Show i 1 r rr r TAr r I iii 4 if x 01 hr 5 i yn l tit C J j J 1 Y k l it f i r 5 ou Do iler w You I w t f t 4 1 1 7 t J 1 She's the Very First Stage Hisser a v j t e r l j r v Made Necessary by the Protests of S Sv 1 I f I I I I t ti i I f I I I I X Like r 1 h n lr V Actors Who Didn't to Spout Yr S fL fLy 4 y III I II III t 1 I p IIII I l I I r J S Lines and She Does Her Hery cam i M r III I r 1 v r I Enemy i Invisible Work with Patriotic Pride y t 7 f Ir f I rte rY t 1 I Ir r s I S si t 71 lr i bh rr r K 1 y bj c rr t 10 1 t 0 I I r V Miss Dorothy Cheston as 1 r 1 t Y I 1 Eve American Ll Line Every nn lm e. e She Stands in the Wings Hiss She with a Challenged and Hisses Vigorously Vigo l 1 u. u S Sentiments Enemy o II t I y s 's 4 I 0 4 k r r t u Y H 7 ri Y S t By Barbara ara Craydon F you were a beautiful girl and had bad stage ambitions ambitions ambitions am am- IF looking to something handsome in the he heway I way of big bit star triumphs how would you OU like to have haye a part patt that left you ou invisible to anyone m ono save those behind the scenes that didn't give s1 you youn youa n a chance to speak or sing that sing that gave you OU nothing at all to do bu but t HISS And yet et there there is a girl who has made a real hit at doing this very verr thing and is eagerly proud of her work I It all allme came me about in this way American pla players ers and theatrical managers had come almost to a d deadlock in cas casting ling War wartime lime drama for tor no actor wants to play a 30 Hun and particularly a German sp spy The rebellion of at the actor against Prussian parts in war war dramas has lias been a sensation of theatrical history Players who in the past have impersonated convicts derelicts dere- dere or murderers for arts art's sake salte have declined decline since this war began even to cons consider er the mildest mildest mildest mild mild- est sort of at German role The two prize arguments of managers th that t there Is a patriotic side to driving driving ing home bome the despicable tr traits of the Hun Iun or that In a war war play some one has to be the spy have brought this l laconic reply from actors Let someone someone someone some some- one else lse do it it then And because no DO man dare trifle wI with h another mans man's patriotic point of view m many a rousing war play remains in manuscript J Tb The Help of a Hiss HissOn On actual experiment it was found that where the audience hissed a a. sentiment disloyal to America Amer ica lea the actor felt better If It he got the come back backe he lie e felt that the account was squared It was as If It Ithe he had bad become the means of arousing a a. patriotic expression To fo some it seemed like being beingS S Slaughtered to make a a. Roman holiday but any villain villain actor actor counts himself a a. success success when he can elicit an enraged hiss But ut American audiences are not much on hissIng hissIng hiss Ing lug A British audience is as ready rea y to boo or hiss as it Is to applaud Not so the tho American Han If H Ifan Ifan an American J audience dislikes a person or a senti senti- S Itis It- It melodrama it ment ment except except t In homes of ot violent melodrama is likely to be silent or to go out the tho Th Why not then have o a a. hiss supplied from stage itself something itself something to start the audience goIng ga go- of both sense o sense the patriotic Ing or at least to satisfy actor and listener the Well Vell this this is precisely what happened In matter of a play called Three Faces East a play that needed a a. Kelly writt written n by Anthony Paul hIsser to keep leep certain actors in form As a story of or the Secret Service several char chart in in n the pla play were ero perforce German agents of the in in fact the prologue which starts off ocr this play of oC puzzles tal takes takes' es' es place In a aGerman aGerman German Intelligence Office Naturally when the tho honest agents of of assemble they openly assert their love of The Tho Fatherland their prayer for der Tag and their theft contempt for money grubbing Americas America's contemptible fighting force Nor are these of comparable to tho those e that follow when the spies are at work work work- ra rather her successfully successful r it seems seems seems-in in England They chortle over air ak raids and rejoice over plans to blow Merv up the British sh cabinet And of course courso the whole patriotic power of the play would be lost if the these e nefarious characters were not portrayed realistically However it toc took some weeks s of oC argument argument- nr to persuade Mr Ill Emmett Corrigan the leading lending player of or Three Faces East to accept his role of oC master spy And several other parts went begging for weeks along alon Broadway before tine the right actors could could could-be be induced to play them It t was after Violet Henning had said I cant can't say Gott strafe England any more because all of her people were in the war that that fertile person George M M. Cohan hit upon the tho great idea Well hire a hIsser said Cohan as they used to hire a The very cry thing cried the playwright I IThe The Search For a Hisser But where Mr sir Cohan Colgan blandly interposed d will you ou get set your your professional hisser And fo for forten forten ten days s 's this question faced Mr j Anthony Paul Kelly and the troubled actors of Three Faces East Mr Cohan gave his help by suggesting that some pa patriotic young actress out of ot an engagement engagement en en- might assume the tho new role Mr lr K Kelly Kolly ll interviewed we a a. number of ambitious stage a aJ J r r Yta S i iK K M lr r rl rr t lu luLi P Li ii Y Y J k kr r J r t s r w w G a r s Y LI a Nr ry 4 I cants who would have been willing to play the tiniest regular part even to carr carry a tr tray across the stage stase bu bud when thc they learned that the e hissers hisser's duty was confined to tho the wings wIngs that that she would never be seen by bye the audience tho hissers hisser's role was eras politely but generally declined Mr Kelly declared d its ts t's hard r to get a hisser than a Hun Then appeared Miss Mies Iff s Dorothy Cheston This haired fair cl young English n li h girl who had seen London through air raids air raIds through heatless l Io sj r Irr 1918 1018 1 i JI t i f. T i f f. f H io k I 0 f aY C b j of Yx f r i t Pf aJ 1 4 raJ N y to S 3 rr q r I j L LY Y r rv r f 4 t 9 i r L 4 V S L P f I Professional Hisser for the 4 Miss Dorothy Cheston Who Has Created the Part of Comfort of Actors Called Caned to Express Enemy Sen Sentiments an and sleepless war times times had Just ar ar- rnell in America She had seen strenuous service In w war r work Before the war she had bad often taken part fart Jar in amateur theatricals and when she read of the HIP professional proCessional hl hissers hisser's sers ser's need la is Three Faces East East SC lit Mr Ir she immediately y presented herself to Kelly Kolly Id like Jilie to hiss for you ou she announced Its one form Corm of ot war time service and I can ren render er It Ive I've had some experience sin hissing too too- Ive I've hissed in England through ma many a no political stormy And so sue sae wa was en engager trot rot ol that she slie was altogether submissive She had ideas She vant- vant pd rd to dress want some some the tho part and she did id I tIling thing that sug- sug suggests ests the flame and int intensity of the hisser and mn made e her choice of fabric She put puta a shield shiel of stars and stripes over her heart Upon Ullon her opening night ni ht a as professional hisser Miss Cheston was pronounced more th than n a Sibilant success success she she was a revelation As the playwright ht said aid She sn became at once the Spirit oct tho Play that hat authors have dreamed of or but have never been she e eYed line lines American un-American a able lc to give ghe life Every Ever G challenged with a C hiss standing ct b guard in the win wings s from prologue to to epilogue The fhe actor actors came up lip to congratulate Miss l Ches Cheston had to The rile man who ton after aeter the play was over said You know I can do ild It toast the Fatherland now 7 as if Ir I meant afst it for I know the score will bo be balanced the moment tho words are out out As for Miss herself well herself well she Is 15 elat elated ll t I- with wilh the work Its It's something to please a l bunch of oc nice actor people And Its something to gratify the artistic and patriotic senses at the same sarno time This isn't saying sayin a wor word about another mother sort of at satisfaction that rather seems seem to have considerable considerable consider consider- able weight with Miss liss Cheston She is Uio the very first hisser Broadway ever evet hear heard This Is a great tat point To To 10 be a first Is a no matter of pride in itself i l Dorothy Cheston says She S she he has an artists artist's opportunity and Is going born to tu tomake tomake make mate the most of or it She Sho has created d an im important m ort part t |