The Washington times., 1915-05-09

enthusiasm for the young woman-ne
said she was young. Nobody paid the
concerning her. He said she had been
| In a company he managed and was on
| the point OF leaving when he insisted
on her remaining. She was little girl
"a very little girl. he said. And she
! played In lurid melodrama. the prin-
| cipal part of which was child's part
But the Duke saw the genius OF the
young woman-he declares he detected
her genius. And when she wanted to
| take a job In a laundry he made her
| remain on the stage. Even this didn't
| arouse much interest from his hearers.
The coldness OF his audience didn't
peeve him the slightest. He had a bit
| OF tag to the story he knew would
make them all sit up and take notice.
He bored them to death with the most
endless details OF Gladys Smith, her
, mother, her work in meodrama. her
Sondsrful genius and great success.
somebody heard the word success. and.
never having heard of Gladys Smith
| In correction with IT, naturally asked
VINO she was. That was the signal for
the tag. The Duke chuckled.
which Mary Pickford last appeared on
the speaking stage!
Inc waves Of pleasure that rush over
| US when some expert authority indorses
our opinions Of things in general are
| =.
that fairly rattle our understanding
| when our opinions OF ourselves are
Endorsed In an equally authentic
And when both are combined in one
and the same Endorsement we undergo
sensations that can come only to the
Fathers of great intellectual twins
sensations far beyond any other form
or ecstasy this world holds for Its
! human fungi.
| This being preface to the sugges-
| ton that all Washington theatergoers
rise In their jesty this afternoon and
DOW low but with becoming dignity, in
the general direction Of the esteemed
Madame Critic of the Dramatic Mir
ror, who has said some of the very mic
| est things about the discrimination OF
Washington as show town that she
! could possibly say-and those who know
! things she has said are about the incest
| things that can be said.
| The people of this city have become
more or less accustomed to reach for
the verbal salt whenever they read
| something a wise old theatrical manag-
er has to say about the excellent judg
| ment of the Washington public They
| realze that most managers either have
play to produce here or remember
| that some time they will have one None
Of this applies in the present instance.
! The pleasure inspired by Madame Crit
! les remarks comes from the fact that
she Is absolutely sincere about II and
her sincerity is apparent in every one
OF the several paragraphs she devotes
| to the subject.
| Madame Critic" is by way OF being
! something Of a Washinstonian herself
| and ther, are many good people here
Who watched her grow in the Mirror
| to her present authoritative position
IN the theater with that peculiar pride
| With which We recognize the features
OF fellow-townsfolk on the tops of the
ladders that show above the ever
growing structure of professional at.
tainment.
As Mrs Fred Schrader, the wife OF
one OF the healthiest and most helpful
dramatic editors local newspaperdom
has boasted. Madame Critic" made a
number Of friends here before che and
! her husband entered the larger field
in New York. Mrs. Schrader was Wis.
iting her old friends last week and
wrote piece about them In the Mir.
ror that contains all the nice things
that have been suggested-thinss tina,
are too nice to quote and should be
read in their original setting to bt
thoroughly appreciated.