Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
Adams Kiskadden Affords Public Its First Glimpse of
Her Famous Daughters Real Personality.

| performance to which my parent
would let me go. 1 seemed to fee
| instinctively that the theatre would
| be my life. I went to the plays no
only to enjoy but to learn. They
| opened up a great, new world to me
and of course, like every girl, 1 was
romantic and their romance gave
them added appeal.
II was always fond of reading, but
I did not care for reciting. + used
to tell my teachers that I would moi
be parrot-and reciting, in the old
fashioned way in (which it was
taught, was mere parrotry. When
was called upon for some bit before
my class l would always select some
reading, and l would try uncon-
sciously for the greatest emphasis
and expression.
with admissions ('passesO to
the Salt Lake Theatre, fairly gorged
myself on the plays. A strong am
bition to go on the stage was soon
bred in me; but I was too timid to
say anything about it. l would dream
of the days when perhaps l would be
great actress. But you may be sure
that | did not tell my parents or my
brothers and sisters of my dream. l
would go to the theatre and watch
the plays and then return home and
mimic the actors I had seen. Even
members of my own family-and
ones family usually is the last to do
so-began to realize that had ability
to act and to mimic; and when the
children of my school produced King
Lear a burlesque ON The Lady of
Lyons, and l created a sensation in
my roles, the die for me was cast.
icl
clesiastical ward (the theatre was
governed entirely by the Mormon
church,, told my father that he be-
lieved I had real stage ability For
years Bishop Proctor used to say
that he was the cause of my going
on the stage.
With the bishops recommended
tion ringing in my ears, proposed to
my father that he seek me a hearing
before Managers Hiram B. Clawson
and John T. Game, of the Salt Lake
Theatre, and give me a chance to de-
termine whether 1 really had ability
OF course, being managers of the
theatre, they were the high C's in all
things theatrical. 1t took some coax
ing, but finally my father consented
to ask them for a hearing for me.
Il remember that hearing as If it
were yesterday. / was given a part
from Ernest Maltravers' to read
Game and Clawson and all other
members of the company who hap
pened to be present went to the back
of the theatre, and high and dry on
the stage, Tread as l had never read
before. I put every ounce of express
sion and emphasis I knew into that
piece.
when 1 had finished, Mr.. Game
told me-his voice seemed a thousand
miles away-that he would send for
me when he really had a part that
was a part, yet one that he believed
l could handle.
"And he sent for me the following
week and cast me for the part of
Grace Otis in Scion Shingle, or
The Peoples Lawyer as it was also
called"
This first installment of the story
ends where the mother struck out
into the world for herself. What
a fierce, flaming fight we Fought
|, alone at first, and then with me
Maude," she writes. 81 am to try
to tell of it as procession of
human facts 1
shall try to chronicle these events of
our lives soberly and almost dis
passionately. but I fear my dramatic
instinct stands me in bad stead for
such a task when 1 look back upon
the lf-abnegations and self-devo-
tions, the trials that came with
failure and the labor that came with
success, attending the life romance
of two ambition-surfeited humans
myself and Maude."
The story is fascinatingly written.
II is illustrated profusely with photo
graphs of the away-from-the-st
side of these two remarkable women.