Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-03

evidenced by the large number of Scandi-
navian place names in that country.
In no country in Europe are SO many
books printed and sold in proportion to the
population, being possessed of twelve
printing presses. from which about Ion
books, twenty newspapers and eight peri
odicals are annually issued. Yet the people
still live in pastoral civilization, untouched
by the evils of modern industrialism.
A QUESTION OF CosTUME.-Isabe
Irving will wear tights when she appears
as Roxana In Clyde Fitchs play, 1.-THE
Toast of the Town." which he has written
for Viola Allen. 1t was left to Mr.. Fitch to
break the news to Miss Irving gently. He
took the costume plates, and laying them
before the actress, asked her II they were
not very attractive. Miss Irving looked
them over with expressions of pleasure
until finally she came upon one of those
Romeo affairs, when she cried: What In
heavens name is ths?" Here is where Mr.,
Fitch's persuasive powers came into use.
The fact that Miss Allen had worn much
the same sort of thing in Twelfth Night
carried good deal of weight with Miss
Irving.
AN ACTORS "REMINISCENCES" while
l consider Virginius the best character i
play" said Louis James, the eminent actor,
recently, yet I never leave the stage after
d
ness, for / always recall the memory of
that great actor, who was my chum, friend
and colleague for years John MCCULLOUGH
II was while playing Virginius in Chicae go
that his physical and mental breakdown
caused his retirement from the stage and
/ never take the urn containing Virginius'
ashes without a thought of the past. for /
carry the same gladius that John did and
use the same urn"
HOW CECILIA LOTUS CATCHES,
THEM.-Cecelia Lotus describes her meth.
cd of obtaining an imitation of other play-
ers as catching them" much as a pho
tographer speaks OF his work She let
drop the term the other day and her lis.
tener at once caught her up
And how do you catch people?" she was
asked.
Il don't know" she replied, with a lame
little smile Il don't believe / have ever
stopped to think how do it. 1t doesn't dc
for me to analyze. 1 get people, or 1 don't
that's all. It's impossible for me to ex.
plain the process. / don't understand II
myself l simply go TO a theater and watch
the person l intend to initiate
You go as you might at any other time
and chat with friends while the performance
is going on?''
"Oh, no, l mustn't do that. First of all
PICK out a certain scene or song and give
my undivided attention to it. When tn,
person l am studying is on the stage 1 cam
be distracted by conversation. My friend,
all understand that and leave me alone
concentrate all my powers of observation
on my subject and try unconsciously to alb.
sorb everything l see and hear"
Then you go home and practice the i'm
itation?"
Those quick. blue eyes corrected this idea
before the answer
NO, 1 never practice an imitation
wait for II to come. Sometimes 1t comes a.
once, sometimes 1t is long time coming
and sometimes 1t doesn't come at ALL"
1t comes when you're not expecting Il p
Yes, often. For instance, l woke up GU
OF sound sleep one night to find that
had at last got Ethel Barrymore's voice.
had been to see her five times In Sunday.
but couldn't get her. When / tried, 4
was simply myself and not Miss Barrymor,
who was speaking. Then all of a suddeI
there II was. knew l had 1t the moment
was awake. The curious thing about I
was that did not get Miss Barrymore Il
| the scene I had been watching. 1t wa
snother-the one where she reads the lette