| Show fu SOCIETY ON THE STAGE Graduates of the Wheatcroft School NEW ASPIKUTi FOR FAME Well Known Society Men and Women Soon to Appear Before the Footlights Foot-lights From the Drawing Room to the Stage ICopyneht IS231 Nw York March 1IThO step from the social circle to the center of the stage from the rose shaded lamp of the salon to the unmasked glare of Uu foolllghts Is I as easy It would seem as the two atoll 1 front genius lo madness I asked Mrs Nelson healcroft of the Whtitcrofl Dramatic school to lelll me something about the social favorites who were taking the jours course to graduate later Into public approval or disapproval I have Miss Adeline Mann she told me a leaUtlful girl from New Orleans Or-leans whoie father Is I a well known railroad director and her people prominent promi-nent In society Miss Ellis Hamilton from an old New York family who Is I considered the < belle of the school Miss Jessie McAJim niece of Judge McAdam or the supreme court Lillian Fltz White cousin of fresl dent Harrison at Omaha Miss von Arold a ream beautiful girl with hair of tho true Titian red not change Ili I a night front darkness la 111111t but the red gold of the Immor taJ canvases She Ins been painted by Stori Abbott and other Britain 11 I lave Also three prominent young Physicians ho have deserted the med Icln chest and scalpel to study A th Tr They have enterol the school un dr assumed names those of Wendell An Jernon and ycss One of them you would know Immediate He has been prom I neat In Vow York Four Hun dred r laughed I Iont know why I remembered re-membered a physician who ud to Prescribe Pre-scribe matinees for a delicate patient Probably this trio or budding geniuses is I of that sclwolth ympatlco hllarl cue or something like that Why shouldn a doctor act T He II lie tight hero to revive Ills audiences while an actor who was Just an actor and nothing else 1 would be handicapped by lack ot medical Information And besides the mallnee Idols are getting Just a trlfleoldJust a little Tell It not In Oath publish It not In He trects of Arktln I but there ate ru I ion that they have I held the e own quite ong enough Ve need something neW There Is a popular Imi resslon that Idols never grow oU Chinese Idols dont Matinee lots 1 do That Is I the dlltncenot the only one of cone but a Paramount one So I welcomed the hews thai wo were to have our Idols I circle renewed I hy I all 1 dltlonn from the medical ranks And ihall transfer iny allegiance gladly However I dont think the estal list ed dots will have to get under cover Just ret retMrs Mrs Wheattrroft combines clarity and business In a thoroughly womanly Ally It Is Impossible to be entirely charitable even at home I 111 Is equally Impossible to be Intensely pronil 1 every ev-ery inlnuto vl tha diy Hut there ore compromises and Mrs Wlealcrort Is I mso and compromises 1 Offer two Scholarships every year she told me The entrance fee for the examination Is I 10 The successful ones are entitled to the S400 course and no one knows who the scholarship gill dents are unlll the end l I congratu I tie hr on her graceful conclon to human pride and on tier generosity Mrs Vloatcroft has about 40 In her present c 1 arm twolhlrd tit horn nri women TnO thirds of everything are Aomori noundays Nature seerinq 10 have forgotten or become mld on br law or averages Mrs Wheatcroft explains the predominance pre-dominance or omen l In her class with a shrug and a mlle That Jg 1 the usual explanation of womn predominance I findan explanation that dont explain ex-plain and doesn reduce Ih0 women more the pity I N71JJ iff i1 tot I 1 G f 1 v In answer to another question Mrs Wheatcroft ansnered M y course Is I a very hard onenv a hours a tier four days In the week GV months And Includes ei ° rylhlng deportment de-portment elocution danclitg fencing etc Yes society play are the vogue Few care to learn tragedy A few at Im pt melodrama but inc majority of the class limit themselves to the light comedy that Is now so prevalent What Is I the hardest thing You have to light against I asked that Is I taking the class collectively llepoife I should say what on the at age Is I called poise That reminded me unpleasantly of the Broadway cable cars so I branched off Uo any of your pupils making names for themselves and for You She quoted tara Perry who gradual el last year and Is I now Haying wllh Gillette as loading l lady In Secret Berv Ice John Lancaster who commenced 11th a email part in Charley Aunt and Is I now assisting Henry Miller and several others vilione names I have forgotten for-gotten but who are ascending that stalralr ot tam which lend to the Vacant Va-cant attlo apartments where there Is I always room and whose signs To Lei are worn Rlth age It us hop some of them will tear those old signs down Mrs Wl eatcrofl s student matinee afford an excellent opportunity for the budding genius of the pen as well an that of the footlights It Is I her practice to bring the worls of untried authors before the public Many of the one act play which ate Interpreted by hr IU title are written pcllly for thrt and have since ben ucctully produced by other manage on the professional stage On ot hr recent protge Is I Miss Alice Yates Grant who I has writ tn a number of clever ono act plays A Ilachelors Wife Tie Sword of Remembrance Mrs Missing Mrs Pet I inglll and Jerry Duffle Moonshln I er her latest contributions to stage lor e mt with great success at the last matinee given by this popular school There are many who bellive still that the pathway to success on the stage leads only by the dlmculll ot one night stands small parts yearn of try ng It on the dog and exclusion from Ih 0 met roOt art triumph There are others and Mrs heatcroft Is I among the number who contend that the dramatic dra-matic school takes the place to a great extent of this hard training and that the finished product of an organized system Is better able I t to ont > oirtgnthe > o-nt requirements than one whose vitality vital-Ity has been wasted rather than rightly 11 14AMILTOV M If < directed 74m Whalcrol knows rise whY should slid be successful Why should her roll call present a full earn plmnt of ndum Why should managers man-agers scarchIng for material to fill hope 1 In their ranks caused bY tempoturY stage marrlallo Absences como to hr for advice And Selection I OCnTnUDE F LYNCH A Trying Experience The mot trying experience In the career or J II ttoddart was the only time when he made a stage wait In his long experience before the footlights t 0 yr durn tion6 This la I how he de me ilbes the advnture I I Iva i laying the part of IHmbcrt Oobb In Ilosodale I had recently pur a farm at had7ently purchased was trying to combine the avocation of an amateur former with that of a i pro tlonal actor I traveled to and from the theater art schedule time and trial Irs ran lone very smoothly until one evening the machinery of the Jery City ferryboat broke down In the mid dle or the river and a fine exhibition ot masterly Inactivity ensued With watch In hand I waited nery i ously for the machinery to resume Its customary activity Finally I explained my haste to the captain And after con ora 7 urgmg no nl m ahon In a rowboat When I struck Desbrosses street It won 8120 oclock and I know that the curtain was up There want a car In sight so I ran all the way 10 the theater Meanwhile the dresser had omitted to report my absence and when the cue for my first scene was given there was a ghastly stage wall They finished the Scene no bt they could and rang down the curtain Lester Wallack came to my dressing room Just as I arrived all out of breath In my race against time Without act I dressing a word to me he began to abuse the old dresser for not noutlng the attge manager ot my absence On my protesting that It was entirely my fault Mr Wallaclc turned to lno and remarked with charnetrltI coolness AIr Stoddart 1 dont Propose 10 find fault With you because I cn see that you are suffering more than t am but dn tt Sir you hooldat live In Ills I country It YOU must hoo POtat011 YOU should hoe them In Central pork In future I Irust that when Iraut cue is I given It will hot be What ho without What ho wlthlnl Widows of Dramatists There are a number of widows of famous dramatists and musicians now living In Paris Mme Ambrol Thomas lives In the Avenue Victor Hugo She is I going to open hr Began shoWy and go out of mourning Mmo de Danville who Is I lever and popular lives In the Hue Laugler seeing nobody but her son and two neighbors Mm Alexandre Dimas still lives In the apartments where the dramatist died I and Imo Gounod also remains In the beautiful house on the Place Malehrb whore the musician died |
