The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-11

/ ing in Days, a change in her COMPANY
was about to be made, and il became
necessary that she should attend ear
ly morning rehearsals. For a week
previously she had been leaving i'm
mediately after the performance each
evening and attending one or another
OF the social functions that were be-
| ing given in her honor. Then she was
/ forced to rise at each morning in
order that she might be at the theater
| by 1880, and it required all her moral
courage to arise after three or four
| hours rest
It was no useto complain for it had
to be done. She could not prove I'M
grateful to her friends, for an actress
must make all the new friends she can
and still keep the old ones. She could
not neglect her work, of course, and
] it was absolutely necessary that re-
hearsals should go forward. For five
days Miss Jeffreys stood the strain,
and on the morning of the sixth she
appeared at the theatre, wan and worn,
but full of courage. The stage mana
ger was a little late and Miss Jeffreys
welcomed the chance to sit down in an
armchair behind a piece of scenery and
| rest.
Shortly appeared the stage manager,
and called the rehearsal. All respond
ed, excepting Miss Jefreys. They
appear Finally a search was made,
and then the telephone was set jang-
ling. Still no star could be found. An
hour went by and then the stage car
| penter ordered repairs on scenery
wall He moved this fiat as it is
technically known. TO one side. and
amid wild chorus of yells and laugh
ter. the missing star was discovered,
peacefully sleeping in big armchair
in the gloom of corner.
When the awakening came Miss
Jeffreys was not peTturbed. She calm
" observed: THE best and most sat-
isfactory nap I have had since I came
to the United States"
\
Modieska was telling of the players
now prominent whose uncertain steps
as beginners she had helped to streng-
then.
II have made many stars" she said,
and sighed, and so many have gone
Barrymore, he is gone; Haworth-the
best father in 'Magda,' a very good
Macbeth--''
"a fine Hamlet ventured the inter-
viewer
he is gone. Taber, Bob Taber, is
also gone.
otis Skinner was another, and
Robert ManteII. Mary Shaw was
another-immensely intelligent wO-
man-she was with US for five years"
George Barrymore, MOdjeska said,
still thinking of the past, had been one
of her company. particularly below
ed member. How Lionel and Ethel
Barrymore became her and her hus-
bands godchildren she told quantity.
One day the children, out with their
mother, walking off by themselves and
got lost It was in New York and
Mrs. Barrymore was frantic. She went
everywhere that she could think Of,
then utter despair found herself on the
steps Of a church.
Modjeska said: she prayed, o God,
what shall 1 do p and there, just above
her. she saw her children. And then
she came to me next day. She said,
It am going to have the children bap-
tized at that church. VIII you be god
mother?' And so we have our dear
godchildren!"
Thomas Edison" said William ].
Kelley, lis in his quiet way great
joker.
He was showing me over his work.
shops one day when a curious looking
model caught my eye-a cube thing on
rockers. with a kind Of telephone at
tachment running into it.
What on earth is thatY said l.
THAT said Mr.. Edison, is an in
vention I am working on. I hope to
make my fortune by it. 1t is a motor
to run by sound. You attach It to a
cradle, and the louder the baby cries,
the faster the cradle rocks.
At a dinner recently Chauncey Olcott
had this to say of the average French
that is spoken by Americans:
at may be epitomized in the story of
a. girl in Paris, who met a French wo-
man at the Ritz, and took tea with
her. Afterward she got in her carriage
at the Place Vendome, and her COM
panion said enviously:
81 suppose you had lovely time
with that French lady? l suppose you
got on famously in conversation?
- Well said the girl, complacently,
she understood what she said, and /
understood what I said
Comedian AL H. Wilson tells of
bright little boys chagrin anent the
aDDearance and sex of a new member
IF his family. ut doesn't look like
much of anything" grumbled the dis
gr,lntled 4-year-Old, "but nurse says 1t
is a girl"
why. that makes her your darling
little sister," exclaimed the adult con-
fdant. Don't you want a little sis
teri"
"Naw." returned the ungallant boy.
well. why not have her exchanged
for a little brother?"
I'VE can't now" TREMENDOUSLY re-
sponded the dispIeased one; we've
used her for three days
Joe Weber, In spite of the fact that