Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-25

MISS LEVEL, A JOURNALISTIC
Izetta Jewel OF the Poll Players, snouio
ever decide that playing two perform
ancss a day is too great a tax on her
nerves she can apply to Manager Ihatch-
or and secure the name OF the Washlns-
ton representative OF a wornan's maya
zine who made her a tentative offer OF
n contributing editorship a la DR.. Whey,
last week,
Miss Jewel has not heard of the offer
yet. Her first Information or the com
pliment which has been paid her Will De
conveyed by today's Star.
The Washington representative or the
magazine referred to was in the audience
last Wednesday night. Between acts ne
glanced through the program and nit
upon the little column signed izetta
Jewel" and purporting to be an inter-
view with Miss Bondhill The writer
read the column, then reread IT. At the
end OF the performance he went 10 Man
ager Thatcher's office and asked:
Would you object to giving me the
name of your press agent?
..Why. what's the trouble?" was
Thatcher's uneasy reply. HAS ne maze
any false statements?
Not at all" was the reassurtng re-
ioinder. only / have just read col
umn in your program signed Izetta
Jewel and the style Is so free and easy.
SO natural and intimate, that II occurred
10 me I could give the man who wrote
ii some assignments OF special articles
for my magazine. It's the hardest thing
in the world nowadays to md a person
who has justified. INFORMAL style.
Your press agent, peneVe' Is the man
/ want" -
But don't you know, sir. that Miss
Jewel Is not a press agent! she. IS the
leading woman of our company, replied
Thatcher III establishment.
"Oh. / know all that, my dear man.
am not asking you to ask Miss Jewel TO
write anything. / never knew but one
actress in my life who could write gram
matically, much less entertalninSiy.
What / want is the trained writer who
is responsible for the Jewel column In
your program"
wen, I'll" gasped Thatcher. But
tell YOU. Here. I'll give you the proof
that Miss Jewel does write that column.
Here is her copy for next weeks pro-
gram. which she handed in today And
Thatcher passed over the four sheets OF
boudoir note paper, covered with feminine
handwriting, telling OF an adventure
in Rock Creek Park.
The magazine correspondent. astounded
that he should have been deceived by
perfect 'tyro'' in the Journalistic held,
asked the Poll manager to convey his
compliments to Miss Jewel and assure
her that should she ever desire to leave
the stage he could make her pathway In
journalism easy.
STILL TINE FOR MATCHMAKING
.The Wardrobe Woman" Edgar Allan
Woolfs one-act play, in which Zelda
Sears appears at Chase's this week, is
said TO shed some amusing sidelights
on life as il is lived behind the scenes
in a one-night theatrical COM
pany.
The heroine is Sally Spruce, whose
mission in life is attending to the
wardrobe of The Sinners of New
York" an attraction touring the small
towns with Indifferent success. She is
deeply enamored of the property man
of the attrac tion. and out of the good
ness of her heart performs most of his
duties Al well as her own multifarious
ones She operates the thunder and
lightning for the storm scene; with
pair Of cocoanut shells she produces
the sound of galloping hoofs when the
leading man is required to dash up
on horseback: she fires the pistol OF
stage when the heavy man is supposed
TO shoot himself: she provides the
screams and crashes when the villain
throws the heroine down a flight of
stairs and she finally caps the climax
of her usefulness by hastily DOMINIC
infantile attire and playing child's
part when the Gerry Society arrests
the child actress who usually graces
the cast of THE Sinners of New ork
There is interviewer with the comedy
n tender little love story between the
ingenue and the Juvenile man of the
transforming aggregation. and the
wardrobe woman finds time to bring
this love affair to happy termina-
ton.