Show TELLS ABOUT STAGE THRILLS Lincoln J F Carter Carer King of Melo Nob Melodrama drama Talks Talks of His Hs Work GOT START IN SALT LAKE SAYS FUNCTION OF STAGE IS TO DEPICT HUMAN EMOTION Lincoln J 1 Carter Cartr and wife of Chicago are arc arc quests at the tIe but that I fact fac in iii il itself l ef would as sa a a general rule I arouse arou little interest interest were wert it not that Mr 1 Carter Cart r many years y ar ago had his first start in Salt Lake and und is today the th owner of the Criterion theatre in iii Chicago and is one of the most pro prolific ro producers of pieces this country countr has ever eer known During the brief span of ot less lose than two score s Ole years he lie has ba written eighteen plays nearly ful all al of which have been success successful Something like years ago agot Mr 1 t Carter then a boy bo of about a dozen Carso wa wat 3 s a press kicker in a H local printing office and while engaged engage there one oUe day da nearly lost his right light arm by b his clothing being b ins caught in the cogs cog of the tle press pres As a result of that accident nine pieces of flesh were nipped out of his ann and by the same process hia lite hf ambition to become a practical printer was os nipped in th the Ow bud Got Start in Salt Lake Theatre From the th printing ollice olie lie he went to the Salt Lake theatre th atle as call caU boy bo a position of no imo IO mean man importance in thore lays days da s Speaking of his Ilis experience during that thu t period loio ot of o lila his hi youth last night ni ht Mr 11 Carter said saidI sid 1 I went welt to the old theatre tonight just juet to see ec if there had been many many changes in the structure There have been very vel few during the past thirty years In my day da Brigham Young was always the principal personage at any performance e given at the theatre At Atthe Atthe the time extreme back bae of the dress circle circe just within the entrance there was a large space railed in iii for the exclusive i se so s of the president of the church his family and his guests It I was not an unusual sight to see the president resident sit sitting sl sitting ting tn there surrounded by his family famil and he enjoyed the plays pla s as much as anyone Down through the center of the house there was another railing and in those days the women eat sat in inthe inthe inthe the right section and the men in the left heft lef The theatre compared favorably w with ith any an structure of the kind between Chicago and San Francisco and out outside outRide outside side Ride of the external appearance I think its arrangements and equipment today are fully as good goo as any an theatre in the county country I 1 thought it i was the most glorious building I had bad ever eer seen and now after the lapse lape of eo so IO many man years I still think that there are features the old theatre that should en endear endear dear dear it i to the heart of every ever resident of Salt Sal Lake Mr ir Carter was in a reminiscent mood and was inclined to tell tel more of the early impressions he had gathered and fostered tere concerning the scene of his early earl career but he lie was induced by gentle gente persuasion to tell tel about abut hta Imie hi own success as a playwright Career as a Playwright u My ry first play was wa TIme The Fast Mail Mailhe Mailhe he said 01 I 1 wrote it when I was 23 3 years old and counting all ahl al the performances given by the various companies pre presenting re seating it it would be equivalent to a continuous performance of twentysix years I got my idea about it in this way I was riding down State street treet in Chicago one day In a grip car I 1 Iwas was wat then as I am now an an ardent smoker and in order to enjoy the full ul benefit of or the cigar ci ar 1 I sat st in one of o the forward seats eats of the grip and just justas justas justas as we approached hed Twelfth street the ear car Nl had to come to a halt in order Oder to let an Illinois Central train cross cross the I street It I was a u abbl train and there th re wa W more more or less les noise made by hv bythe bythe I the train men as the cars car slowly lowb passed over oer the th crossing Cro sin The idea iea suggested itself isel to me moe then that if I could build j a n play pIny in which there should b a moving moving ing big train of cars it would he be the the acme of realism You and everybody else who wl has MS ever been near ner a railroad crossing have trains of seen seNI cars ears moving lug ing inS back buCk and forth but hut I venture to toa say a that you have given it very little thought Yet Yet if you YO were to see se the same thing done on the stage you yuu would be b impressed and alil thrilled by b the action That wa was my 1 unit first thought and amid around I the idea idea I T built buit a structure which after afterwards arel arelI afterwards I wards became known is as n The Th Fast Mail 1 I in invented en ted all ai the stage ma machinery maI machinery I chinery in order to make it a and I 1 believe lieve it i was as such uch in view of the i number of performances given glyen through I the country from that day dIY to this I 1 I i failed however to patent latent my invention tion and the same ame idea has since been ben lon I repeatedly used by other playwrights Other Plays PlaY Written ten My 1 next play I called Ried The TIme Tornado The very name suggests the principal feature of the plot pot but in order or lr to make it successful ul I had to invent a number I of stage effects and I took care eare to coy cov cover co stag er or them by b patents as I have since I done with any an other stage sta e effects I might have found foune necessary to employ I My Iy next play was The Heart of Chi Chicago Chiago cage ago and that has ha lma had performances enough nough to aggregate at least ten years yean Following those were vere The T Defaulter Down Mobile Under the Dome Chattanooga Mil Mid Ocean Two Lit Little Litle Littie tie tle le Waifs Eleventh Hour Darkest Hour Flaming Arrow Remembrance of the Maine The Time Eye Witness Too Proud to Beg Knobs of Tennessee and amid Just Before Dawn While I have hayt been on the coast dur during during lug ing ing the past pa t winter I have completed completa a drama draa which I have have entitled Bed fords Hope I got ot the idea in a certain way wa from a short story stor I read rend in a magazine Its Is stirring realism ap up appealed appealed pealed to me but after digesting it for some sonic time J came to the conclusion I would have to eliminate some of the features and build it up from the the fun fundamental point pint That I have done and the play pIa will wi have ha e its is first production in New York City Cly In February l e of next year Ko No 10 theatre has as yet et been ben se selected seI selected I ted for the th initial performance hut but butI I am decidedly in favor of a playhouse of about 1500 iseo 15 seating capacity My lI i reason for that is this thi Edwin Ewin Booth used to say sy The artistic success of a R aI I performance depends on whether all al the persons in the house are able to hear the dialogue or not If your our house hous Is too large the people in the back rows cannot hear li ar the words unless the ac tic tons toes rant and Should the latter lut do that they they destroy the time illusion mu ion looked locked for by b the persons in the front rows Your greatest gr success will wil come when ll llOU you OU can give ghe a play ilay In a R house wherein the people in tIme the the back seats can caum see seethe the time whites of the time actors eyes ee When hen you CU have gotten the time production down downto to that point then you may ma be he reason reasonably reasonably ably sure of success for tor then every everyone one in the house houS will wi be able to hear the slightest sl whisper pr on the stage That was aB time the th advice given giyen by b Americas AmericOs greatest tragedian true lun and I have by his lila admonition Explains Scope of Melodrama Asked sed as a to what lie he sh uld term the thereal lh real rel melodrama of the time stage today todo Mr lr Carter said sId f Melodrama Is a word There are ae sensational sen U nal plays as 0 on th this the stage today toda med melo melodramas melodramas melodramas dramas but m reality realy far from front the marl mark aad ad aO which tenth tend to ip toa gIve a false ral as s to the real mean meaU meaning meU 1 ing lug of the word As Aa a a matter mater of fact foel there is i scarcely art ly a play l lay produced pruce to today today day In call cn it what 0 ou will wi comedy toed bur bar burlesque ur lesque comic opera tragedy or face f which has ha not got aw an a element elem lt a u fundS funda fundamental funa I mental element of the the melodrama in ft It I It I may not be b easily apparent apprent to the Ut casual asual observer or theatregoer but when you analyze it you ou will wU hind that the germ senn of the action Melon is IR there In other oilier words melodrama melor menus means Human unan nature and in every ter walk lk of o life Jf that element lement can cn be b found if IC we will wil only see se e i iI iI iI I am an an advocate of melodrama for forthe forthe the th reason rn that by boY its it production procton we weIr present Ir nt tn to the people in hI a the things which have manner manner very ly a It bearing bearb on our social sil and ad moral welfare wel welfare fare and by b presenting them in a forceful manner we give instruction to old and young oung alike alke If I any anyone one will devote a little time and thought to the 1 matter mater they will wi see set that I am right In Iii my mv deductions i |