| Show THE P PERSONAL L SIDE of f MAUDE ADAMS By I RENNOLD WOLF VOLF in Smiths Smith's for y May 1907 V V V V AUDI AUDE ADA ADAMS IS loved V M M MAUDE and anil least known kuon of or Am- Am IS I.'S Applauded d db b by countless countIes thousands as her mimic self seIt recognized except by tho thio privileged ed few ow In hn I per l'- l' V sona oria What Vital a l trick of mana management is Js V there thero what a gift Ift of magnetism I Som Something of or a mystic ting tinkles V in the theory ye ory name Even In typo It ll possesses a c charm larm reminiscent V of ot hours hour pushed passed within its owners owner's magic spell V Every E now nosy and then there arises VV from tho struggling lInS' lInS eager N crowd of or V V V ambitious actresses actresses' ono nub whom the V public uLl darts darls upon and claims as Its V particular pet pct its darling favorite child A personality r V. V V baffling description und and challenging V analysis must bo be the heritage 0 0 of one o j-o o Mary Anderson possessed pos pos- EC It H Ada in Iii the Iho days of oC hOl It It and Julia a activity ll profited by c owes OWlS to It h her t overnight train lra from obscurity to triumph But nUL Butmore Butmore V more Ingratiating inure mure cn enduring than V this thi vague the o quality In her Is Js the Uw personality of ot Maud Mamie Adams And while dramatic critics every ery where have ha written columns of adulation adult adula V Ilo tion about the lie actress few maJ the effort to their readers to S Maude Adams dams tho thio woman n How ninny many of you rou who rc read d this havo have ever e met her on the lIe street In itt tho park mo motoring t 01 11 S shopping or 01 participating IK lit any m one of th the tho numberless pa pastimes to metropolitan h existence Miss Ad Adams ms Jo loves Jos s tho the the theatre tre Tin The V V drama Is at al once her hm profession lon and hI h her i i diversion But Hut her name Is yet el to V bc lic mentioned among muon th those c present at atthe V thy the professional matinees where theatrical theat theat- I rica c celebrities are arc wont to Hock Do you ou recall early In tim Iho season having ln V noted her at a fir night first t performance i whither players not yet launched UI up- up oi oil 01 their theil toutS rush f for l' l that hat ve very entil en- en til nt which I later late tel they nrc to fl furnish Even a vigil Igil at tho the stage V U l' l Is fraught with HIt disappointment to her admirers Hun Hundreds an and thou thou- t of or matinee girls have walled waited with tho the Jl patience of oC the tearful bride brid who in lit song walled called at the church ChUlch V their JI came camo not Success of the kind that she has lias won amounts almost l to seclusion The fhe more generous generous gen gen- erous erous croiS her critics and anti the more bolster bolster- ous oils the applause the more timid antI and V shrinking SI she must b become Anti And In V full ju justice to Miss i A Adams ams It must V b b Slat stated tat d that the thc Illusion J of or her charm docs not nol fall all strictly within the tho rule of distance In its relation to enchant enchant- In CIlI t Miss lIss Adams Adams' dam modesty b Is not Protes- Protes She docs does not measure its advantages ad- ad vantages alth although u h doubtless ES Charles I Frohman who has directed her affairs at- at af aC- I V fairs with a rare tare skill has made tie tiu calculation for her It was the late lato Au- Au Dal Daly who first put lt a ban bati on the V V self of his pla players His ills 1 system of directing art involved ed more dont than tho the modern e editorial V room He lie abhorred the intimacy c y of oft p- p V t restaurants V positively tabooed Broadi Broad Broad- i pr a-pr and nd pr prescribed e ex ex- ex the tho hours during which his charges might call f for l. l their thell mall without with wIth- V out Incurring a compound fracture of oC the tho contract S V I V That system was not nol madness and anti V it wa was not nol eccentric eccentricity It Pla Players Players- cri as U t l V rule do not nol Improve e on acquaintance Few public Idols satisfy the Iho worshiper at ut short shurl range rans I le recall all my disappointment disappoint disappoint- ment as a bo boy on Oil being presented to j the tile late Governor GO Robert E E. Palli Pattison on Mr 1 Pattison was vas hailed as a P prodigy who had so far upset the traditions traditions tra tra- s as al to attain the tho governorship u j I of PennsylvanIa anla b by an overwhelming o V Democratic majority Mr lr Pattison I was a n man of oC moro inure than titan erase average stature but I had expected ted to meet a alanL giant fully 1 12 feet high The first V sight of ot Joseph Jefferson also dash dashed d my to the time ground I think I expected him hint to entertain me inc with a knockabout act or sing sins a comical pong yng with a clance Janco tot for I hall hail b been en I told that 11 he lie was excruciatingly funny V As a fact Mr 11 Jefferson seated scaled at a V r l I nde c tt In rt A. on n ham hamlet Jet presented pre pre- I V a rather lather mournful us aspect the tho only comedy relief being a huge huc mug mugur of ur b beer cr nn nail and a JI pyramid of sauerkraut V II Heres Here's a little secret for tOl the matinee I V Kill girl Il sentinels Miss lIss Adams Invariably In remains in her hel d dressing room an all hour or more after atel each performance beV before be be- V fore she l begins to remove her costume V It is her m method of resting There Is V no selfishness In this procrastination There ro Isn't a selfish hair hah in her vi viV vivacious vi- vi 1 V V head But she Is a lJ bundle of ot nerves which after aeter being free and unbridled un- un V bridled for three hours must have e a chance chanco to recoil V Tc Tea e is Miss s Adams Adams' favorite fa V prescription pre pre- 2 for runa runaway wa nerves A fragile fra tra- V. V sll gile table an and tiny tea set occupy a n aV V con conspicuous position in her lice dressing V V r room Th They I y might bo ho toys or ot th theyS they y might belong to Peter Pans Pan's fa fairy I 1 S I I Tinker B lieu Bell ll When last I saw 1 W Miss Adams her hN greeting g was as May la I 1 rc- rc I I vive vl you Ou with some ome tea I Th The colt cold ln ungallant it truth nth i Is 11 that tea i t depro ses rather than revives me inc but ts s seated sealed by Miss Mis Adams Adams' miniature out out- out out-j I I l fit it one seemed d to 10 bo be only pla playing ing at d drinking ln tea Indulging in more of oC Peter Peter ie Pe Pe- t ter cr Pans Pan's make believe A mom moment nt before Miss Adams In Peters Peter's had b been beu sit sit- hunting hunting- costume Cn j I t ting on a monster macho papier mushroom mushroom mush mush- I r room oom in the prompt entrance waldIn watching watch wald- l In ing ug th the shift scene from Peters und r- r I bols hols V all il IiI all more nore 01 or loss less and anel we WU never altogether lo lose loo l' l the thc Childs Child's outlook of lifo To lo b be j sure Barris s l JO 1 Isi in lit the sense n e that thal k I I Is but bUI ovary hit bit of oC hi- hi antis and v pt playfulness hat has for fOl a wealth elIth o of hidden moaning For FOI the sake of oC l 1 the hosts of nC matinee girls who wh huddled tJ in vain aln at the stage dime herewith another little sec se- se V c- c coi oi I is rf mun n Miss Mis- ti Adams d' d 0 s lon t Ih hi t h i I ii V It t i K i. tinder the theor pm t en in or 01 ti th t wh if d bu business I V V 4 r 5 V V V f 5 V V. V V V V VI I V VV V V V V V V V VV V V V V V V 1 L 1 VMS A Pan at the limo Salt Sail Lake Theatre l t d homo lo 10 the tho deck of r I l ti Pi Il Am Ar fOlde f mid Vh h t eyes r cloty e every cry movement mo of tho tha In stage hands lianda Occasionally she sime gave guvo an or order er very I quietly or 11 made a suggestion For Miss Adams you yon OU should Imo know has well developed aspirations In the d direction of uC sta stage e management She Sho understands ever every bit hit of ut mechanism connected with light effects and amI the won wonderful erCul Hying machines Her costumes costumes cos cos- t umes are arc of her own designing As s she ite sat there unostentatiously t the he business s manager manag sought hl her advice advice ad- ad vice about a detail of an extra matin matinee matino o performance and amI the musical director consulted her n regarding a proposed change chante in the Incidental score There was a swift sure pleasant answer for both Her attitude was that thal of eloquent elo elo- quent fluent patience untiring industry love of the tile art and executive grasp of de do- de- de tails During a recent In Boston Doston Doston Dos Dos- ton Miss 1188 Adams determined to mako make certain experiments with the lighting effects She thought she sime had hit hll upon a 11 scheme of rendering moie muro que rlue Peters Peter's home In 11 time the trees She hc worked n er the models with the lIw ardent ardent ar ar- ar- ar dent enthusiasm nl of uC any inventor she lie pent a thousand dollars an and more moie in pel feeling the equipment ama and for 01 her pains she the achieved OI oily filly Jy failure Miss grief rief was harrowing The rho loss lose of ur the Iho money had for fOl h her r no cance but that thal she he had failed Called in n trick of stagecraft completely upset her To return to 10 the tho tea cups CLIpS Miss 1188 Adams at once plunged Into a discussion discus discus- sion lion of Peter ieter Pan She V expressed r a rigid belief bellet in fairies although in her bet mature estimation fairies took look the outward outward out out- ward form Corm of and wicked human beings s There l Is an abundance ance of faith In fairies Sh she said seriously The TUe young oung oun believe In them as fairies airles the Iho old believe In their existence as sym sym- goes OlIC t every lY member of the or- or I lion beats ls l's a clo closer cloer er re resemblance lo Ic the theatrical star slur according to tu the standards of haut ur by which the In Initialed In- In have h coon conic to measure those Important persons Since Miss s Adam a babe balJe In iii arms anus ma made l her hr tta stage f debut lebut she has not been known to express a protest of or any ny sort mort Sarah Bernhardt an uncommonly ty good good na Lured actress netress has on on several I I occasions condemned stupid stage hands to the Ito depths o of the Sem en Duse Dimse who realty really cherishes art for Il UK Its own sake compelled the Iho manager of or her American Ican tour lour lo to cut through the brick wall of a theatre that she might ht have an nn additional addi addi- Window in her Dressing room loom Mrs Mis Patrick Campbell ii discovered Haws In ever every first class 8 hotel bt between N Now Ne' w York and anti San Ran Francisco but I Miss Adams Adams' complaints are arc lodged against herself the solitude of her dressing dressing- room I The debut whence wh hates dales her career I of or COlli complacent submission was made In Salt lal Lake City her birthplace Her mother Annie Adams was WUK a member of or the leading stock company there At the tender lender age uge of lr f nine months and andI I three tireo days little Miss lIss Adams AdamK became demonstrative under the time afflictions of oC V the teething process anti and when she hr re refused refused re- re fused such Ruch comforts as time the nurse could bestow the latter carried c her lo to th the with the time Idea of testing maternal ma mn- influence Mrs Mis ll Adams was playing In a oat Om- act fares entitled The Lost Child the thc plot of or which vas wat based 1 upon the time disappearance of an infant infanti i In arms The baby l IHo provided ed t iV by the management had hall failed to report am and the manager was waR In d desperate SI 1 to traIts trails when Wh a n bawl proclaimed the arrival or of Mistress Adams The Infants Infant's Infant inI In in- In- In fant's fant entrance was vas to V be Lc accomplished ac ticS Ie- Ie I on Ott a tray In which style she was to lo be served ld to tn tl the I father In Iii this thus emergency the stag I manager or to lo the Intense of of the ito nurse seized the tho startled Mistress Mis Mis- tress Adams Allam thrust her hl upon the salver sal sal- sah- sah Vl ver et I and the future Iad Lady Babble WWi was I borne bOlno to ro the center of the tio tn stage e. e a la It lathe the overworked OCl head of oC poor lor J John tin the Baptist Evidently was as In ii Inthe the childs child's blood for COI site she half halt raised l lI herself hersel on eu her hen chubby elbows and aud 1 I I crowed lustily I It was vas nn an omen of lf the good nature that thai s vas to prevail through throughout out her hel I. I stage For at least ten teVi years cars her hei I position ha has nominally anti and actually entitled item tret to lo authority over r her a asso asso- o- o but she he has haR consistently re ye refrained rt trained front from exercising It Slips Ships o of oC f the tongue tongue and lapses of or memory are alO a not nol infrequent among thc most conscientious conscientious con con- Such Ruch accidents ace of oC r players 11 eis o hi her hl em con confreres freres have hac som sometimes marred mm Vt her favorite Ca scenes N. N spoiled her most t I impressive situation M Miss 1158 ls A damns list i- i I ons us to the culprits culprit's explanation an and Li then lien violates the time fundamental itile a of ot tho the professional code colIc in this fashIon fashIon fash- fash ash Ion Its charming t of or you ou to fake tIm the lIJe e blame on yourself hut but I dont don't believe e a word worl you OU say sar hind Had I given hen the cu cuo 0 more distinctly you OU would not have has C missed the speech May Maybe bo olTI affidavits a should hould accompany I lions shin she Is nol always s able to lo give o i that a pu in her own or- or hum bill L hi sue ho sends oilier cn engagements to 10 knock at al his imis titter door Iho ilmo n ael average n sla I hand haiti I Is not nol subject sub stilt to tender cadet emotions He lie demands Ii 52 2 i- i 2 1 cents per vcr hour for tor his unique services service and amid with its payment his Interest interest In Interest In- In terest in the drama ends Miss Adams Adams Ad Ad- Ada ams urns s ha-s found a direct route to even cn this Ibis laborers laborer's heart healt The stage hands handsor of or every theatre in which she hc has played recall her Wil with l reverence and affection The concluding deed deet of or her V cn engagement o Is to a generous getter gener ous purse among the grips carpen- carpen electricians Lets Let's and l flymen Unfavorable le criticism cuts her Item to lo the quick l all allor of or hot her attainments attain attain- with record of ot ments a n. successes such as OF f few w players can ean show in a lifetime she 1 I Is I moie grateful for fora n. n compliment than titan a school acting playIng play play- Ing tug hot her first professional role She Is keenly sensitive but hut she site Is too mO modest Cl too charitable to tn assume either prejudice prejudice dice or 01 incompetence In a u critic crille who has hus found fault ault with her Miss Adams i does not nol wit nit It up after a premiere e for fOI forthe forthe the morning papers Site SIll reads only the expurgated editions edition tier Fler censor however how really leally cheats If he hp I salary y lam for time thc II little tt Ie there is to do I Jacob Jacub Adler time the distinguished Yiddish Yiddish dish actor once attended a 0 performance perform perform- ance alice of The lime Pretty Sister of ot Jose In which Miss l Adams appeared four seasons seasons sea sea- sons ago ngo That woman is iti the only American actress I have seen who has quIcksilver quicksilver quicksilver quick quIck- silver In Item her ho he remarked d She Site has talent in lit her heart the others cr- cr cry crbut but Hie they dont don't feel ft 11 it This praise was afterward conveyed I lo |
