Putnam patriot., 1921-09-02
JUST ONE THING MoREl


 arrival in this country of Miss Elsie Janis the aetre The said that Miss Janis this-eounFy tomake brief before returning to Paris to sn French in Peg O My Heart"
 Now have intention acting press agent may the Bradley Theatre the Vic tory except the ceuod imprint of her talented perform However this brief of the arrival of the popular comedenne there object lesson not too far distant for home application consideration for to Miss Janis demonstrated and demonstrating the quality Of ndomab that Is the backbone and body of successful accomplishment.
 Miss Janis has been the from the cradle As child she wandered through the months under the watchul eye eferguadian mother from small amuse ment park another singing Father Wouldn't Buy Me Bowwow, giving juvenile imitation Of eoored minstrel thereby supporting her mother and several brothers and sisters In the early teens she playing m an humble theatre in Coney Island Hammersen famous for his theatrical finds for his operac utrepdity found her hot July night Having developed from the baby stage to the "fapper Miss Janis entertaining matfarous audience who divided their attention between the stage and large glasses liquid popular the and served in large glass vessels which known prehistoric schoon CTS The bearded Oscar slip of girl do sat iric imitation George NJ Conan followed by cyclonc take Madame Bernhardt and ending finally with lovely graceful hsedown dance When the actress had finished talk ing curtain calls Hammersten engaged her to the the of the Victoria roof garden then the leading entertainment of New York When the act following Monday evening and brilliant thea rca flashed rumphany the theatrical horizon
 Now the story doesn't There people in the who make resoundng hit and forgotten the next just in Wall Street clean up fortunes the market lose all before the gong sounds stars who having made hit in certain kinds of m personaon continue to play the kind of role until they have grown rich and old and ambonle But the story of Elsie Janis is of another character
 Miss Janis followed up her with successes. She became bought herself old house Hudson. She invested her earnings in huge office building Madison Square She remained the toast of the the joy of the snghter the adOred of the eaow col ege youth The early twenes found her almost reprehenb successful But still her story
 New York behind her, her material welfare she l and gained following enthusiastic she had earned in America She graduated from limitations and dancing She showed talents for remarkable comedy acting She wrote songs play poems and-(th is what have been driving at-she studied without eeasing-Freneh music mahemat- history and literature Wherever she she studied and worked worked worked developing always her mind and her abilities looking always for just little beyond the she had enjoyed before.
 Then came the war. Dropping ambition, profit success, she sailed few months after Pershng and for eight months she worked hard any member of the A. E. and told stories hus on the backs of eamons outpost back of the danger line She sometimes many five and six performances day bringing soldiers the world isolated in the slime and and dirt of the bit of gayety breath of home exheatng delight We her at midnight fall exhausted stage after having and danced in less than nine American Army camps in a single day.
 And still the story doesn't end While in France Miss studied her French harder than She learned the argot provinces She gained the of the aubourgs herself proficient in the French manner o acting singing Then she home, made Captain in the A. E. F. and returned to France play in French
 This large posters the bouevards announced Elsie its There first night Paris gathered in of the principal theatres oi the Bouevars the little American who dared face Paris in tongue Paris who dared dance n the city of marvellous dancers who yentured qup and bonmot in the tongue land Another and bigger registered enerprsng hastily signed contract with her for an early return this Miss Janis spoke She had duplicated her British and American successes She for something higher something hard to do that she going play straight role n a straight comedy Paris and play French Success as the doughboy would say s the middle of Our Elsie. We venture @ predict
 story ha and the moral comes in. great many people successful and they live to the infinite boredom contemporaries the overriding aures that single of victory But this is not so with real ambition victory field The lasting of the world like that Miss Janis whether in politics or plumbing singing sewing business baking through
 rL first more work second and in looking always