Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-05
A BREEZY WESTERN PLAY.
The Cow Puncher One of the Best
Portrayals of Life on the Cattle
Range

Hight house last night owing to the
fact that last week was rather pro-
Ilix of shows winding up with "The
Yankee Regent" with its bevy Of
lpretty girls Saturday night, and then
MONDAY is not good show night
anyway. However those who at
tended were all repaid, for the show
was good, in some ways more than
Igood. There was considerable gun
play but IL was good gun play, and
a much closer and better presentation
of cowboy character and life on the
range than ninety-nlne out of hun
dred plays that deal with the cattle
ranch life. Mr.. Ramsdell as Tom
Lawton made an excellent major
domo, taking the part naturally and
without the bombast and exaggera-
tion that is the invariable presenta.
tion OF the character as the eastern
actor creates It. IL is a manly par.
and Mr.. Ramsdell presents II In a
lmasterfully manly way. The sup
port was excellent. Bert Boza gave
a realistic picture OF the privileged
Oldest "buccaroo," and Robert Rles
as a devIl-may-care yougster with an
Irish brogue and a touch OF blarney
made an excellent quality and as
great quantity of love to Slatterly
Ann, and Bessie Llye. who played the
part furnished abundant excuse for |
doing so. IL was a dlficult role that |
fell to VIM. F. Pfarr, who as Corlos
Mendosa, Mexican. presented the
audience about as perfect a specimen
OF low down "greaser" as ives ever
seen outside OF New Mexico.
The Inhabitants of Arizona are
not noted for being over-nlce or
superlatively sensitive. but while
there are thousands OF nice people
in New Mexico, Mr.. Pfarr show
ed exactly the kind OF citizen the
people OF Arizona objected to being
taken into statehood with. Those ]
who saw Mr.. Pfarr's Mendosa, will
appreciate the dellcacy of Arizona's
appreciation of the greaser tribe.
Miss Gertrude Ritohie as Geraldine
Graham, a doctor. had an exceeding.
ly difiioult part. but she caught tho
audience with her first speech, when
she drifted on the scene as the boys,
in order TO frighten the woman doc
tor" were about to hang one OF their
number. She suggested that "if they
would place the knot under their
subjects left ear he would hang
more comfortably"
In the second act, taking part In /,
the cowboy entertainment she gave
the audience a. decided treat by the
prettiest bit of whistling imaginable.
Her notes were as clear and perfect
as a piceolo, and the audience COM
PEELED her TO respond to an encore,
and tried for second one, before II
gave up. She gave THE Message OF
the Violets" for an encore, aud it's
a dead certainty that II Miss Ritehls
ever has Ito whistle for her supper"
she will not go hungry to bed. "The
Cow-Puncher" is a popular priced
play. and a popular play; and any
one who has ever lived among the
greasers, will willingly put up the
price of admission 10 Sc ca blamed
bad one and therefore from a theat
rieal standpoint phenomenally good
one, come to an appropriate end. II
might be added, and should be that
as Lutchia Cordova, Ethel Rossland
depicted the "greaseress" perfectly.
The Cow-Punoher" is all right.
klinger Grand
There was a fair sized audience at