Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-28

Great Entertainer Says Tragedians Who Sadden
Audiences Are Universally Loved, While
Comedians Who Tighten Hearts
Are Soon Forgotten
BY Maurice M. Roe

ton of scriggles and lines until the
last touch is made by the man who
is making the picture when 1t is in
telligible and perhaps beautiful
This business is the queerest in the
world, 1 believe. Men who make you
laugh are tolerated and perhaps may
gain a certain amount of favor. But
the men who make you cry are loved
dearly by the public. For example,
look at Sir Henry Irving. He was
strictly a tragedian and never made
anyone laugh in his life. Yet when
he died he was sincerely mourned by
the whole English speaking world.
ION the reverse side of the picture
is the comedian. He is remembered
only as long as he is actually before
the people and when reverses come to
him as they did to Nat Goodwin, every
one shoots bean at him to help keep
him down.
IF you beat dog nearly to death,
he will love you forever, and the worse
you treat any one the better they like
you, it would seem.
Relates More Tragedy
"It IS a psychological problem why a
man who amuses you should be, to a
certain degree looked down upon as a
buffoon and the man who makes you
cry is simply adored by everybody.
I'm regard to the greatness of Mans
field as a tragedian, no one can ques-
tion his genius. But his self sufficiency
reminds me of a story. There was
once a little boy at school who stood off
in a corner and held his nose up in the
air in a very naughty manner. The
other little boys eyed him suspiciously
and after standing it as long as they
could, said: 'Aw, what's the matter
wild you? You amt such a much The
little boy in the corner answered never
word and thrust his proboscis still
higher in the air. A sullen murmur
ran through the little group about the
silent and naughty lad and one of the
boys smote the proud one under the
chin and said: Come out of it. What's
the matter with you sticking your nose
into the air like that? Then the child
answered his tormentors and said: If
you had a vest made out of your
fathers old pants you would have your
nose in the air, too
Studies Human Nature
IT would not say that Mansfield has
no more cause for pride than the lad,
but undue haughtiness does not help
any one along in the world.
"I have always found it is better to
give a man a smile and pleasant word
than a tip. The man feels more kindly
with most men.
1T is the oldest thing in the world
to me how people hate to be under obli-
cations to one another. 1 knew man
in the east who saved fifty-nine per-
sons from drowning. The man has told
me that he has seen the same people
whose lives he saved cross the street
to avoid meeting him.
Human nature is great study and
piat1 i,, hot
study"
In tiny booklet entitled "a Little
Philistine" Elbert Hubbard tells of a
visit of Wilder to the Roycrofters.
Woman Sizes Up the Rogue
1.-THE first time Marshall Wilder ar
rived here he came up to me and said
in a James Whitcomb Riley voice: Pa,
couldn't come, and so he sent me-
mo visitor in the Roycroft shop ever
captured the hearts of our girls and
boys like Marshall. Love just flows
to that rogue. l sue the term rogue
| advisedly. A woman from Buffalo
came to see US with a fat friend, and
as they walked through the book bind
cry they spied Marshall perched on a
high stool intently at work tooling a
book.
"The Buffalo lady looked at him, had
another look and whispered to her
friend in a stage voice: always heard
they hired lot of disreputable people
here-just look at that face-there is
crime written all over it,
"One visitor with a turn for econo-
mics, going through the place with q
notebook and straight edge stepped up
to Marsh and asked him what wages
he got. "A dollar a month and board
such as it is was the lugubrious reply
Then he got the mans large furry ear
and poured into it the worst call down
the shop ever got.
Hubbard Grows Indignant
Marsh told the man that had kid
naped him from his parents and kept
him and many others in peonage. In
fact that as a kidnaper 1 beat Col.
Grove of Omaha, and those Turkish
patrols who captured Ellen Stone and
regretted it when it was daylight were
not in it with me. He declared that
corraled hoboes, scrubbed them with
sapolio and threatened to kill them If
they did not make beautiful jmcracks
roycroftie-in fact 1 had everybody
scared stiff, so that they just had to
get busy, and If fellow did not take
the proper amount of joy in his work
I'would kick him all over the place.
1.-THE worst of it was that the mar