Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-17
IORPHEUM'S LEADING MAN
IS.A@PRODIGY OF MAKEUP
Charles DngIe Now Member of the Forsberg Players, Had
Knack, Fourteen Of Making Up to Represent Man of
Sixty-five-Was Leading Man at Eighteen.

! number of words he had carved"
! into his memory was 4,512,000.
us it O wonder" he asked, that
actors occasionally get brain-fag so
| badly that they forget at times where
they are or what they are talking
about2 I am not exaggerating at all
Not long ago l was playing the part
of John Storm in THE Christian.
| Suddenly in the second act my mind
! went blank For a few momentsLto
me 1t seemed an eternity--I could not
recall anything. dare say ] would
have been puzzled to tell my own
identity. | had played the part hun
dreds of times, and yet | could not
for kingdom have told whether /
| was playing Hamlet" or Little Lord
Fauntleroy.n A moment like that is
| equivalent to hours on the rack. If
such moments happen often they
would soon drive one mad. Thank
goodness, they occur but raEAly. How
do ! account for them? Simply
enough When an actor has become
familiar with a play it is his sub
conscious mind that acts, leaving the
conscious mind free to engage in
other CONCENTRATIONS. Well, | suppose
that on the occasion in question, my
nind-the conscious one-had wan
, dered off to some castle in the air.
Then, bangl 1t returned to earth
just in the nick of time to butt in
on the operations of the sub-conscious
mind. And in the ensuing jolt both
faculties, for the moment. became
paralyzed and imperative"
Mr.. Dingle comes from English,
Irish and Kentucky stock On his
fathers side he is a descendant of
''Davy'' Crockett. His fathers name
was John Crockett Dingle. The Din
giles have been living in the United
States since 1880. Prior to that, the
genealogical tree appeared to be
firmly rooted in England.
but not long ago l met a gentleman
from Ireland said Mr.. Dingle, land
the instant he heard my name, he
| exclaimed, Why, my dear sir, you're
Irish as sure as fate! There's a lit
tie town in. County Kerry called
Dingle' This was a revelation to
me. But 1t served to explain the
instructive joy I felt when Erin OBJ
talned her home rule
1t probably also is heredity that
has put a potent call for athletics
into Mr.. Dingle's blood.
81 love golf, tennis and la crosse"
he said. land once even seriously
thought of giving up the stage to be-
come pitcher on a small Western
league team out in Kansas"
had been talking with Mr.. Dingle
for nearly an hour. He had told me
many interesting things about him
self, and was still descanting upon
athletics when I noticed music
sheet with song composed by him.
Composer was the replying
query to my question. Indeed, yes,
have composed quite a number of
songs. My instrument is the piano"
That he also sings, his voice being
a rich. resonant tenor. another mem
Der of the F'orsberg Players told me-.
ALL in ALL this young man is rs
near a reminder of the Admirable
Crichton, the human marvel of the.
sixteenth century, as | have ever met
In all my life. And what do you
think is the goal OF his ambition?
Listen, he speaks:
''T will be the happiest man on
earth, the day. ] obtain my hearts
most fervent desire, which is to be
character actor. For me to be
what Warfield is were Paradise
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