The Washington herald., 1919-02-17

New York, Feb. 16-As Samuel
Pepys might record in his diary: Lay
/ late, the skies being overcast and the
morning black and across the heath
strange lights flashed in the park,
being caused by gas combustion in
the bogs. This day 1 paid the trades
men. they being, as usual, for money
very clamorous.
| Came news that George Randolph
Chester. the partphleteer, has taken
up scrivening for the cinema players
and hath an office across the bridge
and Capt. TiIton came to breakfast
with word that I. Cobb, the scribb-
Ter hath taken a barque for the peace
meeting, his first great story being
tho report of the peace meeting at
Portsmouth for Mr.. Dana's journal.
Through the town on the omnibus
and saw a lady of no little beauty
clad in stockings OF net, it appear
ing that she was bare-legged, and she
seemed wholly unmindful of glances.
The concierge opined she was a girl
from Mr.. Ziegfeld's music hall, which
is likely.
! In the evening, with my wife, poor
wretch. to the great new inn where
n dinner was held by the Illustrators
Society, and at the table were Mr..
Briggs, the comick limner, and Mr..
| Webster, and Mr.. Brinkerhoff, and
Mr.. Darling, and a great bust. finely
done, was given to Charles Dana Glib
son, and afterward we danced and
drank a sweetish mixture, and so
home late and to bed.
4 brief paragraph in a New York
newspaper the other day recorded the
demise OF an actor who had a long
professional career. 1t stated that
during his later years he had been
employed as the stage door-keeper at
a Broadway theater.
The guardianship of the stage door
is the finish of many a lifetime serv-
| ice to a public not too loyal to its
/ favorites. Although a humble post
| II keeps its occupant in touch with
all that made life interesting.
( Ethelbert A. Marshall was one OF
/ the most successful managers in the
country twenty-five years ago. He
was the forerunner of Haverly and
the late ones who controlled a chain
o. theatcrs. He fell upon evil days
and became a stage doorman in
| Philadelphia
Another career that ended in like
manner was that of Andrew Lea
witt, the inventor of those famous
! implements of merrimentt, the
| fright wig" and the trick stair
| case" He died while keeping the
stage door of a Boston theater.
For the actress who has outlived
/ her usefulness there remains always
! the post Of wardrobe woman. as
! shown in the last act of ''Trelawn-
! ey of the Wells"
Theodofe p Shonts. traction head
( and editor of the Subway Sun, sat
( at the speakers table at the recent
/ Sphinx Club dinner. When the
/ toast to the President of the United
/ States was called for he lifted a
brimminE glass of water and re-
marked to a neighbor how appro-
pirate it was to drink a national
toast in "tho great national drink"
Great. yes" chorused a group of
advertising men at a nearby table;
but powerful hard to stick to-"
! Whereupon each measured out a
large stick" of Scotch for his
water, and the papier mache Sphinx
at Mr.. Shonts' left hand winked a
I kindly electric eye in their dircc-
ton.
The Salvation Army has taken
( over the New Victoria Hotel for re-
turning soldiers. The hotel had
been the subject of several Tender
loln escapades the last few years
and was known as one Of the fiashy
! cabaret places. In two hours time
/ il was changed into a sedate, dig
nIhed holstelry.