The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-15

villain.
! Battles an his meanness in way that's
Girl jumps into. heros arms, villain misses
Dam err
slaps his, leg and goes to. jail: that is mel
ler-drammer
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Frank Craven. an actor who has had HIS
experience in stock COMPANIES, sends the
following poetic plant Doubtless il Will
stir q responsive echo in Other hosoms
that trustit is here presented:
CAMILLE"
What What play is Older than the hills?
The bugaboo Of all stock biIlse
What play has versions by tho score?
Each new one worse than all before,
What do we hope Wei see no more?
( Camille
What makes their escorts fall asleeoe
When other pieces fan to nay.
What VIA, is il goes so. on right away.
What piece do we all know By heart:
What piece contains but one good part?
| Camille
II damned plays should run a race.
East Lynne might give it quite
But which would finish in first pl;aoe2
l
What heroine has died the most2
What piece will every actor roastY
Camille
If / were King" for but day
Id write a law wherein I'd say,
NO more. shan actress ever play
Camille s.
washington Starr
They tell US that the stage doth hold
The mirror up t0TIife-
Fy ses s t'F qegytFE tr gsr and Ger
1 never saw a villain yet
Who frowned and said. ''Ha, ha-''
l never met with villagers.
Who warbled, "Tra-la-la.'
never knew man who knelt
When making love TO girls;
/ never saw spinster who
Wore hoops and -eorkserew curls.
nee heard thunder sounding like
The crash of falling tin,
Nor met policemen VINO made puns
When running people in.
And on the whole I'm rather GLAD
To live mid homeIy folks.
Who do not revel in their grief
or always talk in jokes.
And most. I'm glad We do not wear
The. clot hing that one sees:
a lot of us would freeze
met a calm. determined youth.
His eyes were filled with Joy:
What makes you look so pleascdT' !
ASKED
What's on. my Beamish boy?
Has anybody left you wealth?
II so. how mucn and who?"
He answered. No 1t isn't that,
Tonight I'm going TO boo
IT am said he "a simple man.
earn my daily bread
BY toll of hand ana sweat Of brow.
Etcetera." he said.
NY life is hard. my earnings small,
NV pleasures are but few.
But chief among them I would place
The liberty TO boo.
'ePerched high within the gallery.
My pleasant trade 7 ply
I care not though the stalls may laugh:
Nor whether they may cry;
Others may drop the silent tear,
or laugh the evening through,
Whate'er emotion I may feel,
vent it in a boo;
Il suppose that when YOU get settled !
in New York for the winter you will |
be glad 10 be among so many friends"
deserved a. Washington interviewer to !
Mrs. Carter.
all on the fingers of one. hand. do not /
believe in having many. Those L have 1
have been friends for years and years. /
and am devoted to them,- and they are |
devoted to me; but ] do not care about |
social affairs. nor a bout meeting q lot |
OF strangers who only wish to meet me I
because,I arm an actress. and curiosity
prompts them. in order that they may
tell how l look and what I say, as /
matter Of gossip and not because they |
have the slightest interest on earth in |
what I am or what I have done. No. L /
like very few people. Indeed, my life /
is lonesc me one. Ny work and my |
son are my only pleasures. Besides / /
do not believe in giving publicity to the I
life of actors and actresses. 1t is only !
within the last few years that every 1
one knows what we do and what we |
say, what we eat and what we wear, !
and SO on indefinitely. IN olden times |
there was a delightful mystery about I
the profession. One was able to con /
ceal ones age and wrinkles. because
the lights We're not so strong, and cne'S |
smallest private affairs were not con-
sidered public property: there was
something fascinating. mysterious and /
romantic about the life beyond the
fCotiights. ny ii is Impossible TO fol-
low the methods Of the olden days but i
as far as possible ] keep Myself from /
public notice. J think it lends more
dignity To our art
Did you see my by at the perform
ancc Monday night? Oh, how proud l !
am Of mimi / always try 70 90 my best
when he leaves college to see me play.
Isn't he a fine, manls1 fellow? 1t is a
beautiful thing in life to have boy {
like that devoted t. YOU. keep him
with me as much as possible. No, he
has 10 desire TO become an actor"
THAT there is broad suspicion
among the theatrical mana gers VIII
present their companies in Chicago
these DAYS OF. many fire precautions.
that somehow. somewhere. and by some |
means there is a graft being utilized |
TO their financial undoing. can readily |
be understood fTcm the appended ac-
count of letter written from Chicago
recently TO an eastern sympa thizer:
In a letter ] have received from Chi
cago r. indicated the belief that the |
famous long and short men are again