Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-15

school of charterhouse. and in 1900 was
married to the charming American
actress, Gertrude Elliott. After leaving
school he completed his education in Il
France, where he studied painting at
various art schools, and in $50 was ao-
mitted as student at the Royal Acad-
envy School of Art, London. In 1874 he
made his theatrical debut as Chastelard
in Mary Stuart at the old Princess
Theater and subsequently gained a thor
ough experience with Charles Calvert at
Manchester. where he supported Samuel
Phelps in Shakespeare and became pu-
pill of that famous tragedian. Then ne
came back to London, and, after other
engagements, appeared with the ia.e
Mime Modjeska at the court in lSe9-sl..
He Joined Henry Irving in lSS2 at the
Lyceum and the Bancrofts in 1883 at
the Haymarket, playing leading parts up
to 1885, when he made his hrst appear
lance in America with Mary Anderson
On his return he supported her at tne
Lyceum in "A Winters Tale, also ue-
signing the dresses, etc, and subsequently
joined John Hare in Pineros plays. iheh
came another American tour. ana ne
appeared thereafter with Irving as BUCK
Eingham in Henry VIII" a famous re-
rival of Diplomacy" at the Garflck;
with Irving again in KING arthur, anu
then entered into management on nus own
account in 1895 with Romeo and Junet.
subsequently producing Michael and his
Inst Angel, For the Crown" The
school for Scandal" "Magda, ham et' ],
.Wacbeth,'' ..Pelleas and Melisanda.
"othello" and other plays, all with tn
marked success, while THE Passing Q,
the Third Floor Back proved unriVaieo
in its popularity.
| PEOPLE IN THE DUMMY. -hrnest
Truck, who plays the title roie Oh
1.-The Dummy" plays the ute roie VI
in Belasco's 1.-The Good Little Devil
Joyce Fair. nine years old, the KID
! mapped child" played the TUE roie oi
Holbrook Blinn's "Christiane. at the
| Princess Theater, New York, and was
! for two years with Miss henrietta
| Crosman in 1.-THE Real Thing.
| Ada Dwyer is one of the famous chaf-
\ acter women of the American stage
| She played Frisco Kate Of IN the Deep
Purple" slum Bet in The pawn OF ID d
| Edward Ellis, who plays the Spider,
played Blackie DaW IN Get-hlcn-
Quick Wallingford. In me or.uhe
| Hunter" THE Travelling Salesman,
| Joseph Brennan was the old physician
| in Belasco's "The Return Of Peter
| Grimm" :,
! Joseph Tuohy, who played sleuth in
| The Argyle Case is identified with
! Irish comedy character in Lillian RUS
| sells "Wildfre." played the Mite In
| The Widow S Mite, anu was with t'A~
| Guy Standing-Theodore Roberts pro-
| duction of 1.-THE Right OF way
| Frank Conner played in "Rafnes ana
| with kyrle Bellew in most OF his sue
| cesses.
J IITTLEsT LEADING LADY" -
7 The littest leading lady who ever
| came to Washington to play an en-
gagement, is coming here in THE
/ SC Fair and
she is nine years old, knee high-to-a-
| grasshopper' in size, with big brown
4 eyes. curly yellow hair and a very nice
mother, who goes everywhere with her.
The Iittlest leading lady has the
1 smallest suit case ever known TO
| leading lady. 1t has her name, Joyce
\ Fair" on 1t, and when she comes out or
! the Union station she will be carrying
! it, because she never travels without
1 it. and she is a travelled person.
The littlest leading lady has the
| smallest wardrobe trunk ever known to
| a leading lady, and that always trav-
els with her, with clean pinafores and
| hair ribbons, and the frocks she wears
| in her plays. The wardrobe trunk OF
the littlest leading lady also has her
wardrobe trunks of the grown-up
| players make the little wardrobe
trunk look like pigmy.
| In the very small suit case of the
4 nttleSt leaolnS idQy Is II Specldi SIZE
! toilet set of white ivory for her dress
ing table and all the appurtenances of a
1 fastidious leading lady's toilet. There
| is also roll or SO of crepe paper in
| Powered design for purposes of upho1-
stery insthe leading ladys dressing
room. for the lttlest leading lady has
been brought up in stars dressing
rooms and she knows the certain
standards of dressing room ornateness
4 that belong to leading lady. She trav-
eled thirty-seven weeks, with her little
suit case and her specially sized ward
robe trunk, in Miss Henrietta Cros-
mans company. all the way west to
Des Moines; then south to St. Angus
tine, and north to Lake Champlain.
playing Dorothy in THE Real Thing
Therefore, she has Powered crepe
paper to cover her wooden chair. Her
dressing table. too. sdifferent from
the dressing tables of grown-up lead
ing ladies. in that 1t has no makeup
!, box at all. Not that the littlest lady
does not know how to use makeup
and believe in its efficacy, but the once
she tried her prettiest Miss Crosman
, held up her hands in dismay and told
her, go, child, wash your facet
TuckeQk away in the specially sized