The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-30
FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN.

Milstach:
Variety on the Bowery is often the
vice of life.
If any actor thinks talk is cheap, let
him hire a New York lawyer
! When some speechmakers sit down
/ it is the best thing they have done.
Maxim for the actors: In order TO be
| applauded, applaud not yourself.
| When a man is confused as to what
/ he has and what he is, he is in a bad
way.
One should keep his thought boudoir
| busted with the reading OF good books.
Patience and long suffering is an ex-
| cellent model for the doctor and for
him only.
1t is singular how many people can
see and hear, and how few can see and
| judge.
| Lord Bacon said: Reading maketh
| fun man." What about the good old
bottle?
No wonder Broadway is called THE
Great White Way 1t has a battery
at the end.
The early bird catches the worm.
but the man who stays up all night
sees snakes.
The infantry tactics of the average
| gOvernesS would outskirt and outflank
Napoleon.
| When an actor is unnoticed he RACES
| like Satan with toothache. Same
when he is, sometimes.
De Wolf Hopper opened the new
Mary Anderson theatre at Louisville.
| KY, last Monday night.
/ Because an officer does not occupy
| his apartment in the summer is no sign
/ that he is a left tenant.
| Sweet are the uses of adversity."
said the understudy, when the prina
donna fell into the coal hole.
| The critics excuse for spanking the
actor is based upon the following
axiom: Eve usually find most fault
| with those whom we love best"
To spend money on a play which
| pleases the high brows and which the
low brOws will not have, is as absurd
as to feed grass to a lion or meat to a
horse.
49,
Rennold Wolf is authority for one
that happened during the recent
actors fund fair in New York. A GER
| tain actor person was visiting the fair
and trying his best to dodge the va
riOUs ticket agents who were disposing
| pasteboards for all sorts Of chance
money makers. At one time, when he
thought he had escaped for a moment,
a soft voice whispered in his ear:
! Wont you take a chance, please?''
| int dSNNI AOohtu over Ills STlOulQer
| to discover that the ticket vender was
his divorced wife. Laughing in a man.
ner to cover her embarrassment, the
| former wife repeated:
Wont you take a chance?"
Not on you" replied the divorced
one, as he moved on to the next booth
x X
One of the first experiences that Mr..
Professionalism had with George
Bernard Shaw. the author of Caesar
and Cleopatra was at the time that
the actor announced his first appear
ance as Hamlet in London. At that
time he had enjoyed a personal ac-
quaintance with Shaw, who was then
one of the most severe critics in Lon
don.
Shaw wrote Mr.. Robertson a letter.
which opened in this wise:
so you are going to play Hamlet
l presume that you think that you are
going to make great success of the
poet, but allow me to inform you that
you are not"
Shaw then followed with long pages
of closely written advice and declared
| that if MIR. Robertson did not deviate
from the old traditions and give the
role more human Interpretation he
would fail The actor followed the ad-
vice, and the result is he is one of the
greatest or living Hamlets.
x X X
Gertrude Quinlan had her first one
night-stand experience in three years
recently with one of The College
Widow" companies. They reached a
small town in western Pennsylvania and
found every hotel crowded with dele
gates to a convention. Not a room was
20 be had and the Widow girls did
the next best thing and went in search
of boarding houses. After a fruitless
quest Miss Quinlan sadly returned to
the leading hotel" and once more ap-
preached the desk.
ooh, I have good news for you, Miss
QUinlan," announced the rotund man.
ager. THE party in -parlor B will be
moved shortly and you may have that
room"
THANK goodness exclaimed the
actress.
mo. thank Heaven" returned the
manager THE party died last night
They were observed passing through
the crowd in the lobby of the Grand |
opera house after performance of "a
Midsummer Nights Dream" i'm New
York. She was happy. He was SNUG
and self-satisfied.
Wasn't Annie Russell lovely she |
observed. "She is unusually clever |
isn't she ,"
Clever? I should say she was" re- |
piled the other, with JUNCTION. Her |
whole family's clever
"Oh. does she inherit it,
We'll" Fetorted her companion. with /
an air of much wisdom. its rather /
strange you haven't heard of the Rus !
sell family. There was her older /
brother. Sol Smith Russell. and her |
beautiful elder sister. Lillian Russell; /
and there's the Russell brothers. who |
have gone in for Irish comedy, and /
Tommy Russell, who played Lord |
Fauntleroy, and the black sheep of the
family, INK Russell, a prize fighter. |
Haven't you read in the papers about |
any of them?'
If she had she kept it to herself