The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29
FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN.

FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
/. Raymond Hitchcock processes to be
charmed with Wallace Irwin, who
wrOee the lyrics Of The Yankee Tour
list" He cites as an example of the
| kind of verse audiences crave these
stanzas of song sung by himself:
! woman, well, say, she's a curious
thing-strange mixture of angel and
She loves you, you think, and you're
proud as a king-but the next thing
well, where are you at?
| You quarrel with your wife, and she's
| quick TO make plain the place in your
| head where you lack
| She'll sulk twenty minutes, and then
Dear, come hook up my dress in the
| back"
Now, amt that the way with woman,
She holds all the cards in the game
You may search from st. Louis to Santo
| Domingo;
They're alike. yet they're never the
She'll fret you or pet you or coldly for
| get you; but when you're in trouble
she'll show
| Jingo-the woman that you and /
know.
When woman gets into an automobile
| it's speed to the limit for her.
| She cries faster and faster and joy makes
her squeal when the landscape shoots
| by like a blur,
But when suddenly Bang" your ma
chine is a wreck, spilled over an acre
Then the woman you love comes and
jumps on your neck. Il told you you
ought to go slow
If you run to liquor then folks will de-
clare it's women that drive you to
drink
! despair, and founder round till you
| sink.
But when a mans down in the mire of
the town, the under dog, totally beat,
BY Jove, it's a woman who leans gently
| down and lifts him again to his feet.
Now, amt that the way with a woman,
by lingo?
Run, get my gloves. dearie; they're up
on the bureau; or maybe they're un-
der the bed
But after you've hunted an hour she Il
say sweetly: They're here in my
muff all the time
Now, amt that the way with a woman
by lingo?
And then do you wonder at crime?
Wilton Lackaye, one might judge
from his eternal air of superiority,
ought to be above such ordinary,
everyday human weaknesses as re-
peating the smart sayings of children.
However it is a healthy sign. in one
of his inevitable pose, that he can
soften enough to indulge the weakness.
He is, in these cases, always the
spokesman for the one tot-his 5-year-
old son, who already insists that the
=. hx- f1h sir
dressed by intimates shall be made
over into sturdier bill" in his case
Twas at Sunday school. The teacher
asked him:
What became of Nineveh?"
Destroyed"
And of Tyre?"
! "Punctured."
} A day or two ago it fell out that ar
actor with a purpose was cinemato-
graphed on the stage, and was vastly
pleased with the result, says the Pal
Mall Gazette.
Said he gleefuIly to prominent
dramatic crit:
1T was the most extraordinary eX
perience 1 ever went through-actually
to see myself acting"
Now" replied the prominent dra
matte critic, you understand what VIZ
have to put W with.
X X X
Werner Charges, with 1.-THE Boys o.
Company b. is an actor of the ole
school, He had his training in Eng
land many years ago and played IL
some Of the famous old stock compa-
MES with such we'll known actors a:
Kate and Ellen Terry, Sir Charlie:
Wyndham, George and William Rig
mold, Charles COghlan, Madge Robert
son, Edward Arnet and others. He wa:
born in Bath, England, which has beer
called the nursery of the drama II
England. for it was always considered
a critical place, and the players whC
could not make an impression in BATH
never had the temerity to go on an6
storm London.
MI Charges was put into CONNER
cial life, but he soon grew tired of that
and he began to haunt the theatres
and it was not long before he was be-
hind the footlights, where he rapidly
advanced in character parts. He
played in Sir Henry Irving's company
before he came to America, where hC
got an engagement with Clara Morris
and for two seasons was with thai
great American actress. Later he ap-
peared with Rose Coghlan. He was
with Robert Mantell in Shakespearear
roles and won much comment on his
POlOn1uS, a par WHICH ne PARTICULARLY
likes He was also seen in HardcastlC
in 'She Stops to Conquer" where ht
made another pronounced impression
1t was when E. S. Willard produced
his Tom Pinch" that Mr.. Cralges was
given an opportunity to show his met
tie He created the role OF Pecksnifi
in that play. While Charges was witt
Joseph Jefferson he played numerous
old classic comedy parts, and it has
been said that his Sir Anthony Abso-
lutte has not been eQualed' on the
American stage. Mr.. Charges and the
late Joseph jefferson were very good
| friends.
The last time before the present one
that Charges appeared in Chicago he
was seen as Lord Nugent in Edmund
Burke" with Chauncey OlcOtt
CLARA Morris is the only player ]
ever knew whose acting affected me
while 1 was on the stage with her.
said Louis James recently. "She is the
most moving player in the world. And
yet we say an actor must feel to make