| Show r q KA ILET VAS NOT TINS INSANE I UE WAS V AS Y IN LOVE 5 I do not hot think It wise wlM for an actor tor to reply to a critic It cannot cnut do the actor any good It la is for tor the to jud judge between the actor tor and nd tA the for Cor th the latter ItI Ie not the court of tact lut resort lOrt When I produce 1 a pIa play I expect can candid did arid anti revere judgment It Is an n un wlee thing IIA says Edwatd IL 11 Sothern for au n n actor tor to o associate himself with newspaper critics or to pt get Into contra contro verll with them Of OC the one or two newspaper writers wham I do know I Ig beg g only candid A critic Ina Inay hamper a good play but b he cannot ItO etc Its Ita I feel vel very touch gratified ned at t tb the result lUll of my jump JUhl from comedy and melodrama to the very hl helt at attempt t tem tempt t an actor can an make malce J I do not imagine my of Hamlet is II perfect No actor o of Hamlet ever er felt on any night he ever r played It Every time I produce It I wish lIh I 1 could go 0 on and nIJ do It an all over again aln To be compared with to be mentioned In the II same me h with him II 1 a terrible ordeal but bUl whit what on earth eth would become of our theater If no one tried 1 These comparisons are made In Inan inan an uncharitable spirit I 1 loved m rathEr father vel very dearly dearl and mere his hll mom 1 or jr hut but do you think I would denounce Wyndham for tor playing David Oat rick or Of course rouret It is III spite right to Ju judge an attempt like ilkI mine by the very high hleb highest est standards otherwise we should Jle nev never er ar ha have good 00 1 work Ik The mil W were very gratifying and nd encouraging I though the they lacked the lh quality or of a The They sere lre very try artful arrul and n whatever there Wl was was given 1111 grudgingly I was at a of cou course Tha fh Pub lie Ito found It hard to fancy lord Lard Chum Chumley I ley as 1 the prince of Still In acting you do riot hot harp on oa one string tring Every 10 love story terr Ie i comedy and i iJ tragedy too It If a mn man plays comedy well there thre le II no lesson why h he should hould not try more exacting Look at Irvin Irving Tree and nd Minefield who can an fila play anything Booth when he lIk liked could be a wonderful comedian its All for tor the pia play every enry mn man It hu hl Isis own opinion bout about Hamlet and often denounces violently those thOle who 10 diger from Crom him bim My I vie view is II not original I simply limply Hamlet side lid with the party pany that holds hold that Hamlet war 11 not lIot triune lit condition all through the pla pia Is 18 understandable Some or of UP the critics said satirically that III my rendition was Ial un and without mystery I take that a 1 a It Ir hil how I 1 l meant to pl play it II itIn t In n his scene with Ophella h he I rot trying to exhibit a pretense or of lie loves hoer Ier Re He determines to break breaky breakaway away y tram her ber because of his hIe crime 11 lie cannot accuse her for tor she h has done so 10 he accuses himself himMIe ot of hl being unworthy Jle He talks marriage thinking of the ghastly I state l lof of between his father mother and nc uncle Ue He showe hll hie dread that tbt It if OpheliA Ophella marries her beauty m may be the ruin of h honest II a It was of hi his mothers then I lie thinks of hll hi mothers crime the amts ot of his of oft from i he is II thrown Into an n condition resembling Fie 1111 I want m more marriage and d tl tells Ophella bena to 10 IrO go to tn a nunnery 1 see that hI he I Is pretending lie HI is II giving out his hll heart hart to te the h adman ht he love 1011 lie He can ean cannot not tell tal kv ker of the ghosts message or of his hll crime and she he thinks think him md mad madI I leave haY been n denounced for tor making this It a love seem ICen I do I make hamlet give every of hll hie lore 10 for forella O ella hUa and nd I make her give Iv ever every sign IIII of DC her ber love for tor him himi i It II b tile the mot most terrible In Inv I scene fon on the steno A love scene eon I le not asses n n only kissing incident between two chuckle head an some ot of th the critics think There Art love loe scenes sad thle I is one ot of who oan doubt the love ove of Hamlet end and Ophelia for tor each other If c flit r I |
