The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-07

" running one sentence into another
inter1ecting ordinations, tramping
about and making extravagant ges-
lures. At times his language was bril-
liant then incoherent. 1t was like a
flame being put to a heap OF fireworks
mat went off in every direction. But
toward the doctors ne was his old, self
reliant. buoyant self.
Mr.. barrymore is hopelessly insane"
said Dr. Fitch quietly. He will never
play again. He has paresis and is go
ing as Seaman and Mccullough vent
it was found necessary TO give Barry
more narcotics last night to prevent
him from disturbiIfg the other patients
by his incessant talking. He thinks he
- dlllng his engagement on the Lyric
Music hall stage, where he was to give
three sketches He delivers these
sketches over and over again with fire
and force. He is the center of observa-
ton OF the other patients, all of whom
stories.
He continually talks OK his own great
ness and comments on the acting of
others. For all he has a kind word
save for Manifold and Henry Irving
whom he hates bitterly. He also lashes
at the Frohmans ana the theatrical
syndicate. One OF the features which
nave marked his growing mental disor-
der has been an inordinate desire to
taik OF his own greatness. This has
been so marked that many of those
VINO love him have shaken their heads
over his talk for the past wear Yes
terday he spent ruueh time writing an
extraVagent notice Of himself which he
ordered the keepers to have pasted all
over the city in fOur-sheet posters
IN the present OF Mr.. Barrymore.
certainly the best actor the United
states or America has ever entertained
ne has all the humor, the poiss, the
command and the valance of even the
renowned Mr.. Jefferson, with far
greater culture and natural humor" he
wrote, stopping now ana then TO read
ii TO the other mad people whom his
patrcn1zinS kindness ana flow of stories
kept about him. Indeed NJ Barry
more has long been easily the most bril-
ilant public man in either England,
merica or heaven.
The exquisite cadence of his sDIen-
did, finely modulated, educated, cult
waited stage voice is the sweetest the
stage has ever known. A trumpet call
when ne Will the note of a clarion and
then the queen cadence of the dove
when he -wOos, and Was, too, is utterly
wingOIne and convincing. Let il f,e re-
mernbered, too, that he is easily the
haldsomest, most graceful. gentleman
lest Of actors. and has been for
thirty years, since the GAYS of those
palladins, those jailisrds or yore in the
art of witchery. He has Winsome Cen
derness and caressingly beautiful ten
der, staunch. starlike eyes and splendid.
whiin, the god-head Of Henry V
What have we now Me miseremi
My Cod The pity of it. the pity of it..
What fall Waterfall. Al. that is
now left is a regime Of Frohman, ped
ding alum and cut-giass diamonds.
HO. no. for his Brumagen heroes of ro-
mancei His heroines of the washtub.
parading in borrowed feathers with
rhNtr windmill, gawky and amateur
ar-ls swinging their hands and display
he fr-f -r-1
Ye Gods What a serious OF kro-nose.
the Lord Algies of the back stable
yards. Hopping around as the fine Heur
of nobility, with Toby Twinkle's mug
and accents OF miserable, defenseless.
implied, unprotected, dehauChed. dis
mantled and dereIct poor creatures of
til stage"
From this he turned to writing a play.
and this. in turn, gave place to letters
to his daughter Ethel. who continues
TO play each night her gay role in cap
tain Jinks." He wrote 10 her with pa
thetic gentleness. using many terms of
tender endearment. and begging her 10
come 10 him, If only for a minute. But
his only visitor yesterday was his
youngest son. John, q boy of -. who is
an art student. living at -61 West
Thirty-siXth street
John Barrymore appeared with
Court officer Boyle of the Yorkvine
court before Magistrate Mott yesterday
afternoon 20 obtain the commitment
papers They had d letter from DR..
Newton. who wrote that Mr. Barry
more was dangerously insane Magis-
-trate Mott issued papers Nhich will al
low. the family to place Mr.. Barrymore
in some asylum. He Will be detained
at Bellevue for further observation. as
Dr.. Fitch is not prepared to make a for
NAL report Genuine sorrSSy is felt in
theatrical circles, where many of Barry
mOre's witty sayings We're ,'etold yes
terGay. He probably viii be sent to
Bloomingdale.
HE is gentle even in his insanity -
made the other patients deeply attached
to him already"