The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1904, Page 11

a Harned. Garrick Singibi Aiss Marlowe Defines fhe Duty of Author and Actor to Each Other— Be Sure You're Fiffed, then Go Ahead—Shakespeare the Savior, and Ibsen the Impossible—Experi- ences of the Actress in Playing to the Blind. a ISS MARLOWE'S eyes—those big brown eyes ao eloquent in expression—lighted up with bellef in her words as she said: “Personality 1s the one great essential to auccess on the American stage." I had been told this before, Maxine Elliott, for one, once opened my eyes to this shining truth, and whet Miss Marlowe sald now might have wounded like a twice-told tale were it not that re- newed acquaintance with the oh-so-personal! Mary Tudor made me an easy and willing victim to con- Wiction. For where is there another actress with “person- ality’ capable of meking knighthood flower again on Broadway as Julia Marlowe has done in this batk- wward spring? What other star of the season has charmed children {nto trotting down the aisles to toss her flowers and eet them crying for “Speech!” es they might for (Astoria? Remembering these and other things more or less wanique, I was ready to alt at the feet of this High ‘Priestess of Personality and learn, But Miss Mar- ‘lowe evidently preferred me !n a chair. o a a » ad a NE might imagine from what Miss Marlowe said that the player and not “the play's the thing” in these United States. But not so fast, plea: Bay, rather, that the dramatic draught be of eq and well mixed before poured into the spoon. ‘“ “Phe dimeculty is in fitting the player with a play @hat will bring out his or her personality,” sald Miss Marlowe. ‘First of all, the American public demands Knicneepecker personality. Give it this, and ft will often be content with a poor play. But give it a good play and no personality and {t will have neither. In one case the playwright may injure the actor, in the other tho actor may hurt the author. I frankly confess that my failure In ‘Fools of Nature’ probably injured Mr Esmond's reputation in this country @ playwright. I believe I may say I have been successful”—Julia Marlowe is as outspoken as Mary Tudor, you see— “and for a successful actress to fail In a play doesn’t do the author any good, to say the least. I believed, and still belleve, ‘Fools of Nature’ to be a good play. The trouble was {t didn’t bring out my personality. 1 should have recognized this at first. Then I should not have done Mr. Esmond an Injustice. “Under no cireumstances would I produce a play~ no matter how good—which I felt did not suit me. An actor should be as careful about being fair to an author as he {s about being fair to himself. Even the strongest personality cannot insure the success of a play. See what happened to ‘Dante,’ even with such & personality as Irving's in its favor." Ah! yes. And had not Ulysses come out of an- other hell of a play and left Penelope for Mary Tudor? By the Power of Tyrone, "twas true-too true! a oo Cd Pad as N’ mention was made of short-lived “Queen Fiammetta.” (If the name of the dear de- parted isn’t spelled correctly here I ¢rust it {s on the tombstone.) We let her rest and turned to Shakespeare. “If it were not for Shakespeare I should not know where to turn," said Miss Marlowe, speaking of her coming season with Mr. Sothern, and saying that they would appear in “Hamlet,” ‘Romeo and Juliet,” and “Much Ado About Nothing. “Thero is always Shakespeare,” with a grateful sigh. “He has been the savior of many seasons and once more he offers the only hope in the dolng of those things which are worth while.’ “You do not believe, then, that Ibsen has a future on the American stage?” “Emphatically, no. Ibsen ts for the elect, not for the masses, He is the greatest playwright of the age —a veritable wizard of dramtic construction and a marvel {n directness and truthtulness—but his plays will never be popular, They appeal only to the few, Charo} Fiorence Pri neess The: and {t ts my opinion that in this country at leas they will never be more than vehicles for exploitin for @ brief time actors ambitious to show what they can do in them. I think the stage should be a place for the beautiful, not for the unlovely. There are enough shadows in real life without throwing them on the stage in merciless unrelief. And it is because we love the sunlight that I belleve we shall never learn to love Ibsen. We may belleve him, but'— And Miss Marlowe pushed aside the subject with a despairing gesture. Cd rd ad a » BSEN dismissed, I endeavored to reach the sympa- I thetic aide of Miss Marlowe's nature by referring to her charttable practice, in several cities she has visited this season of opening her arms and the box office to inmates of Institutions for the blind. | “If I have given the poor unfortunates half th pleasure they have given me I am more than repaid,” she said. ‘The blind make you feel that they have s0 little and you so much that the example in patience which they set is one of the greatest humanity is offered. I always hed the blind portion of my audience kept until after the performance, and then I would go ‘out in front and talk with them, I shall never forget some of those experiences. In Washington the women felt of my face, my hair and my gown, spoke of my voice and told me what they imagined I looked like. Pathetic? I never felt more like crying in my life, and the only thing that kept me from deing so was a determination not to throw a damper on their holl- day.” Pinned on the wall of Miss Marlowe's dressing-room was a letter from a little girl in Philadelphia, who wrote that she was coming over to see her favorite actress on Saturday afternoon, “T phail sit in the first row of the baloony,” ran the letter, “and you won't think mea silly goose, will if I ask you to look up when I throw you a you, assented Miss Marlowe, like me. Why, I don't know, but I am glad they do.” A word anent the prospects of Miss Marlowe's as- sociation with Mr. Sothern caused her to laughingly remark: “We may at least hope that the public will be in- terested !n seeing two actors hippodromed—only please don’t put it just that way.” I didn't promise. “girls do seem to CHARLES DARNTON. “Yvette,’ Next Week, Said to Be Sister to ‘Zaza’ 6 VETTE” will be the one new play on view next week, and Pipp.” Sybil Johnson, Camille D'Arville, Jean- it will not be seen until Friday} “Th ‘Volce of the Mountain” will] ette Melville, Harrict afternoon, when it will be produced by| awaken the echoes at the Third Ave-| och, Vernona Jarbeau (Charles Frohman at the Knickerbocker W@heatre, for the annual benefit of the lactora’ Fund. The author, Pierre Ber- ton, treats of typical phases of Pari- Bian life, much as he did, it 1s sald, in , ts previous play, Zaza." The English adaptation of the play has been made by Cosmo Gordon Lennox, who adapted “The Marriage of Kitty." Mr. Froh- man will present the play with the game careful attention to every phase of its performance as if he were put- ting it on for a long run, Special ecenery has been peinted and a cast Was been selected from Mr. Frohman’s ‘mumerous companies, which includes nue, Dewey. Important players.) ferlon; “Pitt, Pat bagi Fe, De ecg pare cot P oh ore | Wolt topper. in dng, VAUDEVILLE BILLS. aret Tin; ton ast tillams, Meh beth Tyree in “Tit tor Tat,’ “savoy;| A: merstein's Victoria Theatre of Levis ‘Pattison ~ Selten, | “The Secret, of Poliohinell ‘incess: | Varieties will be McIntyre and Heath, ef, Rosalind Coghlan, | last week; “Tho Volunteer Organist.’| trengier giet Coli : Claire ule, RE Power, Bruce Mac: | Fourteenth Street Theatre; Julia Mar ng sters, Cole and Johnson, h Delmore, Harry Davenport, | lowe nighthood Was in| Dolan and Lenharr, Nora Bayes, Ed. rthur iBiltots Morton, Selten, Robert owen ae ernie, Inst. week, Jamon 3 Reynard, Macart's Log and Monkey oWade, jr. John Barrymore, fackett in “The , Prinese ;| Circus, John and Bertha Gleeso: a igelow in “The Man from m, ani icker, Exnest pambart and others. cheer ete. “Two Hate sogh Waleeiry: ‘Brothers, Harned wilt bring “Camille” | Boys,” Academy of Music Venetian @ Circle will have Billy V. Van AX Ata ent ‘on Monday night for Romance," dentokerbocks neta ant | and Rose Beaumont as headliners, Five only a woek's stay, Willlam Courtenay] “The Other Girl,” at the Lyceum, will| YOUDs women billed as “"The Society will play Armand, but there will be| have a Wednesday Instead of a Thuré-| Belles” will offer a dancing and singing joveral changes in the cast seen a fenty. at. the Harlem Opera-Ho' AVililam Harcourt will be De Varville, iW. H. Crompton will play. the. part of Armand'’s father, Louise Drew, Maughter of John “brew, will have the role of qtonioete, ‘Weber and Field after trials and tribulations on tour, will come back to town and try to be merry for a week at the West End Theatre, where the ‘bill will be ““Whoop-Dee-Doo"” and the burlesque, on “Catherine.” It was exe pected this would be the last week o' ‘Thursday dred and will sucee . regation, but ar-| Wills he Savoy, Elizabeth Tyree “In Mla- Faeascienin ave bsen minGe to follow Tat At tne aro aving aproed to EQa Aral Bo, te, wlay. gun Crawford this engagement wilh two Ww aikeeres: ont i take, william | e, Vaudeville contingent, New Amsterdam Theatre. pATIUE Deagan aeilt take Wesitta | ie ths Ww will have among ovhérs Henry Were Received at World ‘Amella Bingham, {n “Olympe,” willl from China” at the Biaieate ” men aia Faire mineey bea ote Main Office Alone be the attraction at the Grand Opera-| SUNDAY NIGHT BE 8. Frank Bush, House, “rast Lyme,” with Willlam | Bram- *,ctors’ Fund will take place at] O29! a woll and Miss Ydria Phiilips in the cast.| 9 “Seoaaway Theatre to-morrow| geamon's “will bo “Day KAsTiA™ act FIRST 4. MONTHS rt bee the offering of the eat ii lett, ‘Thero will be @ mfnstrel frat] Fred Kdwarda in “All'in a amily. g Company at the Murray Hill! Sart with Paul Dresser as interlocutor # call aid SOMTAOe ee nL OF THIS YEA! 7 As Ena these ‘end men: Marie Dressler, Renn opel ead company, ia A Wilk R, George W. Monroe, in “My Aunt Bridget," will be at the Star, Proctor’s Pifty-eighth Street Theatre il have Joe Welch in “The Peddler.” Charley Wil, be-eeon at the Metropolis in “The Awakening of Mr. Harry Morris will Night on Broadway” company to the Harry Bryant's Burlesquers will be at the Gotham, Continuing engagements at other thi atres will be “The Girl from Kay's, Herald Square, last week; Raymond Hitchcock in Broadway; “The County Chairman," | @nd others. Henrietta Crosman _ isi] Another. Eeteet, ‘®weet Kitty Bellaire,” Belasco's The-} Square Theatre Rhans,” New Am ‘iiliam Collier in day matinee next wee “rhe Girl from Kay's’ its two hundredth performance at the Herald Square on ‘Tuesday evening, on Saturday sea it will conclude its extraordinary run. Hi will mark meat ions. Henrietta C: Bellatrs,” at Beli wilt be a, special, mat well as in tl Yenirs will be given. The company will Clomm {ts agepon. three weeks hence, onday night Aubro 1 Leo Ditrichstein in Tit for ‘The annnal vouileville benefit for Sallie Stembler, Diizabeth Murry and Montford; the bring his “A Dale, Annie Calvelle, ters, McCoy Sisters, ‘The. Pony wallet, George “The Yankee Consul," n Hospital mma Carus, Junie ethers will figure in the will celebrate | Nirvan ond her ‘matue at} the other "rac! theatres: be Prevented by the andsome souvenirs ck mark the one hun- ft performance of “Sweet Isitty. bin Theatre, There atinee, at which, a3 ning, ‘valuable sou- gead the vaudeville jtst, Twenty-third “tho mad juggler,” osm galled “A, Tries: will be” Bei Boucicault | Wot Pe. ncers, other entert ~~ Everett - Stra- comediennes Amelia Sunumerville ,Madge fox, Nona Bayes, Rose Beaumont, Ethel Levey, Laura Bennett, Dorothy Neville, Ray Cox, Sisters De Fay, ONO will contain Tony Pastor, Mc- {ntyre and Heath, Eddie Foy and the Primrose and Foley Boys, Nat M. Wills, Eleanor Falk entertainment will be yw night at the Herald of the Matro- Dispensary. and MoCree and many act, James J, Morton will have a new Monologue, ed Luteli will be back, and tractions, ‘rou grou” will the Furth avenue ‘Theatre, while Pierce and Maizie, singers and dancers, will At Proctor’s Street "Pheatre, Sparrow, will be the head- Uner, Nestor Lennon and company will seen’ 1a a “sketch by Arnold’ Daly and another feature AY the One Hundeed snd @ One Hundre Twenty-fitth street ‘theatre, “In Mies stories: the Villa \d_Krlesel's dogs and monkeys, k and Joe Fiyon, monologist, will McKinley, Emma Carus, Adele Ritchte, bee tet Ba id Nettle Verner and many ortho Magic Kettle novelt ~ tained atthe Biden Musee”, “lt be Te ey Bend will con- The Oriental Gy tinue the principal attraction at Hu- ber's Museum. IN BROOKLYN, Grace Van Studdiford tn the co! opera, “Red Feather,” will be the traction Montau! and May Violet lo Elinore Sis- Telephone ||~. 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