Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

womans position is advancing. You
really must keep up with the times. why,
girls will be riding on the tops OF omnl-
buses some day" r
Rose protesting)-Gertrude!
Mrs Rhead Cheartily)-I hope 1 -shant
live to see 1t.
Enter Thompson, the butler.
Gertrude-Is the hot-water apparatus
working properly, Thompson?
Observation-Disclosures, miss. -
Rose-What is the hot-water appara-
tus?
Gertrude-It's for the bathroom, you
know.
Rose-Yes, 1 knew you'd got a bath
room. but / don't understand.
Gertrude-It's quite simple. We nave
a boiler behind the kitchen range and
pipes carry the hot water up to the bath.
There's one tap for the hot and another
for cold. i.
Rose-How wonderful!
Gertrude-So when you want hot bath
all you have to do
Mrs Rhead (dryly)-All we have to do
is to tell the cook to put down Shout
der of mutton to roast Very modern
!, Oh, yes. the Rheads were up-to-date
people in 1860 and John Rhead loses his
partner and Gertrude Rhead her sweet
heart because John will persist in beileV-
ing that ships of iron could float.
The authors. Arnold Bennett and Ed
ward Knoblauch, carry the fortunes OF
three generations. The same sitting room
changes with the years and its inhabit-
ants. Candles give way first to gas ana
l. then to electricity. hoopskirts to basques
and then to the hobble skirt. Even speech
and manners change. But always the old
folks are there. conservative and 1ear-
full of change, and the newer generation
impatient of "old fogyism.'
STAR OF THE FILMS.-Just as James
X Hackett is about to return for few
days to his old manager. Daniel Frohman,
and take a Christmas holiday jaunt into
the movies" the queen of the film plays,
1.-The Maude Adams of the movies " as
she is known all over the country in every
hamlet. city and water tank which boasts
of moving picture show, is retiring from
the movies for good and all and going
to the legitimate stage.
All the year round from the time she
! was sixteen (an.d she isn't twenty-one
YETI little Miss Mary Pici1ford has been
in her way the movies" Nine. Bern
,, hardt A salary of $500 has always been
at her command. Miss Pickford's actual
stage experience has been very Slight-in
fact nearly all of it has been cleaned
as Juliet. the blind girl heroine of David
Belasco's production of "a Good Little
Devil Last year, while producing a new
play on the road Mr.. Belasco stopped to
see d IiON HS picture play III Which -htSS
Pickford was the photo star That settled
it. Within a very short time he had her
under contract.
RELATIVES AND RELIGION.-Graham
Moffat has come into American prom-
hence as the author of "Bunty Pulls the
| String" and 1.-The Concealed Bed" Mr.
Moffat's career embraces a long period
| of actor-author management. His asso-
fatn Ind h.
Moffat family, the London company of
'Bunty Pulls the Strings" alone including
| six near relatives. among them the au-
| thor's wife and three brothers.
An unusual coincidence involving Mr..
| Moffat's various organizations is the
! number of his players who have studied
| for the pulpit. In the original company
| of 'Bunty Pulls the Strings" there are
| three actors whose brothers are of the
cloth, and who themselves have attended
| theological institutes. Stuart Black, who
| Is playing one of the principal roles in
THE Concealed Bed is brother of a
Presbyterian clergyman. and was himself
about to embark upon a similar career
when he felt the call of Thespis
Despite the strict Scottish view of
things terrestrial and things theatrical, il
seems the link connecting the pulpit and
the stage is far more strongly forged
than in this country.
THE RISE OF A STAR-Norman
Hackett made a reputation for himself
In Shakespearean roles as leading sup
port to +. III. Sothern, Julia Marlowe
Louis James, Nine. Modjeska, Kathryn
Kidder. Robert Mantell and other great
artists with whom he has often appeared
here.
Several years ago he became star in
his own right in Classmates" West
Point pay. Mr.. Hackett's success in this
piece was sufficient to carry him through
two seasons, and accorded him the honor
of an invitation to present ii at the IA
nous Greek theater of the University of
California where Maude Adams and
Sarah Bernhardt gave their memorable
performances of las You Like IT. and