The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-25

VILE, o. Here he found wretehed
theatre. with six kerosene lamps for
/ footlights and $44 in the house, while
| little applause greeted the play. He
couldn't understand it. Indeed, il got
on his mind and when re season ended
and he returned to Palm Beach he told
/ his father about it
Joe JEFFERSON smiled. then chuckled,
and then was convulsed with merri-
ment.
what's the joker" asked the son
in amazement.
1.-The best ever" responded the ia
Their, still choking with laughter. Il
was out fishing the other day with q
man by the name of Captain Clough,
| from Newcomerstown. o." he said.
land in the course Of conversation he
remarked:
Jefferson, I did you a favor a few
months ago. A chap came to our town
| playing RIP Van Wrinkle" and adj
vertised himself as Thomas Jefferson.
Well, I own nearly the whole town, you
know, and fixed il all right. 1 made
things as uncomfortable IS possible for
him I knew he was an impOster, so
wouldn't let any of my friends go to
| the show Oh, he got frost all right.
Thanks" said Joseph. the father.
That was my son Tom" The cap
tain looked blank for minute.
well, L guess they're on me-" he
said
Later said Mr.. Jefferson, II met
him and we had a good laugh about
| it,
| David Warfield, with his Beethoven
pompadour, sat smoking in his dress
| ing room at the Bijou theatre between
acts and thought with a quiet smile
on the approaching 450th performance
! of HThe Music Master"
"A long run is a pleasant thing when
a man has plenty Of ties to make his
stay here interesting. but he's got to
work harder to keep up his interest
in the part" he said to a New York
| Telegraph man. You soon grow &C
customed to a Broadway audience and
miss the exhilaTation of the new audi
/ ences encountered on tour.
Joseph Jefferson had baby roper
| toire, and in that way varied the mo-
notony of long runs. L have new play
now under diScusSion-that is to say,
the idea of it is under consideration.
Wien it is finally decided upon, the
writing of it will be a comparatively
/ simple matter.
"Of course, 1 go to real life for my
| characters. The trouble with a num-
| Der of actors is that they stick to
types already on the stage and their
work consists largely of imitation. Id
| n
/ been played so much of late. Besides,
/ in the case of Shakespeare you can
/ get your own idea of his character in
your own study, and thereafter stage
| Interpretation of him is apt TO be dis
appointing The actors conception
doesn't gybe with RS.
LAS for the psychology of acting,
well, there's a good deaf oe hot air in
/ that sort of talk A man can act or he
can't If the thing could be COMMUNE
/ Gated by book learning we'd have Talee,
Harvard and Princeton turning them
out by the class load. That is a phe-
| nomenon 1 haven't observed yet"
/ Then he took a lingering farewell
/ pull at his cigar and went on for the
| third act.
/ Jack Fedris, manager of the Prin-
! cess theatre New York, where Mar
garet Anglin continues to attraC,
/ throngs of people absorbed in her per
| Torrance of ''Zira," has a letter which
\ contains some particularly amusing
lines The letter was written to Robert
/ Mantell. who had advertised that he
would give tickets to anyone interested
/ in Shakespeare. but unable to pay for
/ admittance to performances OF his
works. This is the second time ttat
/ I have made such an application" OBJ
/ served the author who goes on to say
!
Hart, who had produced The Forty
! Thieves" at the Gaiety theatre, London
! Hart replied to this note that the seats
! had beer. reserved and would be deliv-
cred upon receipt Of their price, six
| shillings.
To this the applicant replied, on the
/ back of a postal card, as follows:
| ooh. heartIess Hart, what artful art,
/ To penetrate my little game.
! I cannot pay you (bless your hearD!
/ But send the tickets just the same!
| If I'd the price, then in a trice,
/ Those round six shillings should be
! thine;
| And 1 would come on Saturday
To see the other thirty-nine."
| He got the desired passes.
/ Cyril Scott found musical comedy
! serious hindrance to dramatic progress
and after a successful career in that
| line returned to the legitimate play.
| Speaking on the subject recently, he
said:
| There is no future for the young
actor in the musical play as it exists
today unless he be a low comedian.
| The man who is funny and can dance
! is the whole thing-at least, as far as
| the masculine side of the musical COM
/ edy goes. On the other side are the
/ soubrette and the prima donna. The