The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-19
''When 1t Happens, Keep OF
Dancing" Says Miss
Maddern.

TITO be dancing around in bare feet
and also in ecstacies. because your
father brought you home a pair OF
Il silver anklets-and. while dancing,
to step on a perfectly good am
bilious and llfe-like tack is one of the
experiences which is not infrequent in
the stage life Of Miss Merle Maddern, who
plays the part OF Marsnah in "klsmet,
wAch is now at the Salt Lake theater.
I'm the two seasons which l have been
playing the part OF Marsinah ! guess l
must have stepped on hundred tacks OF
sharp pieces Of metal said Miss Madden
last night when asked whether she had
ever had such an experience by a Tribune
reporter.
"But what do you do when such a taing
happens2'' she was asked.
ooh. just dance on. a little thing Ike
tack must not stop a performance,
she added lightly
"They are just like soldiers when they
are on the stage" commented Ma nager
A. L. Flynn of the kiSmet company who
had piloted the reporter through the be-
wilderlng maze of scenery TO Miss Mad
dern's dressing room, I'VE try TO keep
tic stage as clean as possible in this pro-
duction on account of the fact that there
actresses In II. But occasionally IL hap
pens that tack or something sharp like
that slips by. And In the three seasons
that ! have watched kismet played ]
performance that Miss Maddcrn or anyone
else has met with such an experience un-
Ill they have left the stage
Miss Merle Moddern, the attractive
young leading woman who supports Otis
Skinner In 'kismct," and who is seen In
the role of Marshall, the daughter Of
Hail. the lovable beggar. is an exceeding
" quiet girl. She has been with ks
met since its successful debut I'm New
York three years ago. She has played the
part OF Marsinai for the past two sea-
sons.
MISS Maddern is a niece of Minnie Mad
dern Fislle and until she Joined the ranks
OF the "Ksmet' company, played with
Mrs. F'iskc after entering upon her stage
career in t90I, She was in salt Lake
with Mrs FIske in Mrs. Bumpstead-
ducer OF "kismet" hence Miss Maddern
Is still lin the family of the famous
actress while she is delighting thousands
Of theatergoers a. the altogether charm
ing daughter of the altogether fascinat-
ing beggar, I1all.
Miss Maddern loves her work in "Kis
met" She is thoroughly absorbed by the
role of Marsinah. and when she walks
into i set on the stage before the cur
tain arises she sits down In truly Oren-
tai fashion and drops completely into her
Oriental role.
When called upon in her dressing room
last night between scenes during few
moments OF spare time. she was weaving
upon a piece OF cloth stretched over the
loom used In the third scene of the first
act She wasn't using that yellow yarn
that she sent the housekeeper after In or
der TO have an opportunity TO visit with
;ler stage lover, The Callph either She
was weaving the name OF her stage IA
ther Hail, into the cloth with red yarn.
And right here the writer must inform
the public that Miss Maddern is only hu-
man--deliciously. femininely human, Girl
ishiy, she had turned the tails OF the two
US" in tIajj 10 the right instead Of to
the left as she weavcd IL into the cloth.