The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-09-28
THINGS SEEN IN new YORK /
MISS LAZARUS WRITES AN INTERESTING OF GOTHAM
NEWS COVERING SHOW HOUSES FASHIONS
Special Correspondence to the Herald

ldence to the Herald.
/ frain from a passing mention @
t its beautiful country roads, beautiful
/, not only in the picturesqueness of thei
, environments but in their smoothnes
and general condition of well-keptness
; Among the interesting places that
saw on that delightful trip was th'
rural headquarters of the Kit Kat Clul
which is now surrounded by mass o
varied hued asters and dahlias; The
immortal home of Mrs. Daniel Hall il
the old-fashioned garden of which
saw borders of box one hundred and
thirty years old, and where royal hos
pitality was offered our party. Al
Ridgefeld we visited the studio of Mr.
Robert A. Carter, the landscape paint.
er, where had assembled a group OF
clever artists among whom were Mr..
! Woodman Babbitt, whose French-Ca-
madam and English representations
have won for him an enviable reputa-
ton throughout the eastern states;
Mr.. Leo Braun, a native of Breslau,
Germany, who during his years resi-
dence in this country has had ample
recognition of his skill as pianist and
gifts as composer; and Mr.. Arpad
RADIO, a Hungarian violinist whose
music can be described only by the
word enchanting.
During the last fortnight New York
has been infested by an army of fieas.
Whence they came is a mystery.
Chat OF The Show Houses.
A new star has appeared in the the
atrical galaxy, namely Miss Rose
Stahl who had already attained much
distinction in the vaudeville field. The
vehicle through which she is winning
the plaudits of Broadway audiences is
The Chrous Lady," which is both
novel and entertaining, and teaches
a wholesome lesson. AS Patricia !
O'Bryan Miss Stahl INDUCES in a be-
opulence of slang, yet re-
veals the honesty and virtue that DOM
mate the life of that much maligned !
person, the chorus girl. To guard her
pretty younger sister from the fasci-
nation of a wealthy New Yorker who
has purchased an interest in the stock
arm on which the O'Bryans live, Pat
.as she is commonly called-brings
Nora to the city to become a member
If the chorus of which she herself is
he leader, only to learn several
months later that her ruse has been in
'ain, for the man has found the weak,
girl and induced her to
'orrow money of him. Pat at the cost
f her own reputation and sweetheart
hields Nora from the consequences
f her folly, but in the end both are
estored to her. Any one less an =
rtist than Miss Stahl might make !.
f the character of Pat caricature,
ut she endows it with womanliness
hat is recognized at once.
For nearly decade Madame Bertha :
.alich had been regarded as one of the
reat emotional actresses of the Yid-
ish stage, but when Mr.. Harrison
ray Fiske announced his intention of
,arring her in English dramas, many f
hook their heads warningly, for s
lough they doubted not the lady's his s
ionic ability, they deemed her slight fl
with the English tongue a
ould prove a serious drawback to n
or success. But genius cannot be h
lenched by pouring on it buckets 81
Ill of encouragement. In a wonder "
lily short time Madame Kalich had b
astered our language, and in "Fe- Al
IRA" she spoke 1t better than Rhea, tr
ojeska, and other foreign stars whom re-
J hailed as great In "Monna Wanna o.
lily an occasional trace of foreign ac- e1
mt was perceptible, and now in Iii
lreutzer Sonata" none at all Is APP
rent. But it is not her lingual facil- A
: that impresses one most in Madame DC
alich. 1t Is her power to depict the al
epest emotions of a woman's heart n
an information of the voice, the rails
3 of an eyebrow the gestures of Ii
pressive fingers. With her art she I'll
nveys to her hearers every emotion mr.
at moves the character she is por- te
lying At no time is there a hint th
rant in her work. Her expression wi
passages where violence would be tn
is admirable. THE Kre-
ger Sonata" does not tell an agree