The times., 1899-02-19

| to me and am SO fond of every detail in
| il that slight difference in likes and dis
| likes adds or detracts "A great deal from the
| toll can give It. All my roles have re-
ceived my fullest cndcavor and what origi-
nality could put into them. l find it
difficult to go by the direction of others.
my own ideas OF nature and acting being
| first with me The accents and meanings
give my parts are mainly. If not alto
gether. from my Insight into their require
| ments. while nearly all the business | use
| is OF my own arrangement Frequently
Mr.. Drew speaks Il line In some unusual
| way, and | answer him in like tone, and
generally we find, during the course of
performance, at least one reading that
pleases more than its predecessor has dons.
In such cases we retain the improved en-
phasis until we can substitute something
better But | have never been coached
and could not gain anything by II. As to
the roles like best-well, perhaps my fa-
yorite is that which had in The Pris-
oner of Zenda-' a Marriage OF Conyen-
| ience pleased me. too. and three or four
lesser pieces have always held warm
place in my heart But l think am in
clined to like the powder and patch parts
and am very. very glad that you prefer me
in serious work"
Disgust and WEAKNESS were plainly writ
ten on Mary Marbles face last Monday
evening when n Times man found her seat
ed In the parlor OF an uptown hotel.
Yes she remarked. in answer to his
question. Il am snowhound, and so Is all
the rest OF the MIX White Flag company.
We were to have played in Norfolk to-
night. but that is out of the question now.
None of us is very sorry. IL there is as
much trouble between Washington and
Norfolk as there was between Baltimore
and Washington l don't care whether
Low lnaN tru,vt
nal intention was to have his organization
quit the Monumental City by boat and
everyone of us had gone aboard and to bed
when we were awakened with the informa-
tion that the old tub wouldn't leave. We
dressed hastily and took a bus fer the
depot, where We hoped to catch train.
but the driver turned us over in a drift
and so we missed the last regular to leave
for the Capital
when Manager Dunno got to the sta
tion he succeeded. after an hours persua-
, sion, in proving to the presiding elder that
it was necessary for us to move, and that
. his road would have to move u.s. dray-
man explained that he had just taken
Minnie Adams scenery out OF a freight
car and We had ours put in. Then they
bundled us. with a few sacks OF mall
into passenger coach and after days
plowing and putting we reached this city.
Then came more arguments. more bundling
folk special. while locomotive went ahead
TO clear the way. After about five minutes
/ OF waiting, word came that the engine was
stuck a hundred yards out of the shed
and could neither go nor return. There
was no use trying further. so all of us got
into bus and fought our way up to the
hotel. But I've had enough to tire me OF
billiards for the rest of eternity
Perhaps the cleyerest. and at the same
time the most modest, member of the
Ward and Vokes combination is Johnny
Page, who told of his stage experience
the other day in these words: Il dislike
to recall my past life because it has been
a general disappointment. In the first
place my ambition was always to be a
strong. strapping fellow, and-look at me.
My parents cherished the derusion that |
would be big and SO called me John. No
one ever saw more than one under-grown
man by that name. Still it may be that
my size was the luckiest thing that ever
! happened to me. for probably half the
people who applaud my work turn to
the other half while they are doing it and
excuse themselves by remarking, That's
pretty good for a little fellow
'I took to theatricals about-must l tel
!. the truth twelve years ago. For a long
4 | time was a sweet-voiced tenor or phe
q nomenal baritone, or something of the sort
t Then l found that my throat was goine
? | wrong and that | would have to take Il
l something else. l fell in with lot of boys
4 and learned to tumble. finally doubling III
r with man named George Allen and goirE
| on the road with female minstrel show
i operated by Billy Arnold. l was out four
a teen weeks and then the manager refused
s to pay my salary and | quit. Next | wen
to work in theatre at Spokane Falls and
e had toled long enough to be about to gel
my wages when the whole town burned
e down. Fortune smiled, however. and got
I to Seattle. where | met my old partner
Louis Odell. We were in variety houses
for some time. principally with May Rus
sells BurlesGuers, and then We got into
the Tompkins productions Things went
, too well and returned from visit homo
to find that Odell had given some one else
my name and was working with him.
A Then Fortune put on a fixed grin and
made a big hit with Tompkins in The
Black Crook Finally l Joined Ward and
Vokes in a Run on the Bank was one
season with Corinne played the captain III
Excelsior and am back again with Ward
: and Yokes. There is my history up to
; date. and l hope it'll do. Ii not, you can
: change it to suit yourself"
4 1T seems rather strange for woman
r who has been fortunate enough TO achieve
= considerable success as dancer TO &C
= knowledge that she has never taken les
son in her life" quoth Mile. Titenia yes
e terday while discussing her art with q
1 | Times man. Nevertheless in my case
5 that statement would be absolutely true
= From earliest childhood | was very fond
e of prancing about, and. while sill girl
o was selected to train the ballet OF an anna
s teur company that was to appear in my
= home Salt Lake City. Shortly after l did
e something myself at a Mormon Church
n benefit and then. my ambition being
J. aroused went to New York and secured
n an eugagement from Oscar Hammerstein
o After six weeks on his Roof garden b2gar
& with the Casino forces and made hit
g with some toe work done In the last act o.
It In GAY New York Then | was heavily
g featured at the Palace in London. VOL
y favorable criticism while at the Olympic
= in Paris. Travelled over two of our owl
i Western circuits. booked with Burke &
= Chase and have just finished at the Grand
S That's ALL But through my career l hay
o never been shown step or learned hg
b ure from anyone. So that the remark viii
which l began this harangue contained
every element of truth.
d I'm my mind, there is better opportunity
G for versatile work in melodrama than il
n any other line OF stage effort" said Lult
Tabor the other evening. I've had seyera
n tries at comedy and other lines of labor
# and am always glad TO return TO my native
, heath-the blood and thunder play. in i
one can make folk laugh, cry. yell Will
delight or hiss with contempt Certainl!
=, no actress or actor in other fields can pro
a woke a wider gamut OF emotions than this
r. or rather, does not try to do so. You cal
8 talk about your legitimate and your ro