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In th iMllneha and watch thtf Bory of all andHhen to steal IntoyourTroom and eo to sleep with ths night skri with e41 Its splendor of mystery a picture In your closed eycsl What a poet was Hav wholltthenlsrhtfflthstarsJ Dontold jrianllsaldthe fellowwho had Just come baxk Please dont ATa gods Howlhateworkt fe Never mind said the Old Gentleman soothinglyr wed get tired yn that So wahaye the pW IXfcybu know spoke tnp another Tnvgettlngtlred of haying to think out piays1 3fi Theyart acted for you my boysWhJf need you think them but WellrMbV hanged lfIdonfeel as lfi had tif fUI In all the Interesting things In the play most of th UmeThefj actors leave themout dont know said the Old Gentler man I dont think The Ony WayrT forilristance wAhl That was what made ma notice It I cant forget Sydney Caxtonij but It makes me mighty impatlentWlth thl ordinary acting iri Ktlt La Du Barry This will probably be Mrs Carters next playvIn both its peri sonaj and theatrical characteristics the part of theJJu Barry is eminently suited to Mrs Carter I am ot theJoplnionthat It will offer the best opportunity she has over1 had At few weeks after it Richer pins return to Tails I visited him In hla charming home and while there met Chaineuxiof the Comedies Franeais Through it Rlcheplns Influence with the directors of that Institution ilChalneux to undertake for me the designs of scenes and costumes for the new play This is the first time such a courtesy has been granted tp any manager outside of trrance ana aitnougn it wui maae the 3 never saw Garrlck Tet what a great man he seems to have been to us Why Nothing as lavish In praise has ever been written of him as has been wrlt ten of even the lesser lights of the pres ent dayIand Vyefe Garrlck la still the greatest of all You hear people argue about all thetfactorsi6f tb day They rave and quarrel over their favorites Then somebody says Booth and it lsVOhryesrBooth of coursejshes dlf viiterent Welt his place Is still vacant ifIt always swlll bee Nobody will ever fill It Nature never makes two geniuses Tallkev The next great actorwlllbe lif erentlf And schools are nothing There are no schools a school of art Is but a master and his Imitators and no Imitator yet ever equajed the master What nonsense Is this proposition of teaching art Itcanhot be taught The Imitation may the technique may but never theart 1 --The Old Gentleman was getting warm He stopped took a sip of toddy and turnea towara the windows iJ fe Ihave Been a play wherein the stage stars twinkled In a canvas sky Just as well say that they were that dome up there 7 i rYefcBooth had to be taught He wentthrough hli apprenticeship to the stage You cannot convince me that Booth would not have been a great actor even if he had been in the grocery business till he was mature enough to a control his own conceptions But this notsin artwlth everybody ItIs ai5 profession which most intelligences can take up ana make a measurable sue cess in Some are more apt than others 3K Xi Mm Jtnwao mnrm ind how many characters does iAn nri runntilatlon as lntelllgence i anybody remember It is the difference There Is not a Teallygreat actor after between art or genlusor whatever you an to Sdayfe No aaan for Instance of hnnu in mm it ana tne intelligence that Is plentiful Well It Is much the same In all things and possibly an actor needs more Indulgence thanLanybody else for he baa to play many parts There Isnt much art nowadays There neveri ha been much art bycompari son with thei number of aetorar for the matter ortnar witn woraers in any kK ii A llMT4ti Tlnsfcth 5iThe Old Gentleman stopped and arnlled to himself ywenr Oh nothing nothlngr orily I wa thinking we could bring pdrln Booth hackfor 4melght nOyoapnight Tf what would people pay for seats for Hamlet OrC Iago or JBertuccipr tunlty There is Sir Henry Irving He could have played The Bells and made his success years before if he had had the chance He was a bad actor for years rbecauae he was playing parta he never cotaldCplayi He was a genius but his genlua had Its limitations as all genlua has His genlua has its Urn nations yeU ahdhe can dosomevery bad actlngsUH 1 fAnd those actors and actressea Arej most of them mereintelligences veltoei The only curfe nm4 stSf aieIilfeverything Areot JS1 OTn fqWnglsTthat genius does notdev ejsey Jtsect My toreyer We Viaea vy stage manager iou seey a good many of them are not allowed to think for themselvesor act parts as they would like to It Is perhaps gen erally speaking a goodV thing for the profession or It might be depleted rapidly The Old Gentleman rang the bell and lit a fresh cigar Ah well This Is dry JTohn bring In something that suits the stars and the warm night What does It all matter Those people give us pleasure and I dont know that any city In the world really canT get such intelligent entertainment at such cheap prices as we have here Theyjinay not be geniuses but theythlnk they areand let us not disturb them in their dreams Itls cruel to awake1 people from1 A fools paradise A fools paradise Oh noli It Is not that Mjr we alt live In such paradises It is an honest way of earning a living to those who have talent a pleasant way and one that leads to much agreeable pastime As long as hope lasts let ithembeAnd hope never dies with the aetortr actressv TAglnstthe adverse comment of critics7 they have the con sciousness of their own misunderstood powers After alL critics should con derah It is only the condemnation of ten that Inspires actors and actresses to Iworki They dream of nthcr time when that unjust Judge shall have to praise them and acknowledge hf Is wrong It happens sometimes vGod bless them1 Tea Strange this sensation of the divin affiatusi I know 1 was nieahttortheVtagev says the blushing girt of sweet seventeen ft know 1U for when I read Romeo and Juliet I feel that must Just get up and act iright there i yAhTnel TheTcurioua freaks of the human Imarlhation and the potent values of things Imagined Tell me fair 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otherval Bable contracts Egerton Castle has entered with me on an extensive copartner ship I have secured the dramatic rights of his latest book The Bath Comedy Our agreement includes the English rights td The Pride of Jennlco and the dramat ic rights of the book Intended to follow me one nets now wnungi oiepnen vrane leftCjaV posthumous story called The OBUddy fi I had the good fortune to see the proor meets just before sailing wa so impressed by theextraordinary dramatic value of the work that I at once made a contract with bis widow by which I can control the dramatle rights of The ORuddjt and The Red Badge of CourageCourage Among other plays I have secured Is a melodramaThoa Shalt Not IC111 by Bcudamore Another melodrama In my list is entitled HearU ThatvB Trumos which I have arranredto be first done in Paris at the Ambign Theaten For Blanche Bates I hava secured uooiir xtherthlpgs the mystical comedy Nlcan Klaw Krlaniter I have con tracted for anew play for Ada Rehanrto De aone next season unanes wynanam has accepted one of my plays for production at his London theater George Alexander has commissioned a play to be written under my suggestion Herbert Beer bobm Tree has accepted a scenario the Idea of which have had ln mind for4a log time I endeavored to copyright under English law my recently finished play The Queens DrawmgRoom A courteous note from the censor Informed Whole u9 ii umujw uiv icuuu uiaroc ler 4iiA iiinirn 1 iii btoiuw 01 ww cu 7 i Ji 1 showing the presentation at eourt he what he tells the New York Sunt would SeobUged to refusei the copyright After Mrs Carters season had been jshalt therefore alter thename of the fairly launched my next two months were piece and rewrite the one act devoted entirely to the plays that are to Mra Burton Harrison has coliabo demand her attention In the near future rated with me on a piece entitled The Un Jean Itlchepln came over from Paris and welcome Mrs Hatch which I hope to pro Drougni me tne compietea manuscnpc oi ouce tnis season lee Arujur autnor or ESSIE WV 5xT7 11uMk you long to enact the terrible sadness of her pitiful story And If there were no newspapers and no critics and nobody ever told you what a great actress you were or sent you flowers or Wrote you Impassioned notes or looked at your pictures In windows or gazed after you on the street ana saiq mats juneui wonder oh I wonder If the divine afflatus would outlast the second day of your career Yet they must try or wed have no actors or actresses To be sure Dont be afraid There will never be a time when they wont It is not alone In girl and boys this divine afflatus It is the one thing In life that defies age disease and disillusion I think it even defies deaths foe deep in the unexposed hearts of the actor and actress lies the conviction that when they are dead people will spe ak of them as great and the annals of the stage will bear their names to all jjosterlty f5 The Old Gentleman rose and prepared togov4 Aht liHwasa great gift to manthe rllluslon of the I divine afflatus We aU baV0lt somehow or anotheri If we are not it rcomforta us with theidream ot what wemlght have been Jtliolds us tip with thecontemplatlon of something great in us eyinl if nobody knows ofit orbeilevea in it iButi In actors and actresses itrtmiy goeaoutwUh life No woman ever grows so old on the stage that fhedoeanoifeeV It Ult moving within her No man ever grows so aged that he loses it The 01a actor marcnes on to play his last partv with the full convl5tWn thailt Is there And neyer conies thesens of failure to a woman with sueh torture as when she seeks at three score and ten torepeat thl trl umphsof heryoutlu Setookup hlsgUss Gentlemen he said a toast to the divine afflatusl Whether it be the real or an Illusion floats us upward to the stars And If some people take lfor the souV rperhapf It better so than to be without a soiil atall 1 aeeOrtoni rising above jthe roof of yon tali builds PotpTKVELL vT CVR expensaof production tousuallyheavy I1 believe the artistic resultwlll Justify tne cost Chaineux and Rlchepln are now in Switzerland where theywltb Mrs Cart er are giving the subject a thor ough and exhauitlve study Jay part of the work on LDu Barry was begun soon after receiving the Preneh1 manuscript and I expect to have the English adapta uun unisDfQ innwmier Aisecohd Intended for Mrs Carter The Red Mouse which I am writine wi Henry JiWXamiiThe playgetsjts title We uns of Tennessee has written strong drama of Southern doniestlc life which have accepted Ii have taken the latest playby Paul Keafter author of Mistress Nell Gwynn The Heart of Maryland has been put into the hands of Eugene Morand author of IzeyL He has arranged with me to translate the play adapting It to the Franco Prussian war Poll de Carrotte is the title of a really wonderful play whieh I saw at the Theater Antoine Paris I lost no time In securing It I shall adapt It to some faraway New England town under the title of Little Redhead Mr Belasco said that he should begin at ones rehearsals of his farce Nanshtv Anthony in which Charles EL Evans is to flgure a star The play Is to be done onHhe road this season in conjunction with Mme Butterfly I have also a contract with David Warfield continued Mr Belasco by which I am to put him out as a star as soon as he shall have ended his present engagement with other managers The dra ma I have written fort him Is entitled The Only ivy ineatncai notes Verdi It is reported may writs a requiem for King Humbert Pucdnt is eomlneto New York to attend the production byTferau of La Tosea Johann Strauss the great writer of dance music never could learn to dance TheresulV Of the London Philharmonic season Is an assessfnent on the guarantors of 10 per cent a Wang enhals andKemper will present Jtfme Modjeska in a spectacular production of IOng John Henrietta Crossman Is going tq play Nell Gwynne too There will be a flood of plays on theVpld character Virginia Harned Is suffering from heat prostration but she expects to be well enough to play Ophelia to her husbands Hamlet At a smalt place in Ohio a fake company of comedians had to be locked up in the Jail to save them from an infuriated audience 4 Mr Ledererrould appear to be more or less in continuous hot water Mr Sire is suing to dispossess him of theCasiaO in New York and Louie Frear has Just won a sultt for breach Of contract with tisst damages Mme Sarah Bernhardt In LAlglOn wears a wig that has tet a style In Paris says an Eastern paper giving the news The French actress wig Is the red Sbe always wearsibut it Is close cropped fits tight and Is combed In a peculiar fashion The part is far to the left and the hair comes down In front formlnga point In the middle of the forehead Note Th4 gan lVYancisco girts caught on to that monthsagolf Iaadore Rushs daughter known On the stage as Carolyn1 White has Just made br djebut in Boston with her mother and Roland Reed la a play by Sydney Roeenf eld called jSA Modern Crusoe A Boston na-per says that sometimes It is a fare oo edysomeUmes a melodrama sometitaes a communistic piece and sometimes a sfoto i lemplayrBut itis always comntoiiblaes and neves original Evidently laeks pomexnng yet Ethel Barrymore has qukkly made asr way to the front and though little over Jfl wlU become a sstar im season xn ta smt Vita haifttnnr In Itir Inhh Dcv 1 hi am writmsrwithgoeat Barrynore tauabt bis 1 ing Let USgo PETJ3R ROBERTSON pjever mother in aooearance sad 1 An amusing anecdote Is told of her fa Maurice Barrymore ana nts rn tits for 2i2S2 flntfih her nlarhtlv nralrers wtta TOaA irom tne name by which the heroine comes niess mamma angpapa sj maas to be known The story Is one dealing with Joan nstor Tna Mt mfgst 1 woman Iata ImAii tn tha prrihloiiiifrt comedians He did much tot flcei StiUanoiheri ojifinal Carter play of imnhestageViandwUa briag wmcnx expect great things Is that which ownnaugmer prooaoiy tnai fwywuwiuj 405uixauuriiiVfiwituauui4 jvuv 4 ax wk wars um MS bBbm 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