El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-18
Studies Gowns to Buy Them AS He Would
Buy Hay For Horses; Eltinge Is Shocking
Handsomest Woman on the
Stage, a Man, Wants to
Play a Mans Part.
CtTr IS absolute business with me

XII IS absolute business with me-
but I don't enjoy playing a
Il skirt part at all 1 look up
gowns and read all the fashion books
with the changing seasons, exactly like
would order new kind Of hay for
my horses or chicken feed for my
chickens on the farm.
4 have made my hit with the public
| in skirt roles, however, and as long as
the public wants me in these parts, 1
my ideal part? Well, I want to
create something new in the romantic
drama line. Chauncey Olcott is the
| only actor at present who is Identified
with romantic parts. have had in
my mind for a long time a little play
about the brightest side of BObbie
Burns's life. Some day 1 am going to
dope out romantic little play about
Burns and play the hero myself.
No; 1 have never had any Shaks-
perian aspirations
Julian Eltinge, the ''handsomest wom-
an on the stage" is very much OF
man off the stage and is keen on prize
fights and beer. Above, he summarizes
his idea of skirt parts
Beer is the one grand joy of my
porter nabbed him after his frugal
dietetic breakfast in the Paso del Norte
cafe, but unfortunately, l dare not
touch it when am playing. One drink
with real, melodramic stage sigh
Fat is the bane of an actors lire.
Afraid of Getting Fat.
I'VE live in constant dread of the
time when our audiences will shake
their heads and say, Poor Julian! Isn't
it too bad? He's getting too fat" Mr..
Eltinge pronounces too fat very, very
stacato and puts a world of woe in
the infection l took the tlrst Vaea-
ton of my stage career this summer"
he said reninescently, "and had a
glorious time Ate just what 1 wanted
to, and drank what 1 pleased Owing
to unanticipated incidents, 1 had to be-
gin my fall work almost a month
earlier than scheduled, so the four
weeks I had reserved to diet and train
down my weight was not mine to have,
and I went into my part 20 pounds too
heavy. BY dieting and training l have
reduced II pounds since the beginning
of the season, but 1 have to get down
20 pounds more before I can take my
new part in the play 1 expect to put on
the first of the year.
Boxes to Reduce Weight.
81 box as much as 1 dare, to keep in
training, but l can not do much heavy
gymnastic work as long as I do skirt
parts. 1 can not let my muscles be-
come bumpy and too well defined, so
have TO go through a systematic
process Of Delsarte movements daily to
keep supple. My main exercise is
81 hear you are going to have a good
prize fight tomorrow across the river.
That is my one regret, that we are go
ing TO miss seeing a good thing, as We
have a matinee at the same time Am
fond of prize fights2 By jOve, yes! 1
haven't missed a fight in any town I've
played, If it didn't interfere with my
show dates" Realizing the inevitable,
the fair Julian settled back resigned
fully against the plush upholstery of
the Del Norte chair and sighed again
Has Real Mans Beard.
Mr.. Eltinge is a man of medium
height, and plump, with nicely pOmpa-
dored, light brown hair and merry, I
twinkling eyes that are cross between /
gray and hazel, and dimple in his !
chin. He has a very date manner,
but a ready beauty smile. The only
feminine thing about him is his enun-
citation. Julian has such a cute little
way of chopping off his words that one
could Just imagine him swishing about
in a skirt every hour of the day; well,
not exactly, either, because he had a
two-days' growth Of beard Saturday
morning, which he fingered consciously.
you have caught me at a disadvan-