The Washington herald., 1911-05-21
Mr.. Chase Takes His Vacation.

Like a good mariner. Miss II. Winnifred
De Witt, the manager of Chase's, will
be the last of the executive staff of the
theater to leave the city for the three
months summer vacation.
Mr.. Chase as soon as possible goes to
Ohio, where. on his great model farm. he
will pitch in as a sort Of man Of all work.
He has a farm several hundred acres
in size, called Beverley" within a few
miles of both Sparta and Mount Vernon.
Ohio. 1t has been in the Chase family
for generations, and each successive
owner has added to its size and beauty.
until now it ranks as one of the largest
and finest in the State. Experts in agri-
culture, good roads, &C. make pilgrim
ages from all over the State to see how
Mr.. Chase conducts his various opera
tions.
One Of his hobbies is the planting of
nut trees. and he has thousands of them.
He is also a big apple grower. But his
all around his place and running down
to the village of Sparta. He can rattle
off statistics as to road grading, road
bedding, road crowning. and other lore
of the kings highway with as much
ease as one of the experts in the good
roads bureau under Secretary Wilson.
over in the Mall. This road Is the finest
stretch to be found in the State. AL
though only three or four miles long, it
1t recognized as a triumph in the science
OF road making. One Of those 30-foot.
high-crowned. deep-guttered. substantial
stretches which make an automobilist
bless the man who made it and all the
country around about as he whizzes over
its CLASSY surface.
But Manager De Witt must remain in
town until about the first week in June,
when she goes with her sister and BROTH
er to Europe for the remainder OF the
time before Chase's reopens, August Il.
Before that time she will spend hours
every day with Chase's chief of stage
and scenic craft, George T. Thompson,
going over the new decorative plans
which she has devised for the beautifica-
ton of the theater this summer. That
is a detail that is never overlooked. Each
summer Chase's makes a fresh toilette
for the following season. with as much
care az a reigning beauty gives to her
toilette for a White House dinner. This
wear much will be done to retuvenate
and reyiyify the theater, and Miss De
Witt and Mr. Thompson hope to evolve
the prettiest and most appropriate color
scheme in years. Especial attention will
be given the great entrance arcn, the
walls and ceiling Of the great lobby. the
ceilings of the balconies, the towering
arch, and the cupolas and
fronts of boxes. These are tire conspicu-
Gus features Of the theater's structure,
and they are given great care and
thought.
After Miss De Witt goes Mr.. Thomp-
con will have several typewriter sheets
crowded with notes and memoranda. and
he and his large force of carpenters.
painters, decorators. &c. will not have
to lose up to the week before
tba new season begins. On Monday.
August Il next, when the box-ofhce sale
beeins. there will be nothing more to be
done. except to keep the dust from set
ling on the seats before the curtain rings
IN on Monday matinee. August q.
while Miss De Witt II in Europe she
viii attend every music hall"and vaude-
vile theater along the line OF her ex-
tensive itinerary. and her reports on acts
already engaged and on others In process
81 ncxotiation and on stu others Just
men winning suScepD will have much to
10 with the amusansnt value Of next
Boason,s bills