Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03

gagement in the Quaker city. accompanied
by her small company, she boarded q late
train for New York.
Miss Diamond occupied q chair In the
parlor car. Being thoroughly exhausted,
she no sooner dropped into the chair than
she fell asleep. and few moments later
pleasant-faced woman of middle age
entered the car and deposited herself IN
the next seat. When the conductor. conn
ing through for fares. reached the woman
she handed him her ticket. He looked at
| it a moment, then at Miss DArmond.
You'll have to hand over another ticket" "
he said.
|. II am only going to New York" re-
turned the woman. land just gave you
my fare
II know you did, he answered, "but
where's the other?"
She seemed to take in the situation at
glance, and, possessing sense OF humor.
smiled broad smile.
Come, now argued the conductor.
| ''That kid is more than five. Don't you
pay her fare when you travel?"
The woman assured him she did not.
well them" he returned. there's where
you begin. Isn't she over Ave."
II don't know" answered the woman,
| land, furthermore, don't care"
well, il she isn't" he observed, she's
certainly big for her age. suppose when
she's seven she can take in washing.
Then he reached over and tapped Miss
Diamond on the shoulder. She awoke
with start and reached for her ticket.
"The other members of my company
are in the smoker" she informed him,
with her sweetest smile, and after he had
passed on she spent the remainder Of her
trip wondering why the other passengers
kept looking at her and giggiing.
AMERICAN SINGERS.-''what be-
comes of all the vocal pupils?' Reginald
de Koven asks the question and answers
1t in this manner:
Throughout the cities Of America are
thousands Of teachers Of singing who
have still more thousands Of pupils. Few
of the latter ever achieve anything be-
yond a place In the home church choir.
OF those who go abroad, not much more
in accomplishment is possible. 1t is only
the exceptional voice or the exceptional
Temperament that wins place in any of
the big opera houses Of the world. italian
or French or German men and women
find places in the numerous small opera
houses of their respective countries. But
at present there is no such possibility
for Americans. With the demand fo-
music which Oscar Hammerstein showed
was inherent in America and the develop
ment Of comic opera by American COM
posers, opera houses are sure to be blu 1t
everywhere, and in these the America n
young women and men with voices will
find places and fill them wor.hily.
eff you should hear singer. say at
I0c bTO6QWdy lHedtcf, WHO pledS6u yOu
and you should persuade Mr. Gatti to
give her hearing at the Metropolitan
Opera House. and you find that she could
not be heard there, would you want her
debarred from singing at the Broadway?
"Of course, you wouldn't! Carusos and
Destinns are very rare birds indeed; but
there are singers aplenty with the ability
and the mission to charm in smaller au-
ditoriums than the Carusos and the Des-
tinns ILL.,
EDDIE FOY AS AN ACTOR.-Admirers
of Eddie Foy will probably be a bit sur
prised when they see him this week at
the Columbia in the leading role of his
newest musical comedy. lover the River
For Eddie Foy, the clown. has disap-
peared. and Eddie Foy, the actor, has
taken his place.
Mr. Foy's earliest successes in the ex-
travagant roles of the David Henderson
burlesques were based on the fact that