Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-07

professionally associated with him fell
ST., or In other ways came upon eva
days Then he was all love and fellow
ship. / coulo tell endless stories illus
trative Of that side OF him-how. Tor
example, when, only a few months
ago "a membor OF his company was
stricken with typhoid fever IN san
Francisco he saw personally TO ~ that
he was sent % the best OF Hospitals.
had a trained nurse especially assigned
20 him, the bills all paid up ir ad-
vance, and ther--to encourage The
young fellow C get well--a letter n
forming him OF raise In his salary
left 1t hts bedside 10 be read az soon
as he should be- able 20 read anything
Ana this was not an important mem,
Der of the comTany-only a painstak-
ing, ambitious lad who had shown fhs
capacity for work.
That capacity atoned for everything
with MT Mansfield. All he wanted was
mat people should try. Il see my
young people" he used 10 say "Wlpinz
tho paint from their faces and comp'a-
Gently arranging their scarfs as they
leave the theater at midnight. Thov
seem 10 have not a care on their minds
They are thinking Of nothing but sup
per. Meanwhile ] am wondering and
worrying ms 10 how / can De better t0-
morrow night. Sometimes / wish 7
could De Ike them"
But he could not. and because ha
cnuld not ne made many enemies. Hs
could not keep silent bafore the utter
ance OF buncombe and cant and rho
display OF sloth and stupidity. lie must
speak. and when no ala ne hllstared
such fnults with a phrase Al such
l.1rs he seemed utterly msrciless ne
was ST. fluent, m biting. The culpdts
'ldom forgave him. and they made
a.l,,ae,ilon OF MN The future pastimo of
hence there were many bitter stories
ana s'me were true And vet many NJ
his people remained with him yea IN
ana year opt for the bost part of two
ar Mansfield was an intensely rar-
f"us man ana never more 80 than when
no was acting. That afniction account
,I iof many or his so-called manner
lainH-umong Othors the gripping al the
PAINS me working forward ana back
ward ar his shoulders IN scenes az great
stress "a trick he corrected I'm his last
years, howeyerl-and the staccato note
n nften threw into HIS voice with piorc-
Ing effect He was forgiven none N
these blomishes. No man. indeed, over
Qla llhlcult things 20 beautifully who
/ " tH held 20 M strict an account fOr ne
lhpaes. n n significant of the critical
pei feonilon that he endured thai "a
creation Of his which was not very
highly estimated by American revi F-
ers was the one which certain French
authorities on the art az acting urged
him % present in Paris. That WIS van
me Terrible he thought A. was lis
best work, partly, ! think, becaueo the
disguise was IN all respects physical.
vocal ana temperamontal- most
complete. Aloesto An Moliero's "'lhe
Misanthropo" was tho character in all
ms repertory most nearly allied Win
/ ms own cast ~ mind.
The food Of memories that the pass
ing ~ this great man releases a cl-
culated 10 confuse and Cypress the NINA
That has been stimulated by 0bserll-
| ton OF his work for many years ta
I bulks - large now that only pygmiH
seem loft 90 take up his mantle. IAe
people 90 whom he gave OF his best
VIII come 20 estimate him more nnl
more accurately In The seasons lo
come because many n season will pass
before that somber and puifsant hEnle
Will cease 10 dominate An those reoiil-
OF imagination where once 10 ruleA