Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-29

Scott. and the hundred appreciate Thack-
cray. all the world loves Dickens.
Most modern writers are read twice
because they are forgotten. Dickens is
read twice because we remember him and
love him. The child of eight laughs at the
same passages as does the man of eighty.
The simplicity of Dickens is understood,
no matter what age be the reader or
listener. Dickens speaks to the heart
more than to the head. The poet that
touches the heart is a better seller
than he who touches the head. Dickens
will live because he is historian-pictur-
ing with true and facile pen the life Of
the times in which he lived.
Dickens succeeds because he builds up
his books on characters and not on plot
his stories should be called tales rather
than novels. His characters seem to have
been really alive. When you visit Bull
Inn, Rochester the guide will tell you:
This Is the room in which Pickwick
slept; this is the yard where Sam Weller
BACKED his boots 1t is hard to realize
that these are not real people. and are
simply creatures of Dickens magma
ton"
BARRYMORE WIT.-An admirer of
Ethel Barrymore's gift of ready repartee
once asked her to hand out some of it"
to a friend who posed as a Wit.
NO, thank you" replied Miss Barry
more. "Once a lady always cautious"
She did, however, consent to relate an
experience in which her father, Maurice
Barrymore, noted epgrammatist,
flashed a scintillation of his genius in
that particular.
1t was while walking down Broadway
with a famous English actor that
blind man bumped into him and his
friend. The English PLAYER stopped, and
after ostentatiously digging down in his
pockets and depositing the smallest coin
he could find into the blind mans tin
cup, remarked:
1T always gives me real delight to ex-
tend charity to blind people"
Me, too replied Maurice Barry
more. They can never see what you
give them
another sample of family repartee she
used TO tell at the expense of her father.
He was coming home from a gay night
at his club early one Sunday morning,
when he saw his wife, the brilliant
George Drew Barrymore, vending her
way along with prayer book in her
hand.
Where on earth are you going at
this time of the morning." he asked
TO mass" she quickly replied, but I
see you are going to the devil
DAUGHTER OF JAMES A. HERNE.-
Miss Julie Herne, who has an important
role IN william tturlbut 8 new drama,
The Man who Would Live" is the
daughter of the famous old actor, James
A. Herne. She began her stage career
when a mere child, playing Little Chrys-
tai in Hearts of Oak" She made her
regular debut with her father in the
role of Nell Berry in Shore Acres" aft
erward appearing with him in Sag Har-
bor' and "Griffeth Davenport" After
his death, she appeared under the man
agement of Klaw e Erianger in their
production of Home Folks" "Ben-Hur''
and The Prince of India" Later she
appeared with Wilton Lackaye in THE
Battle with John Wesley in The
Family" in Bought and Paid For" and
was leading woman for a season with
John Mason in LAS Man Thinks" The
past winter she has devoted to starring
in stock in Detroit in such plays as
The Gamblers" and ~ Woman's Way"
In addition to her histrionic ability,
Miss Herne is also a playwright, with
several successes to her credit She APP
peared for two seasons in vaudeville in
sketches written by herself, A Noun
ain Cinderella and Between the Acts
and wrote "Richter's Wife" produced at
the Manhattan Theater in New York,
and Managing Sylvia" which was
presented at the Suburban Gardens, st.
Louis Mo.
AN ENTERT TANNING PAIR.-Walter
Jones is one of the best known comedians
before the public, His career dates from