Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06

the same which evoked all that continent
wide testing in the flown years.
RUT this isn't all on the avoirduois
topic. What other famous actress
lady. of whom you've been hearing all
your life. dye s'pose has grown distinct
ly, Enthusiastically and even acknowledged
~ fat?
Why, Ellen Terry. none other. AS sure
as you are twelve inches in stature! Her
l saw, too, upon her debarkation, and,
methought, whittier had flown all of the
willowiness. all Of the almost serpentine
sinuosity, of the Elem Terry of the back
yonder time when Albaugh's Grand Opera
House wasn't Chase's, and when Sam
Kingsley ran the National Theater. and
when the Old Dime" (museum) still was
on the site now occupied by the Post Of
flee Department. with the little m-pah
band playing howlingly on its little bal
cony to attract us to its afternoon and
evening performances? Whittier. indeed!
For In that fading epoch OF the worlds
history, as you, of course, remember or
have been told. Ellen Terry too, was of
an almost ascetic non-heshiness. True, she
never was so accentuatedly thin as Mime.
Sarah, but she utterly lacked even the
you could reasonably cali plumpness. She
could almost literally drift or float"
across the stage Her grace was UNI
eaualed, and it was the grace Of the
woman carrying, in colloquial way OF
speaking, no excess baggage in embon-
point.
But now the wonderfully gifted Ellen
is so ma ifestly sans waist line that
one could only behold and wonder. She
is almost stodgy. Her face. too. has
good-natured interrogative expression re-
mains. but upon much broader canvas,
as it We're Her voice retains it's bcauti-
full timbre, so her freshness of elderliness
doesn't matter You couldn't expect struc-
turai sinuosity in a woman coming
three-and-sixty," could you? imagine
that her readings from Shakespeare are
going to prove the most successful thing
she ever has done in this country. and
that they will be remarkably well attend
ed. An entirely new generation has come
along since her heyday in the tours with
Irving In the United States, and it would
seem pity for any of the new genera
ton to miss hearing so accomplished and
charming woman unfolding the cryptic
charms of Shakespeare.
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THE proposition Of a progressive young
alderman Of this town that New
York should have an official censor to
keep an eye on public amusements isn't
by any means so foolish or trivial or un-
important or unnecessary as some of the
newspapers over here would have the,
world believe. / believe New York needs
precisely such an overseer as the alder
man proposes. I have not in mind the
necessity for censorizing the productions
at the regular theaters. l am referring
TO the admitted need for some sort OF
public overseeing Of the moving pictures
on view at the thousand and odd moving
picture houses In New York.
The moving picture people here contend
tnat nothing immoral in the moving
picture line Is on view at their houses.
They base their contention upon what
seems to be an imperfect understanding
OF what Is moral or immoral. There are
no obscene films on view here. II is true
but there are In the great majority of
the moving picture houses films describ-
ing pictorially and with a certain amount
OF pictured heroism and glory for the
participants thereof just the sort OF
crimes OF violence from which this town
has been suffering exorbitantly OF recent