The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-03
FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN

1AHOA DGn1NO 1uE DURHAM.
Margaret Angliu. VINO is now playing
/ Ezra, on Broadway. made her pro-
/ tessional debut in Shenandoah" Fol-
/ loving that agement, she appeared
/ win a repertoTy company which lived
! only two weeks She supported James
/ . Neil IN Monte CriStO." acted the
. Souorette role with E II. SOthern in
! LORD Chumley,' and later had her
/ hrSt opportunity when, on Virginia
/ Harned's being taken i'll, she appeared
/ IN the title role of The Adventure of
J Lady Ursula" The medium of her nd
| Vancement TO the Empire theatre stock
! company was her success as Miladf IN
Inc Three Musketeers." The third
act IN Mrs Danes Defense at the
/ Empire, established Miss AngIin as
/ one of the finest emotional actresses in
1 the country and her progress toward
stellar horrors from that time was rapid
and sure
/ In America the once mighty Glib
! ways, the Indians of the lake region
/ are playing each year daily, through
/ the summer season, what has been
1 called their Passion Play at va
| Way-ga-mUg. now known as Round
/ Lake, near Petoskey. Mich
Inc play, adapted and translated
7 b
Armstrong of Montreal, was first PLAYED
/ at Desbarats, in the heart of the DIN
way country, for the entertainment of
LongfeIloWs children and grandchU-
/ dren-
The location at Desbarats was found
10 be too far away for the people of
the United States to see it, and il was
! changed TO Na-Way-ga-mUk lake This
Is a place where once the mighty Oiih-
ways hunted and fished. and met n
council and Camped when the winds
blew hard on the Great Lakes. Here
they could grow corn. beans and pOra-
I toes and here their love for the mean
iful and the wild in nature was salts
I fed Here, too, they fought their an
Gent zoe, the Iroquois.-Four Track
/ News.
has rehef of Sir Henry Irving is to
De placed in St ChrysoSton1's chanel.
Seventh avenue and Thirty-ninth street.
New York It is being prepared by
Mrs E st. John Matthews. and IS TO
be bronze tablet SIX feet high. with
q half relief Of Sir Henry a. the top.
and an inscription, summarizing his
life, written by DR.. Morgan Dix. rec
tor of Trinity church. The committee
in charge is composed of men9b ers Of
the Actors Church alliance and Of the
vestTy of St ChrysOstOm's chapel.
TommasO SaIvini contributes to the
Theatre Magazine for May an interest
ing article setting forth the Difficult
ties that beset the actor I'm his stage
career The great Italian tTagedian
closes his article with a pathetic la
ment that the players art-unlike that
Of the author. the painter or the sculp-
tOr-dies with him, leaving no trace for
future generations. He says:
If the actor possesses all these quail
ties he viii be able to gain absolute
control over his audience and compel
them to- recognize his genius. I say
genius for IT often happens that he
produces effects which the author him
self never dreamed Of In such a case
there comes to exist between the pub
lie and the actor a silent bond of sym
PATTY, a sort of magnetic current which
flows forth from the inspired soul of
the actor and kindles i'm the audience
an inspired enthusiasm. Naturally the
public wants to see such an actor often
to experience again and again this
uplifting enthusiasm. If an actor pos
seSses such powers it is but natural
that the audience should be larger and
more sympathetic than by actors who
axe equally meritorious. but who lack
the quality of genius and Of personal
magnetism. As a consequence his fame
IS greater and his income larger.
But, alas! how short is this fame.
Or what do these geniuses leave to
pOsterity? Nothing, AS soon as they
vanish from the stage their achieve
ments. great though they were, in
spired though they were, vanish too!
Some Of their contemporaries. recalling
the days that were, may tell their chill
dren of the enthusiasm these actors
once kindied in their breasts; these
children get faint impression OF what
it may have been like; later this i'm
preston itself becomes but a shadow.
and then-it vanishes without leaving a
single trace behind! Perhaps one name
among the many may survive long
enough to lose itself again among the
names of the history OF art, This
thought is an ever present thorn in the
flesh throughout the whole life of the
actor who otherwise loves and reveres
his art His contemporaries may be
lavish in their praise, they may shower
gifts and hOnOTs UIon him: yet none
Of them is able to erase from his con-
sc1ousness the sac fact that his is an
art which leaves to prosperity no CODY, /
no trace of what il was. Therein lies
the sadness. And yet they devote them !
selves TO their art passiOnately, con-
sClentiOusly- they vie with each other
for the public's 1attering favor, so stir
ring, so inspiring. yet so fleeing a ia |
VOr such as is meted out to no other
profession but that of the stage. And
when the actor is finally obliged to |