Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-14

| and played cards and the next night the
people We're present, good humored and
oeaming, as they always are in the pursuit
| Of pleasure"
Josephine SabeI win be regarded with ex-
| ceptonal interest. AS the singer OF the
| songs of the nations she enjoys vogue IN
| vaudeville all her own. She Is styled tine
| chanteuse internationale'' and her costumes
| a la militaire glow with color. Lolita Glao.
| stone, the quaint country girl, is one Oh
the most popular performers that nave en-
| gagged the affections of the Chase CLIENTELE.
/ Eva Nudge. the American girl VINO en-,
joyed f1attering success in London, VIII
| appear in character changes as tine mill
| tary maid
| A POLO-PLAYING AUTHORESS.-Mrs.
| Howard Could has a warm place IN her
| heart for the people of the stage ana lts
| associations. She was formerly Miss kath-
| crime Clemmons.1- When she was MISS Glenn
| mons she, too, was an actress. because VI
| her kindly feeling for number OF proh
| inent women Of the stage she mas piaceo
at the disposal of Lottie Blair farker, lne
dramatist who wrote Way Down East
! and "Under Southern Skies Mr. Goulo
polo field on Long Island. Some exciting
polo matches nave been played tnere III
which Mrs. Parker and her friends nave
| figured. Although Mrs Gould knows but
few of the stage women who play polo on
her husbands grounds, she Is warmly
spoken Of by them for her consideration
Polo is rather difficult and dangerous
game to be popular among women, out 10y
tie Blair Parker not only handles the SUCKS
| like an expert, but plays on one of the
| largest and finest fields in this country;
| The field is the private property of Howard
Gould, and the invitation to use 1t was
forthcoming because of Mrs. Goulds ad-
miration of the riding of Mrs. Parker MRS.
Gould is fond of theatricals and theatrical
people. Mrs. Parker's home Is at Long
mer residence of the Goulds. Her nearest
neighbor is Minnie Victorson, the leading
woman of Under Southern Skies, and she
has as friends such clever and athletic
| Mrs. Fiske's company and Grace Hen
derson. With this material, to which was
added a force of guests, Mrs. Parker form
| ed a polo club, herself acting as coach. The
team devoted many days during the sum
mer to practice games, utilizing ground
near Miss Victorson's residence. Mrs. Par
ker is much devoted to athletics. and takes
a great deal of exercise during the summer
at Great Neck In addition to being eX
cellent horsewoman, she swims and drives
well. She also havigates her own yacht,
| The Nancy, and though the boat Is
scarcely over thirty feet long, has taken it
| into the rough water off Point Judith.
BOB" TAYLORS FIRST CIRCUS.-Ex-
Governor Robert L. Taylor. who at the age
| of twenty five was elected to Congress and
VIII Il6tS SeINeu the Stdlc VI 1tllileSSee dS
governor for three, terms and is known and
| loved throughout the entire south for his
| fiddle playing and his beautiful speeches,
while standing with a party of friends in
| the corridor OF a down town hotel recently
was attracted by the gorgeous, advertise
ment of a circus that was still clinging to
! an abandoned billboard across the way. Il
never see circus bills said the governor,
without being remirded of the first time
eversattended asshow. 1t WAS at Elizabeth
| town, and the Show was old John Robin
sons.
In those days shows were not so large
as they now. Everything was under
one tent and all the acts occurred one at a
| time and in the same ring. One tent not
only covered the circus, but the menagerie
as we'll; the people being seated on one side
and the animal cages around the other.
The entire country came in that day. They
| had monster elephant that got unruly
sometimes L think they got him that way
| in order to give the hungry crowd on the
outside sensation. | do not know how it
! started, but the first thing ] knew the word
| went around through the crowd that some
enc had given the elephant a 'chaw ter
| hacker To the mountaineer this meant
! the destruction of the entire population of
the place, for there was somehow or other
legend that the elephant would resent
| 'chaw terbacker' to the decima ton of the
entire county. Some of the old fellows
thought the elephant would never stop as
| long as there was human being living in
| the mountains
| Finally the elephant was pacified. and
| to save the legend intact the report went
| around that it was not a 'chaw terbacker'
| but chinquapin burr The crowd came
back to the tent obviously and after a
| while perfect confidence was restored
| Il got up courage and money enough to
| get inside of the tent, but | went in L
| got a shock it took me all day to get over.
c no ct of
] to tie the elephant to a stake lust inside of
the entrance. | walked right in on him be-
| tore l knew 1t, and | thought | was gone
sure. Scarcely had gotten out of his reach
when one of my native countrymen came in
under the influence of strong drink He
| was great big strapping fellow with his
jean pants stuffed into the tops of his
boots; much of man physically and With
| just enough of the mountain dew in him
to Danish all such things as fear. He ran
spang against the big pachyderm and fell
ssprawling. When he got up about twenty
feet away and staggered to his feet he saw
the elephant. He knew that it had had
something to do with his fall and he ra-
scented it. The fact is the report was nnicL
~ CIRCULATED that the elephant had knocked
him down with his trunk ANYHOW he
looked at the elephant for a moment in dis
gust, and then shaking his clenched fist at
1t he said. Looky here, you two-tailed
scounorei' II ?ist knowed which end your
head was on I'd kick your burned brains
outen it p" -~---
SPECIAL MANSFIELD PREPARA
T1ONS.-Every one of the fourteen DAYS in
tervening before the arrival of Richa I'd
Mansfield with his company and his mas
sive production of Julius Caesar" will be
full Of the reality of the extensiveness Of
the organization to the people on the stage
Of the National. Tomorrow work begins
on four large new omnibus dressing rooms
for the extra people who make hit in the
riots in the Forum. In all Mr. Mansfield is
surrounded by 800 people in Julius Caesar"
Another room is being built with COM
plete lining ofTsquare open boxes to receive
the Roman armor and the dresses of the
populace. 1t wills crowd the normal dress
Ing room space to accommodate the thirty
five principal artists in the cast of Julius
Caesar" About Thursday of next week It
Is anticipated that the settings for the
Roman senate, With it's vast amphitheater
and its tyrean awnings, and the massive
Forum, with its statuary and columns will
arrive, with two or three experts to mount
them. This does not mean Mansfield will
play Julius Caesar the balance of the
week without these two essential settings
The fact is, the production is so big that a
large margin Of risk is assumed to trv To
move it all from one city to another and
set it uD in time for nrou,rt o,n,,.,- -