The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-03-09

ballet slippers. Murdoch would nave been
shocked TO see his grandson in pale flesh
incs and a gauZc ballet skirt, with his face
rouGed and his arms and shoulders bare.
pirouetting at Mask and Wig shods. for
Murdoch had a great deal of dignity. His
foot was long and narrow-a 10 Band he
wore white wooden hose.
Il made the black velvet shoes that Ed
win Booth wore in Hamlet They were
firm. | believe; Is the only one that made
the Hamlet shoes of Edwin Booth. This
was his pattern: have saved it as q
kind of curiosity: and that Is his auto
graph pinned 10 it,
Edwin Booth's shoes.
Booth wore a No. Z. He never came
here himself. He was too busy. His valet
used to come and give his order. and when
the theater and fit them on the big man.
who. though he was not a big man literally.
had yet 50 much gravity and dignity that
he resembled a clergyman. He told me
10 play Hamlet He was in Sacramento
with his brother. J. B.. Jr.. and one night.
drcs"ed for the par, of Jaffir in Venice
! Preserved J. b. said. You look like Ham
let. Why dent you play it"
After the death OF Lincoln. Edwin Booth
! retired from the stage for nine months.
! His grandfather. Richard Booth. had been
a lawyer with Republican tendencies. This
man had set rail with a number OF other
Young E2Igiishm.n for these shores TO help
Washington f!Ght the Revolution. but they
had all been taken prisoner on the way
over and brought haci, home. The GRANDPA
. rh.-. Edwin said. afterwards had in his
Iar,Cr = portrait "f George Washington. 10
which he insisted that his friends bow on
entering and leaving tine room.
.JuniuS Brutus Booth. the father of Ed
win. had q slim foot. with Il high irstep and
a Tick ankle. Ny father said ne made a
a play that David Paul Brown. a Philadel-
pnii lawyer, wrote.
Getting down 10 the present. I'll tell you
loot. and her shoes are made with the heel
inside. They seem. when she has them on.
10 be- heelless. but lcok here
Miss M~ur:owc's Heels.
Mr.. Triple took out Of a box a pale blue
SATIN slipper. a little worn. 1t had no heel.
but inside IL like an irsole. was ~ movable
piece of cork. about four inches long. and
shaped Ike - wedge.
An old shoe of Miss Marlcwc's' he said.
Here is tho heel. set in side. you sse. she
finds she can wall: mo-e gracefully with
inside heels. ! don't know. indeed. but what
she regards these heels a the secret OF her
graceful walk.
Blu; MY specialt; is tie ballet slipper.
Hdi-'t slippers az" very interesting. They
ar always much too small for their wear
err Thus. If u p:emiers's size Is a No. 2
her slipper will lie Il No. y. And a long
while il required for her to get il on. She
works II over her toes with her fingers.
gradually, as you work on a glove. and to
get II over her heel. since there is no pos
stole room for a ahoehorn. she uses a
stIlp OF COTTON clol0. putting one end In The
shoe and Pulling on the other end.
The slipper is horribly tor short. you
see. Tn" foot. TO enter IL. must have the
toes bent backward. must have them bent
back almost as they are in toe dancing it,
s-lf. Don't you see that this short slipper
IS very painful. and that In consequence il
l. Il relief from the pain for the poor pre-
mie-c 10 get up on hcr toesr That Is one
reason why she wears her slipper so much
To-" short. the either reason is that il sup
ports her. made that way, in p:rouetting.
An Acrobat's Wants.
Here. now. il an acrobat's s.oe. This
nook. jutting out from behind. Is what the
acrobat hangs by his heels from the trapeze
WIZ. Notice how strongly the shoe is
made The counter Is of copper. the heel is
or heart oak. the upper Ia a double one.
and The shoe laces by straps inside as well
as in the ordinary manner outside. II has
10 be very strong. for every night a mans
life depends on IL. That IS why 7 hate 10
max" acrobat's shoes. Do YOU know that
at this moment | hold. In a measure. tho
ENe| Of seventeen acrohats i'm nv hnnin
seventeen men are now waiting for me To-
snip III" shoes that I am building for Them.
An error Il little car-lcssness in each pair.
ana some night. through my fault. those
tneflS SHOES VIII give way and the poor .el-
lows VIII fall and break their necks"