Evening star., 1919-02-23
GRACE CARLYLE,
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pany. in which her brother Wilton
was leading man. has made record
is now a prominent member of the
company presenting Mark Swans
farce. She Walked in Her Sleep"
which comes to the Shubert-Garrick
Theater March 2. Miss Lackaye has
been seen during the past few years
in ION Trial" seven Keys to Bald
Pate" Bought and Paid For" Just
Like John" The Blue Bird" and
Mary James Pa" single engage
ment in. vaudeville and in one photo
play with the Famous Players
Author of @Aftermatb."e'Who is
George Seibel?" William Moore Patch,
the theatrical manager who is to pre-
sent The Aftermath a new drama
of which Seibel is the author, answers
the question.
Just a plain newspa per. man. Mr..
Patch says; ALSO a friend of Richard
Mansfield, who turned him to play
writing. For some years Seibel was
book reviewer for Pittsburgh news
paper. One of his reviews, "A Love
Letter to Emmy Lou, received the
distinction of being reprinted in a
popular magazine as a special article.
Then short Story The Door of
DEATH uncanny as anything Poe ever
Il.
Then some poems. almost classic in
their polish, appeared in other leading
magazines.
"To his friends and newspaper asso-
ciates SeibeI appeared as a scholarly
dreamer. who somehow managed to
get vast amount of work done
though no one ever caught him work
ing. He appeared TO know everything
from assyrioiogy to Zola's novels,
though no one knew where he had
al I h i'm
perform some sleight-of-hand with
the dexterity of Hermann, and only
an hour later he was discussing a
knotty point in theology with a
clergyman.
When the problem of commercial
ized vice began to yea Pittsburgh. as
it did other cities. commission was
appointed by the mayor People Smil-
ed when Seibei, the poet and dream
err was made its secretary. They do
not smile any longer. for that COM
mission cleaned up Pittsburgh in less
than six months.
"Au this time seibeI was writing
plays and studying technique He
knows Moliere, Schiller and Eche-
garay in the. original, as famiiiarIy
as he knows Shakespeare. Ibsen is
his idol among moderns-
Il think The Aftermath strikes
the noblest note in stage literature -
adds Mr.. Patch, the note of unvar-
nished nature. As SeibeI said to me
when we first spoke of the play, the
simple truth interests people more
than any tricks Of the theater."
i Luuser Extrayagance.--The last
i time Harry Lauder toured America
| he was routed through western
, Canada The theaters were too
small 10 hold the crowds. how
| ever. or TO make it profitable to show
| in the smaller towns, and the
, management finally hit upon the plan
| of utilizing some of the big churches
with which the northwest country
| abounds.
| In a certain town big, barnlike
| church was secured. Large as it was
| it could barely hold the people, who
came from miles around to see and
| hear the famous Scotsman
| The following Sunday the pastor,
during his serman, referred to Lauder
! trembling with emotion announced
that he had d terrible revelation to
| make.
! we all thought" he said. that
| Mr.. Lauder was a man Of irreproach-
able habits. a man of the strictest
/ probity, there was a moment of
! iawe-inspiring stiffness in the house
| company had departed found in
| the place where he had changed his
costume a half-flled bottle of dark
/ liquid. ] do not know the taste or
| odor of brandy or whisky, but I am
| certain il must have been one or the
1 other"
As matter of fact Harry Lander is
tscrupu1ously abstemious, and he was
considerably annoyed. A Toronto