The Washington herald., 1908-02-16
ACTORS WHO'S WHO?

Logan Paul who is gith Cressy and
Dayne in a Village Lawyer" attracted
much attention several years ago BY his
remarkable makeup as Abraham Lincoln
in a play introducing that character. Re
Gently he has played the role Of the inter-
prefer in The Squaw Man
Irma Ia Pierre. who is a member Of "A
Village Lawyer company was the origi-
nal Flora OF }. H. stoddart in Beside
the Bonnie Briar Bush" she also played
the role Of Anna in the No ] Way
Down East company.
John Philip Sousa resigned from the
United States Marine Service in april.
1892. was relieved the following July and
in September began the organization OF
SOusas Band in New York, having re-
moved his family from Washington. j. g..
10 New York in August of the same yeaE
The first tour Of the new organizsdoH
was made that season. and for fifteen
years Sousa has been almost constantly 6
playing 10 the public Of either America or ;
Europe. with what success all the world
knows
Dayne in "A Village Lawyer" was the
original Judzins with Nance O'NeH in
True 10 Life" He is the original Judge
Finn In the New York production II Jim
Bludsoe;' the original Old Peck in
"Peck's Bad Boy" and the original In
Gle Jerry in the New York cast of
Checkers" which NE has played over
200 times He has also starred as Alvin
Joslin. playing that role nearly 100 times.
Mr. Willard is "A native OF Boston, and
has been a member Of the Boston Lodge
Of Elks for over twenty years.
VIII NJ Cressy played the role OF Cy
Prime with Denman Thompson in The
Old Homestead for six years. For the
past eight years he has been a headliner
in vaudeville. with his talented wife,
Blanche Dayne. playing in his own sue
cessful sketches, Town Hall Tonight
BIZ Biffin's Baby" "Grasping an OppoT-
tunity," "The New Depot" "The Key OF
c." a Complicated Case" The Wyom-
ing Whoop," and "A Village Lawyer"
IN addition 10 these. Mr.. Cressy is the
author Of 100 successful vaudeville
sketches, for each Of which he received
500.
Douglas J. Wood. with Cressy and
Dayne in a Village Lawyer" is a son
of Ida Jeffreys GoOdfriend who was for
years a prominent member OF the COM
panies Of Augustin DAILY. A. II. Palmer,
and Richard Mansfield. Mr.. Wood made
his first appearance on the stage as d
member of Richard Mansfeld's company.
He afterward played prominent roles in
'Trelawney Of the Wells" at the White
Horse Tavern" and with Mrs Leslie
Carter IN -'Du Barry and with Henrietta
Crosman in sweet Kitty Bellairs." He
was a member Of the original cast Of
"The College Widow" Mr.. Wood has
also appeared with Mary Mannering in
Glorious Betsy and in Brown Of HaT-
ward"
Ethel Barrymore is the daughter of the
lamented Maurice Barrymccs and that
short-ljyed genius, Georgiana Drew. Ethel,
moreover. is the Granddaughter Of the
late venerable Mrs. John Drew-thau
whom no more talented actress ever lived
and the niece Of John Drew. the present
head Of the Drew family, which for gem
erations has been at the head Of Ameri-
can dramatic art. On her fathers side
Miss Barrymore comes from a long line
Of famous warriors. her father first see
ing the light Of the Oriental sun which
shown over the rich. black-soiled island
Of Maurtius. in the Indian Ocean. where
his father commanded British soldiers
when he wasn't hunting through shady
groves Of mango or dense masses of Hi-
mosa Evidently no other actress can
boast of ancestry Of more purple Iheatri-
cal blood
An infant prodigy and church singer at
the age Of eight. a grand opera prima
donna at eighteen. and the leading light
opera singer on the English-spa akins
stage while still IN her early tweuties is
an -r..,g5ne of the career Of FRITZ Scheff.
Having captured New York with her work
as Musetta in la Boaeme" with the
Metropolitan Grand Opera Company,
FRITZ Schem suddenly left that field oe
endeavor 70 go under Charles Dllidg-
hams management as a light opera star.
Then she appeared for "a season In soma
Of the standard light operas. while Henry
Blossom and Victor Herbert. whose COLI
labOratiou has proved SO happy. worked
on her present vehicle, Mile ModiSte."
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sical talents naturally, for her mother.
Anna Schef, was a famous German
prima donna, who is especially well
known in the Wagnerian roles. FRITZ
Scheff sang in a church choir when shs
was a little girl and showed then that
she had a remarkable voice Possibly
some mothers would have exploited her
as an infant prodigy or the Child Patti
but her mother was wise and made her
stop singing until she was fully developed.
Meanwhile. Fritz Scheff had studied hard
and she mastered several languages. with
especial attention being paid TO French,
Italian, and Spanish while she was yet =
young girl. When she vas in her teens
she was studying music under the best
masters in Vienna, and a little later was
/ sent TO Dresden. Her first grand opera
appearance was made when she was
about eighteen as juliet in Romeo and
Juliet" in Frankfort. and it was there
that Maurice Grau who was then pilot
ing the fortunes Of the Metropolitan
Grand Opera Company, Of New York,
heard her Here was a find for that
astute manager-a singer with a voice Of
exquisite quality, with youth and good
looks. and. above all, with a wonderful
endowment of personal magnetism and 4
happy faculty of reaching audiences at
once. Nine, Schef made her first Ameri-
can appearance in San Francisco, and
then went East TO New York with the
Metropolitan Grand opera Company. HeE
happiest roles were Media in It Pag-
liacci.' Cherubino in The Marriage of
Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni" and
Musetta in la Boheme." She vas also
a favorite in some Of the Wagnerian
operas. It remained for her to discover
her forte boxUevpr-lfPbt 0Dpra
Cyril ScOtt's story.
Cyril Scott, the star Of The Prince