Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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e can see that he is many-sided. He is a genius, buthe has an evenly-balancedmind. He is a scholar anda thinker. He writes, hetalks well, and has saneand healthful views of life.He is a man of his word,a lover of truth. Mansfield has spent thelast twenty years continu-ously in America, wth theexception of one seasonwhen he played at the Ly-ceum Theater in London, and an occa-sional pleasure-trip abroad. He has awinter residence in New York, anda summer-home in New London, andone of his chief summer recreations iscruising in Long Island Sound. Everything American appeals to himwith peculiar freshness and power. Weare told that once when he, with vigorand impressiveness of argument, wasdefending our integrity as a producingand creating nation of artists, a some-what superficial youth asked the greatactor if he were an American; and thequestion was put with an unmistakabletone of sarcasm. It was answered with-out resentment, but Mansfield said, with Digitized by Google Richard Mansfield.
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Mb. MANSFIELD PHOTOGRAPHED IN HIS STUDY AT NEW LONDON, CONN., BY VIVIAN BURNETT,SON OF FRANCE8 HODGSON BURNETT, OCTOBER, 1905. due emphasis: Geographically I amnot an American, for I was not born here.Shall we not in the artistic world, how-ever, consider a man native to the countrywhere he spends all the years of his choice,where he founds his home, to which hegives the offering of all that nature hasgranted him ? Mansfield married an American—ayoung actress who was in his companywhen he first produced Prince Karl.She has acted in many of his most im- ♦Mifls Fanton tells this charming story: Sev-eral years ago, when the * Scarlet Letter* wasadding fresh laurels to the actors fame andjust before the production of Beau Brummell inPhiladelphia, a child in the company, who playedPearl in the Scarlet Letter, was taken seriously ill.She was a fragile mite of six years, an enthusiasticactress, but not equal to the strain of acting andtraveling. Mr. Mansfield, who was devoted to hislittl

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