Show Henrietta Crosman Tells o of Begging Letters Clean Plays and Cookery 1 t tr 1 i. i t r I w- w e 1 1 I p s sJ J Its i iL it ir L r u I t SL a. a r t r e l f 1 S 1 r V J t V s sS c ci J i r 4 J Y 2 c Eases J 0 Fo you ou u know theres there's 5 ono sure sign iI n t that at you ou have o a n success suc i ID I'D DO cess The speaker was wa Miss ti H Henrietta Cro Crosman and ana bile bhe was 1 sitting in her hr apartment Iii jl is th tie the Hotel Flanders the other day daj a dis diseasing i I r. r easing iD the theater with ith n reporter Tier Her took on that mischievous twinkle taller her audiences know 1 0 goes oe with some sonic comedy scene in which n she is The Tie reporter toRd an nn idea about signs sigus i us jf If If a successful but hilt declined to I him himself Jf until untie Miss Crosman sai said saidI 5 I Much in the box hox office ho hoI I glibly J Oh no exclaimed the actress 01 one way is 1 by the stacks of l being i Jitters the tho star star receives e If I in with ith a failure no one appeals to toft ft z to help th them m for or they probably sus IS' IS t that 1 I ne n etI el al nil the tho help I can raise I-hi I er myself and n again mane that pral prill of li Inz rang out Hut But J Ive I've vo 0 conic come to luke take tay my morning mornings morning's s 's s mail us na tho ho l my ay success How lIon do the writers I p 1 Y t I give e it up lIPi but hut they thy do run some sonn In And Aad that explains wL why J I dont don't r j t lo to to th the tho letters of or appeal that pouring in in t But Im I'm more JUMO than delighted that I public tl u public likes Sham not alone alono he- he U it is ili mine mint and were we're all human J rall all JI arc are wo we not not hut hut but because it its it's t all play it n smile faded from rom Miss s Crosman's rosman l h and she he grew impressively serious sues JJ declared I I Il ot to play piny clean elem rolt roles I have J te 10 whatever er for sewer d plays un s' s ISI 1151 all ull them and a as 1 think they 01 r doOre tIc do- to Ore to be called I wont went to see hep o one e of y mites n same rome little HUJe time timo ago ao Tho scone placed ed in in some omo unmentionable sort sod ann nd I felt ashamed to be he in the Thero were persons in theL the tho L nce c that I knew and saga who at hex me and an I felt I was witnessing i f In indecent and was wa being inched Great Curl Curiosity i And when thA liberal minded 1 n as call themselves declare that such uch i gs exist in Ufo lifo as a are arc mirrored in bete let plays I can only nn answer True I ht s but hut so 50 docs lees one have o to clean cleans clean's s 's teeth but buk who ho o does J OR it t in public tl t J luNo that is exactly what the theer plays plays' er pIa do they play pIa such s things s i try every ono one who has curiosity enough p to 10 it go and see them and tho time public ha has sa 11 unreasonably great ent curiosity you rou ElJ Suppose uPP for instance some porno poor were fue i to blow blowout out his brains in nt l the tho l of Broadway Why Wh- in a few n utes there would bo ho people ei to see lice th the mau mangled lr hod body And cleared the W way there would woula bo ho hofe White fe more all sill eager for a 1 of the tho t tragedy rl iK ep Within Bounds Bat Bul uli what t h at happens in such ouch a case easel 7 1 ne he TM police uses me its Common sense and Authority and keeps the tho public and 1 its in iu restraint And so I insist there thero should ho be he n oral police to lo keep kec tho the curiosity of Ihs h t theatergoers fater within tho hounds bounds of nf Theres There's o only ly ono one excuse un thIS the run fUn for going o n to wc ace e one OM of oC t these thel er 1 plays and that is is if it is acted lI terl a t really great reat actress res J like liko ko lime Ime e or Mme Bernhardt Then Thlu the cx- cx that fc tho art of tho the a actress ress is seeing eeiK Tier IIer art then becomes becom attraction and the tho Pla pIa lay is iM a n minor miuor But ut to se seo eo o one no of flues e il l Rte a produced h hv by a or third it rte 1 no thank you von Then thoro thero 4 ao save C a a seeking I cc ng after filth Dat they will mIl bare hn to count mo me for I cannot b ng m myself to act ide a role And be o o me this is is no Preaching on m In mr Part de e Either I. I 1 la bone Nor is this a t. t declaration t that hat I am lIn amft I abO 6 such luch joys jOs as ft como come w with the nc- nc ea tame OC money An And the smile p. p mac w e back to Mes I Crosman's face lC 1 When hen 1 n one is ls vcr then rine r 0 very young ono one t Com and wears swears by 11 yonder vander or 1 other ij t Hie big tat fat f A old Ol-d moon that Art with Art At with a I tl Eft 1 is A-is 8 the one thin thing in iu life nut But g 1 When v hen tho the of time bc rn cogs begin in to toJ J round we till nil realize t that thata t 4 money is ds a n vet comfortable thin thing to toi I f 01 nep ep g gr i but it 0 of nt must get mine by br way r Ii is in r e g a sewer play day then thon excuse a I ain aim T L' L I l Pr prefer PO poverty tr i ht Ihen en n Vou ou ou believe c tho the o has thea theto the tho a liked d j to preach and ICI interviewer I Oh JOts es I do But dont don't for forget t ono one 1 am and i l that i is s that tho the stage tn c must 1 ei e flit fiut lm and foremost If it suean suc sue aM II give awo Ia n an amusing the thc people then thon n it uta may a aDd ad 1 them something to think about s i at er may Point its ts morals moral But Dut what what- but but- else sta the so o called mission of oC the i g ro s it A is ig not to call the theM A attention to vice and immoral- immoral p y as M is is the case d iu u the tho tho sewer plays e r Crosman i CUES Cuss f 01 Anil nd the tho public IM kno know i a s I Im I'm nt no prude prule rude h one Crp herp oho aba smote Emote her breast reas j COD mical cal melodramatic seriousness St did II did dir not I invent and introduce in n plays the tho tho Crosman Cuss You Yon re remember remember re- re member in in Mistress Sell Nell I 1 dared to cry H To Tu hell with all ill of vex And the public was Since that other actresses s 's ha have borrow borrowed rd tho the Crosman cuss cuss cuss' I with effect and you'll I find it up nn and down 11 Broadway in vari- vari Ills nus plays pIn though it is not always Employed em Em- employed Vo t so innocently as I J used it I At this moment there theft entered a tall slender chap who unhesitatingly h walked I over to tu Miss lis Crosman embraced andI and I I ki kissed her It was done so o naively that it hardly needed time the comment from the actress s My ly son you yeti know knew lies JIo's only he been en out of colIe college a short shoil time and of course h hes he's yearning for tho the stage lies He's already been on in a play ph here but hut it had a brief life So lets leis say sav ay nothing n about bou tit it it But Put do you want him to follow your your r profession professions n 1 What can Il I do dol l His Ills father was wal an In actor and his mother is an tn actress Why tell him hint not tot to 1 I Ion only regret it because there are other walks in to life open to a man in which there is so much mach better e than on the stage e. e Xo Now if ho Ito w were ro 1 a t. t daughter I should tho the resolve for the thc stage offers offers of of- 0 I fers fer a fino fine artistic 1 field tl for a woman lint Hilt for a man well man well wella Lh Liuo e a Gamblers Gambler's Life You see rf it its it's 8 like this We re actors I lead cad the Iho life o of gamblers We arc constantly constantly con con- I staking something a against I something else and tho the something else elso I against t which we are firc taking chances j is something so o intangible ihlo that no ono can ean define it In ln a word wo we are arc risking risking risk risk- iu ing ing our art our energy y our experience and even our money against t tho ho pul publics public's ie whims By r whims I l mean I theatrical likes and dis dislikes the tho pu publics public's lic's I IIi Ii likes Each Auditor Critic Every Ever sin single person that J goes Of S to the theater is n self appointed critic Ive I've r o sat ant in ill the thc audience at at- plays and aul i those hack back of me and ill in in front of mo me explain to tn their companions exactly I what is the tho matter w with the play i Ive I've c 0 e heard persons viewing iwin a actor declare ten i 1 tUt R after Jl his s first I appearance on tho the Mage tage that the tho actor hart harI not the faintest conception of tho the particular role he h was interpreting interpreting- nil all and antl absolutely ab ah or that his hiss conception was ms wrong Fine And that actor has probably mulled over this play for five fio years lars bo- bo foro fore ho hb h dared appear in it it and Otel has thon spent months and m months tJ 8 in study consulting the best hest st authorities available available avail avail- able harking to all nil trustworthy tradition tion and then embodying in all nIl these with infinite int nito care car And An yet vet 11 lit ul ten minutes sonic some person in the audience knows everything about the impersonation impersonation is iR nil all I 11 wrung wrong Hard to Judge JUlge Play I wish wieh sumo somo of the good folks who would world tackle the manuscripts of plays and tell which arc tiro going to be successes sue suc asses and which are arc failures Of or course a blind c cat t could cold tell about some of the manuscripts its but hut then there arc are n a lot Jot of others thud look and amid read very interesting interesting interest interest- ing inc and then when the pIa play IH ms put pot into rehearsal some sonic surprising weakness t or strength como conic to sight and hearing There Thero are arc some sense incidents in in my new nw pla Sham which h at rehearsal seemed Deemed so o trivial that I r wanted to cut them out and would have done dono BO so were it not for tho tho br brevity ty of th the pt play But ButI I left them in w and ono one of them has developed de tie eloped into ouo one of the time hits hits' of oi the piece picco So you seo it its's II s 's s all an a n merry merr loss to as IS asto asto ISto to what tho the public will like There isIto i is I no Ito formula at all nIl And it its it's 5 against such Much o odds that we actors and actresses I gamble Cooking Got the Job I You Yon know what I Id I'd love lovo to del do 1 I Id I'd lovo o to have Ila an nn income one income one of the I kind that Robert Louis Stevenson do do- scribed as 8 something something that really carne came in A And nel 1 Id I'd el d use that tha t to pay pa- pamy my losses and antI then play only the plays play that I Ilove I love and love and you may be ho sure ure that there would ouM be some somo Shakespeare in it it too too too- I I and some somo poetic plays play's which would not gladden la den the heart hart of the th box office man perhaps but would strike joy into I I tho the heart of the tho little actress who longs to play them I I And An then theu incidentally I could be just as domestic as ns I liked like too too and and J Id I'd M I like o to be bc that a 1 whole hole lot Do you OU know that tho the biggest hit I ever made with a manager er wn was years ears carN and lInd years vears I I a ago o when I was WH a near lea leading Ung In lady laly in ina ina a stock block company compau and tho the manager I wanted wonted to engage c me mc for tor something I better r Ho Tie canine carno to my apartment and caught ht me rod handed with the goods goods- I I 1 was Wl cooking dinner for ut 1113 my family lie He e said any an- actress who could cook cookI her own dinner must bo be a n corker and andena ena engaged me Inc on tho the spot I How is t that at for a II domestic rec rec- t |