The evening world. Newspaper, October 31, 1903, Page 9

It’s Not as Easy as silt books for Marie Cahill to Sing and Be Funny—kearning the Art of Repression Brought on Nerv- ous Prostration—Slaves Over Songs in Effort to Make Them Sound Simple and Easy —“Nancy Brown” Will Make a Radical Departure Next Sea- son. ——— was something of a shock—though of course [ a pleasure—to meet Marfe Cahill in propria persona. She wasn’t any more like her stage self than her latest lithograph is like her real self. This is not in detraction, let it be understood. What we have to say Is offered in a spirit of kind- ly preparation for you, who may have it in mind to call at her flat some morning about 9 o'clock to hear her sing half a dozen or so of the songs you hum to yourself; or for you who may take a no- Hon to drop into her dressing-room and chat with her on the Art of Keeping Still. Before going any further it might as well be DOW YOU CONSIDER J REALLYACT WOW? understood that Miss Cahil] doesn't keep still when the public isn't looking. She is a very much alive young woman, You don't have to shake her to get her inter- ested in what is going on around her. You don't have to drag her into conversation. She just sits in—and deals! Deals so quickly that unless you watch your cards closely you are likely to over. look a bet. “It hurts me sometimes,” she sald with that plaintive little note she puts in her songs, “because I am s0 generally misunderstood. People think I never exert myself— that I take everything easy. A crank once wrote of me that Marie Cahill was the laziest-acting soubrette who ever drew a sal- ary—that | was the kind of a girl he would like to take to a fire—that nothing disturbed or excited me—thac if the theatre should tumble down while I was singing I would probably keep right on as if nothing liad happened.” There was a painful pause. Then a confession. “You!” exclaimed Miss Cahill, flushing through her “make-up.”* What a Harlem flat of a world this ts, after all! wv Cd a a Cad HEN the hardness of Miss Cahill's voice had melted somewhat she said: “Another thing printed about me that I shall always remember was that I was a feminine William Gillette without a cigar! I liked that, and, really, I liked the other, too. I like people to think I'm easy on the stage, but I don’t like them to think it is perfectly easy for me to be easy, Do you understand?” Miss Cahill shot a quick glance around the Iit- tle group, and was answered by an almost human look of intelligence from all assembled, “As doubtless you know,” she resumed, “repose, either on or off the stage, is one of the most dif- ficult things to acquire. Do you know what my attempts at learning the art of repression cost me We shook our heads. “Nervous prostratiot grimly answered Miss Cahill, savagely jabbing her hat pin into space. “And you have worked as hard with your songs?” A weary sigh escaped the comedienne, who sings as if she were born in the same house with musi- cal rhythm. “Work hard!" she repeated. “I slave at them. I try them over and over again. I experiment with them, trying to make them sound simple and easy, until I'm: almost in despair. If you don’t believe me, ask my poor old piano, Many's ths hard day’s work we've put in together. I suppose most people imagine it’s as easy for me to sing as Mt is to clear away the breakfast dishes, If they could see me drudging and drumming away at my gongs they would have an entirely different no- tion. I've heard people speak of ‘a Mary Cahill song.’ I’ve nevor been fortunate enough to find one. All that have come my way I have had to make ‘Mary Cahill songs,’ and I couldn’t make anything of them at all if I hadn't studied music and the technique of singing.” Miss Cahill was earnest. She was almost grave, She hadn't uttered a slangy or a funny word, She hadn't made a single droll gesture. She hadn't winked once! We began to feel we had a serious job on our hands. a a Cad as a £ was between a matinee and evening perform: ance, with dinner hanging heavily in the bal- ance, that Miss Cahill submitted to that dread- Two Musical Pieces and Three New Plays Next seek WO new musical pieces, three! Halls, new plays and the opening of another new theatre will keep Ida Gwendolyn | mus, T the-dramatic mare Jogging along | Hickman. Byduen cine, Gitert |iheates 1s cha eveat width of the house en| Shon mee ta fairly good gait next week, All| Clayton, Dayid Bennett, Laurence |compared with its depth. I this way the| Vesta ‘Tilley, havi doned her but one of the openings occur on Mon-| Wheat; Leavitt James, James C.|seats are all brought forward, near the ere poe Walt De: beni nina Thursday ‘day evening. Reany, W. C, Kelly and Frank Con- | stage, so that there are, so to speak, no inder Cover" at the Drees ta ™ 2 “Phe Girl from Kay's,” fresh (quite| way. rear gents, At theeame time the seating |airo. Sho will appear botween the acta | \fresh, they say) from London, will be ere: ve capacity Ie ‘maintained, for, although |!_her clever sonds amd imitations tntroduced at the Herald Square ‘Thea-| james K, Hackett’s engagement at|there are fewer rows of seets than in| wr Charles Froh- ardes company Itre Monday evening by Iman and George Ed the [The Girl" is reputed to be dull of} ;,, music and ginger, one supplied by Ivan|trederio Tt 1, the other by Owen Hall. Hattie Mee llte the ene will do the rest, so far y concerned, id Miss Williams's cleverness in og Papas" warrants the bellef she will do ft well, Sam Bernard jl have the part of Max Hoggen- er, & wealthy cad who goes on the Wple that money will buy anything. hers in the cast will be Harry Daven rt, Grace Freeman, Marie Doro, Grace ley and Mwide Granger. 7 enue ne wth deais with a of a scout fi who was ral Indians and have been te one to Awakening t Mae Shertdan, Munhattan Monday evening, when he will be se ‘John Ermine of the Yellowstone, Indian warfare, Evan Shipman. the extent white man, he has no knowledge of the civilization of his army associates, The Marion Harte, Gertrude Dore- Gabrielle, KE. H. Sothern, who will Valentine, Maude Wedsh, Al- | Prince,” Theatre commences | the ordinary theatre, emington's sketches of suggested the play, which amy fife and incidents of The dramatist is Louts ‘The chief role 1s that in the United States Army sed by a tribe of Absaroke whose habits and prejudices ormed ‘by his early associa- that, although a and brown, ‘butiding, tress S evening The o his condition is brought weeks’ engagement there in "The Proud A noticeable feature of the new this 1s more than offset by the greater length of the rows, And at the same time the sight lines are greutly Improved. ‘The color scheme approxtmates tones of autumn foliage, running from deep yellow to warm red It {s maintained throughout ‘by special selection of all the materials constituting the fterlor fnish of the Mies Jessie Millward wil start her starring career witi ‘A Clean Slate” at ‘the Madison Square Theatre Tuesday play which Manager Charles B, Diliingham has provided her play a two | laid in New Tonk City \- folds a melodramans ‘store. (end ‘win Welles and Forrest Robinson will HERE 3 deny Ha mony ful ordeal, an “interview.” This alone was sufficient to prove her a strong actrews, and was one of the reasons for our asking her whether she was really going season. “Don't you consider that I ‘really act’ she sharply asked. Bungling probing had touched the quick! We hastened to explain, referring to the rumor that Miss Cahill was to leave musical comedy next season and play a serious role, “Well,” she said, “I'm not ready what I'm going to do. to play Juliet—not with this face! The quaint little Cahill laugh broke its bonds and rattled merrily against the walls of the dress- ing-room until it found its way out the open door and lost itself on the dim, deserted stage. “However, I don't mind telling you I shall do Both Mr, Arthur and myself believe ‘Nancy Brown':could earn a lot of money even after this season,” (you could almost catch “but we have I don’t believe musical comedy is dead, but we all know that thie country is sur- felted with so-called musical comedy, and I be- lieve the day isn’t far off when the public will be- something different. the clink of coin on her tongue) other plans. come heartily sick of it. my mind, however, that the public patronize and enjoy bright, entertaining pieces, with pretty airs running through them. ‘Three Little Maids,’ for instance. dainty and tuneful. comedian to carry it along.” VE GOT ad But, at least, I’m not going There is no question in But, of course, it has the SCOULON'T PLAY SULIET WITH SUCH A FACE to act next now?" to say just esse Wrerard Madison Syedre an awed, respectful silence. “We had idéas along a new line before we fro- duced ‘Nancy but we didn’t dare risk the experiment of carrying them into execution,” con- tinued Miss Cahill. “We realized that one must go slow in making rac 1 departures, The American public will accept and support fdeas from England which it would reject from Ameri- can managers, Ifa piece lke ‘Three Little Maids’ | had been produced in this country first it would have been condemued on the ground that it was Theatre’ band-manager of the comely oracle—doubted | an instant the truth of her assertion, Even pessimistic press agent looked, ready to support’ her statement. Miss Cahill w convincing and as serious ats |close range as she is amusing across the tod wy lights, But she was so hopelessly, inpenetrably miveteeie ous that it was impossible to guess her secret, All we can do is wait—wait until we hear that rustling sound next autumn and know it is Marle ‘too slow.’ ”’ : = 2 “what will:your new plece bo Cahill turning over a new leat of the dramatic . will always| “I won's tell,” was tiie prompt “If L did| record. some one might sa: 11, that’s a good idea, and Meanwhile, if she is trying to think of a suit- z that's a good ides,’ and then go ahead and use| gy for _ hee hew'pibee, we WOHid Ream Take) them all before I had a chance to do so. But I've ane aa ot ane re est “The Sphinx.” aoe It is clean,| got lots of new. and [ think good, ideas her p fully end gratuitously AURe dis t And Miss Cahill tapped her temple with her hat MARIE CAHILL, WALLACK’S, 3y Bray & 30th St, Ey EXTRA MATINEE ) NEW EMPIRE THEATRE, JOHN BREW. salt EXTRA MAT 85th st. emphasized personality of an excepilonally clever | P!?- Tho Silent Actress es Po a rd os in « Here was the cue to say something about the ONE of us—from the colored maid, who | “THE SPHINX.” personality of a certain clever comedienne being | looked as if she might » stepped out of | How would that look on the billboards? f able to carry a piece to success, but all maintained one of Miss Cahiil's °° .@#sigs, to the hus- | CHARLES DARNTON, Suan eee te j ‘ Amusements. Amusements. | Amusements, Amusements. a i) \/JAJESTIC. : Proct or 5 To-day, 25c., 50¢ AY. . Hamlin Mitonviie M To-night, Res. 75¢ Crore *|RERALD 3Q, THEATRE Rix LAST. 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