The evening world., 1908-11-11

swears befell him.
Frank Bangs. the photographer askeu
him the other day where he got uie
name of the part that Nat GOODWIN 10
to play, "Cameo" Kirby.
"why, Harry Leon Wilson, who wrote
the play with me-" said Harrington
suggested Kirby as a Straightforward
short. ordinary sounding name for the
man who is supposed 10 have mace MS
living gambling on the Mississippi
steamboats,. and then we began to hsh
about for a first name for him. THINK
of some piece of jewelry or article OF
clothing he would wear l said. and
we'll frame up a nickname. We thought
of Diamond Kirby and Ruby Kirby,
hut none of them would do until I re-
membered that in 1873, the period of the
play, the cameo was favored article OF
iewelry, and we christened him Cameo
Kirby"
Then Bangs sprung his little surprise.
well, there is q real Cameo kirby
he said, land he is friend of friend
of mine, woman who lives In Brook
Ign. It's hard for me to believe you
never heard of him. AS a matter OF
fact he used TO play cards for living
on the Mississippi boats. and he used
to wear big black cameo. He is eigh-
ty-six years old now and he's retired
and living comfortably in St Louis on
his savings. You playwrights are GER
tainly a funny, strangely original lot
Miss Marie Fitzgerald, who forsook
an American typewriter out at the
Colonial Theatre to go to London and
show the Britishers how an American
press agentess could really stir EN- up
over there, writes of a terrible expert
ence she and Miss Marie Lloyd and
Miss Marie Lloyd's automobile had on
the moors between Edinburgh and
Newcastle a week or two ago.
Miss Lloyd was on her way to New
castle to sing Down in a Coal Mine"
or some other well-known ditty, among
the coal miners, and it was while they
We're motoring over that they smashed
into a milestone and were all thrown
seriously, not even Miss Lloyds voice
nor Miss Ftzgeralds imagination as n
press agentess was sprained, although
they had to be towed into Edinburgh
by a team of solemn Scotch horses.
Miss Fitzgerald by the way. sails for
home on Nov. II on the Lustania.
A lot of actors, members of the
Lambs Club, went out yesterday after
noon to the Lincoln Square Theatre to
see Harry Woodruff in his new sketch,
"A Bit OF Instruction." which was writ
ten for him when he was at Harvard
There were also some playwrights in
the bunch ,,i and among the lot were
Frank Mcintyre Arthur Shaw. Morgan
B. Conan, Thomas Meighan, Morton
Smith, Joseph Keegan, Hassard Short.
Wallace Itddinger. Emmett Corrigan,
f,nndUin
The press agents of the rival "Devil'
managers. Harrison Grey Fiske and
Henry w, Savage. are still at it ham
mer and tongs. horse, foot and dra-
goons. The minute the Fiske chap
heard that Henry L. DiXey WIS to for
sake the Garden Theatre he framed his
advertisements thusly:
Quotation from Cagliostro, or some
other well-known Italian author:
one Devil Drives Out Another
New Theatre Art Note.-Iee Shubert
seemed on the verge of violent quarrel
in the White Room Yesterday with Man
ager Winthrop Ames, formerly of Bos-
ton, because Mr.. Anes opposed the Dug
sestion that the Polar bears at the Hip
podrome be used in a pr0dunuon ii
Antony and Cleopatra al the New
Theatre.
Joe Weher's musical piece, a composite
buTlesQue called The Devil aui The
Merry Widow" will be seen first in New
York next week at the West End rLe-
atre with Miss Blanche Ring ~ the pIiIi-
cipal role. one OF the best things IN il
is the name o. the legil, played by Wal
ter Jones, who calls himself NJ sieu de
Jollidos.
Miss Mary Johnston. the author Of
"To Have and to Hold and prisoners
OF Conscience" recently arrived in New
York from Baltimore 70 superintend The
rehearsals of THE Goddess of Reason"
her new play in which Miss julia Mar
lowe will star
The principal speaker nj the dinner
which the Frlars will give saturday
night in honor of WDchel Smith will
be William Gillette, who started Smith
on the right path dramatically, Smiths
hTst success was in the part OF the tcle-
graph operator in Gillette.s play, Sc
crct Service
Every time see a new one of these
Southern plays" says Lee Arthur the
playwright who halls from Shreveport,
Il get madder and madden over the ac-
cent the actors use. II reminds me of
the story Of the visiting Englishman
who asked Louisiana woman II the
darkeys down there had q language Of
their owT
Certainly the woman tod him and
20 show you I'll speak to ule-.n-s lu a--
N me NATIVE Congo as an old negro
woman.
Who wharf? asked the nanny. and,
Marvellous said the EnglsGmlu' '
Miss Annie Yeamans Is scyer,y-three