Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24

rare. and ii has seemed to be more rare
in women than in men. Mrs. Fiske is one
of the few women who have been success
full as stage directors. She believes in
working for the perfection of the whole
rather than of individuals. This is the
principle she makes the keynoteS of her
rehearsals-that each player should strive
not for himself. but for the play Mrs.
Fislle personally directs all the rehearsals
OF her company. Her methods are as quiet,
as direct and effective as her acting.
She has a faculty for putting herself into
any role. and to illustrate her ideas she
may in the course of a rehearsal act every
part In the play.
FIFTY YEARS BEFORE THE FOOT
LIGHTS.-One of the new members of
Mrs Fishes Manhattan company this sea-
son is Ida Vernon. the actress whose name
has been prominent in the theater for half
a century. Her career includes long service
with the stock companies of the "palmy
days many seasons at the head of her
own company and engagements in a large
number of important productions of recent
date. Miss Vernon has been on the stage
since she was a child, and is this season
celebrating her fiftieth year before the
footlights. OF interest in connection with
her present engagement is the fact that
Mrs Fiske, at an early stage of her career,
was member of the company supporting
Miss Vernon, who was then star. The
New York Idea" is the first play in which
Mrs. Fiske and Miss Vernon have appeared
together since then.
BUTTONS JAIL EXPERIENCE-"Tve
only been in jail once since becoming
actor" said Frederick Burton. who plays
Bub Hicks in the eastern college Widow
company. 1T happened in a email town
in Illinois. Things don't often happen
there; but this did. L was playing the
rube town marshal with a rube show.
However, l would have you know that it
wasn't my performance of the character
nor the character of my performance that
sent me to Jail, but rather because We were
unfortunate in reaching town when the
hotel and all the boarding houses were
crowded.
I'VE arrived from Chicago late in the aft
ernoon very tired and hungry, and found
the entire police force at the station to
meet US. We knew 1t was the police force
because he showed us his badge:
The towns chuck full and l guess you
unsll find no place to put up said the po-
lice force.
Notwithstanding this dscouraging infor-
nation We proceeded to the Royal Palace
Hotel. and after much persuasive talk and
the presentation of few passes to the
theater our manager succeeded in having
cots placed in the parlor for the ladies.
Being unable to secure accommodations for
the men, went to the op'ry house that
evening not knowing where we would make
our bed.
After the performance the police force
suggested that we sleep in the calaboose.
We accepted his kind invitation. The la
dies went to their cots and the actors went
to jail
DANDY QUALIFIED.-The train that
was bringing THE Prince of Pilsen" COM
pany east from its trip to the coast recent
ly was held at Yuma for orders. Yuma IL
the one place on this continent that has
hades backed off the board for heat. In
the smoking room of the Pullman an Eng
lishman told Of the terrific heat he had ex-
perienced In India. A Spaniard from South
America matched the Englishman's stories
with others quite incredible.
Jess Dandy listened, and the stories only
made the heat Of the Yuma desert more in
tense. Finally he told his story: "A
friend of mine came out here to Yuma
from New Jersey for his health" said
Dandy. by keeping wet towel around
his head and bathing every hour he con-
trived to pull through the first three months
in this sun-blistered place. After that he
got accustomed to the heat-turned sala-
mander-and actually liked 1t.
ON July a few years ago business called
him east. He got as far as Chicago,
where he was taken down with pneumonia,
and, to be brief. he died within two days
His friends decided to cremate the body
took 1t to a local crematory and sadly con-