Evening star., 1920-01-04
AllluSQnQQntS
Music and Drama

long neglect, David Garrick made a YER
sion of the comedy under the title OF
katherine and petruchio," but did not
appear in il himself Henry Woodward
and Mrs. Pritchard acted the chief char
acterS in Garrick's production Other
noted English players who have been
seen as Katherine and Petruchio are
Mrs. SjddCnS and John Philip kemble,
Helena FAUCET and Charles kemble, Ell
len Tree and Charles kemble. Ellen
Terry and Henry Irving. Mrs. Bernard
Beere and Forbes Robertson. In Amer
ica, Lewis Hallam and Margaret Cheer
produced the comedy for the first time
IN Philadelphia. November 21 1855.
Macready anr Mrs pa:ley. Fanny KEN
Bile and Charles kenbis. Clara Morris
and Louis James. Fanny Davenport ard
Edwin Booth and Ada Pehan and John
Drew and Otis Skinner have been seen
in the play.
f H Scthern and Julia Marlowe first
played the famous old comedy in Cieve-
land Ohio September Is. 1905. and il
has been one of their most popular pro-
ductions.
William Hodges Cnreer.-The stage
career of William Hodge. who mas
become renowned through The Man
From Home" The Road to Happl-
ness" "Fixing Sister" and "A Cure
for CurahIes." has covered period
of about score OF Years.
His early aprren ticeship to Ora
matte art was spent in an obscure
little repertoire company. Many a
Pennsylvania and New York village
waited for the coming of young
Hodge in those dayS He became such
a favorite in those small places that
he finally organized a repertoire COM
pany which he very pretentiously
called The Elite"
During those days Hodge was an
all-around actor He would play leads,
villains or comedians He was even
an exnert clog dancer. and he tells
with amusement how. between acts
he often had to go in front of the
Desperate Desmond makeup as once
happened when he was playing Sir
Francis I.evison in Fast Lynne"
Irish dialect characters became his
Lincoln i. Carter's old-time melo-
drama THE Heart of Chicago" that
he first made his footlight bow. on
Broadway. A little later he was play
brothers farce, - Reign of Errors"
In this he did a Spanish dance. Then
came his discovery by the late James
A. Hearne, who put him forward as
Freeman Whitmarsh the eccentric
Harbor" In this Hodge may be said
TO have really found himself and his
peculiar art.
Whitmarsh was followed by his
Stephen Tully. in Sky Farm; by his
Paris; by his Mr. Stubbins. in Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch; by
his Daniel Voorhees, Pike, in The
Man From Home, and by Jim Whit
these he added the role of John Otis.
in Fixing Sister" and the young
southern physician. in "A Cure for
Curables."
Baird Of HaPvard.-It is a legend
hof rf9 "Sfan1n' n1acpd
upon a man. is hard to eradicate.
Perhaps this classic trade mark is
one of the elements in the personality
of Stewart Baird of the "Shubert
Gaieties of 1919"
Baird has had an interesting career
He is a Bostonian. who first devel-
oped taste and ability for the stage
while a student at Harvard. where
he was also principal soloist OF the
Harvard Glee Club, and throughout
the spring tours of that organization
achieved wide popularity.
He developed into a base ball play
er of far more than amateur ability,
and Harvard fans" predicted for him
a wonderful future On the otner
hand his relatives held open for him
bright prospects in the field OF nnance.
in which his father and grandfather
figured prominently in Boston. But
Stewart Baird disliked both ideas and
remained steadfast in his determina-
tion to take up the tfeater seriously
On completing his college course
Winthrop Ames. gave Baird his frst
at the New Theater in New YORK,
wherein Baird appeared in The Blue
Bird The Piper" vanity FAIR
'.The Arrow Maker, The Merry
Wives of Windsor" and other produc-
tions.
Juvenile roles in support of William
II. Crane, and his first appearance IN
musical comedy was under tne man
asement of Henry w. Savage, in Lit
tie Boy Blue" Then came engage
the Ladies' THE Man With Three
Wives" in Lehar's opera. in ROBERT
Chambers first light opera, iole
then a vaudeville tour in an act OF
Jesse L&skv called, The Beauties
After an appearance in Victor Eer-
bert-s THE Debutante," with Hazel
Dawo Baird was seen in the Lou
don production of .Tonights the
Night" On his return to America ne
was gagged by Charles Frohman TOT
"Sybil," and at the expi ration Oh tna'
enca cement was placed under con-
tract for Rambler. Rose" He mas
since appeared in THE Kiss Burglar,
Little simplicity" and other musical
comedies.
Seven Little Eatonx-A few years
ago in Washington the manager OF
local stock company used to depend
for child actors largely upon. one
family-the Eatons- No matter "hat
the demand might be, there was
ALWAYS an Eaton to fill it. For the
"seyen little Eatons," as they We're
called. ranged like steps in fairy
steoladdcr There We're four girls
and three boys and each looked like
"A Raphael cherub.
This was four years ago. 1hen the
eldest of the Eaton sisters. Evelyn.
was tempted by a New York manager
to become famous, which she might
have done except that she married
and let The stage. Doris and Mary.
aged IL and IA, respectively, reached
success In their Washington career
in the leading roles of The Blue
Bird" Every one of the hatf dozen
OF the E.atons had a role i'll the play,
even down to baby Charles, who
toddled on as an unborn child.
IL was really THE Blue Bird that
brought about the most severe break
in the home !ife of the Eatons.
Now slowly but surely after three
seasons the Eatons are beginning to
M The same place in New York
theatrical affairs they used TO fiji IN
the old stock company here. They
have become generally accepted as
talented. ambitious and dependable
Every one can act. Cance and sing.
The eldest brother is still in France, {,
Joseph is pcsginE away at his music
and Charles, aged 6. has already
rrpde mis- stage debut in The Awak-
enins' and in Mother Careys
CnIckens. Pearl and Doris are
ktudying dancing and singing while
they grace the Ziegfeid ''Follies" and
-'Erolic"; and Mary. first of the seven
little Eatons. who has first arrived at
in n a