The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30
i ann Observing-Iam observing all the time"

= little room. that N which I waited for
Mr. Belasoo-not comfortable little room, but an
antiquey little ROOM with old prints and play bills
curious clocks and gilded, antique furniture with
Il red upholstery There are grotesque masks hang
ing from walls Of old blue. old books and old
1nemeutos IN glass cases and little dark antique rugs
upon the parquet floor
Il IS little room the stage this for all its
strange air OF monasto secluson, and presently
rustic Of silk and the patter OF very high heced
shoes and then Mss Frances Starr in full advance
her dressing room-Aiiss Starr arrayed IN the full
panopiy Of performance, with very long train. and
her maid bearing II aoft-
The pictures Of old. dead actors stare down from
their thin black frames. and one may become very
philosophical and cease 10 envy that little Gle
CANT dress futtering silky sWishing lady who has
Just passed with her maid and her high, high shoes
years which VIII relegate her little black frame,
TOO. look just dried and musty as the Others
Thus may the obscure phosophize while waiting Tor
The door opens and you clasp hand OF uncertain
pressure, which you lAir- Belascos, 10 be
particularly and you a little plump with
chubby pinl1y face and a mass of toused silvery
hair. and thick black eyebrows, and young, young
ewes deep and brown and liquid and velvefy. sensI-
fve emotional eyes. seen before III any human
being above H. Quite heshy nose has he, and the
sIning mouth OF some smooth hammered. Jolly little
prest-and clothes like one. too. for you only sec
narrow rim OF straight white collar between the pink
OF and the sheer black Of the clothes beneath
He smiles and hcsitafcs. and talks lowly. softly
and unobtTusvely, and with smiling. embarrassed
little deprecaiory pauses You wonder If anything
nav have gore wrong You arc unsccustomed 70 this
the interviewed. Tor they usually lordiy crea
and their press agents keep waiting IN
passages and gaze with conscious superiority. from
their irnitable heights down At your lowiy station
You tell him that you would like him is speak
about the making OF play OF hoy he conoelVes one
and constructs one, and while you speaking you
are watching hn-how he regards you with that
peculiar smile which strangely unObtrusIve
and how he rests his hand upon his cheek, and how
his fingers twidde about his silver And then
the ewes hzf close and he tHIddes- and he twIddes
for perhap, few minutes and then you know your
self be very privileged person He j no longer
regarding you His eyes arc half cosed-a master IS
speaking OF his arr
The man with the peculiar. half shy air Is gone
now Here is transfgurernent- brilliant sympathetic,
emotional intuitive-a OF elastic and varied
fase ~ y dramatic very vivid. have listened TO
whom be accouEtcd ei the rarer pleasures OF
life Let nc set Il down. therefore u may re-
ward his press agen for the energy he displayed with
regard 10 my request for this interview
The great chest which all dranlatists must 60.
saws he in OF low. soft, interpretive tone,
broken frequently by for reflection Is nature
anser pieces OF life So yon watch II all the time
Er Belzsco deserts the particular lock upon
which I'D 10 that moment. he has devoted his aten-
tiou and permits his fingers 10 stray through second
aYou mean that you are always observing
commenced after another modest silence OF about
minute during which Mr.. Belasco still continues to
regard that space upon the wall and rues further his
sJrer opulence OF hair ! wondering II ! have
Nother uncommuncative Croker upon my hands
when he moves has eyes from ms favored point ana
looks directly at me as he says
u Observing aH-obserxing all the uine-l
can not help II man woman style OF dicffon
or nannerism-I note As pass through the