The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1903, Page 46

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. AUGUST g characteristics ¥ so much greater than fcally in- Miller ive as ot be s, you re to be t would be- s. Love that makes w dreary and 3¢ st appeal- he in- als o h re widely r the governance does to the he actor, look- jes. Even 1 my- senti- The pub- your hero that f s at he . gical £ e ere in the . king a who is out then mod- as like a bid what I enough here, ge in a complimentary g suspected of ulterior armingly confi- acknowledged now you do. mean here, As a specu- ave dared 1 anywhere have afforded to. t nce here. to ‘hear’ 1t—Shaw kind of vated ng a score or 1 of 1 in spite inter- tha s a little him ut it that he is s e' in his desire to word his contempt for the thers. New England, that there t' would re, profanity of reed, “but that nfess, had not struck ]' | +- HENRY MILLER, WHO IS MAKING FRIENDS FOR GEORGE BERNARD SHAW THROUGH MEDIUM OF “THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE’ ways is in love with ‘she'—therefore Dick must be. Of course, don’t you know, if we saw a fellow around with a dark la tern and a mask, we'd feel for our watches. And Dick has all the earmarks of the passion—even to Mrs. Anderson’s pretty puritan eyes.” “How contemptuously Shaw pictures her, by the way Do you feel that?” the actor queried. aw seems to me to have seen before bim certain types and pictured them without prejudice. A it Shaw sees what he paints through haw prism—as Mr. Lackaye would Then Mr. Miller agreed that perhaps the “engaging British notion of mascu- line supremacy’’—the supposed masculine monopoly of certain virtues, abstract honor, abstract herolsm—had colored the lady's portrait. “The charac continued he tr h is t tried to write a problem pla odramatic tempo. In melodrama there is no time for charactéer development. It is away with the hero to the dungeon; to the tower with the heroine; slap down t pile driver; zip, zip, zip!"—to the companime of snapping fingers, at's all nk how Pinero would have andled that al situation. He would ave given Judith a scene. All she has say, according to Mr. Shaw, to explain ubt of her husband, her repent- r remorse for her sudden y for Du ec T'ony, I'm ash: 5 And 1 that he did not love lady or he would have allowed her explain,” I persist. *“Think of General Burgoyne."” bjoined the prejudice “Ab, ~Bur- Mr. Miller laughed as he s following testimo o Shaw for particular characte; goyne's the character of the plece. How anything else,” the sub-conscious ways be calculating'your effects. But one feels immediately if that peculiar vibra- tion In the audlence times, of course, it is a matter of hand- a Balver—but one doesn’t care to insult the intelligence of an audience the actor affirmed, You cannot al- ingly—terribly—infinitely little atoms just painted on a speck of whirling dust.” “I was thinking about that—or rather this morning,” “I wanted to get to rehearsal. The and Army parade was p: impatient until I remembered, ‘Why, man, this is a great big thing. with your little affairs?’ probably needs the education of suffering. One must suffer to learn. But what a lot of drivel I'm talking,"” return to“our muttons.” “Well, T did want to ask you,” I said, “Jf you were not rather nervous on your first night? I thought you were, the new play, the first night of the season and we have come to expect that kind of en- terprise from Mr. community. The actor answered: But it was the keeper, too, you know, duce the play not rich encugh' to do just what I please It I were I might ev 1 said for the line he has; you remember “I'm glad to feel f the shop- nat made me pro- youw'd like it something like And together, for each is jealous of its a tenor and a modest mezzo rap- “1 believe I am Gentle- manly Johnny, sir, at your service. call me General Who are you there does And again, one where you that it is not all fault nor the author’s that the play fails en do Shakespeare.” Then he told me of the new play, “The Taming of Helen,” that he will produce to-morrow evening; that it is not a great that it has never bored not a shadow “That is Shaw at his Shawest,” I laugh, Miller's chuckles subside. isn't Wilde, it Isn’t—well, it couldn’t be anybody but Shaw.' Then somehow the subject of the “tim- perhaps conse- Miller's expression, are really sure e laughed. “Let's but a pretty pl and that there of a doubt as to whether the hero is in love with the heroine. Margaret Anglin awhile, and Mr. Miller shockingly remembered that he had asked the actress to remain after rehearsal for some last words of direction. As we hastened downstairs to the foyer, Miss Anglin came forward with a charm- Miller will once did in London,” “‘that he had been talking about me when he had kept me waiting for a whole half “When you are really a little satisfled with yourselt—'" Miller owned.. Then we talked of “It doesn’t often happen, though. Then is when you must act just for yourself.” “And you succeed then in pleasing at least one person, as Mr. Lackaye says,” quent on Mr. melodramatic tempo.” “It’s the time! the time! and again the his brown eyes flashing inquiry as to my appreciation. at a measure on the table and again “I was unusually nervous, acknowledged, “You see, we hadn’t had quite enough rehearsals to make the play go as smoothly as it should."” ‘I noticed nothing,"” “But T knew.” trouble of producing plays yourself, You feel the whole performance on your shoul- in a way, act everybody's even the scene-setters’. “Of course every one sees an ideal en- vironment for h{s work—you In yours,” and Mr. Miller bowed courteously, as-with & nod I acknowledge an inner yearning for an office hung with Gobelin, & copy-room that would enjoin me to take all the time I wanted to write and a business office insisting on a weekly raise of salary! “To conquer e, is the thing, infectiously. ““We talk of double natures,” I begin. “Oh, a double nature woutd be terribly Miller laughed. quaintly asked: “Is it that you that you most frequently are which is most you? I'm sure I don’t know what I am. About that jack-in-the-box philosophy of ours. It seems to me that what one most needs to rub through life is the appreciation of It is necessary to keep ach play has its different a I consoled. smiled to me, ““That is the e the finest music in the world and the finest orchestra, but their effect vill be futile without the right beat.” n marking off an explanatory trian- e table he went on: “A play Is There are three stage and on at the front who paid to come in. The problem is for me to set the tempo of the play so that my beat will nt pulging, and he in turn give the rhythm to the third actor— the one with whom I am playing. not get the rhythm the ac- lack the impulsive impe- “So he has,” I squared it for Mr. Mil- ler, “and whom better could we find to talk about?” ARSI ST Gossip Heard on the Rialto. environment, he said, and smiled ‘‘But also you are spared the annoyance of bad stage management.” “That is the compensation,” Mr. Miller ‘‘But come in again In three or You will find a different thing. I know now where the laughs come, and all sorts of those small things that make for ease and smoothness. man enjoys walking if his shoes fit. was acting in tight shoes the other night, 1 couldn't give mysélf up to the pleasure of acting; it was hard work.” “Another thing I wanted to say was that every one is very grateful to you for producing ‘The Devil’s Disciple.” cornered game. monotonou: When “The Bonnie Brier Bush” begins its tour next month it will open the sea- son with the 500th representation. Stoddart has missed but one perform- ance of Lachlan Campbell since the open- ing night, two years ago. 80 to speak. its funny side. one in place.” “I find it occasionally useful to remem- ber,” I ventured, “that we are all amus- low do you go about trying to make I asked curiously. t is more a matter of instinct tHan & Erlanger's New Theater will open in October wigh N. C. United States Amsterdam closed bers, the du: symp Beethc superfluo eel's can again his Beet next, and the rest of all to the good ral and orc > leading Lo baton the society singing. are of the It should the recepti ke place on i > be . e Among things on the g n's programme is none more welcome than the engagement blo t ril- llant young ce ho = winter with Em is at present t with Harold Bauer, the will be heard here this management 1 young cellist is has been cong more eager! mann-Heink’s ( main as among Grau grand ope opera rumor remains will make her appearance in com as heretofore lkely, Mr. Wollf: concert engagements Schumann-Heink to es, that permit . pear at all In grand opera this ses Jacques Thibaud violinist, who may this winter_ 1s Ifr famous nay not rea ral, with German pia Maurice Kau for the glory The Na al in New York wil examinat a Plano and ¢ day), 10 a. m. to 12 m. ging—September amtol2m,2todp m Violin, viola, "cello, traba all other orche: 1 ber 17 (T' 40 m Children’s day—Sept piano and violin—10 a. m. 4p.m Further particul £ the examinations may be obtal d from the sec ry, 128 ast Seventeenth street, New York. This conservatory, it will be remembered, is the only one t for profit at ex- in America and enters on September h year. It was founded Thurber and has hed faculty Ra- the following ¢ fael Joseffy, Leopold renberg, b Irenee ¢ T. Pinck, Max 1 others. tion of m" as the ini- ece will be staged yne effect alone ent electric lamps Goodwin in this mmer Night’ tial attraction. This most elabora more than 5000 i will be used. e Great,”™ lerick Rehearsals for “Alex in which Louls Jam Warde are to appear d season, started Monday at Wagenhals & Kemper's studio at Orange, ) new play will be seen first in the West and on the Pacific Coast t.ae season will be presente ats In Chicago, New York and tern citles. ® -4 o Nelson W. Page, the composer who wrote the mu ! 3 tation of the the Cherub Japanese pla; ber. Napoleonic D’Art just how eas in just su is Dr. Doy m excellent work Did you ever have a mission in life? It so, ‘then you will appreciate the able ambit a you years lege course his missto colore v ambition and so the came a ploneer in this ly, th yung Jame Jo ad not co calculated. At any rat the newspaper lasted a short six hen th g e or taug six vears to pay for the pr T To-day he is ¥« paps perience. *I ought to it cost me enough. But he will not be editor again, He prefers to write s and no won- der, for as ome of Cole & Johnson Bros. he is part recipient pf an income larger than that of the Presid:nt of the