The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-23
THE ACTOR FOLK IN SUMNER
Real Facts About Their outings Culled
From the City Directory.

Real Facts About Their Outings Culled
From the City Directory.
II you will look in the city directory you
will get at the truth Of how the actors have
been passing the summer.
There is John Drew. Have you sup
posed that, immediately groomed, he
has been at some fashionable seaside re-
sort7 Turn to the Ds and you will learn
that he has not been on Long Island or
wherever it Is that you have been led to
believe that he passed the summer days.
According to this unimpeachable author
ity John Drew was hard at work in the city
as "a mover
Quite a change from his winter occupa-
ton, did you say7 Well, II you did, you
haven't seen him in His House in Order"
He's a mover there, too.
But John Drew Ia not alone in this scheme
10 deceive the public as to the real happen
ines Of stage folk. There are others, many
others.
You wouldn't think; for instance; that
| Marie Cahill would stoop to deceit1 But In
black and white she Is pilloried. Mary,
not Marie, please, is a "wid" and she lives
! on Third avenue; not a very swell part OF
town, but ~wids- can't be choosers.
At the directory manufacturing plant
they say that from year to year many -wids"
| drop out, having changed their name and
thus concealed themselves. So IL would
seem that Mary has competitors and that
may be the reason why, instead Of going to
Paris to choose her gowns or yachting or
motoring, she has hardly gone out Of her
fat all summer, say her nearby friends.
Mary apparently has hopes, even II there
are hundreds, nay thousands, OF other
swids.'
It's all very we'll, too, TO say that Charles
Klein went TO Europe or that he spent the
last few months collaborating with Arthur
Hornblow in order to turn a drama into a
book. But here again ia the directory to tell
us that he did nothing Of the kind, for a
man can't run a delicatessen store and
write books at the same time, can hep And
they say trade over at the delicatessen on
Tenth avenue has been fine this summer
and Mr.. Klein is In good form.
william Crane can't get away from char
acter work even when it's hot. Shut you
ewes and picture him. Do you see him sail
ing a raceabout on Provinoetown. fishing
IN the RanReley Lakes, climbing the high
eat AID in the Adirondacks7 Guess againl
MI OTAhlC BoS 8OON AAcAOy
time. He Ia by turns a messenger, 4
plumber and a member Of the oxygen work.
which "a preceded by his we'll known name
itsmust be In this last capacity that he stores
uo his wonderful lung power and marvelloui
capacity for work.
In the co ored quarter Of town Hattie
Williams plies her trade as dressmaker
AK the people over there and they'll hav'
A rood word TO say for her.
blanche Bates only appears a. q membel
OF an advertising company It must d
admitted that she has done pretty we'll con
sidering her other duties.
Weber deals in hats, and they say tina
Won couldn't get by his place without beinl
draRRed In and made 20 buy, 90 he needn,
impose any longer on q uiertng public viii
tales OF his sumrner cottage and his tnpS u
Europe. In.
hata-and Is billed a. q milliner.
Mansneld, whatever his faults, has Ger.
tainIv not tried TO fool the public, and Al
credit should be given him Therefor. Ln
directory simply speaks OF him a. Ricl
NarS6ald. 40 pefhapL II u true that be has
L! Summor cottage ct New LondoD