The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-17

his face in a perpetual smile. Variety
( is truly the spice of life and antithesis
our great Joy Pope knew well the
quality Of the constant smiler. saying:
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray.
as shallow streams run dinlpling all
the day" Dickens found in Mrs. Fezzi-
wig one Of the perpetual kind, for she
wore one substantial SMILE and
wearied everybody with it. a person
who stares like a sick face is an inn
provement on the one that smiles like
an orang-ontang.
A mans countenance may beam with
goodness and graciousness, but just
as soon as its owner gets that smile
that won't rub off" he is at once sus-
pected of insineerity and shallowness
The leading lady is likewise chary OF
her smiles; she uses them with as
great care and economy as Russo
Sage his small change. She never
really gets beyond q semi-smile, or
smiling gIances that shoot and illumin-
ate like sudden CLEANS that glow
through autumn clouds, for TO break
into a broad grin would be to smash
any scene.
In your popular leading man there is
usually a mixture of the detected and
the forlorn. He can't draw shucks at
a matinee if he is smiler. 1t is the
comedian, the soubrette. and villain,
whose BUSH ass it is to indulge IN this
pastine. This trio can work the mus
cles of their faces into as many
creaSes as there are lines on a map,
and nobody viii complain But now
and again we have a comedian as sol
emn as a thunder bird and cold as
mausoleum, who manages to avoit
shaking both his sides when ne perpe-
trates a noble and glorious pun; yec
the soabrette is fever anything else
than an automatic smiling machine. It
matters not how dolorous she may be
in the family circle; once she reaches
the stage door she must remember the
young lady who desired 10 manage the
May-pole dances, and must cry; Il
shall be all smiles tonight mother, if
am to be queen Of the stage
The suppressed smile is one of the
most useful Of theatrical articles anu
one Of the most effective when en-
ployed by a genuine artist Wash
ington critic. in speaking Of Viola Al
lens performance of Viola in Twelfth
Night remarked. upon the exQuisit
skill Of the actress in those scenes with
Olivia when the latter tells her love,
and the same in those passages Will
the duke when he questions Viola re-
garding her sister-Otherwise herself
Here is occasion for not only smiles,
but broad grin or a loud guffaw. The
fair Viola, however. must hold hersel
in perfect restraint else she disclose
her identity and. indeed, her sex.
There is more value in a threatenef
smile. every instinct of Enerriment hel6
in subsection. than IN all the smiles
grins and grimaces that were ever dis
closed al a smiling and grinning mate
behind a horse collar at an English
fe:r.
The nicely poised composure of a
well-bred man or woman is rather
more PLEASING and enduring than the
srinninr giddinPss OF chfmDanzee
To he effective the smile must be spar
ingly use, as tabaseo in ones soup.
Now nearly 81 years old, and from
| childhood an actress. a favorite with
| three generations of theatre-goers. still
/ in the fullness OF her powers and en-
! joying the popularity she first won
! three score years ago Mrs. G. IL Gil
bert has decided TO retire from the
! stage.
She recently made known her deci-
sion to her present manager, Charles
Frohman. saying that almost her entire
life had been passed before the foot
/ lights. and she felt justly entitled tC
the rest from professional duties which
she now proposes to take.
Mr.. Frohman at once said he could
not permit her to leave the stage with
out making her last year on it as bril-
liant and triumphant a memory as ths
preceding ores have been. He has
therefore planned to place her at the
head Of q company next season and Il
send her On a special farewell tour Of
America. in which she viii visit al
the cities in which she has been 81
Hong popular. He has further plaraeC
for her to play here in New York on ths
| eighty fourth anniversary Of nel
birth next November, that theatre