Judge — February 3, 1912 — page 16: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

PLAYERS WE MEET ON THE RIALTO. LILLIAN RUSSELL'S LATEST ENGAGEMENT. MAETERLINCK’S WIFE'S COLOSSAL COURAGE. GABY DESLYS AS A REVOLUTIONIST. WHOEVER saw a photograph of Lil- lian Russell—at least of the head and shouldera of that sightly person that men did not exclaim over or women envy? Who that remembers her debut at Tony Pastor’s a generation or more ago would imagine it is the same woman? Then she was slender, wil- lowy, big-eyed, and voiced for the suc- cess that has followed—thanks in some measure to the camera. Almost coin- cident the other day with her admission that she would be married again in the spring came the confession that she is fifty years old. Marriage may improve some persons upon repetition. At least it brings experience that can be bought in no other market. The spring episode will be Miss Russell's fourth marital venture—and yet she calls herself Miss, thanks to the easy fashion of the thea- ter. There is no serious suggestion that the stage is to lose her because of the new alliance, and she promises to go on spreading beauty on the public vision and keeping strictly to herself the means by which she has conquered time and is conquering mankind. ULLIAN RUSSELL. ‘She still calls herself “* Miss,” in spite of several mantal ventures. * * Who can indicate a greater foil to the modesty of genius than that furnished by Madam Maeterlinck, who has come to personify several of her husband's creations on the operatic stage here? One remembers that in Paris there were MADAM MAETERLINCK. ‘Who personifies several of her husband's creations on the operatic tage. differences of opinion as between the producers of opera there and this really great author as to his wife's fitness to originate some of his roles; but perhaps that was all due to lack of managerial judgment, and her advent here may jus- tify Maeterlinck’s artistic notions of his wife's utility. Surely, when a hand- some woman reaches this shore clad in leopards’ skins and wearing a diamond on her forehead, who shall deny that she is a genius? And there is Gaby Deslys, one of the world’s most potent socialists, whose favor turned a monarchy into a republic, as the story goes. There have been other women whose influence upon kings and potentates has made history and rendered the making of new maps of sections of the earth necessary. Think of the real democracy of this latest im- portation of the kind to this country, shown in the fact that all may see her for a standard price of admission! There is no present danger that Gaby will turn this republic into a monarchy, although she may turn some heads that turn so easily as to suggest rubber con- nection or ball bearings. And she, in print, is telling women how they may be as pretty as she confesses herself to be in every photograph of her yet pro- duced, while there is no cosmetic of real value that has not enlisted her propa- ganda. "Talent? Real talent? Why, that doesn’t matter so much these days, when there is so great a variety of other things that appeal on the stage. GABY DESLYS. ‘Whose favor turned a monarchy into ‘a republic. comicbooks.com