The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-20
You Know the Real Maude Adams

The newspaper reports OF one OF the
Bingham gambling raids contained n list
of the captured articles 1t included faro
layouts. roulette wheels. poker tables,
chips and--a photograph OF Maude
-Adams, says New York letter TO the
Omaha Bee.
Within a week OF that occurrence an
English diplomat came upon a photograph
ia the presidents study at the White
House which caused him to remark All.
Your American creator OF Peter Pan
'Wc call her simply the creator OF Peter
Pan replied the president.
1t is a long stretch from a Broadway
gambling den TO tho White House. but 1t
IS characteristic OF the real Maudc ADAMS
that she bridges II.
John Shand In Mr.. Barrie's comedy,
What Every Woman Knows" is n pic
ture OF the man who processes To under
stand women and Of tho disaster that
awaits him. I'm an extraordinary queer
character" says he; and | suppose no
know you--1 know YOU, Masgic, TO the
very roots OF YOU.
Il wonder" SAYS Maggie,
Any one who knows Miss Adams can
imagine her amusement at the tcmerity
OF the man who announces a portrayal OF
tho real Maude Adams. 1t would take a
Grsnder egotist than John Shand to maks
the attempt. and yet, as Prof Osborn re-
constructs the extinct and mysterious
creatures of the early Plocene by as
sembins a fragment here and fossil
footprint there so II Is possible by fol-
lowing Miss Adams trail and reporting
what she says and does to compose n
sketch that is true and lifclike. And all
that is in this account is true.
Night after night. rain or snow or star
light there Is always a strangely mixed
crowd ut Maudc Adams stage door,
There are working girls from the gallery
whose cheap seats have meant self
denial girls with their young men from
the balcony. happy girls; girls with heart
ache. a great many half grown girls,
r,,,af N
all minslnG with a sprinkling of the
smartly dressed women from the boxes
and stalls.
glance at tho crowd in dim lit Fortieth
street and say, Isn't st absurd? Why
can't they leave her aone?" isn't il alb !
surd?' is the rejoinder. Lets wait and
sec what she does 10 them when she
comes out" And the first thing they
know they. too are swelling the crowd.
Ten minutes after the play is out
every type of theatersocr is represented |
in this crowd, except the typical stage
half an hours waiting what do they sec? |
y little, fur coated, person trips out fol- |
lowed by maid and secretary ana pops |
waves her hand. Perhaps they near
her say good night as she is whisked
away, But that is all. Yet night after
night the crowd repeats Itself.
What Maude Adams really thinks Of
these demonstrations would be hard TO
find out. but il is known what she said
night that a certain English actor played
In her company he left the theater lust
as she did, and seeing the crowd. stopped
in amazement.
But, say, really he exclaimed
what are all these people doing here?
Is anything the matter" III,
';Not that I know Of she replied.
They're probably here to sec. YOU
He shook his head, 81 know better
than that" he said, but | am surprised.
or course I know that over here there
arc crowds that walt for Mansfield and
Hacltett and the really big people. but
what are they waiting for now
This Is the only story that Maudc Ad-
ANS ever tells about the stage door
crowds
But on matinee days when the crowd
has many little people in il she has been
known to gather up a bundle OF tho for
lorncst looking and packing them lnto
her motor or carriage. to deliver them
sion she was barely able to get back in
time for the evening performance, .hav-
ing unwittnsly contracted to take one
child home that lived on l6oth street.
Unlike many women and especially
women with what is called the artistic
temperament sic is very scruDulous anout
any obligation that she has undertaken
She has never missed an advertised per-
5ormance since she has been on the stage
She has never kept an audience waiting
but once in her entire career. and that
was on last Thanksgiving day, when her
automobile was blocked on the Wiliams-
burg bridge, and she continued her way
TO Brooklyn partly on foOt, parity III
bridge car and partly In 81 Communicated
private motor. On this occasion the cur
tain at the Montauli theaier was held ono
minute That one minute is all the time
she owes the public.
As In her rcIa atoms with the puFlic, she
holds herself to the strictest account. so
she holds others. or the Stage she is so
responsive TO every appeal so ready to
make excuses for shortcomings that she
is often thought to be easy. But no actor
who shirks has ever found her so.
play the part, sick or WELL. is the rule
OF her company. and play II so that not
even the other actors viii notice faults, or
else notify the stage manager and have
the understudy play, No excuses arc ac-
cepted for a breach of this rule. II an
actor is worried or in trouble she will
help him. If he is sick she will pay his
bills in the hospital and take care Of
him but IL he comes 10 the theater he
must play his part, II is his obligation
10 the public and she is responsible that
he fulhlls il.
Once in "Petcr PAN one OF the Lost
Boys ran off the stage unexpectedly in
the middle Of a scene.
I'm sorry" he said aftcrward. 81
didn't feel well and I thought | was GO
ing to faint. / couldn't help IL"
eyes you could she said gently, but
with unmistakabe firmness. eff you had
stayed IN your place and tainted YOU
couldn't have helped IL. But you could
help running Off,
There is another story that illustrates