Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
BY ADELINE cARRIcK WELLS


isn't she sweet? And isn't that
dress dear? Look at that side
effect" f
"Oh, don't think it is nearly as
pretty as the one she wore last
week in the second act. And do you
remember the yellow one with the
chains of brilliants fastened to her
fingers? I wish she'd wear it again,
sometime. Oh, here he comes. Let's
clap hard. 1 wonder if they're as
lovely to each other off the stage
as they are on"
"Of course ~they are. Everybody
knows it. 1 like her hair better high
than low, don't your"
"WelL you can't expect her to wear
it high when she's playing "a young
GIRL can your"
Where was this, and what does it
mean?
If you're a. regular" you'll know.
It was a conversation between two
young women who would as soon
think of never wedding as of missing
week at the Orpheum Theatre,
where the Brownell-Stork players
hold sway. Part were they of the
family out in front" as the players
have come to term their weekly
watchers, and there was a decided
family spirit about the way in which
they spoke their minds. l listened
with interest as they said Mabel
this" and "Cliff that" and was
finally inspired TO go behind and
find out what Mabel" and Cliff
themselves thought of this init
macy.
I've been listening to two of your
intimates,'' / announced as / took the
little bird's-eye maple rocker that
Miss Brownell pushed forward
"1ntimates?" The dark eyebrows
We're lifted inquiringly. I told her
what 1 had just heard, and she
laughed heartily.
We've hundreds of that kind of
intimates,' she told me, land they
consider it part and parcel of their
season tickets to criticise us, favor
ably or adversely. Some of the
speeches that watt their way over
the footlights almost make me forget
my lines. OneNtime I heard a woman
say. DO you suppose she minds when
he has to make love to somebody
else?' He was doing that very thing
at the moment, upstage with Miss
Estelle, and I felt my lips twitch.
But the moment passed, and I was
safe.
"Self-control is most important
with us, you know" Miss Brownell
added, leaning back to note the effect
@f hi - 10
up. I'VE do not dare permit things
to strike us funny"
For a moment l watched her,
thinking how different makeup
looks at close range. She powdered
her neck, then brushed it off. poised
the puff in midair, and then applied
little more powder, eying the
effect with grave approval.
Then she turned to me. Seems
silly, doesn't 1t; but there is nothing
more ludicrous than poorly-applied
makeup, I think. If one eye looked
larger than the other-and that gould
easily happen. as it's a matter of
lines-do you think the audience
would take me seriously?
THAT'S how some types of come
dams get their work OVERLY mis-
applying their makeup until their
countenances are absurd.
But to get back to my family"
Miss Brownell smiled as she renewed
the subject, you don't know how
fond I grow of my regulars See
ing the same people in the same seat
every week makes me feel that |
know them well. Very often we ex-
change smiles, and If a regular seat
is empty l find myself wondering if
the owner is i'll, and the next week
look quickly to see If the seats oc-
cupied."
''How do you remember" I wanted
to know.
.'We-ell," said Miss Brownell, slow
ly. II don't really remember. It's sort
of sub-conscious, I guess. crab
sorb them, you might say, without