The Sunday Oregonian., April 19, 1908, SECTION FOUR, Page 4, Image 40

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NSW YORK, April 12. (Spcrlal Cor
rrNpnndenrw ) Thinpa aro quiet InR
diwn In 'Mm theatrical world. It in
rn t hor too ea rl y ffr Summer prohir
tlona and It Is lato to s(no now plays,
althoiish thoro aro still a number of
Important ones to bo trlod nut this
Kprlna Tho popular attrnr-tfons whlrh
Include "The Wlfrhlnff Hour." "Paid In
Full." "Tho Honor of the Family" and
Tho Thlof" abate not In tho ttllRhtvat
doff reo.
Otis Skin nor is not a now Mir tire on
tho Amorh an Mapr, but the hold which
ho has gained on tho Now York puhllo
In this play nuikoa even the warmest
adherents of Rb'har.l Mansfield say
that t hero has boon no etieh rorniir k
able rhnraetorl.atinn as Mr. Skinner's
Colonel Hridau since Mansheld's host
days. Ralxae'n "Mar-helor'a .Houaehold"
h made an admirable vehirle for the
Interesting Am or Iran ator and one
wonders why more of the wonderful
Vroneh novel 1st s works are not made
to norve tho same purpose. No writer
of modern times has loft- a .larster
leiraey to the world : no writer has
drawn more toiliuff characters, and as
lonp as a !a izae novel has bee. If1 ft
iindra ma t izcil t hero should bo no lack
of intercut iiir" material. Alas! too many
of the play are deadly dull and have not
tho sliRhtest reason for existing ex
cept for one or t wo "si t nations" for
some foot Mp lit favorite. This sort of
thlnjr. however, is far too ephemeral
to stand for anything In th world of
thin which are worth while and
which count.
Perhaps the most remarkable atory
la that of "Paid In t nil," which over
nicrht ma do the author famous. No
one thought very much about It when
It was announced, and it is doubt f til
that Wagon ha Is and Kemper realized
what they had, although they wore
clover enough to produce It where al
most every manager in New York had
to ue a colloquialism "turned it
down." It turned up at the Astor
and the next morning there was
not a dissenting voice as to its merits.
There is no posslhilit y to got seats
within several weeks and the mere an1
nonncement that Mr. Walter has an
other play ready for presentation has
st i red the managerial world as well
as the audiences.
The now plsys of the week are "The
RohI Mounted." with Cyril fcott in the
prim ip! role and "l"on Quixote," with
K. IT. Sot hern as tho leading spirit
"Tho Hoynl Mounted" was presented
on Mond.iy night and prove! a fine
vehicle for Cyril 'ott who won instant
ta vor aa Victor O' Hyrne in a stirring
play of the Canadian Northwest, by
Voil R. and William C. IV Mille. The
larrick Theater was filled with an audi
ence whoso enthusinm grew as the acts
moved on. and that melodrama or near
melodrama still holds its own will not
bo questioned by any one w"ho was
present. The story deals with a man who
has lH'en murdered by one who ia un
known for tho greater part of tho piny
and who must be u n ea r t bed by Victor
( ' Hyrne, Lieutenant in the Royal
Mounted. For this he is to be made
Captain and to be reinstated in his
lather's affections, lost through his re
fusal to marry according" to the dictates
of his fat her s heart.
At tho moment of uncovering tho mur
derer he finds that it is the lumberman
brot her of the girl with whom he hast
fallen in love, and after being in tho
1-amietifTa the man makes clear to
O" Byrne the reason of the act. which was
to protect his siater from the hands of a
man who was be;ter out of the world
1 han In it. Not for sen timental reasons,
bur because lie believed the murder justifi
able O'Byrne allows the man, Sam Lara
bee. to make his escape and surrenders
himself. It is imminent that he must
Jiang for his swerving from duty and at
the crucial moment he proves that the
murdered man was a notorious criminal
for whoso capture a reward had been
offered. The happy ending suits the pub
lic aa well a do the harrowing ex
periences through which The very affable
and amiable stage hero, Mr. Scott passes.
He pla s the role w:th great charm and
):ts love making is fairly irresistible. The
cast is as follows:
1aJr Kiu-k:ar.J Oartej P. !Ia
( rib-rlv Arthur Ker.net h
John Hu-kcy Charles Irr.b
Vtotvr o'Hvrne CyrtI Scott
Ko; Lrubv .Clara Ulan 'lit-It
Ant ine llvetl Duane WacTit-r
IjornjT J.uk Harry Powell
I aitern , .Griffith Evan
V.ig Tni iau Rlhel Wright
J.H- Hammer Brigham Ro ce
Scrirean: Ka.'.Jry FIvvchM Bcstwtclt
Tnni.'uu Georjre ArchibaM
bni Uarale- Charie Lne
K. H. Sot hern presented this week
h dramatirt:on of Don Quixote, made
tv iaul Kesier from the Spanish of
Cervantes. Mr. Sothrrn - i the orrly
member of tho cast who has a role, and
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Mahler's (treat produotlon of "Don Gio
vanni.' th part sung before, by Mmft.
(Jadskl, and on the closing night of the
opera ahe was again cast for Ieonore
with Caruso r Manrlco. The prophecy
waa more than fulfilled.
Ilellef Corps Entertains G. A. It.
TH Woman's Relief Corps, of Benjamin
Butler Poat. O. A. R., fiunnyalde, held a
social meeting after t regular business
meeting Thursday afternoon, to which
the Benjamin Butler Poat was invited.
The women aerved a dainty lunch, after
which a ahort programme was much en
Joyed. It la intended by these organisa
tions to hold such a meeting once each,
month.
treat with laughter. Of the play there
Is indeed little to be said, but of Mr.
Sot hern's Impersonations, as In all of
this actor's Impersonations.' there is
every element of refinement and of ten
derness, which makes this role the more
appealing. Mr. Buckstone as Sajicho
Fan an provided much merriment and
furnished all the laughs in the play.
But there was much more in his repre
sentation than buffoonery. There was
much that was c-eeply pathetic in his
constant devotion to his master and in
his humor there was frequently as much
to elicit tears as laughter. Miss Florence
Reed as I-ucinda de la L.Iana, through
whom a love interest is attempted, was
sympathetic and dainty, but nothing will
be sufficiently powerful to make a last
ing success of the play, charming as
much of it is.
"The Wolf," by the same author s
"Paid in Full,' will be put on at the
Bijou Theater next Saturday night. The
sei ne is said to be laid in the Canadian
Hudson Bay country, and will have Ida
Conquest and William Courtenay in a
cast which only contains Ave people.
Frances Starr, the charming ' little
actress now playing the leading role In
Belasco's "Rose of the Rancho," is an
ambitious little horse woman and may be
seen in Central Park when the weather
permits, and indeed, not infrequently
when the weather does not permit. Miss
Starr has won new triumps this year in
one of the most fascinating plays of two
seasons.
Some astonishment ' was experienced
when Josephine Jacoby. who has been for
five year at the Metropolitan, an
nounced that she would not bo with that
organization next season but would
probably accept one of several flattering
offers which she has had to go nto light
opera. Mme. Jacoby. who has sung 6S
times this year in New York and who
is now on tour with the company, will
make a concert tour in the Fall, but be
fore that she . will decide whether or
not to allow one of two composers to
write an operetta for her, or whether
she will go back into concert and ora
torio work. It is a strange coincidence
that the work in which she will sever
her connection with the organization is
the same one in which she made her
debut. This is "Die Walkure.' in which
she sang one of the Walkure maidens
with Ternina and Fremstad in the cast.
This time the cast will include Frem
stad and Morena, the dramatic soprano
of Munich, who has sung a few times
in the Wagnertan works and in Fidelio.
Mme. Jacoby has had a remarkable
career for hard work, in fact, few
women have ever been able to endure
such steacy singing and to retain the
beauty of a voice. Mme. Jacoby was
compelled to do many parts because she
was what is fcnown as a "quick study."
and In a few hours and without re
hearsals she could do what few women
on the operatic stage would dare to do.
Mme. Jacoby told of an amusing Incident
last season In Boston, which shows how
opera singers never know when they
stand within a few moments of the un
expected. Her maid was packing the
trunk for the road and Mme. Jacoby
was to do Stebel in Faust and a couple
of parts outside of the scene. The suit
for Siebel took up so little room that
she had to till up and just as ballast
she told the maid to put in her Amneris
costumes, although she had not looked
over the part in years, and had sever
played it, but "Mr. Conried gave me the
hope that some day I might sing it and
therefore I had the costumes made, said
Mme. Jacoby. During that trip Mrs.
Homer took sick and ahe sang not only
Amneris but also Suzuki in "Madam
Butterfly," Nancy In "Martha," and the
witch in "Hansel and Gretel," and with
out orchestral rehearsal, and the per
formances following each other almost
daily.
e
In the same manner Rita L.e Fornia.
otherwise known as Rita Newman, of
San Francisco, jumped into her oppor
tunity at the Metropolitan just before the
season closed. It must not be believed
that a girl's hopes are realized the in
stant that she is engaged, even in lead
ing parts. Miss Fornia was engaged, but
week after week went by without giving
her the long-awaited opportunity. At
the rehearsal of Fidelio. two weeks be
fore the close of the season, the writer
was leaving the opera house when Miss
Fornia called to pass the time of day.
I asked the young Californian how things
were going, and she replied that she had
simply resigned herself to the fact that
she would have no opportunities this
year and that her season was completely
lost, as she had had some excellent offers
on the other side. I said, "Oh, nonsense,
you never can tell what moment your
time will come and when It comes, you
will make good, of that I am certain."
Within three hours of that conversation
Emma Eames became too ill to go on as
Leonore in "II Trovatore" with Caruso,
and Miss Fornia was called to do it
without rehearsal and without a mo
ment's preparation. Her success was re
markable, and she won both the public
and the .press in a moment. After this
she sang one of the principal parts In
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