Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-01-26

Three OF Maude Adams homes. each
marking q stage In the personal m dra-
matte development Of that most popular
American actress, I have successfully Wis
tied n each has registered It's distinct
and different impression OF her growth.
The first was q wee brown suite which
those nearest her. ~affect.onately named
"The Rookery." 1t was the Nest she oc-
cupied at the stage OF her arrival in
New York. From 1t she came forth to
delight the metropolis with her %piQuant,
winsome Lady Babbie.
The second. a steadily growing farm at
Ronkonkoma, Long Island, was her Re-
ward. 1t vas the success of 1.-THE Little
Minister" c~rystalized into real estate.
Lady Babbie walked there amidst the tam
gible evidence of her success.
The third was her Comfort House. a
New York brownstone front for which she
longs nightly during al exhausting sea-
son OF travel. Her purchase Of 1t COIN
Street" The Jesters.'' peter Pan and
What Every Woman Knows"
1.-THE Rookery."
It happened that the fortunes, or mis-
fortunes, OF the seeker for a homo in New
York led me to take up abode in a brown
stone house opposite the Lambs. The
Lambs were noisy neighbors. given to
song from midnight until dawn or past.
In the summer. when windows were per-
force open to their fullest capacity. De
Wolf Hopper's big tremolo shook itself
into our easements and beyond. 1rritated
sleepers turned p%etulantly over In bed and
grumbled, DE Wolf Hopper's put Casey
at the bat again. invoked their patience
and tried once more to fall into slumber
Much was forgiven to the jewelers., be-
cause they we're Lambs. and Lambs In
New YOrk's Bohemia can do nc wrong.
The house was on ~Th.rty-sixth street half
way between intensely aristocratic Fifth
avenue. on tho left. n intensely demo-
cratic Sixth avenue, on the right. 1t was
Q three-stOry house approached by a
broad flight of steps. Its mistress was u
dressmaker and in the rather damp base
ment a dozen young women worked by
electric lights. The first floor was occu-
pied by the dressmaker n her family.
the second and third floors were let to
Ethel Barrymore, John Orew's other
Georgia Mendum. Ida Conquest, and
other actresses who found temporary
0 and the services of a dressmaker
under the same roof. On the top tioor
dwelt Miss Adams, with her secretary and
her maid. Sometimes her mother. Mrs.
Annie Adams. paid her a visit. The nest
q small one and usually crowded, for
1t had but o rooms.
Lady eabbie In Her Nest.
Miss Adams chose this high nest be-
cause she likes and needs scholastic 81
lence. Whatever Or wherever her me-
mage. she maintains an intense quiet, by
herself setting the example OF soft-footed-
ness and low-voicedness.
The stairs STONED short. after the minia-
Ounta climb. before the door. Of
her b~edchamber. 1t was q small. square
room at the rear Of the house. Its one
large window opened upon a yard as bar
rem Of aught except clothes lines and
empty tin ans as the average New York
lurntshed-rOOm house. Between her and
b sound-infatuated Lambs was q room
was library and. when she required
It. dining room. In this room she studied
Ind within call was her secretary, who
occupied h small room at the right OF
The library. where the door was always
A5ar; and she could be summoned by a
rtee OF note In the voice OF her
Dtudious young employer.
Once running up from my room beneath
return q book I found the relations of
the two reversed. Miss Adams was serv-
lng. Her secretary was being ministered
unto. for that young mi lay upon q
couch before the open fire and the young
Actress .was bathing her employees aching
head With pungcnt hartshorn. Time was
whom these relations were more frequent
" reversed. Finally. Miss Lillian Flor
the intelligent young English woman
Of an old theatrical family. had to be left
behind when Maud Adams set out on
9 The fatal illness that had crept
her being. demanded it, own. She
In the acrtessss home.
This eyrie had three attributes to be
found Ia all Maude Adams homes. They
Ware dull. quiet colors. bookseller homes
0r0ftelW0yo roWde with them-and an