The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-19

George Clark Daniel Harkins, George
Devere, Chas. Fisher, James Lewis, Will
liam Lemoyne. William Davidge, A
Whiting, G. Fawcett, G. Parkes, j. Bur
nett, H. Bascombe, J. Beekman, George
Gilbert, etc, and one can readily under
stand that the salary of the men alone
must have made quite an item in the
weeks expenses; and added to the sharp
necessity of getting us to work as quickly
as possible.
And in actual truth the ruins of the lit
tie theater were not yet cold, when Mr..
DAILY had by wire secured a week for us,
divided between Syracuse and Albany
and we were scrambling dresses together
and buying new toilet articles-rouge,
powders and pomades and Transforming
ourselves into strolling players-though
sooth to say, there was precious little
'strolling'' done after we started, for we
were all a-rushing for rooms, for food,
for trains through a blizzard that was on,
with plenty of delaying snowdrifts
Now at that time, to my own great
anxiety, l was by way of standing on
very dangerous ground The public had
favored me almost extravagantly from
the very first performance of Anne Syl-
vester," but the critics, at least the two
most important ones seemed to praise me
with a certain unwilling drag of the pen.
Nearly all their kind words had the
sweetness squeezed out Of them between
puts and ifs" and most wounding of
all my actual work was less often criti-
cised than were my personal defects.
There is nothing more fatal to the ar
tstic value-to the future welfare of
young player, than to be known as ''one
part actress"-yet that was the very dan
ger that was threatening me at the time
OF the DIIrninr nf tho hOrnp theafer Fol-
lowing other parts known as Strong"
Jezebel, the half-breed East Indian,
velvet footed treachery and twice would
be murderess; and Cora, the quadroon
mad-woman, were in fair way to inJure
me greatly. Already one paper had said:
Miss Morris has strange intuitive COM
prehension of these creatures OF mixed
blood"
But worse than that the most powerful
OF the two critics | dreaded and said one
morning; Miss Morris played with care
and much feeling. the audience wept
copious.y to any one who has long read
the great critic that word 'copousiy' 10
tantamount to his fun sigma ture. so per-
sistently does he use ~. but her perform
ance was fecked with those tigerish
CLEANS that seem to be part or ner
method. She will probably find difficulty
In equaling in any line. her success IN
Cora"
Then one bitter cold day we returned
TO New York and Mr.. DAILY. sending TOT
me, said: He must ask favor or me-
a form Of speech that literally made me
sit up straight-yes, and gasp 100 WIN
astonis hment With regardfui sign ne
went on: 81 suppose you know you are
strong attraction"
! smiled broadly at his evident ulsap-
proval OF such knowledge on my part, ana
he continued: But in this play there ~
no part for you, yet greatly need ell my
strongest people in this hrst cast VI
course. as far as ability IS concerned you
could play the Countess and make a nit
but she's too Cad. 80 you'A not play the
mother 60 marriageable daughters unoer
my management, even In an emergency
Now 1 have Miss Morant, Miss DaVen-
port and Miss Dietz, but-but must have
your name too"
nodded vigorously. I understood, ana
having seen the play IN Paris, where u
was one Of three pieces offered for an ev-
snings programme, / mentally reviewed