The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

place to have that girl out of the way
ou'd ought to heard the way she
used to sing while she was ridin' 'rouno
here. We could hear her comm way
over the hill, she'd sing so loud and Sc
high up. 1t was the worst luck ever
hit this place when she left it.
But these stars never think of the
gaps they leave. They haven't time
The hustling world of the footlight.
keeps them busy from morning to
night and then to morning again. Tha'
is what Maxine Elliott says, and SHE
ought to know. She is one of tn,
hardest workers in the profession. She
gave up society long ago, and hus
band into the bargain. The stage hao
glamour that was too much for her
Sometimes the fever does not last
but it usually does. Katharine
Bloodgood gave up husband and a
fortune for the footlights, and then
gave UP the footlights for home
again. She is now Mrs. Kip, wife OF
naval officer.
1t is not common thing for the
varsity girl to be attracted stageward
but even this thing is known. lane
Plunkett was University of Cali
fornia girl who loved amateur theatre
Gals better than her studies. She was
known in all the student farces. Fl
nally, she decided that she could not
hide her light under bushel any
longer, and she made for the real
stage, giving UP her university career
only a short time before graduation.
The sheep skin was dangling within
her reach. A few weeks more would
have made the coveted reward OF
labor hers. She had an offer to 90
with Harry Corson Clark as leau.ne
woman, and she waved a goodbye to
her coed" chums and the old brick
walls of learning, and went out ON
the road.
Her experiences were battering al
trst; she had to stay at miserable ho-
tells IN rude western towns. She had
to look for another position later on
She entered New York stranger and
had to hunt for work. But she never
finched, and she did not once wish
herself back in the shelter of the old
college.
Jane Holly gave up career that
some think almost as fascinating as
the -newspa1e r life. She was a
clever little reporter and landed
scoops" that made her the pet of the
editors. She went to fires and rum
aWays and arrests and reported them
more snappily than any man on the :
staff. When she finally decided that
her talents could be used to better
advantage in dramatic line, great
was the protestation of her editor-in-
chief and large were the inducements
offered her to remain on the staff.
But she burned her bridges and took
he big risk. She says she has vet to
EEL her first regret.
Mrs. Charles Dickman is new
light in opera, and San Francisco is
gossiping about this matter, too-what
ime it has left over from Miss Ha-
ienfeldt's debut. Mrs. Dickman is
he wife of one of the big artists out
here-one of the Monterey crowd
Who has built pictures of homes bv :
he sea at the famous resort. Mrs.
0ickman has always had as good a.
ime as there was to be had. But she
avs that the stage calls her. So she
S going on it.
Dorothy Tenant left butterfly,
existence in San Francisco for the
anne thing. A season or two pushed
Ter SO, far to the front of the stage r
hat she already sees the center of it =
in the near distance.
None of these have had their wings
inged. If they had-it might have
cen another matter.