The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-11
CHANGE IN ACTRESSES.
GREATER DoMESTICITK APPAR- EYTIN THE PLAYER FOLK.
As Consequence There Has Been Cor responding Change in the Attitude of Hotels and Thsspians Are Better T...t.d ,rban Ever.

responding Change i'm the Attitaae oA Hotels and Thsspians Are Better Treated Than Ever.
 ssTen years have wrought wondrous changes in the treatment accorded the atrical people at hotels" said Anna $. Richardson, who was in Washington recently looking after the press inter ests of Miss Paula Edwardes in "Win- some Winnie" 'aTen years ago took my first flyer as a press agent and re- tired from the field dismayed by the attitude of the general public toward the men and women of the profession We were all 'troupers,' especially to the hotel men. The room with the dim giest carpet, the dirtiest windows, the most diIapidated bed, and the shabbiest furniture generally was considered an ideal apartment for the average Thes- plan. There were so-called professional rates, but they applied only to rooms which were absolutely undesirable to any other patrons than the actors and actresses. Everything in the room showed that members of the profession were regarded with open suspicion. Towels were given out with evident re- iluctance, and the only reason that the soap wasn't chained to the dish was be- cause the chain wouldn't hold. Cham bermaids and Waitresses went around with a chip on their shoulder as if ex- pecting nothing but complaints from the playfolk, and comedian had to work harder to get two fresh eggs with his ham than to win laughter and ap- plause from the nights audience.
 But after ten years spent at a desk have returned to my first love to ind that such conditions have practically disappeared The theatrical guest is not only welcomed, but sought by the average hotel proprietor. Cards, pam phlets, and personal letters assail the Thespian from the next town, and all the employees in the house seem anxious to contribute to his comfort
 Inquiry among number of hotel men has brought to light the fact that it is the professional people and not the hotel people who have changed. One well kown hotel man said that the new generation of actresses in particular, showed a respect and appreciation for comfortable surroundings that were not known fifteen or twenty years ago. The actress who abuses privileges and com forts is practically unknown, and for every noisy party of chorus girls who keep late hours and indulge in the practice of destroying their neighbours sleep there are fifty who are desirable and quiet guests. Further, members of the profession are the best advertiseres house can have. When an actress is comfortably lodged and Wholesomely fed she passes the good news along to every -,aaan end woman she knows in the profession. This means more to the hotel man than any amount of adver- Using in theatrical guides or on stage bulletin boards.
 That the general bearing of the chorus girl and the woman who plays small parts has changed, no one can deny who has watched sociological con- ditions in the theatrical centers
 Such women as Miss Maude Adams, Miss Annie Russell, Miss Maxine FL liott and Miss Mary Mannering have set what might be called a domestic example to the rank and file of theatri- cal women. They have grown exclu- sive. They do not publish their profess sion in their bearing nor their dress ing.
 Miss Adams is as demure as coun- try mouse Miss Amelia Bingham and Miss Elsie De Wolfe, both gorgeous dressers on the stage, cling to black for street wear. The really smart &C., tress is just now posing for pretty picture of domestic happiness. She must have an apartment. She fees ho- tels and publicity in her private life. Z Miss Fay Templeton, who is perhaps one of the most strikingly Bohemian figures in the general estimate of stage women, presides over one of the most perfectly appointed little apartments in the theatrical district Miss Virginia Harmed. in her more personal role of Mrs. Sothern. is a charming hostess, and Miss Paula Edwardes has wee fiat in one of the most staid residential sections of New York, and she looks after it personally when in town, of
 
 marketing. The number of actresses who are buying suburban real estate convenient to New York is perhs ps the best evidence of the domestic tendency of the day.
 Now, theatrical women are like 90 many sheep. What the stars do, the women in their support do on a smaller scale. and the chorus girl or walking lady ennulates to the best of her ability and purse. If the chorus girl cannot afford to take an apartment, sine clubs with two or three other girls, and talks wisely of hangings and draperies and dear-armor and all sorts of china which she picks up on bargain tables, just as the wealthier members of the profess sion seek it in shops where antiques adn heirloons are sold. She yearns for a down comfortable, silver-back toilet articles and lobster set for her dimin- utive china closet. She gives little din- 1iers, too, and talks scornfully of board ing houses and hotels, and, by and by, through the mere influence of much stimulation of domesticity, she actually becomes domestic in her tastes and learns to respect other peoples, prop erty as we'll as her own. She does not change the color of her hair oftener