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

mendable discretion, and we ratified a
| thing or two in the wings. Then We
sank upon props and laughed in whis-
pers till we ached.
Brenda took her scoring from Stud
helm with lovely, blond equability IN
spite of the fact that two torrents of
| easy tears poured down her face. But
they dried as soon as his back was
turned
IF look oudt ISIS beware. it makes
small matter which," she explained
with one of her soft, wide. radiant
smiles She had the smile of a boy
oaby--a sudden, cheerful widening of
the mouth, with no more coquetry in it
than there is in canned clam.
We none Of US ever got far in our
love-making with Brenda We al, of
us tried it, one after another, several
times over, especially while travelling
one gets very tired on a train-and
Brenda would help us along to the best
of her ability. even taking pins osten-
tatiously out of her belts If our arms
wandered around that way, but she did
1t with such hearty motherliness that
we became comfortably discourage
We were all her big brothers. and she
plainly thought the world of us. singly
or punched. So we mostly punched and
gave it up.
WI even MOTIFS Stu0he1mS facile
credulity was strong enough to tempt
him into making siege of her heart.
even though one of his axioms was that
no woman could possibly become an
acceptable actress Until she had had an
emotional past. When he was engaging
a leading woman, it was no pasts. no
contract He did not go so far as to
insist that these pasts should be re-
grettaoie. but they generally We're, so
there you are He also commended that
no actor could thrill his public unless
ne were at the moment a martyr to an
unrequited episode of the soul.
Just now he was POLITICALLY in thrau
70 MISS Nance Delaney, who PLAYED
ms leads; this kept him I'D to his act
ing standard: but it also kept him awav
from Drawing a few sentimental Skin
mishes with Brenda-which appealed 10
the rest of US as loss. The perfor-
nance would have been great.
Brenda's beauty extended to her
voice. which was sweet and penetrating
the strain which comes from a full
throated but simple reed instrument.
II was pure melody. yet was without
those harmonic Inducements of hu-
man passions and memories and re-
gfets which give some voices terrible
power to grip the heart of another who
hears. Some day, doubtless, Brenda's
voice would take hOld-then!-welI. the
rest of us, like Studheim. put up with
the olankly sweet present for the sake
OF magnificent possibilitv-and bopad
we might be there to see and hear.
In furtherance of this ultimate belief
OF his, Studheim expended not onjv
pans, out money. He engaged special
teachers for Brenda and had her taught
lencing, singing, eiocution, and, incl
uentaiiy, English; and in return she
ooediently fenced. sang. elocuted and
improved in English, all with the joy-
less precision of an admirable bit of
mechanism To pay for this, Studheirn
enough to choke a horse.
She'll make good vet" he vyo,,ld |
persist, and the education will have 10 |
come hFst; it's always too late after |
ward When they make a hit thew |
cave off studying"
That poor bank account of hisi -<t,ur
summer season must have thinned II |
terribly Business was fair, but did not /
pay expenses. owing for one thing TO |
9tuoheims penchant for good scenary /
ma costumes. Then. too, over in Troy
there was rival theatre whose man
aSer Kept Studheim awfuIly hot. This
man, Simeon Kelly by name, fiaxtened /
many one of Studheim's productions
oy bringing it out at his own theatre |
I week or so ahead of US. Just for the
aunt lot OF our townsfolk who
otherwise would have been our patrons
lsed to go over to Troy on the trolley /
o heily's theatre for change. Come /
hummer and fine night people think
lotnlng Of going for an ice cream soda
oy way OF the moon and back.
rhen, in fit of boredom, KellvI
slosed his theatre and dismissed his
;onlpany- Next he began to pine for
sAcitements, and wished he had not. /