The evening world., 1911-02-13
IN AND OUT
OF THE
THEATRES
BY

TT you're thinking of sending Miss
Elsie Janis a valentine you might
. begin with When you are twenty
one" and work out a verse that would
have more truth than poetry In II. II
YOU happen to be only a volunteer poet.
For. you may take her word for It,
she'll be twenty-one next month. %ow,
youth. especially when It is combined
with success. is likely to be frank.
II don't deserve any credit for my
limitations said Miss Janis. in a sud
den burst of confidence. II just do
them-I don't know how I do them.
" 60: to like the person I initiate
admire the person as an artist / mean
that's ALL The rest is cas-. Win
me 1t has been a case OF gool luck.
Perhaps I should say good manage
ment, for my mother has done every.
thing for me. No young girl can hope
TO succeed on the stage without n good
personal manager to put her on her
feet. In the first place she doesn't
know her " value. and secondly size
couldn't convince a theatrical n
OF her worth even II she did realize l..
Why. / saw a girl in a restaurant the
III bsANl kANf III lAllttAAA|u vi IHlttft
Barrymore that was ten times better
thar mine! 1t was wonderful, But I
could see that the girl didn't realize
how wonderful she was. She was sim
ply doing her turn and earning a few
dollars, when, with the right Kind OF
manager, she might be getting hum
dreds. / have a little cousin who is so
clever that she makes me ashamed o:
myself. But she lives in Topeka, I'M
Topcka's a long way from New York.
II seems so far to her hat she's afraid
10 take the jump. You've got TO he
sure OF yourself. or, better still. have
some ore behind You wao is sure Of
YOU. Look a; me! I'm IN musical COM
edy, but | can't sing. | can dance
a~ud-'Ncil. you nov tho rest I'm
not consumed with ambition, bgt some
day l hope 20 do the sort II comedy
Marie Tempest does - Wei Most
actors ycara 70 make an audience
cry, and to my mind this ought TO be
easy enough to do, for the average
American audience comes to n serious
play fairly primed to cry. But | don't
want the public to shed any tears on
my account
SIDE from adding to the spcctac-
~ ular side OF The Blue Bird"
those two new scenes, 9TH Pa
lace OF the Luxuries' and 1.-THE Land Of
the Happiness" help to make the
meaning of Mae:erlinck's play clearer
than II was before. incidentally, The
LUXURY OF Being Rich, not to mention
other Luxuries (when you wish to he
symbolic chuck In a few capitalist,
ought to be appreciated in Luxurious
Manhattan. Bat the Happiucsscs are
best. The Happiness OF Being Wen falls
10 Miss olive Wyndham. though the
other young ladies look very well in
deed, IN spite OF the danger they run
OF catching cold. a..
A huge audience fairly devoured The
Blue Bird at the Now Theatre on
Saturday afternoon. The performance
has gained much in smoothnoss, beauty
and humor since the original produc-
ton. William McVay now makes Bread
good enough to eat. lie couldn't be
better II he had been born In an oven.
Miss Edith Wynne Matthison's Light
IS clear. though not particularly
radiant, and Night takes on "A new
majesty In the commanding figure and
fine Glrtiou Of Miss TAa.s Lawton.
Mytyl is now played by little Claribcl
Campbell, a thoroughly human ana
delightfully."- amusing kidlic, That old
Dog, jacob Wendell Jr., has learned
new tricks, whine the Cat of Cecil
fapp is more than up to the scratch.
Tight OF the children taking she
parts o. chicks, pigeons, baHtams
and youpg geese in 'Chantccler''
have organized the Stage Children's
Mutual Protective Association" 1t IS the
first protective society ever 10 have
oeen formed by children in the country,
and its object is TO protest aglifst the
laws in Massachusetts, Louisiana and