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Show NANCE O'NEIL: ' ,r '- Next week will witness the return of Nance O'Neil to the Salt Lake theatre for a season of eight performances. per-formances. Sardon's "The Sorceress" Sorcer-ess" will be the opening bill and will run the first half of the week. The last half will be devoted to Magda" Sudcrmanu s powerful play in which Miss O'Neil has macic such a -lading impression. Our old fricnd-i'Mc-Kce Rankin will play his woiulqr.fuJ part of Colonel Schwartz. Nance O'Neil. the tragedienne, has most solid and studious ideas concerning con-cerning her art. When askud why she selected the more sombre. things, she said in part: "Affectation is a curse on the stage." Play-wrigh'js and managers nowadays aik the'Vit-tors the'Vit-tors to assume the hollowness and "affectations "af-fectations of modern society. ..Modern ..Mod-ern actors arc losing the old time classical sense. The taste of the A publis for great plays has not bedn changed, but the plajfcrs capable of presenting them arc mostly alhdead. In London,' I was scolded for trying to follow in the foot-steps of Rigtori and Bernhardt with the great' tragedies, trage-dies, yet my work there had lis gratifying grati-fying features, and the critics honored i me by always comparing my art to that of Duse and Bernhardt. I, Reminded Re-minded them that even the d'evnic Sarah dis; leased London on her 'first visit." |