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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
WheelOck as a Cowboy

Three or four years ago Joseph
wheeiock. jr.. thought that he would
like TO spend year or more IN the
West. He CHANGED to have a friend
who owned a very large ranch in Wy
oming. This friend was a lifelong &C
quaintance OF his father. and IL was
not difficult 20 make arrangements
whereby the young man could stop on
the ranch as long as he desired Up 70
this time Mr.. Wheeiock knew compar-
atiyely little of country life. He tells
the story Of his experience IN the fol-
lowing manner:
II was first introduced 70 the ranch
by being dri'sr over Il in a good stout
buggy behir7 TWO mules. There were
perhaps ffty or seventy-five horses on
the premises. but this did not include
a bunch of bronchos. had never rid
den horseback very much After had
become somewhat familiar with the lay
OF the land and got acquainted with
everybody. I was frequently twitted
about my inexperience with horses. II
was at this point that the proprietor OF
the ranch said that he didn't believe that
had sufficient courage to attempt 20
ride A broncho ! had heard about
bronchos and knew something IN that
way OF their characteristics in Ob1ecttng
10 being ridden.
Il knew I was a tenderfoot and unless
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
Belasco-"Lady Huntworth's Expert
nenC."

Tomorrow morning rehearsals will
commence at the BeIasco Theater for
lady Huntworth's Experiment" the
brilliant comedy of English life by r c.
Carton, which Miss Odette Tyler and
her company are 10 present for the first
time on Tuesday evening, May l. 1t was
Miss Tyler's desire to open her engage
ment on Monday. but in order to do this
she would be compelled 10 distur the
arrangements of the Mask AMI Wig
Club, which is to give its annual enter
tainment at the Belasco on Monday
night. therefore she decided to let the
college boys have everything their own
way.
Lady Huntworth's Experiment VIII
be followed by a succession of PLAYS
varying in character and calling for YER
satility on the part OF the IEayers. VIII
son MelrOse will be the leading man and
r. d MacLean has been specially en-
gagged for the important re in heavier
plays. Mr.. MelrOse is a member Of the
Belasco forces. having. played all the
past season in THE Heart of Mary
land" He was very popular in Pitts
burg when he supported Amelia Bing-
ham there. Fuller Melish is a prime
favorite IN this city He has been lead
ing man for Mansfield all season and
scored a hit throughout the country.
Robert S. Taber, nephew of the late
Robert Taber. is leading juvenile Mr..
Taber has been playing with 1.-THE COL
leSe Widow company. Guy Coombs.
recently with the Madison Square Thea
ter Company in New York. needs no in
PRODUCTION here, because of his stock
work Of several seasons ago. Mrs West
and Ann Butterfield were with Edna
May in The Catch of the Season. " Miss
Butterfield played Miss Mays part at a
moments notice and made a hit. Inez
RUNNER, the ingenue. has been filing
Edna Wallace Hoppers role in .'The
Heart OF Maryland"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
She Saw the Finish.

Mabel Hollins. who is playing her
original part IN His Honor the Mayor. -
this season, is a woman of the South.
with all a Southern woman's love for
the South and its traditions. Born and
bred on a Mississippi plantation. reared
IN luxury, with every advantage of
wealth and culture, Miss Mabel. as she
was known 10 the plantation darkies.
was universally worshiped by them.
and. rs an ardent horsewoman. was
often to be seen riding across the coun-
try or TO hounds on a spirited pony. a
picture TO which every darky dotted
his SLOUGH hat and bowed low. Miss
Mabel was an expert whip and CONNIE
tent judge of all the points of a good
hunter-horse or dog In the course of
time, however, she was sent North TO
finish her education. and her return Wis
It's We're then restricted TO the usual
school holidays. Having graduated
Miss Hollins went upon the stage and
Memphis. Tenn.
A relative on the old plantation walked
into the Kitchen one morning where Miss
Mabefs old nurse. Liza, presided as
cook, and remarked: Aunt Liza, do YOU
know Miss MabeIs gone on the stage
her?"
Aunt Liza was silent a moment. and
then CALCULATED: '.Humphi 1 les knowed
dat chile couldn't keep away from
hosSest'
Another pause. and then from Aunt
Memphis7''
Yes Liza
Wei, where's dat stage going to run.
Miss Mabels on7''
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22

Thievery and debauchery became ram
pant. After a few weeks q hastily con-
structed playhouse threw open it's ioors
70 the relief Of the sorrowing communi-
~. On the day following the opening
the manager was met by the city chief
OF police who congratulated him and
said. Your business last night caused
mine TO fall OF 80 per cent this morning.
THE destiny Of the theater shoEId
not be COMPOUNDED with that Of the
schoolroom. except that kind OF school
room that stands for the enlargement Of
our emotional, ethical. and recreative
faculties The moment the play becomes
didactic and strives 20 instruct its po-
tency ceases.
Drama signifies action and action is
what the public wants. II prefers a
good play but IL is unwilling TO strain
to follow an authors meaning. The
thought must not be too involved, the
plot too intricate There must be clear
ness simplicity. sympathetic appeal
"a moralist Is seldom a playwright.
He is not objective; he is subjective.
We cannot lose ourselves in the char
acters he creates. for we feel him al
our elbow the while. Here is wherein
Shak espeare understood the technique
Of the drama. We are given moral
truths. but in dramatic situation. The
pill Is sugared- The plays the thing
the moral follows
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22

room of the Arlington Hotel, Will be
remembered in the direction OF the
Bertha Galland production of Romeo
and Juliet at the Columbia "a few sea-
sons ago. Mr. Hickman has been a
close student of Shakespeare and the
scenes &c be gwen under his direction
viii be according to the best traditions
OF the stage. The address on the
Shakespeare by Prof. Wilbur, of George
Washington University, following upon
the proposal of a chair OF dramatic art
al the university. will be attended with
considerable interest. The scenes to be
given arc the fight scene from Romeo
and Juliet; Hubert and Prince Arthur
scene from King John, and the forest
scene from AS You Like It" The
performance Will conclude with a sketch
by Richard Harding Davis. entitled
Miss Civilization" published recently
In Scribners Magazine. and produced a
few weeks since By Ethel Barrymore
and her brothers in New York
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
Has the Drama Any Moral Worth ?

recall the performance of a meIodrama
in Chicago. when this element or IL
lusion was so completely maintained
that man leaped over the footlights
and stopped the progress of the play.
The stage represented the Gesoiatc
fields of the frozen Antarctic ocean. A
weak boy crazed and in delirium from
starvation is awaiting the return of his
father who has been vainly seeking nelp.
A brutal sailor comes on, burning with
desire for revenge upon his father. and
seeing the dying I'D is about to wreak
his vengeance upon him. At this juno
ture the suspense had so wrought upon
a spectator IN the gallery that he felt
the time had come TO interfere Swing
ing from the upper box to the lower and
then leaping over the rail. he made for
the villain. He secured a good strange
hold on that persons neck. and said:
1 Hang youi don't touch that boy Where
I come from We give every man a fair
show" The effect on the audience was
electric. and in the demonstration which
followed the man came to his senses.
Here is a dramatic illusion working on
a crude nature. 1t is through Illusion
of like character. though greater IN de-
gree. that higher results can be accom-
9
obtruded; the moral must not be brought
( home by too great a stress OF the au-
thOr's intent This end can never be
Z gained by erudition alone. The whole
must be animated b. the fervor and
I imagination Of the playwright.
Il stage play should never be mis-
\ taken for real life-not actual fact. All
] art that dcceives you into taking it for
nature itself is inferior and compara-
lively worthless. Art is nature seen
4 through a temperament said Emile
lola Matthew Arnold described art as
I a criticism Of life DR.. Adler gave me
( his definition the other day, Art is the
! pa ttern and not so many ellis cut from
\ the fabric of life.
"A charge brought against the thea
ter is that il represents vice. OF course
! IL does. II represents virtue, why not
vice? All people are not paragons OF
virtue.
"An true art is educating and upliEt-
ing. If its character is clean II makes
/ :or good; II its character is unclean Il
makes but brief appeal. II dies OF in
anition and neglect. The public need
not be shamed into nOn-attendance upor
| meretricious play; IL stays away be
! cause exhibitions Of perverted moral:
! are not tolerated IN this country.
/ when the great fire of Chicago ate
UP the business section Of the city 4
| carried away the theater buildings a:
/ well For a period after the catas
| trophe. as is the case in all such public
calamities. crime followed in its wake
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22

got In. in the proper manner, 1 would
not be in good standing with the folks
on the place and would soon become the
subject OF ridicuIe. Whereupon I boldly
asserted that could ride any brOncho
IN the neighborhood had no sooner
said this than one was saddled and
brought 10 the barn door He looked
gentle when others rode him, but the
animal seemed 10 know that I was an
interloper and exhibited an unusual
amount Of intelligence TO substantiate.
as II were. the prediction made by the
owner Of the ranch. that he didn't be-
Heve 1 could ride the broncho.
III was UP TO me TO make good II
could. and I did the best could had
no sooner mounted the animal than 1
went, what seemed TO me. thirty feet in
the air. but. of course. IL wasn't that
far. He had thrown me over his head.
and had landed on my feet remounc-
ed. and he made a dart through a gate
into large field. There was something
doing sure enough. When about $50
yards from the starting point. he again
threw me. made another attempt with
a similar result. In less than two hours
he had thrown me fourteen times. but
IN all the rnix-up had never lost my
hold on the bride rein. II is needless TO
say I was pretty sore. and about used
up. but was in disgrace for the next
two days I knew Z was being very
much talked about, and whenever I
CHANGED to go where others were con-
gregated. the moment I appeared all
conversation ceased This convinced me
that they had been talking about me-
1T was now a question whether I
could remain longer on the ranch, u
would / have 10 seek outdoor life else
where The question with me was
whether 1 could or could not. bust the
pride been more flagrantly assaulted L
other trial. and so declared myself
Whether the bronchO had become SYM
pathetic or not. I have never been able
10 know, though at least he made a
pretext at showing he did not want 10
associate with me
1T was about I o'clock IN the after
noon when 1 first got astride him he
did not throw me 2 single time, but as
] think Of IL now. II seems that / must
Rave ridden 30 miles, and when we re-
turned TO the barn he was the most
docile bronchO that 1 ever saw. and be-
fore ! left Wyoming I had made the ac-
quaintance OF a hundred OF more Of
them. For the next four days I didn' :
20 out Of the house ! took all my meals
IN my room. but I had regained my lost
prestige, and from that time on I was IN
good standing with all the men on the
place, and Il may be that had the re-
spect OF the bronchos."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
EmerSOn'S Offer Accepted.

Mr.. Edwin Emerson. whose offer to
donate the gross proceeds of his lecture
tonight 10 the San Francisco relief fund,
has received the following Letter from
Secretary Taft:
Washington, April 90 1906.
My Dear Sir: i beg TO acknowledge the
receipt Of the telegram which Mr.. Tan
nehill just showed me. In which YOU Of
fer the proceeds of your lecture. to be
given at the New National Theater on
Sunday evening. to the Red Cross So
ciety, for the use of the San Francisco
sufferers. In reply ! beg TO thank you
for your kindness in so doing. l do not
expect to be in the city on Sunday even
ing. and shall not therefore, be able 70
attend the meeting. With best wishes,
believe me, very sincerely yours,
VIM. II. TAFT,
President American Red Cross Society.
Mr. Edwin Emerson, New National The
alter, Washington. D. C
Manager Rapley for the National and
Manager Tannehill for Mr. Emerson
have rendered their services to the good
cause and the use of the theater and
lights is included in Mr.. Rapley's con-
tribution.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
Columbia-Luckett and Standing Stock
Company.
Company.

The supplementary season at the CO.
lumbia Theater viii present for the first
time on any stage new comedy drama
from the pen of J. Hartley Manners. au-
thor of the seasons dramatic success,
'Zira.' The title given the new play Is
THE IndiscretiOn of truth" Messrs-
Luckett and Standing have gathered to-
gether company Of splendid actors in
Guiding in its list such well known play
ers as Clara Morris. Dorothy Hammond
Jeffries Lewis. Louise Galloway, Johi.
Mason, Hall MacAllister, Malco.l Dun
can, George CASTOR, Guy Standing, and
others. The new play is said TO be a
powerful drama and gives this wonder
full cast OF players ample opportunity
for the display of their dramatic ability
Notwithstanding the expense connected
with this enterprise, the usual summer
scale OF prices will prevail. me scenic
and light effects are all to be brought
from New York. as the play. II success
ful- Is 10 be the opening attraction next
season at a well known Broadway thea
ter
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
VaudeYille'S InrOad Into the
Legitimate.

Why did Katie Barry go into vaude-
Vile?
For pure devilment. she says, and
she ought 10 know
But what is pure devilment'' int II
should drive a successful artistic from
the legitimate 10 two-a-day, including
Sundays?
That's matter of tempera ment, and
what would art be without tempera-
ment? In the case Of Miss Barry it
means a certain uncontrollab bic desire
TO do just as she jolly well pleases, un-
controlled by managerial ukase, unham-
Dered by managerial within
Or does temperament mean more
money? That may be a sordid sug-
sestion, but how many Of our brightest
and hest have gone the vaudeville route
or no other reason than TO swell their
eekly incomes from two figures TO
three and live happily ever afterward?
There was a Chevalier. for example.
Ten pounds a week as a respectable If
not brilliant legitimate actor Goes to
the halls with his coster speciality. and
first thing his Mortified friends know
he's driving in his own brougham from
all TO all and making more money
than mule can drag down hill
There are examples nearer home, of
course, but one thinks Of Chevalier in
this connection because he is English,
and Miss Barry is English also.
Or rather she was English She
seems to be pretty firmly rooted II. New
York now. Il like New York better
than London she says, ''because-well
because the sun shines heie and like
sunshine
It's easy enough TO understand that
as you talk to Katie Barry There are
temperaments that are at their best in
the fog They fatten on it. so to say,
like the lush turf of England. and grow
green and greener all the time and
more messy. That isn't Katie Barry
She has the quick. nervous American
temperament, and II is plain that she
would languish without the sun. The
electric atmosphere of this continent.
which some of her more stolid fellow
countrymen find unendurabl is fine tc
her. You can see that
But the sun IS not enough. There IS
plenty OF sunshine out West. and Miss
Barry doesn't like the West. AZ like
New York is the way she puts IL
because there is sunshine there. and
life" AiiO
or course there Is life. Real life. such
as no other city. East or West affords
heaI vibrant, palpitatIng life and
Miss Barry was attuned to that sort OF
ullng the moment she was born. PerhapS
she is more Irish than English after all
Her name seems 10 say so.
But where there is life thara IS also
action, and action means hustle Miss
Barry has realized that since she went
INTO vaudeville. The pace is swift
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22

Has the drama any moral worth? 1t is
an old question. but a favorite one with
many. showing the interest that it in
cites in thinking people. Otis Skinner
is an actor who strongly holds to the
view that there Is moral worth in TIE
drama and at a recent meeting Of t1e
Ethical Culture Society. IN New York.
gave many forcible arguments in favor
of HIS contention. The remarks then
made by the actor he has since supple
mented by additional reasons for his be-
lief and they are not only interesting
but worthy of attention.
IF the manner OF the theater is 10
be regarded as art at ALL" saws Mr..
Skinner. ''it must be of benehcent in
fluence. for all art is uplifting. With
cut ii we should go down the byways of
existence for the most part and know
little but the sordid. Think OF life
without a song without a picture. a
poem. a beautiful building. a statue,
We cannot imagine 1t, If we contem-
plate the conditions that civilization has
imposed upon US.
I'VE can go back to nature we can
revel in the beauty OF fields and noun
taIns. the grace and color of flowers
and the songs Of birds. but this privilege
is not for US who are herded in districts
Of asphalt pavements and skyscrapers-
Something must bring the joy of life &C
US and that something is art
The poet. LOngfellow. once said tc
Mary Anderson. the actress. that 10 keep
ones Imagination and beauty sense alive
one should every day read a beautiful
poem. see a beautiful picture. and listen
TO a beautiful piece Of music. Had he
said that 10 one not a member of the
theatrical craft. he might have added
to his list the occasional witnessing of a
beautiful play.
''All art is the expression Of an emo
ton and that of the theater is the most
emotional of arts. man sometimes
leaves his brains at home when he en-
tiers a theater, but he always brings his
emotions and sympathies. A dramatist
NAV make a mistake OF a thousand
years in his chronology: he may cause
Cleopatra TO be wooed by Slegfried and
we forgive him. but il he fails in his
appeal to our emotions and our senses
he has committed an objectionable er-
ror. 1t is when We respond to this
sensuous cry that art is fulfilling It's
mission.
ILLUSION Is the first handmaiden Of
Theatre art. II is her magic wand that
lifts US out OF our wOrk-a-day lives. J
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
Academy-'Lured From Home"

For real scenic views, surprises. SEN
sations, and thrills. 'Lured From
Home" which is booked at the Acade-
my this week, is said to be one of the
big winners of this season. This play
is by Hal Reid and is produced by A.
H. Woods The play recounts expe-
riences that are told and retold in
everyday life Love, pursuit OF wealth
Villainy. and crime make up one of the
most interesting narratives ever con-
ceived by any playwright. The clever
aggregation Of actors is headed by Will
lis Granger. In one scene of the pIay
Billy Boyd. the jockey swings through
the air on the arm Of a monster derrick
and catches little Helen lust as she is
about to be dashed to pieces on the
jagged rocks below.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
National Tcnight-Edwin Emerson's
Lecture.
Lecture.

Graphic views of the Russian-Japanese
war that give the observer a clear idea
OF the conflict in Manchuria accompany
the lecture to be given by Edwin Emer-
son. at the New National Theater to-
night. Mr. Emerson saw the war under
a variety Of conditions. and he knows
how to tell his story vividly. uictur-
esquely, and accurately. 1t was Emerson
who ran the blockade of japanese ships
70 get an interview for his newspaper
IL America from General Stoessei. the
Russian cOmmandant.
When Emerson was ordered away from
the city he and Llndpainter. a photog-
rapher, planned TO meet and did so after
the war. exchanging negatives.
Emerson viewed the war as an expert
He had seen service IN Cuba, where he
served as a correspondent and also as a
member Of Colonel ROOSevelt's Rough
Riders He was also in the Venezuelan
Colombian war, fighting as a colonel of
volunteers. For gallantry in action he
was decorated with the Order OF Bolivar
by President Castro.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
Chase's-Dan McAvoy and Captain
Bloom
Bloom.

Dan McAvOy with his Fifth avenue
girls, headed by Miss George Kelly. in
menu OF laughable nonsense. is tho
leading attraction of the Chase hin ot
polite vaudeville for the week beginning
April 30 Captain Bloom with his in.er.
esting demonstrations of wireless teIee,
raph.y, Augusta Close in an brigham
musical monologUe. Emil Hook. Jane
Elton and company, in merry comedy.
the Apollo Theater. Nurnberg German.
Gus Bruno. facial artist and dialect
comedian. and Deltoreli and GIissando
the bill. w
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
Williams and Walker in 4Abyssinia.n

Williams and Walker, the famous
colored comedians who have gained en-
viable regulations on both sides OF the
Atlantic, will be seen at Convention
Hall for three nights and a matinee,
beginning Monday, April go. in their
newest and best vehicle called a must
cal comedy and entitled "Abyssinia." II
is entirely the work Of coiored people.
Is acted entirely by colored cast and
was staged by a cOlored man. II is
under the management Of Melville 3.
Raymond. the producer Of Buster
BTOWn, whose name is a guarantee OF
the best that money and brains can
provide II has been declared in New
ork, where TIE piece had a .ong and
successful run AT the Majestic Theater
that 1t is the best musical piece Of the
season.
OF Bert Williams the critics there
said that he had no peer black OF white
and Of Walker the praises were equally
unanimous For pure comedy these two
negroes stand out alone in a class by
themselves
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
Society in Tableaux al the Willard.

TableauX for the benefit Of St Johns
O-Ohanage will be given in the New
Willard Hotel the evening of April %
The principal feature of the entertain
ment will be a series of pictures called
the Magic Book" showing the passions
of men and scenes to which these pas
sions give rise.
The committee in charge includes
Mrs. Charles Bell. Mrs. Harlow. Mrs.
Fremont Smith, and Mrs. Addison. The
parts Will be taken by nearly seventy
of the younger members of Washington
society. The tableauX will be both
artistic and correct in detail.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
BelascO-PrincetOn Triangle Club.

On Saturday evening. May 5. at the
Belasco Theater. for one performance
only. the famous Princeton Triangle
Club will be seen in a musical comedy,
"Tabasco-Land. written by students,
performed by students. managed by stu
dents. and accompanied by a student
orchestra
The Triangle Club is one Of the most
unique organizations among college dra-
matte associations. Since 1891 the Gus
tom Of presenting plays written entirely
by undergraduates has been strictly OBJ
served. In that year 'POcahOntas, or
the Gentle Savage" written by James
Barnes of the class of 81. was success
fully produced. In 1893 another success
was achieved In "A musical comedy en-
titled The Honorable Julius Caesar -
written by Booth Harrington class of
IS. Last year the play produced was
The Pretenders." IL made a distinct
MT Wherever presented, and received eS-
ceptionally favorable press comments.