Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07
self If she can be attractive to any

self If she can be attractive to any
one.
Her woman friends know her fail
ings, and laugh at her behind her back.
As for being attractive to men. she has
made this impossible. woman must
appeal to man through another wom-
/ an, or not at all
| New Test.-One night during her
engagement at the Park Theater. New
York, May Irwin was completely up
set, much to the amusement of the au-
dience. Shy the entrance of new actor
into the cast He was uncued, unex-
pected and unwelcomed.
! He was Blizzard. Miss Twins pet An
CORA cat. Miss Irwin had installed
him as official stage cat in succession
to Stubby, who held the job. Stubby
was breaking in his successor and
showing him over the house, as all
good predecessors should A number
of the women in the audience were
momentarily Disconnected by discover
ing two cats prowling around under
| the seats.
/ Then Blizzard. like all new brooms
that sweep clean, broke away from his
mentor. Stubby tried to call MN PACK.
but Blizzard was keen on the Joo. he
| jumped on the rail of the stage box
and walked on the stage, sat there ana
began to wash his face complacently.
Miss Irwin was in the middle OF an i'm,
portant scene and coulon uhoe.s.ahu
| the continued laughter OF the auolence.
Finally she turned and looked at Biz
gard
well, what do you think OF THAR
she abrutIy said to Leonard HOLSTER.
Maybe" said he. its test TO see
YOU can make a cat laugh
Amid the laughter of the audience
Miss irwin shooed Blizzard Off the
stage. remarking:
that bad actor.
A Word for the Fat Man.-Tom Wise
actually glories in his adlposlty.
There's unique distinction. Did you
ever know of fat man before VINO
wouldn't grow thin If he could?
| CHOW if l were to allow myself to
i fall off and grow thin" he says, I'd
be quite SIS much out of the part for
which life has cast me as sooo olo !
| st. Nick.
Think of a thin Santa Claus. 1t
can't be done Every child nj christen-
| dom would rise to throw the lnterloper
out Santa Claus is a good old soul
and every child knows his good nature
| is based on the bedrock of his flesh.
Santa Claus would not be Santa Claus
| if he. didn't shake like a bowl full of
jelly.
| spirit, If you like that better? What
/ would 1 look like, 1 ask you, If re-
duced to the proportions of match?
| l answer I'd go out. My flame of life
would be dead.
| Its all false about nobody loving a
| fat man. They do. What nobody loves
| is thin man who is shorn OF his
glory-which was his flesh Nobody
| loves an ex-fat man.
What Shakespeare calls this too.
too solid fiesh.'' chortles Mr.. Wise
along the same vein, lis for a good and
weighty reason. 1t is the seat of good
nature. 1t cushions and puts to sleep
| all incipient grouches man might de-
| velop without an antidote.
"A fat man always has a laugh on
tap. He is that himself. To look at
| him is to laugh and to watch him eat
| what your fat nan really loves-is
to be reduced to conclusive mirth.
| But l will admit fat man is out
of place in your crowded Washington
street cars Still, you have the jitney."
| German War Pictures. - Edwin F.
Weigle. whose pictures of the European
war from the German side are to be
shown at the Casino Theater this week,
| obtained official permission to accom-
| pany the Austro-German armies on
| condition that one-half the proceeds of
! exhibiting the films made from the
| pictures be donated to the blind and
crippled soldiers fund for those ar
| mics. 1t is said that nearly $4,000
| have already been contributed by him
as result of this agreement.
| Mr. Weigle was with the armies in
! three distinct war theaters-in the east,
in Poland and Galicia; in the west, to
| the French border line. and in the
| south to the dizzy heights of the pic
| turesque Tyrolean Alps. He visited the
| prison camps where English, French
| and Russian prisoners were being used
| to cultivate the German fields: Ham
| burg, with its food supplies: Berlin,
| with its scenes at the outbreak of the
| war: battlefields lined with trenches
| and the hospitals where the wounded
| are cared for, both in the field and at
| the Assem- bling centers.
His pictures are said to cover all
| phases of the war abroad and many of
| them to tell a story different to what
| has heretofore been told.
| Gladys Knorr-A feature of the en-
gagement of "a Pair of Silk Stockings"
p, at the Belasco Theater will be the ap-
I pearance of a Washington girl,Gladys
knorr, the only American member of
the company. Miss Knorr is well known
in art and musical circles. She was
| student at the Chandlee School of
| Illustration and the Corcoran Art
! School. well student of Miss
| Bertha Perrie. Her mother is noted
| pianist. Miss Knorr made her stage
debut in Washington in some unim-
| portant parts with the Poll Stock Com
pany here. Later Mrs. Frances
! Hodgson Burnett, an old friend OF her
mothers. introduced Miss Knorr to Mr.
Winthrop Ames. the theatrical producer,
and she being the particular type he
! was searching for to play the ingenue
i role in his "A Pair of Silk Stockings"
company, he engaged her.