Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 October 1897 — Page 3

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CLARA MORRIS SAYS THE VVANTS VARIETY.

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The Film on* Emotional Actress Writes Concerning: Her Recent Debut on the Vaudeville Stage—How Dramatic Success Is Secured—Art and Realism.

[Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Some people seem to think that my debut at a vande ville theater marked an epoch in dramatic history. It has in this way perhaps—that I am the first artist whom the public is kind enough to place in the front rank to essay the venture. Before a decade passes, however, I venture the prediction that the greatest artists in the world, men and women, will be in the vaudeville and do their sketches, or "turns," as the management puts it, with much complacency and profit. This will be in response to public demand. The age requires it, for the tendency of the age is to brevity and diversity, to short plays as well as short storiea People seem to have grown tired of five and six act dramas, whether they be comedy or tragedy. They also appear to gr&w weary of any one thing, no matter how good it may be. They do not want too much sameness. They want variety.

As an illustration of this let me point out the fact that the majority of people growing up nowadays do not read Dickens as we did in our day. They prefer Conan Doyle. They like Sherlock Holmes better than David Copperfield. The pithy, diversified tales of the modern writer interest them far more than the instructive but tediously lengthy narrative of the great novelist of the past generation. The same rule will apply to Fenimore Cooper and Bret Harte. The present generation finds much more enjoyment in perusing "Tho Outcasts of Poker Flat" and "The Luck of Roaring Camp1' than in wading through the well nigh interminable Leatherstocking series, brilliant as they are in their grouping and powerful in description. The moralist may say, "It is pitiful were it so," but I can assure him it is so, as I lmvo found from personal investigation.

This rule applies with full forco to tho now condition of dramatic affairs. Tho man who struck the "continuous performance" idea, with its quaint diversities, tragedy mingled with comedy, and opera cheek by jowl with variety, struck tho chord of public taste. The people nowadays seem to crave for variety in dramatic entertainment as in fiction. 1 am told that the man who originated this continuous performance scheme got tho idea from Conan Doyle's clever novol. Tho diversity of tho adventures of his hero, Sherlock Holmes the mingling of the gay and the grave, tho artistic blending of the humor and

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pathos of life, so impressed him that he resolved to try tho sumo thing in a dramatic way, and he did, and, what is most important of all in these practi cal days, scored a financial as well as artistic and popular success. Thus it is that we have in thoso progressive days a one act tragedy, a one act comedy and a one act opera interspersed with a eostermonger song, a juggling scene, an athletic feat and a test of terpsiohoroan skill for the price of an admission icket,

I make bold to prophesy that before long the most emiiuvt artists will bo glad to til Ice on favorablo vaudeville offt»s, for it is a very easy and satisfactory way of making money, and it certainly is highly honorable. For 20 minutes' work in an •'evening the artist receives almost as much and sometimes quite ns much in a financial way as his or brother artist does for five hours' arduous mental labor at another theater across the street. It would not surprise me one whit if great artists like Bernhardt, Duse and Modjeska, as they grow older and less inclined to and capable of hard work, would try not only one vaudeville in a night, but three or four, giving different sketches in each, just as Albert Chevalier docs in London with his costermonger songs. It certainly •would produce for better financial results than the present system and conduce greatly to one's physical comfort

Since I have madb^ay debut in vaudeville a number of youthful aspirants for histrionic fame appear to have become discouraged at the dramatic outlook, aud some of them have written to me asking solicitously if I really believe the drama to be in jeopardy and whether or not they should give up their life ambition and seek another calling than that of the stage. Emphatically 1 say by no means. Art, let me reiterate, will never die. Let them read carefully what I have written briefly above, and they have my answer. Now as to the "pointers" some of them ask me for as to "commanding success." Briefly I will tell them that success must be conquered. It is never "commanded." To attain this desirable result the applicant must have natural dramatic ability and a tremendous capacity for hard work. There is no royal road to learning. Neither is there to successful acting. Study, study, study, night and day. Be observant Imitate the good points of your elders and avoid the bad oae*. Origi

nate when you can, but do not attempt this titanic feat until you have learned a whole lot The best advice on how to act can be found in Hamlet's little talk to the players. To all aspiring neophytes in the dramatic art -I recommend that passage. The immortal Shakespeare cannot be improved upon, although some daring souls from time to time essay the feat. Pay attention in particular to the "points" he makes about mouthing speech, sawing the air, tearing passion to tatters and splitting the ears of groundlings. Neither noise nor gymnastics constitute art, and to have recourse to them alone in one's study is, to quote the divine poet, "to imitate humanity abominably." Such a course offends all good people to the soul as well as Shakespeare.

Another thing which offends the good taste of good people is the "realism" bad actors indulge in nowadays to hide their defects. It is discouraging to true artists to ,be obliged to compete with ex-burglars who burgle a safe in full view of the audience, with fighters who battle in a 24 foot ring and bridge jumpers who plunge into a tank of real water and rescue a heroine half chilled to death from its briny depths. When Garrick, Maeready, Forrest and Booth were on the stage, they acted. There was no need of "realism" beyond the regular property and stage scenery to help them out. Only modern 6tars need that effective commodity.

It is also discouraging to the young woman in particular who possesses the artistic sense to be compelled to play an inferior part at a small salary to ono who has no other qualification to recommend her save that she has coquetted with princes and kings, fake or real, or has enjoyed a sensational divorce trial or has been the heroine of a murder case. All these things right themselves in time, and ere long the chaff becomes separated from the wheat, pretense from real merit.

If the dramatic instinct is in either a man or a woman, it will develop before very much time is spent in study, but the beginner should never be discouraged by early failures. He or she might have got a part thoroughly unsuitable and might do better in a more congenial character. Courage is a great factor in dramatic success as well as in other walks of lifa Remember the advice of the Kentucky woodsman and statesman, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

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floats Carried on Aten's Heads.

The achievement has often been referred to of tho carrying of steamboats on the backs of men. The expression is not accurate, for the Congo natives are trained from infancy to carry burdens on their heads. When a European on the lower Congo sent his black boy to a store to buy some cigarettes, lie was surprised to see the servant return with tho tiny package on his head. When a Congo woman has smoked her much loved pipe, the treasure is likely to repose on her head until she again re quired it, und if her husband, unfortunately, has been able to procure a bottle of rum, he walks home with it nicely balanced on his head, throwing stones at the stray dogs and cats in his way, without the slightest idea that he is really an expert equilibrist. Most of the many thousands of pieces of steamboats were carried on the heads and not on the backs of men.

The 50,000 natives of the lower Congo who hove been carrying these steamboats and all other freight around the cataracts are tho very men who could not be induccd, 18 years ago, to give a helping baud to Mr. Stanley. He wished to oarry 1,880 man loads and ho had only 190 Zanzibor and Loango porters for the work. Some of the natives would sell him a little of their time, but they would not carry his goods more than two or three miles beyond their homes. Stanley's fuilure to secure .the carriers he needed along the river delayed his work on the upper Congo for more than a year, and the labor question wos the most perplexing problem with which he had to deal. He brought his carriers thensauds of miles, from Zanzibar and other coasts of Africa.—Harper's Round Table.

Too Long Abont It.

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away, danger!" The colored man walked up close to the board and traced the letters with his finger. His lips moved as if he were spelling out the words. Before he had finished the

Keep away" a brick fell from an upper story and struck him squarely on the head. Without even looking up he backed across the sidewalk and examined the big gash in his hat As he smoothed it down he sadly remarked, "Dat's ono o' de drawbacks to a limerted edexcation."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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Woes of the Jeweler.

"We are not running around looking for jobs at mending jewelry," said salesman in a large CbestnuC street jew elry bouse, "and we don't shiiek with joy when such jobs come in to us unsolicited. You wouldn't believe it, possi bly, but we are not fond of assuming charge of anything to be mended unless it comes from a well known customer. The greatest trouble is dne to the forget fulness of strangers, who take a watch or a ring to a certain store to be fixed and neglect to remember the exact ad dress of that store. You'd be surprised how many cases of that sort we have to bother us. "Why, only the other day a man came in here and asked if we bad fin ished the 'mate' for his odd cuff button. We hadn't seen his cuff button and told him so. He was indignant 'What!'he yelled. 'Trying to beat me out of it?' Then he called us all kinds of names and threatened to bring suit against ns. Well, I simply had to do the nsual detective business and trace that lost cuff button. I pnt on my hat while the man was wrangling with the head of the firm and started up Chest nut street, making inquiries in all the jewelry stores. I finally found the old cuff button three blocks away in a store that didn't look at all like ours. When I told the man where his button was he wouldn't believe me. 'Utterly im possible!' he said. However, he went Ont, and we haven't seen him since. That's one case out of many."—Philadelphia Record.

A Roman Candidate.

The aspirant to public office, like other Roman gentlemen of station, has a few slaves, perhaps 50 or so, accord ing to his wealth. His cubicularius -otherwise valet, attends upon him and brings him the robe which is so artistic ally whitened that from it he gets his name of candidate. No tunic or fancy waistcoat most be worn today, in order that the candidate may better bare his breast to display the wounds acquired in the service of his country. After duly submitting himself to the hands of another slave, his barber, and after partaking of a slight but dainty break fast, he is ready to go forth. It is market day, and ho must show himself to the people, or he must go to the polling place, the Campus Martius, or pay a visit to the forum.

On going abroad he must be accom panied not only by bis supporters, but by a few of his personal slaves. They do not all accompany him upon the occa sion. His cook, for instance, for whom his master had to pay more than for his doctor or even for a learned pro fessor, must stay at home in order, with the other slaves, his satellites, to prepare toothsome morsels for the candidate and his guests on their return from the fatigues of the day's canvass. As becomes the dignity of the occasion, his scurra, or buffoon, will not accompany him but, on the other hand, no self respecting candidate would wish to show himself without just a few of his attendant slaves.—Catholic World.

Iikposing on the Dealers.

Aside from kid gloves, there is no article sold in connection with which merchants are so imposed npon by their "best" customers as umbrellas. This is a tender theme. The tempers of the wives of our best customers are not to be trifled with when it comes to returning half worn gloves or umbrellas. With a dignity not attained on auy other hemisphere in the habitable globe, she sails into the store of the merchant, slams down the battered relio that has acted as playhouse and tent for the children of the neighborhood and demands a new umbrella for the "miserable apology sold her only three months ago." She declares it has only been used three times and only with tb6 greatest care. The merchant has to accept this as final, offers her the oboice of his stock, and she sallies forth with the air of a conqueror, conscious that she has triumphed. Then he pockets his loss and wonders what the next imposition will be, and people wonder why BO many retail merchants fail or commit suicide. If an umbrella is properly made, of good material and decently used, it will wear for years.—Hardware.

What Fruit Contains.

Our ordinary fruits contain the following substances in greater or less proportions:

A large percentage of water. Sugar, iu the form of grape and fruit sugar.

Free oragnio acids, varying according to the kind of frnit. For example, the predominating acid is malic in the apple, tartaric in the grape, citric in the lemon.

Protein or albuminoids, substances containing nitrogen, which resemble the white of eggs and are its equivalent in food value.

Pectose, the substance which gives firmness to fruit and which npon boiling yields various frnit jellies.

Cellulose or vegetable fiber, the material that forms the cell walls, and which is found in all parts of plants.

Aovery small percentage of ash or mineral salts.—Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette.

The "Dofrfwr."

It is not uncommon to find the epithet "dopper' applied to a Boer, as if the terms were synonymous. The name "dopper" is really derived from the Dutch word for an extinguisher, and it is properly applied only to the members of a religious sect which is desirous of extinguishing all theological opinions of a later date than the famous synod of Dart

It has been recently established that the fusel oil in raw spirits can be removed by the introduction of a current of pure oxygen. The flavor of the spirit is 1, Jmproved, tot its physiological action is much ameliorated.

It is estimated that 2,000,000 tons of pure silver are held in solution by all the waters of the earth.

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Ancient Pueblo Builders.

The ancient pueblo builder, like his modern descendant, was so completely under the dominating influence of hiB geographic environment that from similar conditions he almost automatically worked out similar results. In the matter of a site for bis home, however, he had some latitude, and the choice he made reflected something of the social conditions under which he lived. Thus it is probable that in the earliest times the people lived in small villages located on the edges of valleys or near the mouths of fertile flat bottomed canyons. They lived a quiet, peaceful existence, depending principally on the soil for the means of snbsistence, but not despising the harvest of grass seeds and wild nuts which were at hand and glad to break the even, placid course of existence by periodical hunting expeditions to the neighboring mountains for deer and ont into the great plains for buffalo.

In the course of time, however, other and more savage tribes came to the region, and these preyed upon the prior occupants of the country, who were industrious and provident and aecun:ulated stores against possible bad seasons. It is doubtful whether there were any pitched battles or prolonged sieges, but the robbers made periodical forays through the fields when the crops were ready for the harvest or perhaps assaulted and looted some small village when the men were away.—Cosmos Mindeleff in Bulletin of American Geographical Society.

The Human Body.

The human body is an epitome in nature of all mechanics, all hydraulics, all architecture, all machinery of every kind. There aro more than 810 mechanical movements known to mechanics today, and all of these are but modifications of those found in the human body. Here are found all the bars, levers, joints, pulleys, pumps, pipes, wheels and axles, ball and socket movements, Imms, girders, trusses, buffers, arches, columns, cables and supports known to science. At every point man's best mechanical work can be shown to be but adaptations of processes of the human body, a revelation cf first principles used in nature.

Baclt from tlie Grave

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NEGLECT IS SUICIDE.

Words From Mrs. Pinkham, Corroborated by Mrs. Charles Dunmore, That. Ought to Bring: Suffering .Women to Their Sensea

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B. G. HUDNDT, President. WILLARD KIDDER. Vice-President. G. A. CONZMAN. Cashier.

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