Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-10-25
DEsEREr EVENING NEWS SATURDAY. OCTOBER 25 1902.

wealth In his Italian village, and he
got married on II with confidence. Chii-
dren came, five Of them, and he found
II hard work TO make ends meet. He
was a bakers son, but he could not
bake bread without Hour, and as
drowning men catch at straw, he
caught at the proposition Of Son2ogno,
the Milan music publisher who offered
prize OF one thousand lire N20O) for
the best one-act opera to be submitted
at n certain date. Between the inter
walls OF teaching Mascagni busted him
self with composition. Finally "Cayal-
leria" was finished and sent 10 Milan
II was long day before the scores
were judged, and meanwhile the music
teacher struggled as best he could 70
flll seven mouths with ten lire a day
When the prize finally was awarded 20
him, Mascagni was too poor TO buy a
railroad ticket and he trudged afoot
the long journey between Cerignola
and Milan. Arrived at the publishing
house he had to Identify himself as the
author of "Cavallera" by singing the
aria Regina Coeli' out OF his work
Since that day he has remained the ia
vorite son Of fame and fortune.
Ethel Barrymore seems TO have gained
a better start I'm life than any other
member OF the dramatic profession, At
the age Of three and twenty she Is
successful star, the critics all in her
favor, the public unanimous In her APP
pause. When she made her debut as
a leader of the drama, Miss Barry.
more found In Captain links, a clyde
Ngl Al4f l. t.l, OIL lar
talents exactly, but suited the taste OF
the general theatre goer. Her first sal
airy as a star was 1925 a week, but that
emolument was subsequently Increased
TO $3.50 week, and this season she
earns 5000. Everybody approves Ethel
Barrymore and many men Of wealth
and social position carry this favor 80
far that they will not be happy until
they marry her Honorable intentions,
too, for the breath Of scandal never
has blown on our young player. She
has had remarkable number of mat
rmonial proposals IN this country and
In England. She might be a peeress
and sit on the wool-sack. without
wandering from her own Preside, so to
speak, she might be an American mil
lionairess, with a cottage at Newport
and box at the opera Socially she
occupies position which has been held
by no other native actress. Her uncle,
John Drew, who is Beau Brummel in
our fashionable circles, virtually adopt
ed Ethel after the death Of her mother.
introduced her TO his friends In high
society, where she found immediate
prosperity. Socially, Ethel Is a heavy
swell.and from the eminence Of the OPP
era boxes and Fifth avenue, she
can look down on her less IA
vored sisters at the theatre.
one OF her brothers Lionel.
is an actor, the other, John, Is an illus
traitor, both possess unusual talent and
each earns good income Therefore,
Ethel has an income of 10000 Il year
to spend on herself She Is, probably,
the most beautiful woman on the stage,
and the most stylish. Her mother
Georgia Drew had no good looks, but
she possessed marvellous taste. and that
she transmitted to her daughter. Her
father, Maurice Barrymore, had no
taste, but he possessed physical beauty
and that he gave to his daughter Thus
inheritlng the virtues without the de-
merits Of her parents, Ethel Is one Of
the most engaging OF actresses and the
prettiest. She IL OF more than medium
height, with a small head. nut brown
hair, a low, broad forehead, the Drew
nose modified into refinement, intelli-
gent eyes, a mobile, sensitive mouth. a
long neck, a slender form, big boned In
the limbs and with a peculiar looping
walk, which she inherits from her