The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-03
A curious letter reached Bruce Whitney.
the journalist and playwright, at Miiwau-
kee. not long ago. 1t ran az follows:

curious letter reached Bruce Whitney.
the journalist and playwright, at Miiwau-
kee. not long ago. 1t ran az follows:
.waupaca Veteran Home
Mr.. Whitney-I am full of the stun
that drammas are made Of. 1 am almost
Insane with suppressed emotions!
Il am pregnant with a high pressure
Tragedy. lhr Devils Play Ground Do
answer me by return mail. II come to
Address AIRS.
''Will you coaborat In all me God given
but says ia maxi f fine 0 emotional on qe ae
tress The frenzles l suffer would make
statut weep.
DO let me come and you write out my
hearts blood. My eyes are falling Ny
life must not pass without making It's i'm
press on the age"
We often read of such letters" says
Mr.. Whitney, '.but / have always imag-
ined they were the result OF a fertile i'm
ag.nation. This one WAS all too real. as
the writer afterward visited my Office for
the full purpose mentioned in her commu-
nication. ard had no END Of difficulty to
get rid OF her."
Now that Nat Goodwin has assumed
suck importance that biographical data
make up mos. of the comments about him,
one Of the earliest stories about him, on
which his press agents used to lay grea,
stress. has been badly punctured This
story was to the effect that Goodwin's
first appearance resulted In such a bad
case of stage fright that when his cue was
given he bolted. not only from the stage.
bat from the theater, and. as soon as pos
sible. from the town. which was Provi-
dence, not stopping until he reached his
mothers presence. when he .rnplored her
10 get him job In a grocery store. Now
for the facts. Goodwin was always enam-
cred of the ssage-he has had other
inamoratas but that's another story or
rather. several of them--and when he.was
sen; to school at Pennington Me. about
the first thing he did WAS TO start a dra-
matte club When he returned 10 his Bos-
ton home he went TO work rs a clerk in
a dry goods store, bat his efforts to get
an opening on the professional stage never
ceased. and these efforts resulted In Sc
curing for him place with Stuart Rob
son TO play In Law In New York" This
was March g. 1874 and the character as
signed TO Goodwin was that of a news
boy. He was not assailed by stage frigh.
to any appreciabla extent. aud made an
immediate success by "gagging' his part
and by the series OF limitations OF popular
actors. which is familiar everywhere Two
years later he WIS playing Captain Deter
ich In "Evange,ins." and at this time he
hearing. more or less respectful in .sDa-
vtd Garrsck'' and undoubteu success in
An American Citizen" while Chicago
people took him seriously In a play Of the
revolutionary period called Nathan
Hale" although there are dissenting opin-
Ions when success IS claimed for the play.
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The Washington, d c., Biayatsky
branch of the Theosophicai Society OF
America Is. says a dispatch from that city,
much wrought up over the performance OF
Nine Jaaauschek in her new play. .swka,
Dreams May Come" Columbia theater
The theme Of the new play, which was
writtea by Paul kester. is theosophy. and
the B.avatsky people would not mind IL
the theme were properly presented. bat
Nine. Janauscnek takes aGvautage of the
theosoph.eal character she pays 10 bur
lesqIe the sainfsd and transmitted High
Prisssess Biayatsky herself. who is COM
monty supposed 10 have been born again
in the body OF an infant now being reared
in great care and tenderness in the tsn1pls
az the Mahatmas in India. Mime Janau-
schek, Ia makeup. Is lsvsrg peEtTaisure
OF the high priestess Of theosopay. who
was some moons since transmitted into the
void where she sailed around In The IN
visible world for some time until the sx-
piratlon Of the brief period Of atonemcns
lSS Tue lew els SIZE H2t3 COMMITTED a.
lowed her 10 once mcre return 10 earth
Whether Nine. Blayatsky~s soul was re-
incarnated IN the body OF born in
~Rn; row living IN the Indian pun satib or
rot. tie theasophis1s hold her memory
dear
Nine Jarausche1zss Imitation Of Blsv-
aysky is considered ahnse rerroach IN ev-
err way She introduces mary OF the
UAnnsr.ssz-s Of the taeasop1ieaI isaaer,