Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-26
At THE PnYHOUSES
"The JOY Of living at the Boyd.

Ellen, their daughter.. Miss Amy Jamborn
by Ellen Uncle Richard. .........
r.oni: x: S'' Mr.; WF1Eht Kramer n,In
Norh"rt ne Eose Dupre
Baron Ludwig won voelkerlingk, sec
rotary Of state Orchards step
Prince UslnEen.........MT. Charles Rowan
Baron Won Brachtmann....M Mr.. ]. ii. Greene
Herr Won BerkelwttE Grunenhof 49,.
Holtzmsn,. private secretary. TO Baron
Richard Won Voelkeriingk. ...........
...."""."".....Mr, Harry Dornton
Melxner ..."........ML Julius Royston
Conrad. servant at Count Kelnngbau-
sens......".:;..Mr Forbush Jemison
George, Baron Richards servant. &c.;
Beatrice Stella Campbell, to give her her
baptismal name, captured Omaha last night;
and one almost feels justified in absence Of
a positive denial from the lady herself. In
saying Omaha captured Mra. Campbell. At
any rate, q sympathetic current was estab-
iished between the people on one side Of
the fOotlights aud those on the other such
as is seldom found In a theater. and the
great audience that nlled the Boyd last
evening was treated to one OF the most
magnificent and, in many ways. apparently
spontaneous exhibitions of a great artists
power ever given to the public. It seemed
at times that the actress was entirely car
ried away by her part; that the repression
she has been noted for, the minor chord In
which she expresses the emotions, was for
gotten; the food tide OF her art carried
her on and on, and her expression took the
major strain, rising a crescendo with a
steadily accelerated movement, until the
fortissimo passages svelied in a diapason
OF passion that swept in a torrential rush
over all barriers. In the third. fourth and
fifth acts she ceased to act and lived the
life of Bsata, Countess Won Keliinghausen.
Even In her very, very short address when
she had been called before the curtain for
the third time at the end ofthe third act,
she exhibited very plainlyNthe stress under
which she was laboring. But II was the
stress Of pleasure. a triumph added to her
list of triumphs, and therefore a strain
she could well endure, for in II she was
supported by the full power Of a sympa-
thetic audience.
A serious play, Indeed, is THE Joy Of
Living" suderman has approached the
everlasting question from a new angle, and
has opened a number of additional ques-
lions for debate. undecided points in moral
ethics. While the English writer's, for eX-
ample, touch the topic with e~pigrammatie
brilliance or homilectic heavlness, and the
French say "poufl" and laugh at It, suder-
man. WIN lub mdltST-OI-LdCI QnIeBm OF DIS
race, unsparingly dissects Il; lays It open
in all its ramincations, and submits each
Of the complex emotions involved to a
microscopic examination as well as a chem
ical test. In order that he may determine
the end. 1t is necessary for him to know
the beginning. In The Joy OF Living he
gives US the beginning; but he shows US
no new way out; his ending is that Of all
others who have sought to solve the same
problem. Death. He does not treat the
topic lightly; in all the Eve acts be allows
but three or four cynical speeches, and only
one Of these is from a principal. The
Countess Beata toasts the Joy Of living in
language that is bitter. and a~rraIgns So
ciety with. a half truth; but forgets, as
does everyone when cveFtaken at last, that
II Is the community and not the Individual
that must be considered. The Joy Of living
may be purchased by the few at the high
price Of dishonor. but the price is demanded
by society for the very reason that society's
existence depends upon the toll being ex-
acted. In suderman's behalf It must be
SAID, also, that he doee not paint the sin
in rosy %colors; to Countess Beata and Baron
Richard he allots three years Of hidden love,
and twelve years OF silent dread. awaiting
: the inevitable time OF exposure. The price
was exaeted many lines over from the un-
happy lovers.
Mrs. Campbell interprets a very din
cult role with the intelligent, sympa-
/. thetic methods Of a finished actor. Her
stage presence is all that has been claimed
I for It, grace p~ersonided; yet It lie her voice
I that really wins for her her triumphs. Rich
resonant and musical, under perfect con.
y troll, and possessed OF a peculiar vibrant
Intensity Of tone quality. It seems per-
fectly adapted to its uses, and responds
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q upon It. Her enunciation. even in her i'm.
i FASHIONED passages. is clear and distinct
: and without even an approach at the hys.
terical methods Of other women. she gives
: a most potential force to all her scenes
each with It's artistleally correct value
At first she seems merely acting; later sh,
i seems to be living the part. And all don,
: with such exquisite dizziness Of manner an(
exactness Of method that one loses al
: sight OF the means in the end attained.
The company Is worthy Of the star. /
would be unfair to Except any in the cas-
from the praise that Is due to all for tn,
r excellence OF the performance from frs
to last. Society broke its Lenten bOndag
. last night and appeared at the theater Il
force. The appreciation Of the sudienei
OF the rare hIstrionic treat afforded wa
generously expressed and as generousl,
responded to by the players, who shoWe'
very plainly that IL was their desire L
give the piece In a-mAnner to merit wha
Mrs. Campbell called "a very warm vel
come"
At the matinee this afternoon Arthu
Wing Pinero's play, The Second Mrs
Tanoueray," in which Mrs. Campbell VOL
her FIRST real triumph, will be given, an
this evening "Magda," another of suder
mans pieces. but quite different iron