The evening world. Newspaper, April 29, 1905, Page 9

- Zonz May Singing Ty Lillie Canoe , t ato Mm eth oo, " rOne, that of Ethel Barrymore, Woke Her Out of a Sourd Sleep—in Trying for Maude Adams She Snapped Up a French Maid—Once She Catches a Personality, Miss Loftus Never Loses It) W TINH your kind permission, ladies and gentlemen, I will now give & very vad imitation of Mias Cocelia Loftus. It’s not an easy “act,” and I approach it with the shrinking modesty of the amateur, instead of the smug assurance of the vaudeville ‘(headliner who loves to put himself down on the bills as a “protean ertist.” ‘ Miss Loftus ‘loesn’t lend herself readily to the painful proness of in- | terviewing. She apparently fears to tread where other angels of the foot- | Mghts rueb into print and yillingly tell you all thoy know ead a little move besides, Miss Loftus vill frankly tell you what ehe doesn't know; ‘ among other things that #h¢ doesnt know how she does her/imitations, Des lta ay ing Sa &n \otrosa who doesn’t know ft all! He comes ig the psychology of her unusual. } Loftus emilea Lsitiewnwed iapt e7 hands in her lap and ree io eke @wer your own questions, he\s not capricionsly “Cisay;” she:ts Coedlia, I am sure she regardet me as a visitation ee than es pgseend Bhe struck me not only a8 difhont, but as positivel i otioed ies characteristic from in frolt, but imagined t ene he ‘than 4 Stor affectation. She seemed Ike w bashful schoolgirl, in her stmpte whi Kk, as she stepped almost hditati : erly mane wore of announcement in ashi asah ios sce gt ae “Imi-tations," ‘ ad rd a) Pd as s ‘ wy KS, I was nervous," she\contessed. “Tt am always nervous, but thia afternoon I wos mre eo than usual because ‘Miss rama Garus was in front, andi knew my imitation of her, which I {was aiving for the first time, wouldbe bad.” “How did you know?” ~ } "Oh, I Just knew," was her won\n's reason. “I saw hor in ‘Woodland’ temly ones, and I hadn't succceded inbatching alll of her.” ‘And how do you ‘catch’ people’ 1 asked, beoomi: tevented-—ta | | trust you are by this time. % bit ; “I don't know,” she replied, with) lamo little smile, ‘I don't believe +a have ever stopped to think how I doit, ‘Tt doesn't do for me to anatyne, 1 get people, or I don’t, that’s all. IM impossible for me to explain the. | process. I don't understand i myself. 1 simply go to a thoatre and watoh ythe person I intend to imitate,” ' “You go as you might at any othertime, and chat while (the performance 18 going on?” i Veupahitied “Oh, no, I mustn't do that. First ofl, 1 plok out a certali D and give my undivided attention to When the fick ins ree “is on the atage I can’t he distractedby conversation, My friends all ‘unl land that and loave me alone. 1 cokentrate all ™y powers of obser- : ration om, ty.eubject and try unconsctoush to absorb everything I see and ‘heat,’ mf t f J Apri go home and practise tho initation?” i} "Those quick, blue eyes corrected this id hefore yer: “No, yt? practise an iinitation, 1 lait for betiohhld Sometimes ae a ean mes it 18 a long.\me coming,-and sometimes It - it comes ae poaire ‘hot pxpecting it | Yes, . For instance, t woke y; 0 ¢ to Tat asieat aoe tie, Marryeare'evoigee fant eee, ARE to \faye times tn ‘Bunday,’ tnt I couldn't get her (When 7 tried, tt wee smarty pelt and not Miss Barrymore who was spoking. ban oat I knew { had it the momont Tw eka, UbNe one eine it was that 1 did not get Miss Barrymde in the sceno 1 theen = — i . | It wae another—the ono where sho U4 whieh I had paid’ no parttoular at! anon been at et ber, i bi other. Peltyhetakey eae thing tdyo, and that was to wait. cone » ran over I" toe te f ono 198 Lotte Yt y 16 dia her coNer-hone, and prs and iol the vader in true Barrymore style. Hven Mias Barrymon itkes tt, jamong them Jacob Adler and Mrac. Lerniardt at all,” she said. ‘The only way that I could explain my failure was that hers is a peculiarly elusive personulity. Meanwhile I had somehow or other caught Margaret Gordon, who pleys the French ma{d in ‘The Little Minis- ter’ It was awfully provoking, but i still have designs on Miss Adams and hope to count her among my victims one of these days,” “Once 1 get an imitation I never lose it, It’s like learning to swim. You don’t forget the trick. It was nine years ago that I studied Bernhamit, but she is as fresh in my mind as though it were yeaterday. T went to seo her five times--it was in London—hefore I could get the tones of her volos, Once the vocal tones are caught the rest is easy,” “"¢ you can be Bernhardt for a scene, why not for a whole play?” “For one thing,” said Miss Loftus, passing her hand wearily over her eyes, “it would be the death of ine. I couldn't stand the strain of one act of hor emotionalisin, let alone a whole play. Hven the little imitation of ber leaves me ® wreck. 1 am all to pleces every time I give it. Some imitations are easy, seme comparatively hard, but the one of Bernhardt is the most trying of all. It always weara me out,” “How about imitations of men?” “As a rulo they are much more difficult to do than imitations of women, T suppose it's because they are less natural to a woman.” “No you find yourself acquiring imitations of people with whom you constantly come in contact?” “Never! On the other hand, the reverse fs true, FamfHarity sooms to breed impossibility. That 1s the reason, perhaps, why Ada Reben was éo hard for me. I was in her company, and I watched her every night for six weeks before I could get a lino on her at all,” “But didn’t you begin by tmitaling people around you?’ “No, I never thought of mimicking anybody until one day in London, whon I was @ girl of fifteen, I went to a theatre and saw & girl gtving tmi- —_———. 9 ‘thee evasone, es Rameo, Frank Gi- AR Lenrisdayia) accompanied by| more will be the Bersntto, ry Blake, his pretzel dialect; buxom Hattio | yin pla: Ber ' Wittlams, drawling “Joe” Coyne, | Wampens ot the Bereta) Raina gsc wmrightly Amy Angvles, Sidney De iad Grey end the latest apriog styles in| /*F O74 Dodwon Mieshell, girls, will bring “The Rollicking Giri” to the Herald Square Theatre on Mon+| noone of Monduy, Tuesday, Thi a day night. With thie paodwotion | ang miday, Henry B. Hatris will Oberies Frohman is maling a new de- sear GR ER nL dn dle Nt ak parture by puting forth a “ammer| ©" Mr Geren Cowell Le Moyne qnd Paton ebcanensca eats us: Honeet, oa |Sattte eee nek anes seaee os Grace weather during the warm months, iden pes eenedl bgt seals Lhe ‘iy re ton in Rol rown~ “Nhe Rocking Girl” ia a now version! ings tragedy, “A Blot in the of “A Dangerous Maid.” It ds @ must | igoutcneon,” @ performance of which cal play in thres acts by Gydney| wag given at the same theatre on a Rosenfeld. The music was written bY | recent afternoon. W. T, Wrancis. Mr, Bernard will play Be ian a the part-of @ Viennese wigmaker who| The 'Progresmive Stage Society will becomes the friend and defender of @/ give matinee performances of Ibsen's young sctress, The aceries are laid in| ‘The Masterbullder" at the Berkeley a Hungarian village and Vienna, Lyceum on Tuesday and Thursday. eo .8 eee Miss HWthel ‘Barrymore will be On Monday aftetnoon .at the Ori- in an Ibsen play for the first time at|terion Theatre Charles Hewtrey and the Lyceum Theatre on Tuesday night, | company will, for the benefit of the Ao- when sho will appear as Nora in “A| tors’ Fund, give a performance of a Doll's House." She will give eleven | comedy dranja entitled Dd ey evening ormances ‘and two Batur-| Life,” written by George P, Hawtrey, day a iitath after which sho ‘will start | brother of the actor, for her annual vacation tn Burope,| * ie i ‘The role of ‘Torvald Helmer, Nora's} "Mrs. Temple's Prelsurasn ll Bs husband, will be taken by Misa Barry- Dent iweniee Ab esnetlon at Gran more'’a leading man, Bruce MoRne, | Opera House, al Joseph Brennan will play Krogstad,| Charles Hawtrey, In fasanrgn tive who holds the note that Nora has ply will be at the Harlem Opera- ned » .. | House, CORE FARES ANSP ase De) “eBustor Brown" will make the ao- Rank, and Sata Perry will have the role of Mere, Linden. quaintance of Harlem youngsters at the pity Sh OM Wost ind ‘Theatre, The Milionalre Detective’ ls an- George Baycott Will yyinary cl hi*) nqunced for the Fourteenth Street The- stock conmany at the miner Sa , at: alta. tre on Monday night, ‘The bil will be) “as., Atueray FIM ‘Theatre will have ehanded cach weelg and new Stat | onarey Grapewin in The Awakening At the Hudson Theatre on the sfter- Bertha tu a Se) Hie venting, I Will Help You Get a lations. I went homo and told my mother that I knew | could do very much better than she did, and as I wanted to go on the stage I hit on that plan as. means of getting there.” UT now that Miss Loftus is back to her first dove, after a shy at Shake- speare.and shying at Zangwill, she !s not happy. Sho 1s reading plays fn the hope of finding one that will give her an opportunity of real- ising her higher ambitions. “Tmitations are all right for a while, and I rather enjoy getting back in them, but one doesn't like to be forover playing somo one else. be yourself for a change, The trouble with "Thd Serlo-Comic Govorness’ Sam Bernard in New Part; Ethel Barrymore in Ibsen of pring at the Third are still to be rd of the palace of the Tasamerstein's Victoria lain: Cecelia Loftus next of new imitations. Dolan and Usnharr, Hill and Sylvany, an, Fred Niblo, fa Morris will be where sho wil t xperionc will be fun at rton's Big Galot; Deway, an ——LYME — y & 624, Mat, Daily, 20. COLONIAL nese Yea | Buckner, Frank Tent Bee hi gare ma, tem Toy,” Pairs a Dadsy Girls, Victor Ldttlefield, | edwin Bilton, Filey and Burke and Luts brothers wW ill also be on the At Keith's “Dido” will 7} teenth street an a iL will include Girard and Gurdner, i George Wilson, Quartet, Snyder and Buck: ‘and Vinoent, Caline Bot Belmont, Conlon and ‘Hastings an 9g, {peume. |. Dixey will head the bill at Hurtia & Seamon's, and Wi Man and Callahan and Mack will share first honors with ‘the original Adonis, Others will be Elsie Janie Roberts, Hayes and Roberts. the Patty Brothers third Btreet Theatre will head its Bill wi MNotlk of "Monte Cristo” i Gehrue and tho ei | Moore and 19 Alice Hscher tn Oneida, John & Cacrie } The Penge! for Criteon theatres CeOr the wpring, 90 or El it tea will de Byen Fe will be the soloist, Proctot’s Twenty- TAN i i ERICAN x annual benefit ant W By, THD MARKS Bh ne, Mr, O'NehL who Is malking jils debut tn vaudeville, Drouet, supported by Wil be seen in "The Surburban” at the Fifty-slahth Street" y Fifth Avenue Theatre ''D: with “A Bit of Instruction” as a cure 07 House to-morrow nij will be another testimon andor Comstook at the Acad Friday afternoon, at the Broa: ing Grace Beals, . Keith’s 's:.'” Mas eta Inptitution conduc 5c. BI. Wantrattas {Hb PROUD LaIRD | Beem undred and Twent e, given under the auspices of tl agers and agenta of Ne a ing at the Metropo! Tony Pastor's offerings will include Campbell, Redford and W nd the Orpheus Trio, overly, and’ Danvers, ft. Ci wreatling beara will be a feature at Huber’ Museum, iN BROOKLYN, ' pt ay Bonet in’ *Bocoacclo’’ was that in it I was a little of everybody and hot much of anybody. Mr, q Frohman was go intent upon tmprossing Mr. ZafRawill with: my ‘vensatflity”? that the result was a character hopelessly unhuman, said that this or that person {s nol nn actor, when tho truth of the matter may be he has never had a chanct to prove whether he is or not. You've, got to have the right kind of a part before you cin show what you oan do. I am living in the hope of one day getting the right sort ot play, Mean- while I must be content, I suppose, to show how other people act.” + ‘ “And do ‘other people’ object to seeing themselves as others see them?) 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