St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-30
The Dashing Actress Objects
to Some Of immortal Du-
mas Lines,
And for a Moment Plunged
the Iron in Manager
Lifts Soul.
A Row at Rehearsal Ends
With Miss Carpenters
Exit.
She Takes a Box at the Met
and an Understudy Sue
eeeds Her.

Manager Lift was in a stew last
night.
That doesn't necessarily imply that
he was ''in the soup" Miss Slower
saved him from thar.
Ruth Carpenter-she of the angelic
countenance, she of the wealth OF silver
tresses, she of the soul-piercing eyes,
she OF the form sublime-was the cause
of it all.
1t happened in this way:
Some weeks ago Mr.. Lift determined
to produce, with his excellent stock
company, some version of Dumas
''Demi- Monde" He wrote TO Manager
John Stetson, of Boston, to secure the
manuscript of THE Crust of Society,""
the first version of the story presented
OH the American stage, and The produc-
ton in which Miss Turner and Miss
Carpenter had both appeared. With
his customary courtesy, for which
he is noted at home and abroad, Man
ager StetSon never answered the letter.
MIR. Lift was in despair. But Harry 81.
Maur, actor, author, adapter and stage
director. was the man to take the load
from the managers heart. He would
make version of Dumas story for Mfr.
Lift in thirty minutes ii necessary, and
warrant it not to rip, wear nor tear any
more than the godly Dumas intended it
to. lie took copy OF the French story,
bluShing, yet energetic Typewriter
girl, choice collection from his own
faultlesS English vOcabulary-mlXed
them ju ticiously-a and 10 and behold the
result-"The Edge of Society,"" said to
be the truest and best of all the English
varsionc of tho DO oamoiv
Manager Lift read .'The Edge" with
a deal of interest and pleasure, and
none of the lines seemed to CRATE upon
his sensitive nerves. He couldn't see
anything in the whole play that would
in the least offend even such pious.
church-going Christian as Frank Blk
by. Anything good enough for Bixby
must necessarily he good enough for
heaven, reasoned the manager, and so
decided that The Edge" was indeed a
proper piece for production.
Carrie, Ruthie and Peaches, as every
body calls them since the Fort Smelling
episode, were all assigned their parts,
and the bills went up announcing the
piece for next Sunday night.
ReEearSals began. No one was eX-
pected to be letter perfect" at first.
and an occasional omission was not coll
sidered seriously by Stage Director st.
Maur. But after the piece had been re-
hearsed half-doZen times, the watch
full and conscientious st. Maur thought
it about time for all unabridged per-
Torrance.
SO at yesterday mornings rehearsal
he held the manuscript Oh the actors.
In the very first act he caught Ruthie,
who was playing the part OF Valentine
de Saints, a feather-headed woman
without character, using the blue pencil
on her lines with what he considered
disastrous results.
He Gale / her down-to use the ex-
preston of Bixby.
But Ruthie wasn't to be called down.
She had way of her own of playing
that part, and the authors lines were Of
no consequence to her.
She was woman, and her way must
be right.
But st. Maur couldn't look at it that
way. The thought of an American
actress using the knife oil the work of
the great Dumas struck him as being
absolutely shocking. lie wouldn't per-
init it, and SO Ruth was told to read the
lines as they were written.
..But, really. Mr.. st. Maur," she ex-
claimed. "you can't expect me to sacri-
flee my professional reputation by read
ing those horrid lines. 1t might be
quite proper in Paris. dare say, but st.
Paul is not Paris"
Miss Carpenter" said the stage
director. sternly, you are an artist.
Dumas is an immortal. You certainly
do not object to lending your talent, as
an artist. to picture the creation OF an
immortal. Please proceed with the re-
hearsal, and follow the manuscript"
Ruthless cheeks flushed; her eyes
flashed; her tiny boot slapped the floor
furiously, and-She threw up her part.
No-she threw down her part. right Oil
the stage directors pet corn.
$50, there now"
That was all she said. Her skirts
rustled through the stage door-and she
was at her Central avenue home Ill less
than fifteen minutes, crying and telling
MAMMA all about it.
But that isn't all.
Ruthie is in the cast of ''Pique" at the
Bijou, in Minneapolis, this week. At
7.3O last night telephone message
from the Bijou brought Mr.. LitJ the
news that Miss Carpenter had not put
in an appearance fef the evenings per-
torrance there. A few minutes later it
was learned that Ruthie had engaged
a box at the Metropolitan for the even
Ing.
She couldn't occupy box at the
Metropolitan in st. Paul and play
part at the Bijou in Minneapolis at the
same time. The logic of this PROPOSE
ton struck Mr.. Lift at once. and he
hurried to Minneapolis. where he
found Miss Slower ready to take Miss
Carpenters part in "Piqne."
'sThe Edge of ociety"-unabridged
will be played at the Grand Sunday
night and all next week.
Rutbie may be i'll the cast; and she
may not be.
That all depends upon very inter-
esting conference between her and
her manager. whIchis booked for this
morning.
Bargains in Hose.