The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1904, Page 11

wt THE \MARIE DRESSLEPRT: “This ‘Star’ Business Is All Rot—Being Called a One—I _Am ‘Star’ Doesn’t Make You Satisfied to Be Merely Entertaining.” O go gunning tn the theatrical field and bag two spectmens of tho rara avis with one shot is more than ordinarily good sport. The rare birds in this case (though heaven know 4 “bird") happened to be "dear * Mrs, Gilbert and more or less young Marie Dressler. ‘The «ontle reader may grap, perhaps at this off-hand harnessing together of two #0 widely different women of the stage. I'm quite sure no vaudeville Manager would ever dream of billing them as a “team,” yet it seems juat!- fiadle to bring them together here—and come to think of it Mrs. Gilbert used to be a dancer, and 4 good one, too! Decause both hold the same view re- farding “stars” who are made while you walt for the end of the play, and decause each rebels at being called a “eter,” e¢ ££ fF Ss * UPPOSE we reverse the order of “age before beauty” and take the case of Miss Dressler first, ¢ anyway, Miss Dreaslor not only won ou over an “all-star cast,” but she beat Mrs. Gilbert down the star-spangied homestretch by halt a week. When Miss Dressler had squeered her- elf into the little reception-roam of her Thirtioth street apartments and 1 had @elicitated her on-outshining all the | pr her stars at Weber's tng<ing mu- sic hall, she crowded bask my well- intended compliment with: "This star business is all rot, I'm not fopiiah enough to imagine myself « star, I've done nothing to deserve such distinction, You gentlemen did it by (being #0 splendid to me in your ‘Rotioes.” ‘How lke balm those kind words, “you Gentlemen," for how often is the damn- ing tribe damned with fainter praise! “But you wouldn't have got the no- tees tf you hadn't deserved them” 1 T protested, “It's awtully nice of you to way that,” murmured Marie, modestly dropping her eyes, which, I was relieved to no- toa, hadn't been scratched out, “I was partioularly pleased for the reason that of all the critics who were at the music hall on the opening night, there was only one who knew me, so T couldn't feel that what they said was the result of personal friendship, or a “pull” ” “Did you expect to make the h the show?” “I never dreamed of such a thing,” an honest-and-truly look fixing itself in the Dressler eyes. “I expected that Harry Morris would be the ‘nit,’” Which only goes to prove that pro- fessional judgment is seldom to be re- lied upon. “Ot course,” added Miss Dreasl ‘I Woped that my songs would ‘go,’ but the best that I looked for was to be fairly well up im the ‘also-ran’ class, To tell the truth, I was scared stifr, T was like tee from head to foot. I al- ‘ways am. Buffer from stage fright? 1 should think I do! My circulation sim. ply stops the minute I hear my cue, and’ tt doem’t start again until 1 get off the stage.” “But don't you find it to be funny?" aT “Basy!" che exctalmed. “T should my hot, It's the hardest thing in the ‘amy Dest I'm really Tm forever reading seri- Augustin Daly once the making of a t wanted meta cope ths and alternate with Ada 1 did. look 9 bit dashed, tor erat doftened the shock ‘Sy aesure m i ition the dog,” One, Wasn't AS GRY Tc we I hesitate to call any | for, | a eee ‘hopelessly unfunny when I try to be tawny. -f must be spontaneous, or I'm lost, The minute I expect to hear & laugh at this or that point it's all over with me. I can’t be automatic, and already 1 see that I shall soon have to ave something in place or my ‘Little A) the same with me burlesque @ person. he Original, Friends my burlesque of Mra, Fiske in ‘Tess’ ts the best pis. l ever did, yet I never saw Mre, Fiske. I get my idea of the rareatte by reading the play or the book, Our nret burlesque at the Music Hall will probably be ‘The Music Master,’ anit Mr. Weber amd I will do the scene at the plano. La J] shall not go to eee Minnie Du- rte wondered how Miss Dri we be able to imitate Miss ‘Dupree's doll- like sweetness. But Perhaps a M oekred muscular treatment Musio Mas Weber would be a ruanier caper, “I hate the theatre, and suldonr 0 to see a performance,” was @ surprising statement. “Hate tt—wh; scouts F I do,” was n. ae noes have by ol The ‘hard fawvita, & woman ave made me nocks, not to say to stand are 1) struggle will rem: E w EVENING w WORLD'S w HOME lady, “I'm not naturally funny, and |) == aX, .. enough to sicken her, When I trying @ spear I thought stage the oni; “and 1 perfectly grand.” dver that kind of nonsense. Uke to have money eno juiet life and go about doing don't bebo rie that I started in at a a ee es od ve nee $e bi Kiel Sam n maxe ton money, put mitt roadway philosopher m| tty ree to his collection, of pare § come, eas ai “Mm , See ds hav in hy This seeaeed me. must be to feel tl great a success those who cheered Bn fast to the “I should I while thus 1 plage mt pursued the reckless a) was car- lite was thought I was Rut I've 54, bravely should vig * i But be able to do Bince & week, my name, tt takes ight ada tle aay by mo 1 don't summer. | as I sald, to Seng at "Breamfand ome be shining star of an all-mar cast hall? ‘ll have a story to tell about my | Dreevens ex) What solace it) overtake on in your © and stead- Miss Dressler spoke mused, ‘to mind. is rot, doean't make you one. be ly ‘entertaint telling you now pave fet only the peanut but the Midget Cry epemhing where 3 could remem le the La dry snte a jo menage cf prise “Yos, just that.” wes Gh AeFEl etm, Dut 2 tock the you rather have the pea. rience ong of these evasive answer, "But vilege of @ big park ret | which. will Ios opench in Chicago q xt As tor being a ‘star’ at, Being called « ‘etae! mn satisfied ENGLISH “PARSIFAL” AMONG NEXT WEEK'S OFFERINGS. “David Garrick on the Art TH solemn trumpetings and the other Bayreuth trimmings, to which Hert Conried has already accustomed impious Broadway, the first New York performance of “'Parsifal" in English will be ushered in at the New York Theatre at 6.90 o'clock on Monday (agement in a new musical Dustin Farnum in “The V! Opera-House. Bernard and Hattle Willems, extrava- ganze called “The Errand Boy,” inginian’ will be the attraction at the Grand “The Girt from Kay's,” with Sam will re- evening, Manager Henry W. Bavas®/ tur to town for a week's stay at will then try the promising experiment of gtving Wagner's highly advertised music-drama in both @ language and a | price within the reach of all. On Monday evening the principals will be: Kundry, Mme, Kirkby Lann; Parsi- fal, Alois Pennarin!; Amfortas, Johanres Bischoff; Gurnemans, Putnam G@iswold; Klingsor, J, Parker Coombs; Titurel, Robert Kent Parker, Mr, Rothwell will conduct, On Tuesdsy night the ‘prinel- pals will be: Kundry, Mme, Mara; fortas, Frans gon ley Cranston TT Mr. Grimm will con reas bs on Homer Lind.) oH be an Be mission for dinner. rien for 11, bi Uy Rees ht the perto the soledu vein a be a halt based later. Jutta Marlowe. Pe n Hf. Bothern will on Monday night, at the Knickerbooker | |! ehange from “Romeo and Ju-| don: ADOPTS “htush Ado About Nothing.” Abe atc “Bird Center,” & comedy by Glen | of MacDonough, of life in a small Tit- nols town, based on a series of cartoons by wuettor oy on area bal . For its jast week a the American mh day hee Ht Waaneeday, Friday “He soe oes ys Lt a Tearne . Bitty Vv, a0, dle: Rost Becumen: and others, will come to the Four. pad Sibert The of foe a eeek's ene Hanna Parsifal, Frengie Maclennan; Am-| a aes) Gurgosians, Ott-| de Mrs. Gilbert in “G The orchestra | bs Fad ery tf Between the first) Susie a escond As ee 7.16 to 8.20, there Hen: re John 7, McCutcheon, | the Harlem Operi-House, | the Metroool Detectives” The Third Avenue will have * le for Gold.” More to Be Pitied Than | will be at the Windsor, the Dewey, and the Americ |lesquers at the Gotham. Continuing at leading thea *The nee. ” Dal Mall; “The Sorceress,” New Am Le rg ey Be tery,” Broadway; Dav! fae ti Maater,”" Belasco am Crane in "Business Is B Criterion: ‘udson; Mra, Fiske in Mantatian; John Drew in in | Merankls,” Empires * Casino: ‘Mra. se Patch,” Savoy; Wiggs demy of Music, Victor Herbert's orchestra ajestio Theatre to-morrow iret fearing. Vurietios will bead ite bik w ert Hilttard and compay tn Ovhers who will appear are Raymonde, the Four Musica} Bd. Reynard, Sherman and len, the Milani Tro, ¢ and Siaiers Major. Feary B, Dixey ant joseph Entani * Wall “The Coliege Widow, William Pavers! a in “EL ‘No. rest, Delmore and Lee. James Hi. cw “The Ninety and Nine’ wil be at \the West End Theatre. “A Woman's Btruggie’ will go to The Russell Brothers in “The Female will be at the Star, "A Strug- Soorned”* ‘The Trocadero Brrleaquers Will be at an Bur- trea will uy sterdam field ju) rege,” fe Sharp,” ae Duke ot the neckers,” at evening the | ive Galter’s Valse intermezac its VAUDEVILLE OFFERINGS, Hacnmerttetn’s Victoria Theatre of ia Monde Avodor, De For- Baler "y appear in Germinal, pany in $ ville bill. will be | Frank H. | mtg) of Acting” Othera will Wormwood's Strange Boy,” Lew Hawkins. At Hurtig and Geamon's Music Hall the Champagne Dance from ‘The Sil- ver Slipper at be Howa: Mi “Her and Josephine Babel will be tures, while others will be Bacloon, Pour Rianos in Van Bicklon and West eo Btuhl in “Th Ceres ts in * ie will be the headtinar title pe Prigr toes art subjects, Eddie “Girard and Jensie Gantner | s in “Dooley and the ; mechanical hea {romps of seraoaia “will iy ood Bh. make Tows-Lancaster Company Georgina Was Bighicen, Healy in “The Clerk and the ind Paul Nicholson and Mise bear nth Sree T c. 4 8a "will Proctor’s Fifth Avenue Edwin Arden in the | Orville and Frank will “Becre d wil sented by the stock compan tors. One Hundred es: street house, where the vaudeyii headed Wh "sane Melville and sh #, Janet Melville and Bvie Beets in Along aye Craay to teen | Monkey Circus, the Circle Theatre. the Moller Sisters, Mons. mM amd Bland in “A the Great Theresas and latte Keene and com- First Divorod Case” the fea. Batley and “In Africa,” in “The roe ie le Case, Pewlu, un ad, and the Prosper up &o Hayes and) e'Iboy”™ Norton Will be among the attrictions, Provo @ hea will offer We rn it Beryl be pre: i by Lew Simmons Y ded je. On the bill at the Yorkville will be Yorke and Adams, Charlee te aod Twen ty the Inky lags jor In jgad Werner In ungie,” Miller, the Lor O'Brien. 1 ids and “| Pennel a Johnson, * re Rote,” will be Uw eblet attraction at Mubers M.neum. ‘Bow Hi, the magician, will continue at . 1| deed," and the dainty lace cap was Distinction.’ coming asmilingly for ward, “don't you dare say, fa 80 many of my friends have ald, T'm glad, Mra, Gilbert, that you're ® star at leat!’ . “Then being duly presented aa a star haa not changed your point of view?" I inquired, remembering what she had told me @ year ago, when sho so inter eatingly Gisoursed the “ eystem, “Not a bit.” she anowered brusquely, proffering a obair opposite her own In the bow-wintow of her West Sixty-firat street home. Tt was the afternoon following her opening in “Granny,” and all about were béautiful, ffagrant reminders that the was “a star at last,” even though sho might be determined to shut h il eyes to the fact, “fie, You've caught me tn the act.” ahe laughed, holding up a handtul of newspaper clippings. “But please don't Weakness for T've always done this sort of thing, I enjoy reading what the newspapers say, good or bad. Some- times, in faot, ‘bad’ notices do you, the most good, {f you're sensible enough to be gulded by the advios which may be given, It is as bad for the actor as for the child to feed on nothing but sweets. A touch of the bitter tones one up!” | “You are finding none of the bitter | in those?” “No,” maid Mre, Gilbert, with a grate. ful glance at the scissored testimon' ¢o her triumph, “But I do wish they hadn't apoken of ase ‘otar’” “But aren't your” “No, I don’t feet that Iam. I've got along all these years without being a star, and I feel I can worry along for the rest of my life without that dia- tinction, I'm not going to begin put- ting om airs at e@ighty-three; no, In- given @ boss that ruffied ita ribbons, “And mind you,” said Mrs. Gilbert, in & peculiar attitude of the defensive, “[ shouldn't have permitted my name to be printed in big type if it wore not for the fact that this is my fare- well tour, Of course’— Bhe stopped. jusiness is business?’ I hazarded. “Bxactly,” she agreed. “And I want) ‘Granny’ to be @ success much on} Mr, Frohman’s and Mr, Fitch's account as on my own. But I do hope people won't imagine I've grown to have an exaggerated opinion of my own Impor- tenes. I'm not dotng any more in ‘Granny’ than I've done in dozens of other pla. “You are, at any rate, doing more of it” “Yea,” sho admitted, “the part is a! long one, Didn't I fad it diMoult to memorize it? Indeed I did. For two weeks at Slaconset, where I was this summer, 1 didn't read anything but my part. I didn’t even dare look at & newspaper. Bic the hardest task wasn't committing the part-it wos making it stick, My memory has be- gun playing me tricks, letting slip to- morrow, perheps, what I learn to-day. I bad all the lines planed to my mind, ie the greeiing’ I got when I walked | on tho stage made me forget every- thing for the moment, I expec ted, of course, there would be some applause but 1 wasn't prepared for what did hap} | nie the greatest night of your liter" , “Oh, Yes," was the simple answer and ‘a suspicious moisture dal pened the | faded blue eyes, “I never expertenc anything like it. I nearly went under when | baw them waving handkerchiefs and later when I heard them singing ‘auld Lang Syne’ Those were the | things which affected me most. It was | all po wonderful, and {t proved to me) that Americans do not forge: you. They it i@ only the Lend jh Who remem bet Ue tem but Cm better American than some Amepicans—I'm a ‘forty- nimet,, you kaow~and 1 want to say that the American public doesn't |forget; that it i more faithful, | inaed, than any other public in respect to. tte actors. Doesn't my V8.8 HP Thad mover been 9 ero “ MRS. GILBERT: “I’ve Got Along All These Years Without Being Star, and I Feel I Can Worry Along for the Rest of My Life Without that M “MAGAZINE ry Blink, At The Theatrical Star.” ivan a yet seo how last night's audience re- membered me. And that is why I do not wish to be called or con-| sidered a star now. It was was advertised as @ sta showed me s kindness Tt was bec for the times I had appe them as plain Mrs, Gilbert, in smali! pa New York theatre-to good-b; type and subordinate parts, that uid . me prouder and happier thi have been had I won their long career as a star, It friendship so much dearer,” they remembered me} Mra, Gilbert was exceedingly enthu-) jastic over her forthcoming tour, “IT hope tt will extend into July," she not because | sald, “for I want to visit every town r that they | Where I have ever appeared. Yes, even last night, | the one-night stands. I am in very fair health and I feel equal to such a tour. And then, when It ts finished, I shoald Ike to appear for the very last time Hor nena. f to pa sranll blaek-bound 3 Bible, and on the cover one reason ared before an I should vThere were baskets and of esteem by a Sowers, sane. Mra, Gilbert told me, {rom peonl ry ‘ made their‘) of all” these “pel eifes | treasure this most, Tested! 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