The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

night and the work grated on her nerves. She tried to enjoy herself at night, the theatre and the dancing academy giving her some diversion. with the result that she was late to work in the morning. She began to hate her work and incidenta'i1 reported later and later in the mornings. Ter tardiness was not to be approved by the engagement and she was discharged. As she was notified of her dismissal. the manager gave her this advice Miss Mar lowe. inasmuch you persist in coming late to work every morning and seem to enjoy sleeping when our busiest hours are on and you like to stay up late at night I should advise you to join show company. With the show, you can work at night and sleep the next morning as late as you desire. Miss Marlowe took his advice, and, possessing all the natural attributes of chorus girl. had no trouble in getting a position with the Buster Brown company.
 To the actor ard actress playing the same role over and over again for mum Der of years their work necessarily be- comes mechanical to Q certain exten; They urconsciously get to be dependent upon various pieces of property and any thing wrong with the setting throws them into a panic. But nothing like that ever worries Madame Bernhardt. accord ing to observations made by Boston critic while she was playing Camille in that city On reaching the third act, as she finished the strong emotional scene with Armands pnpa. and made up her mind to write her lover that she was going back to the mines and had no further use for him, she discovered that the property man had failed to provide | the proper pen and when she was ready to send the important letter there was nothing with which to write. Did she 'go up in her lnes?" She did not. She called | her comnanion and in low voice stated the trouble meanwhile keeping up viz orous sobbing. The companion was gone some time, but Serah's sobs did not give out. When the companion did return she had modern fountain pen the only one probably which could be found in the emergency and with this nnachronous | but necessary implement the hiting words were written to Armand Most Of our present day stars would have thrown a 1t or possibly sen. young Duval a wire less
 "The title of DeWolf TIopper's latest play suggests peculiar line of thought to me-, said Mir. Robert ". Priest. ad- vance agent for the "A Matinee ldol' | l at tho Shubert theatre with DeWolf Hop ,>er nu'so Dresser and many other ioca' | eavor'tee in tho cast. This odd line of | t,,c.,~tt is l,-ecd i-non tho fae. that V | ,hcatricnI authorities rlace their denerd- | once for s,icccs~ or failuro i' the fernir- l inc sex. It is strapee b'it tho nredoroi | ra-t number Of women who attend the theatre is marked and this nne~necte'l | feature unexpected to r1oGt mortals. reail, places the fate of American drama in 'the hands that rock tho cradle and rule the world" Lately determined and rvstematic effort to ascertain the per centage of attendance from each sex was made by experts in New York city and i've of the largest and most popular niay houses in the city were checked" The general proportion, of the gentler sex at the night performances was 60 per cent and in this every type of attraction was included Even a farce, designed to appeal more forcibly to men, show per centage of s5 per cent of women. When these figures are considered and 1t is