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New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

thank you too much for your decisien
to keep all curtain calls for the last act
when the play Is over and there Is
nothing more to follow"
1t means fewer calls, Mr.. Broadhurst
says, but each call will mean more.
The audience is sincere when it re-
mains after the play has ended and
applauds the actors, who can then
come forward In acknowledgment with
out stepping out of character.
Mr.. Broadhurst discussed "claques"
in the theater.
You can get your friends to ap-
p,laud in the theater. but you can't hire
them to laugh. Laughter must be
spontaneous. Laughter is much more
difhcult to do on the stage than crying.
When you try to get inexperienced peo-
pie to do it en- masse you can imagine
the result"
If man wants play produced the
way he has written it, Mr.. Broadhurst
adviSes that he produce it himself if it
Is at all possible for him to do so. He
mas written many plays himself and
"hen no manager would accept the
very successful What Happened to
Jones" for production, he put it on
nlmself. Born in England, he came to
thls country while still youth and
started on his theatrical career by as
suming management Of theaters in
Milwaukee and Baltimore and also in
San Francisco. He also did newspaper
work.
The beauty Of the game is that you1
never can tell whether your play will
succeed or not. l love the gamble OF
1T; 1t Is beautiful gamble. 1t is not
IKE cards or stock speculation. It's
the one gamble where one mans proft
is not another mans loss. Heart
breaking and trying it is, but also fas-
cinatlng. When you hit upon success
the return makes up for the disappoint-
ments,
ANY manager or producer~or author
who bats $50 will be up at the head OF
the league"
"An author may write the grestsss:
message In the world, but ii at the eno
OF two weeks there is no one in the
theater to listen to his message, what
is the good of it," Mr.. Broadhurst asks
He might just as we'll go to the top
OF a mountain and deliver his message
there.
:, That's why the only way to measure
the success Of play is through the
box office" he says. 1.-THE wealth Of
Rockefeller or q Carnegie can easily
be frittered away trying to give ths
people what they want. A play 10 d'i-
ferent from novel. The book may
nave circulation of 1000 in New York,
i,ooo in Chicago, 750 in Boston o.
Phlladelphia, and 2 in small vus
lage and still live. But if you write os
produce oo a play that appeals to only
1000 in New York, Boston or Philsdss.
phia, there will be no ono In ~
theater tho second night" s 3.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
nusement News and Stage Door Chat for the Playgoer
Alexandra Carlisle
Says She Loves Nan
In Masefeld's Play

"It was because 1 was so much In
terested in lThe Tragedy Of Nam and
believed its place so high in modern
drama that I secured the rights to its
presentation In this country two years
ago." said Alexandra Carlisle, who ap-
peared in the title role Of John Mase-
fields play at two matinee perform
ances at the Thirty-ninth Street
Theater last week.
the part Of Nan has always appealed
to me. love her So it was that l
went to Mr.. Masefeld to secure the
rights for this country. 1t has been
produced in this country several times,
but has not recently been seen in New
York"
1--WE are waiting for the verdict Of
the box Office" answered Miss Carlisle.
III hope it will be able to 60 on as an
evening bill-but that will depend
upon It's reception. Tho performance
will be better each time we give it;
for we hadn't given it before the first
matinee.
81 have a part that I must grow to.
Some called my first performance un-
even, but they merely told me some
thing knew myself. 1t is q part one
must play again and again, as with
cism of my performance, for If it is of
value l take it in and 1t goes to build
up Nan.
"Yet," she added in qualification, at
must not be forgotten that the charac-
ter Of Nan herself calls for an uneven
performance. Here is GIRL Of crude,
peasant type, browbeaten by cruder,
crueler peasants; behind her is the
memory of the miscarriage Of justice
which brought death to her father.
Then there comes Dick Gurvil, young,
physically attractive; one who, with
little help, little more character,
might have moved up and out of the
somber circle. And in the love that
comes and the disappointment and the
suicide of Nan at last there is the ex-
plosive force of her character.
ut is melodrama and tragedy, and
when one says melodrama the public
Immediately thinks of the villain with
the black mustache and the heroine
creeping home through the snow and
all the rest that goes with the ten
twenty-thirty shows. But melodrama
is much more than that. 1t Is in
Nan. 1t is the heaping up of dra-
matte incident on incident, bringing
out the full force and power of life.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
Irene Franklin's Assets:
One Husband, Two Riddles,
Three Notes and a Bluff

A cooling, dimpled infant in tho arms
Of pale, trembling heroine driven out
at the height Of o stage snowstorm-
that was Irene Franklin, aged six
months, in her first appearance on the
stage. The play was Hearts Of Oak"
After every performance James A.
Herne. father Of Chrystal Herne, placed
2 bright bO-cent piece in the chubby
hand OF tho child and told her that she
would grow up to be great actress, be-
cause she had red hair. Now Miss
Franklin has grown up, and she is
eAtisfaed that he was right--about the
red hair.
81 Louis was the birthplace of Miss
Franklin, who has just returned to
musica! comedy. replacing Anna Sew
mour In always You" at the Lyric
Theater. but she does not boast of this
"As soon "a was old enough to know
better. at the age Of three. came east
- far a. Chicago"
Here she played in a repertoire COM
Rany which gave performances of "The
Silver King" and "The Bankers Dauph.
teri type. While sets were beinp
sn1ted at the end Of each act preco.
eaous Irene kept the audience from be-
coming impatient by doing a song and
dance. Then, to occupy herself in her
eesse time. she acted as prompter for
she company. For a child Of three she
1sd busy life indeedl
Red plush seats in railway train.
sandwiches. hard-boiled eggs, "Puck''
and Judge" seem more ike poetic
sparks from Futurist poet than a de-
soription Of the State of Texas. but
Miss Franklin remembers the Lone Star
fsrrttory only in those terms.
As Editha in 'Editha's Burglar a,
the age Of six. rode all over Texas
for forty weeks. The company never
seemed able to catch sleeper. and we
slept In tho red plush seats Of the day
coaches. didn't grow an inch during
the season, for fitted into the seat
snigly and was the envy of the older
and bigger members of the company.
We seemed to be eating all the time.
My one ambition at this time was to
play Lady Macbeth and to juggle. /
grabbed the plates in every hotel we
visited. but broke them. | took myself
very seriously; maybe that's why
landed in vaudeville as a singer Of
comic character songs"
Miss Franklin Is q busy woman. Her
1naband= Burton Green, calls her "the
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
Sparks of Philosophy
Fly From Comedian,
Once Faro Bank Dealer

Copper prospector, faro dealer, OK
nreas driver. with two loaded pistols
In his pockets; singer, secret service
Investigator. Alaska gold miner and
business executive has been Ned A.
sparks. Now he 10 an actor.
II did not 80 to the stage. It came
TO mo" he says. "You can say that
you saw a man in small room at the
Lambs who can run q railway or q
city"
The domineering lawyer, stern
visaged, extremely self-conf1dent and
Of colorless voice in "My Golden Girl"
at the Nora Bayes Theater, has reme-
dies for radicalism and dishonest poll
ticians, and believes that pessimism
and pessimists arc necessary and
valuable, especially in the United
States. Some of his maxims are:
"1f We had more Of the men who
chew tobacco, drink whisky and swear
"Teach the seven-year-old young
sters in the schools their obligations
to their neighbors, their families, their
communities, their countries and you
will have fewer radicals later. Char
acter Is formed early and, generally
speaking, no effort is made to definitely
shape it."
"1n a country like this, where there
is so much to be criticized, it is good
thing to have plenty Of pessimists.
Criticism is the basis of pessimism."
"Faro should be brought to New
York. Under proper regulation it is q
great game"
"The government should pay less at
tention to the league Of nations and
more to the squelching of profiteers. If
it doesn't, there may be revolution"
During the actors strike Mr.. Sparks
was chief of the strike headquarters.
Directly over his desk, before active
work was started, he had placed a sign,
painted in large letters, which read on
one side "Game Open," and on the other
Game Closed" reminiscent of his faro
dealing days. Visitors would come into
the Office, look up at the sign, and then
around the busy Office, stroke their
chins and stare in wonderment. When
his work was finished Mr.. Sparks would
get up and placed the sign so that it
read "Game Closed"
IT Mr.. Sparks had been born In the
United States-he comes from across
our northern border-he feels that he
would have entered politics. Not be-
ing eligible for the Presidency. he in
dulges himself by discussing it.
Mr. Sparks is not certain that he
wants to remain on the stage. If there
is any one down in Wall Street who
wants man at 100000 a year he can
address Ned A. Sparks, care the Lambs.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
Manager Who Was Brave Enough
10 Stamp Out the Curtain Call
Rises i'm Defense of His Action

Ono day Edward E. Rose, stage d.
rector for the late Charles Frohman.
strolled into the Lambs clubhouse.
whistling happily. and greeted his
friends with a smile,
y, we had twenty-one curtain call. at
the end Of the third act last NIGHT !"
nose told them, explaining his good
The play closed in two weeks.
curtain calls at the end of any act
on hrst night mean nothing, one pro
ducer thinks, and he now makes It a
RUE that there shall be no response to
curtain calls until the end OF any plav
ne writes or produces.
~ curtain calls mean anything in
simple matter to hire a claoue "a anA 9
rlaud on opening nights" says George
Broadhurst'
I've heard audiences applaud and
applaud, and have seen deluded authors
take calls. Then I have seen neonIe of
the same audiences go out in the lobby.
wink at one another and saw Two
weeks"
The automatic resilient curtain that
descends and Immediately bounces. up
again, giving the people in front of the
MOUSE time only to see scurrying feet.
Kills the illusion and takes the actors
ana actresses out of character. Here
IS situation which Mr.. Broadhurst
used to illustrateahis contention.-that at
curtain calls before the END Of nlav
spoil the illusion absolutely.
=, Inc leading man, stamping around
tne stage IN an apparent rage, says in
violence and anger: 40
This is the end. The end Of eyerv-
thing!"
Yes. it is the end" sobs the leading
He exits, slamming the door, symbol
zeal OF the fact that he is out of her
life. Then the curtain rises, disclosing
a smiling, bowing pair, holding hsnds
perhaps, and the illusion is cast to the
winds. This is the thing Mr.. Broad
hurst desires to stop in his produc-
tions. A bank president wrote to him
the other day, after he had announced
the end of curtain calls:
Il went to see play in which a rirl
is ruined She runs breathless and
hysterical into the little cottage where
are her mother, her father, her brother
and half-witted beggar. The brother
nnally makes up his mind to go out and
XIII the man who has injured his sister.
he snatches the gun from the wall and
goes out. The curtain rings down with
the old father going out into the cold
night to find his son and to keep him
from committing murder. Then up goes
the curtain, and what do we see? The
suffering girl, the responsible man, the
man who has gone out to murder him
and his father who has gone out to
stop him, all bowling to the audience.
completely out Of character. I cannot
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

it is.
"'An actors career may be ruined ab
solutely by trick of nerves on an
opening night. The head electrician
the man who moves the scenery, the
man in the fly gallery, are different
men on opening nights. If the audience
would only forget that the actors are
not machines! A fall over a carpet,
followed by laughter from the audience,
would not affect the standing of an
actor or actress of established position.
but might utterly ruin the career of one
VINO is still on trial. I should like to
bring. the first night audience back to
t., the theater on, say, the fourth night.
Ihen they would see a different per
tormance. | never condemn any one for
a. bad first night. The greater the ar
nst, the more apt he is to have a bad
first night"
London has just finished. welcoming
Mrs. Bradley. She says she 10 the first
american woman to go there as a gen.
eral stage director to put on a play.
she staged "The Crimson Alibi" in the
BRUSH capital. Sir Arthur Butt, she
SAID, told her he would have only Amer
ican directors put on American plays in
London, especially dramas.
Common sense properly applied is
one of the greatest aids to good stage
direction, Mrs. Bradley believes. Di-
rectors often lose themselves in striv-
ing for artistic effects, forgetting com
mon sense and the natural things.
Color enters into the success or
failure of play more than one real
lzes," the playwright-stage director
sad. Every play, every act, every
scene, has mood which can be great
~ enhanced or utterly ruined by the
effective use of color. 1t is one of the
most subtle things Of the theater and
mas an Unconscious but extremely i'm
portant effect"
10 obtain proper color combinations
and arrangements she designs her own
scenery by making miniature models.
selects every costume that goes into
the production and oversees the lights.
When an actress wants to choose q
bright red dress to wear in a serious
scene, it Is one of Mrs. Bradley's tasks
to curb her desire. She advises mothers
to let children make doll houses. Thew
may grow up to be stage directors, and
the experience gained in youth would
be very useful. The young author who
is writing his first plays finds valiant
champion in Mrs. Bradley, who be-
lleves that such writings should be
welcomed and given careful considera-
ton.
Because "a person hasn't written a.
play it doesn't mean he can't do it. 1t
is OF the utmost value to listen to a
new author. He may not have written
great dialogue and q novelty, but NAV
have done one Of the two," she said.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

indestructible wife" She can work
twenty hours out Of twenty-four. she
says, and still keep cheerful. Some
times she feels that her life is rather
full.
What with writing songs, designing
costumes, raising children-I have two
at housekeeping house and the cook.
committing to Mount Vernon, and keep
ing husband, my first and last. I
sometimes feel that l have little to
do"
Her ambition, the character actress
says, is to write out the short stories
which she has in outline and scenario
form. Besides writing more than two
hundred songs, on wide range Of sub
Jects, she has found time to write
stories and occasionally has tried a
play.
Good lyrics are scarce. The trouble
with most lyric writer's is that they set
out with Gilbert as their god, lose
themselves in maze of beautiful
rhythmic language, and forget all about
human interest and comedy, which are
so necessary. There is not much rhyme
In the lyrics l write, but l always try
tc tell a human interest story with a
sure fire 0. Henry sting. If only he
mad also tried his hand at lyric writ
ing!"
Besides writing her lyrics with an
~. Henry twist, the spontaneously
clever Irene applies the same principle
TO her conversation.
| Mr.. Green writes my music. He is
the only one who can conceal the fact
that l have only three notes and a
bluff: OF course, it limits his music,
but he has been doing it successfully
Tor twelve years"
Miss Franklin's youth was SO fully
occupied with the theater that she
never had time to go to school,
Most Of the children get too much
schooling to-day, anyway she says. "I
never went to school. I read--every-
thing from the telephone book to the
almanac At eleven my favorite author
was Marcus Aurelius"
Miss Franklin sees a new audience
arising in the theater-an audience
which seems TO have plenty, but which
is sitting In strange and unfamiliar
places. 1t appreciates slapstick COM
edy, she says, fall a bladder and
other obvious comedy stunts.
"The ten-dollar-a-day plumber and
others who are coming to the theater
to-day can appreciate costumes and
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
Children of Stage Folk
Mingle at Meal Times
. In the Hotel Algonquin

i - said, these children demonstrate
their normality in a fashion to con-
vince the most bigoted; the conversa-
tion shows a great similarity to the
conversation Of the children Of the
butcher, the baker, the candlestick-
maker. just as all children ultimate
ly come back to their parents as tho
standard for all the seven virtues, so
do these children speak Of their IA
theirs and their mothers. Some Of the
talk Ia technical, of course, and not
easily to be graspcd by the layman,
as when they discuss the clothes and
the dramatic art Of their parents; but
the greater part of the discussion has
to do with the elementary comparisons
Of parents carried on by youth every
where.
Breakfast over, the very youngest Of
the younger set, including Beverly,
who demanded taxi, start for the
park. The procession Of carriages and
nurses passes Mike at the door, where
it meets with an informal but very
jovial inspection, and passes on to the
stretches of the park. At noon the
carriages return, and there is more
conversation at the special table and
more of the art of the special chef.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

With the afternoon the younger set
take to the park again.
All in all, they pass through the nor
NAL day of the child. 1t Is late in the
day, perhaps, to expose actors ana
actresses in their domesticity; it may
not be necessary again to say to the
bigot that these actors and actresses
love their children, but there is some
excuse for saying old truths again.
For, however difficult it is to think of
the ordinarily artificial hotel as
home, it is the instructive conception
Of the Algonquin in the minds Of these
children, thanks to their parents and
TO Frank Case
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
Classical Dancing TONIGHT

~, Tonight In the Greenwich Village
Iheater the first classical dancing con-
cert OF the year will be presented by
SSasna Piatov and Mile. Mascotte Mos
aovlna: gown assisted by theit own symphony
The Coconino sun., 1920-12-03

Mrs. Henninger, of the Fort Valley experimental station, was in town Sat urday and seems to have fully recov- cred from her recent illness.
 Chas. Cannall, old-time residenter of this place, was here day or so this week fixing clocks for the Vest ern Union. He is now Phoenixion.
 "Nevvy" Smith, of Canyon Diablo, was in town on Wednesday, khaki clad, looking fit as ever, and asserting that he can lick any 50-pound man at the canyon of the devils.
 Miss Lena Laney, who has been do- ing stenographic work for c. B. Will son and the Arizona Cattle & Sheep Co. for several months, is again with the Flagstaff Lumber Co.,, beginning her new duties on Wednesday,. Miss Laney is very efficient lady and if there were half dozen of her, all up to her mark, each of the half dozen would be kept busy all of the time.
 Jack Hester has just recently com pleted hot and cold water system at his ranch near Cliffs and will further put on citified airs out there next spring by adding an electric light plant. His water comes from fine well, the only one in that section, and is pumped into 10000 gallon tank on the hill adjoining his residence. The Kester ranch is the prize ranch in productiveness as we'll as improve ments.
 Geo. H. Corey, vice president of the People National bank, of Boston, and brother of E. H. Corey, who formerly was connected with the Arizona Cen tral bank here and now is assistant manager of the Arizona Central bank at Kingman, was in town for a couple of days the first of the week talking over the wool situation with local men. His bank is heavily interested in wool. He left here for Kingman and Phoe- nix and will return in few days. (Society News on page 15.)
The Coconino sun., 1920-12-03
LOCAL BREVITIES
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 ! c. B. Wilson spent part of this week i in Phoenix on legal business. John Zalaha, general manager of the manufacturing interests at Cooley, was in town over Sunday on business.
 Walter Fleck left for Kingman the early part of the week, and is not ex- pected to return before the Christmas holidays.
 Those whose entries at the state fair, were awarded prizes can secure their ribbons at the county agricul- tural agents office.
 Jerome c. Rozen, brother of George Rozen, at the Western Union, is in town for few days to see his moth- CT, who is slightly ill.
 County Treasurer-elect Henry Ap- hold leaves on Monday for Tucson, on two weeks vacation most of which time he will spend at his mine.
 Lester Fuller, the cowman, was in Flagstaff Monday from Winslow. He reports that conditions over that way are all set good for the winter.
 J. R. Cooper received word Monday that his son, Harvey, who recently underwent surgical operation at Phoenix, that he was improving nice ly, but would not be able to return to Flagstaff until some time next June.
 Lester Power, son of Mir. and Mrs. w. Fl. Power, arrived Wednesday morning from California, where he had been working all summer. This is his first visit home in almost year and he will remain until after the hol- idays.
 Mir. and Mrs. Jimmy Turpin, who had been at Wickenburg for a few days with Mrs. Turpin's parents, pass ed through here this week on their way back to Jimmie's trading post at Cameron. Earl Germany took them out.
 Related word was received here by "Dr." Henry Cooper, that J. V. Fish CT was married at Riverside, Calif., on October 3Oth. J. V. failed to state who the lady was, but advised that he and his new family would come home by auto some time soon. Among the marriage licenses is- sued at Phoenix appears one issued to Raymond c. Curtis, aged 28, of Flag staff, to Miss Belle Douglas, aged 27, of Prescott. We presume congratula- tions are in order to that well-known and popular young man.
 The total cash agricultural prizes taken by Coconino county farmers at the fair amounted to $286.00. Frank Pendley, of Oak Creek, was the big gest individual winner, his entries net ting him $49.0O. s. w. Swanson was second with $25.00, and J. w. Etter, third, with $21.O0.
 Ira Johnson, manager for the Vyne Bros. Electrical Go. of the Willard service station, moved his plant this week from Joe Waldhaus' garage, where it had been for several months, to Larue & WinchelPs Flagstaff ga- rage, where Ira is fixing up sick and lame storage batteries same as ever. w. E. Berry is new face on The Sun editorial force, and will help chase down the festive local and hunt the elusive story to it's lair He is an ex- service man, has made his home in Flagstaff for several months and you never can tell, may become firmly at tached to this altitude. If there are any heavy jobs of scrapping, they will be turned over to Berry, so if you are looking for trouble, he's your huckle- Berry,