The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-17

| delplia, Miss Barrymore Iabors under
| some disadvantage. But not everyone
can be born in Indiana and experience
the benehcent effects of that climate
| which seems TO cause two authors to
| grow where only one author grew be-
I fore. But TO return 10 the book.
Il saw Joseph Jefferson a few days
! ago., observed a friend to Miss Barry
more, and he wished to be remem-
| bered to you. Said he couldn't realize
| that you were really grown up. and
| that ii seemed only a few weeks or
| months since you were little girl in
the convent in Philadelphia
'-Did he say that / used to sit upon
his knee?' inquired Miss Barrymore,
I with every appearance of anxiety.
No, don't think he did" said the
/ puzzled friend.
I'm very glad OF that" said the
star. with sigh of relief. You see
she went on to explain. so many of
the distinguished old actors have told
me of the days when l was child and
sat upon their knees that I have been
thinking Of writing a history Of the
stage and calling it Knees Have Sat
Upon
A good story is told by a former
/ player in Mansfield's company. To
those who know the real Mansfield the
ing for It's truthfulness:
We were playing in a large north
ern city several years ago. remarked
the actor. land. as every one knows,
Mr.. Mansfield's temper is not the mild
I est thing in the world when blunders
are made in the way of stage affairs.
II happened that a thick-headed
stage hand incurred the great mans
I wrath one night, and Mr.. Mansfield
made at him in fury, half soaring the
! fellow out of his wits. To save the
/ luckleSs workman the stage manager
sent him away TO do some other work
until our enga cement should have ter
minated. We of the company thought
we saw a chance for some fun in all
this.
Later on In the evening, when Mr..
/ Mansfield was in one of the wings,
waiting for his cue, several of us got
on the other side Of a piece of scenery
and began talking in loud enough tones
for him to hear plainly.
That chap the governor jumped on
tonight was fred remarked one of our
number.
Yes, poor devil said another, he
didn't earn but IS a week, and he's got
a wife and seven children at home.
81 They tell me, remarked a third,
/ that his whole family is down sick
and likely to starve to death. 1 don't
think the governor ought TO have been
| 50 hard on the fellow. OF course the
stage manager couldn't do anything
but fire the boy after the governor had
raised so much cain
Then we began talking about other
things and let the seed thus sown fruC-
tify of its own accord. Nothing more
was said or done until after the per
Torrance, and then the governor
came TO me-he had recognized my
| Yoice-and handed me $40. That's for
the stage hand who was fired tonight,
he said. l thanked him and said we
We're raising a purse for the fellow.
Wei, next night we did practically
the same thing, only we told stories Of
how the poor man was to be turned out
of his house on the morrow unless he
produced the five months rent for
/ which ne was in arrears, and then the
/ governor came across with $50. The
4 object of our crocodile tears as il hap
pened. was a bachelor and was having
| an easy time Of it all the while.
But 1 noticed one thing. The gov
ernor' was quite little gentler for
four or five days and-well, you know
how many beers and things $50 will
buy, and he had donated that amount
to the good cause, you remember
Dan DAILY irs his younger days essayed
! to write tiotiOn, ana -went 70 the eui-
/ fusion The. editor criticised the work Sc
veFely and advised the future comedian TO
! study Nathaniel Hawthorne
The vein of humor peculiar to DAILY had
developed even at that early date. He
said. reflectively:
/ IF my story were printed it would
measure about half a column would II
.'About thate' replied the editor. won
| dering what that had to do with it.
Your rate of payment is s. per col
umn, believer pursued the young
! man.
Good day. I like to be pleasant and
agreeable aud popular with everybody;
J am even willing to dethrone Hawthorne
/ 70 please an editor-but not for 81 not
! Whereupon ne casually departed
William H. Crane. the actor, has as
/ many friends in Washington as an Ohio
politician. Th4 lawmakers have never
I forgotten his favorite play of some sea-
sons ago. and he is always called "Sen9-
Washington. and was royalty received at
the White House the Capitol and the
clubs While at one of the latter a gem
/ tleman who had enjoyed the actors per-
Torrance remarked:
We'll. Crane. / want. to make you a
present. I'm going to give you dog
| What breed?' asked the actor
"A Russian wolfhound.' was the re-
ply"
| sorry, said Mt. Crane. out l can
accept a Russian wolfhound.'
! ''Why?" asked the friend in surprise.
! II have. japanese Valet." answered
! the actor, and as for myself, I'm neu-
| trail
| Really. comic opera is grand and
FRITZ Scheff laughed merrily at the ur-
! bane Mr.. Edwards, her manager.
| There. I've made a cOmical American
pun, isn't that grand? Oh, Ihere, that $
a worse one1' and the rormer pet of
| grand opera assumed n look of horror
that would charm idol.
! a"Eonnic opera" continued the Scheff.
| impetUously, Il love it. l adore it! /
could not DO my best work in grand opera,
| although [ have studied il all my life.
Americans treat grand opera much dif-
ferently than Europeans. Why. IN Mum
ich, for instances, the companies which
! sing Faust 'Lohengrin. aud Tam
/ hauseF.' also sing Fra DiavOlO 'Mignon,
! La Boheme,' The Daughter of the Regl-
| ment' and other operas which you call
I light here in America
! There is much more opportunity TO ac-
! complish something in comic opera of
high class. You may be a singer. an actor.
! a speaker-all three-to the fullest extent
in comic opera. In grand opera you need
to be only a singer. So / feel free. = feel
! most of role in opera comiQue. There
[ Is more scope, the field is broader. and
the work is better suite to my person
ality. and my love for 1t naturally results
in my singing and acting better"