Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-06

Shakeaperean Devotion-Phyllis Neil
son Terry, who is an ardent worshiper of
the Bard of Avon. is credited with not
being discouraged because she was I'M
able to produce a big Shakespearean
drama this year.
II am glad to play Shakespeare in
vaudeville. even if ! would have pre-
ferred the bigger productions" she says.
IN follow Shakespeare, no matter where
he goes and be quite happy-so long as
don't lose sight of him altogether.
II it's in a vaudeville theatrer, why,
there's where you'll find me, too.
Il do not share the conventional awe
of him and his plays. i don't go, in for
the hyper-artistic and therefore dhll and
unworthy production of his plays.
believe that Shakespeare took full adj
vantage OF every scenic possio1hty at
his command when he put ON his plays.
and the mere fact that he didn't have
many is no reason why we should
stupidity ruin our productions by artt-
fcially copying the limitations under
which he had to work. 1 believe in
of them. / believe in the mechanical
of Shakespeare's dramas
by the most modern of modern means.
and l also believe in making Shakes
peare's characters human You cannot
make me believe that human nature and
human emotions have changed so much,
as many of our producers would have
us believe. since the days in which he
lived and the days of which he wrote"
Although she is only twenty-four years
old. Miss Terry has already. enjoyed
quite a successful stage career. both in
London and New York. She is the
daughter of Fred Terry and Julia Neil
son. the niece of Ellen Terry. and, in
fact. comes of a historically famous
family of actors.
A MilIion-doIlnr Fish Story.-One
day fair-haired reporter on the
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot entered the city
editors room from the art department
with a queer looking snapshot photo
graph he had taken that morning while
boating on the James river.
What is it," growled the editor.
Cant you see?" said the youth. It's
a fish" They call 'em 'croakers.' be-
cause they sing when you land them on
the bank"
..Prima donna or TENOR" grinned the
editor.
Then he took another look. The pho
tograph of a singing fish was sufficient
" unique TO interest him. What are
you going to do with it," he asked.
I'm going to write story about 1t
and put it In the paper" snapped the
reporter Maybe I'll make million
dollars with it,
That was about five years ago. The
reporters name was j. Ernest Will
Hanson. and he is now on the road to
his million. He wrote the best fish
story that ever was told, and printed it
under the photograph.
A few days later it startled the dis
corning eve of a sedate editor on the
Scientific American in New YORK. the
hardest paper in the world for press
agent to cajoie. bride or tickle into
printing anything that isn't true or
scientific.
for the original photograph of that
FISH and gave it a page of space along
with the Pilot reporters lit
tie warn, adding a few inches to the nsh
story himself. That was only the be-
ginning
from the illustrated London News Of
fering real money for the exclusive
rights to use the fish photograph in
Great Britain. Shortly afterward an
other cablegram to the same erect
came from the editor of ILLUSTRATION,
in Paris, France. Soon the requests for
photographs of that James river
'.croaker" became so great that the
Norfolk reporter was kept busy max
ing prints of his fish and sending them
to all parts of the world. Every one
declared he had never seen such q
queer looking picture before.
AS n matter of fact, no photograph
similar to it had ever been made. The
mystic charm of that fish picture lay
in the fact that it was a snapshot tax
en- twenty feet under the surface of the
James river. For years the worlds
greatest oceanographers had been
vainly lowering sealed cameras into the
ocean at various depths, trying by
every ingenious method imaginable to
secure a photograph under the water.
Never did their sensitized plates regis
ter more than a blemish. That Virgin
ian-Pilot reporter had done something
to set the scientific world agog,
One day an idea popped into his head.
He lay awake nights thinking about 1t.
Then he took his brother into his con-
fidence and together they capitalized
that photograph of fish into a $780,
900 stock company. Scores Of their
well-to do friends supplied the money.
Then the reporter invented a submarine
chamber. large enough to accommodate
five men, attached it. to his fathers
submarine tube, an invention the United
States navy knows all about, and the
Williamson brothers went far out into
the big ocean.
This time they took along a motion
picture camera Safely hidden in their
submarine chamber, they went along
the bottom OF the ocean turning tho