New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-22

audiences keen to detect any theatrfcxltx-r
In plays, and to resent it. TO know at once when
the folk on the stake are not behaving IN q Ites-
like manner. and to scott OF course, nodsxD
audiences do not want to cry. David Wardsld
has not attracted any patronage In two seasons
in The Music Master because he makes peopaa
cry. 1t is pity nobody goes TO see wa-HeId.
he is such good actor! Fidelity TO liza TO tbs
emotions OF the human heart viewed IN hard,
white Darwinian Ight-that is the nnodexn
drama, In it is place for the Emotional Ao-
tress who moved our mothers to gentle sobs and
choked the threats Of our kindly but ministerial
fathers. She did her part while she lived; She
scattered the sunshine OF perhaps unthfnknxs
but certainly sympathetic tears Peace 70 her
ashesI
Then enters Miss Margaret Anglin with ths
awful suggestion that possibly the emotional
one can be resurrectedI
Now, Miss Anglin admits at the very cutss&
that she's no thinker. Like most women,
just feel" she said the other day in her dressing
room at the Princess Theatre But she Ieels
that possibly all mid-NfCtortantsTn IS not passed
out OF the public makeup during the evolution
OF the last generation toward that divine Tar
OF event, THE Great American Drama But
even such feelings fnstfl the awful poison Of a
doubt For instance" said Miss Angltn. no
bodv knows better than Mr. Miller that .Ziras
is an old-fashioned play dressed up a bit In mod
ern garb I'm not ungrateful or acting In pad
taste when l say the play IS not what the mod
ern mind accepts as the best In drama But 4
feel certain that Zlra' on the road VIII De a
greater success than Mrs Danes Defence.
which modern play. Mrs Dane did well
in the big cities, but nothing through the COull-
trv 'Zira' was tremendously popular, even IN
Newark on It's trial jaunt before we came INTO
New-York I'm q poor prosecuted person IN
7zIra 7 don't deserve what I get. Folks out
In the audience feel toward that other woman
much as I imagine men feel toward the Dig
buIlv who is pounding the little fellow IN a INST
fgbt They are for me If you hadnt checked
her, I should said spectator TO me the other
forget-if they ever remarked on fe-the 1alsity
of fAe original basis of the situation the 1Inne-
diate situation before their eyes Is al lnSC
counts And they enjoy that s;ruauon' tneS
a0Ioz- CRYING They are quite as ready, l De-
ueve as they ever Were TO Weicons an H111lo-
tional Actress"
saw YOU are setting out to be an ErnodonaI
Actress with q big z and a big A.!
Miss Anglin smiled I set out TO be come
dfenne via the soubrette route" she replied
Then I played Mrs. Dane, and my doom vas
sealed I beg you, don't blame me- AAsrneE!
Still don't mind saying that have no great
horror of being considered an emotional actress.
With little So and q little "a The ohtet
+roubIa with the old time emotional actress was
that she was eternaIly lugubrtous; there wss
always a set in her voice; she portrayed females
in a constant and abnormal state Of nerves,
persecution; she never climbed of ehe emotional
rack; the East Lynnes,' and .FedoTas' ana -
miles fed her with plays which were built Ia
This idea. She wauowed In tears Sne wss
monument to crude excess that mas oe1ea1eo Sts
own end and become tiresone and disgusting.
but supposing-it may sound fantsstic-b9s
s11pDosfns somebody should write q play In
which the heroine starts out IN normal nsr-
vorls condition, lives among normal people and
normal events IS even almost as happy as moss
of us are in real life and gradually naturally
is prectpitated into a situation where her stars
is pttffui where her emotions are aroused whera
the sympathy Of an audience goes out TO her
without any reservations; supposing all this 20
happen: then would not the actress playing TIA
part be glad of the power to bring tears, 70 IN
sptre pity to daInpen handkerchiefs? Wouldn.e
-, with
actress? 1 would. anyhow. Some day hope 70
get such play"
"Act three" shrfued the can bog.
Miss Anglin rose to go out the se9gs 60
make the Princess audience weep. ~We are
all emotional actresses that are any good.- she
said: for a play that's any good must appeal
10 the emotions It's only q difference In ESylss
after all Styles change. Hearts don't"
You just feel THAR Quer1ed the tntervzsvrsss
That's ALL she laughed
What's the use Of thinking. thenr's SAID Shs
interviewer. as he followed her forth