The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-26

caused him, and a suggestive word.
now and then, from his visitor, helped
him to resume the thread of the conversa-
ton. In response to the expression of
pleasure at finding him looking SO we'll he
said: Yes, / am much better than have
BEEN. Ny mind, you must know. has
never been ffected, but"-the words
escaped him. You were very tired,
limited the reporter. Eyes, yes, that was
it, very, very tired. I had been working
for long time"
This is lovely spot in which to rest
and recuperate." was ventured.
1T IS a beautiful place and am treated
very well. DIR. Atwood consider 4 gentle
man. My friends come often TO see me,
my wife and Gus, you know, Gus Pitou,
my manager"
.'You are warmly attached to Mr..
Pitou?"
"Oh, yes. indeed; Pitou is a fine gentle
man. a very capable manager, and he
speaks English. We have been together
nine years. He will always manage me. s"
Then he told of how he hoped soon to
return to the stage. He should act again
IN ''Mayourneen,' play he very much
liked. but if he found another that pleased
him he should take 1t. for it was very tire
some night after night to repeat the same
lines. 1t required Il great deal of vitality,
even when inspired by the plaudits of
crowded house, to infuse the proper spirit
and animation into them. He liked best
plays which deal with events of the past
century; they afford more scope for cos
tuning AS for the characters he assumed
he had but to study Irish history and liter
allure, and not to create but To he the Irish
man of story and song. Nothing more
romantic and winsome could be imagined.
The minuet was the most pleasing
dance to him. Jigs and breakdowns
were so fatiguing when one had to do
them again and again, and they in jured
the voice. He had not written any songs
recently, but they were all in his head,
only he had not been we'll enough to jot
them down. His publisher had reported
the songs as still very good, notwithstand-
ing he had not been singing them for
many months. "Mol!ie OF was in great
demand yet.
How did he contrive to always have
the rose he threw fail to the prettiest lady
in the audience" 1t was q sort of in
splration. He sought to confde it to one
who would preserve the flower and the
song.
He evinced great interest IN the plays
now being presented and laughed heartily
when told how De Wolf Hopper had now
to "chrp' TO the babies in wang" in
stead of singing and dancing with them.
He said he was expecting to receive q visit
from Hopper very soon.
A little review of recent scandals con-
corning tneatrlcal people was INDUCED IN,
and he cordially Endorsed the opinion that
the general public was quite too quick to
accept as true any evil reports of profess
SIGNALS. 81 have been twenty-five years
in the profession" he said, land have
seen more happily married couples there
than in any other walk in life. / have
been married for fifteen years myself and
have been very happy"
Replying to the congratulations on his
successful double play. he said, merrily:
You see, [ am determined to be star
wherever play"
He has planned pleasant summer at
Saratoga with friends, and in September
he intends to start on the road with a
repertoire of five plays. His manner
throughout the interview was most cour-
teous, and had it not been for the ominous
hesitations in speech. the treacherous loss
of memory and the imperfect articulation,
it would not have been difficult to accept
his hopes for the future as prophecies.
His moods are not, however, always as
gentle. He has some very disturbed mo-
ments, and it is lamentably evident that
Seaman, "the bonnie blue-eyed Irish boy"
will never again be to the public, who has
so heartily applauded him, more than
bright and happy memory.
GUsTAyE BINET