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

this way, nor do that that way. He
says, and I have heard him say it:
i employ actors to get their ideas. to
squeeze their ideas out of them as I
would squeeze water from Il sponge.
The actors have given the best Of
their thoughts to their parts before
Mr.. BeIasco's work commences. Then
he is luminous, then he is Belasco."
But should you say that he makes
pIayers-that he made you, for ex-
ample2"
mo; why should /? No man makes
actors or actresses. He gives them OPP
portunities. he suggests; he teaches
them 70 think, And when it comes to
the knowledge of a WOman'S heart, Mr..
Belasco is Incompatible
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Before Richard earle became d play
wright and was trying earnestly to gain
fame as a comedian he had a part in
a New York piece, and with Thomas
SeabToOke and another comedian made
up an amusing trio.
For a certain tropical number the
three had, they all took a hand at
writing encore verses. and the more
they wrote the fUnnier the verses seem
ed. About six were composed and all
the business worked out with great hi
Iarity.
The opening night came and the
number began. The second verse was
sung and two of the trio left the stage
leaving Seabr0oke standing on his head
on q diVaU, from which ne was to be
rescued when his associates were re-
called. But the two original verses
were so bad that there was no encore
In fixing up the real funny ones, every
one had forgotten how tame the origi-
nal song was and had thought only of
the music. The result was that Sea-
brooke had to remain on his head until
some one could think up a line to so on
and release him.
II is not hard 70 understand why both
Nine. Eames and Mime. Melba were
willing to fight stVeuuously for a chance
TO sing the role of FIoria Tosca when
the PuCcini opera was given I'm COvent
Garden, London. The role offers Won
derful chances, and the fame Of Mime.
TeTnina is associated with it.
Nine. Eames was the more strenuous
i'm her determination, but cit was de-
.Cided for what might be called rea-
sons OF political eXpedieRcy that she
could not have the PuCcini opera"
The policies Of Covent Garden are in,
the hands Of Lady de Grey VINO is "a
warm friend of Media, and Media has
the ambition TO appear i'm "Tosca. -
Her ambition was fired by the com
poser. "Puccini said he wrote it, for
me-" Perhaps he did but Darclee Gre
ated the part, and what has not Puc-
cini said to her, as well as TO Mines.
Bianchiui- Cappelli and Ternina? Ter
nina is at COVent Garden, and her iaU-
rels will not let Games or Media sleep.
The former OF the two still remembers
her failure as Tosca at the Metropolitan,
although she would not willingly admit
the failure. Was she not q handsome
stage pictuTe2 Had she not the voice
Did she not sing Well2 Critics and Un-
pTejudiced public answered yes to
these questions, but they would not
have her TOsca; they said she was IN
emotional uudramatic, and Mime
Emma Games left the opera house 10
sulk in her lUXuTiously appointed tent.
It is hard to think of either Games or
Melba as the fascinating. Jealous, tor
tured, tragic Floria Tosca. 1t is sur
prlsIng, one may say. that they should
dream of such representation.
when the hot weather first came
along TO make actors feel like wet dish
cloths, I had a shade the best of it 30
remarked Raymond Hitchcock between
the acts of The Yankee Consul" You
see, the scene OF the piece is laid I'm the
tropics, and in order TO be in the pic
ture I have TO wear the lightest OF light
cloths. White duck makes a great diff
ference when the thermOmeteT is way
up. I'H never forget playing most OF
the summer in q Russian melodrama
where my part called for a fur-Iined
oVeTcOat. high boots. and fur collar and
cap. 1T was d perpetual Russian bath
and before September arrived the doc
tor had about given me up for d case
OF hasty decline"
DR.. Judd, a theatrical manager of the
old days, relates am interesting chapter
IN the life of Lola MOnreZ. q dancer
who died iu New York in 1861 but who
had during her lifetime ruled q king
dom. The story Is published i'm the
June number of the Theatre Magazine.
and an extract reads:
The climax Of her remarkable ca
Teer awaited her when she went to
Bavaria. AT Baden she met King Lud-
wig, who fell in love with her Ou the
spot. Lola danced smiled. coquetted,
and soon asqUired ascendenCy over the
king. She was the talk or Muuich-of
ali Bavaria, But Lola was not salts
fed with ruling the king. She knew
her power over the infatuated monarch.
and now began 90 rule Bavaria itself.
She had been refused admission to the
royal theSre, where she applied for a
ballet master moi being very faVorably