Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-08-22
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By EMMETT CAMPBELL HALL

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IL By EMMETT CAMPBELL Hall &
Observation-Disclosures
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The public John Kennedy, 8: the
Independent Theatrical Com; any.
Limited. announced POM oussy to tie
newspaper men, is CROWN tire d !. az
/ poor shows by people who have moth
ing but reputati ion gotten almost
\ any old way. What they want Is
good show, a good play with goodHac-
tors, and the name of the actor or
actress doesn't have the valuessdf "a
last years door-checE.' - as s$s
It was In following out this plaa
| therefore. that Kennedy picked 4out
| Marshall Madden as his leading man
! for The Cottage and the Studio, 81 a
simple little tale of struggle and
heartache, of strength and the per-
Torrance Of hard duty. M
But say, don't know thing
about this artistic atmospheric Of
Paris, and all that, you know, q Mad.
den objected when his selection. was
announced to him. His strong point
was atmosphere" and local color
and he had been playing for years in
dramas of the west. T have been.
fooling with guns and spurs so long
he continued, that am pretty near
a real COW puncher, Hot art student
I'll make y
That's all right" Kennedy said,
soothingly you'll make good, all
right AS to the atmosphere, I'm go
ing to have you run over to ParisEand
acquire it. You'll start at once, and
when you get there, you fix up a.
studio and join some class just live
the thing, you know ;saes,.<.sA
"All right" Madden agreed. @fIoW.
about the leading lady? She is sup.
posed to be an art student also, you
know" u.
Haven't decided on one. just vet,
though 1 have one in mind" Kennedy
replied.
The result of all of which was that
some four weeks later Marshall Mad
den was establishes, humbly, as be-.
fitted his purse and the part he was
to play in the next winters produc-
zion, as a full-hedged art student in
Paris, under the name Of Weldon
Hampton.
It was just month after his ar
rival in Paris that Madden met Elsie
Proctor at a little students gathering,
and from that instant the days to
Madden were golden.
In the frank, easy air of the studios
they soon became far more intimate
in short time than would have
been the case under any other cir
cumstances, but at all times there
was ABOUT the girl certain shy re-
serve that checked too rapid an adj
vance. To Madden she appeared as
the one girl of his life, and she was
evidently not Indifferent to the big,
handsome chap, though che Gould snot
resist the temptation to tease. .ss:
That was one of her most charming
traits, although at times it drove him
to the brink Of despair.
why won't you be direct with me.
girl?" he pleaded. You mustnsee
how much 1 care---don't play with
me- but the girl would only smile
inscrutably.
"fou are very large for play.
thing, are you uot?" she would say,
la.ughingly, and he would go away
raging inwardly, and occasionally
boiling over, to the hurt of his studio
furniture.
BY and by she grew more gentle,
and confided to him some Of the de-
tails of her life-how, as child in
her poor, cramped and bare New
England home she had longed fer
some of the beautiful things Of life;
how in that hard soil her artistic tai
ent had struggled toward blossom,
and how at last she had succeeded in
obtaining a position in New York
which enabled her by the closest
economy to finally come to Paris and
take the course for which she had
longed. It would have to be short
however, she told him; she would
have to go home early in the coming
fall, to again secure her position "A
widowed mother and two smaller
children required her support
Why, that might have been Jes-
sizes story!" he exclaimed aloud.
Then she has my sympathy,
though do not know her." Elsie said.
Who is she?' N
He flushed little, thinking how
near he had come to giving away his
secret.
"Oh, just a character in a play he
sale. Il.
And the plays the thing isn't
1872" she murmured, her eyes fixed
upon distant point.
| Madden was startled. Had she
penetrated his make-believe? Almost
at once, however, she changed the
subject, and he gradually grew reas-
sured. 81 s 5s95 5I B.