Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-30
At the Theaters
.sTAe Orphan" at the Boyd.

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WOLF Trachtenberg..........."...Mr. Hfrsh
rIaeie, MS wite...--....-Mrs- E1nKelstein
Vladimir, their son-..........Nr. schoengold
Karolina, their daughter. Mrs. S~choengold
Mark kOrnweitz. .............Mr. Simchowitz
note Shtreichel...-........-..Mr- S~choenholz
Chasie, his daughter....-..-.Mme. Lipzin
The soul of a girl was mirrored forth by
Nine. Kenny Lipxin last night. a girl
against whom unfortunate circumstance of
birth. poor choice Of a husband and the
i~initless malice OF his family conspired
with baneful result. a tragic ending was
Inevitable and was felt to be inevitable
from the beginning OF the drama until the
minute when the girl exiled from her home
drinks poison.
Comedy relief Is afforded In many Of the
lines scattered through the play, but for
those who lacked OF knowledge Of Yiddish
the grim development Of plot stood forth
the more stsrkly because they missed the
point in these cases.
Mime. Llpzin herself. a woman nearer 80
than 10. had been seen the night previous
as an elderly woman. AS a girl OF Is she
made old th-eater-goers think Of Maggie
Mitchell playing "Fanchon'' when she had
passed the three score mark. Her chance
for giriishness came chiefly in the first
act. during which her father brings her to
the house of Trachtenbery and there leaves
her. Untl near the close of this act she
Is a rompins. gawky. hoydenish girl. But
sorrow shakes her when her father rises
TO depart. and as memories OF her dead
mother add to her emotion she cries pite-
ously. More notwithstanding woe than she
depicted IL not often seen. though the emo
ton Is relatively mild to that at the close
OF the third act and through the fourth.
II. So -.,aaIv frr- nnur
on. Vladimir. the son and heir Of the
Trachtenberg steals a bracelet. Chasie,
who knows his guilt. is accused but keeps
silence though tortured by Nine. Trachten-
berg and her daughter to make her con-
fess. Her silence awakens vladimir's love
which the girl returns and they run away
and are wed.
Their married life is about as happy as
might be expected. when the husband Il
a weak and dissipated character. unable to
earn a cent and without aid from angered
parents. The latter come to bring about
a separation. In the second act when the
girl was tortured to make her confess the
theft. the physical suffering inflicted
seemed brutal enough 10 make the least
sympathetic spectator feel badly. Yet this
was not nearly 50 moving as the mental
anguish which mounted to a heart rending
climax as Chaste - forced TO
and to ~aeGuiesce IN separation from her
husband and baby.
Too much had been asked Of her. She
had promised more than might be borne
and a self-inflicted death even II wrong
was logical. There were some interesting
studies IN hysteriA given during the prog
ress OF the drama by Nine. Lipzin, but her
acting in the final scene was a treatise in
pathological psychology.
The support seemed better than in
"Mireie Effros-' Vladimir. Chasie's hus-
band. was exceIlently played by Mr..
schoengold and Mrs. Ffnkelstein was eff
feetive as his mother. OF the other Mr..
Schoenholtz as the girls father merits
mention Some OF the minor characters
stood IN need OF considerable prompting
and the voice from the wings vas oc-
casionally disiIlusioning. The stage craft
shown In the scene where the mother ana
daughter torture ChRsie was ingeniouA.
The scene occurs behind a laundry table
and the twisting OF the girls arms Is not
seen. but left to the imagination. It Is
at least sufficiently narrowing thus.