Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22

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in weekday variety show. But in the
meanwhile she had danced for a private
assemblage in an artists studio. That
made Anthony Comstock pop-eyed for
wickedness in her dances. So her pro"
fessional outlook was dubious.
At that juncture Ruth went to Sena-
tor Clark's women folk, who spend
) their winters in his big Fifth avenue
house and associate with millionaires.
They knew her as belonging to the
good but poor old st. Denis family
of New Jersey. She told them of the
; necessity of her earning a living, and
of her ability to earn a luxurious one
with little languorous work, If she
, were permitted to dance here as the
Nautch girls do in India. The up
; shot is that Senator Clark's money and
: family have put her on her unshod
. feet.
kissing your own wife on the stage Is
pleasurable, any actor will admit, and
: Fritz Williams, the clever comedian in
: Before and After" is willing to bet
money on 1t. ..
AS the nervous DIR. Page in Before
. and After who swallows the mischief
making sunny Jim Powders" he is
. obliged to kiss his own wife before the
audience. In his time he has had to
. kiss other mems wives before delighted
. audiences or submit to being osculated
: by them, and so the novelty of playing
stage lover to his own wife does not
. make the piece lose in appealing real>
. ism.
. Katherine Florence, the dainty come-
.. dienne, is Mrs Fritz Williams in pri-
vate life. And 1 want to tell you"
. she confided in an interview the other
day, marriage adds piquancy to stage
q re f1n q fp-h EfGQnd
! between us in Before and After like
to kiss Fritz and l don't care who
. knows it,
. Mr.. Williams and Miss Florence were
: members of the old Lyceum company.
Herbert Kelcey was also in the cons
. pany.
. I'm a thinking that this idea would
. be a. money maker in California. saw
it in a news paragraph: James G.
. Fisher, who made a considerable for
tune out of 'Floradora' but lost heavily
on recent productions, has engaged an
; 'all-blonde' company and they sailed
for Cuba, where 'Floradora' Is to be
: presented for a season of several weeks
duration. Manager Fisher expects that
his aggregation of beautiful blondes and
shapely sextet girls will capture the.
dark-haired and soulful-eyed Cubans.%
5 Gallery gods at one of the local thai
7 ters recently introduced a trick which
3 ought to be sharply rebuked. Some
: mischievous fellows gently sprinkled
( pepper from on high and before long
there was an epidemic of sneezing on
7 the ground floor. The sneezing dis
, turbed some of the best scenes in the
play.
Taking fashionable country life for
= her theme, Jane Mauldin Feigl, native
l of Texas, has written another play
which she calls "The Girl Patsy" Her
previous work, Texas" was money
= maker. Mrs. Feigl lived in Honey
Grove. Tex, until fourteen years ago,
when she married Col. Fred Feigl, for
merly of the Houston Post but now
editor of the Tammany Times, New
York. Mrs. Feigl is expected on visit
to Los Angeles soon.
A bunch of Los Angeles managers
) were discussing heredity the other day.
That history repeats itself. they re-
marked is strikingly evinced by
= the career of Gertrude Coghlan. whose
rise to eminence is accounted for by the
inherited genius of her father, the late
; Charles Coghlan, at one time consid-f
9 cred one of the best actors of the day.
and from her talented aunt, Rose Cogh-
lan Miss Coghlans early years were
spent in London and Paris, and as re-
suit her art is thoroughly cosmopolitan.
, Miss Coghlan is an Englishwoman by
birth, though she has been resident of
this country since she was years OF
2 age, when she came here with her aunt.
She made her debut in THE Royal
Box at the Fifth Avenue theater. On
$ her fathers death she starred in that
play for two seasons. then appeared in
: version of Becky Sharp" and the
= following season assumed the title role
: in "Alice of Old Vincennes."
Miss Coghlan will be best remen1"
bered for her sensational success in the
support of Mrs. Patrick Campbell in
l "The Sorceress" in which she played
: the slave girl. After a season with
Arnold Daily in "You Never Can Tell
she was compelled to retire from the
stage on account of illness and is MAX
ing her temperance in the role OF
Shirley Rossmore in Charles Klein's
latest play, 'The Lion and the Mouse
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