The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-19
JOHN DREW KNOWS HOW ID DRESS WELL Best Tailored Man on the
 American Stage ABOUT SOME OTHER ACTORS Most of Them Do Not Know How to Wear Clothes sh. James K.
 Hackett Is Striking
 Example.
ABOUT SOME OTHER ACTORS

New york Correspondence of the wash-
 ington Post.
 wei dressed men of this city never think of taking suggestions ironh
 they see on the stage.
 But there are actors, especlaly oi sn' matinee type, who believe that their fe- searches in dress accomplish very "on- derful results These researches usually oons,et in going to some tailor In the Tenderloin and taking what ne susses.' as the last cry of masculine modishhess' John Drew, on the other hand, mas TOT years been dressed by London taiior with A noted name, and from the time he used to go as young man to London with Augustin Daly's company. he has had his clothes from this one man. MT Drew has passed in that time from ano- lescence to what might be called preco- cious middle age. He Is certainly more than 40 years young. Yet he has always managed to be as well dressed at one age as at another. No style that was unsuil- ed or unbecoming to him ever marred his reputation as a dresser How mucn u part of his popularity this reputation is may be understood by all familiar wlth
  play of Richard Carvel" MT. Drew played a too youthful role In very unbe- coming costumes. It was sometime be- fore he recovered his vogue. John ore" the faultlessly clad matinee idol looking like a country pumpkin at fancy dress ball was too much for his admirers.
 In Class By Himself.
 A reporter wandered into tailor's near Fifth avenue the other day and passing into the tapestry hung corridor requested to see one of the cutters who might tei him who among New York actors came nearest to his ideal of being we'll dressed. | A round-faced man with small mus tache held a tape measure in his hand and stared in astonishment when he heard the reporters question.
 Actors Well dressed Oh, yes he repeated in rather dazed fashion. You mean MT. Drew"
 The reporter didn't mean MT. Drew, and repeated the question, "Who are the best dressed actors on the American stage?"
 You see. we don't ever think of actors i and good dressing together" he said, ESQ We never have tried to decide which was better. You see our gentlemen-those we dress-and the actors have such very diff ferent ideas that we never think of them | together. We never notice what actors l wear. But I'll try to tell you as much as I can remember of those I've seen.
 "Of course the best dressed of all ac- tors is John Drew. See him in evening dress on the stage and you will say he wears better clothes of that kind than anybody else. Put him in a frock coat and you will have to admit the same thing. It's. just the same If he has on rid i ing brooches or fannels or a walking coat.
 MT Drew's conservatism in the ma l. i ter of color ought to serve as a warning to young men who want to dress well but don't know how. Who ever saw John Drew in blazing necl<tie or a brilliant shirt of any hue. He Is painfully modest in the matter of color on the other hand, and that adds much to his distinction in dressing. And his hats. How much they are of London, how eloquently they speak of Plccadilly. But where are the bell crowns and the curve brims so often seen on the stage"