Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-21

Box" Rossi acted the original play here
in Italian. For the scene where the actor
coquetting with the Prince of Wales in a
box he selected a portion Of
Barney used for this a scene from Corlo-
lanus.' Mr.. Coghlan will introduce the bal
| cony scene from Romeo and Juliet. with
Miss Coghlan as Juliet. Mr.. Coghian IN
reshaping the play has changed the central
actor. He had the advantage OF seeing
the great Lemaitre play the role IN faris
many MAJ years 5;n ago. ,s and h he ! 6e,iev ,e1n eaau !.
ties.-Dramatic Mirror.
Here is a curious study presented by OPP
posing players: Mr.. Drew, comparatively
without education in drawing room accom-
in the theater; Miss DeWolfe
SOME proficient in them by early
training, yet invariably awk-
STAGE ward in their dramatic eX-
&c., preston. But this paradox
PARAD0xES. is not unusual. The finest
stage parlor gentleman before
Drew's time was Harry Montague. who
knew little or nothing about polite, social
life. whereas Robert Taber; who was orig
inally a social carpet knight, declared re- roa
drama, but failed in those that were ex-
pected of him. Similarly in private life
Herbert keleeX and m h ad;s B Ban ,i are = the
they ann convey a compliment with half
| the grace of John Drew or make love with
neither re of Whom is %distinguished in these,
arts except in the drama. 1t therefore APP
pears that in many cases the player sue
does not possess, and comes at an excel
lence through art which is denied to him
by nature. Thus. in her habit as she lives.
Ada Rehan, no sooner enters the theater
than she becomes vivacious, witty and
plentiful in humor. In private life Eleonora
I Ing 10 rncnryvnG fiyyn NnI1 on1
melancholy. but in the drama she is pas
sionate. eloquent. fiery. Off the stage Sarah
Bernhardt is genial, unaffected. sympathet-
ic and kindly; on the stage she Is cyclonic,
tigerish. intense, murderous. One night
during her last visit to this city, the writer
Bernh ,a ae was sf in high r @irth o Waef the H rela:
ton Of some amusing accident of the day.
The call boy came. and. grasping her dag
stage furiously. kept the spectators in ter
ror for half an hour. murdered NJ. Deval
and returned to the dressing room, where
she threw down the bloody knife and re-
sumed her lively story as if nothing had
happened to interrupt it.-Hillary Bell, In
New York Press.
Folks talk every day of nearly dying
from laughing" says Margaret Mather in
a recent interview, and 1 once found my
self in that situation even when I was sup
posed to be a dead woman. 1t
MADE happened one night recently
in a town in Canada, where I
The DEAD Vas Taiist playing laying w Romeo = and
LAUGH. Gus house, and the applause
helped us wonderfully in CIV
ing a fine production. 1 have heard players
say that they never see a face beyond the
footlights. l do. l see a face many a time
that helps or hinders with enthusiasm or
GOODNESS. This night I saw one in particu-
lar during the whole performance. 1t was
that of a young country girl. and evidently
this was the first play she had ever seen.
She was very pretty but atrociously
/ dressed with her SOff hr0Wn hair c,t oil
around her face and tortured into a harsh
fringe: Her frock was loud and i'll fitting.
rest of her clothes. yet her pretty face
caught me in the midst of a great house.
1t was her interest in the play, though.
saw. Romeo and juliet was very real to
her. She had an intense nature. I could
see that by her shining eyes: and the last
face hidden in her hands. sobbing as If her
heart would break. It was a great COM
pliment. though. to Shakespeare and-me.'
The new melodrama. 1.-THE White Heath
err" which Charles Frohman will produce
at the Academy of Music, New York, to-
morrow night. will have a cast equally re-
1.-THE Sporting Duchess" There will be
over two dozen speaking parts in the play
and io nearly ny,e every Eo. one sd Is FILED by a player
and after her comes Olive May, who has
not been on the stage since she made her
in butterflies" Then there is Amelia Bing-
ham. who was the heroine of 'The Proper
Caper." Among the men are Francis Car
lyle, Robert Cotton, s.. Miller Kent, Harry
HARDWOOD and Louis Baker. The produce
ton of THE White Heather" which has
ten big scenes, will cost Mr.. Frohman over
$50, 900.
The young Finnish singer. Mile. Aino
Ackte, the daughter of a musical conduct
or in Helsingfors. who at the time Of her
leaving the Paris Conservatory of Music,
crowned with the first prize,
4 new last July. made her first ap-
p%earance in the Paris Grand
PRlMA opera last week as Marguer-
ite in Faust" She made such
DONNA. n brilliant hit that the man.
agement of the Grand opera
| felN nnnnlnced four nor norforrn