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

announcement nOur. Inc lecturers on
serious current themes crowd the
houses and find rapt attention. A con-
cert soloist of reputation is heard with
eagerness by a thronged auditorium.
It is evidently an injustice to popular
taste to assume that giving the pub
lie what it wants necessarily means
. total abandonment of artistic ideals
and Intellectual standards.
"reminiscences. "reminiscences are
second nature to Nine. Cottrelly, who
plays an important part in Friendly
Enemies
II often sit in my dressing room."
says Mime. Cottrelly, "and recall the
time when I first met David warfeld.
He wasn't the great parsonage he is
now. This must have been about
Russelfs City Directory shows, as they
were called. They were the 'Follies' of
the time. There was a thin thread of
Plot, a collection of stars and special
ties, and everybody had to do his OF her
avn specially as the roles amounted
to nothing.
We sat on the stage in our best
clothes and did our turns in order,
very much like minstrel show. Dan
DAILY, Willis Sweatnam, James Thorn
ton, Amelia Glover, known as the little
faun. were members of the company.
Joined.
Mr. Russell used to like to spring
surprises. not only on the audience, but
on the company. One night We found
. s,tsln gra among ,, US man with reddish
wondered who he was. When his turn
came he stepped forward and gave a
buriesque. impersonation of Salvini's
Otheile' that brought down the house
making his New York debut After
that ne was the hit of the show.
I remember telling Mr.. Warfeld a
story about Francis Wilson and An
tonic de Nevallis, which ne used later
AZ the Casino Theater with Weber and
6leids. first changing it to dialect Mr.
Wilson and were then members of the
naeSali Opera Company and de Novaliis
bad Just come over from Italy to direct
one day he approached Mr.. Wilson
and asked him what a polar bearer
Vas
Ice, said Mr.. Wilson.
why does he sit on the ice~ asked
de NeFailis. with evident astonishment
= How should known answered Mr..
Wilson. Why do you ask mer
oh, said Mr.. de Novallis "a friend Of
polar bearer
A group OF celebrated players-In
the case. in Lou Tellegen's play, Blind
Youth"
Jenie A. Eustace celebrated her
twenty-fifth anniversary on the stage
during the run in New York.
Ever since she made her debut as
the understudy to Agnes Booth in A NJ
faimers stock company she has been
prominently identified, especially in
support of the Frohman stars.
). Mark Smith, who plays "Tubby'' Mat
news. is the fourth generation of his
family in direct line on the American
stage He is descended in sequence
from Sol Smith. famous in the fifties;
MARK Smith, stage manager of Edwin
Z Booth, who projected the present Grand
Opera House in New York city and his
father, Mark Smith, who was well
known decade ago as a prominent
support of Mrs. Leslie Carter.
William Courtleigh, jr, is the son of
the older Courtieigh now prominent in
the cast of Tiger Rose" and who was
Tor several years shepherd of the
Marie Chambers is the granddaush-
dramatic critic and editor of the Phil
, adelphia Bulletin. and has played
RTeInlnent parts in support of Mrs
Nethersole in "sapho,' and his last en-
gagsmeHr was with Josephine Victor
In 'sThe Verdict"
Edith King, well known stage
!, artists model. Prior to her stage debut
. she was a model for Howard Chandler
:. Christie. Earlier this season she made
! a fine impression as Esther in The
Pipes of Pan"
p Paul Forecast was formerly a grand
opera tenor and since taking up the
f, dramatic stage has appeared in '"The
Country Boy" and Twin Beds
Thrifty Thespians.-This is an age of
business thrift among the people of the
stage. The old-time tendency toward
careless waste OF extrayagance has al
most disappeared. George NacFariane
baritone of Miss Springtime," shows
his sound common sense and hereditary
Scottish shrewdness by putting his
earnings in imported HoIsteins and
Jerseys on his eighty-acre dairy farm
near Port Jefferson. Long Island. He
raises grain to feed them and pigs to
grow fat off the surplus The Mac
FaFlane farm is conducted by his
nephew, a Cornell graduate, who has
specialized on scientific cattle breeding
Else Alder also has a fine farm in
Connecticut. where she lays. in vitality
every summer with DOMESTIC work. en-
livened by fishing. shooting. swimming
and water planning. as her place borders
on big lake. Else is much addicted
TO masculine garb while pursuing her
activities and recreations.
John E Hazard Frances Cameron.
Charles Meakins and John f. Young
of The same company also have country
places near New York. from which
s they derive substantial profit as well
as pleasure.
thrift. Horatio-put money In thy
purse was Shakespeare's sound tip
even in the early days, when English
law ciassed the players as vagabonds.
Ada LeWfs-Ada Lewis, who breezes
Though Doing Our Bit" the. newest
s Winter Garden extravaganza, occupies
unique position on the American
stage.
quit the famous Alcazar Stock Com
paRy in San francisco, quietly slipped
: to New York in quest of greater oppor-
funitv and YVES tnade over night
{ Of the gum chewing tough girl in Ed
w9r4 Harrigan,s Reilly and the 400"