The evening world. Newspaper, April 11, 1908, Page 9

{ ' ' The Evening Worid Daily Magazine, Saturday, April 11, 1908: ‘" “ BPRPPPP PD EQDPDD DS EODHD PODDHHOD PDD YD OD DDODHYDODDDDD DEDE DEODS' CLERRODOOERESO® JOHN MASON Says an Actor ust Be Hypnotic -+€ 3 to Hold His Audience in a Spell and Win Success WE rae’ } JI Be ait sh.) ROSESES ESESES ; 1 1 iy an ugly ¢ t. I would) was the beginning of Mr. Frohman's | Star of “The Witching HF ei Ht aly on ett Month nnd i marked «tne . Hour” Believes That a urea oe oe ee ese i Power Greater Than Words rs to conve fe tha rs Gonidince aid comma cPovbttned ceere ety RYDE CLI ; dd : it dificult A s r iit ny n, is the pleading law who soa He acts to the Theatre, and, Going Further, Uses a Lawyer to Prove His (st say a mi nce fee en, An the aa Case. fois On ‘ Us ere er OAC’ COOEOMO OY ay An Auto Story with Speed to It} Champion By John Colin Dane. DOODOOODDOODO, By Charles Darnton. " OU'VE all heard of the Indian fakers who hypnotize hundreds of open-eyed spectators into the belief that tney see trees growing skyward while they wait and marvel. But, to come a step nearer home, has it ever occurred to you that you have seen actors performing much the same trick in much the same way? Not that I mean to call good actors fakers—and for the sake of clearing the air let us leave the bad actors out of this. Suppose we take, for example, the witching actor in the witching play and see what {s/| happening in Forty-second street, As I was saying ‘Y you car @) @) @) ssible I'm id saves his power ov matter ‘TP DODD IO 0000000000000 0000000. (Copyright 1907 wy G. W. Dillingham Com-) heard wh Fy | (Con: 7 6... i rand what he sald. He was aking te pe Introduced to Hugh Cameron's n | ter. | ut: The Yankee Millionaire. the ves in al r old to tell t. added are fie names 4 “Why, of course, 1f you wish,” re turned Barr-Simons, evidently far from pleased at the suggestion, “But s awfully upset about her brother, 4 now. Don't you think another time’— ‘| It's wbout her brother that I want Pat who was called “The ng Island City? Well, | y a bad man with a gun who “ This was the {dea that drove me to Mr. John Mason. 1 hesitated some imnneleatit ie bly said Vandervoorst, “I should what, for Mr. Mason has always {m- ma Ted to you 1f you'd introduce pressed me as a silent man and an li le was. He dan-| Short of ungraciousness and makin: eloquent actor. Months had gone by | Pea neee ne Mmaclf disagreeable to the young mille Scaare eee ARETE AGE TA ITAI warned not to g0 near barn. But fonaire, Barr-Simons could hardly hold Mr. Ma ay that didn’t st Pat. He kept rig off longer; a: Newspaper columns had not been| lite leventwient Cay Sau i ag te Champions FeAGhes | think twice nab eaer soy that people ringing with his voice. But he had his gun and threatened t ne disagreeable to millionaires, ayanne ee kya cto (APs tiem COG CMG 5 E = ff 1f he came a step ne i : 5 : Deen | they, too, are rich an seas Pi meni Geanttotdean Han: ing That Telepattic Stuff Over the Foot- "t! sald Pat, and wa Those ‘Sleepy | amps.”’ ho the two | He brought Wanner ween Seer cae z = lights Is No Easy Maiter.”’ 7suencalialye(cok udience follows as a matter of |! Beth tnelat Ue RO eer ree LS name. Ap: 5 en he gave him a Mf Mira, Harr-simons, takes | ly Mrs, Barr-Simons a: op n' ” nt b ” hopit rn the | A ci nd the I'm not much of a talker," he told! jaugned in the wrong place since. I work on the part of the actors trom a sent him on his w Mason roused tol lightdarcleari| eo eos eT UR ote aman ee Sparen had met previously, for they me—and I liked him for it. don't maintain that brought | beginning to end. 17 "sno let Whether Pat had ex: hypnotic fhenepirateditiersubiest ga z TaGhaE BY each other before Vatder- Yt, out by telepathic o. ip « al comfortably " ° jus! ain erve, exan speakiny u -poare (liege, PAZ | about by pathte or up and drifting mfortably if power or just plain Irish nerve, Mr. 5 BF D © very earn Usually your primed fori pubs rercoms bie mtads “ you don't happen to feel espectally ex Mason didn't say FAA Matter of Control CHAPTER X. and gravely to Sheila. estly, oa? amin G2 AA ‘ : 5 | Se lication, 18 very much of a talker. smiled a bit triumphantly, ‘th 6 b “perhaps I am atraying from the ieeetieenmiateth Pare | ae eing her thus occupled and not | He talks you pale in the face, And terward tried the fe exper! ou find Brookfield a hard part?” — gupject,"" he remarked, “but at any SH cle aceiardd eters cece (Continued.) Wishing to put themselves forward qj 5 = VE eae 3 ‘i sa know a Murrays move ‘ard, tl ead it again and enothe Cee Mr rate Pat did what he started o: Enemy. ed awa ‘ : he knows what he fs talking about, for he has resd 0 at again) on) anted eilfiaugh( andi no) lain Tee a cewvineen tha Medea, 3 The y [little distance. ‘Then Peni aoe Heatanitumbny altlinel andvorime@o have your Dut yourcan'e cell, him\ ao) (1) wouldencergreniine to! explain Coane tateeinia eee | While they were tatking, and before| each other, and a moment nemered to wy CH your vy heart. Sometimes he cks things," he added with re Ue ater aes Oo) at an Arthur rush | Barr-Simons could get them away—| th 5 s ent later, wilie | You must wear a light face with your heavy heart HolChuchs Lines ipsa Cd ded rt ea neaee r thust do, He must make his aaanallineuatinaticumlicine cranvareoushtoldelisetnenmen fececene urmur nwitos all responsibility, “ve ! ner, oblivious of them, father and dience belleve in bh home-made epigrams at you and waits for you to print them. Not long Toolutely certain. th The actor at t atre, and! so—Mr, Vandervoorst. woo had daughter came strat ght to where I now go an actor who {!s a hopeless victim I kept saving to myself, a1, fr. Whytal and mys Joes this must possess a certain in their n old-fash-| from his distinguished com) | stood, miserably of the pernicious habit fed me a dozen | 3 v hed the scene that to do with the serio power. He must give you a joned back-drop with the T am a) came toward the group. His face was) ment of my TEL, awalting the settie- | of them in typewritten form, believing, | had almost been ruined the mht be-| audience. Of course home to bed. I have played parts | feeling of confidence. A very good t dellover in the mechanles of act-|even nicer than it had been in the vho-| phe tw, Me | of course, that I would feed them to) fore I concentrated my mind on the) heen due to the way ! that called for a greater expenditure of illustration of this ts given by Mr, The most tremendous scene tn al tograph pinned up in our workshop, | meenoh aeatnicee were with me were 2 . 2 : wan to t He father about me in English, ae (one T in J me to the fact that jut now It was very grave, He duff, for instance, Walter Hamp that followed lasted the House ieieteeirieieebiei-ios one thought, ‘You CAN'T laugh! Well, | was acted y didn't laugh, and they haven ws handling and Ieleeiciieieleleleielelnieininieleteinle “The the press. The press {s still runnin, and able to ent its seven editions a day ee t has nothing to fear from Mr. Mason. | eitbici-iricicviviebieieieieleivini + ad exister Be ne | ‘Oh, Dad!" she exclaimed, “isn't {p 4 a wi He wasn't eplgrammatic. He was |to0 sad to wee the poor ore Fnwion nc. ‘Lhe Seven Ages Of Great Men: (7) Governor Charles E. Hughes tse ic8 8 “Start me off with a quostion,” he | only a iittle, little while phy eee aean ago! Yet look “Well, then,” I complied, "do you be- ; Weve there Is such a thing as hypnot- | *What Do You Mean?” fem in acting?” f “Great Scott, Lda, what do you Mr. Mason's “sleepy lamps," to quote | mean?” exclaimed Mr. Murray, “Who's our gambling friend Lew Flilnger were] halt dead after being 90 gay?” wide awake in an Instant. K “Why, the dear car, of course,” said “There ts no core of tt, peut Lia, quite impatient at not being undere ap Sta tae, Bra Cade) Petrol on her if I hadn't beam s whatever you may choore to thet yd orabolling ‘her dress. She knew is the great secret of the actor's at I was no senseless mass of twisted at It he cannot metal and splintered wood. She honored ot be success and pitied me at the same time, and’ fies staan wave me credit for the anguish I was raiiaaar suffering, “Lf only it's fared better with tho owner, I shall be thankful,” she went on. “But I'm afra!d that friend do and bringing his hand Lf | Hf, SAGE iis success ot/Mlns| Caineron's; whvever tan la Cane / AS GAS INVESTIGATOR iy, bo only trying to encourage her. I'm Was RET EATED WNAGHELINSURBINE ONED scar es mont epdut iM Cameron, end “IN WHERE » ae OD ? VARIOUS WELL KNOWN CITIZENS TO THE DOWN AND ourc lus 1 Weil, he was @ very fine fellow, but we've only known him three days,” sald [CANT SEE Mr. Murray. | “Don't say ‘was,’ as if he had coased THROUGH THOSE ito bel" exclaimed the girl “How hor- WHISKERS rid of you, Dad. I don't suppose we'll ever see anything of him after this, whatever—whatever happens to him, for giish, as if they 4 to Barr-Simons in a low votoe, had no existence for her, han Z2AGE- BORN AT GLENS FALLS,N.Y. APRIL, II", (862 , THUS HE IS FORTY-SIX YEARS OLD To-pAY, COULD READ AT THE AGE OF THREE , Lovep Toys FOR THE OPPoRTUNITY | THEY AFFORDED HIM To | INVESTIGATE THE SHAM IN THEIR CONSTRUCTION pucoess. on ni doubt It If he stops to ment, he ng up and ratsing ctor walks on the stage he] se over the au- either Gience or he doesn’t. And if he doesn't he might just as w that peculiar elt the moment Its | 3 ho will fall to make The student of | nething white sser appe: |} any real | acting may ning from ex- ee | erlence, of co y even learn we have to take our tour, and he'll be 4 mething ur drama‘ going back to England as soon as he's smething ou ein schools; but he cannot learn to exer: well enough. By the time we get there, months from now, of course he'll have @ power that is net in him from the | beginning. I have seen a young man bring | card and inake a greater impre than the actor with the| whole play behind him. Actors are born, not taught nd to get anywhere they must have a force that {8 a part of them, It may bo ‘genlus,’ it may be ‘personality.’ it may be ‘magnetism,’ but in the majority of cases I belleve) BookS.couLD it is hypnotism.’ DIGEST WHOLE. To leave Mr. jon and go to Tllen LIBRARIES WITHOUT THE AID Terry for a moment, the English ac- SR naa eaahs wring at her, OF ANY LITERARY P, fois a Mean se icy] POR EXERCISE He Gites - SNe of that “heaven-born actor,” William ESSAYS ON “SELF HELP* “THE EVILS ie. Terrtss. ‘He had very little talent, OF LIGHT LITERATURE’ ETc brain, taste’ or knowledge.” she writes | in MeClure's, “yet ihe ‘got there,’ while many oleverer men stayed behind” Bhe goes on to say that “children wer. aimply daft about him." and then » tells this Ite story. which brings 4s Moser to him: “A Ittle American girl, daughter of William Winter, the famous critic, while staying with me jn England, an- nounced aravely when we were out | @riving: # I've gone a mash on Terris.’ “@here waa much Inughier. When it Wad subsided the child said gravely “Oh, you can laygh, but it's true, 1 wish I was hammered to him.’ ” forgotten us, But all the same, I teel as If I knew him better than lots ef othar men who've been calling on me twice a week since I was a little girl. In spite of what Miss Cameron's friend Says about the chauffeur, I feel, through and through, that the accident did hap ben through foul play of some kind. Ta give anything to find out what it wes and prove it." A Woman's Will. | “When you once make up your mind a thing's so, not all the king's horses wor the king's men can make you change your idea,” said Mr. Murray, or all the king's automobil ether,” retorted Lia deflantly. ‘And talking of automobiles, 1 wish I felt as easy In my mind as his sister seems do about letting Mr. Cameron's car ut man's garage till he's weil take tt back himself, Sup e plot?" Mr. ‘plot 2M AGE SUBSISTED ON Sg? ELECTED GOVERNOR “OF NEW YORK STATE jN os (706,IN WHICH OFFICE sae HE HAS REMAINED A CONUNDRUM urray, ‘You're gen- the family. Didn't call Mr.” Cameron en his sister. At first Ee I imag'tne that Mr. Mason “hammers” x 1 He 0 you to Brookfield in ‘The Witching | 16 uk ca Hour." And it ts not always an easy | E ee say Mr. Ca rar matt.. to do this. His word for it al) a 4 a 1 My MADE HIS FIRST PUBLIC = wane ti, you Using the Power. AN ar 4 Bf SPEECH AT THE AGE OF /3 f cS 3 Vt pos ‘n handing that telepathte stuff ove: = Js ) z eee MESCHTRH oy achlaat Ov con alana: ine é GRADUATED FROMMADISON . : = ME THE LAW FIRM OF Se fusray, lo audience from the frst T soma! N Na COLLEGE Z ran 5 LCRA y le ¥ ’ yee h a deucedly hard Jc ) 7 HIN : Cr HEY PATI REC ea > AND TACKLE LSE j LAW AS IN OTHER CON ED OUT AS A RACETRACK josie whl the night there wore tittera. ‘Thiw next 4 at! vss MATHE BSA e. i LEAN BOG FOR ALONG RACE" so yor “AND FL SPANKER-IN= , ek ae Manton ‘determined that the ua QOS* BAL MATICS IN DELHI CoLLe WASHE THAT IN 1707 HE LECAME HE $ SIR OR HI IGANN UBLIC | ut bin Shateriastae"Oraeram® TH BEFORE HE WAS TWANTY ONG YAARO QD, FIRM AND WAS NAMED TO INVESTIGATE THE GAS TRUST = CHIEF OF THE GAMBLING P 1Sre \ (To Be Continued. LE ae eves wente tot 200 \