| Show ILLARD IN r J 1 MOOD REMINISCENT Willard Mack talked interestingly 1 to a Republican representative c yesterday yester- yester est r day on his hits career as aa an actor I was educated in tho the Georgetown Ky ver ho he said suld My father ather intended intend intend- ed mo me for tOI a bu business career carler and when we removed d to I bogan began work In lit a commission brokers broker's office at a very er small salary The rhe avenues of or trade did not make a II very strong trong appeal appeal ap ap- ap peal to me and nd I was wan never nevel quite able to conquer by burning desire for Cor tho the ta stage stavru u. u Through the kind offices of ot lid Edwin win Arden whom I happened to know lUlu I secured an nn Intro Introduction to Thomas W. W Kean Keall and aud some orne weeks later Inter nude made m de m my debut debut with that grand errand actor In Wash Va h. h ington D D. C. C It did ld not burden me the mever ver very much Uch at first remembering my short abort speeches but hut I remained with Mr lair Kean Kenn for fOl several yuan years and rose roseto roseto roseto to the position of or leading Juvenile Ju man which I retained until Mr Air Keans Kean's de death th I have never regretted the splendid plen hl training I received received un under r the tuter tutelage o of ot th the great tragedian Slurred Three For three seasons e I starred starre throughout the tho United States as John Storm in Hall 1111 Calne Calne's The Christian and in the meantime I was carefully arranging my plans for producing permanent permanent per per- I manent stock In n the I loaning leading cities as I have Java always firmly believed In perma- perma i neat neut stock as one ne of or the tho great Institutions Institutions Institutions I of or this country theatrically and arid I Ithe 1 the truth of or my theories In that regard i I have been proven by the splendid financial returns I have received in all parts of or the My or fixed 7 Is h. to give my nay theater theater thea thea- ter tor patrons th the very VOly beat best the tho dramatic market markot affords no matter mallol what the labor of or preparation or cost of pro pro- I believe in giving them as asgood asgood good a production for one ono week as I would were I to pro produce uce a single play for an entire season I please all aU who come to my performances each we week k and can n count on their patronage tho the following week I I I 1 have grown to lovo love Salt SnIt Lake Lako City an and her people I have only been i here since December but in that time have been n firmly convinced that tho theater goers of oC this city are the most I critical and yet t enthusiastically responsive responsive re re- e O off any audiences before re-I re whom I have havo ever aver played ed They havo have been most generous in their patronage patrona e eat of at l my previous productions at the Colonial Colonial Col Col- onial and now that I have secured a permanent home for tOI high class plays I my 10 Bungalow alow on State street stroet 1 will make snake every effort to bo consistent and provide each Ich and every week the Iho latest New York successes from the pens of European and ancl American authors and give ghe as aa complete and careful PrO productions productions uc- uc an as are ure possible and retain the tho popular scale scalo of or prices as heretofore I hope to be able ahle to remain Indefinitely in Suit Salt Lake Lale and of course this depends entirely upon the people hut but If Ie they continue to respond aa fit liberally to my efforts orts to entertain thorn thom as they thoy have hu thus far done clon I 1 shall not complain |
