Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-05
ODE Theatre.


id Harum, overwhelmingly, horse
trader and story teller PareXcellence
of the last decade, will be given a
chance to meet him personally at the
Illinois this evening where under the
auspices of Charles Frohman he will
step out of the world famouS novel
and recall himself, his sayings and
doings in three act comedy exactly
as he did for nearly full year at the
Garrick theatre, New York, disap-
pointing only those who had known
all along that the novel could not be
reproduced successfully on the stage.
The comedy is at once the latest nov
city and the most assured success in
MIR. Frohman's long list of successes.
and is assured of three or four years
of continuous production.
Joseph William Frankel, press rep
rescntative of Howard Kyle's Ma
than Hale" company, which is to APP
pear at the Illinois theatre Feb. 16.
was in the city yesterday. Mr..
Frankel states il is the original pro-
duction and the only company on the
road. Every inch of the beautiful
stage settings. six i'm all, is part and
parcel of Mr.. kyIe's outfit with
which he has charmed and delighted
thousands upon thousands of people
all the way from England to Puget
Sound and from the Gulf to the
Lakes. Wherever Nathan Hale" has
been given. there appears TO have
awakened new and keener interest in
the young and brilliant schoolmaster
whose services in behalf of his couu-
try are gratefully remembered by
loving patriots who have caused
monuments and statutes TO be erect
ed in his memory. Recently we learn
that noble bronze figure. an ideal
embodiment of all that appeals to the
spiritual religious and moral nature
ofOmanhood. Il work of marvellous
beauty and grandeur conceived and
executed by the eminent sculptor.
William Ordway Partridge. has been
completed and will shortly stand in
the college green at Yale. While
such fitting tributes as these are en-
crossing the attention of Americans,
writer's are coming forward with
great volumes of literature ON the
subject of Nathan Hale. whose
praises are being printed i'm prose and
verse. Charlotte MolnyenN Holloway
and Prof. ii. Il. johnson, two authors
of world wide fame, have just CON
tributed works on the patriot martyr.
1t was not. however. until the Daugh-
tiers of the Revolution erected the
fine heroic statute i'm City Hall park
New York. that sentiment was fully
L
stantial token of respect and veneer
alton for the glorious name of Hale
in the presentation Of a play wherein
is depicted all the romance as well
as patriotism of his character. all
those tender promptings of love and
Sublime attributes of manhood which
Nathan Hale gave to that character.
the peculiar charm which has won en-
during reverence. There can be no
question concerning the influence Mr..
Fitch's great drama will have on the
rising as well as future generations
who have little time to dig into the
dry rccesseS of history. From the
play can be learned all that concerns
the period covering some of the most
vital issues of the revolution, and the
young and odd alike will find i'm il
more than will command attention
from serious point. for the author
has not been at all unmindful re-
garding the theatrical requirements
of certain quality of wholesome
comedy which seems to brighten the
burden of every day cares. Howard
Kyle's portrayal of Nathan Hale is
said to be the acme of carefully
and conscientious studied imperson-
ator ana to the role he gives an in
tcllectual bearing such as is war
ranted by long stage experience and
artistic genius.
Friday evening We arc To- haNc a