The evening world., 1914-02-28

tom At6hS ooy INV iot y
railroad ticket may take
you II it's backed up by talent? Take
that girl from Utah, for example.
"Wh0 is she? asked everybody ut
the Forty fourth Street Theatre when
'-The Midnight Girl came out for
an airing. "Haxel Dawn's sister"
answered the early risers after the
first act. Family names Tout.
yknow." volunteered one Of those
human information bureaus without
which no theatre lobby Is complete.
Romaine. Dawn - Tout - Romaine
seemed like an advance sheet of the
latest city directory. but as 1t was all
In the fainily-well. why 20 looking
for trouble?
And right here should like to say
that II was no trouble at all for me
to look at Miss Margaret Romaine
yesterday afternoon. Although the
picture Of her you get from the stage
Is pretty enough to frame, 1t doesn't
begin to do her justice. For one
thing. her hair Island her eyes are
and-and-in short, she In q beautiful
singer. The only odd thing about her
Is that she made the hit Of the week
without knowing 1t until o'clock tho
next afternoon.
TT was like this" she explained.
I'VE rehearsed till 2 o'clock Monday
morning and after the two perform
ances was 30 dead tired that slept
right through the morning and after
noon editions. To be perfectly hon.
n La h..
newspapers. I know ! can sing. for
rye managed to get through Louise.
'ManOn' and Romeo and Juliet In
Paris. but this was my first expert
ence In musical comedy, and as l had
never appeared here had my doubts
as to whether New York would like
me. I hoped I might slide through
somehow. that was all. and when my
mother called me on the phone after
Monday nights performance and
said, You did very WE'LL was sat
isfied. But when l read the notices I
could hardly believe my eyes"
Those eyes left me speechless for a
moment. Then stern duty brought
me back to her name. You may be
interested to know 1t was wished on
her.
II had singing teacher In London
uahiCh Ato"ot ouO 5aius anu
as | needed stage name she made
one up out OF hers that would suggest
had been trained by her-sort OF
French for My hand'--you see!"
! couldn't say ! did. but that didn't
matter. Singing teachers are peculiar,
especially in their spelling. Still you
must admit this one was ingenious.
You knew. didn't you, that Paul
Rubens. the composer, invented my
sister Hazers name? No. Then I
must tell you. When she was pre-
pairing to go on the stage Mr.. Rubens
said he thought Dawn would he n
good name for her. as she was about
to dawn on the public. Wasn't that
clever OF him!"
curbed my admiration to ask
whether the family name had been
left entirely at home.
"Oh, mol" was the answer. MY
sister. Mamie Tout, Is singing under
her own name at La Scala, In Milan.
Then there's Grace. who II a concert
singer In London. Elias at school
she's the 'baby'-but she has a fine
voice. I've q brother. too, Irving
we call him Bud'-and although he
has taken up electrical engineering.
he's made Of music"
"A musical family" / observed. in
diligently
Yes. music does seem to run in
the family. When we lived in Utah.
our home was in Ogdcn---we used to
give concerts. In addition TO singing,
Hazel played the violin, i the cello.
and Mamie the plano. We were
known ~ the Tout Sisters. Ny father
y one Of thirteen brothsrs--and they
al elng