The Washington times., 1915-02-14
TWinkling Stars and a
Satellite or TzUO
BY GARDNER MACK.

as this towsled blonde hoyden. Song
writer's, it might be remarked. are not
In the business Of making their product
to Mt any individual mental figure.
perfect 36's Of music, as general rule
the perfect 36s that will 1T any person
of that general size Miss ranguay iss
r her Vocal height. and , a iii little smaller pau,
elscWhe The convolutions OF her
voice and individuality require special
treatment. and Of course it Is necessary
for her to have made-to-measure songs.
Most of these are supplied by her.
self or bv ideas submitted to profess
sional song fashioners by her. She does
not consider that she has monopoly
yearly examines hundreds of COM
positions written by admirers and sub
mitted to her. She usually ends by get
ting out her song writing work basket
and turning out her own efrusions.
One OF the most interesting things 1
have learned during the week Is the
story Of how Annette Kellerman became
are still a number. OF people in this
country and elsewhere who believe
Miss kellerman Is nothing more than
a mermaid despite the fact that she
and act and fence. and do a lot Of other
things almost as we'll as she can dive
and swim.
She is getting over the diving and
swimming habit because there seems
| to be enough people who like to see her
doing other entertaining things-people
| who have become almost as tired Of the
! diving and swimming a. Miss Keller
man herself-and that is getting q
| whole lot tired.
There are very few people who view
her proportions-and Miss Kellerman's
| proportions are among the things that
1 ha, h~Ar -{Ar a,,I r,,lt ~
more or less respect-who will believe
that she began the battle OF life with
the doom Of chronic invalidism hang
in" over her. She was weak child
one of the kind Of children who are said
Her people in Australia-her birth
furnish a perpetual meal ticket for a
Of a drug store. They frequently men
toned the fact In her presence with
| regret.
Little Annette determined to fool them
she gained through reading. she com
menced a series of physical exercises,
and on learning that swimming was one
of the best builders Of the constitution
she started swimming. 1t was an easy
thing to vary the monotony Of swim
ming by diving-and there you are.
She still maintains her exercise habit.
by the way. Otherwise. there is every
her as the late Annette Kelierman to-
day. She was almost killed in Bermuda
last year while employed in taking a
series Of motion pictures. The tank in
which she was exhibiting burst and the
pressure Of the hundreds OF gallons OF
| water shot her through q jagged hole in
its glass sides with the force of a can
non tall. One Of the protruding points
of g,ass caught in her side. and tore Il
cash that would have killed an ordinary
| pf
maintaining health and bodily vigor
Miss Kellermanwas out OF the hospital
after a few weeks.
Frank Bruner. rushing into town late
this week reminded us OF Joe Cawthorne
that, by the way being Frank Burners
regular Job this season--and Joe Caw-
thorne naturally reminded us OF con-
certina.
From Bruner we have learned that the
Cawthorne concertina is fixed and life
long habit, and not just piece of stage
business Cawthorne divides his earthly
known as Queenie Vassar--and his con-
certina
concertinas Cawthorne's don't dare
bring 1t into the open and fondle II on
the stage before the audience until it
emits it's usual howls Of anguish. He
keeps it hidden away In his dressing
room, and between times he is on the
| SldeC SdiSSSoS ohu pSSS ~ "i''i thc
effect.
Rruner declares in print big story
about it by the way---that the concertina
proves Cawthorne to be a regulate hu-
man being His ideas about the thing
are at odds with accepted opinion. Most
of us thought the way Cawthorne han
died the concertina proved
But what difference does y make?
keep far enough ahead of Cawthorne to
be entirely out of hearing.
When young Ann Murdock broke into
this column last week with her Mst OF
absurdities we little knew what we were
laying ourselves open for. Here comes
Florence Webber, who says she has
thought some thoughts out of her own
head that she thinks would be OF bene.
fit. AS these thoughts are only tor
chorus girls. the rest OF YOU. who are
. not chorus girls. need mt read them.
As q matter OF truth. 1t must be al.