The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-10
TIE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY TO- 1907

body night cancel when the prospect is
one of Lare benches. 1 would give back
twice the money TO escape Fritz for A
night
HE sent word to the manager of the
house that he was not 10 appear that
night, and lay back in his local room
with his book-and no liquor--and
gloated over his abandonment OF the
despised Fritz for one night. Every
body in the country read in the news
papers on the following morning that
Fritz Emmett was violently drunk in a
Kansas town, tossing bricks through
shop windows, fighting the watch. and
so on. But he did Fritz in another
Ksnsas town on the night following,
10 drink IN him. and. as a matter of
fact. he was wholly temperate through
celled several times purely from a
growing detestation of Fritz.
"Herne, too, used 10 cancel quite oc-
cas- ionally especially toward the latter
years OF his life, because many years
Of reiteration DEVELOPED within him a
violent dislike for his part in shore
Acres. and when this feeling gained
the bubbling point within him he would
cancel. careless or reckless of all con-
sequences.
~ shall not do that platitudhous
farmer these coming three nights. lie
would say 10 his intimates. most calmly
and In matter of fact tone. and there
would be the end. There would be no
shore Acres for the ensuing three
nights.
only on very rare occasions. and
then when he was very tired of travel,
would Joseph jefferson admit that Rip
irked him But he was known to make
that confession several times. once,
after playing Rip for nearly fifty
years he forgot the lines of the role
/ and had to be prompted. When an ac-
tor forgets the lines OF part you may
! dcduce ore = two things-first. and
/ this is not very tenable when all ac-
! tors are good studies, that he is un-
/ familiar with his little piece; second.
/ the plausible and generally he right
! reason. that he is so sick of his part
\ that he has occupied himself inveter-
ately. since the last performance, in
1 trying 10 forget II, and that he has mo-
n.entarily succeeded in doing that, at
an unfortunate time, Of course, when
he needs the lines.
Lawrence Barrett, for two seasons
without interruption played his part OF
I4anciotto in Francesca da Rimini.
and no other part. Barrett was as self
contained as he was scholarly. but ht
grew to hate Lanciotto with a burning
hatred
The internal csnting prig,' he
would exclaim i'm his dressing room
making up for Lanciotto. The mouth
ing, spOuting, swollen. all too virtuous
detestable. damnable prig, Here 1 an
fashiuning his l.neaments and Stuffins
his hump once again. Why didn't
Paola run the whelp through the bod!
before Dante or Boxer ever held tn;
} brute up as an example of confluence
anG probity? / would that were go
ing to do Box and Cox" or "Ticket-of
; Leave Man" tonight
-
"In the end Bardwell Slote-in 'Th,
> Almighty DOllar'-fen like the ham
: mering of brass upon the spirit of 81
placid and gOOd-natured q man as vii
: liam j. Florence. / have heard hin
| bay at the approach of making-up tim
} for that part, and call Slote a vulgar
: fat-witted. inconsequential, sodden
: disgusting oaf.
Il should not like TO say. offhand
: which is the worse-mumbling over tn
= words of a serious part for a year or S
! or scuttling through the suppositious
: " humorous passages of an allege
5 comic piece for an equal period. Whe
{ the serious piece begins 10 wear upo
one he feels ike 1901 IN all or nj
I nerve cells with each repetition of il
5 The blowhard speeches that he emit
G seem to come bounding back upon hir
= i'm mockery. When he puts the quave
= of sentiment or of sensibility into hi
o voice he feels like an unutterable coun
1 terfeit. II is impossible, at that stage
s for him To believe that he is actuall
[ deceiving anybody out in front
= seems to him that they simply mus
e detect his hollowness and inward
4 Sneer over il.
= Doing the serious work. one of tn
2 most. abject things ! know is the max
f ing of stage love to your opposite VIC
man of the piece for one or two en-
e tire seasons on end. There's a job i
test the patience, not TO say the SET
respect. of your paragon of actor.
q Face almost as close to hers as you
a own nose is TO yours, you exude til
}. frayed sentences, simulate the break
[. in the voice of the protesting or implol
k ing lover, roll your eyes about as
d burro does his ears. breathe swellin
promises. pant declarations, roll til
p stricken woman about in your arm
like something in the process of bein
: weighed, smooth her creamed for'