The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1896-12-17

sssvatory or training school develops that
talent and gives u proper direction and
fosoe and speeds the actor faster on his OF
her way.
That there n returning love for TRACE
dy In the American heart Is evidenced by
the magnificent receptions rendered Bern
hardt and Duse and the splendid success
they achieved. So that think IL would be
a wise plan for some sterling American
actors now before the public to give a
thought to tragedy and study IL carefully
There are now two or three fine fellows
have In my minds eye who ought to have
the material of good tragedians In them,
but will make no invidious distinctions
and will mention no names. This much
will say, however-Salvini the younger,
had he not been stricken down by a fatal
disease, ought to have had the stuff OF
which tragedians are made In him. Ply
sique, talent, elocutionary power and al
most every other attribute was in his IN.
vor
One trouble about actors as well as 9th
er men Is that they often try role for
which they are untitled and either avoid
or do not get the opportunity to essay one
In which they would shine Some, too,
who have attained wonderful success In
one field sincerely believe that they were
cut out for another, and earnestly yearn
for it, Thus / am told that genial Nat
Goodwin, the incompatible comedian, bo-
lieves that he Is a natural born tragedian,
and comedy Is distasteful to him. So too,
with the elder Sothern. He made the hit
of his life as Lord Dundreary in "Our
American Cousin" but he hated the part
90 cordially that he could hardly be per-
suaded to go on with It, Early in life, they
tell me, he was anxious to be tragedian,
but, scoring triumph In comedy when
quite young man, fate seemed to ordain
that he should stick to 1t.
Other great men in other fields have the
same foibles. Thus General u. S. Grant,
the great American commander, it Is mar
rated, once told his companion in arms,
General Phil Sheridan, that he made
mistake in taking up the profession of
arms, as his Wall street experience con-
vinced him that he would have been a sue
cessful financier had he gone into the game
early In life. That was when his partner,
Ferdinand Ward, was gulling the grand
old soldier about fictitious profits and be-
fore the crash which wrecked his banking
house and sent the grim old warrior pre-
maturely to the grave.
Grants British prototype, that other
grim old warrior, Wellington, the Iron
Duke, thought he might have been a bet
ter parliamentarian than a soldier because
with three sentences he once choked off
noisy agitator in debate in the British par
lament The man had told lie and the
man of iron proved 1t amid the widest
cheering from the benches.
"I think would have done better here
than in the field" he said with solemn
earnestness to friend. That friend was
dazed, for the Iron Duke meant it. Like
Grant, he never uttered single word
about his military prowess, for which he
was world famed, but, like the hero of Ap-
pomattox, he did talk about that Of which
he knew little.
A visit to competent phrenologist be-
fore starting the battle of life would be a
good thing, think, for most Of us. He
might be able to tell us what we are best
fitted for. think Davy Crockett hit 1t ex-
actly when he uttered those wise words,
"Be sure you're right, then 60 ahead"