The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-18
MANSFIELD GET s
ALL OF H|S'N
RICHARD SUFFERING FROM COL.
LISBON or BRAIN STORM
AND EXAGGERATED EGO.
SAYS CLEVER ACTRESS
Emma Dunn, His Former Leading
Lady--She is Wife Of Harry
Beresford Who Was in
Cairo Recently.

Now we know what's the matter
with Richard Mansfield He is suffer
ing from collision between brain
storm and exaggerated ego.
This diagnosis was furnished to a
New York reporter by Miss Emma
Dunn, the clever little actress who
on Thursday night threw mp her part
as the mother in Mr.. Mansheld's pro-
luction of Peer Gynt" at the New
Amsterdam thea re aud walked out
In the middle Of the performance,
leaving her understudy to do the
death scene in the last act
Not until today did Broadway get a
hint Of the real cause Of her sudden
withdrawal from the Mansfield com.
pany. Miss Dunn, who in private life
Is the wife Of Harry Be,esford who
recently appeared at the Cairo opera
house in THE Woman Halter" lives
with her mother in West Ninety
eighth street and is there now recov
ering from many bruises.
He Wants All the Praise.
my experience with Mr. Mans
field has been that Of nearly every
other Leading woman he ever had
who made he least bit Of hit she
said "To be plain. he doesn't like
his support to do any acting He isl
willing TO do ii all, and if they try
to act, and come anywhere near sue
ceeding he resents il in most dis
agreeable Mansfeliian fashion.
When | began to get some notices
he started 10 sneer at me publicly
reprimanding me before all others.
He also showed his feelings in a
physical way, when he used to toss
me upo nthe roof Of the house in the
first act Although ! am light and he
IS strong. it became his pleasing
habit 70 use such violence that | an
covered with bruises. 41
Bmt | hung on because was
anxious TO make a good impression
on Broadway The papers here gave
me some nice notices, and Mr.. Mans
field who was In one of his horrible
gloomy moods Thursday night, bit
terly resented the fact that | was
sharing honors with him even to a
small degree.
Vents Spite in Mean Ways.
In the first act while | had the
stage he got behind stage rock and
Kissed rotten. rotten, rotten at me
as long as | was speaking. Then As
| started on my long speech he came
close to me and began whispering,
Hurry up. go along. you're rotten.
became so flustered that for mo
ment forgot my lines This seemed
to please him. and he came closer
aa'd something else nasty in sheer
ing undertone. Finally ! remem
bered the words. and in my confusion
| hurried through them so fast that
when his cue came he was taken I'M
awares and hesltated
THAT seemed to drive him wild
At he cue to tess me up on the cabin
he grabbed me as if was something
hateful and literally flung me from
him. spelling the scene and almost
knocking the breath out of my body.
AZ soon as the curtain rang down n
went TO my dressing room. put on my
street clothing and auft. could not
endure such brutal treatment any
more,
do you know continued lttleI
Miss Dunn. that ! really think Mr..
Mansfield is suffering from collision
between brain storm and exaggerated
ego"
Richard Mansfield issued a state
ment TODAY. in which he said the
whole matter Of Miss Dunns action
was "a complete mystery 10 Mr..
Mansfield and his associates"