Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-17


lastingy grateful. Well, make long story short
| went the day the little girl. She lived
somewhere in the borough, in a at the top of
a big dreary looking, and not overClean dwelling
| told her several stories in dumb show: and GER
tainy never had more intelligent little listener
She mplored me to come again, and l went some
weeks later; but they had gone away and l have
never seen her or the old man since.
Amusing Experiences in America
I HAD some rather amusing experiences in America
during my recent visit there / remember a night
after l had made my first appearance in New
York, | asked for interview by an elderly
the press S. 90. ,,,o, >, 49,. -, &C.. .:
asked.
l was rather surprised at the question: and replied
that | was but moderate eater.
Do you know my visitor continued, that you
live without food?"
Il absolutely l could not" l answered
You think SO now, she said, smiling; but
read this book and you will soon change your
mind, and she placed in my hand copy of
pamphlet entitled The Foodess Life published
by organization entitled The Foodess League"
which my visitor asked me to join and pay sub
sCript1on of five dollars.
Then began to see the inner meaning of the Food
less League and babe my visitor goodby saying that
people who could live without food should cert ainly
be able to do without money.
| constantly being asked to give dancing
lessons during my visit to America The wife of
millionaire asked me to lunch with her day and
told me that she was anxious to take up dancing.
should think OF doing So tor she was without ex
ception the latest woman | had ever seen. | am
she weighed three hundred pounds.
Perhaps | thought to myself she wants to
get thin" But not bit of it She genuinely
anxious to attain some proficiency dancer, and
simply wanted to ask me if | thought she too
fat to learn. She really very charming woman;
it was with some reluctance that | told her she
could not hope to learn to dance, and advised her
not try. She promised to give up the notion; but
seemed very disappointed.
| had really no idea how hard could work in
New York until | got there | work pretty hard in
London: but never venture to give more than SIX
performances week that is | never give a mat
inee performance when | am playing at the Empire.
When arrived in New York found that ex-
pected to give one matinee a week we'll SIX
evening performances and later gave another
special matinee CIV ednesday's); but there is some
thing tremendously 1nV1gOrat1ng about the air IN
New York AT any rate able give eight
performances week without feeling bit the
for doing | know that if | attempted to do such
thing in London, should very soon break down.
The Difficulty of Pantomime
A CITING without speaking is of the most
difficult branches of the dancers art to acquire
1t never be done without years of practice, no
matter how greatly gifted the artistic The face
must be made capable of expressing hundreds OF
VARYING shades of emotion. and yet each expression
must be clearly defined as the tone of one note
the piano is from another
| constantly studying facial expressions. L
remember on one occasion seeing a poor
street where the traffic very heavy. Eventually
a policeman to her aid and took her and her
family safely across; but the expression of anxious
expectancy that womans face fascinated me. 1T
Just such expression as l wanted IN a piece
/ was rehearsng at the time, and labored for sew
eral days until felt that had succeeded in repro
ducing it. | wanted to assume that expression tor
only few seconds; but it was we'll worth the work
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