Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-13
study necessary to the presentation o.
new roles"
COMING TO AMERICA AGAIN.

study necessary to the presentation OF
new roles"
COMING TO AMERICA AGAIN.
When questioned whether she ex-
pected to make future tours in Ameri-
ca on would henceforth, as had been
rumored. restrict herself to the Italian
stage, Duse declared that 1t was still
her intention to act in South American
cities as well as in the north. Some of
buses foreign successes have been
made In Rio Janeiro and Buenos Aires.
where the natural verve of an Italian
artist. owing to the conviction of be-
Ing thoroughly understood by the pub
lie, is spurred to it's utmost Besides
the kinship of language italian itself
Is widely known in South America.
me contrary conditions, as far as the
United States Is concerned, have ma
turally been severe handicap to Duse
In her appearance In that latter coun-
try, especially where half the plays she
acts in are unfamiliar even as trans
lated literature to the majority of her
audiences.
PREFERS OLD DRAMAS.
And What are your new roles?" !
asked
MY new roles7 4 do not care great
ly Tor new plays of merely ephemoral
interest. Naturally 1 receive a great
many new plays, but my time does not
permit me TO read more than a. certain
number of these. l have always pre-
ferred to give myself to the interpreta-
ton OF great and well known dramas,
| especially those where the larger pas
slons and problems OF life have ade-
! quate expression. Outside of the play
| writer's of Italy have Partially for
| Dumas. lbsen MHstcrinck and others
| that are universally esteemed by the
world. sardou's play. dealing with La
Montespn. interests me. But my plans
are at present too little formulated to
permit me to make any positive state
ments as to the roles / shall take up in
| the future"
PARTIAL 10 FLORENCE.
The selection OF Florence as a home
seems a natural one for the great act
ress, as 1t was In that city she began
| her artistic career and first received the
| appreciation that the world at large
has since so warmly endorsed. 1t was
there. when, at the age OF less than
20 that she made her original success,
AT the old theater the Arena Nazionale.
by her fine acting and youthful beauty
In an unimportant ingenue part in the
vita Nuoya' OF Gherazdi del Iesta.
After which her reputation gained rap
idly, spreading throughout italy.
Duse comes by her histrlonic talent
naturally; her father and grandfather
both having been actors well known
10 the Italian stage Her parents were
Yenetians, but neither Venice nor any
other can properly claim 10 be Duse s
natal city. for her birth took place on
the railway, whore her fathers theatri-
cal troupe was at the time jouIneying
from Forrara Ia Turin. Having few
advantages OF education as a child, Duse
has acquired her culture, which she has
to marked degree, By self effort in
latter days when fame and fortune gave
her the requisite leisure for study In
1887 she married an actor OF the COM
pany OF which she was AT the time a
member. a signor Checci. from whom
she separated, some years later. IN
South America, when her husband ahan-
doned the stage Ia accept an appoint
ment az consul general In Inc republic
OF Argentine. The actress resumed her
maiden name by which she IL now
known--that OF Duse.
PARTISAN TRIUMPH,
one Of buses arst great tFlumphs