Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 226, Hammond, Lake County, 24 March 1910 — Page 9

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By CARLTON HOLT. IT is not only when they are on the stage that player folk do and say things with the Idea of producing a certain effect. William Collier, who has created more healthy merriment by means of a phenomenally serious countenance than any other comedian on the American stage, is responsible for an experience which illustrates this fact. After a recent performance of "A Lucky Star" he dropped into the Lambs club to obtain some slight refreshment and while it was being "created" , strolled over to the letter box and examined the contents of the C" compartment. He found several missives addressed to him, and among them was one containing a tailor's bill with an explanatory note suggesting celerity as the only possible antidote to legal proceedings against him. "Clothes clothes," soliloquized the actor, with one of those agonized expressions on his face .which never fail to bring down the house. "When have I ever worn clothes?" A closer examination of the peremptory epistle revealed the fact that it was intended for another Collier. With a long sigh of relief the comedian resealed the envelope and returned the letter to the pigeonhole. His bump of curiosity is very liberally developed, and he vasobsessed with a desire to have a glimpse of his namesake of the

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Then, realizing for the first time he was under observation, he smiled sadly, restored the envelope to its original shape and put it carefully into an in

side pocket. "The dear, sweet girlie!" he murmured softly, even tenderly, making his exit. Another Collier Pleasantry. Were it not for the fact that Mr. Collier has been known to admit that the following tale of which he is the hero may be founded on an actuality it would be vastly less interesting than it is with that probability in full force. It happened when he was a very young man he insists on this proviso, although he is chary about fixing the date. Anyway, it was before he had experienced the ecstasy of seeing his name in block type. Even at that early stage of the game he was convinced that for him it was only a question of time and opportunity. When he reached the understudy stage he believed that the opportunity was close at hand. He was right. He was notified late one afternoon that his services would be required on that evening to fill the principal role in the play. Jubilant to the verge of hysteria.

Collier blew joyously' into the nearest

telegraph office and dispatched the fol

lowing message to all his managerial

and other influential acquaintances: "I play W. J.'s part tonight." Although the play had been doing an

excellent business, Collier discovered

to his intense disgust that the audi

ence on that particular evening was

going to be markedly slim. He pro

ceeded to his dressing room prepared

to find It overflowing with floral tributes and congratulatory messages. There were no flowers and but one lone telegram.

It was from the author of the play and read thus: "Thanks for the warning."

MISS MAY DE SOUSA IN "A SKY- ": ""'VT"i'Tr LARK." sartor i episode. With that end "in view k fseated himself at a table hard by and began the leisurely discussion of the combination of mint and other delectables which had just made its appearance. He had not long to wait. Presently there entered a "young man in somewhat crushed evening attire who proceeded rather unsteadily to the letter box and took from the "C" pigeonhole the letter which Collier had already digested. The rightful owner of the missive perused it to the end laboriously and with evident distaste. Pres

ently he crushed the disquieting affair

between his two hands and permitted himself to let slip an unprintable ejaculation.

An Old Man's Makeup. J. E. Dodson, the famous character actor, reveals the secrets of his makeup as Sir John Cotswold in "The House' Next Door" as follows: "There are no hard and fast rules to go by in making up. The actor has to adapt his makeup to different parts, and he has to take into account his

own individuality. First, I mold the nose out of nose putty that is, in a part that demands it. For this part the nose adds a great deal of character. Although Sir John is an aristocrat, I do not make an essentially aristocratic, nose, because the conventional, thin, aquiline nose is only one element in the 'makeup' of the aristocrat, and there is so much comedy, so much strength and so much pathos in a role of this kind that a mere thin, aquiline hose would hamper rather than aid in the makeup. A rigid, hard, aristocratic

nose would give a set and unlikely appearance, and, in contrast with the other facial characteristics of Sir John, it would be a- blemish . rather than a mark of character. ,

."Now- I paint my ' nose, whlefiris

grafted with Sir John's, with this melted color, using a camel's hair brush. As the character I am making up for

is an aged man of an irritable disposition, it is presupposed that he is bilious, so I use this pink and yellow grease paint to give a sallow appearance and in order to get into the general tone of the makeup for. this part. Having done this, I adjust the nose and then cover the entire face with cold cream so as to prevent the skin from becoming irritated and in order to give a smooth foundation for the grease paint. Next I put on the foundation of flesh colored grease paint all over the face, which afterward has to be colored according to the nature of the part. For this part being, as I said, a bilious old man, I then put on

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taker drove Into town and gathered in some mall. One letter at least interested the master and mistress of Strongheart House. It was dated at an up state town and carried the letter head of a chicken fancier. It ran: Dear Sir We find that there was a mistake made In filling your order. Instead of one dozen White Leghorns and one dozen Wyandottes you received two dozen Leghorns in separate crates. Shall we send you a check for the difference or will you return the extra dozen Leghorns and receive Wyandottes Instead, we to pay freight charges to cover mistake? " Which goes to show that it's a wise farmer who recognizes the chickens he bought the month before.

ETHEL BARRYMORE AS ZOE BLUNDELL IN "MID-CHANNEL."

a dull yellow over the . foundation, which gives a sallowish tint. Now a little rouge. ' "I next mold the nose, using the tips of my? fingers and doing much the same as does the sculptor working in clay. ThIf done, I , put in, the 'high lights- preparatory to lining. By lining is meant denoting the shadows and wrinkles that give age and character to the makeup. For the high lights I take this camel's hair brush, using yellow grease paint for this particular makeup in order to make it sallowbilious and give age to the face. I put in the lights under the eyebrows and at the sides of the nose and on the fronts of the cheeks; also I put on the crow's feet, using the same yellow. Having done this, I put on a yellowish powder which dries it all out."

The Edesons as Farmers. Robert Edeson owns something of an estate near Sag Harbor, N. T., and considers himself something of a gentleman farmer when he Is not acting:.

Mrs. Edeson is also deeply interested

in their country place, known as Strongheart House. Early in the season, when they , were doing one night stands, they came upon a chicken fancier in a New York up state town and determined to buy some extra good

chickens and ship theme to Sag Har-i

bor. Mr. Edeson chose some extra fine White Wyandottes at $40 a dozen. Mrs. Edeson, . being less sure of the egg crop, decided on a dozen plain White Leghorns at $20 a dozen. The money changed hands, and the caretaker of Strongheart House was duly informed that the two dozen additions to the Edeson chicken family were en route to their new home. Just before Christmas the Edesons dropped into Sag Harbor for a few day3 of rest, and one of their first trips of inspection led to the chicken runs. Plymouth Rocks strutted proudly in one run, a huge family of Royal Pekin ducks was In winter quarters in another, in a third were Brahmas, and in the fourth was a fine flock of white birds with yellow legs. "Where are the Wyandottes?" de

manded Mr. Edeson of . the caretaker. "In there," responded the "- man, pointing to the run filled with white birds. . : ; , s , "Then where are my 'Leghorns?" Inquired Mr3. Edeson. r .-. ."They're "all theM fn'" dife-ruii,'

replied - the man, "the two Crates of

them." .

"I told you to put them in different

runs," said the dismayed actor-farmer. "We wanted to see which were the best layers, and now we've got to sort them out." . And sort them out they did, but it was no easy task, for a chicken in repose may be measurable, but a chicken fleeing a pursuing master or mistress of the best regulated chicken run will look several sizes At once, and naturally the Edesons decided that the chickens which cost the most money must be the larger ones. At last' what looked like the dozen Wyandottes were separated from the less aristocratic White Leghorns, and the Edesons retired to a well earned luncheon. : That afternoon the care-

Apropos of Dustin Farnum.

The personality of many stars runs to accentuated mannerisms. There is nothing of that in the Dustin Farnum composite. Big, cheery, likable, he plunges boldly into the words and deeds of each character he essays, swlng3 through the role with unabashed good nature and emerges victorious. But when in a mood for analysis you review in your mind's eye the portrayal and compare it with the other things you have seen Farnum do you come inevitably to one conclusion Dustin Farnum has been playing Dustin Farnum and doing it mighty well. And when you meet him off the stage, away from his grease paint and the atmosphere of the theater, the conclusion is clinched. To talk to him is to talk to a man whom you wouldn't

guess has anything to do with the gen- ! tie art of mumming if you didn't know. Indeed, you would say that he is a man of the great outdoors. He Is

too. He is from Bucksport, Me., and he likes to get back there as often as he can. Bucksport, you see, isn't much of a metropolis. There is a lot of wild country in the immediate vicinity.

The wild country, not Bucksport, attracts Dustin Farnum.

"What about the change you have

made from the western drama to. new fields ?" Mr. Farnum was asked recently.

Well, for the present I have succeed

ed in losing the 'chaps' and the other adjuncts of the Wild West drama. he

replie" "For awhile it looked as If I woulu lever be able to do it. Five years in "The Virginian" and then a season in 'The Squaw Man' looked like

a case of 'till death do us part.' I was most certainly married to the cowboy drama. But you know these things run in cycles. At present the cowboy drama isn't enjoying the vogue that it did a few seasons ago. For my part, I believe the ultra modern drama

which has rather elbowed everything else out of the way in the past few years is going to give way to the romantic drama. - The small cast and the lack of scenic embellishment of any unusual nature will lead in the course of time to the other extreme."

rule, the children ot the stage corns from rather humble walks in life, and the mother, who usually knows absolutely nothing about elocution, to put it mildly, watches the child from the wing at rehearsal, and then the moment she gets the poor kiddy home the mother begins to instill into the child her own conception ot the role. The result is usually that the child becomes demoralized and by the night of the opening 'gives a performance that makes the audience long to stick pins in him to see if he is really a human child. "I realized . that . it was absolutely vital for the success of this play that the role of the little boy David should be acted naturally. Helena herself.

and Dr. Lavender also, to my mind, became subordinate as factors in the play's success compared to David's role.' Therefore you can understand that, with so much at stake I wasn't going to run any chances. My youthful leading- man, I am proud to say, doesn't even know the color of the play's manuscript. , One preliminary rehearsal to any one who might have been watching us from the auditorium would have seemed like an exhibition of the vagaries of two lunatics, or. at least, like a grown woman and a small boy 'playing house. I told him just as much of Helena Richie's story as it was necessary for him to know. "All the scenes in which I figure alone with him we mastered first. I told him just, what he was to do and say, and then I left it to him to act

spontaneously. Then, of course. Dr. Lavender had to be brought into . the picture. To him now, even off the

Training a Boy Actor. bne of the best things in "The Awak

fening' of Helena Richie" is the acting

of Ellis Downie as David, the found

ling. It is not easy to understand how this child through several long and

difficult scenes plays up so wonder

fully and understanding to Miss Anglln's own performance. It is the latter who has made such a thing possible by her clever management of

the business. v She explains how the

boy is kept so natural and unaffected

as follows:

"The reason, or at least one of the

reasons, is that I have never allowed the child to read a line of his part.

"In the years that I have been upon

the stage I have had a fairly large ex perience with child actors and actress

es, and I have learned this much with regard to them, at all events. Half the time when a child actor becomes stagey

it Is the fault of the mother. As a

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) CHOCOLATE, SOLDIER. ' -.-' 4 stage, John Findlay,, who plays ' the role, is Dr. Lavender. Even in the dressing room I, will occasionally hear these two , holding conversations which might have come directly out of Mrs. Deland's . novel. . .-. "Pursuing this same method,' I had to, for the sake of the play, - inspire David with a great antipathy for Eugene Ormonde, who. plays my lover. This was not an easy thing to do tintil Mr. Ormonde, for the play's sake, entered into the spirit of the thing as well as I. The one thing that all my company has helped me to guard this child from is the technicalities and conventionalities of the stage. As it la now, the child is never so happy as when he is playing the part."

Professional Foot Runners to Have Big Inning In the East. Wolgast Being Deluged With Defis

By TOMMY CLARK. PROFESSIONAL foot runners are In for .the big this season if the plans of the promoters do not fail. The newly formed professional circuit in the east put the sport on its feet. The last few races that were successfully pulled off in New York have encouraged the professional foot runners of other countries to such an extent that they are getting ready to sail for Uncle Sammy's land to participate in the coming events and try and gather a small fortune. .The firm hold professional foot running has taken on the sporting public in this country has pleased the promoters to such an extent that they are going in for the sport on a much larger scale and have made arrangements to secure the local baseball parks in many cities In the east whenever an aj'hletlc meet will not Interfere with a baseball game. Throughout the west and middle west this plan will be followed. The league expects to make up a circuit comprising Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Jersey City. Newark, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Buffalo, New Haven, Hartford and a number of the smaller cities. The local league baseball parks will be used in each city. It Is planned to bring together the greatest professional runners in the world today in weekly meets, to be held in different cities each week, and

at the end of the season to hold a championship meeting. The latter will not be definitely scheduled until every city in the country has had a chance to put in a bid for it Then it will be awarded to the place offering the runners the best Inducements. The promoters plan to go into the thing on a large scale. Handicap races, with an occasional match event, will be the rule in sprints, but in the distance contests every race will be a scratch affair. To make this possible the runners will be divided into classes four-twenty men, four-twenty-flve, four-thirty, four-thirty-nve, four-forty, and so on for the mile for distance. As Cast as an athle. becomes too good

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CARL WOEHR, ONE OF YALE'S CRACK WATER POLO PLAYERS. Yale has walked off with the eastern intercollegiate water polo championship this season. Eli has one of the strongest teams that ever represented the university. Much of Yale's success must be given to the grand work of Carl Woehr and Captain Richards. These two are without doubt the strongest players In the country today. . .

for one class he will be moved up to the next. At the close of the season the championships will be held. Some idea of the purses that will be offered in these title meets will be gained when it is mentioned that $1,000 in good hard cold cash will go to the winner of the 120 yard sprint championship. Not alone will the meets be confined to the late spring, summer and early fall, but when it becomes too cold to hold the events outdoors they will be brought under cover. Followers of professional foot racing In this country have long been looking forward to an organization of this kind. Until recently professional foot racing in America, more flourishing now than it has been at any time in the last six or seven years, has been more or less of a hit or miss game, with everybody looking out for himself and without any organization.

The new circuit assures many who would turn professional if they , were

guaranteed enough money a chance to kick in and is really the best thing that has . happened to the Amateur Athletic union, which organization at present has many athletes parading

around as simon pures.

It Is interesting to note the number of new runners that have come to the

front since the new circuit was form

ed. In fact, it looks as if the old

timers will be in the background with

in a short time. Just about a year

ago St. Yves, Hayes, Dorando, Shrubb,

Longboat and several others were oc

cupying the limelight, but within the last six months or more some wonderful distance runners have been discovered, notably Fred Meadows, who captured the fifteen mile race in New York recently; Hans Holmer, the sturdy Canadian; Red Hawk, the Indian; Gustave Ljungstrom, the Swede, who ran second to Meadows in the recent race, and Thure Johansen, another Swede, who broke all indoor and outdoor world's records for the Marathon when he ran the distance in 2 hours, 36 minutes and 55 1-5 seconds in New York recently. . Ad Wolgast. the new lightweight

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TOMMY BURNS, WHO HAS RE-ENTERED THE RING. Tommy Burns, who has not fought since he was defeated by Jack Johnson, Is to don the mitts once more. He has agreed to take on Gunner Moir and Bit Lange in Australia in April. . "

champion of the world, is in line to make a small fortune. He has been deluged with offers to go on the stage and in all probability will be a great drawing card. Wolgast has announced that he intends to take things very easy for the next few months. After that he will take on Freddie Welch, the English champion, providing some good natured pugilistic promoter offers him $20,000 for his end of the purse, win, lose or draw. Tommy Murphy, the New York lightweight, who recently secured a decision over Owen Moran, wants a crack at the champ. So does Packy McFarland, who visited England in quest of a mix-

up with Freddie Welch, but the latter flunked out of the match. Murphy and McFarland are sure that they can lean one over on Wolgast's puss and send him Into dreamland. Added to these are challenges from Bat Nelson and Joe Gans. Nelson, in clamoring for another meeting with his conqueror, says he will wager $5,000 on himself. Gans says he will bet anything from a shoe button up to $5,000 that he can beat the new champion in jig time. Joe wants fight, and wants it bad too. He thinks he can "come back." Many others have said and thought the same thing. Pugilistic strands are strewn with carcasses. New Baseball Rules In Brief. There being a good deal of confusion and misunderstanding as to what are exactly the proposed changes in the

baseball playing rules, they are given briefly as follows: The coach's box has been altered to prevent the coach from getting nearer than fifteen feet of first base. The dead line runs through first and second bases. The umpire must watch small points which hitherto have been subjects for complaint from captains, such as the discoloring of new balls. The captain must notify the umpire of substitutes or changes in the po

sitions of players, and the umpire must

announce them to the crowd.

The captains must, give the umpires the batting order list at the home

plate before the game is called, and players named must take part in the game. If a player on the defense impedes or stops a batted ball by throwing a glove or mask at it the runner gets three bases. The umpire judging balls and strikes is the chief, his colleague guarding the first and second bases only.

Every player gets an assist who assists in putting out a runner, even if he makes the putout himself. . Thus he may get the credit for a putout, and an assist at once. The chief umpire may fine bench kickers and eject them for a second offense.

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TOM LONGBOAT. Reports say that Tom Longboat, the famous Indian Marathoner, has"'- given up running for good and will -become a farmer.