The San Francisco call., 1910-03-06

i hsuer said about the person who reads
I foo Iaueh5 He says he forsets how
to think for himself That's true OF
the aetress- She reads and memories
!. so n1asH that her own brain becomes
atToplaed. She makes of her intelli-
genesa receptacle. incapable of doing
tanything but receive thought. L can't
tell you this minute what role / played
Z three weeks ago
That's nothing" said I. Il can't tell
you whom 1 interviewed three weeks
ago"
'It was Manteu.7 said Miss Vaughan.
You were the sweet heroine in 'Ths
Man of the Hour" 1 retorted, some
what pIeasesgM
/
do not know exactly how to tell
this>without appearing in the light
Of one who betrsys a confidence.
The subject arose In BE course of
I very informal chat ard the question
was asked wfthouf deposition to pry
INTO affairs that soneeFa me no more
than they concern sEof.
Iasked Miss Vaughan t. give me her
dramatic gsneslogys
My mother. said sne, is a teacher
of dramatic art in Kansas City. NV
first professional work yeas done in
that city. Ny fathers stags name was
! Charles II. Vincent. but mis- name in
| private life was Vaughan. 1 have evil
dencs that he was a. descendant of the
family of which Cardinal Vaughan in
England was noted menlber, but he
abandoned my mother and She resumed
! her maiden patTonynifc. and is Georgia
H. Brown. For many years 1 was
Evelyn Brown,
Then followed a pretty story, told
! without dramatic purpose but sincerely
and sweetI5.
I As a school girl she learned what she
/ lacked in the absence of father One
fday she went to her mother and asked
+ her about ii. II wondered" said Miss
Vaughan. whether were an adopted
girL'%
If you have any sentiment in your
heart you can lima gine what the young
mother did about that time. She
pulled from hidden trunks the pic
lures of the husband who once was
dear to her and picture of herself
when She became a Is year old bride.
Il kept those pictures" said Miss
Vaughan. ION my little dressing table
in my room for many months. Then
my grandmother took them away. But
she never took the wedding ring from
my mothers finger, though We never
talked about my father.
Il know. though. what a girl misses
when she lacks the care OF father.
From the father should come intel
lectual impulse. from the mother love.
have had the latter only
That seemed strange to me, because
in Miss vaughan's work there has al
ways appeared to me 10 De the evil
dence of thought and intellect. reason
and logic
Il do not reason out my roles" she
declared. 4 just feel them"
.cvyHY" asked Miss Vaughan.
W~should an actress be inter-
w viewed?'
of course it would not have been
polite to have suggested that the ex-
igencies of my job demanded that a
page be filled in order To border
picture more or less eloquently
"A player she went on thought
fully, should not become the subject
of personal comment. An actress
should be known to the public only by
the company she keeps-that is to say.
the roles she plays and never in her
own capacity. When the play goer
knows that a player is blonde it is
more difficult to persuade the ticket
buyer of the reality of a brunette wig.
and if a brunette assumes a blonde
makeup 1t IS advantageous If the patron
of the drama is unaware of the rean-
ties Similarly the characteristics of
the player of stage should not be ad-
vertised to the play goer and for the
same reason Ina gine deluding a seat
buyer of the wickedness of the villain
when he knows that he is the devoted
father of a family. The audience wants
TO hiss the villain and cheer the hero.
1t is proper that the heroine should be
loved, but imagine a heroine in stoeH
who was notoriOusly married and no.
toriously happy. 1t could not be.
Stretch the imagination and suppose
that the heroine were married 70 tns@
villain. 1t is much better that the
real person OF the player be kept our
of sight just as composers do not re-
veal themselves in their music or poets
in their lyrics. The old time actors
were right. They kept themselves aIoof
from the public and were known only
in their assumed capacities The Chi
nese, after all. are not wrong They
make of the actors a special caste and
keep them apart from their betters
and interiors
Then Miss Vaughan admitted that
she was not sorry to have met an al
legged critic, and he admitted that be
had forgotten to take any notes. The
interview seemed so much like q
friendly, cordial visit,