| Show LITTLE MAUDE ADAMS Maude Adams P wt Allis Maude Adams the mOlt moat popular star liar as a the critics see her herAnd herand And as I the great reat theatregoing sees bet bee I is a familiar enough figure gure But Dut Mies Maude Adams Adam aster r mother mothr sees her ber hl has been hith hitherto erto unknown save In the gossip of tb the old of the green ereen rooms room and P of at friends friend or of the who make occasional visits to Sew New York tram r m their old home at al kit gait Lake Interesting reminiscences have been collected and 4 are re reproduced AI the narrators quoted them In Mrs II Adsms dam own alNe J Really 1 might Minuet 81 say that Maude e first appearance might be called an accident Neither her father ruther nor I hall had ever given a moment con consideration about her being an actress I 1 suppose it Ir any n one hall had suggested u et d to tome me Maudes being an soirees I would have hae raised a hundred arguments and against 1 a life on the stage tal for the child fur for I knit knew how ho hard it 11 was Val I had had the experience and could speak peak as ono having authority How queerly things bout boutI boute e r rI I S a member of oC the tho rR T K Emmett and we wor rehearsing l Fritz In San We were wen having a greet deal ot of with the childs part One child o ll forget the II lines 11 Another nother know its Ita 1 cues and the they were nil all afraid of thu big mill wheel Thera ll a ert tl lod boron before the opening nigh d a not II a ar child had been r round found to t t to ip P bet rt Mrs Gertrude HArt a m mb r of the aId Let Iel Maude Ial le go on Mr Emmett Emmell heard what t sh Have you a little he asked Do let Jet us hR have her herI K I happened to tell m my husband that ig that the they wanted a 11 child to topIa pIa play Little J Fritz and that It haul hall been Jeen suggested to bring our little Maude lie HI laughed and said Nonsense I dont want the child to yo 10 down there Iud and make a fool ot of herself We unconsciously thought our five I was too ton much ab absorbed orbed In her dinner to pay 1181 an any II attention to what we were wert talking about Suddenly the child laid down her knife and fork and nd looked up at her father Papa she said I wont make I a fool of myself m tier Item father laughed begS begged the pardon paNon and consented Maude learned the part or of Fritz In an hour She thought acting was wall great reat fun In tact fact It w was so touch much fun that she quite forgot helM herself and leaned out or the mill wheel and interrupted Mrs Hart lIart In one ot of the biggest scenes Aunt Dirty I slue he Aunt Dirt Dirty Is It fl time for me ane to treats tream scream The audience of course did the screaming e Frt Fritz was not her only toy Loy part She was as II a little ne In II a play called Streets of Sew New York when she was six years old She was proud of hr her pays bos clothes an and took It a deep Interest In inthe the lilt small trousers She ehe watched me make them thern and offered n a suggestion that gave nIP me a valuable start Make IRke a rip here Mamma she he said drawing her little linger along a side Idl seam and nd let some Om red flannel 1101 poke out the way Ive seen n ragged little boys A change had conic com over her ber attitude to 10 boy and prays bos clothes clothe t nut next tune she was wa called upon to 10 play such a apart part She was wa about twelve YUrt years old then and was wa cast for one ot of the Roy Boy Blues In Little Jk Jack Sheppard She he made mad no to the Part until she put on the tight lIht blue knickerbockers We found her prying before the mirror Mr Ir Osborn Iel I just jUit those thole things All 11 right dear dar little girl dont cry crr hJ George 00 Osborne soothing hr her You ou shall ha have a skirt We Pe supplied her with II a little short hort skirt and she went on radiant and arlit happy happ After Atter she he made mad that A accidental debut In Fritz Frill at five years she he was never unless she hll 1111 was traveling with me Ine anti playing small mall parts partIJ I knew that she ought to 10 I be In school and trial to make mke her see It hut but I 1 never neer could couill She Se would cry so I 1 wa waIf was If leaving a hr her to go tour t that ba t L 1 often tt re relented at th the lat last minute and took her with hh me Child Chilli though she wag Ie ehe never complained of th the work ork or hard hardships ships of the Ut life She took to tilt the ur lit II ae though she was porn to It if a ae indeed ape was TIN The strange unrealities ol of the stage art are b by this one experience ot of my daughter and myself Ethel Ithel Brandon and nd her daughter Pollyand Polly PoUy and nd Maude And i 1 were In th the urns lime com company Ilan pany I 1 believe we were playing liar boa Ii Lights tl The Th girls were e the same ame 11 art both bolh about eleven I think Miss II Brandon and I were fre f cat I for tor frivolous girl an and 11 tl tsa daughter ot of our nun played th the parts of old with withered th ered s The Ih were made tip III tn t hk 1 k nn J 1 toothless liD end th I n I with their ne c Th I r weird 1 ml little fI lr n I I t ru In applause u I fl l sit sitI li liI I I I t I I f t I i I II TI n nV TIT V T I I I t qt H HI I I always 1 better to 10 ter hi known a as Hiss WIlli inner turp she h h heard It a of the corny oon pany 11 say thAt 1 i s ked 1 mr morn Ilk III ti tI than This Th f hlll hill f fr sr 1 n m m nt then rit ca mn over tl W where I 1 was 11 and put her hand tenderly to m my e ear ro o that no one hr hear and whispered Mamma amma I letter better call you AnDI I never had to teach my little girl to be or of the feelings of other othna If f It I Is true that angels whisper lesson Ion to ba bables bles In their cradles I am sure they taught m my Maude laude that one When then she he wan 1 between three and tour four ye year old I left Ifft her with her grandmother whit while I went on tour I w was away for six months and aud when hen I 1 lame came back was waH overjoyed to see let me Hut But her heart hart was U troubled for fer tear rear her grandmother would reel feel the sadness of the weaning She cuddled In my lap Jp and laid Ild her head on nn m my shoulder I 1 tried to rock her Iter to deep Iee but she be was wa so 10 pleased to have me back that she he would not to go to deep Whom thom do you fon love I asked her You you she hl murmured while I rocked Sh She looked at Grandma sitting lIy by th the window and it con reproached her You you ou she he salsa again but this time in Q a whisper n ilia mat Ih she added Ifo Ao loudly that T u nur e uld not nul fall to hear I While I always did everything I could for lilY my daughter she ma may 11 almost mOlt be Je I said to hll have been It taught I always alway 61 to It that she he had le her part but even enn that was WAI unnecessary She vas such Buch a QUICk stud study When hen she was wasa a mete baby lab we e would to go over the thre scenes together once or r t twice 11 Jut but she aha played them a as lib she liked She wag A al always 1 ways and always acted ao cording to her own standards I WI worried about her cues at t first and used to stAnd lAnd near to remind h her herShe She always resented re this and nd would say MY Imma go away Ia 1 Go 00 away I dont need you ou r To punish her bel I 1 went upstairs once and nd left Itt hr her alone Ione A mem member r ot of the company rn ran up after me I was al frightened It Ili Maude MaudI broken down don I gasped Broken down elite repeated Dont you hear the applause she he getting Then Thuen I realised that my InY little daugh daughter ter need me but was a Quite dent elent unto herself and I 1 wu was proud ot of It I left lert her watching other peoples cues as 11 well as her own owne e St She w was alI always ready with lug lions for tor her new parts larte She was wa v ven ven en I 1 think when she was wa a n ny In The Octoroon She had been bilen told to move bout about briskly while the rest spoke their lines I 1 ought to do something she he said old Let Att me u my nw new jumping rope So some rope 1011 jumping by the smallest was Introduced II as new lIew business Julin and It went very 81 well wellI r I had some IOme trouble at tIt first In getting her to lakes taka proper rare care or of her health We were crossing Union square In a storm one night anti and I that she had not worn wom her rubbers I tried to persuade her to 10 JO go back to tine the hotel for them She objected Mamma she said I am accustom fag myself to the or of an aD ac actor actors tor tors lite I 1 admit the droll reply silenced me for the time and I had to bt be reinforced lIy by doctors before the child who thought for tor he herself lt found out the dan danger ger there I is In accustoming oneself left school very earl early She was not yet fourteen I WI was opposed to 10 her leaving before Ih she was graduated leer Her argument was wa that she would not need a lunger II school hool course unless she became a leacher or a literary lite literary I dont want to I be either Ilber she he said 1114 It She went wat to school at t th the Collegiate institute la l Salt hike IAk City Her I prin principal cipal urged me to leave 11 her there th until she h was wa through It you rou do I will runt guarantee h hir a position II as teacher ot of elocution at d a year e Mother J ther talk about aboul infant is hi foolish I 1 suppose but 1 admit I am proud of th the fact that she learned the alphabet In an hour A Mend dropped In and amused himself by playing with hr her blocks un on t the floor Before he I left t she had learned the name of every letter let lett t ter on the ks When she It was seven years eara old a critic said Aid that It she hived she he would wear wearth th the mantle of M Mrs lire I success has hAIl not surprised 1 mand mandt t i lure hae n not t been n extravagantly hap bp hapin P in as m my friends say aay about It She has always been a bard JIrd trident of the theta stage ta sad and hi has won her wa way gradually and by tb the closest application I nude n 1111 t Ctt horl Own Pi bably no aut American actress cu hu has huI I 1 ICI d es 10 many part parta ranging from t to burlesque as Mrs Kr Ann Annie Adams At sixteen Ih she rend 1 t the part o of Alice Alae In Ernest for forth forthe the th r f ta the old Salt lake IAU bunt by BrIg Thong W the Mormon n capital where h she was 1111 N tarn born The managers approved her read reading d ing said what many mallY a critic haa ha said laId I ehe Is II a natural ruder reader one whose whole elocution I is a gift of the god not an product ot of She was ot at once engaged us 11 a bt her r of the Salt Luke Tha Theater ter stock I rum m pany and made her debut as al Grace Otis in hI The Peoples Lawyer with Jolla Dean Layne She played a as Woman oman or of that stock company with Ith B BL L J Davenport avenport Edwin III Adams Adami John Mc and Jamee Jame A At seventeen she hp played lardy Lally Macbeth In Inthe th the same ame company For live seasons she played with that company During Durin that time she he married d Jam James den her second husband a handsome young banker from frum Montana While Maude was an n Infant they removed to San Francisco where rever reverses el 11 hav having InK ing returned to the loge She it R le e t tours ur ot of the coast cout with Jo Jon 1 Owens first a as a character anti and star latar as a leading woman She played Cads Cad with C W ot of hazel fame fam throughout the Welt Returning to Salt Malt Lake City at viii varl Otis dines timet she he assisted In the production of The Two Orphans This Amber I Witch Pitch and other old favorites She headed a stack company that made It a atour tour of the Wet West Bait at Lynne Inne and n The Celebrated Cue Case She dared Prince J Edward In Rich Richard ard nI II Iii at the opening ot of the Baldwin Theater by Harr Harry Sullivan James Jamell ONeill and n W V n II Crane rane were In the cat cast At th the same theatre she hp scored a success as In a bur leeque ot of The Last no Rose e ot of Summer MI I w I when the audience not content with her ber bowed upon having the scene lICen repeated At A t the 0 theater San Fran deco she played juvenile character anti and leading tarts according to special adaptation with the stock company She Was all a fa favorite of th the City Nev tock stock company Once while playing lAd Macbeth Maude Maudel mother discovered that they Were short hort a an apparition Im not on an ont anat at t that tbt time Let the Ine play pia a sh b bAld said Ald W E O Sheridan seeing her from the floor said be surprised to lo see let you playing Mft Macbeth She made her first New e York art with Tony lIart Martin In The Toy Pistol PItol under Charles Frohman moan man She 1 was next seen In Sw New NewYork York with I U h Harrison In hit The Paymaster at the Star theater Sl Slip and her daughter played together In A Midnight Bell and tu to n a company In tn Men sad Alia We o men Loot Paradise and Diplomacy acy cr Next thy they joined John Drew were seen In A Masked nail Ball Jr and Rose noes Rosemary mary mar leer last appearance w was In White Heather She h may appear In a new Frohman production this season Meanwhile she be p presides dl over tM the new town house houle It at No 92 32 t street treet anti and busies with books and music anti and affairs for tor her tastes are not unlike those ot of her student nt daughter She PhI II e I a small woman with Ith a trim figure scarcely as tell taU RI as asher her du daughter and Ind a bright changeful ra t York Journal |
