Show ACQUIRING SOCIAL POISE 1 Retired Actress Has Bus H Opened Unique Classes Cla es to Which ch Shy Debutantes and Society Climbers All Ail Flock With Eagerness The retired actress s believes that there are arc more ways of raising an income than by knocking about the provinces playing one ne night stands S f and running the chance c ance of grip grif and smallpox The retired actress u ed to be a popular manni led ed gracefully gr go leading lady at a fashionable metro metropolitan metropolitan politan theatre and though she never rose to tragic t lc heights she was enormously enormously enormously popular with the matinee girls fifteen years ago After Art r some adverse experience the retired retire l actress Ss schemed out a scheme i In her ber days she had made friends with some Sm powerful l society s l ty women omen and to tot 11 them t she explained e that for or f a il consider consideration She he with waS willing to take private pupils and it 1 impart I 16 to them a precious distinction of f manner r Last autumn she with ten pu pupils pupils I pils pits today to her clientele keeps her busy from S 8 In the morning until 10 at night her ber prices are 5 for fot a lesson lOsson 1 half balfan an hour long and Ute the t charming ch drawing II room of her apartments th is at once her hertage stage tage mg and room rm School girls and ana debutantes social 1 climbers cUmbers and set settled I tied matrons matron have all demanded her I assistance In hi acquiring d I and one reason of the great faith f and I Influence she sh inspires in her fine dis discretion I in dealing with every pupil I Many of the women who come to her hel prefer to keep their identity a se secret secret I cret from the others whose names may maybe mayb be b on her book beck and a d in consequence her pupils are instructed t ed separately The Th Curriculum Her system is ito b to teach t ach entirely actual demonstration giving tile pupil a part to learn and then act it out with her She possesses a full library of light society comedies that present nearly all the tho e situations of modern fashionable life and scenes from these are studied and then re reI rehearsed 1 I Under the most mot careful crit I direction dire tion and encouragement the i pupil is drilled even to the motions of her body the inflections in of her voice and her facial expression Sometimes the whole scene scone will be acted out before a L long mirror and find a harsh laugh an awkward gesture or ora ora ora a false pronunciation are commented upon and corrected Often enough the drawing room stage Is Ia arranged with witha a dinner table or an afternoon tea I corner and instruction to fit the occa i I I sIon is the accompaniment With school schoolgirls schoolgirls 1 girls the te actress prompts directs and corrects with ith a book of etiquette at hand teaching the scholar how to write note send up or leave le ve her cards offer regrets congratulations and con condolences condolences condolences and enter a ball room and accent or refuse refUe a dance On the strength of her unique position position position tion this t is social trainer enjoys peculiar peculiarly ly confidential relations with her pui pupil pu pupils i pils pil Women confess to her their shy ness ne their lack Jack of oC f capacity for com corn commanding manding attention or ir Interest to her er they frankly fran admit their sense of social I failure and in turn she freely points out the most defects and nd sugI sug sugA i I I L i I jJ A 3 Ball Toilet Toi et for Late tn Spring Dg Went Wear We a L remedy Duress r voC voices voice bearing alt all c under und h r inspection and un end and nd as she bil admits he no woman womans 13 l a hopeless hop sUb sUbJectS je Jec pt br t reformation The rile lJ American Am womans quick wits wiLe wiLer I r will carry ry her over the most tremendous tremendous ous difficulties admitted the actress and then most of them are are tremendously tremendously ambitious to boot But the other l day I had an illustration of this the wife of a man who bed bad struck oil So Soto soto o oto to speak came In to take a course of lessons She was as young YounS pretty whOllY f uncultured but daringly ambitious and determined to pend spend some of ot her lier r rI I husbands fortune in storming the cit citadel citadel i adel of smart New York society She had no time to wast w waste st in learn learning learning ing by experience so we started right in and I gave her the scene ef of an after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon call to learn and told her to come dressed for the part She came edme C me and acquitted herself with positive osIthe charm but her pride In the th achieve achievement achIevement ment was dashed when I r went forward and detached from her pretty person no less than ten superb JuP rb diamond orna ornu ornaments orn ments One Orie was a huge ray ra shaped thins thing pinned Dinned to the breast of her seal sealskin sealskin sea skin coat coot and which she proudly men mentioned mentioned mentioned as a cloud burst bunt then item by item I went over her costume and sug suggested suggested ested changes all of which she t gk in perfectly good part and now I am ilm sure you could hardly tell on meeting her she had ld not all aU her life been beena I a member m of the highest society You may say that her discreet dress dross her lit little littie tie tle notions and manners are nothing but tricks acquired by precept and application just as a clever poodle poo learns to jump through a hoop und and play dead dog nevertheless they will pass her into the circle she fain would enter and by dint of steady practice they will ill become second nature with her and place her at once where self I would not carry her in ten years Its just the same case with the hob hobbledehoy hobbledehoy hobbledehoy girls I have in training De Debutantes D butantes are turned into society eacy year absolutely unequipped for fOl the t e difficult task of making themselves prized and popular and that t is just where my work comes in I never saw sa the woman yet out of whom I could not cast east the Imp of ot shyness by the simple means of acting and reacting and acting again the roles of guest and hostess with her I prevent years of discomfort d and disappointment by showing a girl how to suppress a sillY laugh or bring out the cheerful mirth of a a too sober miss To a 8 timid pupil I reveal the art of starting a a conver conversation conversation and to one who has no powers of talk within her I teach the habit of artful inspiring ring attention Evidently E dently though the actress finds her profession exacting it is she af affirms affirms a firms never never dull and for a clever woman retired from the stage it itIs itIs itis Is one of the most lucrative that has ever been leen tried FANNY ENDERS D |