The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-11

IN IN the fat overhead. He complained to
ms friends. A mutual acquaintance met
MN the next day and asked for an eX-
planation of his satisfied smile Said he:
For the first time In my life ] am de-
ing Has the performer gotten new
selection? II should say so. I heard
the instsllment may taking 1t away"
Marguerite Clark, who has been meet
Ing with such success In "Happyland." >"
VIII probably be starred by the Shuberts
next year
When David Belasco was rchcarsing
Mrs. Carter In "Adrea." he instructed the
stage manager to give him a clap OF
thunder which would shake tho theatcr
1t so happened at tho time that an cleo
trio storm was raging without, and that
at the very moment when flash Of
stage lightning Illuminated the setting
crash OF genuine thunder awoke the
echoes OF the theater. From the back of
the house Mr.. Belasco called out;
II don't think much OF that, Try 1t
again"
But" grinned the stage manager COM
Ing down to the footlights. that was the
real thing"
"Humph'' gruntcd Mr.. Belasco; ut
may be good enough for Nature, but It s
not realistic enough for my stage."-Sat-
urdsy Evening Post.
Charles Frohman who Is in London,
has arranged for a new comedy by J. NJ.
Barrie, which is 10 be produced at the
Haymarket theater there the first week
In April. 1t is written more especially
for English audiences than any of MIR
Barrle's former plays.
Polly-How does Il seem to be ac-
tress7 Isn't It awful TO have so many
people looking at YOU when you are on
the stage2
Dolly-No, ] rather like admiration
Richard Mansfield has at last come out
in the open and says he Is misunder-
stood man, says a New York dispatch to
the Chicago Record Herald. Instead OF
being 2 cold hard-hearted, self-centered
cyniC. with an unpleasant temper and dis
position, this actor insists he Is OF ioYial
nature. loves society and good fellowship,
enjoys lfc and sunshine and all the pleas
ant things OF the world. Circumstances
have been such, mainly on account of Mr..
Mansfields fervid devotion to his protcs
sion that he had no time to Indulge his
natural bent for good humor and the
pleasnntries of life Mr., Mansfield in dis
CrssinG his purpose TO quit the stage, eN-
planned that he had been working at high
tension for twenty-five years, and added:
And what Is the result? II is that for
number of years | have been pretty gem
orally misunderstood. / have been thought
urapproachablc and the poSscssor of a
violent temper. In fact-and all my inti>
mate friends know this to he true-I am
bundle of nerves. and discordant notes
Jar on me and prick me, Perhaps l am
representative In that respect. At any
rate, IL seems TO have been the fashion
to exploit anything that seemed a bad
trait on my part on what would throw
slGr upon me as q man
Somehow the public appears TO be more
Interested in learning OF Unpleasant things
about people In public life than OF the
pleasant ones, At least, that has been
my experience. and l have. felt It very
lr,a ~ ip,o ocvin hnt oil
these reports-and ! am happy to say In
rincty-nine cases out OF a hundred thcy
have been flcttlous-have affected and
ANNOYED me. | hive suffered them In 81
Icnce for the good reason that a denial OF
an evil story never overtakes the story
and also that a denial only produces con-
trovcrsy which makes the matter even
more unpleasant
There WAS a story that found publicity
to the effect that in Chicago hotel din
irg-room was not pleased with the chops
n walter had brought me and j threw
them at him OF course any one that
Knows me at all well knows that for con-
Ntnience and to save time l always at
hotel take my meals in my apartments, or
else / eat them In my car For a num-
Der of reasons | never have of late years
dined in restaurant. However, that
aggrayating story OF my throwing chops
AT the waiter was generally believed all
over the country, 1t went 80 far, indeed,
as the statement that whenever | went
into a dining-room the walters approached
me behind my back and with uplifted
arms to protect themselves.
"You must think you are the person you
re playing or you are not playing the
part correctly. and to do this you must
hypnotize yourself. A very little thing
viii disturb that hypnotic condition. A
few weeks ago, right at the climax Of a
very dramatic and tense situation. when
nv lines called for my most concentrated
effort when the house was wrapped in
the dramatic spell and / was speaking the
lines almost in II whisper, burly stage
Land In the first entrance sneezed, 1t
spoiled the situation. 1t pulled me down
from tho heights. and when. few Sec
onds later left the stage ! was natur-
nily very much cXasperatcd-
when you want TO sneeZc,' | said to
the stage hand, why don't you go some
where ont of the way where you won't
- went along TO my dressing-room, but
as 7 did so / heard him mutter as he
slippod away, The d--n crank; how In
HI did / know | WAS going TO sneezey
7 suppose il Is Incidents OF this kind that
hnye given me this unfortunate reputa-
tJon I have been saddled with. But | sub
Nil that II is annoying and upsetting In
he midst OF q fervld and impassloned
love scene or some prayerful episode
where your soul and heart arc uplfted to
the situation, with n deathly stiffness all
over tho house. to have stage hand blow
"It is when these misconceptions and In