The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-24

no reason to complain Of his treatment In
any particular"
! Miss Adele Ritchic sat In her dressing,
room ut the Casino. New York, when
chorus girl knocked at the door
| pair of glovcST I've left mine home.
Certainly. How Will these do9' and
Miss Rltchie caught up a pair OF tan
| gloves and handed them over.
ones"
"Wen, just walt until I've finished my
next song and I'll lend you these that
Tho chorus girl hurried away satisfied.
but with rather scant appreciation OF
isn't it unusual for chorus girl to
borrow from principal?' Miss Ritchie
WAS asked.
"Oh. no." shc said
They ell know they can have what
| they want OF mine They call me social
ist here because 1 take up tho chorus
II believe with Marie Cahill that tho
chorus girl ought to be looked after and
encouraged In the right way. DO you
mothers working hard to support their
| children"
"It isn't ON easy life. I can assure you
and the hard working ones usually don
"Of course, we have the usual show
girl who rides In cabs. I'm not part!cg-
| iarly Interested In her. because She s
mainly Interested In her little self. I'm
Interested In the girl who gets SIS or $50
a week and tries 10 make both ends meet
on that munhCent salary. That's tho sort
OF girl I'm glad to lend my gloves to.
This girl has to compete with those
! who can in some way always secure the
latest thing in fashion. And she has to
! come up to the scratch so that all tho
girls may appear chic. Their struggle ap-
peals to my sense of fair play Do you
nnarchist7 That's how they put IT,, but
| of course they only mean socialist l
! wish something more real than lending n
pair of gloves could be done for them'
|
Speaking OF theatrical conditions, Dan
iel Frohman says:
ACTORS. generally speaking, arc over
paid. but there are SO few actors who
I meet with the requirements OF the higher
class work that they deserve their pay.
1t Is dlncult today for any manager TO
ind more than a limited number or we'll
! equipped actors Of either sex VINO can do
the special work required. He has had 10
have recourse to beginners, and, of course,
we constantly look for future stars In
the embryonic talent that is In exist
| ence.
"The stage az q business offers more
| attractions to man than 1t did twenty
] years ago.
'It offers him more, because he gets bet
ter pay and he has this through con-
| slant engagement But we cannot hnd In
this country enough OF the right material;
| This country is different from England
! and France In that respect There are so
! many opportunities here in every walk
! OF life. Many man who could write n
play and who could succeed as an actor
may be In Wall street or builds bridges
and palaces. In England work and en-
| terprses arc comparatively limited. and
| In consequence members OF the best fam
ilics and the younger sons who have tho
advantage OF being brought up In the best
way take up the stage as a profession.
| Managers there have access 10 a good
| class OF we'll bred and seasoned material.
That makes the basis OF good acting.
LAS a financial Investment the thcatcr
| offers better inducements now, because
| the theatrical business Is established on a
| frmcr basis. Formerly 1t was limited as
| 10 stability and variety. Now there arc
| all classes, dramatic. musical. vaudeville.
| hippodrome, and circus to bcwilde1ng
| extent In new sections there is an OPP
portunity 10 realize on invested capital
in that way. But II is a dangerous busl-
! ness.
"If I had the power to reorganze the
| theatrical business both in a business and
artistic way. 1 should establish a college
| In which men who have predictions for
stage literature might be taught to write
plays-how to construct them-and who
| might have opportunities for seeing them
produced in a tentative way. What we
need Is development OF the sources OF
supply.
''There have never been enough OF good
plays from the days OF Eurlpides to the
present time. II one should look back
over the history or the stage In France
and England 1t can be seen that the story
OF the stage in all centuries has been
that OF FREQUENT faiure-few good plays
| supplied. feW authors successful. There
has been a dearth OF dramatic production
I'm England sometimes for twenty or
thirty years"