The Washington times., 1911-09-21
Everybody Interested
In Her Coming.

Gaby might have stayed in Europe,
with her pearls and her golden bed and
her perfumed baths forever, and no.
| body would have been very much ex-
cited, but the very minute that the
cable flashed news to the waiting
world that Gaby was on her way across
the Atlantic, bound for our shores-not
quite sure where she was going, but
on her way-everybody woke I'D. The
| editors and the reporters and the sob
sisters got on the Job at once. People
who had never been nearer the steam
ship docks than Forty-second street be-
finding out Just what day and hour the
ship that was bringing the des Lys
person across the ocean was expected
| to arrive.
Those who had allowed their accent
to grow rusty, hunted out their
gan to brush up. and the day Of Gaby's s
arrival was a day that will go down
in history, along with the day of the
big wind" and that other sad, sad day,
when one James Jeffries failed to come
back
Gaby, comfortably ensconced in a
gilded suite In New York hostelry@a
suite for which somebody is paying so
many good dollars day that It would
take your breath away-is resting up."
When she has thoroughly rested she
will begin her engagement at the Win
ter Garden. in New York.
Here Is a sample of the way Gaby
rests: At II o'clock F1hne, her maid.
brings to her bedside her cup OF choco-
late and one-just one-wee little roll.
At Q o'clock, reader dear, she has her
dejeuneur (Which Is French for break
fast), hours after you and and every
toast, swallowed them, and have gone
on about our business Of washing dishes
or writing pieces for the paper, or meas
uring Oft yards of ribbon or whatever
else we do to kill time from days be-
ginning TO days end.
She Iuncheons somewhere between Q
o'clock and the time the electric lights
begin to twinkle along the Boul de
Avenue Cinque, and then, Just about the
time we are putting the milk bottles out
the house, Gaby of the Lilies dimes.
Yes, that name, Gaby of the Lilies
fits her like the skirt Of the summer
girl fits, for Gaby like the lilies whose
Iame she has taken soI tolls not, IN heitne5 me,
know the rest of It.
Gaby declares che has no bad habits,
and IL she says so. surely nobody uares
deny the truth OF her statement. Sne
doesn't smoke the cigarette OF Egypt.
payne fer something pretty. Her only
vices. 90 she affirms herself, are love
for pearls and her slave. like devotion
to money.
Curious, isn't It, how these two vices
SO often travel hand-in-hand?
Gaby peslys Is a/product of the time
In which she lives. IL her history Is
ever written she will be described as
one Of the curiosities of the stage. Peo-
pie Of coming generation will smile
tndulgently when they see recorded the
fact that we took this person seriously,
so seriously that we spent good solid
Enthusiastically paid money to see her
'act." wriggle, strut, sing songs, or
whatever the Deslys does for the l$l.0Oo
a performance It is reported she Is 20 re-
ceive-than try to convince ourselves tnat
she had any claim to distinction as an
actress. Evidently her managers hold
to the belief that we like the French
accent and the French manner. Time
will tell whether they are justified In
their opinion. JULIA MURDOCH.