The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-11
FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN.

ford, Il should like to know whether
you make him villain OF a martyr
to race prejudice?"
There are many shyiocks," an
swered Mr.. Hanford. land / have tried
to understand them all. There are
Shylock the ruthless money lender
Shylock the devoted father and hus-
band, Shylock the religious fanatic,
Shylock the grim humorist, shylock
the proud. Shylock the humble, and
many others. Let me know which
Shylock you prefer and I will do my
best to present him at tonight's per-
Torrance"
THAT is false logic" said Thomas
Jefferson. in the course of a recent
conversation with a friend. Such
logic as that reminds me of the rea-
soning of a certain surgeon
This surgeon one afternoon per-
formed before a class, in a fine amphf-
theatre, some thirty swift operations.
At the end, as he was washing his
hands, young assistant tiptoed over
to him and whispered in his ear:
" In the Higgins case, sir. there ap-
pears to have been some mistake
" "A mistake in the Higgins case? I
think not, said the surgeon.
Yes the other insisted. You cut
off Higgins wrong leg, SIR
oh, well. that is of no conse-
quence,' said the surgeon. We can
cure the other one, so it comes to the
same thing in the end -
years ago. THE Spy" has lately been re-
vived in Paris. Audiences have liked IL
surprisingly well. and the old playwright
wrote recently to a friend: II am glad
sim be PLAYED in IN g. RssGH bhet cam
edy.
In addition to his new production of
Schiler's Don Carlos and the six other
productions which he has acted this
year, Richard Mansfield is reviving Ivan
the Terrible" and the dramatization of
Hawthorne's THE Scarlet Letter" One
other revival will be acted for the first
time this season when Mr.. Mansfield
comes to the New Amsterdam theatre In
March and will be seen in ten roles.
Viola Allen intends to act Helena in
"AlPs Well That Ends WeIl'' in
Shakespearean festival in Chicago next
April. 1t is years since the comedy has
been played on the English speaking
stage, and even the theaters in Ger
many very rarely act it, At the same
festival, according to present announ-
cements, Wilton Lackay is to appear
as Marc Antony. Shylock and Iago,
and Grace George as Imogen and
Ophelia.
Those who think that Marshall P.
Wilder does not think of anything but
humor are mistaken. He has just had
serious moment, and even that looked
like a joke until it was explained He
has made his will. In connection with
this event he telephoned to Burrelle,
the press clipping man, and said:
You gather up clippings from all
the newspapers when men die, don't
your
1--WE do"
And make them into obituary vol
umes?"
Yes"
well, then. gather all the clippings
about my DEATH"
why, you're not dead, are you?"
Il guess not, but you can take the
order and make the memorial if 1 ever
happen to die, can't your"
And then the humorist explained
that he had just made his will and
put q provision in 1t by which an al
loWance was set aside for this me-
mortal, containing everything the pa
pers happened to say concerning his
demise. That is why the clipping
bureau has an order that they don't
know exactly when they can I'LL.
Charles B. Hanford recently listened
a
new play, by. an actor with whom he
has long been acquainted.
Here" said the playwright, sis
where the big surprise for the au-
dience comes in
But" objected Mr.. Hanford. lit is
too late"
why too late?"
by this time the audience will be
asleep"
Elliott Schenck, the Wagnerian di-
rector of the Savage English Grand
Opera Co., beguiles his leisure mo-
ments in writing melodrama and while
in New Orleans produced at the Cres-
cent theatre at a special matinee his
latest effusion, THE Electric Chair"
which, was rendered by several of the
artists of the Company, named among
whom were Joseph Sherman, Winifred
Golf, Francis Maclennan, Claudia AL
bright, Gertrude Rennyson and Rita
Newman. The play was given for
copyright and stage purposes and from
all, accounts made a distinct impress
sion.
At little Broadway dinner the
other evening the talk fell upon a we'll
known emotional actress famous for
her realistic scenes of stormy weeping
and establishment. II rememb Der
asking her one night" said an actor
of the party who had long known the
actress in question, IF these big
scenes did not tire her fearfully. We
were standing in the wings, by the
way, just as she was preparing to go
on for one of the most strenuous Of
them. I" Bless you, no. she laughed.
I don't feel them afterward; why 1
can cry at will over any thing l could
cry over a newspaper or a wooden
spoon or an old shoe. / could cry over
that little Loyal Legion button, or
whatever it is you are wearing in your
coat. See here, and fixing her eyes
on my coat lapel. she began repeating
over and over again with the tenderest,
most pathetic accent, Dear, dear lit
tie buttoni Poor little button, In ten
seconds two big tears rolled down her
cheeks, then two more, her lips CULVER
ed, her voice shook and melted into
perfect ecstasy of grief Half a minute
later she was laughing at my amaze
ment. and a few moments afterward
she was on the stage at the height of
one of her crises
lean Gerardy the Well-knoWn cell