Evening star., 1915-11-14

serious drama. She simply refuses TO
let scene lag and gives the occasion
an air of joyous completeness by her
own enthusiasm.
Phyllis Neilson-Terry and Her ideals.
Phyllis Neilson-Terry. the young
English actress who plays the title
role In the all-star revival of "Trilby,"
recently gave special matinee for the
faculties and students of the various
women's colleges affiliated with Column
bia University, New York. In response
to persistent calls she made brief
address, saying, in part:
Il loVe the stage-the good, clean,
wholesome stage, with which. fortu-
nately, 1 have been associated during
my fve-year career as an actress. 1
have never appeared in any Offering
that was not pure as this play of near
ly 1JO years ago CThe School for Scan
DALI, and / trust that no circumstances
viii ever force me to, whether it be
Shakspeare's comedies or tragedies, or
Sheridan, or Goldsmith, or the So
called modern plays.
There seems to be a popular impress
sion. particularly during the last year
or two, that play to succeed nova
days must deal with murder and sud
den death, with the underworld and
with the police. or with vulgarity to
the point of salaciousness. But let us
hope that such performances appeal
only to the sordid and morbid. and that
the day is not far away when the
stage will know only what is good
and glad and pure and wholesome, just
what it was meant to be.
Bedsfeads and Drama.-The bedstead
in modern drama is getting to be al
most as indispensable as the actor
True. its use dates back to "Othello"
and Camille but it was caught up in
Barbara Frietchie" some years ago,
where an old-style southern high-post
bedstead figured, and it will be found
TO have been an important auxiliary in
many plays before and since then
The Girl From Ma xin1s, Clyde
Fitch's The Girl and the Judge"
When knighthood Was in Flower"
he Liberty Bellies" in which Pauline
Chase won fame through her appear
ance IN a suit of pinf pajamas; "Du
Barry, In the Palace OF the King"
and Peter Pan" are few of the more
prominent successful plays in which
the bedstead figured
In the dramatic offerings of the last
two years this staple and necessary
article of furniture appears even to a
greater extent than in years gone by.
For example, In Boston recently the
bed as an important feature of the
play. In Twin Beds" at the Park
square. there was pair of them; in
The Song OF Songs" the entire last act
of the play was devoted to a pretty girl
in bed. while at the Castle Square The
Blindness of Virtue" pointed its moral
With the innocent girl visiting the bed
chamber OF her Prince Charming,
and shes In Again" at the Hollis,
contributed its share.
Ziegfeld's "Follies" went in for the
downy couch Wholesale. with no less
than six beds illed with pretty girls.
The song hit of Nobody Home" was
entitled Bed. Bed. Bed" in which a
ysrng man In paianias referred in a
most touching manner to the glories
of the bed. "33 Washington SQUARE
also was gallant contributor. and
last. but not least. is the dainty bed
room scene in A Pair of Silk Stock
lRSs-"
Arrested as a Spy-Ossip Gabriio-
WITCH. the Russian pianist, and his
wife. the well known daughter of Mark
Twain. who were living in Munich, at
the outbreak of the war were given a
Jolt they Will not soon forget
An oSerassiduous German butler, who
left the family to enlist. told of his
life with the Russian, and that Gabrilo-
wftsoh received great many letters
from Russia. The pianist was seized
without moments warning.
Ms. Gabrilowitsch was so horriiied
mat she phoned friend, and had only
lime 10 say, DO something quickly.
ossip has been taken as q spy See the
tiusefan Ambassador" when her phone
was cut off.
Pho friend to whom she phoned was
also cut off the telephone list, but he
had worked quickly enough to get 20
iho Russian interpreter, and the let
ters and papers which were found on
'iabr.lowitsch were proved to be only
fanily letters and regular. inoffensive
material He was released after hours
of intense anxiety.
Ills wife says she remembered moth.
ing except that she 1svsg left the win