The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-19

any society comedy or anything fareicai. 1
would like TO have a perfectly hieh-toned com.
no melodrams. 1 had AZ idea that it might DO
a-good plan to put the period back q couple of
&c tut, ,bo or I maybe II not so long end Snd we'd n haze
cratic faulty think Il would 30 good to have
some way or another. perhaps as a Gypsy, and
goes around among the common peoplc-we
could have thom her father s tenants or some
thing-and warn them against tho soldiers or
the,police or the King or somebody.'
II thought that this situation seemed q little
familiar, but said nothing until she finished.
Their l thought she could fall in love with
some Of %the'poor peoples, heroes, maybe, a sol;
up to. and he might fall in love with her, too,
without knowing. In the least who she was.
+ Then mt th tgo could sorf % So = married 1ITE ib in the T s1d' and Th9 +
anybody writes it for me Ill act 1t next Sep
II did not suggest that J. NJ. Barrie had al
ready written the same play, but / did venture
TO observe that it was u good deal like The
"fWeli, She said, people might say that. But
thoy, always do about every play.'
THAT young woman had seen, Maude Ad-
ans succeed, and she thought that her success
in just tho same way would DO much easier
when she stuck closely to the lines of that piece
Yet she would probably have, scorncd the idea
Of trying The Little Minister, or anything else
like II before the success of 1t had been made
possible by somebody else.
only n week ago, when the duty OF reclaim.
ing q manuscript took me to the house OF
another actress looking for q play, she confidod
to me, after having rejected mine uncondition-
ally, what she really wanted, coupled with the
flattsrlng remark that she thought | would DO
able to do 1t for her. Then she proceeded to give
me an outline of 'Divorcons,' and ] knew that
she had only seen Mrs. Fisko in the FARGO tho
night before. and decided that she could act It,
l asked her why she didn't take 'Divorcons' out
right, but she said that she must have a now
play. Just after Rosemary was acted, had a
long talk with an actor who had just made his
debut as q star, We had previously been dis
GUESSING a drama based on tho French Revolution.
He, had been enthusiastic over tho idea. We
a Tale of Two Cities and were going 10 make
Sidney Carton q hero in tho play. ! saw that
the former enthusiasm was missing. Tho
actors attention wandered. He had no sug-
~gestions to make. He was. in fact, bored. But
l stuck to my explanations of the scenario until
I had finished. Then he was delighted. See
here. old fellow he said, I'm afraid we've been
working on the wrong tack. I've got a new
idea that only occurred to me last night. Now
/ want to be an old man for q part OF the time
always been anxious to do q little character
work just to let EN- see l can. ! couldn't be
my father in the first act or the prologue. and
my son afterward. That's played out. But you
write me n play In which l am an old man In the
last act for only a few minutes Have me young
before, in love with q girl, and all that. Then
by myself and old at the end
II was dishoartened. l was not trying to dc
very much. 1t was only to make a play found.
ed on scenes from q no vol. But l was not equal
TO cribbing a brand new play. / was so indig'
nant that l told the man So"