The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-29
THE PLAYER FOLK.

da RImini' in Rochester tonight and to-
morrow Philadelphia attractions include
the Weber & Fields company at the Acad-
envy Of Music; Mrs. Fiske, at the Audi
forum. Miss Julia MarIowe, in when
hnighthoOd Was in Flower at the Broad
Street Theater; Mr.. William H. Crane, in
David HaTum," at the Chestnut Street
Opera House; Mr. James T. Powers. in
The Messenger Boy at the Chestnut
Street Theater. and The Wild Rose" at
the Garrick
Mr.. E H. Sothern, in If I Were King"
visits New Haven today.
Miss Mauda Adams viii be seen in Mil
waukCe in Quality Street The Lib
eTty Bellies" 90 to the Alvin Theater in
PitJsbuTg- Boston viii have Are You a
MaSon?" at the Museum. The Strollers"
at the Colonial, Miss Anna Held at the
Hollis, and Mr. Neil Burgess at the Park
Miss Virginia Harmed viii visit the one
night stands in Indiana in Alice of Old
NincenEeS. and close her tour in Muncie
on Saturday Mr. John Drew will he seen
IN The Second in Command in Kansas
City Mr. Nathaniel c. Goodwin will be
at the Columbia in San Francisco. King
DOGO" plays Providence, r I.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell appears at the
Olympic in ST. Louis Mr KyrIe BeIIew,
al zS4AtIts-Eeit4 u Z EAkEEEs E8tf5o ~ NJ
baEy- Miss Grace George appears in To-
Tonto-
Chicago attractions include Miss Annie
Russell, in The Girl and the Judge" at
Powers; Miss Viola Allen at the Grand
opera House: Nj. David Warfield, in The
Auctioaeer." at the Illinois while Miss
Nay Irwin makes her fsreveu visit to
afcViCkeT's-
Miss Ethel Barrymore presents Cap
tain Jinks" on the New England circuit
GnG closes her tour in New London. Conn.
cn Saturday. Mr. Z. S Willard plays
Portland, Ore. Mr.. Stuart Robson goes to
Buffalo. Mr. Jefferson de Angels can be
addressed at Montreal, and Mr. Andrew
Mack viii entertain Detroit audiences.
Mrs. Geneyieve G. Hafnes. who is pre-
pairing to make production of her play,
Hearts Afame." at the Garrick Theater,
New York, on May u, takes her work as
playwright very seriously.
1t has always been ny ambition to
write plays" she SAYS ITO nv mind.
playw-ights are born. not made. One must
have the dramatic instinct A wide range
Of knowledge is indispensable. Imagina-
ton IS great factor, but knowledge of
life and human passions and weaknesses
must be had or the writer's work is IN
real, stiItsd and does not ring true. do
net like Ibsen or his followers 1 wor-
ship at two shrines - Shakespeare and
BaIzac"
Mrs. Haines had a very brief experience
On the stage. but it was enough, she says,
TO teach her stagecraft- Her husband,
5ir- Robert T. Haines. who viii play the
leading role in Hearts Alamo" is thor
0ughly in sympathy with her work, and is
eager that she should succeed
and If I don't succeed this time" said
1T-- haT H. Of
fort is worth something Learn TO hustle
while you wait is my motto"
Miss Virginia johnson has returned to
her home in this city. having completed
her season with the PiHsburg stock com
pany- She is at present resting at a
nearby country place. preparatory to re-
Stunning her professional work in Sher-
wood and Denham's Joan OF arc She
has been especially engaged to play Joan
IN the presentation OF that play 10 be
given at the Academy Of Music during
The week Of Nav 2.
Resting" is hardly the word to apply
to Miss Johnson temporary retirement
from the stage. She is working harder
than whea acting. She is training much
as an athlete trains to hE himself for his
tasks Of agility and strength And she
viii have need for an athletes strength
in order to play Joan properly. and with
the requisite amount OF realism.
II some Of the stage struck maidens
could see Miss johnson as she goes
through the labor of her physical exer-
cises they would realize that the life of
2 4 actress IN these days Of the strenuous
drama is not the easy existence they i'm
agined-
During a large part of the action of the
play Miss Johnson wears a suit of armor
the carrying OF which on his body would
tax the powers Of q man. Then IN the
battle scene during the siege of Orleans
she VIII take a most active part in the
fray and must necessarily be q good fenc-
er- Her fencing lessons consume several
hours day. The scene depicting her
burning at the stake in full view o. the
audience viii require physical strength
beyond the average and an abundance
OF steady nerves
Joe WEIGH. the vaudeville monoIosist.
IS as popular IN vaudeville as Dave War
field is in the legitimate theaters. In
method and genius they are very similar,
although WEIGH ha2 not, perhaps, the
fnesse that Warfeld displays in his por-
traiture of familiar Hebrew types The
mission Of both is Identical as they seek
TO show the better, the human, the home
side Of the Hebra!c nature. IN no sense
IS WeIchs work a travesty. as he aims to
make his Study from Life" as he calls
his act. as faithful and strong in coIoriag
as genre painting.
IN telling Of himself he says:
When 7 was a bog I liked to mimic
the men of the Ghetto, and at ten years
/ bought some false whiskeTs for a quar-
ter, long hat and 4 red bandana hand
kercbief- I had friend who played Z
banjo and we went around together We
finally got a Job at the old National The
alter, on the Bowery, and did a turn be-
tween the acts OF a melOdrama- Later I
did Irish character work, and it was then
that I got the name WEIGH
Almost steadily for the last eight
years I have been In vaudeville. and all
that time have been developing my Jew
study character. I know that life in the
Ghetto It's poverty is awful. In my
sketch I speak Of the buttonhoIe-maker
that has had only q picked herring for
breakfast. But it IS worse than that
many q poor Jew working in the sweat
shops begins at O'Clock in the morning
and quits at 10 o'clock at night without
taking time to eat a meal. He works
with one hand and puts sandwich to his
mouth with the other He works by the
piece and wants to get in a full day.
Those people are patient and timid al
wa,ys looking for bit of kindly eneour-
agement and seldom getting it
You have seen the many fGrTtpdIauc