Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-20

ing room, attending to his costumes wigs,
boots and linen. He is back again before
O'Clock to make ready for Mr.. Mans
field, who is apt to appear any time after
q O'Clock, always the first conner in
failible example TO the young players who
magine art is all cheeSe-cakeS and honey.
There are others who have to anticipate
the arrival of the actors because the for
midable array of costumes are in their
charge The wardrobe mistress has two
sewing girls, and this trio sew, stitch,
clean, renovate and press costumes with a
diligence that defies time and packing.
The wigman leads Il more quiet life. BY
day he is ON the. stage with his wigs and
blocks, combs and tongs; but at night he
goes about with a critical and patronizing
air, an arbiter of wisps and curls. bald
pates and all manner of hirsute problems
All the members of the unseen staff are
under the stage manager, who is the stars
adJutant general. He has two assistants.
Every department has a head. There are
the lights. They are sent from New York
They are gas ealciums, insisted on by Mr.
Mansfield In control of them is the head
gas man, and he has an assistant at each
pair of tanks" who follows cues for the
changings of the color and strength of the
lights just as the actors do for their en-
frances and exits.
The scenery is all in charge of the head
carpenter, who has three assistants: these
four know the 'Old Heidelberg produc-
ton in the dark, and they direct and help
the army of scene shutters supplied by the
theater. Everything placed on the stage
not a part of the scenery is a prop y
Mansfields present production is a nerve
racker for his two property men, for they
have more to care for than ever before
The house furnishes them helpers TO bring
on and take off the props" So il hap
pens that the stage staff brought by Mr.
Mansfield for odd Heidelberg is a little
company in itself.
A VIOLENT ATTACK OF LAUGHTER.
The antics of Frank Daniels in "The
Office Boy" at the Columbian Theater this
week brought an aftermath of much woe
to spectator of Wednesday evenings per-
Torrance. A young man in a front row
seat had INDUCED himself in an unusual
amount of laughing. until toward the end
of the performance he was taken with a fit
of hccoughs and retired to the OF the
theater for drink Of water Directly af-
ter returning the glass to its accustomed
place he pitched violently forward in.
state of Inconsistencies, and fell with
tremendous force, face downward, on the
heat register at the foot of the balcony
stairway Although the impact of his
body with the metal made considerable
noise the occurrence was only noted by
those in the rear seats. The young man
was given prompt attention by the ushers
and others. and after taking stimulant
was able to return to his friend.
EDDIE FOY.-Twenty years ago he was
the low comedian and utility man of the
famous Alcazar Stock Company of San
Francisco He remained there in that hum
BILE, useful and valuable position for three
wears Maud Adams was the ingenue OF
| the organization. Mrs. Thomas Barry was
one of the ranks there too, and the tenn
pestuous Jeffreys Lewis was the leading
woman Earlier still Mccullough and Tom
| Keene were in the company.
| In that time he played all sorts of comic
| characters, from tawdry melodrama TO