The evening world., 1908-11-07
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IMAGINE Ethel Barrymore-the radi
ant, ever youthful, eternal-feminin
\ Ethel Observation-Disclosures max
ing herself ugly in order to pull thu
cubwebs from the eyes OF a cHllov
swain: to disillusionize him.
II YOU are In the phalanx Of he
admirers II will be a hard pill for yot
TO swallow, but that is exactly wha
you must steel yourself TO do IL yot
see her in her new play, Lady Fred
erict," when she comes to town soon.
In Lady Frederick" she plays a lad,
of a certain age. and more or less un'
certain reputation. with whom a raw
youth of a perfectly good family Is very
much in love. He wants to marry her
and she agrees but after she has little
chat with his grande dame of a mother
she determines to give him up, to
throw him over. But to do this she
knows she has to show herself to him
as she really is-that is, physically
without puffs. rouge, pads and all the
other implements which some wise men
say go to make up the most compel
ling beauty.
Consequently. the heroic Miss Barry
more, sact.- Lg all this for art. that
dear art, in the play, admits the young
man to her boudoir and, clad in a
trumpy Old dressIng-gown, makes q
good deal OF her toilet in his presence.
Her makeup is said to ohliterate all the
fine lines of the Barry MORGAN features;
she is pale. with rings under her eyes:
the regal set head, and the wrinkles
she draws with the end of a match in
he- neck would do for one of the
witches in Macbeth"
OF course the foolish, callow youth
bites and falls a victim to her scheme
hut an elderly and more manly uncle of
his. who has been instrumental in break
.ng up the affair, learns OF the sacrifice
!" her vanity that the woman has made
sdmires her for It. proposes and is ac-
cented or the spot. So the lovely Ethel
readjusts her puffs dabs her cheeks a
few times with n rabbits foot and
comes forth more lovely than ever and
engaged.
And speaking of Miss Barrymore;
Il can't understand" a friend of hers
said Yesterday. "how t.thel and Bruce
McRae came TO be together in that auto
mobile VIXEN the accident occurred yes
;erday. lie truth is that she doesn't at
all care for Mr.. McRae-that is, to pal
with. l have understood that she was
rather anxious TO avoid him. not from
any regular reason. hut because his
slow. deliberate English ways and his
slowness in memoriZing part get on
Ner nerves. So ! can't imagine how they
happened TO be motoring together"
Chap las an awful time in getting an
engagement nowadays in London" says
arthur S;cgarovd. an actor who has
just returned frC the other side. Man
ayers have such a dashed lot of funny
IDEAS: ask such perfectly ridiculous
lot % questions Fellow said TO me:
p'yc know. I've part in the new
piece I'm producing There's per-
Just lost his father in wreck at sea,
and ! can't find an actor to play IT."
We'll, YOU jolly we'll cam / said. I
car play it.
your father just died at sea-"
Fred Lenox told of meeting mn actor
friend who has taken things easy for
SIX or eight months and now auds him
self broke and finds 1t hard to get
job.
dressed up in one of those grasshopper-
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Clarence Harvey, VINO played the orig
NAL boy mayor IN The Man OF the
Hour" broke into verse day or two
ago and in response to his iamblc call
a bis bunch Of Lambs are going to
gather fl the fold in Fortyfourth street
Tuesday night at n dinner to be given
in honor OF the Rev. Or. Houghton,
rector Of the Little Church Around the
Corner.
Considering the fact that DR.. Hough-
ton, whose press agent. so to speak.
was no less a parsonage that the late
Joseph Jefferson, has buried. NOT to
say married more Lambs and other
regular actors than any other clergy
man in captivity, the members OF the
club have long desired 10 honor him In
cacy about inviting him to so frivolous
a shindig as Sunday gambol so Nor
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