Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-21
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Win Fame In Male Attire

TN this, the last season Viola Allen is
i TO be on the stage, she plays Viola
i'm Twelfth Night" and she wears
mems clothes In Peter Pan" in which
Maude Adams is in her second year IN
New York, Miss Adams wears boys
clothes Of a sort different from those
she wore as the young eaglet In ''LSAie-
lon" Bernhardt, at 63 years OF age,
wears mems clothes in "LAiglon" and
in Hamlet"
Indeed, in the drama of every coun-
try and among every rank OF actresses
there are many players to be found,
much of whose success Is due to the
grace with which they wear the habiu-
ments of the other sex. Mary Ander-
son wore them, and every other actress
OF first Importance who has essayed
great classical roles has worn them.
shakespeare put Viola and Rosalind in
male garb, and there are other charac-
ters i'm his plays that call for rendition
by women dressed as men or boys
Other dramatists have followed his OK
ample, and now there are actresses
who boast that they can wear mems
clothes better than men can.
! Few will question the superiority In
this regard of Vesta Tilley. She wears
eleven different suits of clothes In sing
ing eleven different songs, and the
clothes she wears are so we'll designed
and cut that mems articles of dress
have been named after her. AS young
man about town she dresses herself,
and she gets big salary for it.
Ellen Terry was majestic in the robss
of Portia before the court that heard
Shylock, and there have been famous
Rosalinds and Violas. Henrietta Cros-
) man was good Rosalind. The doub-
) let and hose she wore in that play she
wore also in Mistress Nell" the play
which had as it's foundation the adven-
lures of Nell Gwynne, who was II
; favorite theatrical figure a few years
ago. In Sweet Nell of Drury Lane"
another of those Nell Gwynne plays,
Nellie Stewart, the Australian actress,
) disguised herself as a man.
Much of the fame that Florence Bind
ley has earned in the popular priced
theaters has been the result of her
. earlier triumphs in "The Pay Train"
; in which thrilling drama she wore mems
. clothes. Now she wears what she calls
a diamond dress.
Della Fox wa; one of the "cutest'
: boys that the stage ever saw. This
.. was when she was in her prime. She
played Prince Mataya in Wang" with
. De Wolf Hopper. Miss Fox's best ef-
. fort then was her cigarette smoking as
she sang "a Pretty Girl, Summers
Night" Edna Wallace Hopper wore
. mems clothes in THE Silver Slipper"
. in which she sang the celebrated song
; about eyes.
Ethel Barrymore was boy in "Car-
. rots," in which she wore a. working
. mans smock. Fay Templeton, who used
. to wear boys clothes herself, gave an
! imitation of Miss Barrymore that was
wonderful. That other mimic, Elsie
Janis, charmingly wears boys clothes
. in 1.-THE Vanderbilt Cup" In a far
/ more serious play, Alexander the
= = L. i
! guised herself in boys clothing and
3 / followed him across the painted and
Z ! frosted Alps.
Z Grace Van Studdiford, who stepped
{ from ST. Louis society to the stage.
I wore doublet and hose in "The Red
I Feather" and in the musical ..la'if
Z and comic opera continge sra1e he
I best feminine wearers -la., ,ne
! garments have been Rutl white a0-
line Hall, Alice Nielsen a7G 4es7ls
. Wynne. The last named ems ont hv
. herself singing songs, tn ana srs
. eschewed the boys trappi a4a aluHe
to skirts.
. In the usual musical CT s filtor.
: to exploit some prima don .l9 star is
: usually given a chance to r. 2 stn,ai..
dress; one suit of boys .hfdr anF
, then either ball gown -s t5ing
. dress.
. Far away from the i-ss oe
! musical comedy and com r oca-
|. ever, are the Shakespe lights
. which Annie Russell wiz 5s sear.
. clad in boys clothing. a. Midi
. summer Nights Dream h wesr
. boys clothes charmingly.
. One of the handsomest hc. g" sesn
. lately was that played by v9r ,..
: man in Anna Held's mu U.i ...r-#v.
. 1.-THE Partisan Model" tt ..ur ,,e-
man, who was tall and ta v
a Tuxedo, patent leather ua al
. boys wig, and did one {
! with Miss Held to great 90
course she was from tn, sut
. the wearing of boys cl e- r- he
chorus is an institution t1et Q5 ol5
! as some of the chorus cir
. There are many drama, usu3lLs or
the thriller variety, in wh the hero
= inc dresses as a cowboy .r FIJI oeV boy
, or a bootblack or a young -ll tHr the
r purpose of bedeviling the y loC rrr.
J son who has the poisoned 1I some
other terrible document / ISIS possess
sion. Dramatists of the 7 a1t1r- Gre-
mer and the Hal Reid schcul or tNrU-sht
know full we'll that the T. audiences
would rather see some dee ~ rarc'7.g
performed by a girl in J-a-se iAat
by broad shouldered you s lua1 VINO
might be expected to be heroic cl
many of the rescues in Il lpora t.o-
nomical drama are perfo ncG 10y tte
disguised heroine and quit s.eessa-
fully as any hero could p, uem