The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-04

revolver and in the midst of the silent
embrace of hero and heroine fires.
THE young woman falls dead
He fires again and the young man
is similarly disposed of. Then the muir
derer comes forward, puts or pair of
eyeglasses, and proceeds to contem-
plate his sanguinary work. Great
heavensp he exclaims, 4 am on the
wrong floor"
An unknown dramatist came forward
last winter with a play that was &C
counted one of the minor triumphs of
the season. The first play of a begin
ner was acclaimed a remarkable piece
of work and there were the customary
comments on the excellence of a first
play. The justice of this characterize
ton was shown later. The author has
had two other works accepted for pro-
ductiOn during the coming season, and
last month three others We're copyright
ed at Washington. The drama seen
last year was creditable performance
and the author deserved all the credit
she got, but it was no more first play
than such pieces usually are.
Clyde Fitch's first play is said to
have been produced ten years after he
wrote ii, and many unsuccessful
dramas had interviewed before this
comedy saw the light Hubert Davies
Cousin Kate" which won him his
vogue in London, was written after
Cynthia" and Mrs. Gorringe's Neck
lace"
THE man who feels that he has tai
ent for playwriting," a manager told a,
reporter, should not give up because
his plays are not bought at once He
should keep at work just as steadily as
If he expected to sell them as fast as
they are finished. The demand for
plays is at present so great that he will
be able TO sell them all after he has
made one hit
These researches into old dramas
are not very likely to bring forth much
that is worthy, but / have yet to see
the manager who would not take these
pieces or the playwright who would
not use them. There is, of course. the
money and also the dramatist's conf
dence in his work. l cannot now recall
a case in which the first success was
the writer's first play; so the large
army of playwrightS who expect to
come into their own some day should
simply keep on the job and write plays
as if they had already received their
$1,000 in advance royalties"
dehiy L. 1Ouodru, VINO was we'll ac-
quainted with Charlotte Cushman.
writes his "reminiscences in the Theatre
Magazine for August. Says he:
Miss Cushman was Sc years of age
at this time 1S72), but looked older.
Her face showed the marks of intellect
more than that of any woman / ever
met, with the possible exception of Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her hair was
iron gray, her features strong. but her
chin protruding in a manner not alto
gether pleasing. There was about her
a suggestion of masculinity that served
to explain her great success in her
earlier life in playing Romeo and other
male roles opposite to the heroines of
her sister Susan, a beautiful woman.
but far inferior to Charlotte as an ac-
tress. In conversation she was very
interesting, every word being thought
full and well considered. Reverence was
a marked characteristic of her nature:
one felt sure that she could never trifle
with sacred subjects. In speaking of
her plans for the future, she always
began An it please Cod with quick
but reverent gesture of the head that
was very impressive. When the con-
verSation turned at last to her profess
sion, she said that her stage life had
always been as separate from her per-
sonal life as one sea from another. She |
told me that, in her fifteen years alb |
Sence from the stage, she had grown |
while she slept and had returned to |
her profession with renewed ZeSt. She |
stated that in great roles she felt the |
passion she assumed; that the Anglo
Saxon has too much self-consciousness
TO be able to impress an audience 9TH |
erwise, although a Frenchman or Ital- |
ian may put on and off a character |
and act it well with perhaps an entire |
ack of self-consciousneSs Miss Cush- |
man added that although the Most self |
we are by no means the |
most conceited race; that the French |
are that, as the Germans are the most |
in manner. She added that |
other languages offer great advantages f!
over English by the greater dramatic /
effect that can be produced by the /
OF a single word
Miss Cushman spoke in high terms
IF Mr.. Jefferson as a man, and placed |
him at the head Of his profession as
IN actor, but of the Booth family as
actors, her criticism was that they
lad pampered the popular taste with |
ellies, instead of feeding it with strong
neat
William Collier was telling of one of
he trips across" he m1de. I'VE en-
rough weather." he related.
and every one had to abandon the
1eck for two days, and we became
ike a big family party nj the cabin:
n fact, a stag party, for the women
we're not among those present. Nearly
every nation was represented, and we
lad considerable fun with a French
count, who was something of dandy |
AT length one of the boys addressed