The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-26

time to appear. standing in the wings
and watching and marvelling at the
progress of the performance going on
out there under the bright tiara of
border lights. ".. .+. .. ...'. II s-...,g
She never spoke much to anyone. but
night after night and week after week
drank in the tears and smiles and caA
prices of the play Polly. From her
point of vantage In the unglamorous
offing. the little bareback rider
watched the acting of Mabel Talaferro
and cried with her and laughed with
her until the winsome Interpreter of
the stage circus girl became to the
real circus girl more than a woman
and actress-a heart idol. But she
worshipped from afaF. although there
came stronger and stronger into her
soul the longing To some day enact
the part of Polly. Polly was herself.
Polly was "A circus girl and SO was
she. The written part was her own
life. But then-such a big thing as
that-to be the star of ii play-oh-that
seemed as far away as the stars OF
HEAVIER.
Miss Taliaferru had seen the child
tshe does not seem else) take her
nightly stand in the wings: had
watched her first out of the corner of
her eye: and then. her interest
aroused. had begun watching her with
both eyes. And from this there was to
be given the circus girl the telescope
to bring stardom nearer. the telescppe
of Miss Taliaferro's fine womaniy
spirit that caused her To take the girl
To her and to impart 10 her the secrets
Of the acting art that had won To-. the
first Polly success and fame and fane's
plauditc.
How Miss Taliaferro has succeeded
with her protege will be known ere
this by the many who already will
have seen the circus girl of eight
months ago in the role Of the stage
circus girl The protege has stepped
into the riding skirt of her precep-
tress and. after "A rigorous adherence
to the teachings impaired to her. has
become a leading woman-and "A very
good leading woman, at that-at the
head of big company just IA little
more than half year after she had
entered II theater for the first time in
her life and just little less than half
a year after the wish that meant her
earth's greatest goal had first entered
her head
Miss Ta.iaferrn has done no small
thing in evolving Il capable actress
out of an unframed child of the saw
dust ring. and. although that funny
something in peoples natures that
keeps them from admitting contempo-
raneous acts are "a great as those re-
garded in retrospection from the plane
of now. may withhold a great degree
of credit from her, il is not to he for
gotten that here is Z zcsise almost I'M
pardlleled in the theater. And we
priests of the present. We who regard
worthy accomplishment oil the day
at hand with the same admiration
as one magnited through the mys-
FERROUS vista OF time. must bes,ow
the chart-book senius wand To Mabel
Talia:erra along with the splendid ar
ray of talent developers of other days
and these.
The lady in question. however. does
not take enough credit to herself for
what she has done with her protege.
Tn ST happy that the little girl has
succeeded" l. the repetitious keynote
of all that she is inclined To say about
her charge. But Please now, won't
yuu?" will often win from woman
what fists would fail To gain from d
man, and il was for Just such a
Please. now. won't ynus'' that mod
est Miss Taiiaferr" E.sIentetl from her