The evening world. Newspaper, October 15, 1904, Page 9

giving Lady Judnd A Long Needed Fe Mrs. Campbell Fancies the Tall Buildings May Be Responsible for Our Shortcom- ings in Sentiment—Nicest Thing She Can Say About Us Is that We Have “Com- monplace Sense’—Feels as If She Is Crying “Booh!” in “The Sorceress,” and Aches to Get Up and Apologize for Those Awful Falls—Thinks Most People Would Rather Have Her to Tea than See Her on the Stage—If You Like Frankness, Here ls a Very Fair Sample. S1RONG broeze and Mrs. Campbell's voice blowing through esl transom made one thing certain and another probable—the win- dows were open, and she was entertaining a visitor, Neither! prospect was promising, for tho day was gray and raw enough for london, and if over “two is company and three's a crowd” it's ‘when one {s trying to lure tho heart-to-heart “interview” from its lair. - The worst was realized as Mis. Campbell herself opened the door and her tumultuous voice battled with the breeze, The windows were open and the third person was there—woree luck! 2 “Mr. Mason is here and he refuses to run away,’ contraltoed The Campbell by way of introduction aud a spare, smoothly-shuven, youngish man in unmistakable English clothes arose in a corner and grinned amia- Die defiance, “You know of Mr. Mason's work—don't you dare say you don't!” ‘warned Mrs. Campbell, clearing the way to a chair near her writing table, On which two vases of roses shivered in the wind. “Yes,” I faltered, remembering “Miranda of the Balcony,” and other works of art, literary and otherwise, But I didn’t want to remember Mr, Mason or hie work, He wasn't half #0 “fair in the picture up there" on the third or fourth floor of the Rotel) oth as the glorions Mrs. ” 1 can't describe women’s clothes, but Mrs. Campbell was wearing a ereamy-white waist of bronchitis-defying cut and a dark, swishy skirt which snaked after her like something trained. Her shadowy hair was caught up carolessly, as if with one hand, and her eyes glowed warmly with | p4 smouldering fire: | was grateful for this—with my first-of-the-season cold | tor there wes no other fire in the room, “ rd s a * a a 'N a note saying I might come, Mrs. Campbell had written: “I will be very pleased to speak frankly with you.” She kept her word only, alas! most cf her delightfully frank utterances were not for publication, “You appreciate, of course,” she blithely explained. “it wouldn't de for me to be quoted as saying “ No, of course, it wouldn't, “You don’t want me to discuss—as one man asked me to do ¢his week— the religion of “Ihe Sorceress,’ do you?” Hoaven forbia! Religion of any kind would be the last thing I should want Mya. Patrick Campbell to discuss, Bina May - She tufned her face to the chaste roses, while Mr. Mason in his corner | smiled at the situation and chaffed fiendishly anent “the uaprintable in- terview.” He was having very much the best of the three-cornered affair, and 1 wished him anywhere but there. “Tell me how you fee! about playlng the part you have ia cereca,’* I suggested. ‘The Sor- “ye Wily ena 6 Chat with Cwort ries ving sys spor Wh a | ju | “4 ae watch dave made me want to shriek. An andionce wil geet a.et of Oa English without stopping to think of what it is getting.” Mr, Mason eat wp and took particalar notion of thi, far ha le ks Mason, and he’s writing a romantic play, with Italy as its locale, Campbell, who informed me she would produce tt here next season, guesecd from some things she eald that ahe rather yearns to revive of her former suocesses during her present stay in New York, | cerely to be hoped that she may, Why not have Mrs. T: z. the bovis” Toraya an occasional night off? Boo om be aid vl things about my back, didn’t they; though?” Mrs. Campbell, when this phase of the raya Ie it really was, Even my daughter ay, you must meet her, Poomshityd orlon ile Wile a oe ad té + pened to come under discussion. “It was | ‘Tho Soreercas’ is 6 success hero, won't you?” | “I shall tell them you are a brilliant success,” vowed the gallant gen- tleman. | “Not real romance,” she replied. “You think that sense iakes the place of sentiment in this country?” “What kind of sense?” a “Say common sense, if you like.” } “That will be very nice of you,” she thanked him; and then she wanted “Why not say commonplace sense?” us to say how she really did look in those gorgeous gowns. “One critic,” There are so many little “cats” in the world that It’s a relief and a relish | she remarked, “wrote that in my first-act costume I looked as if I were in to come upon a panther now and then, even though it leaps straight at you. | love with myself. On reading that I went to my mirror and assumed the “How do you explain this absence of romance?” | exprecsion Just to see if what he said was true; and so far as I could see I) % “Perhaps the tall huildings have something to do with it,” sald the fair | didn’t look the least bit in love with myself,” analyst, leaning her ehin in her hands and gazing out the window with a s s xy s s s a a= Besa eps ei a apr any | w w RS. CAMPBELL held the public rather than the playwrights responsi- ‘ou believe in Fomeane, don’t you? | ble for the sodreltp-ot really serious plana: ft pistagod would vot pein niga Se © Comper ens th Peg Ardea | “The pudlic ikes musical comedy,” was her way of looking st ] ig 3 | the situation. Ghe did not mean the New York public in particular, for she * * Pal ad a | admitted; “T did better. with the Sudermann play here than in London,” HE fall this fearlessly frank Englishwoman took out of our deariy- | Sudermann led to Shakespeare and Ibsen and the confession that she | ~~~ cherished romanticism recalled the awful falls she takes out of “The | would like to appear in their plays. She talked, too, of other plays—plays Sorceress;” and she laughed when asked how she felt over them. | of lesser literary quality. . “I feol like getting on my feet again and apologizing to the audience,” | “More often than not,” she said, “the actor has the ains of a poorly | she rippled, “It seems so silly to go squeak! and come crashing down, as written or badly translated play placed on his shoulders. An audience I am obliged to do eo many times, Bernbardt {s wonderful in this sort of apt to place the blame where it doesn't belong, because it Is occupied with | thing! And you should hear her shriek, SL const0U Ftc Sere She is marvellous. She does three thinge—seeing, hearing and following the story, [% may go away 14th everything #0 very much better than I can do it,” sighed the New York feeling there is something wrong, but it doesn't know just what. The se Zoraya, while Mr, Mason and I chorused polite protest, actor who goes over the again and again at rehearsals knows that/the ta. envy “But you must toll ihem in London,” she begged of Mr, Mason, “that | fault Iles in the language he is obliged to speak. I have rehearsed lines FAIR DETECINES NSTER HOTEL & BIG FOUR LINE WIN THEIR ie > Worlt’s Fair If go SHOU near One with Loose aa Nai and An- a Jacob ie Plans Are other with Cavity Convict “Turned Down” —That Ex- Would-Be Dentist. (ee Beads [Sty Night Vaudeville Conce. @ Next | Week— The Seeret of Polichine Thronah Gi Skirting Riv Route of the Famous Train “THE EXCELSIOR EXPRESS” plains the Delay. “Did you ever as a child play ‘Bear?’” asked Mrs, Campbell {n tho ex- asperating English way of answering a question with another. “Crying ‘Boob!’ and trying to scare the other child?” “Precisely,” agreed the unmasked Zoraya. ‘Well, that's the way I feel ‘tn ‘The Sorceress.’ 1 feel that I am crying ‘Booh!’ to the audience, but that the audience Isn't the least bil frightened—‘that It knows all the time I'm not a sorceress, but just Mrs, Campbell, A woman friend who saw the play the other night told me she was very glad to see mo come out in the dat act in that simple yellow dross, without a lot of tin on me and with my own hair. ‘You looked like yourself then,’ she sald. “I'm afrald,” went on Mrs. Canypbell, “that this Is the general attitude of the public towards an actress. It wants to r > her personality. I'm quite sure the average woman would rather hate me to tea than to Bee me on the stage, just as I" tning to Mr. Mason—"would rather talk with you here than to read of your books. Of course,” she added, as though fearful of wounding the author T don't mean just that. but You both understand, don’t you?” Yes, wo understood. and Mr Maaon, not the least disturbed, smiled ‘ serenely on, o ed 4 a Rd * s 4“ UT,” {t was argued, “doesn't the spirit of romance make up for the pe poes!ble loss of personality?” “Not always,” answered Mrs. Campbell, “espevially in a country | which is not romantic, In France, for instance, the people aro childishly sentimental, and the sentiment of 9 play like “The Sorsrress' ts snre to @xert 4 strong appeal.” “And you holier there ip no romance here?” Tei T, ie Wala ‘The mystery about the delay on the , 3 7 vs Women 4 1 for the Btate Den- 1. ae ven story Knickerbocker Hotel LOWEST RATES EVER OFFERED. ta, Lewronre SGsUn, fil ‘Asace! doeed w conecsett SEY, StAeaatory, Kale COACH BXCURSIONS EVERY WEDNESDAY, ai Earl o: awtucket | Prise e.0018. CneG Mate T0-dare prosecution yes wan cleared up yesterd : Nxt W'K Win Collier, The Dictator? 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