Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-01

htt the rock OF adverse criticism ana all
but 20 20 pieces, and that, TOO. just be
fore being taken into New York Think
of II. The constructor and his assist
ants viii doubtless reshape il, but the
press agent viii 80 or with his glad
story Just the same NIeanw lille the local
manager and the public are expected 10
pay The freight
Some there are who believe the efforts
of certain well meaning individuals to
obtain the authority of play and picture
censors are a waste OF virtuous strenu-
osttv Close Observers of Washington
pIavhouses Will soon convince skeptics
that the general public is pretty good
censor itself. and does not hesitate to
apply an effective remedy for a bad play
or an Indifferent moving picture. None
such can operate without financial sup
port, and Washington withholds its pat
ronace whenever there is occasion for it
The public knows best when and how to
get the hook.
Recent rumors nave disDelled iridescent
dreams Of a new theater for all-the-ycar
stock productions. but not the belief that
a permanent stock company. offering
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euces the past summer, is d necessity
and will prove a paying investment. 1t
is the stock company and not the theater
that is needed, in the opinion of many.
Mr. Erlauger of Klaw * Erlanger with
several New York associates in the show
producing line ''yawned and passed an
evening" with the assistance OF small
L. Nart
York masterpiece get a Washington
verdict.
PAN THE PERSIFI4AGE.-Willi
-'ourtIeigh declares that many of our cur
rent slang words are of classic origin.
-Skiddoo" says he, lis a lineal descendant
of 'skedaddle,' which used frequent
Iy ny northern newspapers during the civil
war in reporting battles, and skedaddle'
is derived from the Greek word 'skedan-
NUM- 10 scatter. Writers Of slang par
excellence, Ike Hobart and AIDE have
made our american and English pictur-
esQue. though they often make the purists
squirm. The Harvard professor who had
been told 10 go away back and sit down
Informed his class in English literature
that he had been requested to retire to
The extreme rear of the ed.fce and as
sumo a recumbent attitude
Il often wonder how Henry James with
his complicated never ending sentences,
would interpret these lines from
Peaches: 'Ah, screw down your lid and
don't boil over and He's got cloudy
weather signals all over his map II
slang needed any apology 1 could offer
none better than the words of John
Henry In Peaches: i love everything
hats picturesque; that's why L am for
ever fishing in the stream of literature
for fancy phrases. Il amuses one to hook
out a saucy smile and toss ii alive and
wriggling among the staid old phrase
fishermen, who sleep their lives away on
the time-worn banks of cOnventionality.
Git dap. Are you trailing me-"
HE COULDN'T GUESS IT.-Georeia
,aiue has invented human hopple"
which she viii wear with some new and
extremely narrow gowns when she ap-
pears here this week. 1t Is said to be d
Hfe-saver 10 hobble-skirt wearers and to
fill a long-felt want" Here is how 1t Is
sometimes described
Connecting the circIets is a band of
tiff elastic which operates as 4 safety
curb 10 regulate the stride"
In speaking of il, Mss Game says: The
principle of il i Just the same as that of
the one used on race horses You know
ne chief drawback-get the drawback
10 the hobole skirt is its danger TO the
wearer. one step little too long or too
eager and over YOU go.
~ ell, mine il made into the gown The
circlets are tackled to th,. inside OF the
skirt ana then connected with strong
"iaSuc- The elastic has been gagged to
the limit Of my step This will permit me
TO walk ali right. bat il will also prevent
TOO long a stride and topping over
NOW. All this listened smoothly TO
Miss Gaines Interviewer, but when she
seemed TO have finished he was daZed.
lie remembered. though. she had said
1T had the same kind of a principle
Hs that on race horses Miss Caine. -
he ventUred. Is this thing you've been
talking about toe-weight. or a high
stepping device -
oh. no." quickly responded Miss
Caine. 1T Is simply a new way TO make
jce cream without burning ones fingers
II must be an ice thing for women -
facetiously waited the interviewer as hat
IN hard he wended his way out OF the
stage door.
HAS CREATE A NEW SCHOOL
Mss Caroline Crawford. a slender and
yoUthful-looking assistant professor of
hygiene at Columbia University. Is cred
TED with THE discovery OF a new manner
OF interpreting tNe symbolism OF Maeter-
lincks play. The Blue Bird"
AT the university for a year past Atss
Crawford has had. among other courses.
a very unusual one in dancing It IS not
dancing from the point OF view of exer-
else, or the ballroom or even the halle,
Her first real opportunity came when
he New Theater decided to stage Maeter-
linck's fairy fantasy. The BELGIAN AL
thor had provided places In the text
where colorfui dances might be intro
duced. and the producers were eager N
End some one with an apprcia,;ve under
standing Of the play who would lay aside
the conventional ideas OF dancing and
build anew.
Shortly before Miss Crawford had stag
ed a drama OF Roman life. given In Latin
at Middlebury College. VT. and the col
ony OF artists and literary men who live
close by declared II TO be the most ex-
qulsite series OF dances that they had
ever witnessed. Through several of these
Il IS said. the New Theater was led "a
choose Miss Crawford
number OF selections from Debussy
and Massenet were then woven through
the dramatic texture of the piece 70
oring out still more wildly the symbol
SIN of the authors lines With these as
building point Miss Crawford evolved
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