The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-27

| street where the hotel keeper was stand | ing upon the veranda in his pajamas. | ".What is it?' cried the hotel keeper in alarm.
 ".One Martini cocktail fops the gentle man in pew 13,' replied the sexton" | Charles Frohman is now in Paris in- specting "Chantecler,' with view to ascertaining whether he would be justi- | fled in spending English pounds ars- American dollars to produce the Rostand drama here and In London. Cables tell me that MT. F'rohman is greatly i'm pressed with "Chanteeler," but what he will do is not yet definitely decided.
 Richard Carle, the comedian, might be called the man, who made ham and eggs famous. It Is said on good authority that MT. Carle eats LAO plates of ham and | eggs every year. Every night after the theatre he eats two orders of ham and eggs and sometimes calls for more. T wish to deny emphatically that my | playing in The Spring chicken has any thing to do with my penchant for the esculent dish of ham and eggs" said MT. Carle. in speaking of his gastronomic predilection for the dish. q just natu- rally like ham and eggs and think it Is l healthy. Once I was playing in Florida
  | eggs within 20 miles of the town. I in- | sisted and the landlord of the hotel fin- | ally brought in something that looked | like ham and eggs, so l ate nine dishes of 1t. Later upon being asked for light. he told me that the ham was alligator | steak and the eggs were snake eggs" On March 3 Maxine Elliott will give a special matinee of ''The Inferior Sex" at Daly's theatre, in honor of her brother in-law, Forbes Robertson who is appear ing in "The Passing of the Third Floor Back at Maxine Elliott's theatre. Frank Stayton, the author of the comedy, sailed from England recently that he may 6u- plicate the American staging of the if~ce for the London production. He will also be a special guest of honor at this mat inee. In addition to Forbes Robertson and Frank Stayton, other guests will be Mary Mannering, Walter Hampden Fully Marshall, Cyril Scott. Blanche Ring, Ethel Barrymore, Billie Burke and other players.
 The latest thing is the "Chantecler hat" and the first one to be worn adorned the head of Miss Nora Bayes in the 'Jolly BacheIors.' The audience of the Broadway theatre gasped when Miss Bayes ripped upon the stage with something upon her head resembling an unplucked fowl. It proved to be a genu- inc "Chantecler" hat, which had arrived a short time before from Paris.
 The body of the hat is black straw of vast proportions. The only decoration is a huge life size rooster. whose head faces the front and whose plumage covers the entire hat. The feathers are white ex- cept for dark green plumes. Stella May her has sent 13 cables to Paris since for rush order of "Chantecler hats for herself and friends.
 Owing to the absence of bald eagles and chicken hawks over New York the "Chantecler' hat can be worn upon the street in perfect safety.
 Mrs Pat Campbell. whose debut into vaudeville is made in a short sketch called "Expiation." has given new im- petus to the terrible. I have seen Kip llng's 'rhe Man Who Was" acted in all its fury and ferociousness, but 1t was as mild as near mild compared to EEK piation." Mrs. Campbell takes the part of Nihilist whose lover has been sent to Siberia by bad Russian man. To get revenge Mrs. Campbell, or Sanja, as she is programmed, becomes very friendly with the Russian governor who had sent her lover into exile. We learn at this stage that Sofas father and brother had been killed by this brutal Russian. Sofa asks the governor to show her how the Russian soldiers chain up their prisoners when they wish to fog them The gov ernor in the fondness of his heart and not knowing that he was dealing with one he had wronged. allowed Sonia to put him into the billion of chains. Then she shoots him. There is much action and many loud cries In the playlet q