The San Francisco call., 1910-03-13

! concerts or PINK teas, nut uo ioNS
| my art just the same. And please
get that in the paper. 7 adore this
F., highbrow material in a Sunday inter
view. 1t is so satisfying to read it
yourself and send it TO your friends
and make them read it, too.
IF you like, won't mind if you ex-
! press some opinions for me about Ibsen
adore Ibsen. And Maeterlinck. too;
he's d dear don't get to hear their
copy much; you see, am busy all day
with nay own art. In the morning l
get up. and that. of course. begins my
day. Sometimes it isn't exactly in the
morning. maybe little after II noon
But as soon as 1 finish reading a chap
ter from the classics. and dallying a
little with poetry, 1 sit down to ham
and eggs, turned over. 1 find ham and
| eggs peculiarly conducive TO great
thinking After l have broken my
fast or smothered it l then repair to
| the nearest Carhegie and resume my
studies on the question of the moral
status of the Greeks when Alexander
was kicking up a muss. l find this a
| subject crammed full of excitement
and it keeps my Greek and Latin in
working order. BY this time my break
! fast has settled and l return to my
hotel, where for an hour | vocalize
Sometimes I vary this by studying
quadruple counterpoint which is a
pleasant and stimulating diversion.
Now il is time to read my mail and
answer letters from the presidents of
women's clubs all over the world. They
write for my expressions on the lau~s,
way to do up your hair and whether
woman on the stage can be proper.
This being done I mediate for an hour
over tea and toast and get myself in a
frame of mind whereby I can best ex-
press the. esoteric consciousness Of
Sonia Then i go 10 the theater and
reveI for few hours in art for arts
sake. after which my day is done. and
return to the hotel for a little some
thing to eat before ending the ardu-
Gus day by much needed and refresh
ing sleep"
l didn't say anything for some time
after that.
Mabel. you should be ashamed of
yourself TO jolly the press that way.
Somebody Tsay believe you" said Gres-
slit, reprovingly.
~oh,~ she said, with q merry widow
smile of inscrutable femininity, do
you think somebody would? I would so
love that"
a.Iss wILBER has crown of
AN blonde hair that she refuses to do.
~ up in the modern way, Il insist
she said, ION wearing my own hair in
my own way I bought a braid for
SIS and it's there in the bureau drawer.
This is all mine, every piece of it; and
so. being mine, attend to it as like.
even though I'm not in the fashion"
She is an Independent person, is Miss
Wiiber Her work for herself and for
some that are dear to her has made her
so, and a self-reliant poise is a chief
characteristic aside from her light
heartedness and her disposition to be
merry.
On account of her manifest quail
fcations to assume without trying the
role of the merry widow, she has been
persuaded that her real stage work is
in the line OF a comedienne. Il viii
be a Coincidence" she said, cor die in an
awful attempt Singing is injured By
dancing One can not be good singer
and retain her voice if she does too
much dancing. 1t robs you of your
breath control and in the effort that
then follows you are liable to force
your voice and submit it to a muscular
straining that is bad for it. That's
what makes Sonia so hard to sing,
for the songs and the dancing come so
close together and the singing suffers
at the expense of the dancing. But /
have had considerable sexperience in
representations; have done them on the
vaudeville stage and got out without
stunts in a play some day, you see.
If you have time I'd like to have you
write me funny playa reali funny
play and make me the scream of the
show. Will you do it?''
l said 1 didn't have the time.
you see." she concluded, 4 am GO
ing TO accomplish my ambition to be
funny for money. / am young yet.
Honest to goodness, no more than 25.
and won't be even % until next Au-
gust. l used TO be only %. but that
was some time ago. I'd say / was %
now. only there are statisticians wher-
ever one goes, and l hate TO be caught
in NIB. Being only 25. then, / have
time. it seems to me, to develop my
talents as eomedienne,. and that's the
one serious ambition l have left
mean seriously to be funny some day.-
Ubiquity in Acting
~ OBERT EDESON is an excellent
X type of the American He has a
: new world buoyancy about him,
strong countenance as of man who
xvarsid come near Tho