Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-09

| proper way to light is from the front
| of the house. A couple of arcs in the
of the top of the proscenium arch-or
lower. perhaps. in your fiat-staged,
straight-up American theaters-should
be the main. though not the only, source
of illumination. Barker is much the
best lighter OF a theater I know, be-
cause he always makes the stage the
| glory of the theater: you can see moth
| ing else, in fact, whereas the ordinary
manager often takes more trouble to
| display the front of the house and brag
of his audience, as it were, than to take
care of the stage. Barker is thrown
away on my plays, because he is at his
| best in work that requires subtlety
| and delicacy. To set him to produce
me is like setting Debussy to conduct
| a very. brassy Italian opera-he can do
| it. but he'd rather not. By comparison
| with him am vulgar old buffer"
I Yvette Guilbert December II.
Yvette Guilbert. interpreter of songs,
| will appear Monday evening, December
| II. at the Belasco Theater. Her imper-
| soma lions include little children, &C.
clesiastics. country maidens,> grande
DANES. old women, disappointed lovers,
| outcasts of society, saints, angels, the
| cursed and the blessed. In fact, to hear
a recital by Nine. Guilbert is to look
l con-
| olelons OF men down through the ages
| ana to understand them and sympa-
| thfze with them
Dorothy Jardon's New SonE.-The
summer season played by Joseph E. How
ard at the National Theater did not send
| the manager-producer immediate results
OF great proportions. But it sent him on
his way rejoicing, nevertheless, with one of
the biggest song hits of his song writing
career. somewhere in France Is the
Lily which he set to. music and intro
duced here. has not only proved a great
stage hit for Howard. but has now achiey-
60 the distinction of a place in the roper
fory OF the eminent dramatic soprano
Dorothy Jardon.
MISS Jandon after singing it for the first
time, week ago last night at the Orphe-
UNI. in Brooklyn. wired the publisher: "a
Veritapie sensation. Congratulations on
anoiner sweeping success After Sing
ing the song, Miss Jardon took up a col
lecIlon for the Red Cross. utilizing a fire
pucket 70 carry the proceeds As she passed
along the aisles. the orchestra began
playing, very softly, the chorus of her
new song. The audience took it up. and
presently, to quote her own description,
the theater was just one great wave
| OF music from the bottom to the top of
the building" -
Miss Jardon will introduce the song reg
uariy In her singing for the soldiers. Of
Wnlcn she does great deal Her rem
| ertory for the season has been made IN
| entireiy OF the biggest hits. and she does
not regard Some where in France Is the.
Lily as second in dramatic or melodious,
appeal to any of them
The new march ballad is finding favor
senera Any N camp and chautauqua sing
! OF singers reporting it as one of their
most effective numbers Among the sins
ers who have used 1t in the camps around
q m OF nm N
Selma Selinger, Miss Mildred RAYMOND
Miss Elizabeth Howry and Mr., c. W
O'Connor.
The arrangement of the piano accom-
paninen.. an enectlve feature of the song,
was made by Harry Wheaton Howard Of
this city. = VI
An Unusual Entertainer-After two
years of what she terms Continuous
performance" in Broadway productions
Frances White will have next week
her first vacation from New York CITY.
She is coming to Washington to see
the capital" and incidentally to enter
tain Its highest dignitaries with sing
ing. dancing and Riddle" specialties
that have made her star in the Ziee-
field Follies and in "Hitchy Koo" She
Is released by both for this week only
for my first vacation" explains Miss
White. since came to New York from
the coast"
One of the most unusual entertainers
on the stage today, her work is hard
to classify. She can scarcely be termed
| dancer. though she dances daintily;
nor as a singer. though her singing
of Mississippi" made her famous over
night on Broadway; nor even as child
actress. though she is that, too. Origi-
nal. Individual. versatile. simple and
natural Frances White is-just Frances
White.
brought this unusual little girl out OF
was then in her seventeenth year,
struggling for recognition in coast
Itheatricals. After her first perform.
under contract to star in the 'Ziegfeld
Follies" Before the end of that sea.
son she was engaged FOR "H1tchy hoo.
and at the same time to appear at me
Froiic. Today she is the particular
vogue Of the New York stage.
like. the Limellght-"I believe in
telling the TRUTH" says Chauncey u
cott therefore, want to declare right
here that l like to be in the iimenght.
Why shouldn't L? After half a century
of appearances behind the footlights
with its accompanying applause, it be-
comes part of ones life, all opinions
to the contrary
"Fvery one of US loves the glamour
Of the stage, the plaudits of an audi
ence. the feeling that people come to
know us by our name and it gives us.
SO to speak, a sort of national acquaint-
ance. though we know SO few PERSONAL
Nv. I tell you. it's a grand sensation
It's life itself, at least to the actor. and
I for one am going to continue to en-
low it as long as I can. Why. there
are towns without number that I want
to visit each year. People live in them
that like me and I like them. 1t isn't
conceit, nor q craving for adulation.
this longing to meet again the people
Who know and admire us. It is simply
perfectly natural impulse.
T have a new play this season and
think my friends are going to love 1t.
IT has been written by Miss Rachel
Crothers, who supplied me with THE
Heart of Paddy Whack" and who wrote
"Old Lady No. 81" for Emma Dunn.
ayes, I have some songs in it. Last
wear George Cohan wrote me play
without songs. but do you believe my
friends would let me OF! Not them.
Every night they'd call for this or that
old favorite until was simply forced
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