Show I I BEHIND THE CURTAIN I I Here is 15 a Jap with a record His name is Sato His record is buttoning buttons in one minute and seconds He Is ready to meet all an comers corners at Button Button Got the Button for any kind of a match from buttonholes up no brass knuckles allowed Sato Sate was not always a a but buttoner buttoner buttoner toner He was Lee valet de dechambre dechambre dechambre chambre He Is a Jap and like most Japs is extremely deft with his fingers When The Blue Mouse vas first be being beIng being ing rehearsed It ran Into a trap right away on account of Miss Mab Mabl l Barn Barri sons button gown Clyde Fitch with a stroke of humor unusual even for him managed to arrange the scenes so that Miss Barrison had to change into this gown In less than two minutes On the first rehearsal Annette Miss maid worked her faithful fingers finger black and blue but three minutes was the best she could do They called in an I extra maid but the two girls giris took even 0 longer than one alone Mr Fitch Pitch was besought to change the time of the action so EO that Miss Barr Harri Harrison Barrson son could have at least three minutes but he was obdurate Two evenings be before before before fore the premiere Miss Barrison said to Mr Shubert I simply cant get that dress but buttoned buttoned buttoned toned inside of two minutes and all an there Is to It No maid can button buttons that quick Tell Ten you what said Mr Shubert Ill Jn lend you Sato Bato my valet He Is the quickest man alive today Sato was presented to Miss Barrison and expressed himself as humbly de delighted delighted lighted to button the Honorable buttons on the Honorable gown of the Honorable Miss Barrison An engage engagement engagement engagement ment was made for a tryout of the but button butI button ton stunt at 10 a m mAt mAt mAt I At the tryout Miss Barrison went to her dressing room and came out quick quickly ly in the much unbuttoned gown the buttons running from collar to hem gleaming defiance at Sato On your mark Get set Go yelled the stage manager stopwatch in hand fingers flew fiew down that line of buttons like over a key keyboard keyboard keyboard board After the last button he straight straightened straightened straightened ened up hand held over his head Sato wins In one minute and thirty three seconds said the timekeeper gleefully Sato had a new job right away Mr Shubert loaned him to The Blue Mouse management indefinitely as Honorable Now all he has to do is his lightning button feat once at every performance The rest of his time is i his own Jascha Bron the wonderfully gifted young violinist who will make his first American tour this season made his as a violinist before he was 7 years old playing the Seventh Con Concerto Concerto Concerto certo of Rade Hade At the age of 6 at his hib hl urgent request he was enrolled as a pupil of the Royal Music Conservatory at Kief Klef his native ity and after he had studied there for six months his teacher arranged for him to appear at one of the conserva conservatory conservatory conservatory tory concerts Before the concert the professor was decidedly more nervous over oyer the outcome of his experiment than the child and to reassure him himself himself himself self kept encouraging Jascha telling him there was no occasion for anxiety etc I am not afraid of the opinion of the themen themen themen men gravely replied the child only of the tle monkeys By the monkeys he may ma have meant either the critics or those in the audi audience audience audience ence who might not be appreciative of good music History relate but we do know that he received a tremendous tremendous tremendous dous ovation after his concerto Kathleen the famous young Canadian violinist who is to come io o America In the spring as soloist with the Beecham London Symphony or orchestral orchestra orchestra chestra has many interesting episodes to relate regarding her brilliant career Born in Canada as a child she was taken to St Petersburg by her mother who carefully watches wat hes over her musical destinies to study under Leopold Auer After Atter she had passed the age of 16 her life In the northern northe n capital one of ot the most musical cities in the world had many exciting moments for her Al Although Although Although though she was there under the tutelage of an eminent professor and working hard to perfect her wonderful natural gifts she played almost as much in public as she has since her debut Russian society keeps incredibly late hours In this connection Miss tells of one particular occasion when the well known editor of ot the St Peters Petersburg Petersburg Petersburg burg New Times giving an evening party to celebrate his jubilee asked her herto herto herto to perform at the concert which was to I follow On looking over the long pro program program program gram she found her Item was timed for 3 oel ck Mildly remonstrating that everybody would have left by then she was told that to being the best time of the whole program was set apart for star artists It Elsie Ferguson has succeeded in win winning winning winning ning high praise from the critics of the eastern press in her capable work as the little queen of Herzegovina In Pollocks play Such a Little Queen Considering the brief space of time since Miss Ferguson son became identified with the legit legitimate legitimate mate drama draina her success Is phenomenal and is proud to claim her lien as one of he citizens In view of the lifelong allegiance of the late Joseph Jefferson to all that was clean and wholesome in the drama much Interest must attach to a letter which Channing Pollock has just received from Jeffersons widow relative to Such a Little Queen The letter reads My Dear Mr Pollock Please let me thank you for an evening of delight in witnessing Such a Little Queen So much tenderness youth and charm I have not seen in any other piece produced In recent years and I cannot let pass the chance to congratulate you upon having brought so much sweetness and cleanliness cleanliness cleanliness ness Into the theatre Mr Jefferson Jetterson who thought these qualities of paramount Im Importance importance importance In a play pIa would have shared my pleasure In the wholesomeness of yours ours Yours Tours gratefully Signed MRS JOSEPH JEFFERSON 5 r t I 5 Primo Is a good I play pla pronounces the clown In Twelfth Night and it surely Is If home be 00 added to first second and third This may also ref r to a triple play Safe An Antony Antony Antony tony Brutus Is safe enough Lucullus tells teUs Marc Antony who we imagine was yelling robber at the ump With I to v fit a if rf Athens act four scene three sounds familiar and it really seems as If the theard lard ard of Avon must have seen our crack atcher Catcher throw to second when he writes writ n a Pericles act one scene one Well V 11 Archer hits the tbs mark his hs ye ve doth level at Lord B rowne In Loves Labor Lost has something to say about two pitch alls aIls and If this be an old form of It may refer to a strike out record ot t equaled since Let us conclude with this careful state statement ment nent from the epilogue ten to tone tone tono ne no this play can never please all nIl who are firl here So Impartial It sounds like 1 i reflection from the press box We re have haveard card pard of the universality of sweetest Shakespeare child but wo wold Id ou have thought he had this Intimate with the national pastime p A French magazine relates an ex ax example example ample of the marvelous memory of the late Coquelin the elder At an entertainment given by a Bel Bei Belgian Belgian gian book collector the great grett French comedian was asked how many parts t ie e Knew by heart was the answer H I The company politely professed elout doub as to the capacity of any human haman bran braL branto ora p to retain so much smilingly smiling lY turna the host and said Take from your library the fifty three books I shaH shall name and let soni One start tart reading at random any I shall then continue the plays from fron memory All the guests took turns at starting to read plays at random and nd ID in ever evev evl Coquelin wa was able to contim from front memory without Uie t e slightest l or pause Dause Yet great as Coquelin was wa as aa an ai actor this proof of his ability was but an Illustration of tl ti peculiar pO ullar exactitude that marked lu his work on the stage his mastery of de do detail detail tail |