The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-19
That's Miss StahI's Name for
the Newark Ball.
tOssers.
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THE PASTMISTRESS OF
SLANG OUGHT TO KNOW
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The "ChOrus Lady" Is as Breez-
lily Brilliant Off Stage
as She Is On.
"Stallings's Swells."
What do you know about that.

"Stallingss SWells."
What do you know about that!
Not so bad, eh.
Sizes up pretty well alongside Of
Stallings's Stalwarts, Stailings's Man
eaters and all the rest of the dope the
fans have been handing out as the
proper designation for the Newark
Baseball Club.
Well, II ought to. It's the selection
made for THE EVENING STAR by
Miss Rose Stahl, and Miss Stahl, in "The
Chorus Lady" is the greatest exponent
of slang on the stage, bar none. She
ought to know.
She reeled it right off in her dressing
room at the Newark Theatre last night.
"Stallings's Swells.' Just like that.
Didn't have to think a minute. and the
Sporting Editor says she's the only one
that's suggested it. Guess Miss Stahl
ought to be in at the finish, when it
comes to a showdown for that annual
pass. Not? She said she'd be more
than delighted TO substitute a subscrip-
ton to THE EVENING STAR. But
that's another story.
OF course, it's not up TO us. And
maybe we're ~prejudiced. Anybody
would be after half an hours CONVEX
sation with the breeziest. most exhila-
rating actress in the profesh. Miss
Stahl off stage is a veritable whirlwind.
Where the common or garden variety
of feminine star will meet you half
way on the interview proposition. Miss
Stahl meets you nine-tenths of the a
She bubbles over with enthusiasm and
good nature. She exudes laughs. She
is as infectuously mirthful and inspir-
itfng and altogether delightful as Pa
tricia O'Brien herself.
Not that she is so keen on the arsot
when she's out of the character. Her
English would satisfy the King him
self, ever though occasionally she does
salt and pepper her conversation with
the latest coinage in slang.
Miss Stahl was not only tickled to
death to talk. but she liked especially
10 talk to the newspapers. She
wrinkled up her brow under a generous
layer of cosmetics. for she was all
made up for the evening, and passed
us that famous Ellen Terry glare #
hers. Then she. gave us this epigram.
Pay particular attention to it, for it's
all to the Horace Greeley:
"a rather De the WOfSI aclrSSS III
the world with the newspaper men on
my staff than the best actress in the
world with the newspaper men against
me-"
Pretty good discrimination, that? O,
we're not chesty about it!
Miss Stahl comes rightly by her pre-
objection for the press. Her father,
Colonel f. c. Stahl, runs a German
newspaper in Trenton, and is a past
commander of the New Jersey G. A,
r. and an ex-dramatic editor of the
Chicago Inter-Ocean and something Of
O Socialist and several other things
besides. His daughter likes Patricia
O'Brien first and the newspapers next.
She may have been kidding US, but she
said so, anyway.
That regulation question about
whether she didn't ever get tired play
ing the same part brought out che
answer that might have been expected.
Miss Stahl has played Patricia some-
thing like 2,400 times. counting her APP
in vaudeville.
Il just owe the part. It's just like
going on in a new role to me every
night. / love her because she makes
other people love her. When I go to
sleep In the morning the last thing /
think of is Patricia. I'm Patricia most
of the time. ] am now" This was
about five minutes before she was to
go on for the first act, and she GER