The St. Louis Republic., 1903-01-11

| me- The rumor that has leaked out with
regard TO her plans is simply this. Miss
| Russell is seriously contemplating a tour
in Il drama without music; nothing less. in
| fact, than dramatizatiOn Of Dorothy
| Manners Of Haddon Hall"
The fact of appearing in Il play where
! she would not have 10 sing a note appeals
1 20 Miss Russell immensely. FOR at last FOR
| the first time in her career she would be
able TO indulge In the privilege OF catching
| cold now and then. says the New York
| Evening Sun. Which recalls the other in
| teresting fact that Miss Russell in her
| career. has probably lost fewer perform
| arces through illness than any other woman
| on the stage.
| Nathaniel Goodwin made a few remarks
about personal magnetism. Inasmuch as II
is a quality which has had considerable
| to Go with keeping Mr.. Goodwin in public
| esteem for eighteen or twenty seasons, his
deductions are interesting. Said he: Give
an act yr that mysterious and ill-uSed some
! thing called magnetism, and ne dis
| pense with genius, talent, temperament,
| sympathy character, breeding. distinction,
| fine figure good looks, and even the critics
! favors.
| 1t is the greatest thing in the world.
With it the world can be moved. 1t cannot
! be bought. begged, borrowed or crbbed. 1t
| is a. elusive and as hard to define as cleo
| tIicity. ! think it is electricity. AT all
| events. it is electric.
The late Charles r. Thcrnc had it. So
! did Harry Montague. II was what would
! have made John Wilkes Booth, had he lived
/ even moro popular than his great and be-
!rvsQ brother. Edwin. Ii made Harry Mon
/ taEUc the pet OF men and women from
! OCEAN TO ocean. from the ST. Lawrence To
the Gulf. for Montague WAS not an actor Of
/ genius nor even o. talent. but who thai
/ ever came IN contact with iGm did not love
/ him?
/ AND his salary was $50 = week at Wal
! lacks when Charles L. Th5gaee. in the
| Union Square company. JUST around the
corner. wasn't. And yet Thorre was the
! superior actor. and. as said. the possessor
! of uaguetisri-but not the proprietor of
| SO much as Montague.
! some OF the ugiiest mon and plainest
/ women the world has know: nave been the
I most popula~ because Of this greatest Of
natures gifts. Caesar. Napoleon. Shaks-
poare Edmund Kean. Christopher Mariowe
all had II. and the most wonderful thing
about ii is !;s iudestructibility.'
f Ethel Barrymore declares that her recent
: rr~yuus breakdown was due more TO h"f
1 trials at Christmas shopping taan TO 'he
strain Of her stage iwTersonations. The
| ether day she returned to New York after
! beneficial rest at Lakewood.
! Il dent look like Il very sick girl. do l
she said. My momentary attack of nerves
has yielded to Lakewood air, and / am all
ready To resume my tour.
oh. yes" she cried in response to
question. Il was really i'll last week-not SO
ill., though. as tagged with Christmas shop
pins AID the kindred taxes on ones time
and strength that are unavoidable at this
season. ! became very nervous and on the
| night before closed l quite forgot my
lines i'll Carrots
In consequence. got a laugh instead of
tears from the audience in one Of the sad
Gcst parts of the play.
That made still more nervous, and
the dread Of a similar occurrence the next
night threw me into such panic of nerv-
ous weakness that Mr. Frohman mercifully
gave me this little rest which has set me
UP completely"
When VIII r. Hodge. who is to have
prominent character part in AIDES Peggy
From Paris" was practicing TO become an
actor he was a member Of a transforming