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Show DRAMATIC NEWS AND COMMENT Maude Adams, the richest woman on the American stage, is also the moat idyllic, winsome and deeply appealing of" the present dav stars. Art ifl the ruling passion of her life, and eluaive-uess eluaive-uess an intangible and wistful tenderness ten-derness and sincerity is the keynote of her stage charm. Beyond the foot lights Maude Adams i a recluse solitude is necessary to her highly strung temperament , Asceticism, nntinged bv severity, is the dominant note of Mi.-s Vdams's private life. She is simple in dress,' cares little for fashion and nothing for society, for, as she has said, it is impossible to be a social butterfly and a work grub at the same time Single nes of aim. devotion to art, dav- of hard work, anxiety and struggle have led to her almost unsurpassed succe.-s in stageland, but hor supreme ambition ambi-tion has ever been to reign in eomedv to be the Rejane of America. Although Miss Adams lot 1 school at the age of 1 t. she is 8 woman of exquisite ex-quisite culture and intellectual power. she rends French fluently, is an ac complished pianist, possesses a cultivated culti-vated contralto voice. Bad ber whole life has realized the aentiment of one of her own epigrams, ''Genius is the talent for seeing things straight." Miss Adams is S woman of t rein en douH vitality nnd will power. Her gentle and tend. IT nature i- blended with an almost stern simplicity and calm. A love for country life, ani mals and children predominate ber character. She is an enthusiastic collector col-lector of anti. pies, but her world i- a world of players, genius and plays. MUs Adams is kinswoman to two presidents of the United State-. Her grandfather, Joshua Adams, wns first cousin and boyhood chum of John Quin-By Quin-By Adams, and she first saw tho light of day in Salt Lake City on November 11. 17'J, whither her grandfather had emigranted in the early days of Mor-monism. This tiny, pink bundle of babyhood born to become a stellar light in Amfri ca, was pronounced C resemble her mother, Annie Adams Kiskadden. in point of looks, and her father, a wellborn well-born Ohioau, in temperament and character. char-acter. The first eight months in the life of little "Maudie" were absorbed in pleasures peculiar to infants, not of such stuff as stars aro made of. But as the tender age of S months sho became be-came the show baby of Salt Lake City by precociously learning her letters in one play lesson with alphabetic blocks. "Baby Maude" much preferred the society so-ciety of n shaggv trump dog to dolls and she and her young father, who died when she was but 7 years old, were the rarest of chums. Unexpectedly, and at the age of 9 months, Maude Adams made her first appearance on the 6tage. Her debut was most auspicious and the audience fairly shouted with delight at. her baby, crowing ways. When Miss Adams was 4 years old, Mr. and Mrs. Kiskadden moved to San Francisco, and it was there that she demonstrated her remarkable tendon-ei'-s fur stage realism, and devclopod that superb mingling of humor and pathos which has since won her count- less admirers. Finally, at the age of 16, she nnd her mother went to New York that Mecca of all ambitious actors. The path to fame was hard and thorny, but B stead In CBS ot' purpose, indomitable will and courage, and the power to wait. Bt hist won lu r a minor role as Mayns Sullivan Sulli-van in "The Paymaster." it was in 1890 that M'ss Adams first established her fame BS S metropolitan favorite, in the tipsy seen,, ir, "The Masked Ball." winch was rendered with a tine deli eacv and pathos. Charles Prohman witnessed her un surpassed success is 'he portraiture work of Dorothy Crulkland in " nose-ma nose-ma rv." and the time was then ripe for her stardom. J. M Barrie, who saw her as Dorothy Cruiklaud, determined that she, and sho alone, should vitalise bis Lady Babbie in "The Little Minister," Min-ister," and it 'was in ll'T that Miss Adams made her debut as a star at the Empire theater In Nets York in "The I Little Minister." It ran. with brilliant bril-liant mm . es. for three season-. Thus Miss vdanis burst into stardom. Sei most recent successes have been the inimitable and sprite-like "Peter Pan" and Barrio's plav, "What Every vYoman Knows." Miss Adams is fragile fra-gile in physique, hut is vitalized by an inner fire of will and devotion to work. She is BS it were, wedded to her art. Her almost unprecedented popularity among the idolizing public of AJUerica, 1- shown bv the enormous sale of her photographs. She is the gentlet mid mo: r apirituelle utar on the American stage. What is to he the future of the theatrical eaterprlees of Hcnrv h. Harris .' This question was widely disOUSSed in Broadway last week bj men and women who had known Mr Harris as niong the leading theatrical producers in America, (')nlv those who arc intimate inti-mate with the friendships which exist in the world of the stage, can understand under-stand the sorrow and shock to fellow members in the profession cauacd by tbi BOWS that Mr. Harris was among the passengers on board the Titanic who perished nt sea. The discussion as to his theatrical affairs extend. id beyond the limits of theatrical circles am among playgoers, who in the last twelve rears bad come to look upon an attraction of Mr. Harris's as POe-MSSing POe-MSSing distinct features. Careful investigation among business busi-ness associates nnd peasonal friends of Mr, Harris, has led to the Conclusion Conclu-sion that the enterprises whieh hud their beginning in the imagination ot Mr. Harris will be carried 011 accord ing to the original designs under the direction el the manager's father v ill iam Harris. Tt. is no reflection on tho abilities of the younger man to sav his father ever was his adviser and supporter, and that no small degree de-gree of the lUSCeSS of the son was due to his policy of constant consultation with his father. Wili iam Harris was conversant with every phase of the vounger man's business. Broad as the business ramifications rami-fications of the son appear To be. thev 1 by no means eclipse William Har I ris's enterprises In view also; of the fact that the elder man has been in charge of the affair.- of his son during dur-ing the last eight WOOKS, while the latter with his wife was abroad on a vacation, it is asserted on good authority au-thority that William Harris will retain his place indofinitclv, supervising supervis-ing the arrangements for the sea 1 attractions and carrving nut those the s.iTi had projected fr next season, What degree of love and admiration Henry B. Harris had for hi- f:J -er 1 aj best be shown by recalling one of season 's most interesting ineidc ,f This was the dedication last autumn of the Harris theater in West Porty-sec Ond street, which was previoUslv '-albd the llackett. Mis- Rose Stab! b her season there in "Maggie Peppei and the BUdiSCS was a brilliant one. On the programme appeared tbi n ords ; 1 1 tfi In gratitude to mv father, w! o . influence has shaped my care, r. I ' dedicate this theater. HENRY R. HARRIS. I I Mr. Henry R. Harri- was born "is Ihe busjnes-." An incident to which he often pnuidlv referred in after years At that time Ins father WBS appearing in a song and dance act at DeBarr s opera house in s-'t. Loins with Mr William Carol! as his partner. In tbs theaters of the middle west Master Harri- first obtained a glimpse of tin-.-. trical life. Wle-n -eon years old sold song books in the gallery of theater in St. Louis. The Mo-.sr. shubert announce I ' thev and their manv important man agerial allies have determined to give what thev hope to make the moft r markable benefit in 'he history of New York at the Hippodrome on Boaday night. April for the aid of the im PoVenshed sufferers from the wTeck of the steamship Titanic. Associated with the Messrs. Shuher' in this humane undertaking are Lew .Fields. William A. Brady, Winthrop Ames, Fred C Whitney, John Cort, Oliver MorosCO, Lewis Waller- and other managers. The entire proceeds nf this benet-r will be distributed to the survivors of the disaster who landed in this eoun-trv eoun-trv destitute and without regnuite re sources. 1 lie raei toai most 01 tne survivors are women makes the need of such assistance especially Impcra five, ami it is to be supposed that the fund will be used mainly to help the rescued immigrant, passengers. Tn nddition to the leading feature of the regular BTippodrome entertain tnent, the benefit performance will in elude a long 'it of notable stellar at tractions of nil varieties. A partial li-t of those who have already volun-teeied volun-teeied follOWS: Weber and Fields. William oilier Fav TempletOB. Lillian Russell from I Weber and Fields' Jubilee; Lewis Wal i 1 IfSjr, who i now starring at Dalv'-; m"A I Madge Titheradge and others from "A Butterfly on the Wheel:" Marie Drossier, Sam Bernard, ftrbesBoh ertson, Frit.i Seheff , Charley Hawtrev, James T, Powers and members of the Company appearing with him in "Two L-,r Little Brides: " Grete Wiesenthal. Al .Tolson. Stella Mavhew. Melville E!liv ffiVll -lose Colljns and others from (he Win 1? ' ter QardaUj Do WoU Hopper. Kva jta fjji Davenp.-rt. Cvril Scott LOUISC Gun- t niug: mamberi of the French Opera eompanv, " Bought a ml Paid roi company, Gertrude Bryan and Mi- Har lan from "Little Bov Blue." Guy Bates I Post and the Hawaiian Dancer- from the " Bird of P.-irad ' |