The Washington herald., 1912-08-25
TRIUMPHANT CLIMAX OF WOMANSs WORK
Miss II. Winnifred Dewitt
Has Stood Shoulder to
Shoulder with Mr.. p. B.
Chase Through the Epo.
luton of His Dearest
Ambitions.
BY JULIA CHANDLER MANI.

= By JULIA CHANDLER MANI.
II you were one of the hundreds Of folk
who almost daily dropped into the main
lobby Of Chase's palatial theater for
two weeks prior to its sensational OPEN
ing you perhaps saw a. young woman
deeply absorbed In multiplicity
of details attending the completion of
the wonderful playhouse.
Or II. perchance. 1t so happened that
she was not giving her attention to
some detail in the lobby when you hap
pened by, you may be sure that she was
in some other section OF the house d.
decting dozens of employees who depend
upon her guidance.
Always in white, with a soft touch of
blue. distinctly feminine. even In her
busiest and most serious moments, Miss
II. Winnifred De Witt, the young woman
who has stood shoulder to shoulder with
Mr.. p. B. Chase through the evolution of
his dearest ambitions. is, first of all, a
direct refutation of the oft-heard asser-
ton that woman who achieves any real
business success does so at the sacrifice
of those womanly qualities which inspire
songs, direct the pens of poets, and gain
the honor and love OF man.
Miss De Witt has obtained the highest
business success and has lost nothing of
her womanliness. The fact is her very
femininity has been a party to her sue
cess, furnishing that element of COM
modious comfort, imbued with the some
spirit which won renown for the former
Chase's even as II is calculated to do for
the new home of polite vaudeville.
Mr.. Chase's Man Friday.
Add to her homemaking instinct her
positive genius for organization and dis
cipline and we strike the secret Of Mr..
Chase's motive in offering the manage
ment of his vaudeville house to Miss De
Witt while Washington was still shaking
its head in doubt of the wisdom Of the
Ohioan who had taken the old Albaugh
Grand Opera House in Pennsylvania
house.
But the public did not have long TO
wait for the transformation, for Miss
De Witt gave her personality to the thea
ter. embeilishing and identifying II in
thousand different ways, and ever since
those years when polite vaudeville in
Washington was an innovation she has
been Mr.. Chase's Man Friday"
All summer. while the woman who may
now be reading this has been frollickins.
Miss De Witt has been in New York
reviewing material and booking acts as
far into the season as possible
Last April Mr.. Chase's New York rep
resentative was taken II. It Is his bust
ness to see all vaudeville acts playing
in that city, and all new material as well,
and to send a review of each act. time
open. price, &c, to Mr.. Chase or Miss
De Witt. The act is then considered
from the angle Of the patrons of Chase's
Theater. and instructions are given the
New York agent accordingly.
Booked Acts All Summer.
1t was to take his place that Miss De
Witt went to New York shortly after the
closing of the doors of the Avenue House
to polite vaudeville, and she spent the
entire summer there booking the attrac-
tons which you and / will see this sea
son on the wonderful stage of the equal
~ wonderful new theater.
Having heard so many express an In
terest. from time to time. in Just how
vaudeville acts are obtained for certain
weeks, l asked the question OF Miss DE
Witt when she was telling me Of some
Of the promised offerings.
The managers of vaudeville houses
from Chicago to New York held meet
ings two or three times week through
out the entire summer for the purpose
Of booking" she told me, going on TO
explain that a very clear description was
read of each act, and the salaries de-