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Show Interesting Recnllections of Richard!Vlanstield " In tho July American Magazine Katherlne Oroy, the well Knoin actress ac-tress writes a highly entertaining article ar-ticle entitled "Picking Up fltr.ge Wisdom." Wis-dom." Miss Orey has been a star nnd sho has been a leading wdmai to rcore stars than nny other thros actresses ac-tresses In America combined. In her article sho tells a great many stories of personal experience with famous people of the Btago. In the following oxtrnct taken from hor artlclo sho tells In part her recollections of Hlch-ard Hlch-ard Mansfield: "HanBflcld wns nbovo all an artiBt to tho very tips of his Angers. Ho could not havo been any thing else. Everything was sacrificed to this ono dominating passion monoy, friendship, friend-ship, and all tho rest that goes to 1 mako llfo pleasant to tho ordinary ' mortal. Certainly it was his artistic I senso that gave him his love of re-' re-' pertolro. Even when ho was making big money ho dd not want to play ono part for long. I never know him so miserable as when ho played Cyrano, Cy-rano, for a wholo season,. I "Variety, ho used to argue, Is necessary nec-essary for tho actor's art. No painter wants to paint tho samo plcturo or scene forever nnd over, ho would say. "Thcro was only ono thine that did battle with and defeated Mr. Mana-field's Mana-field's artistic senso: his sense of personal cleanliness amounted to nn obsession. Ho not only could not bring himself to bo dirty, but ho could not bring himself oven to appear ap-pear dirty, though tho exigencies of tho play demanded such a condition, j For Instance, In Cyrnno, when all the other cadets wero In rags nnd ho was telling how ho had Btarvcd nnd crawled crawl-ed on his stomach through tho enemy's ene-my's lines to bring a cortaln lettor nnd hnd don0 other things that would havo rendered filth inovltable, his appearance was immaculate. Tho only tlrao ho ever suggested personal person-al unkeraptness was In Hyde, and then his nppearatice was that of tho grucsomo or sordid rather than tho dirty. "Mansfield was very sarcastic at times. Frequently at a trying moment mo-ment during rehearsal ho would ask you if you had any intelligence or why you thought you wero qualified for tho theater. Hut you got used to it after n while and did not feel it. Ho had very llttlo patlenco with Incompetency. In-competency. If you could not hold up your end ot tho scene ho would sw!ng it himself and you wore wiped out. nut If you could hold up your end ho was n big enough man nnd a great enough artist to let you do it and get all tho applauso and credit tliero was in it. "Ho was keenly sensltlvo to his surroundings; ho would not allow any unnecessary nolso on the stago while tho curtain was up. Once In tho Park Theater In Brooklyn ho came off tho scene In something of a rage nnd de-1 manded, "What's that noise Have It Btoppcdl" "It's the rain on tho roof, said one ot tho stago hands. I "Well, havo it stopped, ho said, rnd strode off to his dressing room." |