Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-21

for the right portrayal Of whom there
was required exquisite technical fin
esse and the faculty for bestowing the
quality of charm upon an image of
Wickedness and weakness This Mr..
Faversham. then four una twenty
years OF age, accomplished, and from
that time forward he has been con-
spicuous figure on our stage, never
returning to his native land (England)
t. act. His career has been more or
less aborted up to the present time
bS the reputation for being a matin-
90 idol---a reputation almost intoler-
able to the possessor of it. not sought
hy him, but thrust upon him by i'm
questionable and foolish minXes His
range of parts is much wider thfn
the general public supposes and he
was playing classic roles in English
provincial companies and Ibsen char
acters in sequestered American towns
many a season before he became
known in the larger cities of this
country.
Felix lsman is a rich Jew of Phila-
delphia, whose business interests,
though they are various, are mainly
conferred in operations in real estate,
renting agencies and similar enter
lrises. Like many people of his race,
he is blessed with, and finds much
happiness in, his natural instinct for
the art of the theater Nor are his
artistic impulses confined to the
stage, for he is iudicious buyer of
pictures. He is a keen critic of act
ing and an aStute observer of men
and affairs. His demeanor is quiet,
almost to the point OF solemnity, and
his friends have pronounced him
great listener. His yeritable passion
for the playhouse has already led him
into some managerial ventures. one of
which--the introduction of Nine.
Fritzscheff TO the light opera stage
cost him manV thousands of dollars
FOR several seasons. He was confident
OF her ultimate success, however, and
has recouped his losses Not long be-
fore Richard Mansfield died Mr., Is
man was outlining plans with him
for the erection OF theater In New
York which was TO bear Mr. Mans
fields name, and whore he was to
play for Il considerable period in cY-
cry season
Mr.. Isman is young and ambitious,
and in his own shrewd. cautious way,
he Is an ldeallst He wishes to see big
fine things done I'm a big, fine way.
He wants those things to pay. but he
Is willing TO find a part of his recon-
pense In the honor OF helping toward
the achievement OF them--and he VIII
look 10 It that sooner or later they do
pay AAf ~ an lNA'AtHAAlh fHAAN -
American commercial life, and Ike
many clear-seeing, energetic, re-
sourCeful men In that life, he mas
imagination, It Is that attribute that
prompts them, as It has him, to make
experiments In artistic matters when
they know that they can at last ar
ford such pastime. and then II lh
their clearness OF vision, their energy
and their resourcofulness that enable
them often to make their altrulste I'M
pulses pay very handsomely
The plans now completed place MT
Fayershum ln an enYiable position lie,
too, rs an Intensely ambitious man ana
fan from content with the easy success
which has attended his efforts during
the past three seasons. The desire oI
his heart Is 10 act the part OF lago'
which he considers. as do many DINERS
the greatest role over written Tor an
actOr-for the actor as technlclan
that is This desire Will, no doubt, DO
fulHlled within n few seasons. Another
Of his ambitions Is 20 revert more ana
more 10 character work, so-called OF
Kind In which he had large experience
early In his career, but with whlch 70
rs not al an Identified IN the pubic
mind at present, -.
As 10 the financial aspect OF nv
plans, Il IS Of nature mat lnsualI,ss
the execution VI them on sple""'"
scale
There plans Include the prod 1900. -, -. ~
stephen Phillips poetic Tragedy ~,
cd" on scale Of great masninee'iru W.
Another OF his momentous oiterlhsS 'ol