The times., 1899-04-23

| even more so-rather like The Charity
Bail' than resembling The Two Orphans.
Probably great par, of the reason for
n return TO the highly colored in stage
! productions is not so much the taste OF the
aMusement-loyer as the Inability OF those
1 who cater 10 him. More art is required in
| making natural play interesting and in
playing 1t interestingly than in awaken
ing enthusiasm with mslod.ama. We have
| had few authors who could write such
! works and few actors who could use them.
Then there has been strong movement To
the extreme that exhibits realism rather
than realness- The episodes that 90 to make
| up a story mark epochs in the lives OF its
| characters and they are not natural when
/ they accept these occurrences without n
sign While il is true that the more cul-
tured man Is the less he shows emotions.
none OF US have yet reached perfection In
! that regard. Great grief or intense Joy
! brings all to the same level Consequently
there Is nothing faithful in the portrayal OF
| the impersonator who hears of his mothers
| death and remarks Immediately, We're
having fine weather. \ reaction from this
sort OF thing undoubtedly has had much
to do with the return to romantics. Ulti-
mately we shall go back again to natural
| ism, and finally we shall reach an ideal
| art that will be ideal because real"
And. having survived the attack OF the
beast OF prey. orrin johnson rose to greet
another specimen CT the Ilk who came from
still another paper.
While standing in the box office at the
| Columbia n few days ago, I. Daniel
Frawley began conversing on the past anI
/ future of his local season. And this is
what he said
While il would not be truthful In me to
| remark that | am as yet completely sat
isficd with our engagement in Washington.
i I
/ Is most encouraging We have been in
town but three weeks and are already lay
| ing aside profits for wet weather. The
! newspapers have been correct In stating
! that my determination is to send an organ
| ization to Milwaukee later on and the ar
ransements have gone so far that IL will
be impossible for me to back out no mat
ter how bright things look here II, how
ever, our success at the Columbia is as
great as l anticipate. | shall retain the
combination in this city and send another
one TO Wisconsin. In that case the minor
people will be selected from the present
troupe. and their places filed by promi-
nent actors and actresses whom now have
in mind. Mr. Murray will represent my
interests here. and | shall go on to NIL
wankee- The idea is one the germ of
which has been in my mind for some time.
and there can be no foreseen reason Why
its practice should not give the most ex-
eellent results"
Perhaps the most artistic bit of the many
artistic bits which constituted Minnie Du-
pree's impersonation in ''Dangerfield. '95''
last week at the Grand was her long soliIo-
guy early in the piece. Regarding this
the clever actress remarked to q Times
man that the talk was really quite as dif-
hcult as it seems simple The real ex-
cellence OF monologue like that" she
Z 60 lie IN ff
natural. You can hardly imagine what II
Is to come out before an audience and
speak for nine or ten minutes without
showing that the lines have been learned
and are not a portion OF the woman re-
peating them II Is hard to avoid same
ness and rhythm in tone, too and the ac-
compi;shments OF gesture and business
which are necessary to retaining the atten-
tion CT house are OF no slight conse-
qnence y theatrical assembly must be
continually interested in sketch or it Is
failure And in 'Dangerfeld 95' the de-
Veiopment Of character contained in nv
soiiloquy Is so essential to the strength OF
the comedietta that not word of ii must
be missed Accordingly the minds of those
IN the assembly in front must be kept on
the rather tiresome speech which falls TO
me. and you can readily see that the
task is not light one. However. the
piece is pretty. and | am really growing
fond of my part. shall continue in it for
quite a time.
During a rehearsal of Lost Twenty
four Hours on last Wednesday at the
Columbia, a Times man occupied a box
with bright little Georgia Welles, whose
soubrette and ingenue work with the
Frawley Company is making her extremely
popular in Washington. The critic asked
Miss Welles for the story OF her past life,
and the actress obligingiy responded
My people are not theatrical qucth
she, and when l first proposed going on
the stage l was greeted with a storm of
reproaches and remonstrancss that would
have discouraged anyone but hardened
sinner like myself. The mater, who had
often confessed to a leaning toward the
footlights. stood by me- however and /
was lodged in the Emerson School OF Or
atOry in Boston. After term in this co.
lege | was transferred to the S,rge,nt
School in New York, from which 1 grad
uated. Shortly after my father was in
volved in financial misfortune and was
obliged to take to acting for livelihood.
My first professional appearance was
made in this city. when The Two Co'one S
was tried here All the local papers sssmeI
to like the piece, ana everyone in the COM
Pany thought it beautiful. Managers are
somewhat chary OF vehicles which the
players ENJOY, ana IN TINS case the Super-
stitiou was well founded. The unfortunate
army officers were taken to Paliner's-
which is now Wallack's-and there met
death on the field of battle. After the OBJ
sequies had been attended to I was en-
gagged with Charles Dixon for Other P5o-
pies Money. and was seen during the run
at Hoyts. The farce made deal of the
commodity mentioned in its title, and the
experience was a happy one. Next | went
to the New York Bijou and to Boston
with Sadie Martinot in The Passporte'
Miss Martinez is the woman who is now
doing disrobing act in The Turtle but
in the days of The Passporte' she was
justly famed for other things. and our ap-
pearances were partially successful Ny
fourth engagement was with 'Adonis
Dixey in The Lottery OF Love and then
came term of stock work on the Pacific
Coast where / was with Mr. Frawley In
the interval between that time and my ad-
vent here / took to The White Heather
and would have come to Washington in the
piece had not Mr.. Frawley objected. Now
am in the Capital City and
DO l like my profession. and would |
advise other girls to try it? Well, no-o-o.
When say this it may sound like running
down the labor by which earn my bread
and butter. but still l must stick to it.
When l expressed desire to go on the
stage | was informed that the work was
up hill. the life monotonous. the task
thankless, merit of less consequence than
influence. and all that. but l refused to be-
lieve it. Now | find that the truth was
told me. Acting is hard and success in it
is hard. Following the profession neces-i-
Of To-.