Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-16
What Women Are Doing

| old, and is now under sentence or one
year for shoplifting.
Just why she insists on returning to
confinement after being freed Is not to
be readily understood. 1t would seem
that after twenty or thirty years in
iail there would be little left in the
way Of Jail interior sightseeing OF
course. IL is possible that Jail life has
neculiaf fascination for Miss Con-
nor. Observation: 1t takes all kinds of
| people to make the daily news
No names are to be mentioned.
Strictest secrecy Is sworn. Persons
wishing inside information may write
to wellesley college. Dame Scandal is
working overtime now, telling every
one about the show that the Wellesley
girls produced last week, and, by the
way. there were men in the orchestra.
They were not supposed to be there.
The show was to be for ladies only.
There have been many shows at Wei
lesley, but no masculine eye has ever
gazed upon one. The faculty said that
no men were to see last weeks per-
formance, but college girls will be
college girls, so they had some men in
the orchestra. They said that they
could not get ladies' orchestra, but
Dame Scandal breathes that they could
have done so if they had wanted to.
The straight of the story is says Dame
Scandal, the girls really wanted some
men-a few-to see the exhibition. Mo-
body, not even Dame Scandal, says
| there was anything wrong with the
show, though some of the girls were
dressed in trousers and some wore
| short skirts.
Stage Johnnies have received a ter
rible setback in the adventures of DR..
Frederick Griffith, the admirer and
particular pestience of Nine. Nazi-
| nova, called to mind now by the doc
tors release from Bellevue hospltal.
DIR. Griffith wrote many letters to
| Nazimova-often, frequently, con-
sistently. NThe letters were annoying.
ON complaint of Madame, he was COM
mitted to Bellevue. Physicians there
were not long in concluding that 1t was
safe to let Griffith run at large He
has been set free, and his brothers are
to take him to Philadelphia.
Nevertheless, the lesson to devoted
Johnnies remains. If they continue
| in their path of folly, they are liable
to he sent to Bellevue. Worse than
that there is a chance Of their being
taken to Philadelphia. Many Johnnies
| who have never given their ways Sc
rious thought heretofore will now
pause. The wise ones will desist.
Miss Christine nielsen, at ollo
time a member of the Ferris Hartman
| company. now playing on the road In
the east in 1.-THE Belle of Brittany,
disproves the accepted theory that
Won may as we'll poison a singer as TO
allow her to catch cold. The slightest
suspicion of bronchial trouble throws
the average singer into a panic: Let
her manager suggest that she sing IN
spite of her cold and there Is likely to
be trouble.
This. then, Is a tribute to Miss Nell
sen. One night recently Miss Nielsen
had a cold that had been accumulatlng
for several days Some of her frlends
thought she should not try to appear
as the Belle. Miss Nelson 1nsistetd
that she would do her work. That she
did so and won the golden comment
of the critics of Cleveland, in which
| city she was appearing, makes the
tribute to her heroism all the stronger.
| Nobody seemed to notice that the sing
er was not at her best. She sang with
a sweetness and clarity that was sur
prising to those who knew how she
was afflicted.
All of which proves that bronchial
trouble is perhaps a state of mind
Miss Nielsen insists that singing with
her cold did her voice no harm. IF
had been a contralto," declared the
singer. at would have been different.
AS a soprano, however, could sing IN
nv throat rather than down in my
bronchial tubes, and 1t did not bother
me. Singing is largely matter OF
breathing properly, anyway, and 1
believe that one may always overcome
the handicap of a cold by making up
her mind to It,"
When Miss Nielsen was in stock in
Los Angeles weekly changes of bills
resulted in her acquiring a repertoire
| sd IF in To An
geles that offers of engagements began
| to embarrass her Martin Beck wanted
her for vaudeville, somebody else
wanted her to sing the roles of Aida
Hemmi and an important opera or
ganization offered her a contract for
prima donna roles. All the otters IN
volved substantial salaries, and 1t was
this unanimity that caused the young
singer to turn her face eastward. She
| refused all three of these offers and
went to New York, where she was en-
gagged by Henry Savage and later by
the Shuberts.
Miss Margaret Anglin looks on the
| Greek drama as a means of develop
ment. Miss Anglin takes her art Sc
siously. She feels that if a player de-
votes herself too long to any particu-
| lar part or line of parts she is apt TO
find herself taking things for granted,
and to the player with a serious pur-
pose this is not to be endured.
"That was the original reason for
undertaking the plays of Sophocles,"
declared the star of "The Awakening
of Helena Ritchie" recently. "It seemed
to me that there was no better means
of developing along dramatic lines than
to go to the foundation of the drama.
The Greek plays are the basis of the
modern stage, and the further one goes
| II flt-oY1
becomes his appreciation of dramatic
structure in general"
Miss Anglin's first presentation Of
a Greek play will take place next
month, Her present tour is to the Pa
cific coast with the University of Cali
fornia as her objective point. At
Berkeley on the evening of June 30 she
will nroduce the "Antigone" of So
phocles in the celebrated Greek theater
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