Show MANSFIELD FOUND VIOLINIST IN A BAGGAGE With ith all his e eccentricities Richard Mansfield has another side that does not so often come into the public light Not that his other side is not eccentric also but it H is more pleasingly eccentric than the side nature that constrains him to throw throw but but why wh recall I call these trifling things Mansfield has a decidedly human side as Carl L. L will eagerly testify tes tes- and that Is more to the point At the opening of the third act of his play which Mansfield Mans Mans- field fidd presented here a ballroom a-ballroom Is strewn with the Iho flowers of or fashion robed In splendor and from Its rear centre centre cen cen- tre comes the strain oC ot violin music The audience listens at first with Interest then with amazement and at the end of 01 the I selection it applauds quite vigorously The looking frail aN o I y young n man has picked ki eR up his hat to so but he e is compelled to return and play agaIn agan upon the me ment Again the audience applauds with even more fervor than at arnd the violinist must play again Now all this Is not In Inthe the tho original play of Beaucaire It occupies occupies oc oc- over eight minutes and the play and the players even Mansfield walt waits for forIt forIt It in calmness calmness' while the audience hears violin music that Js Is not commonly common y found in plays It all came a about o Jn this fashion ri lS Carl L. L I a- a avery very man i iwas was Music I I graduated Ip Venice tc from r in t the the e s same Conservatory i e class j r with lr of J j 1 the famous Kubelik He the violin vio- vio lin well as may be judged from the class 01 musicians he was with and his ambition to In every land was wasas as young as his experience so he joined an orchestra headed for the me United states It was the stor story that Is told of so many foreign musical organizations It came It played but it did not conquer Stranded in the great c city of New York r penniless n nEe rn with nothing but heartaches and a violin for company compan drifted among amon the theatres and was finally hired by Mansfield's Mansfields Mansfields Mansfield's Mans Mans- fields field's stage manager to assist in handling baggage His dainty fingers were not so very apt at scene hustling and smashIng smashIng smash Ing trunks but he did well enough to get along and his exceedingly small salary at least fed him Gr Graham ham could not discharge him for he I IRl played the h violin o so sweetly and many n a Rl night rd h he sat playing I I soulful ar things lg for forthe O the boys bos as they waited to hustle the Mansfield trunks The boys bos learned to respect him even if he was not rough and ready and his talent remarkable remarkable talent was wast finally brought r to s attention n t id was hu summoned e to- to g play for him f Mansfield at once knew lie be had found a g genius 1 s And that hat is why Carl Krus da is doing his night h specialty That is why In h he Js a drawing fi a ae e every good x salary instead of handling baggage for fora a a. mere pittance For Mansfield knows music and loves It He has play each night because he like likes s it That is ohe olle of his pleasant eccentricities |