Evening star., 1911-08-13
ROTwTTHSTAND tnat story
about a hot-air belt encfr-
III cling the globe that made
n even cold-blooded folks per-
s.i-e ard lima ginA thew were


even cold-blooded folks per-
spire and imagine they wer
vsarm last week, the Thermometer tool
AZ decided drop as soon as tne many an
,,,ncements of theater reopendngs 70
the new season were prepared how
ever the weather bureau may stand on
Inauguration day, 1t makes good for
the Washington theaters. In conse-
auence, the patrons OF the Academy
the Casino. the New Lyceum and the
Gayety, all of which are scheduled to
make their new seasons bow tomor-
row. will fnd both weather ana at
fractions to their liking And when
Chase's opens its doors and rings up
its curtain a week later. and the Ma
jestic, with a new policy ana new
company. the week after. their patrons
too, will doubtless find Washington
weather an accommodating factor.
The new theatrical season holds much
of promise If the press agents In New
York are not drawing too strongly
upon their imaginations. All sorts of
dramas, comedies. oriental spectacles,
musical plays and light as well as
heavy operas are to be let loose Tor
the delectation Of the American public.
Each individual star in the theatrical
armament is now provided with the
very attraction he or she has sougnt
since entering the histrionic consteila-
tion-at least that is what the press
agent tells the local managers and the
press. With characteristic modesty
they even sweeten the lemons" with
high-sounding praise and fulsome
hopefulness The public will have to
guess them when they see them, Tor
seeing is believing"
prominent producing firm an
nounces that it is done with stars and
with featuring individual players. JUST
whether this is done to save money or
because the firm has realizing sense o.
he truth of it's statement that 1.-The pubic
doesn't care who plays II IL only the
nlav Is a good one and well played
does not appear The fact remains
however. and its demonstration mas
haan annie and most satisfactory In
the Columbia Players. that the general
public is strongly partial to sooo
stock company in standard plays AT
stock prices. dollar looks twice as
good as two dollars when 1t has TO De
Maid out for theater tickets
TRT-TH STRANGER THAN FICTION
Many years ago. as the years ny,
tvo-year-old child was stolen from the
front porch of his home in ST. Jonnsoury'
VT. one summer afternoon, wniie MS
nurse had gone to the assistance oi his
mother. who was seriously ill. So Ill was
the mother. in fact, that for eight mohths
she knew nothing of what went on eVel
in the little world around her. Inc M
child's father had just myster1ousiy ols
anneared leaving no trace behind. There
were two other children, girls, one "
whom died shortly afterward and "hlie
the mother was not yet herseH,
trapper from the mountains on tne
borderland of Canada, seeing the chil.
alone on the porch. quietly kianapen MN
and took him, to his mountain ipne
where the boy was brought up In neglec
and poverty until ne was eight ny years rotbe, I,
tongue. Yep and nope" formed tn.
largest part of his vocabulary he USE USE
10 sleep in a garret OF log mouse, viii
cracks in the ceiling SO VIDE ns,eu ne Go1,. or
cold winter nights he used to sweep TN
snow from the old coveriet Deiore IN
could go to bed.
When the mother opened ner eyes v any
knew things again the first thing tne3
told her was that her husband mad ois.
anneared. one of her daughters had died
and her baby boy had been KIDNAPPED Snt
survived the shock. but lett st. johns
bury and went to live at Chicopee Faiis
After six years of weary waiting. watcn-
sng for her absent husband and searcnlns
Tor her lost baby, she met old Sheri,A 20
bier of West Concord, va. she toio mn
her sad story and he set out to ma th'
child
: Just how he located him even the boy
uever knew. But he still remembers nov
the old man crept up to the parn Wher'
he was working and asked MIN II TN
man he lived with was his father. y ep.
replied the boy, who did not remenpel
any other His own was never heard o
afterward.
After some persuasion the old sher
IN got the boy to keep quiet unit
the "day after tomorrow" when he would
come and take him for ride to ge
his picture taken
The very next day the trapper told thu
boy he was to go with him some miles III
in the woods, where there would be Worl
for him for a day or two. But the DO
hid in the barn until after he had gone
He went even without food and waite
until the day following, when the .ol'
sheriff appeared.
Telling the boy to walk down the noun
tain road some distance and get into tn
buggy he would find there, the old sher
IN went to the house on the pretense o
wanting to trade for horse. Later n
Joined the boy. and through a heavy
cold rainstorm they drove in the bugg.
for days and nights until they came u
Thayer's Hotel. at Littleton. n II
midnight the third day after. There the,
found the almost heartbroken mother
II was a sad reunion, however.
For three or four days the poor mothe
had to use all sorts of persuasion AM
keep the closest watch to prevent tn
boy from stealing away and 'goin' bac
to hum" She had not seen him for NOR
than six years. but his identity was es
tablished beyond question. After tha
for long time she used to tie the en-
of rope around his arm and the Othe
end around hers, and she warned him Z
fly at once TO her IL he saw any one ap
proach the house. no matter who II Nigh
be. Many we're the chases he had to es
cape the grocers boy, the mail carrie
and even the village minister. 1t wa
not until he was past nine years OF ag
that she consented TO let him even go I
school. But, once there, he advance
rapidly. and was graduated at the hig
school when he was fifteen years old.
Years after, while working in a Bosto
hotel, where the hours were long an
the work tiresome. he made up his min
TO strike out into a new field. There wa
a stock company playing nearby. He ar
piled for "a job" and got a small par
assistant stage director. Then he wen
10 Proctor's Fifth Avenue Stock Com
pany, then to the Murray Hill Stool
then the West End Theater, New YOrl
then for three years in "Du Barry wit
Mrs. Leslie Carter. and that was in 19Ol
1892 and 1908.
He is now one of the most talented
conscientious and popular of the Colun
bia Players His name is Stanley Jane:
and this is a true story
THE NEW ART ExTOLLED.-It 1