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

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lsr away, screwing myself UP to the
needed pitch in tho coming scene. with
| nay attention .rivcted on the stars. my
| minds eye entranccd with glorious and
| supernatural visions. my whole being far
| away from the confines Of tho makeup
table and the world around me.
| when would come n knock at the door,
| and bang, down would tumble my air
castle and my house OF dreams-and an
| actor would come In and ask to have his
Years ago, when young man. l had
an Idea that when became star and
! Travelled about the country would be
! met with delegation headed by the
| Mayor the Board OF Aldermen and n
| brass band at each city. Nothing of the
Kind ever happened to me. | was never
| met by a delegation in my life The vol
| untccr fremcn never paraded in my honor
| Lcng ago ] ceased to think or care about
II. In TACT, l have never even been given
be the custom in England
| u nave never had the time in travelling
around the country TO go about shaking
hands with every one and Jollyng my
| CRITICS, as the expression s. | have been
| TOO busy TO be the good fellow ] would
| IKE 10 be In consequence | have been
me up from the characters ! have acted
ra'her than from any knowledge OF me
Somehow tho kind things that / have
! zone IN my very busy life rarely get into
! pupncitS. while, on the other hand, In
numerable impossible stories OF Disagree
|
| am told over and over again that / am
an impossible man To get along with that
an crank, that members OF my COM
| pony and my business associates cherish
Mingled feelings Of hate and fear for me.
Ihis hurts me more than 1 can tell
AS matter OF fact. my company Is
simply happy family, We rarely have
| difficulties OF any kind
Three years from now / expect TO have
saved enough money To have comfort
able, but modest. little home either in
! the south OF France or In Italy, where
| can rest, cultivate tho klndlicr feelings or
my lellow-men, and dispel IL possible.
| me that the public entortains j shall not
ldle. | may give n series Of lectures, 1
| may write and may devote some OF my
tlme TO national theater project which
| is quite my own and not founded on n
| commercial basis"
| Margaret Angl'n will be the frst of the
Independent stars to Invade the far West.
| She Will appear In Chicago In her New
York success, .zira." for a three weeks
| engagement. beginning March 10 After
| leaving there she will proceed direct to
| the Pacific coast. where she will play an
! extended tour. covering nearly three
One day last week Milton Roylc, the
| playwright. was somewhat surprised when
| an express wagon delivered a case OF a
well-known champagne at his door The
| mystery was cleared the following day
| when ne received a note from Frederic
| vine be mentioned somewhat during the
| enactment of THE Squaw Man" MIR
| Royle had already made an inroad into
| the gift when this request arrived and
so his answer 20 McKay's request was an
affirmative one. Saturday night Mr. Nc
Kay dropped I'm Mt Wallack's thcater TO
take soundinss He listened feverishly for
the words that are as music 10 his soul,
but they came not. The scene wherein he
expected his farorite wine would receive
a boost came and went but his WELL
nni fNh nS11a
Ing sound In tho lobby he encountered
Royle
Il say" protested Mckay. II thought
you were going to mention my wine In the
piece"
Why. OF course replied the author
I'VE mention 1t every night"
We'll. Two been paying strict attention
tonight, said Mckay. and l didn't hear
po1Ia That's n,u; easily NO explained muttsrsd
see, we have one of the Indians mention
term,"-Ncw York Telegraph.
Robert Mantell seems to have sue
cumbed to the craze for Indian drama.
and 1t is said that he will revive Meta
mora" next season,
I'm the musical comedy light opera and
extravaganza chorus. beauty I'm some de-
but in the legitimate the managers and
the public demand talent. The combins-
tion OF beauty and talent Is most desiT-
able but where there Is only one let
beauty so. on the stage today, playing
In the legitimate there arc only one or
two successful women who can lay any
claim whatever to beauty. The biggest
drawing-cards and the clevercst actresses,
by great majority are undcniably
homely, Grace yes to be sure they
have grace charm. magnetism, voice
anything and everything but looks. An
example sUbstantiating this Is Sarah
Bernhardt whose success cannot be chal-
lenged. yet never by any chance has she
been called beautiful. Leslie Carter is one
OF the homeliest women on the stage but
her name is famous on two continents,
Olga Nethersole. Henrietta Crosman,
Mrs. Fiske, Margaret Anglln and so on.
with half n dozen more, are only mod
erately good looking. Other successes are
Of the wtnsome type, like Maude Adams,
but Maxine Elliot is one of the few wo-
men stars who are really beautiful-Har-
riet QuiInby In Lesllc's Weekly.
Publicity possesses unpleasant as we'll
It's nattcrng qualities sometimes and
II Is said Sarah Bernhardt is greatly an
noyed just at present over certain phases
Of the broadspread notorety that has at
tached Itself to her most remarkable tour,
says the Chicago Chronicle
When the idea OF playing I'm a tent
first presented to her she embraced it
with spontaneous enthusiasm There was
something about II that appealed instant
ly to her strongly romantic nature. The
novelty OF the thing was exhilarating
people cared enough about her and ,her
art TO submit TO the discomforts of n nero
canvas covering; to take their place up
on the rough TERED seats; to dispense
with the many ornaments, the brilliancy
and beauty of the modern playhouse ma
king incense OF the sawdust and finding
halo OF art i'm the f1ickering light of gaso-
line chandeliers. 1t was charming, the
acme OF romantic sensationalism for the
eccentric eXCitable Sarah. and for her the
last word had been spoken In the great
o.
echo. the rebound and from her own ma
tive France a cAblegram.
Does madame play with the Barnum
circus?"
And later another rs madame en-
gagged really, with the cirque? And is sho
not disturbed by the lions?"
Mon Dleu"' she says. ''Zey have
thought l am to give ze performance wild
ze animals. Navarro would | caro- about Ze
circus, ze canvas overhead that you may
spred but-Parec, II have ze thought zat
| am re Amazon of zc lion cage. Mon
Dieul II Is to be distressed