The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-15

Don't ask me what Mol-Gobbin
means, or howl 1t Is spelled. for don't
know; but can tell you what, in Stud
helms estimation, 1t emphatically was
1t was Brenda Swenson. Perhaps the
times when he found her most Mol
Cabbinish were at rehearsal, after he
lad tried for half an hour or more to
make her repeat a miserable tire
lords or so in any tone shade more
tender than the bleat of a hungry calf.
ana had to give it up. despairing of
waking the faintest thrill of soul in her
beautiful body. despairing of invoking
= shred of brain to help out the love-
hness of her face. despairing of being
able to cOerce her, even from man.
Hgerial heights. into mimicking any ex-
perience of which her raw youth was
Is yet guiltless. After wearing out his
patience. Studheim would fly into a
aood American passion and road:
Get out of the way. you Mol-GOb-
hin. Borrow a Goldfish and study it in
lis emotional moments and then come
back here and actl Get off the earthl
You make me weary
MY Godt, and | dry so hardti''
hurst blubberingly from the lovely
Swede, down whose perfect face would
De pouring wet torrent Of real tears.
you'll dry harder than ever now"
would be Studheim's heartless COM
fnent, the fire in his handsome black
eyes quite unquenched by the river of
her contrition.
"Yess, I will will. Dank you, Mr..
studheim. Shall I begin it over again
for you YETI"
Somebody take the Mol-Gobbin
away he would implore: and one of
W would coax the tall young girl into
tne wings, and there would pat and pet
her back into her usual condition of
neaithy vacuity. During the process
she would sob very loudly. cry heartily.
blow her nose childishIy, and then
emerge from the ordeal as fresh as a.
rain-washed tulip. No amount of grief
could ever redden the snow-white puri-
" or her extraordinary skin or dim
the beauty of her sky-bllIe eyes.
Nina Leavitt usually came to the
Anal rescue. Nina was our Juvenile.
she was 81 years old. a grandmother.
and as dainty and capable little lady
as ever danced and sang through a 16-
year-old part
eCoue to my room this afternoon.
Brenda. and I'll put you at il again."
she would promise
Oh, dank you. Miss Nina" respond
cd the northern goddess, with a sriev-
oas sniff and sob of reminiscent woe.
just like diverted baby. And then
Wien night comes, I'll do Il right: isn't
ltg With this piteous question she
would look yearningly at US all. When
truth IS below par honesty is the worst
sort OF policy. So We would all ex-
claim in heart chorus:
'Sure, Brendai"
II was worth more fibs than one TO
see tho slow slln break over her face
When on the stage, though she was
magnificently. beautiful as a woman
she was more wooden than ever as an |
actress. Yet not one of us wasted q !
thought to wonder why Studheim kept
her In his company. Brenda in her
seh answered that query There was
nothing one-half as lovely on the whole
I'm glish-speaking stage. Even had she
been deaf. dumb and imbecile. sha !
would have been worth twice her
salary for the mere picture she made.
Yet, after all, Morris Studheiu
shaved with her. suffered through her
raNed over her. less for the sake of |
her present worth than from his fer
vent belief in her potential greatness. |
BY Inheritance, perhaps ne was a deal
ec IN futures. and could not help it, |
The rest of us were not as sanguine;
not to the limit that is; though we
one and all acknowledged that il the |
awakening fire of genius ever touched |
her by even so much as a stray spark |
she'd make her own fortune and her
in less than no t.-~1e.
But we doubted the contingency. |
Brenda was the willing victim OF |
dope-like contentment. Bovine does |
not begin to express it, for the reason !
that bovines ruminate. and Brenda did /
not She was absolutely .unruminant;
.sd therefore enjoyed a placidity /
greater than a, cows. She. had never
gone on the stage-there was no go |
r. her-she had been put there; and