Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-28

the motley crowd on the pier. every
pair of lips is parted in smile. There
are no sulen faces to be seen. There are
no glowering gentry of the strong arm
and no sniveIers whine Is seldom
heard. They go about their bus ness
4 cheerfully. Perhaps the difference is due
to that very fact-that the oriental beg
gar is not one who has seen better
/ days or who is temporarily down and
out but is. instead. a highly trained
+. professional man, who is by no means
ashamed of his calling.
4 1t is this sort of beggar that MI
+! Knobauch has drawn and that MI SKIN
nee has made TO live in the character Oh
/ Hail. He is man of humor; OF QUICK
Wit. of pride, and he has standing In the
! community His father before him sat on
T the same stone seat at the door OF the
/ Mosque OF the Carpenters, and HaJl SIS
I there as upon hereditary throne. he Is
/ a tue type a playtning of fate, am
4 having no responsibility, save In his dutS
I tova.d Allah and Mohamet. MS propne.
I he can well afford to smile over what
! soever fortune befalls him LOT Allan Il
I kind TO the begSars VINO smile.
MISS OLIVE WYNDHAM.-M!ss DIV,
/ Wvndham commenced her career wit.
| the late kyrie Bellew. From IN
/ genue roles with Mr.. Bellew, sht
| graduated to leads. She was member
/ OF he first dramatic organization thal
occupied the New Theater. With this
| company she won critical attehuoh anu
/ ACME, Ell artistic success
/ At the end of this engagement she
ayed two seasons =, as 1eadin Man woman 9ran
/ home she hen toured in WlncheLI
/ Smiths The only Son" Last season
! she was engaged by Charles Frohman IN
4 Il hams" the Elizabeth Baker comedy OF
/ ne English lower middle class. of which
i Mr Frohman gave a production at his
lfr Frohman next placed Miss Wynd
I ham in his all-star "oliver Twist" cast
! RI lowing this engagement she created
to Many As Mary she has made the
most pronounced hit OF her career.
MADE A D.FFERENCE-Eugen
Blair tells of a peculiar experience she
mad recently that convinced her OF the
Enterprise of the moving picture man.
one day" says Miss Blair. Il strolleo
own dear old Broadway to a nearby
. MOTEL and soon found myself seated in
one Of the comfortable chairs In the
ladies' reception room, just for a qulet
4 title meditation and to think what d
] -oid. lonesome place New York is afte
al
II Il had not been there long when ]
4 vas accosted by an old lady and soon
found myself eng ged in conversation
wilh her. She, too. seemed to be show
ng the same opinion as to the lone
, Somsness Of New York although she
as qui e sociable We talked about
| ne !, Gather and the coming styles of
/ all dress and hats. and she invited
me TO dine with her at a well known
/ cafe | accepted. Of course. After the
! meal she h d a nice box of bonbons
4 wrapped up for me. and we both left
\ he place without being asked to pay
airy hing at all. i wondered at their
1 generosity
| My feelings toward the old town
| somewhat softened and the next day
-
/ again where they were so hospitable.
III lso had another box of bonbons
wrapped up and started out.
1 Ii IL on said The waiter, your bill
! But" l protested, Il ate here yes
.erday. and was not asked to pay any
| thing"
I know" said the waiter. Maybe
YOU didn't know it, but yesterday you
ere working for a moving picture
man"
! MIZZI'S HUNGARIAN ENGLISH
This is sad to be correct copy of
cent letter written by Mizzi Hajos to
her managers
/, "Messieurs Werba and Luescher, my kind
1 managers:
/ 1t is disgust to me not perfectly to
4 know all exact my part when / read 1t
once, for me it is just like. Just 1 read
with the prince, it is all. / know alto
gether the rest. 1t is some princess of
the Balkans | play, yes. Hula, the Bal
kan would be some Hungarian only we
fuss about that Too noise like they are.
/ could know
You tell me be like American. / am
Hun, ii is all the same. Au Wien they
like me to laugh. American they like me
70 laugh too.
'"Oh. now it is much to make smiles.
You know l Atlantic City go. Four battle
suits new | have-nice, magnifique But
l forget for must study no ocean
battle suits and Mizzi gets. Ho.
1T to my purse was so funny. Now
! tell. You say three hundred besides
sixty dresses IN Her Little Highness"
are coming Much like great lot How
not have the hattie dresses? Most colors
there is. Try it. l go away now with
writing. But, and perhaps you say ii
loud, ! come with Boston singing all my
best. Your little MIZZI"
EARLY AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE.
The first presentation of Shakespeare In
this country differed greatly from the
Sothern- NARROW enterprise now on its
way here. In 1852 William Hallam Of
the Goodman's Field Theater of London
sent over a company of twelve. and set
up shop at Williamsburg Va. The the
alter at Williamsburg was warehouse
Oh the outskirts of the town fitted up
fo- the occasion. THE woods were all
about it wrote Eggleston. land the &C
tors could shoot squirrels from the win
dows. When the time arrived for the
opening of the theater the players were
much disheartened 1t seemed during the
long, still hours of the day that they had
come on a FOOLS errand to act dramas
in the woods. But as evening drew on
the whole scene changed like work Of
magic. The Dads leading into Williams
burg were thronged with out-of-date We
hlcles Of every sort driven by negroes
and filled with gayly dressed women.
whose gallants rode on horseback along
side. The treasury was replenished, the
theater crowded. The Merchant OF Ven
ice and Garricks farce, Lethe.' were
played" SO ii was that the players pre-
scnttng Shakespeare had royal well
come in America from the very begin