Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-16

must certainly be of value to our stage
Young people must come into the profession
from somewhere and if they can Go SO
properly trained and equipped for their
work so much the better. | know of no
one better suited to the task than yourself
Your ideas certainly embody all that is
best and dignified in our art and your long
experience as stage manager qualines
you for the work of teaching others Your
training will be the best. and whatever
they learn will be at least of practical
value ON the stage. l think your ideas Oh
including eocution and voice building in
the instruction OF the school excellent and
should meet with ready response here IN
Washington. What truer elocution than
we are called upon to learn and to practice
on the stage? 1t is of the first essen
tials of the art of acting, and We should
| see me.
.Affectonately yours
GRANDMA GILBERT
Madam Adelina Patti has altered her de-
| termination not to appear in Washington,
| and will give concert in this city the mid
die of February.
| A THEATRE TALE.-A group of the
atrical men were recently enjoying a
| Bohemian lunch after show hours and lis
| tening to amusing experiences in the south
| and far west. One of them, and not
comedian by any means, told of funny
| incident that happened while his company
| was playing in a southern Iowa town. A
! man in the audience who had been i'm
| billing very freely before entering the
| theater arose from his seat, and, with much
| difficulty, left the theater, refusing to take
| the return check Proffered him at the door.
| After drinking a few times in a nearby
| saloon he appeared at the door of the
| demanded admission
| a return check
| "You can't come in" asserted the door
| keeper.
| lid like to know why replied the
| drunken man. 81 paid my money-and-
I'm good as you are"
| That's all right replied the door
keeper. But you can't come in here
| you're drunk
"Of course I'm drunk" replied the fell
| low. "D'you 'spose I'd want to come back
| in If wasn't drunk
| SOME BIRTHDAY GREETINGS.-Since
his appearance here short time ago with
| Eleanor Robson in Merely Mary Ann at
| the National Theater, Edwin Arden cele-
| brated his birthday anniversary and that
| event brought him some amusing and pic
| turesque kilograms of congratulation. The
| following are some of the most striking
| ones:
'Mr. Edwin Arden is 39 years old, and
| has played in AZ performances of Merely
| Mary Ann and Israel Zangwill. the author,
| gets married at the age of 81. how old is
| Ann? NAT GOODWIN.
May Merely Mary Ann attain as many
! anniversaries. MACLYN ARBUCKLE."
| "Hoot, mon. IT'S a bonnie lasse you're
! with for an old man!
| FRANK DANIELS"
THE VALUE OF SONGS.-very few per-
| sons have any idea at all of the valuation
l nf no1 how, hAo, fhAv,
| in places of amusement sung and whistled
| on the streets and rendered in many of the
| private homes they visit. The financial
| side of the musical production is seldom If
| ever alluded to. The recent consideration
| of two well-known music publishing houses
| reveals the value of these popular musical
| compositions. The Whitney Warner Pub
| fishing Company of Detroit and Shapiro,
| Bernstein e. Co. of New York have COM
| bined under the name of Shapiro, Remick
| & Co. 1t appears that in fixing values of
musical compositions two popular compo-
sitions were valued at $4,000 each.
| MISS ELLIOTT GOT THE FLOWERS
When Maxine Elliott made her first stellar
| appearance in Clyde Fitch's comedy, Her
| Own Way in Buffalo last September, an
amusing incident happened.
| Miss Elliott's leading man, Charles Cher
| ry, appears in the last act with both arms
| tightly bandaged to his sides He has the
| part of an American soldier wounded inSthe
| Philippines, and much of the comedy of the
| meeting of the lovers is due to his inability
| to take her in his arms. She embraces
| him. instead.
After the audience had enjoyed this
| scene the final curtain fell, and after sew
| eral curtain calls, half dozen ushers
rushed down the asles with their arms full
of flowers for Miss Elliott. But as she
| couldn't fOOtliRhtS
| herself there was embarrassing pause.
Mr.. Cherry stepped forward and tried to
| take the flowers, but his arms were tightly
| tied. But he was not diSmayed. He burst
one of his bandages, slipped the others over
| his shoulder, and stepped forward to take
the flowers while the audience laughed and
| applauded at the spectacle of the disabled
warrior laying flowers at the feet of Miss
Elliott.
A SUBSTITUTE KO-KO.-The gallery is
supposed to be the main source of bolster
BUSINESS in the theater, but collegians really
deserve this questionable distinction. Many
an actors heart has been set aching by the
pranks of the callous scholastics. Richard
q, Mansfield once had an experience in Eng
land with box full of Oxford students.
Once bitten, twice scared, so when he play
ed later in Cambridge Mansfield anticipated
exactly what happened. The opera was
1.-The Mkado," and Mansfield was playing
Ko-ko. There were students in every part
| of the house. Ko-Kos entrance was greet
ed by hurrahs from the boys and the
thrusting of half dozen ROSTERS on to the
stage. Instantly there was bedlam. Ko-
Ko, however stood his ground. In couple
of minutes the students had shouted them
selves hoarse or tired, or both. When quiet
prevailed Mansfield, in his own robes as
Ko-ko, entered and began his song the
super he had sent on to take the reception
grinned at the success of his ruse and am
| bled awkwardly off.