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Show IH aYDE PITCH'S HBMj ll tr sight linad" (iiydo Filch baa produced a work that i assnowhat unusual, because Mr. FHi-rarely due suyihlng in a usual way. Neither is it alrangr that Miss Walsh baa made a personal triumph. But the striking thing is that Miss Walsh la this play lias taken a acme and has made it the talk of the entire country. Her Interpretation of It cannot 1st told by any ordinary words. Kite rises to a point of histrionic art that, is.ao unusual that even the most facile pen stop in the effort to adequately dmertlie it. It is the climax when Miaa Walsh, In the role of Moll OHara, a gist of the ultima, la led to believe that the men she loves has discarded her. In and utter spasm of despair ahe determines to' forget her avowal to walk the straight wad, and to drown her trouble in a wild deltauch. Like a mad woman, site wrveka her apartment and ends by tearing a shade from the window and stands Iherr quivering, with a glass of liquor la her upraised hand. But lbs sweeping away of 1h window envering baa flooded the with light, and one stray moon beam Ulnmfnea wlerdly the picture of the Virgin hang on the wail. With a hnmaa the wmnin that ia fa 11a on her kncea before the pictnre of the Mother of Borrow, hi an agony of contrite weeping. The ecene la terrible. h GREATEST ACTRESS MODEL-FO- R PHOTOGRAPHS EASILY - CARRIES OFF ALL HONORS COMPETITION W li1 who h now conceded head of that triigic-emo- . "r i,rtin- - 01 hich aha fans ,n Ul exponent, ha thia year ' ,B 0 distinct triumphs. Strange ,lir1 connected more lh, stand before the camera that can ba found. The pictures of Miss . Walsh that were exhibited consisted of thirty-fou- r in n amber. Ten of them were what are known in the dramatic profession as straight piAureU"; that ia, in ordinary costume and without aake-n- p of any kind. ' subject would undoubtedly be found in the dramatic profession. This was obtii.nul vious. Actors and actreasea are aiwaye good subjects, simply becanse they are ..A, ., accustomed to facing the putilic. They naturally fall into an eaay, graceful and J,,,,,,,w1her'e ,rt than with interesting position: they wait for the The other twenty-fou- r inni "eiated with the theatre, instant of the camera --liulb dick, and are were scenes a, dinner was held photographed with the expmwioa which from Clyde Fitch' it k: Xew Yurk. of 'by a group they deem best suited to them individ- play, The Straight ' Road," in w h i e h ' ually... wTf "n mnf foreign ret-t- i But .when the matter of deciding which Miss Walsh was ,llMt ,h Wir assumed J". of the thousands of professionals would playing at the time. Th,,re wm take tills one best picture in Americn, The picture .On thia o';"'1 opinions differed widely, end it was ad- page are the moat Iim ,nrH' 'natare were mitted that no decision could be arrived characteristic enea at williont the actual work and experi- taken from, the collection. Pm.nn",?. ,i"L uh,'w,Tr. that atood menting. "'hpn th meeting was After the decision So the meeting adjourned, with the Inorpr formal understanding that there waa to had been rendered, !.!, v" JhP !hPn ?he,h wild moat eo lay nW.TT1-be another a month later, when photo- the- - photographer c"nl camera. There A4 rlio submitted were to be exhibited and a dethe d'ecnmliiD and a heated graph! cision arrived at. The condition! were collection, spoke 1 l Mine Walsh firmly agreed upon that the examples (Ul1-- ,h question was for this novel teat were to be made by as a aubject for tbs . could the beat flashlight, and absolutely without the camera. . . Wou,d I felt absolutely subject knowing ' that there was any a man r a woman. ""i'.lniiit sore from the mart, competition on hand. "T Witbont A month pasted, and the meeting waa said he. that the decision would be renwho would best stand held. There were more than twelve hun- dered in favor of a woman. I felt equally t.rv dred photographs exhibited, and the de- confident in photographing Mis Walsh diM"',i,,n t definite cision waa quick and absolute. The that I had the ideal subject. ; Let me .- !-. what picture of Blanche Walsh won. With- say, without fear of contradiction, that m.Ori.i ,, " fd ' " ha Amrr-I- t out a dissenting voice Miss Walsh was there is not one wmmie in a J people ' ml.) thowand Ph"urr.Ph he taken? .J' w by these masters of pho- who would appeal to a photographer as fc N'!y admitted that the best tographic art to Im the finest subject to dues Blanche Walsh. By a critical ca ini - ! i in-d- "! Shakespeare Built Astor Theatre. telil One of those old Near Turkeys, who knows every Inch of the metropolis, waa guiding a friend about the city recently, when they came to Broadway and stood before the Astor theatre, which is New Yorks newest playhouse. And what I this building?" asked the I "'d. inii-l- h'qs-lese- kCLJ'E.? "7 ti ,,;ni:::rif0; stronger. ild hi guide, "la the Astor "That, thsfttre. But you never eonid gnes who erected H. "Who was it?" cams the query. "" '"'"n "Wiakespeare. aiinatirm of cat of one hundred pictures I have made uf her, you will see that the expression is n"t the same in any two. Moreover, each ue baa lteen taken under ordinary circumstance in a theatre. without the usual accessories of gallery, without nwre than two minutes of preparation and. M flit midst of the tiresome and enervating detail of a rehearsal. I am mire that the decision w Ba.sh absolutely fair, aud that Mi aa a nssl'd subject stands alone for a plsttogiupber. Mis Walshs other smi c of this year with a play, i quite naturally ft i not to be wondered l that in "The y Is that a Joker Not a bit of it, explained the New Torker. 1 am serious. That theatre is owned by Waanhala k Kemper, the theatrical managers. Almost every cnt of of the money that that bonne was went into the building made by their Shakespearean production. So I always ex-- - V - 7 plain when I am talking about it, that It is the one plnyhoime in the world that HlmkMpeara hath." SHAKESPEAREAN REVIVAL IN MANY FORMS How It Started in a Womans Intuition. It look very mack now as (hough five year every thinking during person lit America will be connected in one form or another with a great n wave, which is weering over the country. No one can tell where it will end. Already seven new and very flalwrate editions of Khakespeare'n work have been announced hy prominent publishers. Four of the Important mlb-ghare in-tinted new courses in Khakcspctre. Still another educational instil iitkai has organised for next year a popular four to the home of the hard of Avon, which will h taken advantage of by at least liBl etudentw Besides this, a new Shakespearean memorial is to be elected in New York. Tld Bhakespeerean ware had H start during the past year In quite an nnfor-sceway. being launched by Miss Annie Rnssell, the actroea. Mies Rnssell has always been an earnest student of Khakesiswre, and Lae written many essay oa the plays and characters. When rite derided le hare an elaborate production of A Midsummer Night's Iiresiu," ia which he waa to play Fuck, a disenssina began. Tha argument waa used that Puck had always been played by a child, and tbero vented to be m real reason why such a tradition of tbs stare should not he Mias RussWl argued against kept npu this, however, setting np the counter claim that there were poetic niceties in tits character which bad never been brought out. and never oonid be, enrept hy an actresa of long experience. The result shewed that bar judgment waa correct. Ilcr triumph in the character ia now known throughout Amcnra, and ia the unquestioned reason for thia remarkahie Khakespearean ware, which ha seised upon every itranch of art and education ha the coantry. threat Hhake-sfiearea- e si n r |