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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-20

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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-20

Brig. Gen. Arson Mills. Z. S. A.. retired.
is in Ell Paso, Tex. Gen. Mills has gone
there for the purpose Of building a large
business block on the site OF the old
Grand Central Hotel.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-20

Miss Elizabeth Kibbey has sent out
cards for a small tea next Tuesday, al
O'Clock. to meet Miss Margaret Niche.
daughter of Can't. Robert Z. Lee Niche.
L. S. A. at her home in Massachusetts,
aYenue.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-20

Lieut.. A J. woude. Sixth United States
Calvary. has returned from Manila. via
Europe and Egypt, and is now in New
York City. with Mrs Woude. at the Ho-
tel Portland, West Forty-seventh street.
They viii arrive here about April !.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-18
"THE WOLF" is AT
ALCAZAR'S DOORS
Eugene Walters Drama to Be
Given Elaborate Presentation

The Wolf" which is by Eugene Wal
ter, author OF Paid in Full" '@rhs
Easiest Way and other successful
week, beginning tomorrow night It
has been a money getting production
on the road for two seasons, it's power
full scenes. thrilling story and brill
liant workmanship combining to render
it acceptable to all classes OF play
lovers.
This will be the first time that the
play has been given in stock and at
popular prices. However, the Alcazar's
reputation for elaborate productions
and, perfection OF acting and scenic ele-
ments is assurance that as good II not
better performance will be given than
any heretofore seen IN the city.
The scenes of THE WoIf' are placed
in frontier and wild northern Canada
It's people are rugged. primitive. but
real and picturesque MacTavish, dour
Scotchman. whose nagging forced his
wife to abandon him. leaving Hilda,
their beautiful daughter. on his hands.
is a recognizable type. His daughter is
the central figure OF the plot Jules
Beaubien loves her. His rival is Will
liam Mcdonald. an American civil engi-
neer. Beaubien yearns to marry her.
The young American has wife and
children in the states. The play treats
OF the wooing by the two men of the
young girls affections. A tragic climax
gives the play logical but thrilling
and proper climax and end
Grace Barbour will be Hilda. a role
created by Ida Conquest: Thurston Hall
will be Beaubien. Howard Hickman wiz
play the role of Mcdonald. Burt Wesner
viii be Batiste and Thomas Chatterton
will be George HuntleZ-
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is fairly well known that Eugene
Walter. when he wrote 'The Easiest
4 Way" had picked Charlotte Walker,
his wife. for the part. It is likewise
known that he was sorely disappointed
when Belasco. putting down his wizard
heel, refused to produce the drama If
Mrs. Walker had the part. It was not
because he claimed she was not a good
actress. He admitted freely that she
was, but his conception of the role and
his idea. OF its physical and tempera-
mental requirements were not met in
the person of Mrs. Walter.
Laura was to be no Camille or Zaza,
in size or force. There was to be no
titan haired beauty of ample pulchri-
tude in the role; but rather a slip of a
girl" She was to be just a young
woman who. lacking good advice and
q guiding hand, had flown away with
the soiled doves; a girl who was to be,
in the play, susceptible to good in
fiuences, a trihe weak. pretty. ambi-
tious. with the ambition born of vanity,
but strength Of character enough to
put up a fine womanly fight against
odds If they were not too overwhelm-
ing. Miss Starr told me that Laura
was a girl who followed the lines of
the least resistance, and yet who was
able to battle if backed by good en-
vironment and sustaining influences.
Eugene Walter" she said, had
rather had made use of a familiar type
which by its very familiarity had been
overlooked by playwrights seeking the
unusual.
Laura and her kind abound in fear
full numbers in every large city. She
is found wherever night is turned into
day and wickedness thrives. Walter
made use of her and put her in his
play with awful faithfulness to truth.
There was much surprise when he
announced that I was to play Laura,
and I was not the least Of the sur
prised ones; but the rehearsals had
not progressed very far before began
to realize why he had selected me-"
The fact is that Belasco wanted some
pretty. slight, sunshiny girl in the role
in order to emphasize the horror of
the situation which throws her back
into the vortex of sin which is typifed
in his employment of "Rector's." He
wanted girlish girl, who would stand
before the audience as the kind that
ones sister is in all those qualities of
lovableness, tenderness and sweet
ness. He wanted to make the fall of
such a girl as this the more harrow
ing. because of the expressed posi-
bilities in her to be good and true and
fine and happy. Frances Starr typified
that girl of goodness, and developed
from the sweet ingenuousness called
for by the role of the Rose of the
Rancho the ability to simulate the real
tiles of Laura and touch her with COM
pretending sympathy.
And that's how Frances Starr was
chosen to play the part that has made
her famous and in which she returns
to San Francisco. after the lapse of
nearly seven years.
The ingenue of THE Music Master
and THE Rose of the Rancho" has be-
come a new stage variety of trage-
dienne.
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gagement with the Castle Square stock
company in Boston, removing thence to
New York, where she had a somewhat
important part in play called Gal
lops." That engagement was the turn
ing point in her career It so happened
that one day David Belasco strayed into
the theater where "GalIops" was being
played and was impressed with Miss
STAIRS work. Soon after he invited
her to call upon him, and as a result
Miss Starr became the heroine in Da-
vid Warfield's The Music Master" Her
next and more important step upward
was when Belasco selected her to play
the leading role in The Rose of the
Rancho" In this play she was re-
markedly successful. When .'The Rose
of the Rancho was produced at the
Majestic theater in Boston Miss Starr,s
name was practically unknown to the
wider circle of theater goers, but the
next day she was established as a star
who had won on her merits It was
a matter of surprise when the an
'nouncement was made that BeIasco had
selected her to star in Eugene Walters
play, The Easiest Way" for the cen
trail character would at first seem un-
suited to Miss Starr. Belasco's judg-
.ment was more than Justified by the
result. for she achieved a great per-
sonal success and for a year and a
half appeared in the play at the Belas-
CO theater in.New. York.
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istics of any number of personalities.
All the need is that the actress be like
camera and be able to shift her point
of view. A blind and unthinking ex-
posure on the person to be played re-
suits in acting as it does in photog-
raphy; the plate is over or under ex-
posed and the negative is. out of proper
perspective. But Juliet is true, ideally
true; Laura is true, emphatically true.
Il do not see any reason why, with ap-
plication and study. I should not be
able to portray a Juliet"
But Miss Starr finished the. interview
with this epigram which grew out of
the conversation as naturally as a well
expressed opinion should.
Juliet she said, ''is the great posi-
tive of love. She typifes Do Laura
is the great Don't"
BIOGRAPHICAL
-RANcEs STARR was. born and
II brought up in Albany. N. Y. She
began her stage career as mem
Der of a stock company in Albany in
1901, playing ingenue parts for brief
season. She then Joined the Murray
Hill stock company in New York, from
which Nance oNeil. now heading Be-
lasco's company in ''The Lily" was
graduated. From New York Miss Starr
came. to San Francisco and joined the
A1cazar stock
Returning east. she obtained an en-
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-18

truth that may not be ignored. EN-
phatically l believe The Easiest Way
is a moral play"
Primarily" 1 asked, is it an inter
esting one?'
It's as Interesting as play can be
that shows in bigness such a poor lit
tie person as Laura Murdock is, maxi
ing such a little failure of her little
life. It's as big as her soul is, and
it uncovers the bigness of the signifi-
canoe of the life that thousands of
normally good but undirected girls
tumble into
Whereupon I thought of Victor
Hugo's speculation about the greatness
of the sea, the wonder OF the heaven,
but the triple greatness of single
human soul.
n I OTWITHSTANDING the realism
M of her present role. Miss Starr
wants to play Juliet, and be-
lieves she will have the chance. She
would bring to the characterization a
very definite girlishness and charm, and
would without difficulty look the part.
She believes, SO she told me, that it is
quite possible for player to assume
with success two such different roles
as Juliet and Laura.
I'm acting" said she, "it is as though
the beholder were looking through a
camera. II the player is capable it is
possible to focus well on the character
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Dramatic Notes

Henry Miller viii appear at the Co
Iumbia soon in comedy. "Hsr Hus-
bands Wife"
An elaborate production OF Rex
Beach's powerful play. ''The Barrier Is
in preparation at the Alcazar.
Laura Hope Crews is playing the
leading role in Henry Miner's produc-
ton Of Her Husbands Wife
David BeIasco is arranging to send
] two of his late successes to San Fran
cisco. The Lily and 'Is Matrimony
Faflure?'
There viii be no Sunday perform
ances of The Easiest Way" The spe-
cial Wednesday and regular Saturday
matinees will be given.
The Alcazar will stage another Of
Claiming Pollock's comedies. Clothes
when Walters The Wolf Is with
drawn.
The first musical comedy to be
brought to the Columbia this season
will be Three Twins" in which Victor
Morley will be seen as the twin
Charles Frohman has completed his
plans for coast to coast tour OF the
London company which he has imported
to play the musical comedy. "The Ar
cadians."
| Grace Barbour. who will have the role
of Huda McTavish in the Alcazar's pro-
duction of "The Wolf" made an en-
phatic impression in the role when the
Walter drama was played by an eastern
stock company last season
/
Rose Stahrs local engagement In
''The Chorus Lady terminates tonight
at the Columbia theater- 1t is not prob
able that she will again appear in the
fine comedy. as she plans production
of play by Charles Klein
1t is the intention Of Ferris Hartman
to star Walter de Leon and 'Muggins''
Davies at the head Of a company on
the road next season. in the event that
THE Campus De Icons musical COM
edy. which will have it's premiere today
at the Princess. is a success.
The Fortune Hunter" which has
been running in Chicago since last De-
cember. has just completed us engage
ment in the windy city. Cohan and
Harris have started it on It's trans
continental tour, during which it is
booked for presentation at the ColUm-
bia-
Elizabeth Stewart. who scored sue
cessfully as Mariana when James K
| Hackett recently staged Don Caesars
Return at the Alcazar, has been spe-
cially engaged to assume the leading
role in Clothes" This was the role In
which Grace George achieved a big
success.
THE Toy Maker which never seems
to lose favor with children and adults,
will be used to close the Hartman sea-
son at the Prineess theater. 1t will be
presented next Thursday night. and
there will be free toy matinees Satur-
day and Sunday next.
When she returns from New York.
within few days, Bessie Barriseale
will. at once begin studying tho role OF
the heroine In My Wife" which was
| the play in which Billie Burke made
the hit that induced Charles Frohman
to start her on her own account
Immediately at the close OF the Hart
man season at the Princess next Sun
/ day night the comedian, accompanied
| by his wife and by his manager. c. V.
/ Kavanagh, will leave for New York to
secure plays and make other arrange
ments for the coming season which
opens with Hartman at the Grand in
/ Los Aneeles
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-18

N N ISS STARR is no actress-off
INt the stage. What talents as
impersonator of others woes she
possesses are not exhibited for nothing
She does not act off the stage; nor in
the parlance of the theater ''up stage
either. She is a cordial, unassuming, en-
tertaining young woman, with strange
blue eyes of a singularly comprehending
and frank expressiveness. In a throng
about a bargain counter, or in fash
would be about the last you would pick
as an actress. Her speech is not
rhetorical nor inflated, puffed up elocu-
tion. and she discusses her play and her
art with charming Inconsistencies
of self. Her ego is not of the stage,
STACEY. She talked of her one night
stands
You see" she said, that although
1 am not by any means new to the
stage, have had comparatively little
travelling to do.
After four weeks with warfield in
The Music Master came the long run
in New York of The Rose of the
Rancho and then the two full seasons
in The Easiest Way During all that
time 1 was almost as muck a fixture in
New York as though were stenog-
rapher in bankers office. 1t was only
last January when The Easiest Way
closed at Belasco's in New York Then
followed long stays in the larger cities
of the east In fact. for seven years
the closest have come TO San Fran
cisco was Kansas City. I had to come
clear west to see the sun rise in the
east and have just begun the expert
ences OF catching early trains and fit
ting quickly from place TO place. We
did Bakersfield and Fresno and now we
are in San Jose. We caught the train
this morning at s o'clock. The per-
formance the night before precluded
the possibility of going to bed before
1890, so you see 1 should be, but am
not, sleepy. One gets used to lack of
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rest in my profession, or one gets out
of it."
Tin told" said I, ''that you are lay
ing plans to walk out of the drama
and step INTO opera; that you were
developing your voice and proposed to
lift it up in lyrical song-or something
like that"
She laughed, and said: 81 have neith-
er grand nor comic opera aspirations;
but I do like sto sing. No doubt the
story started because I took vocal les
sons in New York from a famous teach
er and because when I'm on the road
have a piano in my apartments
whenever it's possible. Perhaps my
neighbors have heard me in my war
blings and have started the rumor. But
it isn't true. I studied singing because
I wanted to know all that I could
about the possibilities of the voice and
because 1 wanted to develop mine to
the limit of its capabilities
Wherein 1 think she's wise; for the
speaking voice is the same as the sing
ing voice. There's no unmusical voice
in speech that is glorious in song.
Besides" said she, " knowledge of
the effects of song is an advantage in
speech. The actress who knows how to
sing and isn't crazy to intone her lines
will be able to get a clearer signifi-
canoe to her audience than an actress
with an unframed voice."
From all of which L inferred that
Miss Starr has no ambitions at present
for career in grand opera, musical
though her voice is. Her training in
the drama and the. role which has
brought her the largest measure of
success being one of directness, posi-
tiveness and to the last sentiment re-
alistic, there's nothing ideal about
Laura. She's not even as ideal as
Camille.
Sc n n oRALs, if not esthetics, are
V conserved" she said. .fn
= The Easiest Way The
horror of the ending where with the
tinsel of a hashy life, her featberv
hat, and her gaudy clothes. Laura
sits in her cheap little room and
decides to go back to the false life
she tried to escape, is not a beautiful
picture of a Juliet sacrifice. but IL is
true to life, it Is real, and it sends home
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-18

- EVEN years have rounded mys-
tic cycle for Frances Starr Tt was
seven years ago that she left
San Francisco. She was an OBJ
scure actress, though capable. and the
great world that concerns itself with
the mimic world knew little OF her.
Now she comes back famous. This
seems to be the year OF come backs y.
and she returns Frances Starr, star"
What forces were at work to make
her famous? Were they astrological,
the result Of chance, or fate2 Or were
they the impulse OF an individuality
seeking self expression and working
for success? How much credit is the
little star entitled to for the achieve
rnents in life which she has won? For
Frances Starr IS one OF the most
prominent Of American actresses; her
name is linked with one of the most
widely discussed and triumphant plays
that has yet been written by an
American author or an American sub
ject. Besides she is the protege OF a
man who boasts Justly that he never
produces a play that fails nor associ-
stes himself with a player who does
not make good"
Frances Starr in The Easiest
way is a device that is being picked
in electric lights against the night
sky of nearly every city and town in
e country where the merest sugges-
ton OF great white way is found
Tor two years the newspapers of the
country and the weekly and monthly
periodicals have devoted space to dis
-cussion Of the play and praise of the
player. and so If there's anything in
the world called fame" Frances Starr
may. be reasonably allowed to claim it.
made a little trip to San Jose to
ask the lady herself about this mat
ter-to find out. if possible, how fame
and fortune, in one individual case
at least, were won.
Not but that 7 could have waited in
san Francisco until the lady should
come 10 the Columbia. but her arrival
in san Jose, where she was to appear
that night in a performance of Be
Il sco's. production of Eugene Walters
pIsv. cofncided nicely with The necessi-
~ Of filling this page with an interest
ing story. and, indeed. better subject
could hardly be found So after seven
years the writer saw Miss Starr again
and sought the secret Of success.
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= HANCE undoubtedly had some
thing to do with the oppor-
- tunitv that came to Miss Starr.
ABILITY utilized it and persistence and
a natural capacity cultivated it.
II If had not been for a fortunate
circumstance, which, however, was
nSsrly cut down by a stroke of bad
luck Miss starr never would have
heen given the chance to play Laura
Murdock in The Easiest Way" The
role would have gone to some more
fortunate young woman. whose name
might now be lettered where Frances
Stsrr.s shines in the dramatic f1rma-
ment.
As is usually the case, one jump does
not land a player or anybody else in
the seat Of high success, but several
Jumps are necessary.
David Belssco was looking for an in
Eenue to employ with David Warfeld
in The Music Master and later to
play the picturesque role in Richard
walton Tully's play OF California, THE
Rose Of the Rancho"
Somebody suggested me-" said Miss
starr in her apartments in the Hotel
vendome in beautiful California.
AT that time I was playing at the
Garrick thester in a racing comedy
en- idea" she laughed, "of how long
II lasted 1t made a quick run, but
not winning one. Mr.. Belasco came,
anyway, before the piece was closed. 1
had just one good scene in the whole
niece: for my ingenue role was quite
srnaIY During that single scene 1 had
10 a I'D on the stage and, looking off at
The racetrack. describe in pantomime
the race that was being run. 1 had
no words 10 say, no lines to read. but
only gestures and facial expression to
Indicate to the audiecne what was hap
pening to the horse we hoped would
win. Mr. Belasco nearly left the the
ster before I had a chance TO prove
what kind Of player I was. You see,
my first entrance was made in race
track togs, high boots and a mannish
hat pulled down over my eyes and
i
look at me and said 20 his friend, She'll
never DO at ALL With that he walked
toward the lobby and was going out,
ssTicn ne was detained in conversation.
The chat lasted so long that the next
act came on. and In it I had chance
70 wear the fluffy clothes that are al
ways passed by the costume scheme Of
plays to the ingenue. Mr.. Belasco be-
came interested and remained through
the aet- Then came the offer, and
played the daughter of Herr Won Bar
wig in The Music Master with War
neld, and after that the leading role in
The Rose Of the Rancho But I never
popld have had the chance to play in
Beissco's productions IL somebody in
the lobby had not detained the great
producer until I had changed my
clothes in 'Gallops."
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-04-18

REDDiNG. Conn. April is-At
tired ia HE suit Of white flannel
which created O stir among his al
mlrers. the country vide. Samuel
r. Clemens (Mark Twain yeaier
day SAT IN the quiet Of HIS country
home. "stormheld" few miles
east Of here. and welcomed bis
daughter Mrs Oaslp GabrilOwiiach,
Who has just returned from her Do
layed honeymoon ia Europe.
Mark Twain has not Improved
hnce his arrival home from Der.
muda Tie is able 10 git up and
take only light nourahment Ills
heart rs the cause Of all HIS trOu.
Bile ~ o. even weaker than when
he left for Bermuda, following the
suddcn and sad death Of his daugh.
ter early IN the year
Though Sir Clemens Will not ad
mit that he f. nearing tho end OF
long. troublous, yet ioyial lifo,
with friends and admirers the
worlds famous humorist whose
popularity has long reached from
America 10 across the seas. has IN.
doubtedly given his last contrlbu-
ton 10 the world's literature, and
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-04-18
TWO CHILD
TRAGEDIES
in A DAY
Driven From Home, Girl
Burns to Deaih-Boy Is
Shot Through Heart by
Brother.

PUTALBCP. Apdi -Puyallup
wns the scene ~ two tragedies yea
tcrday. ia each case q six ycaroid
child being tho victim
Dora nenci sas burned GO death
and Christopher gWitrer was accl
dCntslly shot and allied PSI bis ~.
year.oid brother
The little Herici girl with seven
other members of fnH family we're
driven from their bono hF e family
quarrel iu which her grandfather
and Henry Taylor an indian, we're
the ngRreasorr The children were
forced from ihe house about . "a. %
and in order 90 keep warm started
q fire IN the yard The little girls
dress caught flfe and she was 90
severely burned that she died iu
agony DO houra later
The sWitEnr child was shot az
80 yesterday afternoon Elmer.
his brother was shooting at tar.
gct with d 22.calibrc rifle when the
younger child ran iu front Of the
gun Just ~ % waH discharged The
bullet lodged IN the little fellows
heart. killiug him instantly.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-04-18
POSSE ON
TRAIL OF
ROBBERS
Men Who Held Up China
and Japan Fast Mail
Steal Horse and Rig and
Give Clew.

BERKELEY. Cal. April Is
Look for two youthful men driving
a lame bay mare attached 10 an
open buggy with red painted run
ming gear and steel tires The horse
has three new shoes These men
undoubtedly are the Southern Pa
ciflc train robbers"
Deputy Sheriff Jero Birmingham
arrived here in IA automobile this
morning with this information Bir-
mingham said that the rig was
stolen from the Hsdley farm, three
miles from Port Costa Mrs. Hadley
reported her loss and has given the
authorities a minute description Of
one OF the bandits.
The men were seen before noon
today b. a woman living In the foot
hills near Berkeley She telephoned
TO Chief Nollmer that ihsy we're
headed Ia a sonlhcrly direction to
ward wildcat or San Pablo canyon.
The chief and a number OF men have
started IN pursuit Mean while the
larger part % Sheriff Veales force
was engaged In searching the hills
back of Pinole and word Was sent
90 them 81 the renewal 81 the trail.
The China.Japan mail on the
Southern Pacific. which left San
Francisco e. 3 o clock for the East,
Sas held up by two masked men az
sprig. tao miles east Of Benecia,
Al 1890 O'Clock Sunday morning,
and robbed OF nine pouches OF regis
tered mail
The passengers we're not disturb
ed. The men had boarded the train
some time before and crawled over
the OF tank and tender into the
cab. placing revolvers at the heads
OF the fireman and engineer This
vas the fret train robbery IN Cali
fornia In several years.