Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-08-24
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heart histories and feel between them the
great bond Of truth"
But" said the Artist, think of the
ideul,'
Sly dear boy" answered the Cynic.
'tAe widest imagination in the world
never conceived anything ST. weird rs the
truth. There has never been . picture
pllntel, novel written, or melodrama
played that exaggerated life In fact, /
don't think there is anything that has
ever come ZIP To II in its intense contrasts.
ChrrhIN AND ARTISTS TURN NOW.
''And yet" said the Captain, life is
good. II is true we all see the dark side
once in while, but their comes the beau-
titul, clear, white one in contrast to it, and
we have been given the marvellous some
thing we soon learn 10 forget. Think of
the uwfulness if we could not; think of the
people who wouli live over every day the
dark stories OF their lives; think of the
women weeping for their dead loves and
their dead children; think of the people
who would have to- suffer from remorse
always and eternally-why. we never had
anything 50 good as furgetfulness given to
lis. don't mean absolute forgetfulness. l
mean the ability to forget the most dis
agreeable part Of things to soften them,
and Ia bring before us the agreeable side,
even of villau.'
That is true" thoughtfully said the
Handsome Girl, "but," and she looked at
the Artist, will YOU tell me why some
people on the stage force you to recognize
their humanity, and others, no matter
how well they may act, simply make YOU
understand the technique of the stage, and
while YOU may admire them as artists,
never cause You To have one feeling in
common with them Y'
II KNOW responded the Artist, 81 I'M
fAaR Tsut i F....Nl
buoth, superb actress, who can make
every word i'll her part tell. but who to me
is as incisive MS sharp knife, and who
could never make a tear come to my eyes,
or make me think OF her as ANYTHING else
but am actress. In contradistinction, take
Rose Cughian; select her in one of her
most vicious parts. where, by every law,
the audience should hate her; as an actress
her work is beautiful. but, with it ALL her
womanliness is so great that anybody in
the audience who thinks. hopes she will
have a chance to try agaiu-the chance
that is always given to the PrOdigal."
II know, quickly spoke the Captain;
TITS the difference between lacking the
heart pull and having 1t. There are four
women who are absolutely different, and
yet each has this eartpull-they are
Ellen Terry, the divine Sarah, Jane Hading
and Duse. Not one of them is like the
uther-eaCh is finished artist, and each,
not because of her knowledge, but because
ut her own self, can make an audience
thoroughly in harmony with her. once
saw beautiful woman, an actress. though
| never saw her act; her name is Judith
Berolde, and, although | was across
theatre from her, aud only began by adj
miring her beauty, was forced to confess
that she had that curious something that,
when she was on the stage would make
an audience put itself in her place and
realize all thar she underwent, and all that
she wanted them to understand
why is it" came from my cushions,
that women have this power so much
| more than menu
Because said the Cynic, "if a woman
is properly constituted her heart controls
her brain, and she is unsexed when she is
all brain and no heart"
THE HANDSOME GIRL HITS BACK.
We all looked at the stars for awhile,
thinking this out and the Handsome Girl
was the first to speak.
You are right" she announced; people
will shed tears over the poetry of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning when George Eliot is
forgotten. Nobody loves woman who
counts heart-beats by system OF mathe-
| maticsn
Tho Cynic lit another cigarette, looked
admirinHy at the Handsome Girl, and
said 81 didn't know you knew so much. -
And the Handsome Girl not bit
abashed, answered him Yes; | know a
great deal more than you do; my educa-
| ton began when | wept over broken
| doll, and woman's education from that
time OH is the hoping that somebody will
| understand her heart-beats and, sympa-
thizing with her, will say: Hush, little
| girl, don I cry, whether IL is for broken
doll or broken heart"
| The mOon was up by this time and the
boat was sailing through tine water as if
| life were all a smooth sea and there was
nOthiug bat holiday time.
| The Artist said: SWELL then, we return
to the play aud agree that it is the melo-
| drama that comes nearest TO life; that 1t is
| the dark stroke aud the light stroke the
music and the speech and the necessary
silence TO intensity botn that makes the
best picture on the stage.'
Yes" softly added the Handsome Girl,
land it is the sweet dear old story of the
Prodigal coming back and being received
| with open arms and with love and feast
ing. 1t is the story of suffering, of SORROW
and Of forgiveness that has the heart pull
in it,"
And after that nothing was said. But
at the goodnight thought there was an
added tenderness in the way the CyniI
spoke to the Handsome Girl, and the
Artist looked as if lie were dreaming out |
picture that would SHOW heart in colol
and expression, and the Captain-blesi
his heart put in his goodnight so much
kindly thought that the handsome Cir
and | felt that surely it was good to b,
where we were. And she said Its al
ideal party where we dare speak what W,
think, where we dare confess we hav,
hearts, that we have lived, that we hav,
made mistakes and regretted them, bu
that we can always come home"
And looked at her and said: 1T is az
ideal party, for il consists Of the Captain
the Cynic, the Artist and the Handsome
Girl" And as she left me. she kissed m,
on the forehead and added, Not to men
ton BAB."
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