The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-03

sons favorite theatre and watched the
rehearsals of the play of which he was
supposed to be the author. For thu
most part Fielding sat in the deserted
orchestra, but sometimes he went back
on the stage and told some particular
player just what a line or a situation
meant, and often they sought him out
and asked for his advice. But the girl
u! who probably needed his help the least
and yet to whom he went and who came
to him the most often, was the girl who
played Millieent, and who, as the char
acter man said. was going to score
and score good
Even to the Impractical eye of Field
| ing there was not much in common be-
tween this young girl, this Ruth Emery
and her fellow players. The ways OF
the stage-folk were not yet her ways
She seemed to have acquired all the
| ambition and hope that had long since
been crushed out of their lives by years
of hard toll and for which they hal
earned so little of honor or accomplish
ment.
shes wonderful he said to Kerri-
gan one night after a long day of re-
hearsihg-"she's quite wonderful, They
all run about and shout at her and she
just goes on being .Millicent' I could
stand it all if you could only see her
| that first night. We go out to little
place around the corner every day now
for lunch together and she never talks
of anything but the play"
Kerrigan smiled "And the plav-
wright2" he asked.
'Oh, you don't understand, Kerry,
really you don't. She doesn't care about
men, especially me. It's just the play.
You know it's a great chance for q
young girl. She's really helped me with
suggestions more than 1 have her."
is she-is she pretty?" said KERR
gan.
Pretty She's a wonder-not like
anybody you ever saw. She promised
to bring me some photographs tomor-
row. 1 knew you would want to see
how she looked. so I'll bring them down
tomorrow night
And Miss Carew?"
Fine-realIy splendid, but she's Iif-
ferent, that's ALL"
Goodnight Kerrigan said. Good
night. old man. / was sure something
would make you forgive me for making
you a playwright. I didn't know il
would be Miss Emery, but it's all right
so long as you're happy. Don't forget
the photographs"
For Fielding those three weeks Of re-
hearsal were three weeks of the most
"A C0D1nIhfn
happiness he had never known.
Through it all there was always the
thought of the girl who had come into
his life, with her clear. clean mind and
her fower-like beauty, and who had
dragged him out of the mental rut of
Indifference and Incidence into which
he had gradually fallen. And with the
picture of the girl in his mind and the
gratitude in his heart for all he owed
her, there was always that other
thought-the thought that he was rot
the real John Ferguson" that he was
deceiving her 1t may have been A de-
ceptlon inspired by generosity-Kerri-
gan had called il sacrifce-but what
ever Fielding had won from the girl he
had Won under false colors. and he
knew it and suffered for it.
The audience that filed the theatre
on the first night of THE Interpreter''
was, in all ways, worthy of Miss Ca
rews position as an actress and the
reputation of the players with whom
Bronson had surrounded her. At the
end OF the first act the men in the lob
oies and those who remained TO visit
their friends in the orchestra stalls and
the boxes agreed that Mr.. John Ferzl-
son, whoever he might be. had apnar-
emily written fine play, that Miss Ca
rev was at her best and that Miss Ruth
Emery was a distinct find" for RroD-
son. the manager.
When the curtain came down IN the
big scene in the second act The play
had. beyond question. scored a success
and Miss Emery little less than tri-