Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-10

turn the entire subject over to the
political experts af the press gallery
Else Alder. There is a vague
general Impression that we young
women OF musical comedy are like the
lilies of the valley that toll not, neither
90 they srin." says Else Alder.
We'll. I guess I do about everything
except spinning and could do that in an
emergency. l can cook and sew, ! also
sow. plant. reap and preserve. On my
Connecticut farm in summer time 1 have
many domestic activities, and still find
time 20 hunt. fish, ride, swim and golf
The outdoor life is my delight, and
don't know what a midnight tango or
4 cabaret are like except from report.
las an artist I have worked incesSant-
~ since / was fourteen-actins and
singing in about every form OF musical
play from grand opera TO operetta- Just
as this dreadful world conflict broke
out ] came to America under contract TO
KIaw and Erlanger- My nativity? l
was born in the Austrian mountains. l
had no choice in the matter, but l was
fortunate in my choice Of parents They
are Scotch-two of them are Scotch
they are both -blooded
Scots / am for all time IN American
citizen by choice and naturalization.
And am one OF the the few Americans
who know every word of The Star
Spangied Banner
Dramatic Camoufieur-Lincoln J.
Carter. who, in association with j. j.
Shubert, has provided the Winter
Garden with all its spectacular effects
during recent years. has volunteered
his services to the American govern
ment TO act in the Department of
Camoufage. ME-. Carter is one of the
most adept and expert artists in devices
TO trick the eye in this country, having
- -, r
called dramatic camoufage- Some of
Mr.. Carriers most striking spectacular
effects have been the railroad collision
IN The Heart of Chicago" the race be-
tween the automobile and locomotive
IN The Honeymoon Express, the pjr-
suit Of the Edinburgh Express in
Dancing Around" the charge Of The
L. s. Cavalry on the Mexican border IN
"The Passing show of 1916" the foot
ball game at Yale Bowl in The Pass
ing Show of 1917 and the patriotic
effect in Doing Our Bit" the latest Win
ter Garden Show, the Decentralization
Of the American troops in France.
Vaudeville NoveIty.-Hattie Kirch-
ner, a girl yiolnist whose proficiency
seemed to promise fame in the usual
way, has introduced in popular vaude-
Vile an innovation that disproves the
wisdom Of Solomon that there is
nothing new under the sun
This young woman has so trained an
ordinary house canary that il trills
Rhythmic obligatos 70 her classic violin
selections and furnishes to popular
melodies such as THE Mocking Bird"
the natural instead Of the heretofore
artificial bird notes She has gone
further than this. Stationing herself
out in the audience. she whistles to the
bird the calls of other birds. which are
echoed back to her. The performance
has been declared the novelty wonder
full of the season in vaudeville. whose
very life depends upon novelties.
4 Modest Observation-Disclosures Jrdela
one of the leading comedians in the
new Winter Garden show, furnishes a
brief but unique bioSra ply.
Asked once to tell something about
himself, he replied: There is very little
TO tell. but ! can give a great deal of
information in a negative way
Il am not the son of rnilIonafre-I
was born in poverty on the Bowery
New York Neither was my mother
a society leader She was as good as
any mother who ever lived, but she
worked for a living as far back as
can remember. I did not give up a
commission in the Army, nor the presi-
dency of a railroad to go on the stage. I
went because / loved the work and
could not help it I was fired from
everything else I tried to do on the
grounds Of gross incompetence
There is no royal blood in my veins,
but what I have is good, clean Ameri-
can on my mothers side and French on
my fathers. and if anybody has any
better blood than a combination of
Frech and American Til promise not
10 envy him"
Judels began his stage career on the
Bowery and later was a clown in Bar
mum and Baiiey's circus. He got his
real start on Broadway after years of
unrecognized effort in all sorts of COM
panies. through Marie Cahill and her
husband, Daniel v Arthur. the mama
ger.
They gave him the part of butler
to play in a piece called Marrying
Mary" In which he made what the crit
les called a genuine Broadway hit. 1t
must have been so for good engage
ments have come regularly ever since.
Air. Judels has been seen in recent
xeaxs in THE Eolliea. and IN the