The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-11
CUTTING LOVES HIS ART.
And His Fathers Efforts Fail to Make
Him Leave the Stage
THE EI-AMAYEUR'S HANDICAPS
Psderewski's sunerings at the Hands OF
AdmirinG but Fatiguing Feminine Ad-
mirers-Augustin Daly's Peculiar No
tions OF Art.


drawing card for. the elite. Robert Liv-
ingstone Cutting. Jr., must be admitted
to be success. Not few dollars have
Jingled into the capacious money drawer
OF gracious Harry Calender this wee k
that would not have landed there had IL
not been that society was Interested In
what the young New York society man
could do. They found no cause to
sneer at the young mans abilities.
His work Is crude as yet. to be sure,
and it is evident that while upon the
restraint which makes him at times self
conscious, almost painfully 30. Still il
is evident that he regards his calling
seriously-that he loves his work, as in
deed Ia said to be the case. TO see him
only upon the stage one would never sus-
pect that he Is handicapped by manner
isms Of speech which, however much
we may admire In an Irving we
would only ridicule in Robert Llv-
lngstone Cutting, even IL he Is one of
McAllister's elect. OF the stage Mr.
Cuttings eyes wear glasses aud mis-
accent Both of these he seeks To drop
when he emergcs from the wings With
the glasses he Is entirely successful. His
tongue gives him greater trouble and
again and again, finding himself on tn o
point of relapsing into the vernacuiar h o
rapidty OF nj terance which knocks th
drawling temptation into smithersens.
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None the less he is by no means the
unmitigated ''stick" the New YORK
critics would have US believe. So violent
were the attacks Of the metropolitan stu
dents OF the drama upon him that I am
almost led to believe in the truth OF
yarn which reached me the other day.
Mr.. Cuttings parents, as is well known,
were very much opposed To his taking
al actress for his wife and the
stage for his profession. The
wife once welded, his par
ents felt they must hold their peace.
but the determination to adopt the stage
they could combat and did, or so the story
goes Argument was useless and, SO
says the report, Mr. Cutting, senior, tried
a novel method. He proposed TO prove
to his histronically inclined son how bad
tirement. So the NeS York dramatic |
critics were seen and the nov.
city to them was presented
of generous Inducements" TO aid |
In the cure OF Robert L. by, as the |
professional puts 1t. ripping him up the |
Mr.. G. has pluck. His face and head |
show 1t aud he sticks TO his work.
tended To bear upon the present case,
why cannot Mr.. keely concoct a BIZ |
chiorlde OF something AS an antidote |
ior the stage-struck feveri Could he |
preserve US from the most noxious
species OF amateur he would indeed be a /
public benefactor.'
-.
You 60 to hear Pad.rewski of course.
Did you ever notice wnat Bunthorne in
AL "a Ia M m
never visited the stage door after one of
his concsr s. lie Is man of great cour-
tesy and kindliness and these qualities
nave gwen him great annoyance from
lion hunters" He has stood it man.
Iully TILL lately when he found that h,
Was subjected to species of persecution
noae the less painful because the persecu.
tors cou q not be Knocked down or kicked
nto the street-because they were
women. Women have waylayed him as
le came from his New York recitals.
MS Was bad enough. but when tney be-
,ience ceased to be u virtue. Al Brook
yn, Boston, Hartford, New Haven. and
sven troviuence, the same thing was re-
pea ed. Their faces became so familiar
nat his managers dubbed them 1.-The
1iu uuara and made bets xs TO the
II recital in search of "A handshake or A
Ford from the leonine pianist.
/
s'.
This was very wearing for not only Is
here tremendous STRAIN upon Padere.
vskis brain at u recital but his physical
Xertlons are equal To those involved In
awlng several cJrds of very knotty
vood. 80 III se.f defense Manager Fryer
las taken the list of future appear nces
rom his programs and no one Is alloAed
o BASS the sage except on an invitation
lgned by the artist. These are rare
Augustine DAILY has queer ideas and
raws line distinctions he permits Ada
tehan 70 be modelled iu silver tor the
Worlds fair. but refused to allow a sim
ar use OF her prop jrtions in bu tier.
ne greasy statute was to ,haye adorned
he New York Food and Health Exposi
on, but WISH ors are seeking IL in vain {
he glass case arrived, but instead n
.ehan's hgure it contained butter bust ,
Marie tempest, Jim" Hilps Dresden
hina mascot How did Mr.. DAILY ever
onsent to let his przs actress be fash
med in the vulgar clay which must
srve as model for the siiver castinpt !
~. :
Funny isn't il that IL. as the story {
ways is, New York grand opsra i'm
ressaros always lose money, A hbey
nd Mapleson are fighting so bitterly for
ie Metropolitan Opera House leasei