Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-07-21

manager 10 look at the matter In the
ent at all the rehearsals. he took his
lesson very quietly. 4
Although the first nights audience
was more friendly than critical. il was
easily seen before the act drop fell for
the second time that the new Juliet
was complete failure. Still, she was
kindly treated by the audience, there
being something winsonie about the
girl that aroused their sympathy.
1t seems hardly necessary TO write
that II was her reading that was the
most severely criticised the next morn
ing. Her action was said TO be bad.
her movements awkward; but no word
seemed strong enough TO use In writ
ing of her delivery, unless it might
have been 'elocutionary"- though ell
ocution is concisely defined as "a prop.
er delivery Of words"
Besides the criticism of Marion's
work, Mark Downes had TO bear an-
other form OF comment that must have
been even more irving TO him. She
had been advertised as a beauty. yet
the people 10 whom she PLAYED, more
accustomed TO beautiful women than
were the proyincials in her native place.
found a multitude Of faults in her
Her head was said 10 be too large. her
face To lack expression. her hair TO be
poor color. She was accused of hav-
ing big feet aud hips mach too broad
for her shoulders. Had these remarks
reached Marion's ears, as they did
those of her hacker. they would have
broken her heart, for. with the perver-
sity of human nature. she would have
been more sensitive about her appear
ance-which she could not help-than
about her acting.
II had been planned 10 play Romeo
and Juliet" the first half of the week,
and then TO put on new emotional
drama, and dupl cate Marions success
as Juliet" with her performance OF
modern society belle. So. on Thurs
day, after two nights OF empty benches,
the new play was tried before we'll
| filed house-a house consisting, like
many q Western ''citY." OF paper.
chiefly. High hopes were entertained
that the young actress would achieve
q success in the new part less exact
/ ing than the Shakespearean heroine,
aud with no predecessor in the role to
| be compared with. But her failure
was more complete than before. il that
were possible. She had no idea of the
character Of Juliet" and she was no
better now In that respect, while her
artificial delivery sounded worse than
il did In the blank verse. And that's
saying a great deal.
And alas for the style and the ele-
giant costumes from which SO mnch
was expected In her personation of
the highborn lady something was at
once seen 10 be lacking. II was the
effort OF one not born 20 the purple.
and not clever enough TO rise 10 IL
The long gowns concealed her feet bet,
ter than did the Juliet costumes,
but under the influence OF tournure
and draper es she settled into her usual
walk--mol graceful one 10 a critical
observer. Ii was not walk at all. but
q manner Of sailing along, induced bg
her vanity and the attention she at
tracted az home.
Mark Downes paid the expenses OF
his venture 10 the last cent; but in that
week he got enough OF theatr cal spec
ulation. He did not like losing his
money very well. either; and. try az
hard as he could 10 avoid IL, he could
not help blaming Mar ION 70 great ex
tent for his misfortune. His eyes had
been opened. too. 10 the fact that she
was not by any means the beauty ht
had thought her. while her lack Of feel
ing was manifest in the way she tool
the result OF the week experiment
regarding ii simply ms it affected her
self seeming 10 care nothing for ini
losses, and showing no signs Of graft
tude for the efforts he had made IN heI
behalf
II she had treated him differently h
. might have married her. despite OF he
) failure as an actress; but, confident IL
the power Of her beauty 10 make fol
, her an even better match, she let hin
60 his way. And that way led him
great deal into the society Of Miss Dor
May, the orphaned daughter Of a brew
, or. Dora-1 beg your pardon; on sue
short acunnintance Miss May wa
! plain, pedantic. pious and preiudiced
I, She regarded thcaters as the invention
OF them fact, she thought they wer
no better than they ought TO beam
she was worth half million. So Mar
married Miss MAY.
II Marion Taylor had been content
J begin in the ranks she would have dc
yaloped into toierable actress, bu
! after her liasco as star she had n
= ambition left. Not that she was crush
ed by her failure-her nature was nc
strong enough for that-but she sin
plv dropped the whole matter and wen
, home to be the bell Of her circle again
: When Mark married. she 4 d not care
but as years passed and no wealth
, husband came she wished him bac
: again. But no deeper feel ng than Oh
!, stirred her nature. and after Will
' she married mechanic in comfortab
!, circumstances. She makes him a goo
: wife, because she is at her proper lev,
= and her nature is too weak for wha
!. might-have-beens to trouble her ~
= is phlegmatic aud happy aud she &c
! fatter and fatter every year Ne
= York Clipper.
: His Defective Memory.