The evening world. Newspaper, November 21, 1903, Page 9

‘Maxine Elliott, Whose dtusband Has KORY SRR w# THE »# EVENING » WORLD'S # HOME .« MAGAZINE w Tackled Shakespeare, ls Content to Be Simply an “Entertainer.”’ <x SAE, fictress of the Midnight Eyes Believes Pub: lic Goes to Theatre fo Be Amused— Shrinks from Newspaper Interview Be- cause If May Make Her Appear Conceited " —Love Miss Ellioft, Love Her Dog, Wbich Sporfs the Sporty Name of Sport and Makes a Flying Leap to His Mjstress’s Shoulder, STANDS for Maxine— And Maxine stands for Modesty. For one who has had “Her Own Way” so completely as has Miss Elliott she is pleasantly free from those bristling barbs of self-importance which too often ornament.the brave fronts of the stage clect. Success has not spoiled her, and it has not filled her “handsome head with absurd notions cajled by courtesy \ tor's desk of Fellx Motti should awaken 4 the well-known Gepman <the last year or two has earned a great “"Rooy will’ repeat his admirable imper- sonation of Wotan, and Robert’ Blass C@mille’ Seygard, Setma Kronold, an “high ideals.” “T suppose it's a deplorable confession," said the actress, “but I haven't a great ambition. I'm so com- monplace as to Je content with things as they are. I don't lie awake nights dreaming highly colored dreams of the future. The present is good enougn for me. If ‘one is getting along all right. what's the use worrying about getting along better—or worse? There isn’t any Use, is there, Sport?” “ Miss Elliott wasn't getting slangy or familiar. This last remark was addressed to her brindle bull- RFE PRN EN FETED AS COPYRIGHT: PREPS EERE Fm DRT TRE OE TREE ge MME OEMBRICH METROPOLITAN | OPERA Howse ff A'DYVPONT. dog, who answered to his name with a sympathetic growl. ‘ rd es Cad ee a 'M content to be simply an entertainer,” pursued <6 Miss Elliott, pulling Sport around by one ear, “Possibly I'm wrong, but 7 have atways regarded | the theatre as a place of entertainment. I believe tho public goes to the theatro for relaxation, and if you can entertain or amuse the public I think you are doing about all that can be expected of you. “But,” she broke off, “it sounds perfectly silly for me to be saying these things. Who cares what I think? Interviews with actors on ‘art’ and things always amuse me. They always sound so fearfully conceited. I don't suppose they really are conceited”—a kind spirit, truly—“ but somehow they read that way. Please don’t make me conceited. Why did you come to see me. any- way? What does it matter what I may think or what I may say? Who cares?” Miss Elliott was reminded that she was interesting Decause, if for no other reason, she was in the public opera-giass, and thet if she merely told what she was going to have for dinner to-morrow evening a great share of the public which knows her py sight would figuratively eat her words, , “Did you spend the summer in Ireland and were you anywhere aear the blarney stone?” inquired Miss Elliott, with a quizsical smile. Sport took e sidelong squint, then buried himself in an evening paper. s ss rd rd se ‘HE halt “personality” was flung out in the hops that Miss Hiliott might nibble at it interestingly. “No,” she said rpeponsively, “I can’t say that I consider personality the most valuable asset of an actor or actress. Of course it is an important at- tribute, but not the greatest in the sum of a player's possessions. Personality without artistic temperament would be worth little, if anything, on the stage. It is not what you are but what you seem to be. For in- stance. you wouldn't select a real murderer to play a murderer on the stage, would you? No, of course you wouldn’t. And you wouldn't pick out a society woman to play a society woman. You've got to get personality over the footlights to make it count for anything, and to send it there you must change your own completely. Real people on the etage would be dull and stupid. I've often heard {t said that I don't have to act—all that I have to do is to be myself. Nothing could be further from the truth. My stage self is not the least bit like my real self. 1 haye to switch myself completely around, as it were.” Well, of course, it was not for a rank outsider to contradict, nor to argue the delicate point. Yet the temptation was strong to suggest that Maxine Elliott was very like Georgiana Carley, That the voice was the same; that the pretty poise of the head was the same; that the simple, unstudied gestures were the same; that the slightly leaning attitude was the same; that the wistful smile was the same old smile, and that those eyes—— Even Sport was gazing into those eyes! we rd es Cad Cod ‘OW did Miss Hlliott feel about her dndependent H success? A pleading little curl of a smile and a protest from two half-raised, white, slender hands. And bout moving into a theatre, where——? “Oh, really, now!" interrupted Miss Elliott. And while she wouldn't talk of either, there seemed at least the shadow of satisfaction lurking in her smile. Four women, with a humble man trailing obediently In the rear, swooped’ in and surrounded Miss Elliott with millinery and small talk. All spoke at once, and she ‘First Week of the G The grand opera season at the Metro- relitan Opera-House will open Monday hight, when the bill will be “Riggo- lett,’ with Mme. Semorich as GilJa the Walkures. The picked pupils of the of Opera. and with Enrico Caruso in the tenor The Riggoletto will, as last year, who needs no rein- the role. be Antonio Scotti, troduction, while Louise Homer, popular contralto, will sing Maddale: Marcel Journet, the well-known. bas: will reappear in the character of Spar tucile. Mme. Helen Mapleson wih sing the small part of the Contessa, and the Murullo, Monterone and Borsa will be Messrs. Bogue, Duftiche and Maslero, On Wednesday evening the presenta- tion of Die Walkuere” and the first ap- pearance in this @ountry at the conduc- new baritone, Arcai “Rugoletto'* on Monday night, Saturday evening preted, excepting interest. Mme, Geass! will, for the first time in New Zork, venture on the herole part.of Brunnallde, while Ernst. Kraus, tenor, will, after some years’ wbsence, return in the port of Slegmund. No less interesting will be the Introduction to American opera-goers of a new Sieglinde in Olive Fremstad, a mezzo-soprano who within ception will be the reputation in Burope, and of a new Vrike { fh, Loulse Homer. Anton Van this occasion after trom New York, will be the Hunding. In addition to oe artist who has won popularity both in the German ti ger Engileh ph flelda,, will Tbe! Bou |_ ‘*La Boheme” ts announced for Friday, |Damrosch will give a brief a with Mme. Sembrich in her touching impersonation of Mimi, Camille Seygard Jas the vivacious Musetta, Enrico Caruso as Rodolfo, Giuseppe Campanari as Mar- cello and Marcel Journet as Colline. Intrusted with the buffo. part of Benolt. Arturo Vigna will conduct. will be repeated at the Saturday matinee with the cast heard be given at popular prices, and inter- fh one instance, by the Wednesday evening cast. Dippel, who will reappear in that char- acter in pace of Ernst Kraus. Mott will be at the conductor's desk. The first of a series of popular Sun~ day concerts at the Metropolitan will take pace on Sunday, Nov. 2 under the direction of Felix Mott!, and with the co-operation of several soloists of the first rank. Pol Plancon, the favorite basso, will make his reappearance on music EVE! 78. Walter Damroseh's New York Sym-|" phony Orchestra wil) open its regular ‘subscription Beason at Carnegie Hall’ rand Opera Season. last five singers are; same composer's gypsy sores by Mr. Metropolitan §choo] | Bispham, The second part will be given bari over to ‘‘Parsifal’’ selections. of the work and Mr. Bispham will ang “Phe Lament of Amfortas,” and Mr. David Mannes will play a violin ar- rangement of the "Good Friday Spel!."" ‘The orchestra will be heard in a pro- ‘gramme of a more popular nature at the West End Theatre in the evening. Mme. Shotwell-Piper, a soprano whose personal beauty and exquisite voice cre- ated a sensation at the recent Maine musical festivals, will be the soloist. Mme. Katherine Fisk,who created so favorable an impression at her German song recital this week, will be heard tna cycle of French songs at Mendelssohn Hall next Friday evening. Bemberg's dramatic “Ballade du Desespere,” which calls for the assistance of a reciter, fifteenth,\ sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a ngelo Rossi, will be “Die Walkure" will The ex- Slegmund, Andreas Fellx The first of Frank Damrosch's Sym- phony Concerts for Young People will bo given Saturday afternoon at Carne gio H iolr_of the Musical Art Soe Ing. Orchestral and y elo Cover the music of. two years’ absence . Patt will give her last’ New : PATI York concert at the West End Theatre Friday afternoon, em CLEVER MEN. Hé~You dan't catch a man looking at himself jin ever? mirtor ne passes, ~ Bhe—No, I suppose nots vou m: ite yor hi inaisichane atts, soil SA ate BEAUTY AND answered almost as simultaneously with smiles, nodsand|one exercising the prerogative of an appointment. hand clasps. “Oh, yes,” said Miss Bliiott, as if suddenly remem- Sport kept a jealous eye peeled. bering. “Won't you please go into my dressing-room?” After a bewlldering amount of chatter and a mingling Plainly, jt was time to run away. of invitations thé fussy fragment of the matinee audience ee — ge oe SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1903. Wency Hapmony. k THE BEAST A final plea. “Now, remember, please don’t make me ae frou-froued out followed by their faithful, bowing escort. | appear conceited.” “Yes,” then it’ A rather tall and rather slim young woman, who had stolen in like a shadow, touched the actress on the elbow. “I am Miss B—-,” she sald with the authority ot said Miss Elliott, “I am kept rather busy, but on wa’ Then, casting those midnight orbs to a certain spot the floor: “Leap, Sport, leap!’ A glad bark, a mighty bound, and happy, s clinging to his mistress's shoulder. CHARLES DARNTON,. uoaN NS s CHARLES: : A icetntAN ew IMMAN HAT TAN ME APPEAR OV CEITED” , lucky Sport FULL LIST OF PRIZE-WINNERS will published in next Monday's Evening World (in editions). { Look out for “The Girl in Red,” the new § Prize-Contest story, which -will also begin in M day’s Evening World. “THE GIRL IN BLACK” $100 CONTEST. Ban hatian! he all MAJESTIC. 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