The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
GOSSIP

Beautiful and fascinating Miss Grace Van Studdiford. prima donna in Ihe Golden Butterfly" which will appear at the Jefferson theatre Tuesday, tepruary l. is somewhat of a popular idol. She IS cordially agreeable when 1t Is matter or a private chat and talks brilliantly ana Interestingly of people and everyday ai- fairs When she talks for the news papers she doesn't talk to be paradoxi- cal. Her manager is her press censor. She talks to him and he talks the revised version to the newspapers. Miss van Studdiford isn't like many great singers' She is devoted to her work and sincerely anxious to please the public she nnos enough to occupy her time and attention in her daily routine about breaking into print or seeking notoriety by indulg1ng Tn extravagant escapades. Miss Van Stud- afford spends much time in vocal exer- cises. after which she usually takes a five-mile walk. then spin in her auto TOT a few miles; she then returns to her hotel and indulges in needle work and writing
 Frank Deshon is at the head of splen- did company this year in B. c. Whitneys s musical comedy success, "A Knight for a Day" On the occasion of a recent long engagement in Brooklyn the papers de- voted considerable space to the quaint
  ham and the south.
 Mcintyre and Heath are on their way to the Pacific coast with Tn Hayt, by John J. McNally and Jerome and Schwartz.
 Elav & Erlanger have engaged Miss Maude Raymond, William Edmunds, John Dunsmure and Harry Cowan to support Max Rogers in Aaron Hotfmans play, .aThe Young Turk" which will be pre- sented in New York city in February. The company will number more than 100.
 "The Round Up" Klaw & Erlangers s play of the Arizona desert, is making It's first trip to the south. The tour Is sen- sational It has been decided definitely to send the production into Texas, ai- though the cost of the tour has been in- creased materially owing to transporta- ton charges After the Texas time the play goes to the Pacific coast
 Winthrop Ames, director. of the New theatre in New York, after witnessing "salyation Nell" in which Mrs. F1ske will appear here tomorrow, wrote MT. Sheldon, the author of the play, as foi- lows "It seems to me a very fine, sim cers piece of work, with the precious &C., cent of life throughout The silence or the audience that left the theatre and the many bills in the tambourines of the sal- vation Army lassies at the entrance, bear tribute to the deep impression created by the play. hope that Some day you will write play for the New theatre
 .'The Barrier" Eugene w. Presbreys $ dramatization of Rex Beaci1's novel. with Theodore Roberts in the role of John Gale, will be the next attraction at Klaw & ErlanEsr's Now Amsterdam theatre, New York city, following The Silver Star" which opens it's road tour at the Colonial theatre, Boston. January 10. The Barrier has been a success on the road and will probably make a strong appeal to New York audiences, as the plot IS in- teresting and strongly dramatic and the cast an excellent one.
 saidee Williams who has made me hit in Lillian Russelps production of 'fne First Night" by her splendid work as the German maid, in which she has some or George V. Hobart's funniest dialect lines, is a native of Indiana, and made her nrst biz hit as a reader of James Whitcomb Rileys wonderful poems. Her success In characterizing the people of Rileys quaint creation resulted in her taking up a stage career.
 Edward Peple's delightful modern com edy, ''The Prince Chap" which ran for an entire year in New York city, for It's sec ond tour of the south has new star In Elliott Dexter, new to the rank of star