The evening world., 1911-04-12
IN AND OUT
OF THE
THEATRES
EY CHARLES


ATH HE other day, In Paris" writes
ARNOLD Bonnet. the English
novelist. ~ SIT by the bed
Gcs OF Q suffering but stil! laxative
and very beautiful Amt riosn actress,
ara from her conversation I learned. to
my astoiishrent ana delight. tina. All.
thors are much moro important people
IN Now York h they are In London.
As a supreme proof Of this she told mo
that when the late Clyde Fitch drove
ous In New York II was Like q royal
progress. 80 much SO. tia. one day,
perce!ving Frohnan In the distance and
desiring to have speech with him, C.yao
Fitch whlstled. and-sa,d tho actress
In q tone OF aNe-F rol.nan actually
came"
ANH II. we'll, II! buy It myself for
SJ5o,' concluded George NJ.
Conan, pocketing the pro-
rahm signed by the stars who ap-
psarsd a. the benefit performance In aid
or the Washington place fire sufferers.
given at the Metropolitan Opera Houss
Yesterday afternoon. 1t was one OF tho
most generous acts on the big, splen-
did bill. and went TO show the SORT Of
onndenc Mr.. Conan had In himself as
an a~uetionser. Programmes sold In the
lobby brought $500 more. and the total
receipts were something like 5000.
r LILLIAN RUSSELL ought to know
what she Ii talking about in TIT
First Night" produced in Chicag,
last night. II II may be viewed In the
light OF her own radiant career as a
hrst-nighter. The play ia a comedy
adapted from the German by George ".
Hobart. Digby Bell u the principal
comedian.
TN wnliam c. De Miles new play.
The Woman" Miss Helen Ware
. will have the role OF q telephone
girl who explains the theme OF the play
IN this name
zone OF the big central telephone sta
tons Is he ~world-ali boiled down and
spread out on the sw!tchboard-and right
there on that board thousands and
thousands Of people are meeting. their
thoughts are crossing each other-and
the Hello Girl IL perched on the top o.
a high mountain. looking at them.
That's the real world-what people are
t~hinking-and IT'S all or the board, good
and bad. winners and losers. rich and
poor. all mixed up together. all going
on at once. And the operator Is a sor,
of Fate who secs that the right peopl,
get each other. and-like Fate-she has
TO let them work out their own affairs
though she could often save a lot o,
rnttl ( p aha nNfxal in fall sEFyy ~
hard not 10 interfere sometimes when
you've got the whole world under your
two hands."
H@"RIOUSLY enough remarked
Mss Nance O'Neil. the two
most 6rametic moments OF my
he occurred IN San Francisco. The frs,
was when / FIRST saw the curtain COINS
NJ. from the stage. / sat on the stage,
In the costume OF n nun my knees
pressed against each other; and ! re-
member thinking that one OF them Eel,
Ike ice and the othcr felt still colder,
II | could have run away ! would havc
gone out that door and never looked d;
a s;asc door again. But the curta n
went on rolling UP ard up. / knew
the nun must not watch the curtain
and I looked away from It n out at n
mass Of chalky white faces. That mass
was the audience and | must SPEAK Il
II. Could my poor tongu utter a Line
l didn't believe It would. l tried. The
sound of my voice doubled my fright
THE next occurred nearly ten years
later. / had retired early the night be-
fore and had slept heavily, the sense