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Show "Photographic records made by english stage favorites 'fififfcoplo in the United States have I? mts ca intense loyalty Kfbeir favorites which is one of the ptjCharactcristics of the English thea-IHfcocrs, thea-IHfcocrs, says Ihe- Loudon correspon-jK' correspon-jK' of (lie Pittsburg Gazette-Times. Bc enshrined in their hearts, a player 'assured of a generous support the 4tWt. of his or her career. No better .' j'Mdonce of this intense devotion could ;4tfdo'uced than the story I have just i of Phyllis Dare, one of the most jjtfMfalar of the younger actresses here. hough she -mil not be out her teens Kir several years 'et, she has alread' SfBlflrfce following "that guarantees her aSyinimcdiato success whenever sho ap-sars. ap-sars. She it was who took Edna Slav's Witt in "The Belle of Mayfair," when fcaffet independent American actress quit Hi- a huff because too much prominence JMks given to Camille Cliirord. the erst-areiile erst-areiile "Gibson Girl.5' who was in the mo show. Phyllis Dare is now playing fepantomime iu one of the provincial wis, but will shortly come to Lon-j Lon-j ft aB a full-fledged star. Kthe story I hear is that like many t'er popular favorites here, she has charging a slight fee for attach-K. attach-K. her signature to the many thou-Hads thou-Hads of post cards which arc sent to wfor. that purpose by her admirers. Hhftg the year just passed she col-Kted col-Kted in this way a little short of jBOO.. all of which sho has devoted to iBpeving poor families which have come ffler notice. Some of these fees are . id to be as largo as $2.50, while JTers aro as small as six cents. There ijio fixed figure for tho prizod signa-e, signa-e, tho young actress ueing her own rjj flgment in Using the price m accord -l ice with the applicant's circumstances, tjjs picture post card mania has :" ched enormous proportions in Eng-pd. Eng-pd. Some enthusiastic collectors with ojioy to spare even boast of collects collec-ts running to G000 and more cards. I ib public taste inclines to actors and tresses much more than in the United , tes, and many collectors leave stand-f stand-f & orders with their dealers to suppjy Ull lem with new cards immediately up-, up-, publication. Although Phyllis Daro is a big favorite favor-ite Pi" she is by no means tho most popu-rjactress popu-rjactress with these collectors. That 3tj )nor. must be accorded to Gabrielle 3p iy. a Jung actress who appears mill mi-ll r , Georgo Edwsrdes's management, ab ifl'wbo is now plavinff in the London ii auction of "Tho Merry Widow." r-j B9 firm of picture postcard makers li .issued m no less than 300 different ii a wes of this actress and they are busy tfi irSias out others as fast as they can :a: fhcr to pose. if: JPhyllis Dare comes second in the si umber of poses .of her that aro on b( bo market. About 240 different ones re now scattered about Great Britain, differ old.er sister, Zena Dare, a great Kjfcyoritc with the "Johnnies'5 of Lon-ifop, Lon-ifop, and now appearing with SejTnour Hicks. Charles Frohman's London "prodigy," presses her closeb' for honors, hon-ors, foj she looks at one in 200 different waj3 from the shop windows. Not content con-tent with theso varying views of the two sisters the industrious postcard publishers have invaded their homo and snapped their mother and father and brother, so that tho combined family is responsible for 500 cards. Somo American actresses have proved big sellers for the postcard men. Billio Burke, who is now appearing with John Drew in "My Wifo," in New York, but who was a big favorite hero up to a few months ago, is an instance. Opo hundred and twenty-five different pictures of her may be bought in post-carddom. post-carddom. Paulino Chase, who is now playing Maudo Adams's part in "Peter "Pe-ter Pan" in London? but who will bo remembered as one ot tho Pa.iama Girls in "The Liberty Belles," when it was Eroduccd in New York, some 3rcars ago, oasts 100 cards. Camille Clifford, who married a peer's son and has now retired re-tired from the stage, but who will bo recalled as a show girl in "Tho Prince of Pilsen," who came to London and , caused a sensation by her shape and her pose in an original creation called "The Gibson Girl," still has sixty-two varieties on the market, despite the efforts ef-forts of her husband's family to buy them all up and prevent further publication. publi-cation. Then thero is "Maude Fealy, she of the classic features and the homo-jnade marriage views. Thirty varioties of Mauds may be discovered if one searchos'very hard. Marie George, one of the mainstays of tho yearly panto-mime panto-mime at the Drury Lane theater, is responsible re-sponsible for an addition of thirty to the already long list, whil6 tho joyous manner or Happy Fanny Fields, a favorite fa-vorite of the vaudeville stage and of pantomime as well, as charmed the picture- man into sixteen attempts to catch the inimitable humor of her smile. Among the actors we iind that Georgo Boboy, the favorite music-hall comedian come-dian of England, makes a brave show. Thirty-five pictures of him have bpen transferred to postcards. Harry Lauder, Lau-der, recently in New York, and who longs to go back to the United States and accept a salary of $200,000 a year (so he declares), can point to twenty-fivo twenty-fivo that look more or less like him. There is a wide difference between the number of cards of tho matinee hero twins, Lewis Waller and George Alexander. Alex-ander. Tho former is now playing tho part that William Faversham made famous fa-mous at Wallack's theater, New York, in "The Squaw Man," and no less than forty views of him havo made their appearance in tho markets. Alexander Al-exander is now playing in "Tho Thief," a big success, 'but he can only boast fifteen representations of his handsome person. a |