Evening star., 1921-06-26

see again in print the names OF
companies, actors and their plays
which follow. There were the Bos- !
tonians. in Robin Hood. Rhea. as
the czarina. as Josephine, Sapoleon's
wife, and as Catherine Howard. the !
wife of Henry VIII; the Boston Ideal
Company. in Carmen" with Zelie de
Lussan as the bewitching star. and !
in THE Elixir of Love" and THE |
daughter of the Regiment; Herman. !;
the great magician; Rudolph Aron-
sons New York Casino Company, in
"Erminie." with Bertha Ricci. Addie |!
Cora Reed, Mary Stuart. George Den i
min and Fannie Corey Daboll: Lewis !.
Morrison. in Faust; Will T. Carl !
toms Opera Company, in THE Con !
doliers." Chimes of Normandy" and ,
FRA Diavolo." sometimes with Jean
ME winston as the devils brother and
sometimes with Will Carle,on in that
role, and Will Pruette az the funny
bandit. Beppo. and in Amorita or
Whitsuntide in Florence; Helen La
Washington Opera Company in "Claud
Duval or Love and Larceny: the Nc
with Chauncy Oicott. Digby Bill.
Annie Meyers and Laura Joyce Bell,
and in "fhe Black Hussa-": Pauline
Halls Comic Opera Company in
"Amorita." "Erm. .nie" and Madame
Favart"; Imry Kiralfy's ''Mazuln,. the
Night OWL" and Around the World
in Eighty Days; Robert Downing as
Spartacus, with William Muldoon, as
the Fighting Gaul: Maggie Mitchell
Cricket. Jane Eyre and the Little
Maverick; Stuart Robson as Berty the
Lamb in The Henrietta" as TonyI
Lumpkins in She Stoops to Conquer
Marriage Failure?" Modjeska in
Mary Stuart" Camille "Adrienne
La Couvreur'' and Macbeth; Neil
Burgess in THE County Fair. Han
lan's "Supcrba." and Clara Morris in
Renee" Article 47." Miss Moulton
1t is necessary to call a short halt
here to rest your eyes. wipe your glasses.
perhaps to brush away tear. as some
old fair picture comes into your mind
and to say to Yourself Il remember:
remember.
DCT let US now be on with the re-
- view and across our memory pass
Thatcher. Primrose and West. and We
hear the songs Sally in Our Alley"
THE Picture on the Wall and The
Song That Reached My Heart: WI
liam Gillette, in "An the Comforts of
Home: Joe Emmet. as Fritz in Ire
land" singing that well remembered
lullaby Go to Sleep. Ny Lena. Dear"
and those rolicking carols, "Climb. Climb. |
Climb. Climb: Climb Up the Mountain |
High" and The Cuckoo Is Calling:
Richard Mansfield. in Don juan" Beau !
Brummelr' and Prince Karl: Gus VIII |!
liams. in "keppler's Fortunes: Agnes |
Huntington. in Paul Jones': the Min i
ME Hauk Opera Company. in ''Traviata.
'Trovatore, "Lohengrin and Faust
William H. Crane, in The Senator" and
Frou." Jeanne dare" and La Tosca";
Bartlcy Campbclis "Siberia' Fanny !
Davenport, in Fedora; Sol Smith Rus !
sell as Hosea Howe. in Peaceful Val |
ley: Joseph Wheelock. in Mr.. Potter of !
Texas: Francis Wilson, in The Merry |
Eastwood, in Three of Kind i
Let us pause again. Some one of those i
names has surely touched tender i
memory. happy memory. joyous
memory. Some one Of those names must !
bring a picture to your mind! You !
before you in colors fresh and bright as !
though they had been laid on Yesterday. i
You have flung away thirty or forty |,
years. The spell of that particular even !
ing comes upon you. The perfume OF |
the flowers you bought for her, the rustic |
of her skirt. of her fan, of her program: ,
the luster of her hair. of her eyes; the |
melody Uf her chatter about the play. !
She was your sweetheart-perhaps the |
only one. perhaps one Of many One |
evening above all others. comes back 10
you-just as one. or more-come back |
to the man who is writing this. 1t is |
a delicious memory. Perhaps she is
with you vet and her hair is craving |
and she is a little stouter and you love !
to think that she has changed but little |
since that evening when you called for |
her in a hack, bore her proudly away to |
the theater and after the show went to |
Voight's on the Avenue. for two saucers
of ice cream. probably strawberry and
vanillS
You remember that simple little |
"ioint" with a row of marble-top !
tables down each side Of the long. |
narrow room and the big coffee urn |
behind a counter that was covered |
with a glass case full Of cakes, can !;
dies and even pies Those funny lit |
tie marble topped tables did not look !
like restaurant tables at all and they |
number Of old parlors. You recall
that out on the sidewalk there was a |
sign which read. French Drip Cof- |
fec and Rolls. 10 Cents" The lady !
who is now your wife used to go in |
there for lunch after she had shopped |
at Lansburgh's. the Boston House. the |
Palais Royal, Kann's. Kings Palace. |
the Bon Marche. Baum's, Guinnips. |
and Perrv's. 1t was one |
of the early signs Of that kind, and !
the Rambler believes it was the first |
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