Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-12

all actors who succeed in presenting
real characters. He knows more of Ber-
nard Shaw and Ibsen and Maeterlinck
than of form charts and dope sheets.
Mr.. White objects to the popular de-
scription of "Cherie" as slang play
let. He challenged me to point out a
slang expression in tho whole act.
gave it up.
'There is just one," he said, land
that one 1 try TO avoid. Sometimes
1t gets past me, but not often"
I can't imagine what he referred to
unless the phrase. sink It," applied
to drinking, but that is not slang out
here. It has been in use over the bar
for so long that it's verbal legitimacy
is scarcely open to question.
why does the name of your author
not appear on the program I asked.
1.-THE Herald remarked It's absence in
reviewing the Orpheum program last
week, and I dare say others have been
equally curious on the subject"
''It is the combined work of George
AIDE, George V. Hobart and Glen Mac
donald of Babes in Toyland fame"
replied he. "Now. 1t would look nice
on the program all those names, but
would be rather too much for one
twenty-minute sketch.
"Also may claim part of the credit
for the plot, the situations and the
staging are all my own. You see,
have never got farther than a try-out.
They are mine by right of purchase
and l combined these and others in
'Cherie,' with the result you see.
A Very Costly Sketch
Computed in this way, 'Cherie' is
one of the most costly vaudeville
sketches ever produced. 1t has cost
me $4,000 In real money for the va
rious acts of which it is composed.
one thousand dollars has been re-
garded as the high-water mark for a
twenty-minute sketch. but when one
has such a galaxy of literary stars on
the payroll you can figure 1t out for
yourself"
Directly below us l heard lifting
voice that said:
ouand le clel est bleu
L'amour nous appelle.
Toutes les femmes sont bellies
EFT tous les hommes sont amoureux
Ouand lie ciel est bleu
Les femmes sont charmantes,
Les couer joyeux
Et pamour chante.
THE rest was much more Frenchy
than this, and more fervent. 1t was
Miss Stuart, and when I reached her
dressing room / found the lady all
ready for her appearance as Cnerle
Bertram. the woman in the case.
81 always sing when / get through
making up; it keeps my nerves in
ORDER
'Where did you get your method?
Very few singers can successfully ne
gotiate a French song"
mon Dieui l spent the first twenty
years of my life in a convent in Paris.
I could sing in French before Eng
lish!'
If Mr.. White Is not the character
he portrays the same cannot be said
of his leading lady. She is not a race
track habitue or anything of the kind
but her veins flow with real sporting
blood. Apropos is the little story told
me by "a friend of hers When ques-
Miss Stuart admits it's We
racity
1t happened in a swell New York
cafe in the days when there was a rule
against serving unescorted women after
5 O'Clock.
Miss Stuart and another woman left
tered the cafe 1t was $3.50. A new
waiter showed them to table and
had Just taken their order when the
head waiter approached and told them
that as it was past they could not
be served.
The Woman Wills
but you have taken my order and
YOU must serve me-" insisted She
The waiter refused.
wait here q moment" said Miss
Stuart TO the lady who accompanied
her, II will fix this"