The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1903, Page 9

=WORLD'’S a THE Woah: ‘SATURDAY | EtentNc, JANUARY 24, 1905. . Chase: Criterion. > Louis Mann Modest- ly Confesses Great- ess—He’d Rather Carry the Hod than Stick to Pretzel Parts—Aspires to Shylock and High- Class Fame—Other _ ‘Gossip, Tespec' “ace lke Richard Mansfield. Trent not afraid to come right out and a he's a great actor. In @ dcessing-room burst of confidence Mr, Mann made this confession. It (A tcame with the rush of long pent-up feel- +t Louis Mann is @ great ‘The subject was steatness—possible ess — probable greatness. MT, in a tentative way had consi@red Wf in relation to all three, chen, @ethrowins resorve to the winds, tapul- declared: "I ‘might say I am @ great actor. I (WILL say it!" Mr, Mann's white-lashed eyes burned swith the bright light of truth, his volce trembled with tho weight of conviction, "Wor a moment not another word was wpoken. Ever™the dresser who was pull- 4ng off Mr. Mann's shoes paused and j@ezed at this laying-bare of the artist's ‘woul, : It remained for Mr. Mann to break jthe tense silenco by impatiently kicking sols the other shoe. “Way should others be called great, > nd not 1?” he asked. “Yes, why?" we echoed, @omething better to say, “It makes me boil to see a man come fnto Broadway, where I have been for years, and be heralded all over town as the ‘greatest character actor,’ I have ween him act—this man—and how does act? , how does he?" we re-echoed, @ poses and contorts his face, ut- strange sounds and violates nature erything he does, Yet this man is jwintel out as our greatest actor!" And Mr. Mann made a fase fearful to Prhold. “What do you think of Mansfield as actor?" estion might have been judged t had not Mr. Mann fixed ug Wy his searching gaze. “Were you told to ask me that?” “Not on your shoes,"’ we protested, “Well, then," he said thoughtfully r} end with slowly fading suspicion, “why mot go and ask Mansfleld what he ~ thinks of me?" “Why not?’ we slarted to say, but fwe checked the answer that Mans- field Was in Boston and that we had ® couple of tons of coal to carry in and the bables go spank before dinner, t for lack of Is a conflagration put out only by di- Mr. Pickwick." Mr. Mann grew as reticent and mys- Refious as a country deputy sheriff when asked if it were true he aspired to lay Shylock next season. “You will please pardon me from say- anything on thet point,” he said, fwith @ reproving glance, as though the wiettor had gotten on t be didn’t he: ined not if to the Bis mas German character work which him well known, than do that I would carry etek and mortar the rest of my life," pather surprising vehemenc| wish I bed meyer played this of part. tt hag won me pothing. ° erely wi¥en the REAL LIFE AND STAGELAND—A LETTER ’ writes to me from the Players’ Club. is letter would fill a column, and parts of.!t are pungent. Here are the passages that seem to me most to the point: “Your exposure of the feeble tricks employed ad infinitum by the writers of plays has brought encouragement to a class which probably you did not expect to please—the people who have to act those plays, whether a na Annie. Russell's a Yarcy cy wr, HER FEET! @ teetlet. SRLL THE NEWS AND they (the plays) resemble real life or not. Silence of Standered Innocence,’ “Tt was certainly startling to ecan tn lest Saturday’s Evening World your [ist of seven current plays which are constructed on the threadbare and nearly always faise motive pithily described by you as the ‘Suffering and I could suggest other equally false motives and situations that are constantly in use~but you, Madame, need no suggestions in your witty war on the unreal drema of to-day. "I would like to point out, however, that the real sufferer is the actor— or I should say the art of acting. “The public does not seem to care, so long as situations are exciting or laughable, whether they are natural or not and few of the critics take the trouble to analyze the motives of a play, but we, whose reputations as artists depend on the impression of truth to human nature and the facts of life that we convey, are at the mercy of the ‘prolific playwright’ so beauti- fully pilloried by you. “We have no appeal from his sentence, dear sir, if I were that husband (or that wife, or that young Iady) I wouldn't be silent for a single minute under that horrible accusation!’ obvious retort is, fall to pieces.’ “So it goes, with the tragical—yes, tragical—congequence that the actor hardens himself to represent actions that are untrue to every instiict of human nature, and becomes a mere fakir—laughing in his sleeve at the pub- I'm very sorry, but without thet ellence my play would lic that pays to see him mechanically falsify life. “Nothing could have a more pernicious effect upon acting as an art, ‘work. People have laughed at me, thet ts all. part with great ‘They have not. associated the character acting, I stwll retain in my repertoire at least one play which has this cheracter, and T shall play it from time to tlme, be-| cause | really enjoy being the ecceptric German, and it is pleasant to feel you oan get under the kin of the people out in front in such @ part. last season entirely to this type. serious work, work which {s better un- derstood, and in which the chance of winning a big reputation is better, But this is the that 1 shall give myself T shall k more Yes, 1 think I could be financially as well es artistically successful in serious plays. Of ceurse, musical comedy is In the hey- day of success at the present time, the public is sure to be surfeited this sort of thing before long. in public teste will come, aa it has come before, and when it ohange But with The Suet does I hope to be ready to meet it.” be persuaded to share the stars! If ‘only travelling nami “H.C.” “Yes, Hal dollar-mark | mi anegers could ‘ila ideale of “Washington, H, ©,” Columbia!” —"The Consul,” tere's Pore Modesty. Mr. Mann ien't the only actor who manager of Thaw the courage of his convictions, A Thesplan, Willard Voster by nent the folowing letter to the Princess 163 pounds. 5 feet 9. Five years’ pearen and modern rep. Past’ three years with Morey Stock company In Middle Weat, ‘They wanted me for a If that {s'n't a good recommednation, I don't know one, Ballads—baritone. At present playing “Albert” in “Monte Cristo." But J can't live on alr, The man forgets to come around. He is @ nice man. But when it comes to buckerines, he gets @ kink in his arm or something, Pg After a short talk !t was agreed that Can Jol c T know my business if the man would only talk like that| I do not bow! up on the Indian laugh- | 0 the stage he would be the hit of the ” ing’ soup. plece, You will find me @ useful addition to ean sive you $20 a week,” offered ta! your forces. THE Tt 18 easy to say, experience in @hakes- — — Bs Eaan Toy oe Ane “Keickerbocfee. | ‘But, my The author's ’ a few!” neither here nor there, HOM EJ AIEST GOSSIP OF THE and the critic who, instead of reviling the unfortunate actor, declares war on the stale and stupid unrealities of the pgpular drama, will have the sympathy—secret or outspoken—of every intelligent actor—and there are After which the aggrieved “Timon” pays some more or less heated attention to the writings ,of certain theatrical commentators—but KATE CARD of Pawtucket,’ play sbdrtly to be produced. fourth #eagOn.| tne cate tribe, nervous little man who had been tre! ting at, the tafl-end of 'the line “Wha jp your name, my good man?’ asked La Shelle. ‘ e ‘What the man replied wae hand out the Thomas laughed outright, “AC “Twenty dollars!’ exclaimed German waiter to play @ part in “Harl the new Gus ‘Thomas There were plenty who looked’ like waiters, but the examining board found thei as characteriess as the general run of until they came to a | ment “Adam | Hersog,” but the way he pronounced the name could not be repeated in print. La @flelle's whiskers crackled Into a smile,Qe) Bonta turned Mis head and jot Heten" Uttle speculation Tals set | fresh ris to new the Pullman th to ‘Mr “It is man’s duty to marry, Bruci prea agent oarnestness, Insists he didn buy the car with his last year's Sayings. the gifte-tf such t 1s—gives ‘he rumor of the engage- f Freddie Gebhard and the fair » Is fortunate enough rather than Ge in which Drina de Wolfe ts said to be whisking about the country as a spe- |clally favored member of "The Taming company, {8 causing not @ Edwards, with to travel the thorny This recalls w Mrs, Langtry sald recently when asked If she thought It key Mr. Gebhard would wed, The Jersey Lilly of other Gebhard days merely raixed expressive eyebrows, and 1 the slightest suggesion of a Dhard 1s divorced, He ‘wes that duty to his—to his’— “To his offspring!” —Mice and If you My. T wont $15 and board, ee Mid an In quit another volce, and very That's what 1 want, English, "Why, I've been playing tn Bometimes we don't get whag we want.| Berlin for two and thre mat ount. pod eo one nd i eneet la’ har deraithaa amount. But I necd the money ari] pool the money, persuaded, 48 1) iacy the job, That's why I put on my 1 moan business 4) stag jalogue when you began talking Qawexy, N.Y. Ibs ee er right now “What's your real name? asked La n dedver the goods, Shelle awt for, "Fred Hawthorne,” said the impostor He Got, the Job. A supposed German walter, complex ntyle of h more than ‘the Mann Allalect, gromp of applicants who waited out- |; wide the offige door of Kirke La Shelle one morning this week. 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H® first-nighter will find ba 9c- let cupation gone the coming weok, unless he should consider the re- opening of Mrs. Osborn’s play-bouse with “a revival of duty. “Hamlet. | 3 | SAD WEEK FOR FIRST-NIGHTERS ) reratar ta ae to “If I Were King” at the Garden ‘Theatre Monday night, and to continue 4n Justin Huntly McCarthy's romantic play for two weeks, with the exception the Elizabethan |that on Tuesday of each week bd ve drama,” Tuesday evening, tn, his line of |give special matinee Mr, Sothern's return to. the ‘Romeo and Juliet’ will march out|plcturesque role of Francos Villon, in where ‘Tommy Rot" and “Fed and/which he achieved marked sticcess Jast Folly” laid down their brief lives. Frank | season, 1s one of the pleasantest antic- {pations of Florodora’ Lea Short announces that Wright Krab mor will play Romeo, and Fernanda Elisou will be Juliet, Others in the cast will be Richard Yost, Harry Leighton, William J. Romain, W. J. 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