Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-24
STAGE NOTES.


I Miss Mildred Bowling, author of the
dramatization of Lorna Doone, to be
produced this week in Chicago, is now
there. Her home is at Melrose, Mass,
where she lives in colonial resi-
dence, The Hermitage, much visited
by writer's and players Lorna Doone
is far from being first effort on Miss
DoWling's part. Through young wo-
man, she has been writing for the
stage for several years. She is best
known as a colaborer with the late
H. C. DeMille and with David Belasco.
She prepared herself for a career as
an actress, but never appeared upon
the stage in a professional capacity,
preferring to turn her efforts toward
dramatic compositions. She gradual
ed from a school of oratory in Boston
and also from a school of acting in
New York. She rewrote The Main
Line for Mr.. DeMille, and he is said to
have paid her $500. AS private secre-
tary for the same author, she colabor-
ated with him on The Lost Paradise.
Dangerfield, -, was her first original
play. It was first acted in Cam
bridge. Mass, she herself taking the
leading feminine part and Harry
Woodruff appearing in the title role.
Subsequently the piece was played by
Annie Russell, both in this country
and in London
The preposterous questions asked
box office men have been turned fire.
quently into jokes by the comic pa
pers. r. L. Giffen, who is running
stock company at Richmond, Va, has
stored in his mind a number of genu-
inc interrogations put through the
treasurers window at the Academy
of Music in that city at moments when
Mr.. Giffen has been within earshot.
Most of them have emanated from
would-be theater-goers hailing from
small towns. One man, who had in
quired what the prices were, was told
that they We're rs cents downstairs
and so cents upstairs. Thereupon he
asked (Which gives the better show?"
During the opening week an ungainly
individual sidled to the gate in search
of information as to the name of the
attraction. Charity Ball. he was
briefly told To this he answered,
For what beneft?" A few days af-
terward a bride and bridegroom bear
ing unmistakable marks of truly-rural-
ism wound up a series Of leading ques-
lions with the query as to the hour the
performance would conclude. When
they learned it was shortly after
eleven o'clock they put their heads to-
gether and then asserted they guessed
they wouldn't step in, as they were
afraid their hotel would be locked by
that time.
Miss Ethel Barrymore is now the
only woman star at a New York thea
ter Last week she was kept from
that prominence by Miss Julia Mar
lowe, who was giving When knight
hood Was in Flower. Miss Barry
more's comedy, Captain links, in nine
teen weeks has been given 153 per-
formances, and Miss Marlowes ro-
mantle play, with one performance
less a week, has been shown 157 times
in twenty-five weeks. No time has
been set for the ending of Miss Barry
more's stay at the Garrick theater.
Aside from her stage work the year
has been a heavy one for Miss Barry
more, for she has now to support her
father, brilliant but unhappy Maurice
Barrymore, and her youngest brother,
John, who hopes to be an artist. Miss
Barrymore is the niece of John Drew,
and her talents are in part heritage
from her mother, the late Georgia
Drew Barrymore. She made her first
appearance on the stage in 1896 as
member Of John Drew's company. A
part of her training was gained under
Sir Henry Irving.
Children play a CONSPICUOUS part in
the new Clyde Fitch play, Lovers
Lane, now at McVicker's, Chicago.