The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-31


from Pete Daley
George Edward WaddeII. National
League pitcher, called by the vulgar,
-Rube." who is gradually acquiring a
large reputation as participant ii in
teTesting events has signed z contract
to appear on the stage next season in
a sketch entitled. The Stain of Guilt.
10 be managed by William Garen. The
play viii. il is said, be produced in New
J ork City Oct. ,. Waddell viii receive
$40 a week Tor his services on the stage
Mr. Garen has given orders for the
printing of numerous Autographs of the
twirler, to be used in advance work.
David Warfield viii have his little
joke, regardless of temperature. He
perpetrated one of his hot weather, hot
air variety Wednesday or so ago
upon Charles Z. Evans and Edwin FOy,
and is laughing yet over the results
Every booy else in the world except
Evans and FOy knows that Warfield
IS above presenting Wednesday mat
ticular demand for them. That pair of
comedians. however, made no effort to
/ conceal their ignorance when they en-
countered Warfeld in New York at
Broadway and Forty-second street the
other afternoon. for. after the usual
-~-@s1
Dave, we're coming over to see your
matinee this afternoon
Don't do it, replied Warfield. It's
/ so hot that don't think I shall play.
"Hully ges," exclaimed Foy. in his
1 polished way, "can YOU do that?''
Certainly" replied Warfeld. Come
/ over to the theatre and watch me stop
| it now"
The trio walked into the lobby of the
/ Victoria theatre. There was an ex-
/ change Of winks between John Ward
/ the treasurer. and the comedian, and
| then the latter said:
johnnie, just leave word that I have
/ decided it. is too hot for a matinee"
| Turning to the astonished Evans and
| Foy, he said:
what's the use of being a star?''
Now I'm off for Norris park?"
Commenting on the desirability or
| otherwise of the actors life. Edwin
| Stevens takes the usually pessimistic
| view.
1T seems to my inexperience. Mr..
| Stevens, that you should be pretty well
satisfied with the profession said the
/ interviewer
'You think so?" he queried. and
faded into detection. Then, dismally,
Il have everything I want, I sup
| pose
We'll. what more
ooh, there comes a day when they
say You are too old" he anticipated;
some younger man viii come and kick
| you out, and where are YOU. then?'
] There is no need Of crossing a bridge
| until you come to it. and you people of
/ the large salary should be prepared for
! the rainy day"
What does the large salary mean?''
| he asked in return, You have, say,
/ $500 a week. Your season is mostly
" 49, g.
/ OF the weeks in your own home in New
/ York. That is $1,000 a year. Now, out
( OF 1t you buy all of your wardrobe,
! there are your hotel bills and entertain
/ ing. About the hotels: Ones health
/ in the profession is ones dominant
| care. When that goes, everything goes.
/ It is your chief asset. Therefore. you
| cannot economic on your hotel at the
| expense of your stonach-if you can't
! eat you can't work, and who can eat
/ in the cheap hotels?
| Then there's the entertaining. We
! stage folk are thrown with people
who have every luxury Of life. and any
/ one of gentle instincts. any pride, and
/ the habit Of reciprocity will not permit
/ all the entertaining to be on one side.
Then we inevitably form somewhat
( luxurious habits. If my millionaire
/ friend leaves his automobile with me
! for six Or seven months while he goes
/ TO Europe, it's likely l shall form the
I auto habit
There is way of managing by put
! ting little by every week-Tve done
J 1t by insurance You'll let the meat bill
! go by, but the insurance is like a jack
/ pot-you've got to put in again to make
! good"
so you don't advise the stage as a
means of livelihood %
With depressing solemnity Mr.. Stew
! ems rose TO remark: mo. When any
one asks us-my wife and whether to
take 10 the boards or not we say,
Don't. emphatically don't"
This is from Harper's Weekly. The
mind of the modern actor-we speak. of
course, of the many, not of ALLIES in
, ms dancing legs. his side splitting
grlmaces, his business his exaggera-
tons Of peculiar lives of today. The
mind thus devoted TO The lighter tasks
Of popularity, skipping also from one
authors jokes to those of another. on
a moments notice, as its possessor
skips from town to town and from
Stage 20 stage, is not a mind that can
suddenly turn to the contemplation and
| the study of Shakespeare with anv
/ hope that the lines of the poet will get
the better Of the encounter. The actor
Who IS to play Shakespeare acceptabIy
must not frfvOl away his intellectual
Little Lamb" with all the enthusiasm
Of his soul, for 800 nights. and hope to
( be equal to the ''Magni1cat'' or a TIE
Deum, or Siegfried's Rhine Journey.
on the three hundred and first night.
The tasks to which the modern English
and American manager puts the Eng
lish and American actor have destroyed
the old school of Shakespeare actors.
Now, we are not saying that this is not
for the best; that in the processes Of
the evolution of the arts the theatre
has not naturally become what It is.
Olga Nethersole appears to have been
unfortunate again in the selection of q
new play. Dispatches from London
say The GOrdian Knot" which she
produced with BeerbOhm Tree. was far
from a success. But success was hard
" deserved, if the following account is
to be trusted:
Rarely has more vulgar or more re-
pulsive play been put on the stage than
THE Gordian Knot" by Claude Low
Their. which was produced for the first
time at HIS Majesty's theatre tonight
1t was apparently the authors ambi-
ton to depict depraved womanhcod
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