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Show MISS BATES TALKS ABOUT HER ROLE. Miss Blanche Bates, who appears at the Salt Lake theatre next week in her new play, "The Blanche Bates Fighting Hope," is in love with the character she plays. "Why do I like Anna Dale, the character I portray por-tray in 'The Fighting Hope'?" she said recent ly. "Oh, there are so many reasons; so many il that I am afraid you could not patiently listen to H them all. In the first place, the role is new and comes as a pleasant relief after the enactment , of the same part for three years not that I love '1 the girl in 'The Girl of the Golden West' less, but ;H that I love Anna Dale in 'The Fighting Hope' ul more. This craving to create is a characteris- '"1 tic of the profession the artist in us, I suppose, that is ever uager to do something greater, and M were the managers to conform to the wishes of ninety-nine per cent of the stars on the stage M today, the scars would be permitted to create a new role oveiy three months. In about that M time the part becomes second nature, and al- M though it mellows and becomes more artistic with ,1 subsequent performances, still the enthusiasm H born of newness, as it were, sometimes begins M to wane. Bu probably my chief love in my pres- H out role lies In the fact that Anna Dale embodies H all that is ideal in an American woman. In com- M paring her with the women I have recently depict- M ed, I find her so vastly superior, so much more M real and therefore more interesting. She is an M intellectual character and appeals to me with rl far greater force than the purely romantic figures. M In 'The Darling of the Gods' and 'The Girl of the 11 Golden West' plays of another and distant period j the heroines with whom we associate in every - day life, and therefore one whose characteristics 1 are hnrdor to present truthfully because of every fl ono's intimate knowledge of such characteristics." M v5 iS - J 1 |