Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-04
NEW MEXICO GIRL
WINS HONORS
Chas. Carroll Mccomas Completes Sue
cessful Season With kIaw & Erling-
er's Company.

A very pretty and charming daught-
er of New Mexico is winning popular
favor in Klaw and Changers New
England extravaganza, THE Pearl and
the Pumpkin" which has just closed
a long run at the Colonial theater,
Boston. and is the opening attraction
at the Broadway treater.. New York
Her name Is Charles Carroll McConas
and she is vrey proud of her mas
culine name. It proclaims her the
descendant of Charles Carroll of Car
rolltun. a signer of the declaration of
independence, and Of the McComas
family who belonged to the landed
gentry Of Maryland before the revolu-
tion. BY good rights she should write
her name with 'Jr." for her father
is Charles Carroll McComas, MANY
years Judge in New Mexico, although
now district attorney in Los Angeles,
Cal. Her mother Is Mrs Alice Moore
McCpmas, well-known as a contribut-
or to the newspapers and magazines.
Miss McComas herself has spent
most Cf her life in California, her
father having moved there when she
was aysmall child. Her earliest edu-
cation was secured at converts in Los
Angeles and San Francisco. Later she
was finished at the Hammond school
formerly the. Van Ness seminary. San
Francisco.
She went on the stage Just because
she loved 1t. True to her name she
had alwavs been tomhov and bad
wt,stled since she was five years old.
This habit gave her her first omen.
i~g ON the stage at the OrDheum
theHter. Los Angeles. IN a whistH~e
( enecialty, on Feb. 10, 1910. Miss Nc.
Comas celebrates each recurring an.
r,vcrsary as her dramatic birthday
After a short experience on a far
western circuit she came east and was
ergeged by Mr. Keith to appear IN
his houses as a whistler. Mr.. Savage
saw her end engaged her for the
prince ri Pilsen. She next signed q
four wear contract with Frank l.. Per
lev. under whose MANAGEMENT she 40
rcsred with Ioror,e Sykes in the Ril
rcpaire. After the death OF Mr.
Svtes Mr.. perlev gave her an oDrortun
NV 70 20 abroad where she made hel
first ruropean annearance IN Ppr's a
that citv's net theater. the Folie'
parirnv. After an eight weeks en-
paccmert in that house she toured
the continent appearing in such cite:
se RruSsals and Antwerp. She theY
won't ~ ' ace theater. After LondoI
MISS Mccnr,as went to South Africa
arpoaring in Cane Town and Johan
reshnrg. On her return TO Iondo'
sha found summons from Nr. Perlev
Who transferred her to Flaw ant
Er,enger fer the pearl and the Pump
kin"
Mites Mcromas regards her visit 7
Scrth Africa ps among tho mnst ir'9r
esting experiences of hnr life. Sh
found II pouch more civilized than sh
rad eynoctad r.,ich like CaHfor"ia p
matter Of fact, the same plants an
troes tho game cordial hearty man
rer a,oro the peonle. While ther
she saw Kruger's funeral and climbe
rab,e mountain. This mountain is
feet TO climb. 1t is steep with pei
fectly level top big enough to put tn
whole c,tv Of Caue Town upon. Th
edges of the table, however, are yer
ahrupt and II anybody is caught J
the tableclosh. as the great nall {
mist which frequently descends upo
the mountain is called, he Is quite lik'