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Show YOUNG STAGE WOMEN WHO ARE PROMISING Youth and its possibilities over an attractive theme has in the caso of the player folk that added glamor which the public associates with life behind the footlights. Tho faces and landmarks in tho careers- of tho established estab-lished favorites are well known. But what of the young actors and actresses upon whom dependence must bo placed for future results? Tho number of tneatncai people haa Increased so rapidly rapid-ly during the last few years that to picture and list the rising young players would bo next to Impossible, whllo their comeliness creates an embarrassment of pictorial riches-. The line of de-markation de-markation may easily be drawn, however, how-ever, by confining the attention to those actresses of the younger generation who, at tho moment, are most prominent promi-nent in tho public eye. Dorothy Hammond's rise in the theatrical horizon during the last few weeks makes her future interesting. Miss Hammond is a young English actress, ac-tress, who has been appearing in tills country during the last two seasons. She Is one of tlie employees of Charles Frohman, and has been acting tho heroine's role with Henry Miller in "Man Proposes" In tho Hudson theater, New York. This play did not have much of a success and was abandoned. Attention was attracted to Miss Hammond Ham-mond recently by the announcement that next season she will appear as leading woman for one of the most prominent romantic actors in the country. coun-try. In tho case of Amber Lawlord, the managers seem to be nursing a sensation. sensa-tion. Miss Lawlord has been appearing In a number of minor roles, and In a play by Clyde Fitch. It is to be presumed that Miss Lawlord can act, although emphasis does not seem to be placed on that part of tho venture. The resourceful Fitch is able apparently to fit any sort of nn actress with plays, and he maj- please Miss Lawlijrd's managers, man-agers, as he did those of Elsie De Wolff In "Tho Way of the World" and of Clara Bloodgood in "The Girl with the Green Eyes." The emphasis Is placed in the case of Miss Lawlord, upon her life romance. She is really Mry. William Wil-liam Falrchlld Morgan of Kentucky, and they say she married Mr. Morgan when she was 15 years old, and found herself a widow at 20 because Mr. Morgan Mor-gan died as the result of a shooting accident ac-cident in the Adirondacks. The second point in tlie stories seems to be that Mrs. Morgan or Miss Lawlord has a very lino house In New York and proposes pro-poses in her play to reproduce the conservatory con-servatory of a Morgan mansion and carry about the country $50,000 worth of bronzes and articles of virtu from her prlvato collection to adorn the stage. This oeems to be tlie condition, of the caso at this writing. Jane Oaicer is being talked about considerably con-siderably in New York at present She is said to be a daughter of a wealthy business man In St. LouIb, and effected an entrance into the theatrical profession profes-sion through one of the numerous schools of acting in New York. For somo time she played small roles with the Louis James-Frederick Warde combination; com-bination; then became leading woman for James K. Hackett. This summer Miss Oaker will have her own stock company In Denver. Chryatal Heme is a young actress who haa come into prominence during the present season. A daughter of James A. Heme, she began her stage career ca-reer playing small roles in her father's companies. About a year ago she appeared In the role of a young girl in "John Henry." tliat piece which served Dan Daly during his brief and ill-fated starring venture. Miss Heme began this season in the role of Hippo-llle Hippo-llle In the Klaw and Erlanger production produc-tion of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." This enterpriso failed, but N. C. Goodwin, Good-win, who had been atarred in tlie piece, secured the services of the actress for "His Wife's Husbands." This gave Miss Heme a role of equal importance with that of Mr. Goodwin, and she showed that she could sustain it, Philadelphia Ledger. |