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Show TRUTH ETHEL BARRYMORE ON Greenroom Gossip. Kyrle Bellew is cruising in English Ethel Barrymore has decided views waters. Francis about playing Shakespeare. Surely to told she want I play Shakespeare, What actor ever an interviewer. lived but wanted to be a good Shakespearean actor? Its a class by itself and among us corresponds to royalty in social life. An actor who is identified with Shakespearean roles is honored among his fellows. Mind you, Im not lying awake nights worrying over it, but I do sit up and notice things when I have a chance to see a Shakespearean play. I never saw a performance of Shakespeare yet but what some one in the cast gave a reading or a whole rendition that showed new beauties to me; some man or woman who really sympathized, with and felt that role. Coque-lisays that an actor should not actually feel the role he plays, and Coquelin is a great actor, but he is greatest in comedy and one cannot expect a comedian to forget his own troubles and actually feel as funny as the character he simulates. With legitimate serious roles it is different. You say to yourself If I were in such a position Id feel in such a way about it, and if you actually do feel that way, the audience knows it without your using expression number thirty-sevewhich denotes anguish, or number twenty-three- , denoting you feel as if your hat was not on straight. Of course I have seen many actors who act according to Coquelins theory. They play the same role a hundred nights without the variance of gesture or tone of voice. They care not whether the audience is cold or warm. They are good, reliable, dear souls and never suffer from nervous prostration. Perhaps you will fancy how charming this style is to the highly strung, anxious star who never plays twice alike, but varying light and shade according to physical or mental condition or changing with the audience, which at times exhibits all Wilson is touring the south of France. Ada Rehan is resting at her bungalow in England. E. H. Sothern and his wife, Virginia Harned, will spend their vacation in Quebec. Ellsler is contemplating a trip to the far West, to visit her husband, Frank Weston. Wilton Lackaye, his wife, and little Effie son are at their Long Island cottage for the summer. I Reginald Do Koven sailed for Europe recently in search of material for a new opera. Maclyn Arbuckle is spending the Bummer at his home, Wadington, in northern New York. Edgar Davenport is writing this summer, and in the fall, it is said, he may surprise theatrical people with one of his productions. Julia Marlowe will remain at her summer cottage in the Catskills until time for rehearsals with E. H. Sothern for their opening in September. There is a possibility that the popular English comedian, Edward Terry n at the end of next year, presenting The House of Burnside. While Nat C. Goodwin Is touring the south of France In his automobile, his wife, Maxine Elliott, Is resting at the Goodwin country place, near London. The Duchess of Danzig, the London successful version of Mme. Sans Gene, will be seen In New York about the first of the year with the original English company. Eva Westcott is reported to have scored a distinct success in the London production of The Prince of Pilsen, playing her original part of Jimmy, the bell boy. Lulu Glaser will be the first to start the new season in New York, for she Is booked to appear at the Knickerbocker theater early in August in hei new opera, A Madcap Princess. Henry W. Savages production ol "Parsifal in English is now completed and the entiro cast has been formed. The first representation of the Wagner music drama will be given in Boston Among the professionals who are spending the summer in Europe are Margaret Anglin, Blanche Walsh, Viola Allen, Fritz! Scheff, Fay Davis, Aubrey Boucicault and Lawrence DOrsay. The oldest member of the Bostonians chorus is James E. Miller, who has been with the organization since the days of the Boston Ideals. Tne youngest member is Miss Letitia Bradley, who is 14 years old. Robert Edeson has heard the final reading of the play by William C. De Mille with which the actor will inaugurate his season in New York on Jan. 30. Mr. De Mille is the son of the late Henry C. De Mille, dramatist of note. Julia Romalne, who was with Richard Mansfield during the past season, is playing a twenty weeks summei engagement in the Western parks, in a sketch called Roxys Christmas Present, In which she impersonates a boy of the streets. Charles Ross and Mabel Fenton will be starred next season by Webei & Rush in a musical travesty entitled the total depravity of inanimate things and at times as appreciative as a brand new husband. When I was a' very little girl in Philadelphia, I used to go behind the scenes at my grandmothers theatre to see Edwin Booth act, and one night I remember he stopped dead in the middle of a speech and for a couple by Mldgetty-Didgett- y, the crowded house was absolutely breathless. Back of the scenes I could feel that every eye in that great crowd in front was strained on Booths blank face. When he resumed and finished and made his exit he was recalled over and over again. When it was all over he Im picked me up and said, My, butstuck You eh? a good actor tonight, audead, I exclaimed. I had to, the dience was dead until I did. If they show signs of dying again Ill stumble over a chair; theyll think Ive been drinking and theyll watch me like cats and help me out some. Cousin Kate, the comedy in which Charles Frohman presents Ethel BarMonrymore at the Salt Lake theatre 16th, day and Tuesday, Aug. 15th and most of the seems to have been one successful of last years productions. This is Miss Barrymores fifth season as a star under Mr. Frohmans manhas been agement and her popularity sure was great from the start. So in CousMr. Frohman of her success in Kate that he reserved the openfor ing of the New Hudson Theatre her, with the result that theattheatre every was crowded to its capacity performance during the long engagement and at its close Miss Barrymore continued ' her New York season in four other theatres. will visit this country Oct. 19. n, of seconds ) ETHEL BARRYMORE AT SALT LAKH THEATRE, AUGUST 15 AND 16. CEOlFYia MANAGER. CK&INKfi PRESENTED BY CHARLES FROHMAN THE CHARniNG ACTRESS MISS ETHEL BARRYMORE ' IN COUSIN KATE MONDAY AND TUESDAY, AUGUST 15 A' - f . T. ' V and 16 Edgar T. Smith. The piece is a burlesque on Zaza, and will be played over. the popular price circuit. Robert Haines and Laura Hops Crews have gone into vaudeville in New York, appearing in a comedl-ette-, by Genevive Haines, entitled A Mr. Haines was Happy Morning. Miss with Blanche Bates in recently The Darling of the Gods. Calve played Carmen In Paris last week for the 367th time. The widow of Bizet, Carmens composer (now Madame Straus), and Ludovic Halevy were among the delighted audience, and the composers widow told Calve that there never could be another ideal Carmen. Milt Barlow, the noted old minstrel, was taken to the New York Hospital last week, suffering from cancer of the throat. An operation was performed and it Is hoped that Mr. Barlow may recover. It is not likely, however, that he will be able again to appear in public. o 8hadow From Venus. 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