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October 1 9 Hope Latham

/COMPARATIVELY a new figure on the New York stage, Hope Latham
^^ gives promise of becoming a pronounced Broadway favorite ere many
seasons roll round, for in the rather effete atmosphere of the Empire
Theatre she quite capably holds her own with most experienced players.
Her two roles on Broadway have not afforded her any great opportunities,
but she has done very well with the chances at hand, and it is safe to
wager that she will be quite ready to meet the day of bigger things. A
Canadian girl by birth, Miss Latham received her education at the Convent
of the Sacred Heart, Montreal. Upon her decision to follow a stage career,
she became a member of a prominent Western stock company, later appear-
ing with a similar organization in Springfield, Mass., and durfng this time
she had every opportunity for the best sort of development, gaining any
amount of sound, technical knowledge while in this rigorous, but most bene-
ficial, school. Miss Latham then appeared on tour one season as the
adventuress Claire Forster in Fitch's " The Woman in the Case." It was
the season of 1906-07 that Broadway first became acquainted with her, she
appearing that season at the Empire with John Drew as Mile. Thome in
" His House in Order," her knowledge of the French language standing her
in good stead in this role, and she continued a second season in the Drew
surroundings, during 1907-08, being the Baroness Granclos in " My Wife."
Miss Latham appears to be well started upon a career that promises to
develop along quite liberal lines.
