Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-29

Lulu Blaser might revel in bucolic.
widely different from the Broadway,
manner in her own newly purchased
roof tree. a widely spreading roof tree.
at Mount Vernon. N. Y. But this sum-,
mer she prefers to stay IN Chicago to
be with her husband, Ralph c. Hertz
of the Madame Sherry" company. ~
Blanche Ring. with her new home.
Sunny Gables. at Larchmont, and her
yacht. Yankee Girl. cruising fat will
from Stamford to Bar Harbor, is like
girl with black haired doll and
blonde. She doesn't know which she
prefers. She mounts the haymow be-
hind the house and sings last seasons
song successes. then slips into white
flannel yachting suit with black rub
Der jacket and cap for storms. and re-
hearses to an accompaniment of the
sound hreeZes, her vocal numbers for
the nearing season of 19l0-1911.
Francis Wilson has found for him.
self a new plaything. New playthings.
he says. fond off the old age of the soul.
This new midsummer toy is a golf links
comprising 10 acres of rolling land.
which he is having laid out by experts.
adjoining his Lake Mahopac estate in
New York. He has declared that the
nine holes have the names of favorite
plays and players. They include Joseph
Jefferson and "Ermine." ~
No actress is II more devoted votary
at the shrine of the great out of doors
than May Irwin. If there is olsen
gagged week in the winter she spends 1t
on Merritt island and the vicinity in
Florida. Her summers she has enjoyed
for Is years on Irwin island in the st.
Lawrence river. where she owns. fish,
es hunts. cooks and from June to Aug
ust asks What is the stage?" ~
Julia Dean. having supplemented her
seasons work with a>month or two at
stock. runs away from the burning
placements to Siasconset; the famous
actor3 colony on Nantucket island.
Miss Dean achieved local fame as a
wit from her christening of the ante
revolutionary cabin and took for the
end of the season by christening 1t
"Notanybath." a title which caused an
English visitor to say: "Notanybatn?
An Indian name. is it not ~ ~4i
Viola Allen is in private life Mrs. Pc
ter Duryea, the wife of a noted horSe-
man, though her liking for horses. she
says. was not acquired. but a BIRTH
right. At any rate, she looks much UNI
like the sorrowful white Sister" as
she drives behind a splendid pair OF
bay roadsters on the wide, tree-lined
roads about the hills of Bernardsville.
in New Jersey, where she rests in the
summer.
Nance ONeil has taken a little
house on the Seine. which her friend.
Peggy" Margaret Blood sotn. and her
Japanese maid and dog aSsis II max
ing habitable and happy. But often
she is not at home. The friend and the
maid and the dog have gone with her
picnicking to the Forest of FOntaine-
bleau. where she leads the odd little
line of march. tapering off with the
elusive japanese spaniel, among the
silver green tree lanes, where visions
of gallant Gauls and their coquettish
ladies walk beside them. Only once
did Miss O'Neil grid herself for toll
in the summers rest. 1t was to appear
at benefit in Paris for the dead Co
quelin's- pet project, the Actors home.
Blanche Bates is an enthusiastic far
mer. Surrounded by horses and dogs
seven dogs-the largest a hound fit to
play part in Uncle Toms Cabin"
the smallest a saucy and pugilistic bull
terrier. dressed usually in blue sweat
er, Miss Bates lives during her rest
time in many gabled. hundred-year-
old house, a mile from Ossining, with
the oddly CARRIED "boys" at Sing Sing
for ncighbors. She makes the trip be-
tween New York and Ossining in her
motor car.