Show Q I I I t q al 1 YJi I I a i S r + art 1 If rr who said that she Camlcll II was Mrs talked ill about than would rather about he ut all Evidently talked not ill about somebody to talk wants Manslleld he lime for all the body or something find fault and except to talks never particular hobby In ie Is his talking famous Interview vlewlni the now the New York which Mansncld gave recalls his old Interview Herald and which Tribune the Lake terview with the Salt Miiror always a New York Dramatic speaks as as fol jitanstldd ucishippci i vb 1 and no les3 clever That clever actor the other day man I Jllchtiid ManlhMd Herald l took I ho public in a letter to the and confessed lic into his confidence with acting and Actors some Impatience certain sorts of tors reilocled upon the whole stirred now simpers and generally on Hut no one up the animals Manllelds letter Mr that has not seen 1011 that Mr conclusion the COliC should Jump to whole was unjust or Manslleld on the pessimistic statement riomjous In his to I the public tic 1 sis was his epistle the belief that rhssed expressed Mr Mansilcld XIl hut the art theaters vould continue uvcr > day diminishing of acting Is ll disappear entirely said he and bids 1 fair somewhat to radical tirely This Is hardly a be acceptcd as assertion and can It is true that good sound although are seen less I actors and artistic acting There Is I hope and less on the stage will live and thai the few good actors long enough to continue as exemplars the few of the furnish object lessons to that huve of players 1mt1c younger gonoration habit that alone talent and the artistically studious valuable And nmkos talent Mansfields reiterated of Mr 0I in the very face purposes to crated assertion that sifter Ivj the expiration stage retire from the Is hope In there years tion of three he will also con that many quartets to delight the public tinue indefinitely fortunate as to and Instruct those so fin with him be associated dent of truth how great There In a that Mr Manslield says oven In much the theater In present circumstances Mr Mans and acl lair must hlrme degenerate for degeneration liold lays the which from the Inference on the newspapers he points do not know rOod > ference It and thus are they see when acting mediocrity and to pay prone to praise trivial things In attention to TOO much of the better at the expense the theater reason why the stage things The chief Is because It however is I degenerating commercial It Is In the Is absolutely merchants Mr Mansfield hands of mere but there is VIOLa not 5a this field does say is of a t doubt that tin fact bhadovJ a in his apparalus of thought graven on rtollhl i Mansflrld Is right about tile pretension Mr and general lack of ability of tension conceited actors who are Indolent many artistic utility In the theater and of no But the conclusion that whatever that read Mr Mans ilds most laymen would naturally reach Is I that all letter exception of Mr Mansfield with the artoiG tt others arc of Ibis I field and a very few arc true There Is noL which s sort earnest to know many it h I gratifying studious promising actors painstaking not the stage in IT there were tors drod would be in a bad way with Us There are how other misfortunes of the sort of actors far more o I ever against whom Mr Mansfild inveighs there ought to be But the Increase than their number and Brat Inrroaso Is In almoHt appalling Is also due in a large measure to this t cutanddried system and the boosting of mediocrity and the care only for the superficial that char nilorle commercial control Mr Manslleld l does not Fay this but no doubt he thinks It with fervent thought Somo of the details that go to the making oC an uctor died by Mr Mans Interesting as they are necessary 1kld I arc as cessary He says A person to succeed upon the stage should be possessed good eyes good teeth minus gold filling a good figure n good voice cult a tell by competent 1 teachers and a slight knowledge of the French language sufficient to pronounce pro-nounce properly monsieur mndame au revol mon > clgneur etc lie should know how 10 sit down and how to stand up and have the manners of a j being accustomed to good society Upon Up-on tho stage appearance is everything One must possess the outward andvisi ble sign It is a fact that every gen tl < Miian should be an honorable man but on the stage and in society every honorable man Is not necessarily a gen g tUinan It 1 is manifestly absurd for a person with the manner of a hostler I to attempt to play Admirable Crich ton or for a down Knst schoolmaim to assume the role of the Lady Yore da I here And given the education the figure the cultivated voice and the necessary ne-cessary polish of manner the actor must In addition be the painter and the poet Without Imagination there can be 110 actor J3y actor IK meant actor j not a puppet There Is I no school for actors The actor nascltur non tit Ob I serration and experience do the rest JIc must be willing to learn from the I masters His i perseverance his patience pa-tience must be unending To secure the I precise meaning of a line a word a glance of the eye a movement of the hand ho may have to try a hundred times for perfection Mr Mansfield rightly asserts that there IB I nothing no harmful to the actor ac-tor aa llattery and illconsidered praise and he calls attention to the fact that on the French and German stages actors ac-tors arc sternly Informed of shortcomings shortcom-ings that Uujy must remedy for lose posit Ion Mr Mansfield denies the vio lences that have been charged against him In his contacts with subordinates and pertinently says that it la the duly of the producer in his relations to the I public and to the author as well as his duty to himself to endeavor to provide pro-vide for every character In a play a competent exponent This he adds Is often an Impossible task and It is S also an expensive tank But he should I not be abused because he tries to accomplish ac-complish It Mr Mansfield like other artists labors la-bors under great disadvantages In attempting at-tempting to realize his Ideals lie docs not possess as much patience as some other artists poGsesn It is believed fvnd in some things he is apt to temporize with condSllom that unquestionably ne highly distasteful If not offensive to him instead of boldly and uunslsloiilly opposing them Proof of this was seen in his surrender nine seasons ago to the dictates of commercialism which lie had formerly denounced and resisted resist-ed Il must be said oC him however that while ho has been willing to adjust ad-just himself to obnoxious conditions In the business slue of the theater 1i Mansfield has been true to his artistic Instincts and purposes and has followed fol-lowed his own ideas as to plays and the manner of their representation But It may also be ald that t It Iscompara I I tlvely easy for an actormanager of his class to do this For the commercial system to which he bows the bow alone is all sufficient In the case of such an actor ficient Apropos of Mr Mansfields absorbing solicitude for the public it may be re marlcod that In bin last tour across the continent hi carried the worst lot or nod sticks that over 1 surrounded him charged correspondingly outrageous prices At Denver he charged 52 admission ad-mission at Salt Lake 2ro and at Bole S3 If he had played Brigham City lie would probubly put the admission Lake he sion at 10 a head In Salt lived In his own car but treated two of his leading people to lemonade up street kicking because the price Was 10 cents a glass The Now York Journalist whose comments upon thu price of stage copied In the columns of success were most Sundays Trlbttr writes entertainingly enter-tainingly upon tiny subject of Actress en as Wives In his paper The rule so often demonstrated that the stage spoils women fur the offices of wifehood has again received sharp demonstration In the case of a noted nctioss who after a stormy period pe-riod of mat Inlonlal experience hns Just been separated from her huaband The rule Is not without Us exceptions excep-tions to be Sure No rule is At the same time this one Is as free as any from fallibility and thE man who takes to himself a wife vjp has had any stage training and any degree of stage success must expect to contend with a rather spirited matrimonial career Its It-s not the fault of a lady who has been on the stage that she cannot domsstl catu herself and submit to the occupation occupa-tion of that position In her family which every woman must occupy In a 1 peaceful rind highly balanced home She has been Mattered by a lot of people who have been about her and have watched her stage career and she has been led to believe that she Is a power In the land Sometimes she has earned distinction by serious work and the possession 1 of more than commonplace com-monplace abilities But more often sho has been led through the 111advlncdl flattery of people who cither had ulterior ulte-rior i motives In view or who were simply sim-ply idiotic to the occupation oC TL self regard totally beyond her actual merits mer-its She has become willful petulant spoiled Accustomed to 1 hiving her own way In everything to raising rum pusses with business managers hotel clerks nnd the minor members of the company of which she Is a constituent part she Is I not fitted for the domestic circle where man and wife musL give I wiy to each other In the cares and trials of dally existence She finds fault with everything simply because she has been accustomed In doing so nil along and she submits neither to suggestion nor dictation for the reason that she has always held It is a part of her right to do that sort oC thing herself which is quite a different matter mat-ter erIf she marries a min of spirit and force her disposition is certain sooner or later to wear upon him to an extent which must lead to family broils oC an unpleasant and serious character If she marries a weakling llfo will bo pleasant enough to her but highly disagreeable dis-agreeable to him If she weds a fool who will go through life looking up to her as a superior being and submit ting to her nonsense she will grow tired of him because she Is totally without that apposition which gives her excitement In the absence of the plaudits the bouquets and the lies of the dudes and stock brokers who surrounded sur-rounded her when she was an actress Their Influence penehvitott the home circle and raises there dissatisfaction on both sides on the side oL the husband hus-band because It Is a constant menace to him on the side of the wife because it Is a memory to her which she thinks she ought to bo enjoying In reality at the present moment To every family there must he a head Try as people may through affection or friendly regard re-gard to view all things In the same light occasions will arise when there f are strong differences of opinion and when the word of the man or the woman wo-man must he final If the woman occupies thin t position the mriri simply resolves himself into the tall to her kite md he Is sneered at and laughed nth = other men who have married 1 in private life and who are not merely the ostensible bonds of their families If the man asserts his position posi-tion the wife wants to go right back upon the Btnge where she can hr nb salute mistress of herself and everybody every-body about her I When this longing once takes hold of her thero Is going to be turbulence I in the family She points out thnt In taking hr from the stage her husband hus-band has removed many privileges and pleasant points from her career which he has not restored to her The stage is probably a bugbear to him because he does not believe that his wife should be separated from him and set up as an exhibition for other men to stare at m and comment upon She responds tIt t-it is her talent slue wishes to employ and he admired for and he replies that whatever she may deslre the result re-sult is likely to be the same These discussions which accumulate heat and anger as they go 011 become more and more frequent and violent and they alone are sufficient to bring about estrangement and possibly in tho end separation 1 Jt is likely to be thnt way with any man not connected with the stage who marries an actress of experience and of personal charm Happy marriages occur hero and there between men and women who are alike members of ahe theatrical I profession Ladies in private i life not infrequently marry actors with happy results They can go about with their husbands while the husband who is I not in the profession cannot go about with his wife without giving up his business relations and conveying the decidedly humiliating Impression that he Is living i on her earnings Rarely there is an instance where the wife has once been an actress and still settles down to a quiet and peaceful peace-ful home life The Instance comes jo Infrequently however that there is no other judgment than hill I lilt profession profes-sion of acting unfits Its female followers follow-ers for true domesticity The fact Is unfortunate but ills a fact as tiny one must sec who reads the papers from day to day and observes time I disagreements dis-agreements the divorces and the returns re-turns to the stage of Indies who have left Il to try married life and found that they couldnt stand the strain |