Putnam patriot., 1925-04-03

house in Westehester and began 0 write Hhrettos for musical plays. ] There was ''Flo-Flo," then 8 dramatic piece for Bertha kalieh. then a mu-
 sIcai book for Clifton Crawford and
 Marilyn Miller and 8 comedy called
 Johnny Get ! our Gun. all mild sue cesses but not startling.
 Blooming sBlossou Time Then the story changes Some years ago. when Miss Donneliy had returned 1 from doing 8 really splendid work in the entertainment ef the boys in the ! 4 E F.. Mr. Lee Shubert sent for her and gave her a German play on 5 the life of Franz Shubert and told ] hrr Co make a lbrefto for a musical play out of it The result: Blossom Time one of the greatest successes gf the theatre Ia the past ten years. ] Company after company hse played the piece and is playing it with its charming Shnbert score up and down
 the length and breadth of the country and the aucats roll in to Miss Don nelly and her managers.
 But this is not all Richard Mans ] field. years ago played charming blt l of sentImentality called ~OId Heidel- berg wherein a prince went to 8 ! University and vas one of the boys and feM in love with a harmaid and then went back to the prince basl= ness and on returning co the univer-
 sity found thas being 8 prince chang ed everything and that he must marry a princess instead of the blonde little Gretchen of his youth. Last year,
 Mr. Shabert asked Miss Donnelly to
 make a comic opera libretto out of the charming cid play and this she did. ] The piece was staged as The Student Prince" wish a delightful score that all New York has been humnlng these many months Thousands are pack lng the huge Jolson Theatre nightly and four other companies are starting out through the land to carry the tunes from Maine to California. As ] for Miss nonnslly. she has folden
 her motor ear and stolen silently away to wsll earned rest on the other dde Of Inc Atlantic.
 The Goddess of ChsnsH
 Then there is another story about
 =nasA~T sssSrsss that started on Ehe
 stage Years ago. in those days when
 Clyde Fitch asea Co have three and
 four plays a season in New NeFk
 there was 8 lovely and cultivated act
 ress whose name was Elsie de Wolfe.
 She had charm. grace and brains ga lore She vsefe her clothes with an extraordinary chic and iu the world of the theatre she Was regarded as
 an actress of fine ability But while
 Mss de Wolfe played annually and held the regard of the sramatlsts and the managers. she never caught fhe public fancy So one night. she faced the music and told herself that she wAs never going Co be a success of the first order in the theatre and that the time had come for her t0 try something else.
 Taste tn acting and in dress had been her distinction on the stage and S0 Nsss de Wolfe decided to make good taste her business in life. She packed away her makeup box and her prompt books and went te work She opened an interior decorating shop and attacked with all the yigor ef her vigorous personality the interior fur nishing horrors that had succeeded the Victorian age. Her success was tre- mendous. Elsie de Wolfe became d vogue To have a house decorated by Elsie de Wolfe was akin .o having a portrait painted by Sargent. From her idea whole rev race of interior decorators came into the market but Tone of them have ever taken Mss de wolfs's place. Teday Elsie de Wolfe is known as one of the most brilliant snd distinguished of Amers- can woman. In New York her home Is as near 10 salon oi the eighteenth