Show Mansfield and the Star System What Richard Mansfield did helped elpe to destroy y the tire stock system an and 1 establish establish lish Ush In its Iti place tho star There is no need to discuss gain or lo loby boils loiis by that But l lie w was ono one of or those who profited l by breaking away from usage and forcing himself Into singularity It was not easy It was very hard It If now an no actor octor can convince one me of ot the syndicates that he lie has a play in which ho may probably mall make money thoney on a B. tour a route roulo is maven to him at ot once There was wa no nb su such h system then Each starring enter en en- enterprise ter else ha had to make Its own wa way Mansfield 1 did it very vry slowly very carefully carefully care le fully ery arduously Nothing beyond beyond be be- yond A A f Romance came camo to him quickly and It was not feasible to start out with a 0 single pIa play Do- Do fore he hud got Prince Karl Carl ready to be tried he hp began work with T T. T Russell Sullivan to make a play of Dr Dl Jekyll and und Mr 11 Hyde and aud Beau u Brummell was AS In evolution e from tho the time 1 ho he got the got the plan of it from William Winter until with th the theold theold old play pIa by J Jerrold as R a re basIs and Clyde Fitch ur under ler salary u t an while for tOI the stage Ills His the tv work wa waR ready making oC or plays playa wan teas own own share In the tho he lio had hail no skill at hardly creative composition but ut ho did a o. d or of ori f i thinking about the character life lair h was with liim to depict de getting acquainted considering tho the right m make up ull ko-ull deport OPO deportment I meat ment mental attributes and ond reasonableness reason reAson- ablen ss of or action e I have tc said that In to making a stare star actor of ot himself Mansfield struck one of or the blows that knocked th the last of stock companies l. l to tv the style old pieces piece But Dut he lie had holl no such destructive destructive contrary he tive dve purpose e On the hoped to establish himself as a ItOl stock star In irr a l the theatre tre of or his hi own In JP New NewYork York That undertaking teas as was d by a disaster which his fearlessness In In- In It Or 01 Oros was os to go 0 to London with all nil the money he had bad earned d and all nil he lie could bor borrow bor- bor row and risk It in hi ft It sumptuous mounting mounting mounting mount mount- ing of ot Richard III IU at rit the Globe theatre theatre the the- atre when hen Irvin Irving was at al the rho h hel height lit of I his success 8 at the Lyceum L Th The exploit exI ex- ex proved that he lie had as milt I tty Sty as aa the Englishman in to s rat raft but it plunged him deep in out of which he was helped b by a wealthy patron after afler his hit return to where his Richard became tive 1 It t was at the Gar rick New Now I York that he lie endeavored to t equal or pr Irving as an ait acting and pro- pro I manager Ills list first several 1 productions pro plO I du there were unprofitable an and York overwork brought on typhoid fever to I bring failure to la the tho venture which he lie heI never ne renewed Instead of or clinging to any oral Corm ot of the local stock tock he tic I let go of or It altogether and joined the I migratory sw sweep p 0 of theatrical affairs |