Show S PROM FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN Mrs Fiske has made the following statement as to the production of Monna Vanna There Is an im impression that I have hae been associated with the production of Monna Vanna In justice to all concerned I shall be grateful if this impression is correct corrected ed Mr 11 Fiske is the sole producer of Mr 11 drama and he di directed directed all the rehearsals of which I saw but two It has been stated fre freQuently frequently that I directed the acting of Madame Kalich in hi Mornia Monna Vanna This statement I is peculiarlY embar embarrassing rassing to me As A I 1 consider Madame Kalich one of the most accomplished and greatest of living players I would scared presume to direct her in her art S Plans have been almost completed for tn an important theatrical alliance In London this coming spring when Olga is CJ to join fortunes with Forbes Robertson for a London production of The Labyrinth Paul i in which Miss is now touring in America Miss will of course appear as MarIanne Do De 1 while Mr Mi Robertson will play the role of Max De Dc played in this coun country try by Hamilton Revelle Americans will be further Interested In learning that Gertrude Elliott sister of Maxine Elliott and the wife of Forbes Robert Robertson son will be seen in the tame same company a a Ive really come to the conclusion that its a good investment for an an i actress to ko go into retirement as I did I for a couple of seasons said lI May y Irwin one day last week They I seen one in n California for five years until I appeared there last month and I they almost ate me up I have entered upon my second western tour and Im delighted to say that I shall have to remain a stranger and a pilgrim from dear old Broadway for the rest of the season owing to the success of that man Warfield who wont even let me inc come in and play in my own theatre They tell mo on every hand that its a avery avery very bad theatrical s season ason but I found It so and when I men mentioned the fact to Mr Warfield he also said that he felt faIt sure this report must merely be a canard canardA a a a aA A group of theatrical and news newspaper newspaper paper men were sitting around a table in a club grill grUl when wIlen the conversation turned to Charlo past life writes Ronnold Rennold Woolf That man was the original inal boy wonder when ne he first came on the newspaper job out ChIcago In ro re marked mared one of the more matured jour ts r I was Iwas pretty wise to the game but ho he nearly cost me p si and ho ha did succeed In Queering two of my m on other papers t You seo Dillingham wept went to work on the Record From the he mule terms with the managing the Record begun began to pun pull off a succession of clean beats in the hotel district that it made us ua all nII dIzzy I Every day we would plok up the Bee ord to find in It news t a notable ho hotel hotel tel arrival together ith an extended Interview with the ce celebrity The ho hotel tel reporters It They went to the clerks and demand demanded ed an explanation The latter hatter only smiled blandly and pointed to the tho reg regIster regIster Ister where sure enough was the name of the distinguished person This thIng kept up for tor Po a month It got so monotonous that managing editors of the other papers tool too the proprietors of the hotels to task and nd absolutely demanded that in the fu future future ture their representatives be advised of an all important arrivals t Even tEven thIs measure had no effect and finally impelled b by the instinct of the report rs on the theother theother other papers appointed a committee to tow w watch Dillingham Dillingham waited every night until the regular hotel hotelmen hotelmen men hat hail made their rounds then reg registered the name of a United States senator a foreign nobleman or a col college college lege president sauntered off to the of office flee fice and wrote the interview InterviewS S S SA A few days ago an advance man man in t Kansas City wrote to the manager of the Aurora Mo opera house aSking I for a Sunday night date The reply shows that the rural manager is not only a business man of unquestioned I sagacity but that he also has a keen I sense of fun His reply to the advance t man follows t Say Old Settler what do you think I have here This Is not a town han hail I with oil lamps where here you put on your makeup in the fr front mt rpm and then walk valk right through th audience to the stage with your makeup on ThIs is a real opry house I generally play attractions at 50 and 50 per cent that cost a da day and when it Is Sunday the rate is 7 25 I take the 75 For Forme Forme me to take SO 80 and you 20 would not be doing your opry troupe as I would hope to be done by To business for fora a minute I can only use shows at 75 5 never play anybody better than that and these terms are liberal for Sunday Sunda night If you have a big railroad jump make the company walk Hoping to see you on time etc Mrs FIske bas jias some strong opinions the of She on subject I Isaid said in speaking of the subject I 1 have hae not words strong enough to say 1 precisely what I think abo t th the ordinary nary interview which the newspaper prin prints ls with the actor or actress It makes the subject of It presumptuous arrogant egotistical anything and everything but what he may be It Itis Itis is mortifying humiliating and I often oftentimes oftentimes times wonder why actors ever consent to grant interviews Imagine yourself in his place and thinK of sitting down and talking for half an hour an hour or two hours Yourself Now could anything be more humiliating lating more egotistical than that S S S SEdward E Edward Iwar P Sullivan who is this season playing the role Tole of o the Master Masler in Babes In Is ar old pearean actor and in a addition to having played serious roles in corn com companiEs panics has had much experience In barnstorming it Once in hi his younger days das when he was in a stock company in L Leadville Cob Colo during the mining milling ex excitement excitement a western tragedian visited the town to play a w weeks ks engagement with the stock The opening bill was Ham Hamlet let and Sullivan was cast for Laertes The tragedian was VEry particular about the combat scene and rehearsed Sullivan in it very carefully all the details of which Sullivan promptly forgot as soon as the rehearsal was over mer When the cue cuc for th the fight was given Sullivan de determined determined to do or die an and went want at It ham hammer mer and tongs Of course he be got it aU all and the star was furious and In lis Hs e excitement broke his sword He turned to go off to get a substitute w weapon pon which he be kept conveniently In Inthe inthe the wIngs As he did so au an Inspiration struck Sullivan With a whoop life that of a Comanche Indian he sprang upon th tb unsuspecting Dane figuratively and stabbed him in the lack back fifty times and thin then ran off the stage in the opposite direction That Tha t the performance right there Laertes escal escaped with his bis life but did not return to the theatre the star had departed from Le dv UI i Farewell R a sad farewell to the su m super per perShall Shall it come to pass Are the bo boys s who aIT the spoors spears to lo be relegated to the background Ho watchman What of the night I Wh when the candIdates around to get i posItions as senators naton soldIers and uh Shall all these ambitious stalwart per persons perSons sons be ed b by r m machinery chinery Beerbohm Tree the noted English actor manager hiss lUtS Introduced d a 3 novt novelty In his London theatre By the U use of the gram Mr Tree now supplies his sound effect In Richard the Third he hc had his entire company rattle swords and chains before the instruments and then Hed ed the disks The advantage of this method is that lie he alwa always s gets precisely the same effect The gramophone people have taken up this idea and have hare secure secured records of chimes organs pianos and to be used in th theatrical productions They have hare progressed so far that in case of Ibor troubles with bands they an n fur furnish furnish nish complete selections o of the musk music de desirEd desired sirEd S S SHere Here is a new story concerning Mme Ime Bernhardt It comes from New York and Is told by a nan man who witnessed what he declared was one of the French as ac tresses most Impressive performances It was in Detroit and the play was one of those innumerable pieces where the wife discovering the husband unfaith fUl protests In a stormy scene that she will go forth and do likewise This man mansat mansat sat in the pit PRying paying little attention to whet what was occurring on the stage e when ud enly his ear caught an unfamiliar sentence In tirade He sat up antI listened Th his astonishment the actress s while we and scolding and storming at her husband Quite as 15 sh she was delivering herself in choice French of nn an invective against Detroit hotels In general md the hotel w where ere she WitS was re registered in particular The Tle food was bad the s service was worse and if ever she came to that t house a again in might she he hone to die and dwell f forever reer in America So she poke and fell weep big ing at her stage husbands knees The audience thrilled by her art burst Into rapturous applause The roan man ill In the tho pit gazed around for or some sign of appreciation In a fellow listener but ir irvain irvain vain Nobody lear ar him understood French |