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Show Delia Pringle Talks Some Impressionsof Cache Valley-Hcr Roles As Miss Pringle has played recently in several towns about Logan and has been known here for several ytars, her many admirers may be Interested to know something of her personality and stage lire, as revealed In her conversation. con-versation. "This Is my husband, Mr. Van Auker," said Miss Pringle as she welcomed wel-comed two reporters to her dressing room last Thursday night after the second act in Faust The (laming costume cos-tume of Mr. Van Auker showed him to be the actor who had Just been playing play-ing Mephlsto so well and now he was applying to tils wife for pina to choke up a gap in the clothing of his Satanic Satan-ic majesty. We had heard that Miss Pringle had recently lost a brother and gained a tinsband and we were at a low whether to approach her with condolences or congiatulations, but the love pat that "put the Din In place and the merry smile with which we were received showed us that Joy was to be the predominating note of the Interview and that Jolly Delia Pringle well deserves the name she bears on the play bills. Having pinned the Devil together and dismissed him she gave her attention to us and told us much about her life as an actress and her success a a theatrical manager for she Is both an artist and a business woman. t ' "How do I like the part of Marguerite? Marguer-ite? It la not one of my favorite parts, though every night I can't help feeling feel-ing the life tragedy of it all and the tremendous grip the story gets on the audience. You know I like comedy better than tragedy, but all the same my favorite roles are Glory Quayle and Zlra and you know that there Is a tragic note running all through those parts. I was born In Iowa and have been on the stage since I was a child. Ever since I was eighteen I have been at the head of my own company. Last winter I had a most successful season playing in the aalaiog towns. At Gold-field Gold-field they Just worshipped me. I tell you there's nothing like an audience of miners to play to. They are so lavish with their money and applause. The old times when the miners used to throw nuggets to theU footllght favorites are not gone by entirely, by any means." It was quite a Jump from Nevada to Cache valley, but knowing that Miss Pringle had beep playing all through the valley we asked her how she liked us. "Fine," said Delia, with a merry-gleam merry-gleam of her white teeth and an arch look from the eyes that have charmed so many beholders, "I always enjoy playing in Utah. I was in Logan about seven yeaTS ago and had a splendid splen-did house. Yesterday I played In Richmond; In the afternoon we gave 'Out of the Fold' for the old people. It was a packed house with lots of children In the audience, but everyone from babies to gray beards seemed delighted. de-lighted. Then in the evening we gave 'Faust,' and the simple country folk seemed to feel instinctively the tremendous tre-mendous power of that great drama. We have already played "In Preston. Tomorrow wo go to nyrum and then to Sralthfleld and next week to Poca-tello Poca-tello and the north." Wo would gladly have lingered longer long-er in the society of the charming actress, ac-tress, but wo knew that it was time for the blond hair and slender neck of Marguerite to be adorned with the Jewels of tho garden scene, and as Miss Pringle assured us that It was one of her big scenes wo exchanged the charm of the woman for that of the actress. 1 l |