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Show some mm IDEAS. The Superstitions of Actors and Actresses ' Which Extends to All Branches . of the Art. NEW MODE OP CALMING NEEVESi To Tree His Mind Where Pumice Stone Is Pound Go-operation. Cooking Cook-ing Notes. . The superstition of actors and actress rtends to all the smallest minutiae of their business, and one peculiar fad with many of them is to seek out some little, insigniticant shop in some unfrequented locality where they can buy their wigs, their footwear, their powder and paint, and so on. Happy is he or she who can discover some such place that has been little known before, for is it not an augury au-gury of good fortune? Many theatrical people abjure entirely the large and well known establishments that deal in theatrical the-atrical supplies and give their patronage to less pretentious places down town. . There is a sort of Freemasonry in the profession by which the news of the finding find-ing of these small shops is passed from ear to ear, so that a considerable patronage patron-age in time accrues to the lucky proprietor. proprie-tor. On the other hand, there ore those who are more selfishly inclined and keep their lucky "finds" to themselves as far as, possible, believing that the "spell" will be broken if they say much about It or advertise it even to their friends. New York Star. |