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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1931)
MONDAY. JUNE 1. 19M PAGE SIX THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM, OREGOH Dv Harold. Gray LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE d cHanJoUL (Rett CWiLjkd 1 9 ia..- ucau ann II ? 1 1 . win cuca If & l 1 II vy ly" II n. . KinuR I 1 Chapter 1 "POOR HAt TONY TJe oeople of Orchard HUL small couatrr town, in Ohio, -call Mm '"Poor Old Tony" and utttefc X have often wondered why they jaugtt. Autania. himself, whea he notices my Indication, always says in his B:tle way, "NereT mind; in laugh ter tools betray their ignorance; wise men their understanding." Amottf those who know his his tory and appreciate his character. Antonio Latour 1 not a person to excite ridicule. His name once promised to endure with the names of Booth and Barrett and Irving and Mansfield and other actors of their day and rank. You who are kl enough to remember the thea ter in the years from "J to J88 will recall the great artists with whom he was associated. He had only arnaU parts. It is true, but the crit ics spoke very kindly of his work. Many tines 1 have seen the i?ws- paper dippings, yellow with age and worn toy much handling, which the eld actor treasures with such pride. But Antonio Latours career was ended when he was still a young man. He is old now, with sllver vrhlte hair, faded blue eyes, and ttrtn traobhng limbs; but his fine old an tor's lace is lighted with rare fcnttUtteiioe and feeling-; he car ries himself with tliat proud erert ness which distinguishes eentte men of the stage and he never ap pears without a flower In the lapel ox his ancient coat. Antonio lives alone In the an cient house in which his father was born. From it he can see the many acres that once belonged to his an cestors. His family was rich, the villagers will tell you, as they won der how the old actor manages now to keep soul and body together. "Poor Old Tony," they will aay, tie set out to be a famous actor and now he has nothing." Hut Old Tuny laughs and 6ays. X have enough. When one has nothing one has freedom from host of nestUerous bores. These good neighbors do not know how lirh I am." One evening, with a chuckle of mirth, Antonio fatd: "I overheard that Buxion woman talking about me today. She and two other wo men stopped la front of my house. 'And tlus here -she said (the old actor rr.lrnloVed the Buxton wo man's vciee to perfection), 'Is the old Latour home that I've been tellm you about. Old Tony La tnur he's lived here all alone ever since he come back from actln on the stage in New York. He's a good-fer-cothin' a disgrace to his family and the community. Look, the hoiue ain't had a brush of paint nur a tap of a hammer since his1 poor paw died. His paw and maw they was a real credit to the town and church. Eider Latour his paw was. she was a Deaconess. Ain't nrbody ever heard tell what It was Tony done when he was an actor that made him quit and come home like he did, but It must a been aomeUilii' awful Vaose he ain't never been r.o good to himself ner to anybody else since. With an other chuckle, the old actor ex plained: "The ftood laches did not know I was just behind the hedge, ditwlug up the ground for violets." be paused, then added softly, "Har riet loved violets." Because his life experience Is what It l Old Tony think of his story as a play and of life Itself in terms of the theater. Many times I have heard him declaim: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. , . . "Circumstances." the old actor cava, -hllt the acenea; Fate is the stage manager; Mature the direc tor: Ond the ttrodweer: we. the ac tors, enter, play our parts and exit.; The play goes on and on and on. Ami always there are members of the company tandmc In the wings. Our little Village of Orchard Hill. with the First National Bank, the Owl Drug Store, Harriet's house. ttw heme of the Careys and the county Jail, to Old Tony is a stage set. The back drop is a scene of rolling bins with farm nooses aaa fields allowing here and there amtd the woods. Tony house ss well down stage close to the footlights,; as It were at the edge of the vil lage, overlooking the river, the val ley and the wide sweep of country beyond. The Orchard Hill set has been changed since Antonio Latoars first entrance over 10 Tears ago. The simple peace and quiet of the country village where Harriet and Tony played their parts is g now. Modern Improvements have come to Orchard Hill -Rotartes, Li ons, Ki warns, a Chamber of Com merce, an Advertising Club, Boost ers. Whea I remark, with lamen tations, on these changes the old actor says, "Oh, well I the artists of the theater, you know, nave al ways been forced to yield a little to the box office." Manv of the actors who were the stage with Harriet and Tony In those opening scenes have made their final exits. Nor will Old Tony be sorry to make his exit, for he believes, as Pierre Donovan Be lieves, that Harriet Noel, Pierre's mother, is there off stage watting to welcome him and that together he and the woman he loved with such rare devt,non will stand In the wings watching her son as he acts his part in this play wnicn we cau Life. You know who Pierre Donovan is. of course. Perhaps you have seen him on the stage. There are those who say that his name will go dom-n in theatrical history as the greatest actor of his generation. Orchard Hill says that Antonio Latour has wasted his lite in idle ness. Tlie old actor1, when aroused, rays of the villagers, "Clods, dolts 1 They do not know how great a thing It Is to have helped to make an artist like Pierre Donovan. What can those people, In their narrow little commonplace cells, walled In by their stupid materialism, know of the world In which Harriet Noel and I lived the world into which Pierre was bom? Pools! They think tf they grow a good crop of potatoes or cabbages they have done something to brag about! Po tatoes and cabbages bah!" And then the old actor falters the spouting flames subside; the lire becomes a steady enduring glow, and his voice softens rever ently; "Harriet was a great soul the greatest soul that ever gave It self to the stage. What an actress she was I Pierre Donovan Inherited his soul from his mother. Roy Don ovan, Pierre father, naa no sow with which to endow his son. knew that long before Donovan met Harriet, but what could I dor ' Antonio's forefathers were French, and Harriet's ancestors were of the same race. Harriet's father, "Doc" Noel, was a druggist and he and his wife were highly respected In Orchard Hill. 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