Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-26
"PoIIy of the Circus"

What an Interesting bit of humanity
for that Is all she is, with her sweet,
childish face and not too long frocks-
Miss Elsie st. Leon Of Polly of the
Circus is.
In this rush "a day world where the
majority of mankind have lost the
spreading glow of content and first
freshness of outlook, it is a good thing
to spend half an hour in such company
with their enthusiastically an inter-
view with Mis- Elsie st. Leon, includes
her mother, Mrs. st. Leon, and Miss
Vera ST. Leon, who make up part of
her real family as well as the stage cir
Gus folk-and spontaneous way of see
ing every thing through sunfilled
glasses, they are as refreshing as a
l., eeze straight from the hills.
For they are really circus people, you
see, Miss Elsie having been born N
China and Miss Vera ST. Leon in
Australia, while several other menu
hers of the family claim different east
ern countries as their birth places. So.
while they have been decidedly in the
world, covering it from one roundness
to the other, they can hardly be said 10
have been of 1t, being such busy peo-
pie, and living within the circle of a
circus city Of several hundred people
only.
And that explains in part, perhaps,
although a wholesome family circle at
mosphere has something to do with 1t,
fancied when looking at the mother.
Already since going into the broader
field, they have been among the spec-
tators at one of the big shows" but 1t
was Miss Vera alone who, with a de-
termined yet embarrassed nodding,
confessed to queer feeling" and an
inclination to be "one of them" and not
an outsider when that band began to
play" Mamma looked obviously at
Miss Elsie and Miss Elsie herself had
not the smallest fraction of a doubt
She will have none of 1t. From a wee
sma' mite. she had played at acting
and hoped for the opportunity which
finally came so unexpected through
the sudden illness Of the leading lady
All the time she was one Of the circus
acts and just because she had satisfied
a passion for acting by spending her
leisure playing the part" she was able
is on the road with high hopes for the
luldIV diiu 6iNht pISSVHt SohtCHl ~
that they are still all together.
For all Miss Elsie has been before the
public eye since she was four years Of
age. her life has been far more shelter
ed than most of ours and 1t seems the
reporters, being mere men. have here
tofore had little conversation with the
real Polly herself the others telling
the tale for her, but today she--so
much to be happy about-chatted and
smiled her Polly smile, only more SO
(there is so much to be happy about all
the time) and looked barely Is in
stead of IS, which she really is. And
at parting Mrs. st. Leon said: ELSIE
was SO glad when she found you were
to be lady, and Miss Elsie herself
said Yes, II is all SO new to me, you
see, and I don't know what to say &C
the men,"
She SO frankly and girlishly loves the
new life and libert.y and Is so inter-
ested I'm her woriS--Miss st. Leon says
they have to make her all fresh again
after her real tears in the second
| act"-that it seems hard to even allow
a Suggestive thought of the possibility
OF her having to go back to the more
combining daily round.
Miss ST. Leon will be seen at the Pin
ney on Dec. 4 and s.