Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13


take it from that the last of the trio entails some
work! Which brings to Totte Dimpletoes, the
known article that is to be ACCENTED to fame
stabeful of moorcars, and interviews Ibsen Mrs
PankhurSt, and the ultimate trend of the clingng skirt
IN the top rng of the musical comedy ladder there
~ is today young lady who deserves every bit of
her success but would not have enjoyed it nearly
soon if set of curiously fortunate circumstances had
not happened at the opportune moment. Six years ago
she landed in New York, stranger, with hundred
dollars unframed ability and the desire become
actress Her money, with the exception of dol
lars, was gone before she got job and she finally
started at twenty dollars week Pure accident lifted
her out of the chorus and after year of starvation she
appeared in Broadway chorus a small part for which
she received sixty dollars a week
One hot summer night five drlfted in to bit
of the performance. None of them knew the girl and
had other than casual interest in her little song
and dance. They stood in the of the house while
she chrped the lyric and, gracefully swinging her
bonnet hand and dinner pail in the other.
danced the refrain. Then they appauded boiserousiy
while she took three e. cores In cafe next door
of the party the dramatic editor of a metropolitan
daily amused to hear his friends alude the girl
by her first The next night, quite by accident,
the quintet happened in the theater the
same time when the girl in question did her modest
stunt Again they applauded This time she got four
On the following day the dramatic editor
printed story about combination of journalistic per-
which drawn each night to well known thea
ter-there to watch, to admire, to applaud pretty
girl whom they spoke of in of brotherly affection,
but who personally unknown to ALL The little article
Cemented organization that otherwise might have
died before it was born
They investigated, and found out that she was des-
perately poor, that she better than most stage
believed to be, that she sickly, and that
she had not only ambition but brains They decided
to make the fictitious club reality, and did
By of publicity showered the little dancer
through the columns of New York papers, her salary
jumped to seventy-fve dollars, then to hundred
dollars then to hundred and twenty-five dollars,
pushing comrades met the young lady They gave her
a supper Martins, and the gastronomc orgy the
occasion for presenting to her complete costume
Tenderloin reporter purchased the slippers. The
star man "The Sun procured the silk stockings. A
celebrated war correspondent furnished hat that al
most matched the cobweb hosiery; and professional
humorst pooled his available exchequer with the entire
savings of the dramatic editor, and the total just
enough to buy flmy dancing dress. Then she
taken very i'll. The hospital bills paid by the five
devoted servants who kept writing her praises while
she sick and commissioning
By the time she was well enough to play again the
whole town knew of her, and her salary had jumped
one hundred and fifty dollars. In the fall she obtained
engagement at two hundred and fifty dollars week.
and for the last two yearsyears, not seasons-her
velop has been fat enough to permit her saving five
hundred dollars each and every week. better
ample of atrStlc preSSwOrk will be hard to find. 1t
resulted in the quickest and biggest recorded
recent American theatrcals and accomplished in
spite of rather than account of the girls managers
MILE. DAZIE toe dancer who has risen to fame
A'A and big salary during the last seven years
"made" by quick and efficient presswork. Mark
Luescher and Louis Werba, both youngsters full of vim
and daring rented the roof of the New York Theaer
for the summer of 1905. One "K & E." press
agent; the other occupied the insignificant position of
house manager. They arranged show that was mix
ture of vaudeville and musical comedy, engaged Miss
Elsie Janis and Harry Buger as principal players, and
then started to dig up sensation something that
would make blase public sit up and take notice.
thing that would excite curiosity and keep folk guess
ing
One morning the cable columns of the nations
papers chroncled the doings of mysterious masked
woman in London. She had just arrived from Paris