The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-12-18

Charlotte Cushman's great Intelligence
could have said this or such n character
as that Of Macbeth. who with an his
ultimate brutality bad an essentially
great and interpretive mind. as the
Psychologist Of this day and the meta
physicians Of her own time well knew.
The saying has no doubt been per-
verified from it's original purpose and
auDl iCation. Frohahly Miss Cushman
did say that some actor of the old Bow
cry theatre days played Macbeth as
though De were the ancestor or all the
BoWery ruffians,
George Riddle. the veteran actor.
whose death was recorded last week.
was an eiocutionist in the best sense OF
the word.
An good actors should bc-and must
bc-go0d clocutionlsts. for clocution
means nothing more nor less than
proper and effective delivery Of speech.
IN fS1S. while instructor I'm clocution
uf Harvard. Mr.. Riddle PLAYED tho title
role in the famous performance Of
Ocdipus Uranus. at Sanders theatre.
the first of such presentations OF Greek
in America.
Several men who have since attained
cmtncucc were In the cast includlng
FORMER Gov crnor Curtis Guild. fr.. sir
Henry Norman. author and traveller,
Leonard Eckstein Ondyckc. Gardiner
IT. Lane. president Or the Boston Nu-
scum OF Fine Arts owen Wister and
Evert jansen Wendell.
W hen Mr. Riddle began professional
work 1s walking gentleman in the BoB-
! ton Museum stock company he was
much elated. and an object Of envy to
other asnir1ntS for dramatic fame Ac-
gording o. his diary. be one dav met
Richard Mansfield ON the stems OF the
museum, and Mansfield informed him
uat De wished that he had such a good
CHANCE. Then Mr.. Riddle had this com
mont 1oftcd down. II wonder if Dick
Mansfield wants TO 70 on the stage. 7
met another fellow who said he envied
me my museum euEagement--N. q.
Goodwin. who. I hear fg "a ma Iofrs
mimic"
The Rev. Fredericis Lynch. who
pte4ched in the Pilgrim club on the
stage che other night. touched ex-
trcmes. yet adhered Co truth
ne Hela that The drama IN itself is
the most inherently noble and universal
oppression ~ all literature. not an orig
INA! thought. but an idea that cannot
Dc heard on all clergvmen's tongues.
ana Ne said there ls mo- reason why a
theatre should be an object of rondarr-
.d tl'n amy more than book because
mtnt OF the good iu drama aud a dis-
couraEcment ~ the bad. and this can
De done most effectively bv attending
5000 plays and keeping away from the
other sort
'The reason you cannot elevate the
stage. declared this clergyman. ais
nat great crowds OF respectable people.
.Hflhlan people. church people swarm
70 deEencrate, lewd and vulgar plays
hat. then is the influence of the
average clergyman upou his flock2
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Sarah Bernherdt said once upon a
time, on the occasion OF one OF her
every Ivc-year visits. that the greatest
need or an actress IS charm. She has
never revised that opinion. She Frs hor-
SER "a magnificent example Of Do.
our famous French visitor did not de-
Tine the quality. She was content with
knowing she possessed 10. and seeing in
each new acquaintance an object of ffe
power. The Bcruhurdt charm is as
powerful as the mightiest engine of
war. moving them down as completely.
but with the pleasant difference that In
the kcmhlrdt Instance the victims are
willing None is proof against it, not
even the critic-intervicwer who when