The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-23

former friend. Murphy to become Senator. Barker Is his opponent and spends money freely.
 Tn the third act the election comes | best of 1t until Nora, B'arneyfs Trfsn woman friend and Jimmie. boy friend of Blarneyis catch his main he per and put him in "a hole where they pour water on him from hose until they set the papers he has with which to
 throw the election over to Barker
 ID the last act. .Blarney Is occupying summer home on Long Island, where Murphy and his friend Croker, come to find out the truth regarding i iCroker's daughter. Btarney shows where Murphy was deceived revarding Charlie and where Barker had been the man who robbed the safe. some of the money and cheeks havins been re- lowered and he having been seen com ing out of the window of the office lby a witness. The play closes with Blarney inviting the two old friends ta remain for the wedding reeeption he I Is going to give.
 l In addition 10 the story. Mir o'Iara introduces a number of songs which ne has written sspeciat1y for the D ay ana which he sings in voice not often equaiied.
 Interview With warfIeId.
 Success Magazine recently asked David sBelasco for an expression of his views on the problem play and the
 modern drama. He reLlied as follows: The problem play Is played out It was Introduced by Oscar Wilde. whose
 brilliant writings gave 1t basis of popularity. It has lost it's popu ar.ty because it has been run into the ground. There are managers. however who are trying to force 1t on the public. From Shakespeare to the present time. the plays that have best pleased the public have been plays of a romantic ten dercy, in which. character and feeI- ing have been tets by the gauge of moral fortitude, T stage is an in- flexible standard Of form and demands the rigid observance of the rule tn 1t virtue shall triumph over vice But 1t is not practicable to esface vice as a motive of action. In fact. where virtie is not made conflictive with vice. the action becomes insipid. Beaumarchais safd that Tt is not vice., in it's insolenne. {, that makes pay immoral. but lack os lessons in morality On the other hand, harm can besdone If the moral teaching be not Judicious and discreet.
 "A temporary decadense is generally conceded by tIoughfuI writers on fhe drama $ decadeHce is caused by the comm nArcialism of the average thea trical manager. who re7ards the drama as medium of making money A man. arer without artistic purpose and artistic training is as unfit to uphold the standard of the stage. where all the arts should. and do. meet. as a successful shoe merchant would be to conduct literary magazine or a Wall Street broken to preside aR a iudge in coiIrt of law. The natural tendency of the sfnge is to raise the standard of public taste by noble example, of human character and human conduit RUt fha stage has lSrge'St fallen Into the hands of financial specnlators who appesl to the fioatSn9 population ofs Averv iarRe city by sbowseand elawnish performances. Msually popular. however crude. The educated. thinkine peo Yle have largely lost interest in the tNess Ire. so that tthe stage exoeDt in spefiab upoh which intellectual managers formerly could rely"
 A player whose Ideas of personal luxury often went beyond the limita- tIons of his income once applied to Charles B. Hanford for a place in his company. The principal Hanford pro- duction then. as'it is this season. was
 What part do you want" asked Mir
 ~Anything but csssius." was the answer T may have the Iea1 and hungry look just new. but after the season opens up and salary days have been coming around for awhile ] near looking the part"
 'SThe Lson and the Mouse ccrnnanT, which is prosecuting Charles Klein's play throuThout the West, gave per-. foruance the other night in Ogden. Utah. under difficulties of So uniaue "a nature that thev are worth record- ing. They left Raise City, Idaho. on November i7. al S:50 a. m. and did outs. until. n.ne, o'clsek bon the sane night. The curtaI2 enS First act rose at fO:s0 D. ma ardath performance was concluded al 115 a. m. The au- dience had assembled ats o'clock. and as reward for their patience the manager raised the curtain at o o'cieck and had the first act scene set in full vJSvO of the play goers, who were in- teneelv amused and interested in this glimpse of life behind the scenes.
 navjd wa~fieId continues 10 break reco-ds in all cities where he is a7- nearing in "The Music Master,T under selasco's management.
 David Be'asco is ssid to be at work ,r : new rlav for David warf'eld, in which the noted chacter actor WI r-nhabiv. orau the new StuyVeSant Theatre iu New York next September
 
 Preacher would Re Lonesome.
 Ii was at the conclusion of a re- v,vaI service conducted in tent on Td-rektln nike. above washineton lene cermantown. one evening recently that the enthused revivalist before nro- nouncing the benediction said: Now all Of you who want to go to heave9 stord. up." So far as the minister cau'd