
anxious to go on and carry spears for
nothing.
In New York all the supers are controlled
by single agent. He deducts 80 cents
from the weekly salary of each performer.
AS he is called to furnish supers by the
hundreds for some productions it will be
seen that this means a very liberal allow
ance for him. His commission is a regular
ly recognized feature of the transaction,
and the super does not feel that he is be-
ing gouged. A super who owns dress
suit of his own can command as much as
So per week for impersonating leaders of
society in ballroom scenes.
This New York agent has amassed a
competency which provides him with horses
and carriages and handsome home and
houses to rent. The Washington super
knows little of such bargaining. He is en-
ployed direct by the company, and 1t is
not generally supposed that the captain of
the supers gets a rake-off. The difficulties
We're adjusted this morning, and it is be-
lieved that Henry VS. army on Monday
night will not be seriously depleted by
unSeemiy assertions.
Isabelle Urquhart appears next week in
vaudeville.
In the time that is past Isabelle Urqu-
hart was a member of the Casino company
during the reign of Lillian Russelrs rare
beauty. When Urquhart appeared on the
scene, even the lovely Lillian was pressed
hard to gain the golden apple of the latter
day Judges of beauty, and many a modern
Paris hesitated before he decided. In
one respect, at least the divine Urquhart
was conceded the palm, and that was the
lines of beauty the Greeks loved so Well
to chisel. She was hailed as modern
Venus new risen from the sea of chorus
dom. 1t was during her heyday of head
turning that she visited Paris and met
sculptor then rising to fame, and whose
name is now familiar to the artistic world.
He was an absent-minded fellow, mead
over-heels in love with his art, and so for
getful in his zeal that it is told of him that
one day he began Statuette that had the
head of Bacchus and the legs of a nymph.
This absent-minded individual met Urau-
hart, saw her at the theater, saw her in
blue f1eshlingS, and vowed that art would
lose priceless opportunity We're not the
fafr American chiseled in Caracas marble.
The meeting was arranged, the actress
went to the studio and was enveloped in
plaster of parasitic artist wanted a cast
from which to work. He told Urquhart he
would detain her but thirty mnutes-by
that time the plaster would be dry and
could be cut off in segments. Then he
recollected that he should post a letter
He told the fair American not to move
that he would be back in ten minutes.
Then he locked the door and left the studio.
This was IL O'Clock in the morning At
ten minutes after IL he forgot plaster casts
urquhart, Caracas marbles and everything
else. lie wandered through the Louvre
and looked at the paintings. Meanwhile
the plaster had hardened. isabelle I'rou-
hart was as tightly wedged as if in a wise;
she had an appetite and chill. At 5
CLOCK III the afternoon the absent-minded
sculptor ambed leisurely back to his
studio, unlocked his door and StrOlled in
And the fact that there was no plaster of
paris over Miss Urquhart's mouth was
demonstrated quite speedily. What she
didnt say to the man who is now famous
would make Shakespeare, with his rich vo-
cabulary, seem iiliterate in compa rison
And the very first thing she did when
carved out of her mold was to smash eNerv
cast INTO SInlIfleFee0S. Of course the story
got out. and Paris laughed at it for a
month. But Isabelle UrQuhart stayed in
bed for five days, and then sent her doc
tors bill to the man who has since
chlseied place for himself in the world
of sculpture.
The somewhat broad and startling claim
Is made that the musical score of The
Burgomaster,' the new musical comedy.
which comes on the 18th, is the most melo
diously tuneful one that has been heard in
years. 1t includes thirty-three numbers.
with no interpretations, each of which is
SAID to excel its predecessor in Jingle and
merit. The score Is by Gustav Luders.
The comedy element In the book ia said ia
be one Of its strong features. Here are
some examples of its wit: An Indian chief
calls on Stuyvesant in the prologue and
says he is bloodthirsty. BE sensible"
says Stuyvesant. Civilized man doesn't
get bloodthirsty. He gets beer thirsty"
What is kiss?'' asked Stuyvesant of a
chorus girl.
"a kiss" she replies, sis faith to
young girl. hope to a married woman and
charity to an old maid"
He asks another
"A kiss" she replies, 'is nothing d,,;daa
by two"
DO you prefer short or long division?"
he asks.
1T depends upon the divisor," replies the
girl. Wv
A third replies, "a kiss is the beginning
Of divorce
You VIM" replies Stuyvesant
Poor Robert Grant, the author of ..Jrn-
leavened Bread" which Leo. Ditrichstine
has dramatized. is in a peck of trouble
Club ladies are after him with sharp sticks
and no less sharp tongues. 1t is In the
natural course Of things. too, that all this
woe should come to meek and inoffen-
sive gentleman, mild Of aspect, retiring as
clustered monk. In point Of fact, plain
Robert Grant, the author and satirist ia
Judge Grant Of the common pleas court
Boston. His book. ''Unleavened Bread :,
has stirred feminine club life to it's very
depths, and the club ladies of his native
city threaten the author Of the ripping So
cal satire with ostracism and worse. Re
fore Judge Grants book found it's way to
the stage he was suffered to go his wav in
peace and quiet. There was only an occa-
sional murmur; but no sooner did the dra-
matized version. with Selma White, she OF
the Boston earnest expression" appear
than the rumpus began. Boston and other
club ladies could stand Selma in the e1isa
OF fiction. but they balk at the mimic real