The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-02

Ellington and can even turn out . .e-
good piece Of draxnwork.
In the last sceriesof The Third DaGroA.s
where she interrupts the Fluctuations OF
the family lawyer by the exclamation
that the milk has boiled over, there IL q
certain foroefuiness Of gesture. a sin
cerity Of technique that it is easy to SEQ
could never be acquired by mere acting.
1t prompts the audience to say why. she
isn't acting at all, she is just Helen Ware
a rare compliment: but how many realize
tho fundamental significance OF that COM
pliment. which is really directed home
ward rather han ~stageward?
1t is said, moreover, that once in the
days when Helen Ware used to take her
own bottle of milk in from the dumb
waiter every morning she discovered
that some tenant above or below her fiat
had skinned of the cream. This oc-
curing again and again. one night she
took strenuous measures and left a
pitcher Of water alongside the milk bot
tie with written instructions that the
thief should Use the contents and thus
save time and trouble. Needless to say
that the decisive touch saved her further
annoyance.
While a great many details Of the life
of Gertrude Coghlan. who plays in THE
Travelling Salesman" are interesting
and prove her right to be counted as a
home lover. n may perhaps suffice.
To raise mushrooms in your own cellar
and to send them to market and get $50
a week approximately is n OF the do
nestle exploits TO this young woman
credit. II his does does not fit her for a
high place among the inmortals OF the
Home Loving Series, what could?
Her sister, Rosalind Coghlan, not
to be left at the post. while not entirely
original in her way Of showing her domes-
ITCHY has at least followed, along a we'll
beaten trail. She has given to the world
not only manifestations Of her dramatic
ability but a recipe for icing. There is
no attempt in this to overwhelm with
erudition, no wish from the height OF ac-
quired supremacy to make the reader |
feel any lack Of complete understanding.
There is Mons of the irony OF a Shaw |
disciple, no symbolism Of the Ibsen cult. |
Knowing her readers. with rare discern
she keeps TO the last the interesting
information that the formula came to
her from a celebrated pastry cook who was
formerly in the employ Of. Queen Alex
andra. Think Of that. Heddd! Think OF
that!
The recipe is: "To make icing: Take
one cup OF sugar and four tablespoonfuls
Of water. Boil together until the sugar
strings from the spoon. Pour this into the
well beaten white OF one egg. beat thor
until cool, then spread upon cake
simple and how satisfying!
= That Hedvig Reicher. the German
who is to play under American
should choose to spend her
spare time in learning Esperanto rather
than sitting for her photograph under a
spreading Boston fern is Of course a dis
Having Teutonic parent
age it was quite natural to class her in the
Of the dramatic housewives.
Any one who has seen Miss Amelia
Bingham moving stately about the Louis
Quinze interior of a stage setting recog-
nizee at once the fact that she is perfectly
1t home in this mise en- scene. There is
of the a~wkwardness Of the stranger
n her manner. How could there be when
It is attested that no stage furniture or
langings could exceed In magnifcence
of her own residence? She has not
invaded the home with the stage. but she
mas brought the home to the stage, a much
greater achievement.
At her pretty and attractive home In
Westchester county Nine. Nazimova does
lot keep pct snakes and daily exercise
} pair OF trained gsxellss. ~ has been
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