New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19
HER STAGE CAREER ENDS
Elsie De Wolfe, Now interior Deco
rator, to Furnish Colony Club.

II left the stage because was disheartened and
disillusioned'
This explanation Of her retirement from the stage
was made yesterday afternoon by Miss Elsie De
Wolfe. whose desertion Of the footlights and en-
trance into field of interior decoration has lust
been announced
The stage in this country has become an Inn
possible career for a having any Individual
ity, and even If you want to submit to conditions
and accept what is thrown to you a dog does a
bone you are lucky If you get whole seasons en-
gagement. have had only two weeks paw this
season, though my engagements covered a consid-
ernbly longer period.
Things were not when I began my career but
there has been steady deterioration since that
time. and see no prospect Of Improvement in my
time.
In London conditions are different There the
actor is allowed to have some individuality, and.
no matter how small part you take. you get the
consideration due to an artist Here You don't
exist unless you a star
The situation seems to me utterly hopeless In
ten years things may have changed but that will
be too late for me. So am down and out. and I
nave no regrets. I thought it would be a terrible
wrench TO break the associations thirteen years
out 1t has not been, and have never been so happy
AS during the last three months"
MISS De Wolfe definitely decided to leave the
stage several months ago. and has since then been
engaged In the work of interior decoration She
mas undertaken the decoration of the new won,an,s
club, the Colony. and 1t was a. suggestion from,
some Of the women interested in this club that in
duced her to enter her new profession She has
also taken several other contracts and will sail on
saturday for Paris. TO secure the material neces-
sary for their execution.
Y find the work intensely interesting " Miss De-
,Wolfe said yesterday, land I have been kept so
pussy that have actually made myself Ill. 1t is a
most LUCRATIVE career. and promises extraordinarily
private houses, and my last order was for tailor
shop in 6th-ave. " - N--0A
NV ambition is to create a taste for the biheIot
or snau OBJECT of art Decoration Is NOT a matter
OF mere buying Of curtains and wall hangfngs We
must have something TO put in our rooms PeonIe
FORMAL. This IS because they are not fully fur
nished. A set of tapestry furniture a clock a
couple OF vases and a picture do not furnish a
T., The keyn0te Of my plan for the decoration of
the colony Club is reserve. Overdecoration In this
country mas nearly approached the limit of indie
cency, ana my ideas this subject are largely
negative: 1hey take the line Of what not 70 do
'Ine decoration of the Colony Club will be dis
uncuy Colonial, which means simply the style OF
~I5Ie IuIilture. Inc ground floor will be In blue
ana white, and there will be a winter garden with
tfeliSed walls. There will be a fountain and grow
ING PIanls, ana mere afternoon tea will be served
Ihe afdrooms will be arranged with great care
They VIII not be large, but they will be extremely
bathroom ana sofa, so that one will not have to
use the ped II one wants to lie down during the
DAY. ms latter IS rare luxury even in the best
hoteIs. Ihere Will be a long pier glass in each
side not in the middle Of the ceiling at the hack
OF ones head, so that can't tell whether one
IS putting powder on ones nose or ones hair
Ihs IS the way that men fix wOmen's rooms