The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-10-16
The Original Front. 4"
Marcus Mayor, Founder Of the Human
Impressionistic School.


In this rendezvous Of the worlds bon
ton, and the flower Of diplomacy 10
have folks turn on their heel, "grandes
danes" raised their lorgnettes, and TO
hear all around EXPLANATIONS of What
a distinguished old gentleman" IS no
mean honor
The hTst thing TO arrest your attention
IN the many things that 80 20 produce
this effect is-a hat!
Yes a hat
ConceivabIy, rude small boys may have
betrayed their thirst for information by
uncermoniousIy asking, coram publico:
Where did you get that hat?'-a breach
OF decorum OF which you. OF course
would not be guilty.
Nevertheless once having seen it,
sleep would be banished from your eyes
until you had learned something more
about IT,
You are right in supposing that this hat
has a history In the first place. the
distinguished gentleman" attached to
1t keeps blocks of this silk "three-deck-
err in New York, Paris, and London.
II may, therefore. be described as an
iuUerna IiOnal hat The structure pos
sessts, arChitectUraIly, the character
istics OF all three cOuuUTies-American
elevation, British eNpansiVeness. and an
tndehnable jauntiness that is unmistaIl-
ably GalliC,
The Face Under the Hat
But there is a face under that hat; a
face good go look upon. If you have ever
In the past been privileged TO take the
air along The leafy stretches OF the
Iuter Den Linden, and particularly II
you are Il believer in the reconsideration
OF souls. You may be pardoned for
rubbing your eyes, and calculating:
AS / Iiye-Bismarcki ] cannot be mis-
taken. The same nne. square. iron Jaw,
the same gnarled, deeply furrowed
chav.s, the same gorselike closely
matted eye5rows-the same eagle eyes.
'iE inc frenzy rolling NO cannot be
mistaken
You age, nevertheless.
Then who Is he-a new ambassador
"A d. now YOU have struck it, That is
Ms rank But. as you would suppose,
from mo shcddy, up-to-date court. He
IS I0m the court Of St James. No less Do
'a hat2 Representative OF King Ed
ward T--
"NOt at ALL The figure before you is
reminiscent and representative OF a
period and regime, that held proud
sway in Merry England when the
Guelphs were mere German princeIiugs
This is no other than Marcus Mayer.
minister and plenipOtentiary from the
court Of Mary Tudor "a MadczD Prfn-
cess" a sister of Blur King Hal a lady
who. in the person OF Lulu GIaser. will
with a gay retiuue. make an appear
ance on Monday next al the Columbia
theater in this city.
Bismarck Far Outdone.
Now breathe easy.
When quite ready, a closer investiga-
tiou OF the figure viii disclose various
~ sHll
the Iron Chancellor. or for that matter
between him and any ordinary, or gar
den. ambassador. Right away. he is
vastly more interesting. despite the fact
that he is not so strong in the .'DIeui-
pOteuuary' business
Bismarck did not carry a cane like
that His years salary would not buy
it, That cane was made from the leg
OF Mary Tudor's bedstead-u0t the
stead from which Miss CHASER every
night ~sasses' back az her biz, buster
Ing brother, the Defender OF the
Faith, but the Identical one from which
iu old BrideWeu house the original mad
cap princess" gave her opinion of the
King OF France. and, incidentally. the
world in general AIr Mayer. be il OH
served. is nothing if not Loyalty reaIis-
tic
Another point of divergence between
Bismarck and the ambassador from the
resurrected court of Mary Tudor. is the
Mayer walk. Air. Mayer stands iu no
need OF "a fanfare OF trumpets 70 herald
his approach. He Is not big msu-but
ne has a great walk. The moment he
quits the portals OF his hoJeI-iu his am
bassadoriaI capacity he best0Ws patron
age on only the most palatiaI and select
establishmeuts-aud gets into his stride.
lac ls, lu the words of Cicero, ''the cyu-
oslre W all eyes" lie dresses like gen
uemaH. but he walks like a Viking.
The Fruits Of Real Greatness.
Other points Of divergence.
t-isslafeH did not work and walk, and
talk with Mark Twalu-but Mayer ala
b-smarca did not bring Beruhardt
10 this cuIlTy-but Mayer did
Bismarck did NOT act as precursor 20
Patti. CalFe. Duse. and "a constellation
OF other theatrical Iumiaarles-but
Mayer did
Bismarck did not know the face and
record OF everybody who was ANYBODY,
on the stage iu IHo continents. for the
last halo ceutury-but Mayer does.
Bismarck did not KNOW every the
atrlcaI manager and newspaper editor
in two hemispheTes-but Mayer does
Bismarck could have walked from one
END of Broadway 20 the other ia am
hour OF maybe less-plt Mayer could
not get the hundred yards separating
the ICuickerb0cker Theater from Forty
second Street with twice that time all
I0Nauce. Aud.ILereiu POSSIBLY. too. iu
the small detail OF stat=scrafy lies the
only thing iu which Bismarck could beat
him.
You viii understand that tbe only rea-
son why AF. Mayer could not make
that hundred yards iH better time is due
solely 90 the fact that Lis good friends
Who swarm tlereab0ut simply won't
sumer him 90 DO so. For anyone &C.
cOmpanylng this popular entrepeHeur