Show k Drudgery Is the Lotof Lot of a Leading Woman oman Edith Angus s T e s H Ow Laura Nelson e son Hall a Spends Her La Laborious L Lb b oriOuS r us Days a 3 i t f Y J Edith An AnN Angus N K ON THE STAG first and only de i ij O j S t beco become me ale ding Wo Woman man maD I r Ix am still stiR ambitious and I still MIH wish wink to be i uc woman but butte but Tat te ls too the disappointing part of ot it ft Once nce there were no buts bute I do not mean that t at there has ba been disillusionment I am JD still fond of my iny work it appeals to me meas mea a as aa tably as 8 ever The only dif difference difference ference is 18 J that I now see what I could not see before and what I know the tb women who are rot on the stage do not see Me today the tho countless difficulties the hundreds of ot petty worries the accumulation ac lation of detail which h make the work the most arduous in the world I 1 thought there was a 8 time for work and anda a time for or play with a little extra time for rest This is not the case There is time for work yes plenty of time for tor that a little time for rest a very lit Ut little de tle and nd no time at all for play The life Ilfe of Miss Hall the lead J woman of the Cummings company a ma nub mat be taken t ken as typical I 1 have been ean thrown with her as much as it is pos po possible Bible sible for a young woman just beginning her ber stage stace life llie to be thrown with a wo we woman woman weman man of established e position po and reputation r pU tation In the theatre I 1 know her life 1 thoroughly and her courtesy I Iam Iam Iam am able to give the readers of The Herald a transcript of hours of o oher her day dayI dayL I L want to spend a day dy with you 1 I explained yesterday to Miss M Hall HaU Dont you Y l do that now she fie answered an answered with a laugh r I explained exp more m re fully HI RI I want to come to IB f mediately after litter break breakfast breakfast br k fast and I Ido do not hot Jt t want tp tg leave you until you t to bed I 1 want cant you to do da just what the days work calls ells for nothing more or nothing less Come to o me tomorrow morning mor said aid Miss Misi Hall HaU with ith a charming channing smile in which there was nothing of malice nothing of guile I am sin still sUlI tired and andall andall andall all I did was to fellow follow this pretty 10 young roman Noman about for a whole day At 8 I called at Miss Halls home and apologized apologised for disturbing h her er before breakfast She was seated before a 8 blazing fire studying Ruth in The uThe Blue and the Gray I have had my breakfast an hour she said RId with a 8 augh laugh My day be begins begins begins gins at aX 7 1 I have just jest come coole in from a long l ng horseback hor ride rid It is my y yonly only form fer a of recreation f te next on your I jutted attired Miss Hari Hal made m de a charming T I 4 f t a 4 5 4 4 a w f fRa 4 4 4 Ra T dui duit 4 II 4 4 S 4 t t 4 4 1 4 4 4 4 S 55 b ai I It Ie 4 4 4 t 4 4 e I 4 4 4 t 4 I 4 rA r t 4 4 4 4 1 4 4 4 4 i 4 4 9 t eC t y 4 i L LJ ifs I IR 4 J H J i iI ii 4 4 to 4 J I 4 4 i 44 fo foI 4 I 4 4 a V C 4 I IIII IC R i 4 C III IIII t a y t fa iIi iIiI faC 4 t I C 4 4 4 4 fi 4 4 M t Ai r Hi 4 r e 4 4 t tr Hi 4 k fi r j i ia ic I 4 S rh 4 I 4 4 4 4 I 4 4 a 4 4 c 5 t p 4 T Tr 4 4 4 r 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 a f 4 4 S 4 4 4 tj 4 4 4 4 t t 4 4 4 4 4 A A Gown She Wanted Copied DAD DS S hI TO 1 EVERYDAY DAY You See It AH An Been Plain Sailing I Dressmaking making she said sald sadly My Myde dear de r they are the bane of my life I 1 knew something of this myself even Juvenile omen wear clothes Where do you get your lovely gowns I tried hard to keep a slight tinge of envy from fr m my voice vole volet I am t 01 I design de the all aU myself said Hail u some me I Ih have v made up in Paris s m t it an and 1 New York There was a kD ck on on the door and t i two women came d came ne into the room and I took full and immediate possession of ot Miss MI Hall They The were her tyrants the dressmakers For an hour hOr certain rites and ceremonies cere monies were gone through We wo women women women men know them all and have grouped them under the name of Ut trying ing on The gowns were lovely This done and there was another in interruption interruption I started guiltily for I had hadan hadan hadan an idea what had come I was not mistaken There is a photographer down d own stairs with a camera said sid He says he has an appointment with Miss Angus Miss Hall looked lo ked at me re reproachfully Let him come up she said with all 11 the resignation of one of the early Christian martyrs The photographer J took up two hours of the It was merely a session ses session sessIon sion of gowns g and gowns and yet more gowns While the man was preparing his backgrounds and nd lights and the theother theother theother other mysterious things that they must have just right before anything can be bedone bedone bedone done photographers are awful auto autocrats autocrats autocrats we put on an gowns Now this said Miss Hall as she appeared in a 8 wonderful l gauze crew crea n i bi 11 a ft ap p Il pansies pansie was made from my myown myown myown own design deign by Felix Pretty isn t It ft tt I r wore this in the last act of Lord Chumley but the Stage tage was too dark for it to be seen I shall wear it again some time soon Miss Hall HaIl dropped into a chair resting re her head upon her hand hanel The pose was charming even the photographer saw its artistic possibilities possibIlities possibilities Th The picture needed but one thing a 8 slight light fleeting expression of sadness I took a mean advantage of my experience You should have worn it in Captain Swift I said Oh I never want to play pa that part again gaIn I cant stand it You saw how I cried I never never cry over my own trou troubles bles but I wept copiously co in 1 the last act of that th t play The Th death of Cap Captain Captain tain Swift appealed to me with Stith W ith terri terrible terrible ble bie force fo ce Voila There Ther was Vas the th expression we wanted The photographer saw It too I dont think I have cried crl d on n the th stage before in years The last IRS t time was as when I was first playing in stock at the Girard Avenue theatre in bi Phila dephia La i te you of my first experience ex experience on the stage stag T Miss Halt Hall Hal looked up Aa a Same me moment moment ent tI jI got ir des d a JK wor I joined the company as tas an extra I woman Do you know what that means I 1 had Been Deen leading tha the mob in The Little Minister all the th week because there was no part for me in he a piece I had borne the insults of tri nd in the company who had ca 4 d supe s1 1 every tUne time I had passed rf i that I did I Oh I mean that wa way cried Miss Hall I 1 mean really an extra woman I said I 1 never uever had quite the he experience experience experience ence I joined that company Philadel in Philadelphia phia at the enormous salary salat y of 6 68 a week I led Jed the mob and had to work and dress with all the other supers 0 O it ill to thinK of oft it even now You know in iu big cities the class of extra people Peo pie is very differ different nt from frow what we get here her One night nl ni I went to the theatre and c j find my clothes After a time the maid mald who dressed Miss Valerie the leading woman came and said Miss Bregere BarG ere wanted to see me I went into her dressing room and there was a ata table ta le for me and all my things were were hanging han ng up on hooks She said she was going to let me share her room Stith her I tell you I blocs bless herr her h r with all the bl I 1 knew kney how to pray for After six weeks I was given ray my perso yoa ee it roll plain sailing My lIy own lot had been so much pleas pleasanter pleasanter pleasanter anter that I 1 felt almost in ina a patronizing patron patronizing izing mood During g this little talk Miss Hall had been beep putting on a black jet gown grown made for her by Worth As M she spoke she stood with her hands clasped before her The photographer did the rest restA restA restA A knock on the door interrupted us just juat as she had put on still another Idress dress It was wa a boy with an enormous enormous bunch of American Beauty roses Then I knew w that I still wished to be a lead leadIng leading leadIng Ing woman woman Miss iss Hall blushed like a girl in her first season I never saw a woman look so pleased Dear uDer dad she said rhe he sends them to me every daisy dwy They rhey were waiting for me here the day I arrived in Salt Lake and I get gett some BOrne from him every ev ry day I 1 have the t vary vry v best hest father in the world She held the theft flowers o ers to her face In Inhaling inhaling haling hal pG their loveliness One more picture or rather two for another pose with the roses was caught J before Miss Hall Ha 11 had time Ume to move Thena Then t a photograph of a a gown which she wanted to send east to be copied in I other material and that work was over It was nearly 1 by this time we had luncheon together What a woman wo woman I man mIl eats is not interesting After Ater we called c our session ea off eft for tor fora tori a 8 few hours e both b th to the theatre At 5 we were were w re free tree again What now I asked I 1 am going home for a a few minutes rest What at Miss Hall went for and what she got are two very different things thing There were a dozen people waiting rP Ito tp see her A man man with a new kind of shoe a woman with seven different kinds kin s of O f toilet preparations four Ut men who wanted endorsements for certain brands of soap two dressmakers makers who were sure Miss Hall would be better suited with their r work One of them said seen Miss Hall in the gown Felix and it was a sight Shedid She Shedid Shedid did not know the maker when she ven ventured ventured i the criticism and when told sub subsided subsided subsided sided with an audible sniff There were two photographers photograph r a dentist with a 8 scheme to place diamonds in Miss MJ s sl l L L LL L I L I LL LJ I CJ Halls Hails teeth and an English groom will win a bull pup which was wu pining for her society All this mob was dismissed dis dismissed missed ed kindly Miss Hall HU did not buy the pup she did not sin sign any soap testimonials she did not have diamonds put in her teeth nor did cUd she change her dressmaker After this ibis came dinner but before dinner r the dressmaker came again for fora forI a brief trying on After dinner we went to 10 the theatre At 1138 we were wee back at Miss Halls H lr home h e once more more I for far one was ra ly hungry Miss MiA Hall took no nn n supper She put on a wrapper and settled down in front of the fire I have two hours study before me before I 1 can go to bed she announced as if she had done nothing all day dayI I sat and yawned and then I yawned again and once more I yawned Finally I said Good night Miss Mies Hall Ban was still at work when I left her herat herat herat at 2 in the morning I am am not quite certain that I wish to tobe tobe tobe be a leading woman x EDITH ANGUS t 5 S ort or S t S t Dx S b Ea Y 3 r 1 T Ti I 5 J JI S S 5 i it iY I r rt rf i t t Y x A a Y I is L Lp p t f M aY a aM I M 1 11 4 I 4 A j t tw w Ti Tir r 1 i LT 1 t I t 3 P i 1 4 L ka Y MF pf 0 e I i i 1 9 I r Ev YOU SET T ST T T P ON 1 DEATS TEE TB J r r a p FO x I A 44 4 4 4 4 4 l t Jt a i d t A m Ld feA t i J io t n JJ Lt dt Dil t bl u tl fo 1 ILU n f T r H UA t iJ t 1 Ta i r II I ft 1 t S 1 c |