Show ROLES THAT GROW TOO FAMILIAR FAMILAR Do players become become sick siele o ol their rolls roles Yes Yos and of themselves too when they thoy aro are O to cling to roles role until Individual word of the creates an acute nausea suld stId nn an actor of replying to a ques question Uon tion I think I 1 do not s speak cak for myself I know the minds mina and moods of actors We 6 arrive zt nt a pitCh of dis distemper distemper temper with repeated parts when Wf we dread to the theatre The approach of tile making up hour pro produces ducos duces groans The mere mele thought of tile the sickening part whether it be comic dr an aniN iN misery One begins to take a jaundiced vi view V of ff his fellow pa that the they are sneer lag ing at him for hi Ills monotonous fine frenzy or his dismally stale stalo witticisms And as the role becomes more and more of an abomination one finds him himself self mentally railing at the stupidity of the that they must be to laugh nt at such unmitigated jut cut worn rpt or to work themselves s to 10 a state bf f and dissolve Into tears over such wretched claptrap lie he Then one begins to feel sorry for the woman to whom he plays opposite site sUo It Is ml outrage that ho Is corn com to Inflict his nightly mouthing and two matinees in tile the her If she suffers so abominably un under der cler It as one surf suffers rs under monotonous how tired she must he be f life Ufe The Tue late J K Emmet cancelled many dates in his time It WitS was always said aid of him when no he cancelled a date that he us drunk and unable to ap appear appear pear Often he is undeniable ble bie But nearlY as the tho public never ver knew nor would I have granted It Emmet was I simply gagging over oer the m e thought t of Fritz and C cancelled in n a fit ot of un uncontrollable Uncontrollable controllable hatred for that Gt I was b by Y once when he did this In a Kansas town He was p per perfectly r drunk anything I for six months had no intention of drinking an anything thing I I I loathe that dd grInning ape he hc said to me or of n a sudden suddon What ape said I II I Fritz said Emmet with a hard Fritz is a sickening assa assacl cl chanting antinS dancing romping maudlin flatulent ass I 1 wont do him tonight I mn aim going to cancel There in hi n book I want to read I shall read It and forg forgot t that leering dog I I Isaid I And your house Is sold out I said J I JUThe UThe The IThe better growled Emmet Any bcd body cancel when the prospect Is orte ot of tare Lare benches I would give back twice the money to e cape Fritz for t 3 night UHe He sent word to th the mana manager er of the that ho was not to appear that night and la lay back In his local room with his no gloated over his abandonment ot of the despised Fritz for one night Every in the country read in the news newspapers papers on th following morning that Fritz Emmet wa was violently drunk in a Kansas town tossing brickS through shop windows fighting the watch and so 50 on But he did Fritz in another town on the night following 10 drInk In him and as a matter of I fact he be was wholly temperate through throughout out the entire season seMon though he can cancelled cancelled celled several times purely from a growing detestation Ion of Fritz Herne too u used ed to cancel quite quit o oc cn especially toward th latter years of his Ute life because e man many years ot of reiteration within him a violent for his part in Shore Shor ShoreAcres Acres s and when this feeling gained the bubbling point within him ho be would careless or reckless of an all con consequences consequences sequences 4 I shall not do that platitudinous r the these e coming three nights l he e say to his Intimates most calmly and In a matter of fact tone and there thore be thE end There would bl be no Shore Acres res tOt fO the ensuing three nt hf 11 4 Only on Very ven rare and the then when he was ver very tired of tra travel l would Joseph Josoph admit that Hip flip irked him But he was known to make that conf confession lon several times On 1 aft after 1 playing Rip for m nearly arl fifty Y years he forgot the lines of the rok roh and had to be When an aC tAr forgets the lines or of a p part rt you ma may deduce OTI r two and I this thiH Is 1 not very tenable when an alt ar ac actors tors are arc good studies that he is un mi familiar with hIs little picc second the pIau plausible sibIl and generally the ho right I Ir r reason ason that ho he is so sick siele of his part I that he has occupied hh himself I at atey b trying to forget it and that he has mo succeeded In doing that at atan nn an unfortunate C of course ourse 1 lie he the lines Lawrence Barrett for two seasons Interruption pla played cd his part of r In da an imo other part Barrett was as self contained fiS as ht he was wac scholarly but h he grow to hate with a burning hatred The infernal canting prig he would exclaim in h his is dr making up for The mouth mouthing lug ing spouting swollen all too virtuous det detestable tahle damnable prig Here I am am fashioning his and stuffing his hump once again Why Paolo Paola run the whelp through the he body before Dante or Boker ever held the brute up as an exam example le of continence and probity I would that I were so go soIng lug Ing to do Box and Cox or Leave Man tonight ht In the end Bardwell The Almighty lIke the ham hammering mering of brass upon the spirit of so 50 placid and aman a man as Wil WilHam Ham J Florence I have haye heard him bay at tile the approach of time for that part and can call a a vulgar inconsequential sodden disgusting oaf Ul I should not like to say offhand Is the over the words of a 3 serious part for a year ear or so or scuttling through the suppositious ly Ir humorous passages of an alleged comic piece nIece for an equal period When hen the serious piece begins to wear upon one he feels like a tool fool In all of his nerve cells with each repetition of It The blowhard speeches that he emits seem to come bounding back upon him himIn himIn In mockery When he puts the quaver or of sentiment or of sensibility into his voice he feels like an coun I I It is impossible at that stage for him to believe that he is actually deceiving anybody out in front It seems to him that the they simplY must detect his hollowness and inwardly sneer over oyer it Doing the serious Work one ot of the most abject things I know is the mak makIng making Ing of stage love to your yom opposite wo woman woman man ot of the piece for one or two 01 on tire seasons on end n a job 1 to test the patience not to sa say the se sele t respect of your our paragon ot of actors Face almost t as clo e to hors as your our Own nose Is 15 to yours ours you exude tile the frayed sentences simulate the breaks In the voice of the protesting or Imploring lug ing lover tover ron roll your eyes ces about as a burro does his ears breathe swelling promises pant declarations roll roU tIle the stricken woman about In your arms like Uke something In tile the process of being weighed smooth her creamed fore S S Shead head pat her hypo U her about mus when the stow poison ot of it aU all ha sunk into Its deepest you often feel like bolting from the thc stage tage and hopping on the first passenger car This Is particularly so If y your ur opposite opposite site woman happens to b be a for tor whom you entertain no a feeling of re respect respect You suppose It to be lI that she does not como come to regard you as a mere husk ot of emptIness a sort of verbose manikin in n a vortex ot of cheap That IS the of do the stage lover tover for weeks In one role and then thon for an another another other weeks Sa Say no won wonder iler der that Kyrle Bellew made the lar answer t that hat I once heard him make was In a crowd of nt the question Which Is the meanest c character In the accepted drama Romeo Bellow Bellew acridly and without an In Instants Instants stants hesitation Bellew had been doing Romeo Incessantly for two years to Mrs Potters Juliet To this hour he declares Richard III and go to tobe tobe be fine fellows compared with Romeo Doing corned comedy in one role it all be becomes becomes comes flat fiat nn and along toward the termination of a s son You won wonder wonder der why the they scream so over ocr It in front You ok cock your ears to ascertain if it is not merely mereb n a claque of ushers making the sounds ot of laughter When you ou become convinced that it Is realty reany the audience In the throes of laughter 4 4 4 I S i S S rG 5 S Sv S S v WHAT DoloR A TRAMP I T Scene from Lost In New York at atthe atthe the Grand you find yourself girding at th their lr low tate state of In Intelligence And you become sensitive as to what the others in the piece are at tile the moment you unleash your our choice that have long ceased to leave anything but the pulpiest imaginable taste in your our mouth You suppose them to be snick snickering ering In the th wings You catch your yourself self sel too criticising the others very severely You are certain that they are laying down In their work going back frightfullY slopping it over oer making wretched exhibitions of themselves and all the time of course they are playing their parts at least as well vell as you ar doing yours ours with all of the weight of weariness s upon you Nat Goodwin declares that he h used the word hell for a good many years rs He Is say that lie he em cm ploys other cuss words when the mo me moment mont ment demands their no hell There Is a reason of course When Nat was pla playing In Mizzoura and he hc played for a along IonS long time timea a 0 certain passage in his part required him after a long IonS silence to cross the stage straddle an old chair hind part foremost and give gle utterance to the hollow ejaculation Hell as expressing his view ot of the situation In hand It always in inevitably brought down the house that hen hell Goodwin grew so sick of the part and particularly of that expletive that he cut it t out for good and aU all i UIt It Is common to r das part of the press agents that such and such an actor or actress loves a car certain tain tam part he or she is then engaged In offering Well it Is possible to care more for tor one part than another but a players actual love for a p part rt rarely survives tile the rehearsals It Is an old tale long before the public hears heare it for forthe forthe the first time the reason smart I if grouchy stage managers often call rehearsals or of that a company has peep Pion doing on end ond for months or buck buk them up In their work He storm 4 scolds tell aU all han hands s that they are bE bEcoming r coming vile In the their werk If IC hIs threats do not avail he makes them the old thing and the treatment an answers n until the next slump I uIt It is tile the same I understand with W singers and musicians I was talking a while back with a violinist who has haR S been with Savages Mme Butterfly company shoe the opera was produced first several months a ago o You should S have hoard heard that violin player talk ot at i score I 1 never heard any music so excoriated And yet et It is vcr very beautiful music t tA uA A part that you grow intolerably sIck ot of Is all right to come came back blek to after youve had surcease from it for n a I t while For n a little while the situations and words are arc almost as good as s new but it picks up Iti it flavor again 4 In tinte We HWe hoar hear a b good Od deal ot of the hard hardships ships of time the stock players The stock company actor i Is not so 90 badly oft off though Ho works as do we aU all but S Slie lie be does doos not flot from a cloyed palate Look at the he samples 1 while working p |