The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
IS AN EXCEPTION
Margaret Anglin Is Most Con-
Sistent Woman.
breaches, Practices Unusual
Feminine Quality.
0nnmaa~rn
L TRUE TO CHARACTER
Drills This Into Members of
Her Company.
Majority in Cast Are Univer-
sity Graduates.

From the time when Eve blushingll
said to Adam under the shade OF the
old apple tree:
/ you know 1 realize that I am only
Ia side issue" when she knew in hel
| heart that she was the first lady of the
land, woman has been noted for be1ns
| inconsistent. However Margaret Angiin
| who is starring in Green Stockings,
in which she appeared at the Crane
/ last night is an exception to this rule
as well as being exceptional otherwise
! Her consistency is said to extend from
! the selection of even a chair for play
land she picks out all the stage set
| tings-to requiring each one of the cast
| to be consistent to his character or the
changes of his character throughout
| the play. For Miss Anglin is a versa
| tile and talented woman. She chooses
her own plays, hires and discharges
the members of the company, rehearses
them and juggles with the maps and
time tables in routing the show. If she
was in private life she would be presi-
dent of the ladies aid, chairman of the
board of directors of the Carnegie IL
brary, yea, and worthy rlatron of the
Eastern Star.
But she would have never confused
her duties. This is judging from the
pains which she takes to be consistent
in producing the play.
Believes in Consistency!
Z Above an things, I believe in being
consistent said Miss Anglin last night
after the play, between hurried direc-
tions as to packing. I'm producing a
play I believe that the time, place and
atmosphere of the plot should be re-
produced on the stage. For instance,
if the scene is laid in home on Fifth
avenue in New York. believe in using
such furniture as would be found in
that kind of home. BY the way, the
tapestry on the wall of the country En-
glish house in the first act of the play
tonight, 1 found in an English village.
in Nottingshire, and is over hundred
years old.
And I believe that people in the
play should be consistent to the charac-
tiers they represent, not only in the first
act, but throughout the play. If a per-
son is supposed to be a frivolous girl
in the first act and by misfortune ac-
quires wisdom and dignity later in the
drama, I believe in her changing her
style to suit the supposed change in
character.
IF people wish to become artists in
acting they must learn to do different
kinds of acting.
LAS for myself, I like to do light
comedy in Green Stockings as well as
more serious parts. 1 like to make peo-
pie laugh as well as think. And from
my many (ahen1) years of acting I have
come to believe that the majority of
people, especially the men, come to the
IASdleA " DS HIS Is True VI
both the East and the West.
Yes, 1 like the West. / would just
as soon play to a Topeka audience as
to New York audience"
Miss Anglin was here a, year ago, the
star in THE Awakening of Helena
Richie Three days later in Denver
she met her husband, Howard Hull,
who travels with the company. He is
a literary man and is said to have
great deal to do with the success of the
play although he wishes A. F. w
Mason, the playwright, to have the
credit. He is quite modest and says
that the public isn't interested in act
resses' husbands anyway. He does not
take part in the play.
Granddaughter of Fremont
Miss Juliet Fremont who took the
part of Evelyn Tenchard is a grand
daughter of John C. Fremont, a
"49er,'' also prominent in the Mexican
war, and first Republican candidate for
United States president. He was de-
feated by Buchanan.