The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06

With GustaNc Grobman. who Is man
aging Mario Doro. the star of "Thc
Morals Of Marcus. - who comes 10 the
Salt Lake theater Thursday. Friday and
Saturday next, is the Rev. William
Danforth, whose unique career as
playwright has attracted considerable
attention, Mr.. Danforth has joined
Mr.. Frohnan tour to discuss mat
tcrs relative to the staging of ICY
Whittakcr's Place which the play
wright is dramatlZing from popular
novel of that name by Joseph e. Lin
coin. However, it is not MIR. Dan
forth s first appearance with the Doro
company. IIe gained his first stage cN-
pcrlence with Miss Doro some two years
ago. and il WAS she who inspired the
leading character in his FIRST play, The
Gates Of Eden. a comedy drama which
has for its background the peculiar life
of n cehbate and picturesque sect known
as the Shakers.
Gustayc Frohman, who is always on
the lookout for new gcniuses, discovered
Mr. Danforth in his parish al Elm
hurst. Ill. one of the aristocratic sub
urbs of Chicago The minister had thc
germ Of play in his mind and Mr..
E'rohman invited him to 20 out on thc
road with the Doro company so that he
might absorb inspiration and technique
from the wings, and Mr.. Danforth
his best moods of inspiration when he
can scribblc scenarios and scenes on
some "prop' in tho wings, while the
play is on out on the boards.
Thus it, happens that during his va
rious joinin9S OF Miss Doro 5 company
in fhc routine of play writing, the min
istcr has come TO be known as Il sort
of "chaplain of thc feet. lncidcp
tally he has won the close friendship of
Miss Doro, and she has been 10 him m
unusual and interesting study. lie says
of her:
"I have been so fortunate as 10 catch
many unusual mental photographs of
this charming little star, and without
violating any condolences it gives me
pleasure TO offer my picture of her, and
! think it is n picture which may be
interesting to the great public which
sees her only from the front, under the
| guise of the character which for The
! one she assumed for artistic purposes.
! Night after night the Marie Doro on
which the spotlight is trained is n very
different Marie Doro from the reality.
Ny companionship with her off the
| stage suggests as the first impression
the loneliness of her life. Possibly this
| is n phase which she shares with many
others who have climbed or begun 10
climb the heights. but the loneliness is
there, and that. too, in spite of bcr.
self, Scores of times, in tins city and
! that, on tho road, have ] found her
wandering about the parks and pleas
, ant places of an afternoon, all by her
! self, sitting perhaps by some fountain
or bed of flowers. dreaming: and that
expresses what [ have found her world
| of the stage TO be. 1T is world OF
dreams. and sometimes | have been able
to get Just n little into that world Of
dreams 1t is not that she would not
have Won enter with her. but it Is large.
| w because she lives there. Nor is ii
| that she does not hunger 10 take others
| there But it is the mystic kingdom 10
which she alone possesses the key. lf
YOU are in the mood to understand at all,
! or have the intuitions. she VIII tell you
of the melodies she hears IN that dream
world the music that floats through it's
gardens and palaces, and quite likely
| she will dart away to her hotel to fix
that music on paper. The public gets
n little Of it now and thcn-some quaint
enhancing strain that has been sing
ing itself to her, and little strains of
which she puts into musical notation
| Had size rot chosen the stage | am
firmly convinced that Miss Doro would
have notable career in music.
con another day her dream world
NAV he filed with the oualntest poetic
fanciss. J have some of her lines, and
they would remind you vividly in spots
| Of Edgar A. Poe, and you would won.
der how such Thought ever came to the
brow behind those glorious eyes, for the
| lines are suggestive of The dlmness OF
things, the mysteries OF life and destiny
They may run all 10 black today--as
black as midnight. but tomorrow they
will remind YOU of thc lines Of Keats
and Shelly. dainty and fragile fancles,
etched in flowers and the faint trnces
of delicate perfumes, Ask her why she
docs not have them published and she
will shrink back, almost with embar-
rassmeut. strange in one who faces the
public nightly. and IS unafraId OF the
gaze of the multitude When 1T comes
TO facing the public with her poetry
then comes not stage fright but liter"
AIRY fright.
"Another day her dream world is
filed with curous musings about the
heart of a girl. and YOU VIII hnd hcf
in some secluded nook. ont of doors,
where the birds are singing. .lottlng
down with pencil and paper the lines OF
the picture Of a girl S soul, You look
into her wide ewes and You wonder II
those sketches she is making are pc
tures of her own soul-pictures or the
maiden fancies and romances-shadows
of moods. dreams of u girls warnings
and forebodings as to what life holds
If YOU can angle as you would for the
speck eled trout. and catch the fleetlng
nictures, the name OF Marie Basbkirt.
shef occurs to vou-the fancles and
view of life that lie close to the girl s
heart.
TASK her if these are photographs
of her own soul, and she will give you
positive negative. II is only her way
Of taking out her romances-this way
of taking imaginary girls, and letting