Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18

enjoy ones playing it would not be
playing, would it? Does not our very
use of the word imply that the actor
must be something more than repro
ductive workman? 1 am in love with
every character l portray on the stage
and I feel the reflex effect Of my por-
trayal in my own life apart from the
footlights.'
rs there not a danger to the con-
scientious actor in this influence OF the
character he depicts upon his own
character" I asked.
The same danger that turks in all
art" she replied while | was play
ing in The Great Divide l felt at times
off the stage an almost overpoWering
conviction that l was still the woman
who mad been bartered for in that big
first act, and whose fate 1t was to have
nerves and moments of despair, and
all the rest of those pathological symp-
toms. The only thing to do is to shake
it off by an effort Of the will but that
very danger is an argument against
long runs, from the viewpoint of the
overtaXed actor
Yes. / enjoy a taste of stock COM
pany work for a change, but l should
not care to continue long in 1t, under
| present conditions i'm this country. They
have offered to build new theater for
me in Duluth, if ! will head my own
! Should l accept, 1 would insist on hav-
| ing an understudy who could relieve
me every third week. That is the ideal
method for stock work, and gives the
! tired leads chance to recuperate
after an eXhausting impersonation be-
| fore plunging intO a new role
Youth, enthusiasm and a reliance
upon instinct rather than reason IN
/ the most important dilemmas of her
] ,.Y.l tbtea the three D112llTlHG
which shine out in a personal interview
| with Miss Holmes Unassumingly, al
| most unheralded, she has come TO
minister to our enjoyment for few
weeks at the BelascO 1t will be inter
esting to trace the influence of her
/ ideals i'm her acting next week in THE
/ College Widow and i'm some of the
more purposeful roles in which it is
/ to be hoped the BclascO management
will permit her to appear.
NO one has regarded Chicago seri-
ously as "A producing center because
plays have not been produced here,
! writes j. F. Given i'm The Open Door,
/ which represents the ShUberts in the
/ pending theatrical conflict, but which
denies that if is financed by them. TAX
ing this statement as made on their
/ authority. however it deserves as fiat
a contradiction i'm the interests Of truth
as did the recent remark from the
/ same camp that the ShGberts found
theatricals ON the Pacific coast in their
/ infancy" What of THE Great Divide"
"The Man from Home, THE Family
What of that long train of musical
! comedies, than which nothing better
/ ever hore the Broadway stamp-"King
/ DOdo," "Thc BurEOmastcr' THE Ten
derfoot' "The sultan Of Sulu" and
1.-THE Umpirc'2 The Shuberts have
made a worthy fight for what is, in
many respects, a normal and desirable
reform in booking methods. They do
not need to voice misstatements
through the journals devoted to that
struggle to win popular sympathy. And
| neither the middle west nor the Pacific
| coast is likely to be cajoled by hearing
| it's supposed infancy iu dramatics
heralded to the four winds,
Successful comic opera productions
need above all, two things; good princi-
| pals and managerial horse sense. The
/ principals are here as the success of
/ the Morosco company i'm a very ordi-
mary vehicle testlties. If the manage
neut of any such organization would
| produce light opera a if it really be-
| ieved in it, the hard time and attention
| to Drfncipals cOstuming and rehearsals,
| -ho hard won victory Of Sergeant
| Kitty" could be repeated with indn-
/ productions The people are not tired
! of opera. The repeated successes of
| the Savage English opera companies
prove that. There are singers in Los
| Angeles today with possibilities as