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Show GAY ZENOLAllAC- Jg LAREN HERE FRI. g APRIL 1 ST , H So enthusiastic was Glenn Prank, fiEli Ml I tor of the Century' Magazine, after b3BHI attending a rerformance of Gny Zen- wfll oln Macl.aren who will appear In Lo- jH pun Prtda, April 1, as n number of -H th l', A C.-TI. Y. C. Lyceum course, H that ho wrote the following account jH of her work without solicitation: H "Let's see Gny MacLarcn's preson- B tation of 'Bought and Paid For,' " H Kild my frtend. B "Oh, tho Impersonator?" I asked. BBVJ "Nn," answered bj-f friend quickly, ,-IBVJ "the woman who has invented a new HBhJ art I went In a skeptical mood. I HBVJ letl tho theatre In the mood of vnthu- -'H slnsm that i)ow Impels my pen. Tho curtnln arose upon a stagu jH bare or scenic effect. Hero wan a stage upon which Imagination could J play unhindered. Could Miss Mae- H Lareu, unaided by scenery, call tho H Imagination or her nudlencc Into .H play? Could she make nil tho char- H actors or the play live again with tho H rich personality they had In tho or- ' Iginnl New York production? H "At best, she will, do a good Job H of reading, a vivid bit of Imperson- H ntlon," I thought. H Miss MasLaron entered, u dainty. H very feminine person. I had visions or her having laboriously memorized H the lines of the play. But my friend 1 reminded me thut Miss MncLarea H never sees the mnnurcrlpt of a play -H sho Is to present; Just attends tho H theatre a tew times and the play . H sticks In her memory not alone the JH lines of tho play, but each Intonation, H gesture and mannerism of every H member of the cast. H "I'll bo Interested to see how sbo M Interprets throe characters," I said H to my frit ml. "for 1 saw tho original H production. I wonder what she wilt H make of Jimmy. Will she have tho H 'same conception that Frank Craven iH hud when he created tho role?" "" -1 "Oh" said my friend, JYou iuIpm M the point. MIsb XIacLaren doesn't jH create or Interpret any character. M You see sho Isn't Jutt a reader of H plays. Sho reporducea the original H perrormancv with all the accuracy H or a vktrola record. It isnt Uisa H JMaLrenH Jimmy you aro nbout'to H see; It's Frank Craven's Jimmy.'."; H I This dialogue took les. time Ip the s M talking than the writing, but m It H mado us loso the brisk and workman- H llko Introduction that preceaea juis m UacLarcn's plunging Into tho pU. H I ran only see that the illusion M was perfect. It was not. a readjng. JM It was not on imperanatlon. It wan H a re-oreatlon. The original cat tlv- fl ed nnd noted again. MIss-MacI-nren goes back Irow 'StVI these Ilelasco days, when little room mHES Is left to the imagination of the au- ijEffi dlcnco, to the simpler days of Shakc- wMf peare when, undf r the stlmulun of ff$m good acting th" audience could havo jjgfejfl tho pleasure or building Its own BM scenery with tho dullghtrul fahrlcsof JhM Its Imagination. wgKl |