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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-30
OBITUARY.

Funeral services for William NJ. Har-
| vey. who died Saturday. will be held
from his residence, 1923 Sixth street
! northeast. this morning at o'clock.
thence to Holy Name Church at $50 In
terment will be in Arlington Cemetery.
Funeral services for Mrs. Hester
Hatcher who died Saturday. will be
held at her late home. Hardwood road,
Brookland. this afternoon at o'clock.
Interment will be in Rock Creek Ceme>
terry.
Funeral services for Peter Care Heyd-
rick. who died Sunday. will he held to-
day at o'clock at the residence OF his
daughter, Mrs. William E. Harvey. l7H
Lamont street. Interment will be in
Meadyille, Pa.
Funeral services for Mrs. Anna H.
Lydick, who died Sunday. will be held
at the chapel OF J. r. Wright under
taker. 1927 Tenth street northwest. this
morning at 1850 o'clock.
Funeral services for Mrs Lewis S.
Wells, who died at her late residence.
1873 Spring road northwest. on Sunday.
will be held this morning at the Church
of the Sacred Heart at o'clock.
Funeral services for Annie O'Connor
Cunningham. 81 years old. who died Sat
urday at her late residence, 1870 Thirty
sixty street. will be held this MORN
ing at Holy !Tvinity Church. where
requiem mass viii be celebrated at 81
o'clock.
The body of Edward w. Vail. who died
Sunday at the buckingham Hotel, where
he was spending the winter with his
daughter. will be taken TO his home in
Worcester. Mass, for burial
Funeral services for Lewis Mundheim. |
former resident of Washington, who died |
at the Bensonhurst Sanatorium in Brook |
lyn. y. Y, Sunday morning. will be |
held this morning at 10 o'clock !
Drs. Simon ard Stern will be the off, |
eating rsbbis. Intermcnt will be in !
Washington Hebrew Cemetery Col ,
Mundheim was born In Germany in 1872 !
and came TO this country when a boy.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-30

There are 6.6l5.soj orange and 81, ~
lemon trees in California.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-30

Funeral services for Mrs. Lewis S.
Wells, who died at her late residence.
1879 Spring road northwest. on Sunday
will be held this morning at the Church
of the Sacred Heart at o'clock.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-30

Funeral services for Mrs. Anna II
Lydick, who died Sunday. will be held
at the chapel of J. r. Wright, under
taker. 1897 Tenth street northwest, this
morning at 1850 o'clock.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-30

The body Of Edward w. Vail. who died
Sunday at the buckingham Hotel, where
he was spending the winter with his
daughter, will be taken TO his home In
Worcester. Mass, for burial
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-30

''IIazardess-a female hazard.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-10

lessness and daring. So he must sue
coed and by his own efforts in what he
set out to do.
Il wanted to show that IL Rene had
had some chance at birth he was so
naturally brilliant ana compelling he
might have been a great power in the
world of good men, but that, corrupted
from the start and with a strong taste
for the beautiful and the luxurious
things Of life, he could never have been
content with plodding honestly for small
gains. | hope I've shown this. OF such
stuff We're one or two of the famous
motor bandits made who only year or
two ago terrorized Paris. | recall the
thrill of interest that went through me
when l read how these anarchists and
murderers when captured were found to
wear silk shirts, to use fne soaps and
toilet waters, to read the best literature
and in several languages. These men
| by trade were only artisans-plasterer
carpenters and the like-but with their
brains and their corruption into anar-
chists,probably from their earliest years,
can you fancy them content with the
small gains of honesty? Such content
would seem the most cynical joke 10
them.
How different such types are from
the great mass OF low browed criminals
with their illlteratc thieves jargon who
fill the prisons of this country. No doubt
memory of the impression made on
me by the wonderful capture OF these
cultured dcsperadoes favored my devel-
opment or Rene NdrqHcHHc from the
start, Any one who will read the old
files of the newspapers where Maurice
lie Banc (author Of 'Arsene LupinD de-
scribed as an eyewitness the capture OF
these Frenchmen will know that rea.
life can outdo the moss daring flight:
of the writer's fancy"
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ditty about the young woman with
theatrical ambitions. There was alway $
hilarious laughter for everything that
happened at these first nights. so there
was invariable success for such
songs. The nearer the end grew the
greater used to be the first night laugh
ter and applause. On the second night
there was less laughter, and after that
silence settled over the theatre
But there must have been a change in
public taste since that time. Hello
Broadway at the Aston Theatre pre-
suppuscs a more or less intimate
acquaintance with the details of the life
OF half the actors on Broadway ano
an intimate acquaintance with every
play on view. Armed with this valuable
information and a Knowledge Of the
methods employed by the song publish
ers to make their wares popular it Is
possible to enjoy the whole Of this So
called review.
But there must now be In this city
many thsatreGoers poss ssed of Just th!'
amount of special knowledge. Other
wise there would he no success fol-
these shows which lean so heavily or
| the theatre In one form or another, Al
! it is they are the most successful en-
terprlses of the winter. So the man
layers will have to revise their theoric!
and bring them more into accordance
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-10

Anybody who supposed that only
British loveliness was to be observed at
the Shubert Theatre is altogether
wrong. 1t is quite true that all the
pretty ladies' there come from London,
specifically from the Gaiety Theatre.
Then they are all in "To-nights the
Night" But do not, gentle reader, for
one minute think that they are merely
British. A. Token Worm, who recog-
niZes the source of beauty when he sees
II, has uttered the following rhapsodc
protest against any such misunder-
standing.
There is Peggy Kurton,' says Mr..
Worm in fine frenzy, "a 1.-THE and win
some miss who is one of London's ma
tive beauty favorites, Her hair is a
happy blend between the blonde and
the temperamental brunette; her
cheeks are bushingly rosy and tinted
with the naturalness OF tho ripeninS
peach OF Santa Barbara; her lips curve
artistically In Mona Lisa simplicity; her
eyes sparkle brightly like elmmering
beacons of Joy; and her shoulders and
lily petalled arms mould into pleasing
serpentiHe contour.
Another sylvan fantasy OF the Tyre,
who is verltable brochure of lovoli-
ness, is Miss Doris Stocker. a brunettish
avalanche of verve and dash who halls
from Monte Carlo, and whose dulcct trill
lends a faint yet seductive undertone to
the chorus stanzas in several of the
ensemble numbers of "To-night's the
Night" Some of the most eNactinG
sybarites of France and Italy have ac-
claimed her the futurist type of beauty
From the quaint seclusiveness of Rot
terdam comes Miss Gertrude Laarhoven
a buxom Hollandese with ruddy coun-
tenance ana deep set Deryi eyes tnai
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-10
PAULINE FREDERICK OBJECTS
TO BEING CALLED A BEAUTY

The most delightful experience OF
my life occurred in Boston a couple OF
years ago. had prom sed To appear
at a very small charity entertainment,
but did not announce what my con-
tributlon to the programme would be.
] simply said | would be on hand at a
certain hour.
AN OF the announcements spoke nf
the beautiful Miss Frederick as one
of the entertainers. When | arrived
at the big hotel whore the affair was
to be held | couldn't get to the assembly
room until ! swore that | was the maid
of a certain famous actress who | knew
was taking part that day. I finally
reached the stage just as the manager
was apoioSizing for my absence, and
when he saw me walk down to the foot
lights he almost tainted.
II didn't wait for an introduction, but
fairly pushing him into the wings
returned to the centre Of the stage and
began a recitation that soon had the
audience bowling with merriment. For
an encore | gave a serious recitation
that brought tears to the eyes of many
and they weren't tears OF laughter
either I thought they would never
let me 20, but finally 7 reached the
wings and removing my wig, clumsy
! travel stained ulster and rs much o
/ my makeup rs possible transformed
myself from an awkward Swedish i'm
migrant girl to the beautiful Pauline
! Frederick and left the gasping staS'
manager To announce my identity T.
the audience while fled from the place
That applause was sweeter TO my ear!
than any other 1 have ever heard"
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While Pauline Frederick does not in
N" least object To being called great
artist, the Furty-second Street Duse or
the American Bernhard she is opposed
10 praise Of one kind. She does not
Ike 20 be called beauty,
rye spent ten Of the best years OF
my life trying to become "A real artist
sald Mss Frederick, land while Ike
every other woman in the world |
want to be as attractive as Nature wall
Jet mo be, my keenest prominent
Is when valuable time Is devoted to a
description of my looks instead of COM
mcnl on my work, OF course beauty
Is an asset in a stage career, but only
ono Of several that are helpful to sue
cess, and by no means the most mn
Iortant one.
Many OF tho greatest actresses IN
the world possessed little rea' beauty
a. beauty il meant by regularity al
features, perfect complexion, a Venus
Ike figure, soulful eyes, a wealth OF
NaNy trcsscs and all the other points
mat 20 in such a classification Belng
women doubt not but what they would
lave given muCn to have possessed
fnch beauty. but they were great art
&-s IN spite of its absence.
1nc hardest reputation In the world
20 live down is thr reputation for beauty
~ one who uspircs to real fame instead
~ passing reputation. Whenever my
manager sends me to a photographer
I"oi like making faces at the camera
'o''uSc ! know the operator Is tryins
.S best IN get a good picture. by which
Tn means the sort OF picture that the
press agent can most readily land ar
Tie beauty page OF newspaper.
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Nv LAWRENCE BEAMEn.

HERE is tradition in the
theatre managers Offices that
plays dealing with theatre life
are rarely successful. OF course
there are Caste" and Peg Woffington'
among the Victorian classics to go to
the proof Of the contrary, and there is
the case of "Adrienne Lecouvreur' to
help establish the same truth in France.
That theory of the theatre managers
must however, be rcmodelled to suit the
taste Of 1915. Just at present it VIII be
impossible to feed up the public on
theatre STUFF If its present appetite
continues. 1t was never 80 voracious
for it aud never apparently 50 indlher-
ent to every other kind Of entertain
mcnt in the lighter field.
Yet it has always seemed To those
persons who were required by the
eyisencies OF their profession 10 per-
form such eXhausting mental service as
observing the phenomena of the lighter
drama in this city that the first APP
pesrance OF theatre run was the be-
ginning of the end. II was not until
tho later seasons Of the bright bur
lesque acted by Weber and Fields that
there was the necessity for making
them SLOPPY. It was almost after
r.-or norris had set in that Fay Tenn
peton used to sing I'm a friend of a
friend of Frohman" as II chorus to the
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ALL KINDS OF BEAUTIES TO
BE FOUND IN THIS CHORUS

CLINT with all the lustre Of new coined
BYZANTINE. Throughout Queen Will
helmna's realm Miss Laarhoven's
beauty has been accorded boundless
ancomium, and she represents the very
acme of Jugend poster girls. Her cru
descent beauty mas for the last three
years been the subject of fervent paans
and panegyrics by young British and
American visitors to the Netherlands
who have gllmpsed her portraits.
The giided dragon splendor of the
Orient contributes Miss Edith Hamburg,
a Kaleidoscope vision of exquisite grace
who comes of British parentage and
who has spen. most Of her time behind
the footliGhts in the empire of the
Mikado and i'm the environment OF Pekin.
Refreshed py the sweet scent OF lotus
blossoms and inspired by the accompa'
niment OF bamboo wind intruments. Min
Hanbury introduced dryadlike, a rep
ertoire Of some of the Voguish dance
ovolutions in imperial celestial social
circles. She Is a bewitching young
woman of twenty-five summers. and
can chat Japanese with all the fiuency
of a native Nipponite or pass compli-
ments of the day in the tongue OF the
elusive Monaghan. e..
While this wnirlwind of charm Is the
most mooted topic Of Broadway Il Is
well to dwell upon the clhn jubisnce OF
Miss GYPSY OBriCn, she of the 1linnikinic
ColOrcd trcsscs and reedlilo eXiguity.
whose particular. hobby Is sparkling car
rageen slippers. Gypsy was born n
Dublin and she smaCked tho famous
Blarney stone when a schoolgirl in short
frocks. Her micn suggests tho fra
GRANGE OF the jasmine and jonquil, min
gled with the peony and poinsettia, but
retaining witnal the verdant tang OF
the shamrock,
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dramatic, but only-as George Conan
has said-when the book is flung aside
and the writer constructs the play with
out reference to the story other than
10 retain Its dramatic kernel and flavor.
My story began in the girls cold studio,
where she Was starving and the thief
who was her husband comes and tempts
her to help him Tob--whereas in the
play ! first show the thief with his
companions planning the robbery. In
the story the girl is tempted by the
man to go to the chateau to help him
rob for one could analyze in story
the why and wherefore of the condition
OF desperation that drove her to it, al
though she was TO repent quickly when
too late TO escape. But / discarded this
for the play A character could be n
criminal and be logically interesting
before the curtain rises, but | felt /
could not show in n few moments be-
fore an audience a human soul hereto
fore honest driven to accepting even
impusively this deliberate dishonor
Therefore | had the thief trick tho girl
into believeing that she was gong 10
the chateau supposng she was to fill
an honest position to tho countess
This illustrates what ! mean.
Fortunately for NJ. Tellegen, with his
struggle with and yet wonderful
mastery of a foreign language, the
great bulk Of the play which he
had early committed to memory
was right--but | wrote four diff
| ferent conclusions before the present
! termination, which I feel is tho right
one Rene. with his moral viewpoint
as fundamentally distorted as his spine
would have been had he come into the
world a hunchback, was "A brilliant man
lie was a thief, hut he was great
thief. brave man in the sense Of fav,
| ing indomitable physical courage, reck
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VARIETY IN BROOKLYN.

\ new novelty will be offered at the
Bushwick Theatre in brooklyn this
week called "Neptune's Garden" en-
pioying for it's production a large port
able tank and a big cast of swimmers,
divers, dancers and pantommists. Fol-
lowing this feature attraction Doyle and
Dixon will offer soma more of their
eccentric dances. Bo> Mathews Will
appear in "Dreamland" Al Shayne is
also in the cast. Others who will enter
tain are Grace Hazard. Ed Vinton, the
Okabo laps, Marion Murray and COM
pany in "a Modern Prima Donna"
Jimmie Lucas and Frances lucille and
the Cameron Sisters. There will be
the usual concerts this afternoon and
evening.
The fifteenth anniversary of the OPEN
ing of the Brooklyn Orpheum Theatre
will be observed this week. with Trixie
I'riganza as the particular attraction.
She was the recent star of THE Sweet
est Girl in Paris" and others. She Will
appear in burlesque acts and some new
songs. John +. Conroy and his diving
models, Wee George Wood and Hoey
and Lee will be other features. Others
on the bill are Bert Enrol, Fred j. Ar
oath and company in Hiram" Paul
Conchas, Burr and Hope, Irene and
Bobby Smith, Crossman and Steward
and Lady Alice's Pets. There will he
the usual concerts this afternoon and
evening.
Some bright burlesque acts will be
this weeks attraction at the Star Thea
tire. when the Gay Morning Glories or
ganization will appear in specialties Sc
lected from the best in vaudeville. An
| added feature will be the English music
han singer Daisy Harcourt in new
| collection of songs. Thursday evening
two wrestling bouts are promised under
the direction of George Bothner. This
afternoon and evening the usual Sunday
concerts will take place.
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ADran1a ofFrenchLife by anAmericanAu

II is so unusual for an American au-
thor to write play OF French life that
THE sun reporter the other day yen-
tured to inquire of Kate Jordan how
she came to write Secret Strings" the
interesting play which is Just now re-
Vealing LOu-Tellegen at the LongaCre
Theatre.
"A year ago last August" she said,
II was asked by the editor of a maya :
zine for n novelette,. He wanted some
thing very romantic, and preferably
something that had to do with the
fascinating side Of crime. mystery about
It, and its detection. Just then | was
longing very hard to go to Paris (Which
/ dearly love and know as we'll as ! do
New York;, but II was not possible
So as settled myself to think of the
beginning OF the story, | saw France
It kept haunting me-. At last | had a
comforting inspiration.
"'If / can't go TO France I said. IN
call it to me--r!ght here, in this story
For the next two months I'll live there.
That was the beginning. ] wrote OF
anarChistic Paris thieves and made the
scene of their operations one of the
lovely old chateauX to be found near the
| I.oire and the sea.
when was correcting tho proofs In
November 1t came to me overwhelm'
| ngly that quite without meaning TO
had gathered into tho tale all the
necessary planks for drama. You see
| | had been writing plays for years while
writing stories-one made from my
! story Time, the Comedian was s,agct
under the name of Mrs. Dakon.' L
was never shown in New York eXcep
at a matinee.
you may imagine how eagerly | Sc
about making play from 'Secre
Strings ! believe that the best play
can be made from stories that ar,
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with the taste OF an age that knows all
ain and in front of It. The enterpris-
ing playwright who begins to drama
,i2e the box office and the ticket specu-
lators, then the ushers and the carriage
starter will find himself in possession
of a pric less field He ought TO make
l fortune out OF such n mine. Yet
there is nothing in the world that could
persuade MS TO believe the art which
turns to buresquing its own technique
IS not already in its decadence or its
desperation, which is about the same
thing in the theatre.
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II is always the obvious that the SOL
emn and unsmiling gods of ennul dis
cover. Luckily they are solemn. How
would their proClamations be received
were they not published with all pos
sible appearance of seriousness? The
tneatrs Of Eugene Breux bears more
than one analogy TO that of Tbsen. In
the first place Brieux's lack of humor
is northern rather than Gallo. Its
treatment of every question Is provn-
cial, Just as lbsen's was, 1t was alto
Gether inconcelvable that the action Of
the plays OF Ibsen could have passed
in any place with population of more
than thirty thousand. The emotional
atmosphere of tn Sc pieces OF his Is
always stifiingly narrow. II the Ibsen
Theatre therefore possessed any i'm
portance whatever it was for the coun-
try OF its author.
Brieux is principally OF interest to his
own people, little as his plays have been
acted in France. Maternity" was
played by the Stage Society of Lon
don on April :, s and o. 1906. Since
that time the play has been published
in book form and read by many per-
sons,
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#A I EW PLAYS AND OLD FOR THE WEEK

of these snowy affairs are now updsr
way FOR production in the summer sea-
son. 1t is easy. therefore, TO say that
operetta has for the time being fallen
out of favor. 1t has. the mandar ms
would say, lost it's punch" But sup
pose there came along, for instance,
successor TO ia Grande Duchesse"
or. The Mikado" or "The Merry
widow? What would happen to the
reviews and the decline OF operetta
then? Where would the punch" bet
1t Is usually the second raters in every
class that are found to be without the
punch!
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wILDA, sErINETT. Tr>
~LIE ONLY S1RL

fury there was little demand for the
works, which have, with the exception
OF Mr.. Benefits one immensely profit
able enterprise with Damaged Goods,
yielded little but praise to the play
wright. 1t seems doubtful II the play
now on view to women and subscribers
at the Princess Theatre possesses the
unique sensationalism of Les Avaries
Every precaution has been taken, how
ever, to increase the interest of the pub
lie in the drama. There is a club and one
must become a member and there are
ceremonies and mysteries-then what
awful and forbidden thing must this
play be- Perhaps. after all, it will he
possible to work up the interest of the
| public in the play. Presented on it,
own merits Maternity" could not hold
the stage for a week. This is. however
the unimpassioned opinion of one who
labors under the critical disadvantage
of never having been a mother and
must be taken only for what II Is
worth.
1t may fairly safely he assumed that
there will be no operettas of the con-
ventional kind for some months to
come. There is no demand for them
on the part OF the public. Whether OF
not this agreeable form of musical ART
is TO disappear altogether it is not
safe at present to predict. Probably
there will be taste for It in the
future. 1t may be that amusements
will not always OF necessity be 'ot in the
mouth, as they are just at present
! The more flexible form of the review. as
/ 1t is called, is much better suited t
| the mood of the minute.
So musical entertainments will TAXI
! that form in the near future. Three
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from those persons who have only read
the plays between the covers Of "A book
and have no conception as to their
value when they are behind the foot
lights 10 be enjoyed through the me-
dunn of the theatre.
There remains in the BrieuX PLAYS
to-day only the impression of the
authors sncerlty-with his lack OF
humor. In the early years of this cen
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Herein lies what is at present the
chief resemblance between the theatre
OF BrieuX and the northern playwright.
in this country. They have in all been
little acted in view of the amount of
talk about them. The result Is that
most Of the discussion as to the suit
ability OF Ibsen for the stage comes