Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-09
M'CLYNN KEEPS
IDEAL LINCOLN
EVER IN MIND
Noted Actor to Speak Before
Ad Club Luncheon
This Noon.

To have an ideal, to live it and to
play it, that is the fortune of Frank
McGlynn, whose Interpretation of the
title role of D~rinkwater's Abraham
Lincoln swept the understanding of
Great Falls theater goers Thursday
night at the Grand theater and will
again tonight.
The residents of the city will have
an opportunity to see the man and
hear his story of Lincoln. gained from
his studies as one of the greatest
students of the presidents life in the
nation, when he appears before the Ad
club community luncheon his noon in
the Palm room of the Hotel Rainbow.
Great as is the pleasure of seeing
the play, it is as much pleasure to
meet the man and to catch some of his
tremendous enthusiasm for his play
and his Lincoln. You'll see just a little
of Frank McGlynn. What he gives
his interviewer is just a glimpse of
the man. But ask him of his six
children. ages nine to 10, and he will
talk of the McGlynns as he will not OF
McGlynn.
Cabinet Scene Hardest
Here's something Of the ~gleanings
Of a few minutes with Frank Nc
Glynn.
He likes his job.
The scene at A~ppomattox is the
easiest for the actor and the best
liked by the audience.
The first cabinet scene is the most
difficult for the actor and on it hangs
the success of the play.
There will be but one Lincoln, but
his spirit will animate and has ami
mated great men on great occasions.
The play succeeds best because the
audience write the plot in its own
mind.
"Drinkwater has made a stage classic
because he realized what Americans
never realized. that in the life of
drama and tragedy" said Frank Nc
Glynn. Without plot, without his
torical exactness. it succeeds because
the audience writes into it that ro-
nance, sees that drama and feels that
tragedy.
Lincoln Had Ear to Ground
"In the first act there is that great
love-of country. There isn't any doubt
nomination, had at least a keen ear to
the ground and the coming of the offer
of the nomination found him pretty
much prepared. But in the life of every
man there is a time when he must
decide whether or not he will accept
the big responsibility and that was
placed before Lincoln. at that time.
Then we see that love put to the
test and the object. of his love in
danger. We see Lincoln in triumph and
his mercy in victory. Then, bang. zones
the tragedy, swapping out the light of
his life"
Crux Of Play in Second Scene
Stretching the situations of his play,
M~cClynn told of the effectiveness and
its basis. -
1.-THE crux is in the second scene"
he said. I'm handling those southerners,
l have to show the Audience that I'm
Lincoln, that I'm president. If ] do
in Mrs. Lincoln's parlor and the
audience will say, That's Lincoln If
! fail, ! can't gain the audiences be-
lief in the remainder of the play.
Audiences take things in different
ways. Some of them applaud where
other sniffle. They all like Grant. They
all like Lee-he represents the south
to them. In some places Meade gets
a tremendous ovation"
As he talked, McGlynn removed his
painstaking makeup.
You can't shatter an audiences
ideals. The spirit makes the play, but
you couldn't get that if you didn't look
the part"
Great Falls residents will have their
only opportunity to see McGlynn, the
man, at his appearance this noon be-
fore the Ad club. The committee in
charge announced Thursday that there
remain a few reservations for the
event. All persons interested in the
actor and his subject of the great presi-
dent may make reservations by calling
A1S1 hoforo IN o'oloct fhic morpino