Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-14
RICHARD MANSFIELD ARRIVES
Comes on Special Train with sixty-TwO
Helpers for Stage Picture,
ACTOR TALKS OF NEXT SEASONS WORK
Preparing for S-hakesperesn Produce
tiOns-MsnsheId says He VIII Play
Three More Years Before
Retiring from stage.

The puf1ng and footing OF a locomotive
announced the arrival at noon yesterday Of
the modern Beaucaire, cousin to Louis XIV
Of France. He sat in the rear car OF a
train Of FIVE. Up ahead OF him we're two
coaches, from which descended the polite
English gamblers with whom he duels and
woos and passes both pleasantries and
unpleasantries every night In stageland.
And ahead Of these were two baggage cars
from which came, in sections, the Bath
pump house, the moonlit road where the
noble barber stands ground against the
six large men coached by the duke Of Win
%terset, "a little in the background" the
elegant vehicle at tie side OF which he
fights, a gray span to draw It Though not
OF course in sections, as the horses arc
animate realities), the furniture and tapes
tries for the several apartments in which
the smart set centers its interest and risks
its principal, the satin suits and lace
gowns OF the royalty-in fact, everything
that the exacting mind OF Richard Mans
field, actor-manager, has settled on as
necessary in a correct presentation of the
pictures suggested by Booth Tsrkington's
dainty book.
Attention to Details.
Yesterday afternoon these properties were
hauled to Boyd's theater in many drays and
arranged for the performance Of last night.
Everything that Mansfield uses, even to the
lights, are furnished by Mansfield and some
time during the day he was at the play
house to see that all things were where he
wanted them.
But IL the actor is exacting he is not
boorish nor inhospitable. When his bust
ness representative. J. H. Dillon, a jovial
man Of Falstaff build. but gentler manners,
ushered reporters into Mansfeld's presence
yesterday morning Mansfeld's right hand
went out unrestrainedly and his clasp was
hearty.
Mansfield is a busy man. Even as his car
was being switched about in the yards he
was at work. His living apartment is airy,
or as airy as a car can be, and all about
him are shelves for books and for flowers.
"A few small chairs are In the room and
one large one, in which he lounges in a
loose brown suit, felt slippers and a silk
scarf that answers as both collar and tie.
On the small table before him an acting
version of Julius Caesar was spread and
from 1t he had been taking some notes on
loose sheets Of common white paper.
Talk of Next Seasons Plans.
81 am beginning preparation for next
years presentation OF Julius Caesar and am
following my usual plan Of reading several
versions to help me in arranging my own.
1t will be my first appearance in the play,
but 1t is to be only one Of a Shakespearean
repertoire, which / shall give next season.
The others will be Macbeth, Richard III,
Merchant Of Venice, and possibly others.
The summer, after closing in Montreal
July 4. l hope to spend abroad, but 1 shall
not stay over a great while. These re-
ports Of my retiring next year are entirely
~upfounded. I said two years ago that I
expected to retire In five years, and thai
Is still my plan. After that I may play
four weeks in New York, three in Chicago
and perhaps two in Boston, each year, but
the rest of my time l shall spend in literary
work and perhaps in assisting in the writ
ing and staging Of plays"