The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-11-20

Lti thtlN. nNHn the 'LliltS were naming
as ne younger sister OF Duse and Bern
harit. had signed a four weeks engage
mcut with the manager Of the Majestic.
She was to bring her own company v0ile
the stock company of the Majestic re
tired into the ohscurity of Harlem At
the last moment she cabIed from Lon
don that her leading man. a creature Of
infinite resources. had been token ser
iously ill., Could the Majestic supply
his place
stanton Lord OF John Belmont the
manager asked himself
stanton Lord had been on the stage for
ten troubled years. Ever since he left
college and his salad days behind him. he
had been working, with blind and dumb
persistence. TO justify the step he had
taken. II was not to the world that he
cared 90 justify it, but to his family.
made up of a skepticaI father, who has
sen. his son to college for any reason
under heaven but that the young scape-
grace should turn actor before his B. A
had passed its second summer; a tender
mother, who believed in the boys belief
that he was the coming Hamlet, and
little sister. whose matrimonial pros
pects might be injured if her brother re-
mailod third rate actor.
The young man pIodded. He played
third or fourth parts with the intensity
OF star. After nine years Of travel and
toll toll and travel. putting III At one
night stands and forever moving on, with
on occasional return to New York and
its refreshments after nine years Of
pot boiling. he found himself one Of the
stock company Of the Majestic. There
he played third or fourth parts with such
delicate precision AID subtle force that
the play was often thrown out Of per
+ speCtiye. The house and the manager
seeing this. Lord was promoted and his
. salary and spirits raised He was now
| thirry-tvo. a prime age at which to begin
( to succeed; and indeed. success
/ peeIed Al him from corners,
. and even seemed on the point Of coming
/ forward and shaking hands with him. His
+ photographs were shown in Broadway
+ windows. He began TO have rivals-men
+ who were neck and neck with him. and
as & natural consequence, did not love
/ him oyermuch.
+ OF these the most clearly defined was
I John Belmont. He was a younger man
/ than Lord but he had had a longer and
more cosmopolitan experience. and was
[ more flexible and more supericislly bril-
/ liant than the college graduate Stanton
/ Lord had always a certain contempt for
Belmont. whose highly colored mind had
I not been tempered by an acquaintance
with the classics.
The manager, Weighing the two men in
/ the balances 10 judge Of their fitness TO
play Armand Duval 10 Miss Deladeld'
. Camille. decided that Lords serious face
which was something between that Of
/ the typical actor and a priesJ's-wouId
/ appeal 20 the matinee girl more strongly
than BeImonts round. good-humored
J count enance. An hour after the great de
cision ne said 20 Lord.
( You're in luck. Lord. Deladeld's a
/ great woman. She doesn't stand by Duse
/ CT Bcrnhardt this year. nor next. but give
her five years and she will. The 'Chron-
. icie' saw her last year when she was
. playing 10 poor business zap in Harlem
+ This season it viii be different"
Stanton Lord was both inspired and
cast down by his great opportunity On
the night before the first rehearsal he
stroUed down Broadway. after the play.
iuteniiug 10 turn in at the 81. James for
a quiet smoke over a bottle Of cIaret. but
/ he was so possessed by the thought Of The
. next evening that when he became con
. s.i0ua of his surroundings he found him
self in Union Square. opposite sarouy s.
He paused before the lighted window,
/ and looked ar the photographs Of The aa-
Z tors and actresses shown there II was
. q motley collection. Cissy Fitzgerald.
. with ler sauciest wink, side By side with
. the refined little face Of Maud Adams,
. Ada Behan, in big har. gaz-
ing tenderly at John Drew. the
. Gothi- features of Henry Irving
next to the mere prettiness OF
I a music hall dancer, his own physiOg-
nomv and near it Anna Delaheld'5.
. Hers was q type not often seen among
/ actresses serious face, With thought
/ in the large eyes. and iu the lines Of the
I large. sensitive mouth
Mature" was Lords first comment.
. she has Iived-Od the stage as well as
Oh I shall be your lover tomorrow. Ca
/ mile. and something beside. If the gods
are coed, Ten years are enough TO get
. ready in Good night. Camille
The rehearsal went OF we'll Before
. the first act the manager introduced Stan
/ ton Lord % the leading lady Anna Del
I afeld. in her street dress Of brown cloth.
. with her heavy hair parted and drawn
over her brows. looked more like a young
/ professor IN girls college than an dc-
/ tress She greeted Lord coldly. and had
nothing 10 say 10 him. They were soon
1 on The stage in ali the exotic warmth OF
! the play LORD was TOO much absorbed
ia his part 20 be conscious Of Anna Della
fields manner Of playing hers. Only her
voice. low, rich. with peculiar Iutoua-
tion. pierced the atmosphere OF his con
caEtration at times. and made his near,
lea.-
Her voice haunted him that night
though he did not think Of her. He had
never been strongly drawn 10 women on
the sage 4 certain fasjidiousuess OF
supplying as 30 often does
the moral seuse-had made an uncOu-
scious Sir Galahad Of him. a Sir GaIahad
who found most pleasure IN the society oil
married women with ideas. or OF young
girls with ideals He had been IN low,
with married women and young girls and
/ once or twice with a stage beauty. but
1 where his heart had gone his head had
! not always followed. and it was a rule
| with Stanton Lord that all his acts must
! receive the double sanction. else h,
Z doubted. and can one doubt and love-
The FIRST night OF Camille" came be-
! fore he was altogether ready for it, He
| was lr the middle Of the first act before
I he realized That he curtain had riser
on ms great opportunity" During III.
/ supper scene, where his part was to q -