The sun., 1919-04-20


~ know why tho amusing
4 Georgia O'Ramey in The Vel
vet Lady" happened to go on the
stage may listen to her words i'm
parted with every appearance of the
most solemn truth to her press agent
and the world. She says in an ex-
pansivc mood
My roommate at college was Flor
ence Moore whose father owned q
theatre in a small park at Newark.
Ohio, in which he ran a stock COM
pany. After leaving school l put in
a summer there in stock, that being
my first taste Of professional life. At
that time coon shouting commenced
TO be popular, and being unsteady in
clined j found myself particularly
adapted for that kind OF work. play
ing IS I did both piano and violin.
/ was induced by Mr.. Moore to do a
speciality between the acts. SO sang a
popular coon song entitled Melancholy
Nose You bet it was a hit. Shortly
after I got together a few songs and
entered vaudeville. my first engage
ment being at Toledo, Ohio. ] used my
violin and gave limitations OF comedy
Characters. s'u'
p After that began my engagement
at Fishers Theatre in San Francisco
in musical stock for eighteen months,
and believe me / certainly enjoyed
the success l met with there After
this. back l went into vaudeville.
after which 7 appeared in several
minor roles; clamoring for recognition
in the big town. ] certainly found II
uphill work until / managed to land
my first New York engagement, which
was with Maxine Elliott. who opened
her own theatre in The Chaperon.'
Then came the two years run of
Seven Days at the Astor Theatre,
playing the part of hit McNair, after
which l spent six months in Europe.
On my return | played in Uncle
Sam with John Barrymore and Tom
Wise. l was afterward with the
Princess Players in The Switch
board"
jennie Arpentini, who plays one Of
the most important part in Come On
Charley" now at the Forty eighth
Street Theatre. is over 100 years old
She was born in South America and
came 10 New York only a few months
ago, where her talents were discovered
by George V. Hobart. who was casting
his new fable, and she was Immediately
engaged. Jennie had been telling for.
tunes all her life, and Mr.. Hobart, who
sometimes goes humorously into the
occult, went down on the lower East
Side one day to have his fortune told
He found in Jennie remarkable like
ness to dream he had fallen into
few nights before, in which he was
looking for Il sure fire. fool proof sys-
tenn OF beating Wall Street market, for
in the play he was writing the young
hero had to make $4,000 every night
and matinee.
So Jennie picked out a good fortune
for Mr. Hobart and he engaged her
for the cast with the proviso that her
system could be used at every per-
Torrance. The agreement was reached
and Jennie was TAXED to the Forty
eighth Street Theatre, where she gave
him some valuable tips on the market.
She appears every night, and the hero
makes his 100000 every performance.
The information she provides for
Charley Carter. the hero. never fails
to bring the result, and every banker
In New York and throughout the coun-
try Is bidding for Charley Carriers &C
count. Wall Street brokers flock TO the
theatre to learn the system. and there
is now panic in the lower East Side
on paraquets.
Beatrice Nichols, who plays Mile,
the adopted daughter of Bin Jones, in
"Lightnin'." is native of Boston, and
her training for the stage was obtained
in the Castle Square Stock Company.