The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-29


ity with eagerness. She has long de-
sired to take Miss Rehan's place in the
DAILY company and here seemed her Cp-
portunlty. A great success in the new
part would mean much and might ac-
| complish her desires. But alas! there
has come about another change. Evil
| IDENTIFY for Miss Rehan to declare that
she did not care for a part is one thing
and seeing another and younger &C
tress preparing to create favora BILE
sensation in that part is quite another.
At all events, it was announced in New
York city last week that Ada Rehan
would herself play the part in question.
and there is no mention of Miss Bates
at all in the announcement. Whistler
she will consent to appear in a minor
character in the play or some other ar
rangement has been made for her will
soon be determined. She is too valuable
and Augustin Daily had too much trOu-
Bile securing her for him to lose her
now.
When Mr.. Jefferson and Mrs Drew
got up that notable revival of The Riv-
ais in New York for the Couldock her,
eft | was asked to play David" said
De Wolf Hopper to an interviewer the
other day. Il played it-surprised my
self, too. Mr.. Jefferson said some very
pleasant things to me, and it was then
that l thought of going into tie
legitimate for keeps. Another time was
when l played Falstaff a Saratoga-an
al fresco entertainment in which Mrs.
John Drew played Dame Quickly. And
thereby hangs tale: Mr.. Crane, Who
had previously played Fastaff, took NE
aboard of his yacht TO give me the
benefits of his experience in the role
showed me what authorities said his,
that and the other about Falstaff-why
he did this-why he did that. And
after I'd been with him a couple of
weeks he said: Now, here's part in
Falstaff that calls for all your powers
Do you remember when Falstaff, after
his first engagement with the Merry
Wives, has been dumped into the
Thames? He comes on the stage and
swears by everything under heavens
sun that he will never go back to those
women again. And just then enters
Dame Quickly with a message from
them asking him to meet them again
Her speech is only six lines long-yet
in that brief space he must change his
mind completely and say that he is
ready to try again. Now, Dame Quick
ly must act with you-she must give
you time, say her lines very slowly and
pause at the end of each of them, so
as to give you time to show the audi
ence by the expression on your face
tIldt YOU are undergoing d tndnSe OF
heart. Otherwise it will seem prepos-
ferrous to the audience that Falstaff can
so quickly forget his treatment at the
hands of the Merry Wives Well, I re-
membered Mr.. Cranes advice. but
when I found out that Mrs. Drew was
to play the part of Dame Quickly I nat
urally found much hesitancy in telling !
so gifted an artist how to play the role !
And so 1 hfd behind Hr. Crane shifted
! f,Ap HI
her what Crane had said, how in mere
ly six lines of her speech Falstaff would
so completely change his mind. My
face must show the change I said. |
Mrs. Drew smiled. That certainly was
an oversight in Shakespeare she said,
to only give Dame Quickly six lines
there Well, on the day of the per-
Torrance ! never in all my life so loved
my art as when Mrs. Drew delivered
those six lines. Her face was a marvel.
No need to look at me to tell me that
she had made me change my mind. The
audience was looking at her not at me-
Her face told the tale. Told that she
had made me believe what she said;
that she was laughing at me for he
lieving it: that she knew l would again
go and see those prankish wives. The
audience was looking solely at her face,
not at mine. And since then I have
come to believe two things: first. that
no more consummate actress than Mrs
John Drew ever lived; and, second that
William Shakespeare evidently knew
his business better than 1 could have
told him."
The comedian, Harry Corson Clarke.
has led busy life for a man only 80
years old. He began young, for he
made his first public appearance at the |
tender age of Is months, when he vas |
carried across the ice as a property |
baby in Uncle Toms Cabin" but lie
tween that first appearance and the |
bogus Bishop of Ballarat' he has |
sandWiched in a remarka bic string of |
character parts.
Mr.. Clarke is a legitimate child of the |
drama coming from actors upon both |
SIDES of the house, who are the blood |
KIN of the professions best talent His |
grandfather was Corson w. Clarke for |
years stage manager of Barnum's nu-
scum in New York. Both father and |
mother are members of the profession
Mrs. Adele Clarke having supported
Booth, Barrett, Charlotte Cushman. E. |
l.. Davenport, Macready and others of |
the old school, and acted for A. NJ |