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THE WINNJPEU TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, MAY U, 1U14 2 Ml'Slj AND DRAMA M rsrc A NO BRAVA 1— , , -- —■---- 1 ■ —— - - M«el Evelyn Thaw Declares My Little Boy’s Sake)> '(Dt>y/7ojfre?r mation of pasts, and I can't f*e! that up. If 1 did I wouldn't deserve II. And ♦ + ♦ ♦ + + + + ♦ + + + + * phele of the opera house Is very large from another viewpoint. Anyway the "Hiram Perkins," and by Miss Rlancht ly the atmosphere of the halfpenny presentation is not devoid of interest. Chapman, whose long experience in ERE is a personal story It matters so much whether, si. years it's unfair to say that 1 am capitalis + • * • i haracter roles imminently fitted her ago. she was a martyr or a mummer. ing my personal notoriety. If I luid AMUSEMENTS FOR novelette. Mr. Laurence Irving has quite cap for the stage duties of his most cap with one of the most cared to do that 1 could have earned NEXT WEEK Now, why Is this? What is there In tured the esteem of the theatre-goers able wife, who would do honor to His Gone Too Far. AS ADVERTISED. human nature which compels men to of western Canada, if one may Judge pn olent's chair In any branch of th« talked of women in the $7,500 In one week, after the second modern suffrage movement among a n e p t gladly at one moment what by the enthusiasm with which he lias world--~Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. "1 know tti.it some persons arc paid Thaw trial, Jusl to stand up and he | been greeted every where upon his tour women. to write dreadful attacks on no," she made a show of! I never have con Walker Theatre they would scornfully reject another? thus fai. In ull the cities, notably In Fred Korhy's fervid acting as ths lawyer was significantly applicable to This interview is timely be continued, "but I do think they're be sented to such a thing and I never Evelyn Nesbit Thaw In the The explanation of the matter, 1 be Vancouver, he was the recipient of lieve, lies in this; that most music much social attention, and also was the character, hut it must he confessed cause of her visit at the ing curried rather too far. After all. I will." divertissement "Mariette." cm given lhe highest praise for his ex that .Miss Anne Bronauglt was a sur have a few rights as an American Back to the Stage. Monday. Tuesday and Wednes lovers regard opera either with genial cellent performances. Of all his four prise, assuming as she did so success Walker Theatre next week. tolerance, or with half-conscious con fully the part of "Alary Jane," and girl.” "What is the real story of your de day, with the usual matinee. plays, however. "Typhoon” appears to the "makeup" necessary to the youth Many people have criticized She Is still very lovely, ri spile tempt. It is certain that they tin not have met with most favor, and this 1s ciding to go on Hie eisge?” I asked. The Yiddish actor, David good news, as it is upon Ids list for of a girl hardly in her teens. No won look upon it as a serious form of art. Evelyn Nesbit severely for | everything w ritten about her coa sen- "I have not received one cent of Kessler, on Thursday Hnd Fri presentation during his forthcoming der at the audiences during lhe week It Is a prolonged liquet- and cigar—a Ing. (if coursn, 1 don’t know vhe- money from the Thaw family since a day evenings In Style." and return engagement to the Walker the giving tangible tokens of their appre ‘capitalizing’ her ‘notoriety dleestive a fashionable way "pour atre in the week beginning May Ik. ciation ol ihls unexpected departure ther she Is exactly as beautiful ue she year ago last .lune," she declared ¡ "Bought and Paid For." She says she is trying to live passer la tempo." These you say are While the "Typhoon" is not new to of ihc leading actress to sustaining a was six years ago. In a glimpse rom “And 1 have two to support. When 1 Walker theatre audiences, who were child's role. platitudes; they are, that is why 1 down the Stanford White- the side, particularly when her hair is went abroad the last time I was at the Winnipeg Theatre— highly pleased with Walker White Also prominent In the presentallor have felt impelled to write this arti side's graphic description of the lead were Dorothy Bernard, Aleda Far down. Iter face retains something of end of my resources. On board the "The Girl In the Taxi," every Harry Thaw episode and live cle. ing male character In the drama, “Ta- rington and Messrs. Kent, Haines, the childlike quality. Hut looking Olympic 1 met the man who arranged night, with Tuesday, Thursday Whltham, Stanhope. Velsey, Then only for the little son, whom Now. the worst feature of this ab keranio." the young Japanese diplo straight at her one does not see "the for my English debut. 1 rehearsed only and Saturday matlne.es. mat. The version of the story as play - Johnston and John Daly. surd business is that the public; atti she adores. Read it: frank yoting smile and the red young five days. Then the first time I went on cd Ip Mr. Irving and his 'company The third act was a nicely sel scene, tude to opera is not altogether un should la* curiously interesting owing mouth," beauties which, by a strm.ge absolutely anonymously. I might have Orpheum Theatre- with the crowd of villagers well man reasonable. opera is not taken seri to the introduction of the trial scene, aged. The realism of the printing coincidence, a great poet attributed to been Sarah Smith or Maggie Jones for Glassy vaudeville, two perfor which so effectually rounded out the ously simply because it is not serious. room episode being equally well de WANT to work. I have the right another Evelyn, "sixteen years aid anything Hie audience knew to the mances dally. production as given at the Hsymarket veloped. It trifles with the public. It is a pre theatre In London. to work, and no one shall stop when site died!” Mrs. Thaw's smile contrary. I was simply given a try tence a quite charming and attrac A notable "fillip" will lift Mr. Irv- I me. 1 am on the stage and I is sophisticated, if friendly, and the out, like any other unknown perfor Empress Theatre— ' EXT weak the slock complin at tive pretence if you like, but still for lug's return engagement into addition shall remain on the stage. The eyes that seem to hover between mer. Up-to-date continuous enter- al importance if Oscar Wilde's com the Winnipeg will present all that a pretence. I myself have fre "The Girl In the Taxi." This brown and gray have looked on too Needed Study. edy, "The Importance of Being Earn actress or the woman might talnmem dally from id noon to Is the play which, on Its prea- quently been In doubt whether to go est" is given an adequate presentation. I he driven out. But let the peoplemany who things to be really young eyes. "They liked me. When I camo on It p.m. N___J eolation In New York, some to the music hall or to the opera, be It is further announced (hat "The lew years ago, made one of the genu say and write nasty things about me Had to Eat. (lie stage my manager said: "What Lily." ;uul "The Unwritten Layv" are Pantagcs T h ea tre - cause the attractions offered by both ine and memorable dramatic sensa mknow that they are fighting n mother. did 1 tell you.' Now, you do some to tip repented. As far as the last "If the good women don't want to tions of tile metropolis. It was, with Advanced vaudeville.Three were so similar in kind; and on one or named brutal Russian melodrama is And a mother doesn't give way one more studying and your future Is out a doubt, lhe cynosure of all eye see me on the stage," she continued, performances dally. I w o occasions I have chosen the latter concerned it is to he hoped NOT. inch!" bltlngly, "they may guarantee me th< safe." After that I was as Evelyn for at least six months. Not to have as being a less severe mental exercise seen "The Girl In the Taxi" yvas ind Her hazel eyes flashing into mine, salary 1 am earning to buy food andj Nesbit. I didn't even use tlie name to ++++++++++++++++ than the former. HE wholesome comedy, "Mary to tie up-to-date in Broadway par which I was entitled. Does that look her chin pointed out defiantly, her slim clothes and education for my boy. I Sooner or later every kind of art ob Jane's Pa", has found much lance. hands clenched tight, Evelyn Nesbit as if I wore trying In rely on my past KRK IS some plain »>"< didn't go before the footlights until 1 tains the recognition it deserves, and favor with Hie patrons of the It is a fact, that with one or tvv> Thaw delivered he.r ultimatum to her positively couldn't tell where our next history? Rut my dancing pleased the grand opera printed In a res Winnipeg theatre during lhe notable exceptions, prominent sie opera lias well earned tlie friendly week, not only through the successful New York producers of t" latest critics.