The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-12

STORIES s.
ABOUT PLAYERS
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a gift we have been most careful to
keep In DahOmey" ftO say nothing OF
The JOnahmau') gave us a strange
creepiness, half attraction and half re-
puisl0n, and singing voices of all kinds
uightingaies. silver tTumpets. mega
phones In both cases we were offered
something that our musical comedians
could not do, or had not done, of them
selves. If there is anything of Ve sort
I'm THE Prince of Piiseu," it is peer
of the British realm who prOuOunCes
how and now as they pronounce
them I'm the village schools i'm Kent
The combined. effort of fiye managers,
producer a lyricist, a composer, a
cast OF sixty, and a world of costumers.
sEOemakers, and the rest. have resulted
ln what ls only a poor average exam
pie OF peculiarly senseless form of
theatrical entertainment. The fact is
that The Prince of Pilsau" falls be
tween two stools. Tt is either too Amer
icdu or not American enough. The rich
JrduSaIlalticISm Of Arizona. 30 for in
stance, took il right out of the reach
OF comparison with English melOdra-
ma I'm DahOmey' was entirely exotic.
a flaming orchid; The Prime of Pill
sem is just too cosmopolitan to be
raCy. and too local to be altogether in
teresung to a foreign audience. On the
one hand you have Arthur de VIII
lOughby ROssmOss. Earl of Shrimpt0n,
a tourist who might really pass for
English except when he says 'OW'. on
IKE other a rigmaT0le Bonnie, Bonnie
HOOs of Airlie" sort Of song, each verse
beginning with The next is a town
that has Won TeuOWn,' which means
nothing whatever to those unacquaint-
ed with the female population of the
larger American cities
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has ever talked with her that Blanche
Bates is the most sensible Of actresses.
Her success has spoiled neither her
mind nor her manner. She thinks for
herself and she is perfectly willing to
declare her thoughts. Just now she
is resting in California. But she found
time TO say a few words concerning
the drama. Witness this remarkable
paragraph regarding stage stars:
Pooh. stars Everybody is a star
nowadays. Give me the right part and
I don't care whether my name is I'm
the programme. The right part and
I don't care whose name is i'm the cleo
tric light sign! Give me the part
and-a--weII some Of the money: the
money habit is hard 10 lose-Pshaw!
being a star is merely being the al
legged money getter, after all. I'd
rather be am actress than a star any
day"
And these few words anent study for
the stage and the methods of Mr.. Bel
assoc:
Il think that stock work is the back
bone Of our profession, [ don't believe
iu dramatic schools. I hold that an
actor should serve q practical appreu-
ticeship, just as d carpenter does, OF
a plumber. Mr.. BelascO says that the
SID As rar all
sary in the development 0f d player.
He says that one part thoroughly di-
gested, perfectly polished, is better
than ninety stock parts played stock
fashion. And in this I differ from him
quite eioQueutly, Tor L am free, white.
and r.
when I first went to Mr.. BelascO
DE gave me lecture. He said / was
lacking i'm physical facility. He con
tends. you know, that the s0-caHed
emotional phase of an actress work
is merely physical. He says that any
first-rate actress should be able TO say
pass the butter with such feeling as
to make not only others, but herself,
weep real tears. can't do that-over
butter But you show me a dog dying
out there in the street and I'll weep
for further orders and make trouble
for anybody that doesn't weep with
me. But as I was saying, AIr, Bel8scO
said that Z was lacking I'm physical
facility and iu emotion. I told him
didn't want 10 em0te; that I wasn't
that kind of "a girl. But that didn't go
with Mr.. Belasco. He is absolutely
without "a seuse-0f humor.
Here's the way he goes to work
with you" she pursued. "He wants
you to give him your idea Of emotion
iu a certain situation. Say a woman
is parting from her lover Mr.. BelascO
win give her just five words for such
situati0n-For Gods sake don't go"
And after you have sung il and
mouthed it and chanted ID and wept &c
and swallowed it, he viii make q sug-
gestion. He viii tell you that perhaps
the woman is not a fool and realizes
that her lover must go; bat at the
same time she is hoping that some
thing Wili happen by which he may be
enabled to stay. Tie makes you think
FOX yourself. lie doesn't say do this