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AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF CLARA MORRIS.
VBTICLB 17” AT DALY’S THEA
TEH.
Morris Tells AVith Brilliant
Dramatic Effect Just How She Pro
(luceil Sncli Startling Effects in the
I.roat French Pennl Code Tragedy.
„ |l( . Studied the Mod Scene in the
l„une t\ arils on Blarknell'a Isl
and and Learned the Secret ot the
l ristliful Sear In u Broadway
street Car.
NO. X.
Copyright. 1901, by S. S. McClure Cos.
It was during my second season in New
York that X camo to the play “L'Article
47' -famous for its great French court
„ e , and for the madness of its hero
tnn. lam so utterly lacking in self-con
fidence, that it was little short of cruelty
for Mr. Daly to tell me, as he did, that
the fate of the play hung upon that sin
gle c ene—that the production would be
expensive and troublesome, and its suc
t ss or failure lay absolutely in my hands.
1 turned rvhtte os chalk with sheer
fright, and could scarcely force myself
t 0 speak audibly, when asked if I could
do the part.
I answered slowly that I thought it un
fair for Mr. Daly to first reduce me to a
state of imbecility, through fear, and then
a ELLA DIETZ. b FANNY DAVENPORT.
ask me to make a close study of violent
madness—since the two conditions were
generally reversed.
The people laughed, but there were no
responsive smile on my lips, ns I entered
upon a period of mental misery that only
ended with the triumphant tirst night.
I did all I could do to get at ‘‘Cora's"
character and standing before the dread
catastrophe—feeling that her madness
must to some extent be tinged by past
habits and personal' peculiarities. I got
a r opy of the French novel—that was not
an affectation, but a necessity, as it had
rot been translated, and I was greatly im
pressed with the minute description of the
destruction done by the bullet George bad
fired into her face. Portions of the jaw
bone hail been shot away; the eye much
injured, had barely been saved, but it
w as drawn and distorted.
As the woman’s beauty had been her
htter of Introduction to the gilded world,
indeed had been her sole capital, that
"scar" became of tremendous value In
the makeup of the part, since it would
xplain and in some scant measure ex
cuse he r revengeful actions.
SHU, as the play was done in Paris,
iic scar” was almost ignored by that
''■lliaiit actress, Madame Roussell. I had
h<r photograph of the part of “Cora,"
nnd while she had a drapery passed low
b'neath her jaws to indicate some injury
to her neck or breast, her face was ab
solutely unblemished.
To my mind that weakened "Cora’s”
' as " greatly—she had s<i much less to re
sent, to brood over.
1 look my trouble to Mr. Daly, after X
a,l been out to the madhouse at Black
-7 ill s Island, and had gained some use
ful information from that awful aggre
gation of human woe. He listened to Be
lote's description of "Cora’s” beauty and
wrecking "scar”—he looked condemn
intly at the Roussell picture, and then
asked me "What 1 wanted to do?”
1 told him I wanted a dreadful scar—
then i wanted to veil it always—and he
broke in there with, “Than why have tne
sour, if jf j a f 0 t, e veiled?”
"bile l hurried on with; “My constant
u • to keep It covered will make people
"'■‘'Sine It a hundred times worse than It
Maiiy i s . Then when the veil is torn off
main force, and they catch n glimpse
ot the horror, they will not wonder that
1 already tottering brain should give
"av under such a blow to her vanity.”
■'lr. I/Hly studied over the matter silent.
1 tr a few moments, fhen he said; “Yes
"it are right. That scar Is a great fac-
Ul ' I* l the play—go ahead and make as
""" 11 °f it as you can.”
l ot rlgnt there I came up against an
I”. 1 was not good at even an ec
makeup. I did not know how to
ln , ny mind.
' r > i-uld Mr. Daly. T tried, and with
•ddened eyes announced my failure,
’ *11: "J will ask Mr. Ix-moyne to
” nic he !* ike cleverest and most ar
makeup of face* I ever saw ”
" " said Mr. Italy, "get him to try it
rehearsal—-you have no tun** to loae
*o% y*
too Kelli knew that; so at once
bed Mr. l/smoyne and made my
known f had not ttta slightest
"on In doing so, because In spite
Mhhil delight In playing Juh** on
wat tie kindest, idwl warm
'd of • orn’adc■ at*d trua to the
he at once placed hi* serWee
t '' 'iispoeej, though he ebook bis head
* dogutfuhy over the undertaking
„ I ** k tow J never ••* a•<ar of mak
*'• >'■ y I Mg,” he retd, a* he light’
Jff hi* dieselug iihss
l •*•, "you *M CM ChM#*
your nose or your mouth or your eyes at
will can make an ugly scar easy enough,"
and off went hat and veil—and Mr. iL
moyne using my countenance for his can
vas, went to work.
He grew more and more glum as he
wiped off and repainted. One scar, was
too small—oh, much too small. Then the
shuttered jaw-bone was described. Again
he tried. "Clara," he said, "I can’t do
it, because I don't know what I am aim
ing at."
"Oh, go on,” I pleaded, "make a hide
ous scar, then I’ll learn how from you,
and do it myself.”
He was patience and kindness personi
fied, but when at last he said he could do
no more, I looked in the glass and—well,
we both laughed aloud in spite of our
chagrin. He said: "It looks as though
some street boy had given you a swat in
the eye with a chunk of mud.”
I mournfully washed it off and begged
him to try just once more—to-morrow—
and he promised with a doleful air.
I had tears in my eyes as I left the
theater—l was so horribly cast down, for
if Mr. Lemoyne could not makeup that
sear, no one could—but he used too much
black! That was a grave mistake, and—
alt, dear! Now, what? Men were pealing
up the stonewalk. I could not go home
by the Sixth avenue car, as usuaE—with
out a lot of bother and muddy shoe®. I
was just tired enough from rehearsal and
disappointed enough to be irritated by the
tiniest contretemps and I almost whim
pered as I turned the other way and took
a Broadway car. 1 dropped into a cor
ner. Three men were on my side of
the car—l glanced casually at them, and,
"Goodness, merely!” said I to myself;
"what are they gazing at—they look fair
ly frightened!"
f followed the direction of their eyes
ond—l gasped! I felt goose-flesh creep
ing up my arms! On the opposite side
sat a large and handsome mulatto wo
man—a small basket of white linen was
on> her kne< s—her face was turned to
ward the driver; and, oh! Good God, not
so long ago, her throat had been cut, al
most from ear to ear!
The scar was hideous—sickening, it
made one feel faint and frightened, but I
held my quivering nerves with an iron
hand—here was my scar for Cora! X must
study it while I could. It had not been
well cared for. I imagine, for the edges
of the awful gash were puckered, as
though a gathering thread held them.
There was a queer, cord-like welt, that
looked white, while, the flesh either side
was red and threatening—and then ns
if she felt my eyes, the woman turned
and faced me. A dull color rose slowly
over her mutilated throat and handsome
face, and she felt hastily for a handker
chief, which was pinned at the back of
her dress collar, and drew the ends for
ward and tied them.
I kept my eyes averted after that, but
when 1 left the car weariness was for
gotten. I Stopped at a druggist’s shop,
bought sticking plaster, gold beater’s skin
and absorbent cotton, and with springy
steps reached home —-materials in hand,
model In memory, I was content—l had
found my scar at last.
If you are about to accuse me of hard
ness of heart in using to my own advan
tage this poor woman's misfortune—don't!
or at least, wait a moment first.
When I had gone through the asylum’s
wards and the doctor had called my at
tention to this #r that exceptional case
and had tried to make clear cause and ef
fect —when I had noted ophidian's stealth
In one and tigerish ferocity in another—
I suddenly realized that to single one of
these unfortunates out, then to go before
an indifferent crowd of people and pres
ent to them a close copy of the helpless,
afflicted one, would be an act of atro
cious cruelty. I could not do it! I would
Instead seize upon some of the general
symptoms—common to all mad people,
and build up a mad scene with their aid,
thus avoiding a cruel imitation of one of
God’s afflicted.
So in thin scar I was not going exactly
to copy -that riven throat—but with slen
der robs of cotton covered and held by
gold beaters’ skin. I was going to create
dull, white welts, with angry red spaces
pulnted lietween—with strong sticking
plaster attached to my eyelid. I was go
ing to draw it from it* natural position.
Oh. I should have a rare near! Yet that
poor woman might herself see It, without
suspecting she had given me the Idea.
Oh. wiial a time of misery It was. the
preparation of that play! I’oor Mr. Daly
and poor, poor Miss Morris.
You see everything hung upon the mad
scene. Yet, when we came to that. I sim
ply stood still, and spoke the broken, dis
jointed words. , .
"But what are you going to do at
night?” Mr. Daly cried. "Act your scene,
Mbs Morris!” . ..
Act It—ln cold blood—there In the gray,
Ilf. less day light? with a circle of grin
ning, sardonb faces, ready to be vastly
aroused over my efforts? might better
Pave asked me to deliver a polished ad
ib ess In teautlful pelluetd Greek—to no*n
noae at command a charming little ron
deau In eparkllng French or • prayer in
aomrous Bet In—< ney would have been
, asler for ms to do, than to gibber, w
laugh-to ecroech, to whlepor, whimper,
rave—io crouch, crawl, atrtd*, fall ** or
der Mi street clothe#--arid always with
tM>M Reietieh ’guyer*" regdy t* ass Sat
tii m ***• ***> Mr
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THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. APRIL 28. 1901.
stake. It was a good deal of him,
to trust his fate entirely, blindly to me.
“Oh!” I said; "I would if 1 could—do
please believe me! I want to do as you
wish me to, but dear Mr. Daly, X can’t—
my blood is cold in daylight—l am
ashamed—constrained! I cannot act
then!”
“Well, give me some faint idea of what
you are going to do,” he cried, impa
tiently.
"Dear goodness!” I groaned; "I am go
ing to try to do all sorts of things! Ixrad
and quiet—fast and slow—close-eyed, cun
ning, wide-eyed terror. There that’s all
1 can tell about it," and I burst into har
rassed tears. He said never another word,
but I used to feel dreadfully when at re
hearsals he would rise and leave the stage
as soon as we reached the mad scene.
A Might Off.
Then it happened we could not pro
duce the play on Monday. An old come
dy was put on for that one night. I
was not in it, and Mr. Daly, seeing how
near I was to the breaking point with
hard work and terror, tried to give me a
bit of pleasure. He got tickets for my
mother and I, and sent me to the opera
.to hear Parepa and Wachtel. 1 was ra
diant with delight, but, alas, when did I
ever have sujh high spirit without a
swift dampening down. Elaborately dress
ed as to hair, all the rest of my little
best was singularly plain for the opera.
Still, 1 was happy enough and greatly ex
cited over our promised treat. Mother
and I set out to go to Miss Landa Dietz's
home, where wo were to pick her up and
under escort of her brother go over to
the Academy of Music. We could not af
ford a carriage, so we had to take one
of the busses than in exisience. Mr. Daly
had sent me with my box tickets a pair
of white gloves, and with extreme care
fulness I placed them in my pocket, draw
ing on an oid pair to wear down to Fif
teenth street, where I would don the new
ones at Miss Dietz’s horns
Finally the new white gloves safely
came forth and “Dietzie and Morris"
(our nick names for each other) set forth,
wtih brother Frank and mother in attend
ance, and arrived at the crowded academy
just as the curtain roce In "II Trovatore.”
I enjoyed each liquid jewel of a note —
helped to raise the roof, afterward declin
ed supper; hastened home; romped my
dog and put her to bed. Got Into a dress
ing gown; looked myself into my room
and had it out with Cora, from A to Z.
Tried this walk and that crouch—read
this way and that way. Found the exact
moment when her mind began to cloud; to
waver; to recover; to break finally and
Irretrievably. Determined positvlely Just
where 1 should he at certain times—allow
ed a margin for the impulse or inspiration
of the moment, and at last wtlh the char
acter crystal clear before me, I endded
my work and my vigil.
Poor Mr. Daly! I sighed, for I knew his
anxiety and uneasiness were not allayed.
I went to my tiny bed room; Bertie tired
of waiting for me, had curled down her
loving little body up in my pillow—a dis
tinct breach of family discipline. A few
moments later, feeling her small tail beat
ing a blissful tattoo on my feet, I mutter
ed laughingly: "A little prayer—a little
m. t ub hoiks.
dog and a little rest." and so sank into
the sound sleep I so desperately needed in
preparation for the ever to be dreaded
first night of "L.’Article 47" of the French
penal code.
The house, was packed—well known peo
ple were seen all through the theater. Act
first represented the French court with a
trial in full swing—it played for one hour
Hiking three minutes, i was on the stage
ten minutes only. 1 was told Mr. Daly
shook his head violently at the crutain
fall.
The next act I was not in at all—but it
dragged and when that was over Mr.
Daly’s peculiar test of publio feeling
showed the presence of disappointment.
Like many other managers, he often plac
ed men here and there to listen to the
comments mad© by his patrons, but his
quickest, surest way of judging the effect
a new play was making, was by watch
ing aird listening at the very moment of
the curtain's fall. If the people instantly
turned to one another in eager speech,
and a bee-like hum of conversation arose,
he nodded his head with pleased satisfac
tion—he knew they were saying, "How
lovely?” "That was a tine effect?" "We've
had nothing better for a long time!” "It's
just divine!” "It's great,” etc.
When they spoke slowly and briefly- he
shook his head; hut when they sat still
and gazed steadily, straight ahead of
them, he called anew play for rehearsal
next morning.
That second act had made him shake
his head—the third came on with Cota's
rejected lover—her strangling tears of
self-pity-—her whlrldwind of passion, end
ing with that frantic and incredible
threat; the people caught at it! 1 suppose
the swiftness of its action, the heat and
fury, followed so close upon the two slow,
dull acts, pleased and aroused them. The
curtain went up and down, up and down,
call after call, and when at last it was
allowed to remain down, myriads of bees
might have been swarming in front, and
Mr. Daly, nodding and smiling, as 1 rush
ed past on my- way to change my gown,
said: “Hear ’em —hear the bees buzz—
that's good! Now if only, you—”
1 waited not the rest—too well 1 knew
how to complete tue sentence: "If only
I could safely hive those swarming bees"
for him. Could I? Oh. could I? For the
moment was at hand—the "mad scene,"
so dreaded, so feared!
Tile Great Moment.
Three things I had counted upon—to
help my efforts —the cropeh, the laugh,
the scar. The crouch had just done
splendid service at the end of act third;
would the other two be as effective?
1 went up to the stage—l was to be dis
covered lying on a lounge. Miss Daven
port, magnificently handsome in person
and gown, beside me—the others at the
gambling table. As she took ray hand
she. gave a sharp litle cry: "Heavens!"
she said; “you might be dead —you are
like iJe!” She touched my forehead, ask
ing: "Are you ill—why your head Is
burnig hot! hot! Mr. Daly, just touch
her hands and head!”
He looked down on me in silence—two
pairs of frightened eyes met—he gave a
groan—threw out his hands helplesly—
stepped off the stage, and signaled the
curtain up on what was to make or break
the play—end he knew no more what to
expect than did one of the ushers out in
front.
Under cover of the music and the ap
plause accompanying the curtain's rise, 1
caught myself muttering vaguely: “The
power and glory—the power and glory,”
and knew that involuntarily I was reach
ing out for the old staff on which I had
leaned so many time before.
The scene was on .the laughing cynkl
-of the Baroness; the chatter of the
players—then at last George and Cora—
were alone !
My terror had slipped from me like a
garment, I was in the play once more—
safe for just one awful moment! George
had torn the veil from my disfigured
face, and casting in my teeth the accusa
tion: "You are mad!” had left me there
alone standing, stunned by the word!
That was the moment of actual dethrone
ment of reason, and as I slowly, stupidly
turned my eyes, I saw Mr. Daly's white
face thrust forward eagerly. His gray
eyes wide and glowing, his thin hands
tightly grasping tire lapel of his coat—his
whole being expressing the very anguish
of anxiety!
One moment I felt T was lost! I had been
dragged out of the play at the crucial mo
ment, I clasped my hands across my eyes:
“The kingdom and the. power!” I groaned
—I faced the other way! The low erle mu
sic caught my attention—awakened my
imagination, in another second I was as
mad as a March hare!
The first time the low, gibbering laugh
swelled into the wild, long sustained
shrieking ha! ha! a voice said low and
clear: "Oh, dear God!”
Yet I who had heard the genuine laugh
at the mad house, knew this to be but
poor, tame, soulless thing, compared to
that Mecate-like distillation—the. very es
sence of madness, that ran through that
real gibber of laughter.
Yet it was enough. At the end there
came to me one of those momenta —God
grants now and then as u reward Tor long
thirst, way weariness and heart-sickness
patientiy born! One of those foolishly di
vine moments you stand with the gods
and like them are young and fair and
powerful. Your very nerves thrill har
monious, like harp-strlngn attuned-your
blood courses like, quick silver for swift
ness; like wine for warmth, and on that
fair peak of Triumph, where one tarries
but by moments; there is no knowledge
of sin or suffering—of death or hate; there
is only sunshine, the sunshine of success!
I.ove for all those creatures who turn
smiling facee on you—*who hold their
hands to you with Joyous cries!
There is no question of deserts—of qual
ifications! No analysis—no criticism—Just
them—they follow later. That is just a
moment of delicious madess—and to dis
tinguished it from other frenzies, it is
called a dramatic triumph.
THE PUBLIC PROPERTY FUND.
Would Be l nconstitutional to Use It
to I’ny Debt* Other Than Bond*.
Atlanta, April 2fi.—The following is the
opinion of Chief Justice Logan E. Bleck
ley on the uso of the public property
fund, prepared at the instance of Hon. It.
E. Park Treasurer of Georgia:
What the constitution says touching
the proceeds of the sale of property
owned by the state Is that these proceeds
“shall be applied to the payment of the
bonded debt of the state, and shall not
be used for any other purpose whatever,
so long as the state has any existing
bonded debt.’’
What the constitution means by this
language is exactly what it says, in this
instance expression and construction are
one and the same. No amount of exposi
tion or comment can make the text clear
er than its own letter. If the phrase, “Ita
scripta est, has a direct application to
anything, It is applicable here.
It is utterly Impossible to spend these
proceeds under the form of liorrowing
them, or any other form, without “us
ing” them. No debtor, whether a natural
person or a state, can borrow money
from the same debtor, the same person
or state that borrows It. No loan can
exist without a lender as well as a bor
rower. The proceeds of a sale ■ cannot
lend out themselves. For them to be lent,
some person, natural or artificial, must
be the lender. What the constitution ex
pressly Inhibits Is using these proceeds.
If they are used, not to pay the bonded
debt, hut "for any other purpose what
ever," to pay any other debt whatever,
ttie constitution is violated; and to sub
stitute for these proceeds the proceeds
of something else, say, the proceeds of
taxation as soon as taxes shall be real
ized, will neither prevent the breach nor
heal it. This is so whether the taxes
relied upon be levied before or after the
rape of the fund made sacred by the.
constitution has been committed. The
constitution Is broken by doing
the forbidden thing, no matter what addi
tional thing, before or after or at the
time, be done also. Moreover, it makes a
substantial difference in the bondholder’s
security for the state to seize on all the
specific security which the bondholder has,
convert it to another use, any pay it
out to another class of creditors. With
the constitution sacredly observed, he
can look both to this special fund and to
taxation as source from which payment
of his bonds may be realized; he has this
constitutional pledge as well as the gen
eral credit and resources of the state to
rely upon. Who can say, or who can de
liberately think, that he has both these
classes of security, after one of them has
been withdrawn, not for investment or for
safekeeping with title to it still remaining
in the state, but to be expended in paying
off a wholly, different character of indebt
edness from that to which the constitu
tion restricts its application? After such
use of it is made, the state's title to it,
treating the transaction as valid, is gone,
and the misapplication of the fund is com
plete. The fund then belongs, not to the
state, but to those whose claims against
the state have been extinguished by it.
No longer would this fund continue apart
of the state’s assets, as it would do were
it deposited in or loaned to a bank of
deposit under the law applicable to mon
eys of the state in general. Trustees can
loan out the trust assets, but they can
not lend to themselves, nor pay their
own debts with trust money. The distinc
tion is vital betwen investing a fund and
spending it—let wen lending money and
paying debts with it. Where a given fund,
such as the proceeds of u particular sale,
is parted with lit the payment of debts lt>
which it cannot be constitutionally appli
ed it is ’.’used” and more—it is "used up."
I am aware that I have made this opin
ion wordy than it need to be, but I have
not done this to show what the consti
tution means, but (If for any definite pur
pose), to show that mere words cannot
obscure its plaaln and abvious Import.
I should be pained by self-distrust if I
differed with the Attorney General on a
question of real difficulty or doubt; but
in this instance, there being, as I con
ceive, no room for any question at all, 1
differ with him with great pleasure—as
much pleasure as respect. And I will add
that my pleasure and respect would go
equally together were I to hear of his
election to the chief magistracy of the
state. But if I agreed with him ifow I
should be gravely apprehensive that age
and a brief collegiate education had made
a wreck of my intelligence.
Logan E. Bleckley.
Clarkesville, Ga., April 13, 1901.
—There are 7,400 members of the New
York police force. The number of arrests
made by the New York police last year
was 138,87.7. or an average of between
eighteen and twenty for each police
man.
—According to a man who Is said to
be the biggest dealer in palms in New
York, above 0,000,000 of them were dis
tributed throughout the country for
church use on the Sunday previous to
Easter day.
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Overstocked on Laces? Yes we are. Lateness of the
season the cause, and we are going to unload. These
prices will do it:
Fancy Laces, beautiful lot, at half price 6c
Lovely Laces, untnatchable, at 10c
\ alenciennes Lace, by the dozen, extra value 25c
Allover Laces, one lot special 19c
Allover Laces, black, white, cream, butter and ecru.
Mous. de Soie Leno, all shades, 27-inch 49c
Imported Printed Dimities, our 25c quality 15c
Best Printed Organdies, worth 25c
Wash Chiffon, 46-inch, 50c quality 39c
Dotted Swiss, new line, special at 25c and 50c
Batiste Mull, 25c quality, this week 17c
India Linon. verv fine and sheer. 35c va1ue....... 25c
Reversible Skirtings, greys and tans $1.49
Figured Curtain Swiss, 36-inch |2l£q
Furniture Linen, 50-inch 49c
Ready-made Sheets, for double beds 49c
Pillow Cases, Hemstitched |£5 C
Linen Towels, worth 39c to 50c 2&C
Marseilles Spreads. 82.50 value $1.69
Ladies’ Washable Underskirts 59c
Ladies’ Mercerized Underskirts • •$1.49
Ladies’ Linen Flared Dress Skirts 98c
Mercerized Linen Shirt Waists, red, blue and
green 75
Men’s Negligee Shirts, 75c value 49c
Silk Windsor Ties, new line
Men’s Four-in-Hand Reversible Ties 4Qc
New line Sun Umbrellas and Parasols.special.... $2.49
Hosiery—best values ever offered, at *l9c
Ladies’ Neckwear and Belts, latest novelties.
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3- Blizzard Freezers at sl*4o
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6-quart Ohio Freezers at $2 75
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