Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-03-25
HOW TO LIVE CENTURY
AND STILL DIE YOUNG
Lillian Russell, Famous Actress,
Lectures at Colonial.
CHEWING GUM A DETRIMENT.
1t Shows Age, and Abstinence From
Alcohol Should be Another Rule,
She Saws.

A fair sized audience, composed If
representative citizens of Annapolis
old and young, and a number OF whom
had seen her on the stage two score
years ago, gathered at the Colonial
Theatre last night to hear and see
Lillian Russell in role entirely diff
ferent from that which she attained
lam before the footlights in years
gone by.
1t was the personal appearance of
Miss Russell in a lecture in which
she tells and demonstrates to her
audience How to Live One Hundred
Years aud Die Young" With the as
sistance of a series of Kinamacolor
motion pictures, Lillian carries her
audience with her through a busy
day from the time she arises in the
morning, goes through her usual ply
sical exercises, and until she retires
to the dressing room and prepares for
her appearance on the stage.
The pictures are varied in nature,
some of them i1ividual pos es, in
cluding the famous "million dollar
costume" or to be more exact, az she
explained herself vulgar display
of jewelry" for in the pose she wears
upwards of $45O,000 of jewels, com
prising gorgeous necklaces Of pearls
and diamonds, brooches, and her fing-
ers literally covered with handsome
rings.
Miss Russell, it will be remem-
bered. has appeared on the stage in
musical comedy, comic opera and vau-
deville in past years. Now her role is
vastly different, and the wonder was
expressed by many how the famous
actress of the old school managed to
content herself be fore the footlights
without the company of singing
chorus and other melangv. But she
takes the greatest delight in her new
work, believing it to be the most am
bilious she has ever undertaken, and
that she is capable of doing a great
public good through the medium of
her doctrine.
Health of both mind and body is
the primary foundation upon which
her discourse is constructed Chew
ing gum, she says,i one of the great
est detriments to beauty as we'll as to
show age, as it makes wrinkles about
the sides Of ones mouth and the Jaws.
And to men and women alike, she
says abstinence from alcoholics should
be an ironclad rule, if one would enicy
health and long life. Miss Russell
does not outline her daily diet. Her
breakfast, though she says consists
only of an egg, slice of toast and a
cup of coffee. Bat the first thing
she takes on arising is a glass of hot
water. This is followed by breathing
exercises before an open window,
and after breakfaJting, she repairs
to her boudoir gymnasium and goes
through more vigorous physical exer-
cises, such as punching the bag and
tossing a four pound medicine
ball'
At least eight hours of good sound
sleep day is a sure promoter of
health and long life, Miss Russell
says. The age of Miss Russell is an
enigma. She will not tell it to any
of her inquirers, meeting all questions
with the simple replies that "age is
of the mind and not If the calendar"
and that she expects to Give a hum
dred years and die young"
BY many in last nights audience
it was estimated that Miss Russell
must be upwards of go. There was
at least one among the older ones in
the audience, and well-known thea
tregoer too, who said that he saw
Lillian Russell On the stage at least
forty years ago, and that she was then
between 20 and 25 years old. In her
present role she is as active as a
woman Of 35.