The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-04-19
their contracts with a Manx audi

their contracts with a Manx ardi-
ence.
Miss Heming doesn't remember a
time when she hasn't expected to
become an actress or when that
career was not considered a matter
of course for her by her relatives
and friends. The sight of her first
real PLAY was an occasion of note
to the entire world, as well as
personally. Importance is putting 1t
mildly for, as a matter OF fact, II
was this. first play that gave Mr..
Tyler the impulse to make the state
ment he did about nascots-meaning
witchcraft.
Tried It On The Manxnen.
and Hall Game was responsible for
If. Mr.. Game had just made a play
of The Christian" For the purpose
Of securing a copyright, 1t was nee
essary that the play should be pro-
duced Immediately after it was fin
ished. And so he distributed the
parts among his friends on the Isle
of Man and hired the opera house
for one night and the Isle of Man
Silver cornet Band, with the idea Of
giving a concert of popular airs 10
hold his audience to the end, in case
the play didn't work a spell on them.
1t SO happened that Mrs. Heming
was there at the time, and Mr.. Caine
would have nobody but her for Glory
Ouayle. Mr.. Game played John
Storm himself, and Mr.. Heming was
given the part of Drake. An adnais-
sion fee of two English sovereigns
was charged. which. with the usual
exchange, amounts to ten dollars In
United States currency. (Sote-
There's a bank on the waterfront at
Port Said. Egypt, with New Yorker
as cashier, who is so glad to see any
one from home that he'll exchange
English money for Americans at the
rate Of 1851 to the pound, sterling,
not avoirdupois, but he's the only
money changer in the world who'll
do it,
There was a very good house, de-
spite the heavy tariff.
OF course, the history OF The
Christian in this country is known,
but this is fact that is not gen.
orally understood-that Hall Game
and the Hemings tried IL out at
home on their Msnxmen before they
lei 1t get out into the wide. wide
world.
a year or SO Iater-euite a few
years later. in fact-charles Dalton.
the English actor-nlanager. intro
duced young lady TO Mr.. Tyler In
the Tyler office, with the suggestion
that he had brought her over from
England to play 'Wendy'' in the
production of peter Pan" in this
country.
The young lady looked over Mr..
,r,,
of The Christian" that was hanging
or the wall. And when Mr.. Tyler
asked her her name, she pointed to
the program, where her mothers
name appeared in the part OF Glory,
and declared that was 1t. And then
Mr. TYLER looked at Miss Heming's
pea ches-and-cream cheeks, her big
questioning eyes, her curly chestnut
hair-and right there he announced
his belief in witchcraft Right then
and there, also. the firm of Liebler
T. Co. acquired it's mascot-or what
Mr.. Tyler says was a mascot, and
wha: we intend TO prove wasn't, at
all.
This Wendy Grew Up.
Miss Heming was a very young girl
then-ske isn't much more than a
young girl now. She vas just the
Pan" And she played Wendy with
unusual success. You see, there was
the blood OF generations of acting
ancestors flowing through her veins,
ard she couldn't have been anything
but a finished actress. even though
she uas a child,
Add to that the peculiar charm
that Miss HeTning had as child,
and which has simply been accen-
tuated by the adding OF years of eX-
perience, and her success in the part
Will be found due, not so much to
luck az to a singular ability to do
almost perfectly what was set be-
fore her TO do.
Unlike Peter Pam" this Wendy
was dcocmed to grow up. She grew
SO rapidly that she was soon too
large for Wendy, and something else
had to be gotten ready for her.
1t was at this time that Kate
Douglas Virgins beautiful story.
"Rebeccl of Sunnybrook Farm be-
came the book of the year. Instant
~ preparations were made to drama
tie 1t. And almost as instantly II
occurred TO Mr.. Tyler AMI to Klaw
& Erlarger that Violet Heming was
just the size of Rebecca. She was,
therefore, given the part and played
II during the first six months of
the plays big run. She grew almost
of the run of the piece. and when
Albert Chevalier came to this coun-
try with his little play. Daddy Du-