The Washington herald., 1910-10-30

| Homestead" company, and Gus Kem-
merlees grandchild is only three weeks
Did.
Margaret Breysr the fine old lady who
plays the part of Aunt Matilda in THE
Old Homestead" in which Denman
Thompson is to star at the Columbia for
weeks engagement beginning to-mor-
row evening, is a firm believer in mental
suggestion, telepathy. &c. She has no
hesitation in stating her age, and she
attributes her present excellent health
and good fortune 10 either or both of
these cults. If you ask her for a good
cure for worries or nerves." she very
likely will answer you that 1t is all due
TO a lack of self-control or repose
Don't worry; make the best of things.
very much the same as Mrs. Wigs, and
you will find that you never knew what
ease of life meant until then. when you
are at perfect peace with yourself and
all created beings.
'Self-hypnotism, I suppose you would
call IL" says Miss Breyer; "and it works
in my case every time. Another thing.
It's cure for stage fright. / know
there are players who say they have
never experienced stage fright but don't
believe them. AS a matter OF fact, they
all have il. or else they have never
amounted to anything Denman Thomp-
son will tell you now, In all his expert
enee on the stage for fifty years or more,
that he still suffers from it, or did. at
least until l told him of my discovery.
Mental control That is the secret, and
il has proved TO me that stage fright is
but malignant idea that gains posses
sion of US. and can be combated If one
wishes.
There is nothing of the Christian
Scientist about me, but I believe firmly
in the idea of mental suggestion as ap-
piled 10 all the ills that the flesh is
heir to-"
Dorothy Donnelly. who created the role
of Nine X In the drama of that name
in America, and in one night achieved
one Of the most sensational successes
since Clara Morris electrified New York
with her vivid portrayal of Cora. the
Creole, in Article A." is "a product Of
the stock company. and her experience
was gained in that school Yet she is
of the opinion that the training or that
school Is detrimental to artistic work
The stock company is a graveyard"
she said recently It's effect is deaden-
ing. or course You get a good deal Of
experience, and that sort OF thing. For a
time il gees well. Then you find you
never have any time TO be subtle You
can't think about part because you are
rehearsing another fo.' the following week
And so it goes on. You never get into
the soul of a role, but are always doing
the same thing in the same way. Just
think. ! played Nine. Sans Gene when /
was nineteen years old. and I remember
that one week l played Fedora and the
next Parthenia."
IN Nine. X Miss DOnnelly pJrtrays
woman who has lost her moral sense
through addiction 70 drugs. retaining
only a mother love for a son, from whom
she has been separated since childhood,
and whom she meets AZ last when she
is at the bar OF justice accused OF the
crime Of murder. with that son, nov q
fine. manly fellow. as her defending at
tOrney. The particular form Of drug 10
which she is a victim is ether-a vice
common in the great cities OF Europe.
To familiarize herself with the baneful
effects of ether drinking. Miss DonneHy
made a tour OF the clinics and hospitals
of Europe and studied the slaves OF this
habit In the various stages OF dissolu-
ton. and the result as presented nightly
in Nine. X is as startling as II is
realistic.