The Sunday Oregonian., March 08, 1908, SECTION FOUR, Page 4, Image 38

-r THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLA1, 3IAKCH 8, 1908.
DAVID WAR FIELD REVIVES "THE MUSIC-MASTER '
' ' Mrs. Patrick Campbell Leaves Metropolis for Southern and Western Tour Sam Bernard Stars in "Nearly a Hero"
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NEW YORK. March (Special
Correspondence.) The was noth
ing of greater interest in theatri
cal circles during the week than the re
vival ef 'The Music Master," with David
Warfield in the title role. A very large
audience presented themselves at the
Bluyvosant Theater where Warfleld suc
ceedes himself in the Grand Army Man.
...In this very large audience it is safe to
say that most of them were people who
have seen "The Music Master" any num
ber of times, and to whom its beauties
never fade. Tha applause was deafening
as Anton von Barwig alias David War
field made his reappearance. The huge
-4o tears hardly knowing when and how
" the transition came. YVarfield made the
well-known appeal in his quiet, modest
manner which is but the surface of one
f the most lmpasaioned roles ever at
tempted upon the American stage. Mrs.
tiatfs, Blanche Bates' mother, is again
tn her role of the Houston-street lodging
house lady, while the new. comers are
those who have been Mr. Warfleld's sup
port during the run of the "Grand Army
Man," and include Miss Perry, Reuben
Fax, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Lackaye and Mr.
Elliot. "The Grand Army Man" will be
played on Saturday nights and later on
Mr. Warfleld will also be seen in the
"Auctioneer."
Mrs. Campbell and her company left
this week on a tour of the Middle and
Southern states where she will be heard
in a repertory of plays. Mrs. Campbell
said before leaving, that she was not in
the least discouraged because "Electra"
played suc-h a short engagement in New
York, although she had expected and
hoped for 'better patronage. She com
pared the attitude of the wide public in
its relation to "Klectra" to her former
attempt to present Maeterlinck's "Pelleas
et Mellsande" and she said that when the
Debussy Opera was received with such
overwhelming sucess and enthusiasm that
it Justltlcd her in her opinion of the play.
Mrs. Campbell said further: "I do not
mean that I do not care for public opin
ion, because I do, as vcry man or woman
on the stage must care, but the fact that
-1 see great things in a play which they do
not. does not effect me in the least and
it does not weaken my confidence in my
own Judgment. It is natural that I would
rather play to a crowded house than to
a few intellectual people, but these in
tellectual mean a great deal to me and
when I have their support I feel that I
can afford to be true to my art. I
shall therefore continue to present "Elec
tra" and I am glad to think that some
day I shall have justification with this
work as I had with Maeterlinck's, be-
psiim R t r h r fltra iim Vinn nacwl t h ( .aa
: the subject for his last opera."
It is amusing to hear the experiences of
; people nho tried to get seats at the differ
ent theaters last Saturday night which
was Washington's birthday and by the
way. the fact that this holiday fell on
' Saturday cost the theatrical profession
thousands of dollars. there were pro
cessions of people in hansom cabs who
drove from one theater to the other try
ing to get accommodation all to no avail.
The houses were sold out weeks before
hsnd. There are plays in New York
which were not affected by this onslaught
of people who wanted entertainment on
the holiday. Amonjj these are the Witch
ing Hour, the pronounced success of
, Aiicusiu j nomas, wnicn nas causes
many connoisseurs to designate it
; "the play of a century."- Theso houses
! are sold out nightly, and it is need-
i less to say that with them it is
holiday patronage all the time. Another
such attraction is "The Thief" still play-
: ing at the Lyceum with Margaret Illing
: ton, Kyrle Bellew and an extremely com
petent company. After drifting in and
out of the theaters and coming away
m-ith an unsatisfied feeling one goes back
to fee Margaret lllington and one comes
. away convinced that there is nothing to
J . be compared to this or to her In all New
' York. "The Thief is a play which all
women and Indeed all men should .see.
It has no serious vexing problems except
) for the woman who feels that she must
I dress exfmisltuly to hold the Interest of
f her husband who has not the means to
provide the luxuries. On the other hand
' the husband does not know or under
; stand what he exacts from his wife when
lie does look with admiration upon other
S women who dress well. Miss lllington
I : was compelled to spend the week in
Atlantic City to regain her strength; the
j-ola is extremely wearing on her.
Sam Bernard, who- is one of the great
.stage favorites is- back on Broadmay in
a new musical show entitled "Nearly a
. Hero." One need hardly say that he is
at the Casino, because this theater is so
identified with performances or mat type.
Mr.' Bernard s late Hoggenhelmer suc
cesses have found worthy successor and
judging from the reception accorded Mr.
Bernard on his opening appearance last
Monday night, his play should be one of
the "long runners." There is a funny
plot which is seldom the case, one which
is supplied by Harry B. Smith who has
taken his tip from Andrew Carnegie's
custom of decorating wfth medals those
who have won distinction as heroes.
Sam Bernard is represented as Lud
wig Knoedler, a poor tailor, who after
hearing a story over a telephone, passes
himself off as the rescuer of a drowning
man, but complications set in when the
man revives sufficiently to divulge that he
was attacked and thrown overboard tor
the sake . of robbery and the rescuers
were the ones that plotted the entire
scheme. Bernard is excrutiatlngly funny.
The plot has much that is original, in fact
is original all the way through, but the
same thing cannot be said about the
music, which is so familiar and so rem
iniscent that the composer has not at
tached his name. There are, however,
many attractive musical numbers, several
of which are given to Mr. Bernard, to
Miss 2thel Levey and to Miss Ada Lewis.
There is brilliant costuming and any
number of pretty girls. Tne cast is as
follows: . , .
Lurlwlg Knrxdler .Sam Bernard
Jabes Doollttle.. Sam Edwards
Morau Robert Paton Glbbs
Kred Doollttle Buirell Barbaretto
Harold Percy Montague E3dgar Norton
Wade Waters Franklin Roberts
Plympton .............. .......R. Franklyn
Count Orloff Louis Helle
Angeline De Vere ... .Ethel Levey
Gwendolyn Doollttle. ......... r .... .Ada Lewis
Edith -............'..Neva Aymar
Mistress Doollttle Zelda Sears
Francine Ellxabeth Brio
Marie Daiay Greene
Estelle Puffenkrans. ...... ..Virginia Marshall
Geraldine Mooney Lillian Harris
Puecy Foote . Vaughn Sargent
Marian Love Maxine Revilllon
Hlldegarde Jones Susan i-ut
ltura Lee Dorothy Watson
Connie Moors. ..............Albertine Bareent
Nora Mooney Doris Cameron
Charles Frohman, who "is now in Lon
don, la making a stir in theatrical cir
cles of that staid old city, and he is in I
fusing the situation on the other side
with some of the life that he brings to
bear upon it in this country. It is safe
to estimate that there Is no talent In
all old England that Mr. Frohman does
not know, and that he has not measured
for America. His "And." Miss Billie
Burke, who was seen, with John Drew
in "My Wife," has signed with Mr.
Frohman for a number of seasons. Mr.
Frohman has already selected her play
for next season, but is willing to say
nothing more.
Among the things which Mr. Frohman
will produce in London this year is the
Waltz Dream, for which he has the
rights over there. He will also put on
another musical comedy entitled "The
Dollar Princess," which he will also give
in America.
Among the plays and players to be
taken from New York to London by this
Emperor of things theatrical includes
Marie Doro, who will probably be pre
sented in London in May; William Col
lier, who is collaborating with Hartley
Manners on a new comedy in which
part of the action takes place in Lon
don and the first presentation will prob
ably be made in that city. Mr. Frohman
will revive J. M. Barric's "The Admir
able Crichton" at the Duke of York's
Theater in London, March 24,. to fol
low "Peter Pan." J. M. Barrie has al
most finished the play long promised to
Mr. Frohman, and America may se its
first performance before England, as it
will no doubt be first entrusted to Maud
Adams, who is regarded as the greatest
living interpreter of Barrie.
.
"Twenty Days in the Shade," now run
ning with tremendous success in New
Tork at the Savoy and "The Heir to the
Hurrah," one of last year's successes,
are among the piays which may be given
in London this season.
Mr. Frohman has still two musical
comedies e be presented in New York
this season which promise to be great
successes. One of these is "Fluffy Ruf
fles," which is still undergoing changes
tn order that it shall be in tip-top con
idtion when It does see the light of
day. A new comedy by William Gillette
entitled, "That Little Affair of the
Boys," is also scheduled for New York
this season. Monday night in Baltimore
the first American production was made
of "Toddles," w"hich was known abroad
under the name of "Triple Patte." This
farce has been adapted by Clyde Fitch.
In the company are Jeffreys Lewis, Sa
die Martinot, Pauline Frederick, Arthur
Elliott. Louis Massen, Charles Walker,
Oswald Yorke and w. Gayer Mackay,
who is playing the chief role.
"Paid in Full" is a reassuring name
in these days, when collections are
harder than the proverbial tacks. How
ever, it is a good title for a strong:
play by Eugene Walter, who is a stran
ger in New York, but who is the au
thor of "The Undertow," which play
has been known in the West for sev
eral years. The story deals with one
Joseph Brooks, whose life in a Harlem
flat is not what his wife was accus
tomed to,, but which she, rather than
he. is willing to make the best of. He
rails at the captain of the Latin-American
Steamship Company, who refuses
to raise his salary of $18 a week and
indicates to his wife the mistake she
made in rejecting young Smith, whose
salary as superintendent of the line has
Just been raised to J5000 a year. He
is not sparing: of his language con
cerning the captain who at this mo
ment enters on a visit with the mother
and sister of Mrs. Brooks. Captain
Williams innocently remarks that it is
a pity Emma is not better off. and
her husband bursts into a passion and
denounces his employer who is there
as a visitor. There is a stirring scene.
in which the young wife comes be
tween her husband and the old sailor.
Smith acts as peacemaker and offers to
take them all to the play. Brooks re
sents this invitation as charity, but
says that if they will go with him as
his guest he will go. He takes a bank
note from the day's collection and the
curtain falls on the. first act.
In the second aot Mr. and Mrs. Brooks
are domiciled in a fashionable hotel,
which change is explained by Brooks
to his wife- that Captain Williams did
the square thing by him after their tiff
of a few months back. Jim Smith is'
a visitor, and he tells great stories
of his South American trip with Cap
tain Williams. It is half suggested
that tho. captain, who has never raised
Brooks' salary, has been at home for
four days, going over the accounts, and
he has found a great shortage. Smith
offers to' do all tn his power to square
the shortage, and the defaulter con
fesses to his wife, to whom ' he tells
that the only chance for escape is for
her to go to Captain Williams, whose
friendship exists because her father
had been his partner in early days. The
young wife has now a terrible con
tempt for this man, and while she
loaths herself for lending herself, she
still makes up her mind that she must
save him.
In the third act Smith tries to set
tle the shortage with Captain Williams,
but the old man would not consider it
for anything in the world, because he
is determined to put Brooks to the
limit of what he deserves: Mrs. Brooks
comes to Captain Williams in fear and
in dread and he is more interested in
showing her his trophies and incident
ally informs her that she is the first
lady, with an accent on the lady, who
has ever been in his apartment, and
he guesses that it is on account of her
miserable husband that she comes. Af
ter a painful interview she wins what
she went for, and he hands her the
written release of the criminal.
In the fourth act she gives Brooks
his release, but leaves him forever,
when she realizes his true nature
through the abuse and insults he heaps
upon her as she pulls him out of his
difficult position. The part of Brooks
is well played by Tully Marshall, who
inspired sympathy as well as disgust
Ben Johnson played the part of James
Smith, familiarly known as "Jimsy."
Captain Williams, a true representa
tion of a rough diamond, w-as well
characterized by Frank Sheridan, and
the feminine roles were played by Hat
tie Russell and Oza Waldrop. John
Arthur played the Japanese valet, and
while none is especially well known,
they represent a remarkably well-balanced
company. -
Kreisler-Bauer Recital Will Be a Musical Feast
Magnificent Programme Promised for the Concert of These Tw.. Great Artists on Tuesday, March 17.
wT. is dietinctly gratifying to note
I the immediate response in tne way
JL f o-ejinpA inouirv. Interest and
enthusiasm already manifested in the :
announcement that Bauer and Kreisler j
would play at the Heilig Theater Tues
day evening, March 17. They are tour
ing under the management of Lols
ani Wvnn Coman and In reply
to the hundreds of Inquiries made it is
stated that the two arusis are not
making a Joint tour throughout the
United States. They are both concert
ii a i. nnlv the desire on
the part of the management to give
the local music lovers something dis
tinctly new and more daring than any
thing vet attempted that suggested the
idea of the Joint recital here. It was
.,,,-v, t.mniatinn to the other music
lovers that Seattle and Tucoma and
Vaneouver. B. C. have, eagerly come
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only ones in the United Staes where
such a project nas men piannea.
Eastern critics have seldom exhibited
enthusiasm in- any more pronounced
degree than they have over Bauer's re
cent performances. "As a Chopin
nlaver." writes one. "he comes easily
first among all pianists now before the
public. He does not' sentimentalise, as
Pachman does; he does not give us a j
merely dreamy Chopin, as Paderenskl
does: he gives us genuine, manly cr.o
pln. Indubitably the real Chopin."
Few violinists have so unerring a
technique as Kreisler and few can tra
verse with such unfailing certainty the
enormous difficulties of such works
the concerto by Brahms, Tschaikowsky,
etc. But to Kreisler the technical
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BUER. THE GREAT PJAXIST, WHO APPEARS WITH
KHtaSLBR AT THE HEILIG MARCH 17.
mastery is but a means to an end. To
day he stands as an exemplar of con
summate artistry. Intensely human,
pulsing with warm blood, governed by
the highest Ideals and the noblest,
purest tastes."
FROM RANKS TO PREMIER
Career of Australia's Delegate to
European Exhibition.
SYDNEY, N. S. W., March 7. (Special.)
Tom Price, who was employed as a
workman on the building of the Parlia
ment House where he now sits as Pre
mier, has gone to England to represent
South Australia at the Franco-British
Exhibition. Mr. 'Price hopes to arouse
Interest In England regarding South Aus
tralia in the manner, though perhaps not
in" the style, adopted by Thomas Bent,
Premier of Victoria, at the time of the
imperial conference.
The two men, though widely different In
many ways, have had somewhat similar
careers. Mr. Bent was a greengrocer
before he took to politics, and Mr. Price
rose to the Premiership from the ranks
of labor. Mr. Price is a man of the
people, a Welshman and an orator.
Quaint in his speech, with more candor
than culture, but animated with rugged
fervor, he can sway audiences to a re
markable degree.
MAKES LOVE TO SP1NISTER
Woman Impersonates Rich Suitor
and Borrows Money.
GENEVA, Feb. 29. A woman has
been arrested at Zurich on a charge of
defrauding an elderly spinster, to
whom eh made love over the telephone
in an assumed male voice.
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in the Canton of Argovle, confided to
the woman arrested that she would
like to find a husband to take charge
of her financial affairs.
Soon after the spinster received a
proposal of marriage by letter from a
"Herr Herinssfeld." of Zurich, and ac
cepted it.
For several months the courtship
continued over the telephone, "Herr
Heringsfeld" making: appointments and
breaking: them on pleas of pressure of
work and lack of money.
The spinster lent her unknown fiance
several sums of money, and, on his sua;
gestion, handed over about $500 to the
woman "friend," who impersonated the
mythical lover. The woman married
on receipt of this sum.
At last the spinter broke off her
engagement, and demanded the return
of her loans to "Herr Heringsfeld." He
could not be found, and the newly
married woman was subsequently ar
rested on a charge of fraud.
More Flogging In England.
LONDON. March 7. (Special) There
has been a serious increase of Hoggings
for prison offences in Bngland during
190S-1907. The returns of the prison com
missioners show that the visiting justices,
in whom the power is now invested,
passed no lees than 70 sentences of flog
ging, 67 of Which were confirmed by the
home secretary. During the same period
only two sentences of flogging were
passed in open court. The prison reform
committee of the Humanitarian League
suggested that trials before visiting
justices for prison offences should be
open to the public
Another DroM Witness Arrested.
LONDON, March 7. The notorious
Druce case, which at one time threatened
to involve the state and title of the
Duke of Portland, continues to furnish
sensations. Mrs. Margaret Hamilton,
who was one of the principal witnesses
to the alleged Identity of the Duke of
Portland, with T. C. Druce, was arrested
this morning and a number of other ar
rests in connection with the dramatic
trial are foreshadowed. The warrant
charges Mrs. Hamilton with wilful per
jury and conspiracy.
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