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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Why, good heavens! you said just the contrary when we decided to drop it." "Yes, but that was when I thought you would be able to subdue Salome." "There never was any question of subduing Salome; it was a question of subduing Atland!" "It's the same thing; keeping the love-business in the background." "I give it up!" Maxwell flung down his manuscript in sign of doing so.
How would it do to have Atland know all the time that Haxard has killed Greenshaw, and be keeping it from Salome, while she is betraying her love for him?" "Wouldn't that be rather tawdry?" Louise let her arms slip down to her side, and looked up at him, as she knelt. "Yes, it would," he owned. He looked very unhappy about it, and she rose to her feet, as if to give it more serious attention.
"I don't see any great objection to that. We shall both be feeling very anxious about the play, if that's what you mean." "That's what I mean in one sense," Louise allowed. "Sha'n't you be very anxious to see how they have imagined Salome and Atland?" "Not so anxious as about how Godolphin has 'created' Haxard." "I care nothing about that.
It would be tremendously effective; if he made it realistic enough it would be attacked by the press as improper and would fill the house. Godolphin would like nothing better. We could have Atland rescue Salome, and Godolphin could flop round among the canvas breakers for ten minutes, and come on for a recall with the heroine, both dripping real water all over the stage."
Then he asked if he need only make Atland in her spiritual image to have him the manliest sort of fellow. She said that was not what she meant, and, in any case, a man could have feminine traits, and be all the nicer for them, but, if a woman had masculine traits, she would be disgusting. At the same time, if you drew a man from a woman, he would be ridiculous.
Godolphin asked, after a while, "In that last scene between her and her father, and in fact in all the scenes between them, couldn't you give more of the strong speeches to him? She's a great creation now, but isn't she too great for Atland?" "I've kept Atland under, purposely, because the part is necessarily a negative one, and because I didn't want him to compete with Haxard at all."
I know just how we shall manage that love business, and we sha'n't have any horror of an actress interpreting our inspirations to the public. We'll play Atland and Salome ourselves. We'll ow!" She had given her foot a twist in the excitement and she fell back on the pillow rather faint.
My wife and I talked it over. We even discussed it with Godolphin. He wanted to do Atland. But we all backed out simultaneously, and went back to the play as it stood." "Godolphin saw he couldn't make enough of Atland," said the manager, as if he were saying it to himself. "Well, you may be sure he feels now that the character which most appeals to the public in the play is Salome."
The whole episode of the love between Haxard's daughter, Salome, and Atland was simply the sweetest and freshest bit of nature in the modern drama.
"Then you want me to model Atland on myself, too," said Maxwell. She thought a moment. "Yes, I do. If Salome is to be taken mostly from me, I couldn't bear to have him like anybody but you. It would be indelicate." "Well, now, I'll tell you what, I'm not going to stand it," said Maxwell. "I am going to make Atland like Pinney."
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