The Sunday Oregonian., February 19, 1905, PART THREE, Page 19, Image 19

THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 19, 1905.
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HIGH PRIESTESS EXALTS IBSEN
MBS. FISKE, standing In the fas
tidious atmosphere of dramatic art
In New "Work, Is frankly a convert
of Ibsen and Maeterlinck.
Her olden charms are dainty and sweet;
her development dainty and sincere.
She "peaks with all the ardor, in con
versation, of the recent convert who la
the more fervid because of the extremes
of former and latter beliefs.
.Artistic belief, after all, is as deep as
l-fliglous conviction.
But Mrs. Flske. perhaps because of
hr Intense activity, her devotion to the
practical details of management, would
not tell me in her own way of the sway
of lhe new drama.
At every question I asked she turned
eagerly. In the lialf-dusk of the empty
itag, to the recent essay on Modern
Drama" In the volume of "The Double
Garden." This was partly because of the
lack of time, partly because of the ad
miration of the master.
Enthusiasm is charming: It Is a sign
of youth, not of waning power.
Almost without preliminaries, because of
the" afternoon hasten we had begun to
peak of the modern drama. The rear
of the ftage was set with high arches,
columned recesses that seemed to reach
far away Into palatial spaces. The little
balconies of the scene were draped with
grayish coverings, half disturbed, but
more strange thus and fanciful In their
protected white and gold.
She sat In the shadow beyond the hooded
light that stood at the top of Its tall
standard. She had great charm, one
might say an unexpected womanly ap
peal in her manner and talk.
Mrs. Flske gives very few interviews.
Even those few which appear about her
scarcely try to delve, to extract the
trensure of deep feeling, true thought.
The consequence, one infers, of lnter
i lews are apt to be unaccountable.
"The only things that would be inter
esting to hear are those that one wouldn't
say to the public!" She smiled subtly
under her pearly-white veil Snathe shadow.
If this were to be a precarious proceed
ing, so out of the ordinary for a sensitive
woman, she might well have been a little
apprehensive.
"As to modern drama, the French play
is wonderfully brilliant." she admitted.
"But Ibsen Is master now."
RECENTLY Miss Marbury, on her re
turn from Paris, referred to the fact
that French authors like to adapt their
work to the supposed requirements of the
American stage. For, supposedly, we de
sire less refined playfulness of sugges
tion, a more broadly adapted moral lesson,
than the French plays show at home in
Taris.
"But." Mrs. Flske hastened to add. as
if slightly alarmed at the commitment
that might follow, "I am not very well
acquainted with the modern French
drama. The French dramatists of the
pact generation do not seem to plunge
very deeply Into human consciousness.
"Our feelings are now so different. The
great French tragedies, 'Fedora,' Theo
dora,' are to us melodramas. The com
edies, of the order of 'Dlvorcons' those
are more serious.
"To the mind of the enlightened critic
that old-fashioned mclo-drama Is some
what comic. It is action, action," she said,
smiling with slight Irony, "turbulence,
hysterics. The question must come down
on something violent!
"But the vital forces are not in those
people who have hysterics on all occa
sions, who are given to the destruction
of portieres, upsetting chairs, breaking
vases.
"But let me show you Maeterlinck. He
has said what I mean. Let me get his
last book."
"Sprightly, like the young girl we all
knew a while ago, she ran to get the
volume. When she returned she laughed.
"Don't Imagine I am one of those who
arc always going about with a book under
the arm I only want Maeterlinck to say
for me what I think, what he can say
so much better than I," and she turned
the pages earnestly In the dim light.
"I mean the vital, noble character, that
which moves us most, is not the maudlin,
fussy, crying person of the ordinary
drama. But let roe read to you.
" 'Whence Is It that action arises In the
consciousness of man? In its first stage
It springs from the struggle between di
verse and conflicting passions.
" 'But,' and she read on with charming
courage, 'do what one will, discover
what marvel one may, the sovereign law
of the stage, its essential demand, will
always be in action.
"Yet Maeterlinck goes on to specify, to
define: 'it Is seldom that cries are heard
now; bloodshed is rare and tears not of
ten seen. It Is In a small room, round a
table close to the fire that the joys and
sorrows of mankind are decided. We suf
fer and make others suffer, we love, we
die there In our corner.'
"And. 'It Is certain that on the actual
Ftage we have far fewer extraordinary
and violent adventures. Bloodshed has
grown leas frequent, passions less tur
bulent, heroism has become less unbend
ing, courage less material and less fe
rocious; death has ceased to be regarded
as the indispensable setting, the ultima
ratio, the inevitable end of every dra
matic poem. In the most formidable
crises of our life, cruel In silent and hid
den ways, we rarely look to death for a
solution.' "
MRS. FISKE'S own reticence was
absorbed in these words; It was
a pleasure to hear her read, in a voice
of feeling, how ihe poetic thinker ar
rives at his analysis.
"Since I have read this," she Insisted.
"I do wish that some of these things
could be said to the public. I wish von
to quote verbatim. I cannot say them
as Maeterlinck does."
And It was of no use to question Mrs.
Fiske. for she always turned quickly
to some passage to quote, to read in
answer.
"You see' she concluded, trium
phantly, "Maeterlinck believes in ac
tion. Of course, the action of ordinary
drama, which means something- .going
on all the time, is not the action that
Maeterlinck means.
"It Is strange, anomalous, too. that
the people who would not have trashy
literature in their libraries, who would
not tolerate the same kind of stuff in
books, will go cheerfully to plays that
are not literature."
This again brings up a further re
mark of Miss Marbury about the French
dramatists, whose work "Is subjected
to a searching literary criticism." To
this is added, pathetically: "r -wish
that more of my most popular clients
In this country had to submit to such a
test.
"Now, I want you to say this for me."
and Mrs. Fiske returned again to "The
Double Garden." "Listen to this pass
ace: "'The first thing that strikes us in
the drama of the day is the cre!,iing
decay, the creeping- paralysis of ex
ternal action, a desire to penetrat
deeper Into human consciousness, and,
finally, the search, still very tinud
and halting, for a kino of new beautv.
"Those 'artificial poems that arise
from the marriage of past and present,"
he summarizes both the academic and
the out-of-date romantic materials of
drama, swashbuckling, swords, violent
passion, hackneyed expression of vir
tuous commonplaces, death, with ihe
development we have attained of a cc
sire for soul knowledge, an understand
ing of subtler, deeper motives.'
"Ah, 'but this one more passage must
MRS. FISKE SAYS THE NORWEGIAN
DOMINATES THE STAGE OF TODAY
be quoted!" And Mrs. Flske, with a
display of feeling which she cares rare
ly to use on the public stage, read
again., forgetting herself, absorbed In
the author.
" 'The highest point of human con
sciousness is attained by the dramas of
BJornsen, of Hauptmann, and, ibov
all, of Ibsen. Here we touch the limit
of the resources of modern dramat
urgy. "A consciousness truly enlightened
will possess passions and desires In
finitely less exacting. Infinitely more
peaceful and patient, than those tliaJ
reside In the ordinary consciousness;
a struggle for far less violence beuveen
these noblet and wiser passions must
be recognized.
" 'It seems there are infinitely fewer
laws, fewer doubtful or harmful duties,
for this "enllghtenecr consciousness "
There Is scarcely a falsehood or error,
a prejudice, half-truth or convention,
that Is not capable of assuming tho
form of duty in an unccrtan conscious
ness. "
Here Maeterlinck verges upon ethical
precipices. . However, this is not an
appreciation of the author, but an en
lightened interchange of ideas with
Mrs. Fiske. I will try to bring my
hostess back to this view.
"The whole essay should be learned
by heart!" she exclaims in answer.
"But there is one thing more It is a
sentence about Ibsen. Will you havo
the patience to let me quote it?"
" 'Ibsen Is the only writer fotv. the
stage who has caught sight of and sl
In motion a new, though still disagree
able, poetry, which he has succeeded In
investing -with a kind of savage,
gloomy beauty and grandeur, as lie is
the only one who owes nothing
to the poetry of the violently illumined
drama of the Rennaissance.'
"I don't like the word 'gloomy' exact
ly. Ibsen to me is not gloomy. I don't
want to be understood as one of thosn
persons who are profoundly serious."
with a light, mocking tone of irony.
"Everything may be good of Its kind,
Hedda Gabler and Leah Kleschna. each
so different, one from the other.
"Good nonsense Is delicious, too. 1
even like a really good old melodrama.
I love to see 'The Two Orphans.'"
On the subject of her recent rendering
of "Hedda Gabler," since that heroine
was mentioned, I inquired what was
Were Casting
When the Miracle of a Sail
THREE survivors of the giant
steam dredger. Texas, which
foundered on Christmas eve about
280 miles northeast of the Azores, while
on a voyage from Dantzlg for Galves
ton, arrived yesterday from Liverpool
aboard the Cunard liner Etrurla, says
the New York Sun. The mate and 10
of the crew of the dredger were lost
by the swamping of the starboard life
boat, and one of 13 men who left the
sinking craft In the port lifeboat died
Insane from exposure and starvation.
The experience of the 13 was of the
old-fashioned, harrowing kind, not un
common before the waste of seas was
divided Into thoroughfares for the gTeat
fleets of the world.
Captain J. A. Minot wa3 the only na
tive American aboard the Texas. The
rest of the crew -were picked up at
Dantzlg and represented almost every
nationality of Europe. There was also
a Maori among them. The three men
who got here yesterday are Olaf Haga,
Norwegian; Peter Girasola, Italian, and
Hans Pedcrsen, Dane, all able seamen.
Haga, who speaks English better than
the others, told the story of the wreck.
The Texas sailed from Dantzlg on
FAMOUS DRAMATIC CRITIC WHO IS
FIGHTING THE TRUST
I JAMJCS S. METCALFE. OF LIFE. j
i. -A
James S. Metcalfe, the famous dra
matic criticof Life, who has incurred
the enmity oF'the proverbial theatrical
syndicate, is just now the object of
much interest. He was born in 1858
and graduated from Tale in 1879. In
1SS3 he was editor and publisher of
"The New Age," and subsequently as
sociated himself with tne Buffalo Ex
press, the People's Pictorial Press and
various other publications. At one
time he was manager of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association,
leaving this position to become dra
matic and literary editor of Life In
1889. In 1895 he -was managing editor
of the Cosmopolitan, and a year or two
later returned to Life, and has been
dramatic editor of that publication
since that time.
He was recently awarded the decis
her conception of this rather unsympa
thetic part.
"I consider Hedda Gabler the ep'
tomc of the ultra-modern woman. Sh
will never become anything but nobl"
Leah Kleschna, on the contrary her
better Impulses once established, may
grow to a rich and strong nature.
"But I do not refer to the best tyo
of modern woman." said Mrs. Fiske.
anxious to -not appear to condemn thl
age of women. "Modern woman is th
best In the world noble, active. But
Hedda's heart was stone; nothinc
touched her."
In a recent talk Miss O'Nll told in"
her idoa of this thwarted woman'
character is this: "What is a modern
woman to do without occupation? In
so narrow a provincial way of ilvlnj?
as that of Hedda Gabler, in her small
Norwegian circle, this lack of occupa
tion Is a very deadly thing. She is
called grossly selfish and taken ser
iously. My Idea is that she is distinct
ly a comedy character. Hedda na th
keenest sense of humor."
Leah Kleschna. Becky Sharp or Hedda
Gabler, then, Mrs. Fiske, In so varied
an assortment. Is emphatically able to
see something interesting', at least,
"I should be sorry to attribute ; ojri
ness to a heroine who was the rovers.
One was lured by the shallow joys of
the Scandinavian 'smart set,' one by
those of the English high society of a
past generation.
"But the last has strength.
rises from that faint condition into
which Becky sinks, or Hedda defeats
by her suicide"
Mrs. Flske Is really a different won -an,
personally, from the gay Becky
Sharp or the hard Hedda Gablnr. or
even the struggling Leah Kleschna.
The latter is a part where the emo
tional has fuller opportunities than In
either of the othors. But here Is the
view of the interpreter of Leah:
"The most powerful of all that i
done on the stage Is done in silonc-"
I questioned her about what ho con
siders the bost modern play.
"I consider the best and most poetic
modern play Is 'Rcsmcrsholm.' " she
answered. "In the whole rang of
drama nothing is finer."
And to her final remark many per
sons will subscribe:
"Ibsen dominates the stage now; h
Is the great master." Florence Brooks
in New York Telegraph.
Lots for a Life
Came to Twelve Casttaways.
November 23. She had all sorts of
trouble and was full of water.
On Christmas eve It was decided to
abandon her. At 10 o'clock that night
the skipper, who Is 66 years old, took
the lee or port lifeboat with 12 men,
and the mate, who was young and vig
orous, with ID of the crew, including
two boys, launched the weather life
boat. The skipper's boat cleared the
side of the wreck without mishap, but
the otcr boat was smashed or upset
immediately.
The skipper had thrown a small cask
of water and a bag of biscuit into his
boat, but he had no compass, and was
forced to steer In the primitive way.
by the stars. The boat had a small
mast, and he set It up, spread a blanket
for a sail, and started down the wind
toward the coast of Portuijal. hoping to
fall in with some vessel when daylight
came. The seas were heavy and all
hands crouched In the boat.
No smoke nor sail was seen when the
sun rose, and after night set In the eyes
of the watchers could detect no moving
lights. It looked as if the commerce
of the world hud gone out of business.
The sea went down next day, but there
were still no signs of ships. Then the
sky clouded and the wind came howling
out of the east. The skipper unshipped
ion in a $100,000 libel suit, brought
against him for the publication of the
celebrated Iroquois fire cartoon. The
picture depleted the horror attendant
upon the struggles of tho audience
to escape from the burnmg theater, and
bore the startling caption, "Klaw &
Erlanger Present Mr. Bluebeard." This
firm of managers entered suit against
him, and after an Interesting trial the
court decided against them.
Mr. Metcalfe has been accused of
Jewbalting for the strictures he has
passed upon the Jewish race in his
criticisms and has been excluded from
the 47 New York theaters owned and
controlled by the Klaw-Erlanger syn
dicate. He Is now testing the rlijit
of the managers to close their doors
against him, and' the suit' which he is
prosecuting against Ihcm Is attracting;
international attention. .
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his mast and. making It fast to the
painter, .nrew it over forward, using
it as a drag to keep the boat's head up
to the sea. Water came aDoard con
stantly. The gale continued three days
and all hands except one, who did the
balling, lay low In the boat to keep
her from capsizing.
The skipper saw that the little food
would soon bo exhausted if he did not
use It sparingly and after the second
day he allowed each man one biscuit
nnd one "pony" of water a day. No
two men were permitted to stand in
the boat at one time. Each took his
turn by order of the skipper of getting
up and stretching himself. The hands
and feet of every man were swollen
and sore with salt water bolls. There
were always three men on lookout,
night and day, for signs of a ship.
On the fifth day the Maori went crazy
and the lookouts at night began to see
phantom ships. The last drop of water
and the last biscuit were consumed on
tho sixth day.
That day the Maori died. Hansen, a
Norwegian seaman, went mad and pro
posed that the Maori should be eaten. He
had a sheath knife and a condensed milk
can and declared that he would draw off
the dead seaman's blood.
The skipper, who was so crippled with
bolls that he could hardly stir, but re
tained his mental vigor, ordered Hanson's
mates to overpower him and tic him to a
thwart. The easterly wind had gone
down., the;, eea ,.hno. .fallen, to a. gentle
f.weil and the weather had become" warm,
so that the men could move about the
boat without endangering their lives.
Hansen wap overcome quickly, as he was
too feeble to make much resistance, and
the Maori's body was thrown overboard.
The thirst of tho men had grown In
tern?, and they began to drink salt water,
against the advice of the skipper. Be
fore the eleventh day. Haga says, every
man In the boat except the skipper and
himself was crazy. Even the skipper was
moro&e and sometimes swore at the men.
A German proposed that Hansen should
be killed and eaten to save the lives of
the rest of the boat's .crew. The skipper
said:
"Let the man die first. When he Is dead
you may cat what you pleaso of him. but
there must be no murder.
"Why didn't you keep the dead one,
then?" demanded the German of the
skipper. He got no answer.
There were four oars In the boat, and
the men took turns at them, the skipper
steering. All who were not rowing fell to
cursing those who were, asking why In
hell they did not row faster. Most or tne
swearing was In broken English, but
some was In the particular language of
the swearer, and Haga recognized llttlo
of it. Nobody prayed or thought of pray
ing. They Just looked hungrily at one
another and argued with the skipper, urg
ing him to give the order to kill tho
crazv Norwegian and eat him. But the
skipper wai obdurate.
At last, on the thirteenth day. tne men
decided that they would draw lots to de
cide who should die to save his fellows.
The skipper did not consent to the propo
sition, but he was powerless to prevent It,
Just then came the miracle of a sail.
Girasola. the Italian, who was standing
in the bow scanning the horizon, saw it.
At first the skipper though it might be
another of the many mirages of a crazed
fancy. But he slewed around and saw
the sail himself.
The sailors at the oars rowed as hard
as they could toward the little white
speck of canvas. The epeck grew larger,
and finally bloomed Into a brlgantlne un
der all sail. The castaways grew hysteri
cal as they saw that she was heading
toward them.
She was the Mercedes. Italian, of LI
vorno. and she came so close alongside
the boat that Girasola feebly hailed the
captain In his own tongue. The men In
the boat who were able to sit up hugged
one another and cried. Not one was able
to climb aboard the brlgantlne without
help, and some, who were unconscious,
were lifted over her rail.
The captatln of the Mercedes first gave
the famished men water. After an Inter
val they got soup made of canned beef.
Several hours later the Ateamshlp Zeno.
bound for Watcrford. came along, and
the Mercedes transferred the shipwrecked
men to her. They were landed at Water
ford on January 11 and sent to the hospi
tal there. All recovered their mental bal
ance quickly, but the skipper was still In
the hospital when Haga left Waterford.
The Texas was the biggest of several
dredges of a model used at Galveston for
raising the grade of the city by pumping
up the bottom of the Gulf.
Vital Statistics of a Back Town.
Bafre (Vt.) Time.
"There were three marriages, six
births and 22 deaths intown last year. A
gloomy look, certainly." So says the
newspaper correspondent of one of our
Vermont towns. It Is. indeed, a "gloomy
look." Not only is the old stock dying
out. but there is no infusion of new.
Think of the proportion of births to
deaths. Where one child Is born in this
Vermont community there are four
deaths. Little wonder that the state's
population is practically at a standstill.
The Protest of the Railroads.
New York Sun.
In 189S. 1900. 1904. the Democratic
National platforms spat fire at the rail
roads and screamed for more power for
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
A Republican President and a Repub
lican House havo heard tardily that
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niest comedy-drama ever seen for
tho money. "
rvr-f" The Western Mining Camp.
III The Funny Courtroom Scene.
f The Sensational Escape.
UL.L The "Female Seminary."
A great show for little money. ?
Vaudeville Between Acts :
LADIES FREE MONDAY NIGHT
When accompanied by anyono pur-
chasing a 10c ticket before 7:30 P. M.
DOORS OPEN PROMPTLY 7 P. M. .
.
I 10c Dollar Show 10c
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ARCADE THEATER
WASHINGTON'. NEAR S EVENT II.
A Matchtwa Vaudeville Programme.
NEW BILL. STARTS MONDAY.
MARCO & OONZOIAS,
World's Greatest Contortionists.
ZAMORA,
Th Great Hand Balancer.
WASHER BROTHERS,
The Famous Hoxlnz MIdceta.
F.LIJOTT,
The Master of the Harp. Will Sins th
Pictured Ballad?.
AMERICAN BIOSCOPE,
New and Comical Films of Life-Motion
Pictures.
Continuous bill today. 2 to 10:S0 P. M.
"Week-day shown. :30 to 4:30. T:30 to
10:30 P. M.
Admission. 10 cents to any seat.
RECITAL
By the
SPITZNER
PHILHARMONIC
SOCl ETY
Will be given at the
Marquam Grand, March 3
Orchestra of 50 pieces,
String Quartette, Violin Solos
and Violin Chorus
ROSE EYTINGE
Pupils prepared for star, pulpit.
rilatlora or parlor. Either prlvata
tton or class work. Vor Usa aa
lerxns. applr at
261 Thirteenth Street
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