Show i If I Ii it I f fI I C J j jr r I M r r t I I F 1 1 tt j. j I I f DAVID DANIELS 4 Love Of Animals By LESLIE W W. W KING David Daniels who has been in professional theater for 15 years has a writing which re reveals reveals reveals re- re his love for animals and Isolation from emotional In Involvement involvement involvement in- in with people general general- ly His writing shows a goodsel good self sel concept concepti great self assurance assurance assurance assur assur- ance and an undemonstrative poised nature HE KEEPS a little distance between himself and others not letting many people enter his inner circle of close friend friend- ships His hidden emotional feeling Is stronger than many people realize and he requires an outlet for Its expression an outlet which is comfortable to him I His IUs cultural artistic Inclinations inclinations provides one his love of or animals provides another With animals he can express warmth without fear of criticism or any other reprisal or reaction HE COMMENTED that he ison is ison ison on the board of trustees for the Minneapolis Museum for which he located two pieces of sculpture sculpture sculpture ture last year He said that his work wi with th the museum and his activity as an art collector provide provide provide pro pro- vide him with a greater feeling of permanence than his work asan as asan asan an actor About animals he said that he has two blind dogs and a cat One of his Ms dogs was born with one eye and later developed a cataract which left her totally blind About a year and one-half one ago he adopted a poodle who was eight years old and had gone blind The cat Is normal he said THE WRITING reveals a very avery fine personality with only one obvious fault and yet It goes along with his habit of keeping people at a slight distance VanIty Vanity Vanity Van Van- ity appears strongly In Mr Daniels' Daniels Daniels' Daniels Daniels' Daniels Dan Dan- writing He commented in reaction to that statement that he has a certain feeling about my talent as anybody has to have who can get up In front of an audience I do think Im I'm tal tal- tal If I didn't I would get out of the theater very quickly Its It's an extremely competitive field If one doesn't feel teel that he has something to contribute theres there's no point In remaining In it David has played the puppeteer puppeteer puppeteer puppe puppe- teer In Carnival opposite Liza In a national tour made madel l his s debut on Broadway In Plain and Fancy which won him the Donaldson and Theater World awards and has done 40 different different differ differ- ent operas and plays throughout the country as well as a tv serial ser ser- ial for tor NBC From These Roots ELSEWHERE In his writing his desire for directness and getting to the point without ex extensive extensive extensive ex- ex beating around the bush bushor or rehashing Is very obvious I It shows In the many words I without lead-in lead I which start a stroke in the abrupt endings to i I I words in the inverted v-shapes v I Ito to the letters m m mn n n nand and andr r r I in the short t-stems t and In the general organized appearance I of the writing as a whole I David laughed at this remark and commented that I 1 I try to tobe be I patient but he admitted that although he thinks he succeeds outwardly I inwardly n w war a r d l I Y I 1 get I bored II THIS HAS been a prof profile lie analysis analysis analysis anal anal- ysis which is comparable to a photograph Both are recognizable I able as the Individual while yet it 4 I being limited In revealing al all rj the many facets of that Individuals Individual's individuals individual's ual's personality Depth of analysis anal anal- 11 t I ysis is not possible on a brief specimen of writing lk Ik |