The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23

All EW YORK. July 21.--The fact that
IN is an actress fortune may about as
well be ugly as pretty, so far as
cash value goes, although most women
would rather get along with less pay
and more good looks Edna Wallace,
Toby Claude and Katie Barry are this
weeks coincidents IN illustrations of
that subject. They are the smallest
three condolences that have become.
conspicuous in the current style of exz
travaganza. but they vary in appear
ance from the loneliness of Edna TO the
LONELINESS Of Katie, with the comeIi-
ness of Toby midway between the ex-
tremes. In an aside IL may be noted
that two of these little creatures mar
ried unconmonly big men by whom
they had been charmed in stage COM
partnership and with whom they parted
upon finding them less congenial as
husbands. Edna Wallace added Hop
per to her name as the wife of De Wolf
Hopper, and has not subtracted it since
she dropped the rest Of him by divorce.
Toby Claude kept her own name by it
self for theatrical purposes during the
several years she was the wife of the
younger William T. Carleton. Those
six-foot-four husbands and not much
more than four-foot- brides used to
get as much attention in our streets as
they did in our theatres, so well were
they known and SO odd were their con-
trasts.
No actress is more thoroughly a town
topic than Edna Wallace Hopper Her
wit Isl said to be as bright as her face;
she has had a long succession of roles
in successful plays; she is a striking
figures in aSsen1blages of pleasure
this summer at the horse races; and her
fight for more OF her father in-laW's
million than the portion she has in
herited has helped to keep her IN a
state of constant publication. For those
reasons her debut as a balladist in
vaudeville Is more interesting in stage
land than Toby Claude's. Both sing Sc
lectionS from the plays in which they
have acted Edna is a surpriser in each
disclosure OF herself. OFF the stage al
ways, and on 1T whenever the role per-
nits, she has been remarkable for her
toilets, which have combined the ex-
IRENE of fashion with saucy originality
Those who go TO see her in the variety
show expect her to be the gayest of
sights. Instead, she is an embodiment
of simplicity. Her hair hangs in
braid down her back. her diminutive
figure Is frocked childishly and even IN
der expert scrutiny from the front rows
she seems a girl of 14-and small for her
age at that. Can this simple little maid
in white be the smart woman you saw
yesterday at the race track in red?
condolences who isn't comely; and the
value that may lie in LONELINESS when
It's pOSsesSor is clever; Katie Barry's
salary, as sworn to in a lawsuit is $3.50
a week She is from London, and can't
help being cockney an speech any
more than she can help being comic in
face; so she turns both those personal
faults into professional merits. This
week she is making us laugh with a
song telling, in the dialect of the Old
Road IL
way. Its catch-phrase, My word, isn't
it absurd?' is the linguaI essence of
coster elocution- So we enjoy Katie
whose face looks as though it aches, as
much as we do Edna, whose face looks
at ease.
Dorothy Russell, a plain daughter of
the ornate Lillian Russell, made a debut
lately in vaudeville as a songstress. Her
father was her mothers second hus-
band, Teddy Solomon, who literally
wooed her across the footlights while he
was conducting an orchestra and she
was singing a very sentimental ballad
OF his concerning a 'Silver line. so fine.
so fine'' that connected your heart
with mine" Dorothy has charm of
youth and manner, but no beauty. Nor
has Daisy Lowering, Lillian RuSSell's
young niece, who becomes a. soubrette
this week in stock company, playing
one of the twins from New York in the
drama from William II. Cranes roper
tory, THE Governor of Kentucky
Daisy is a scared novice and leaves all
the viVacity of the pair of maidens to
her experienced mate. She is raw yet
but may be palatabIe when cooked.
Indeed, and. after all, beauty is not
of great account on the stage unless it
is coupled with talent. Venus couldn't
be more than a showEirl in an extrava-
ganza if she didn't discover a brain in
her stone head and a plastic quality of
her grace in body. The handsomest
two women now conspicuous theatricaI-
y are Lillian Russell. who wouldn't be
a favorite if her singing didn't palliate
her acting, and Maxine Elliott, whose
physical perfection was. worth little I'M
til, by long and earnest effort, she be-
came proficient player. 1t takes a
kindly imagination to perceive more
than comelinesS in any of the foremost
half dozen American actresses now be-
fore the public.
My firm sells goods by photograph
said a manufacturer of silverWare who
sat beside me at a theatre "Our Gus
toners trust to our camera for the
looks of the articles they buy and in
our name for the quality of fthe metal.