Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-18
DRESSING ROOM IS
FAST MOTOR bus
LONDON ACTRESS DOES GREAT
QUICK CHANGE STUNT
In Four Minutes and Twenty Seconds
She Leaves the Clothes Of
Baroness and Dons
Somber Garb
speoIal Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, Feb. 17.--Miss Kate Cutler
may now justly claim the title of the
queen of Lightning Change Artists"
Last night, in her motor-omnibus
dressing room she changed her costume
as the mischievous Baroness Papouche
in 1.-THE Spring Chicken to the somber-
clad lady in Hero and Heroine" at
the Palace, in the record time of A min
utes and 20 seconds.
Punctually at 9:15 Vanguard motor
omnibus. which generally plies between
st. Johns wood and Victoria. drew up
outside the stage door of the Galety
theater. A few strangers, who had
been eagerly seeking information dur
ing the whole evening, had collected,
but as the Vanguard, closely curtained
and labeled in staring black letters on
a yellow ground Miss Kate Cutters
dressing room," put in its appearance,
the little group of loterers swelled to
crowd.
stage door of the theater One of the
most interested of the beholders was
Master Cross, who plays Napoleon, the
office boy. Napoleon evinced the
greatest curiosity as to why the motor
car was labeled ITO the Zoo,' and did
not relish the idea of pretty Miss Cutler
being whirled to such an uncanny des-
tination.
The Start
At $50 the curtain fell on Act I of
"The Spring Chicken" and Miss Cutler
ran up the stairs from the stage to the
stage door, gasping, ooh, shall l ever
manage it?" At 9:32 Miss Cutler, her
maid and lady started off on the
momentous Journey
Inside every detail to insure comfort
had been arranged. The windows were
hung with dainty curtains of white,
festooned with pink roses. A cluster
of electric lights formed a miniature
chandelier.
An impromptu dressing table had
been arranged at one end of the car.
A draped looking glass was lighted by
two slender brass candlesticks holding
miniature electric lights.
1t was certainly dressing under diff
culties. Hairpins had a most obstinate
habit of slipping off the dressing table.
A sudden lurch sent a pretty pair of
white satin shoes on one of the seats
flying across the car. Miss Cutler APP
peared to thoroughly enjoy her novel
dressing room.
"It is not unlike being at sea, is it?"
Dressed in Four Minutes
LII -FOUR minutes t1e sou IT1lly, WHITE
muslin gown which delights the femi-
nine hearts at the Gaiety night after
night was flung aside and Miss Cutler
stood demurely arrayed in the Puritan
black robe with the white muslin
collar.
."only just in time" she gasped, as
her dressing room drew up with
jerk before the stage door of the
Palace. 4
Twenty minutes is the time allowed
for "Hero and Heroine" In rather less
than that period Miss Cutler was ready
for her return journey.
BY this time she was becoming an
adept at "quick changes and had
few seconds to rest before arriving at
her destination. At 1912 the crowd
outside the Gaiety raised little cheer
as the Vanguard hove in sight.
The patient watchers caught only
glimpse of a slender flying figure, and
at 1926 Miss Cutler was enjoying her
impromptu meal In 1.-The Crimson
Butterfly restaurant. Malmaison, while
she informed Gustave Babori in the
popular duet that she had never done
such a thing BEFORE