MONDAY. JUNE 1. 19M
PAGE SIX
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM, OREGOH
Dv Harold. Gray
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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. Mrs. Noel died when
Harriet was bom and the child was
raised by an ugly old housekeeper.
feared by every youngster in the
village. Forced xo live too mocn
within herself, the little girl soon
learned that she could trick the
housekeeper or her father Into
granting her almost anything and
so grew up doing much as she
pleased.
She was never a pretty child, as
so many little girls are pretty. Her
face was freckled, her nose strong
ly Inclined to turn tip; she had
large gray -green eyes, a wide mouth.
a broad forehead, and a general
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