Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-19
LOUIS JAMES AND |BSEN
Eavoritc Actor Says He Plays his
Part rs He, Feels lt-Wifc
More Enthusiastic.


Tonight salt Laliers who have seen
Louis james in almost every Shakes
pearian role from Lear to Henry, are
to have an opportunity of seeing nm
in an entirely new field. that OF an
Ibsen creation which but rev sea
sons ago was taxing the powers Oh
the great Mansfield 10 their limit.
lis lbsen essentially mysterious
was question asked Mi, James W
his room in the Kenyon hotel TINS
morning, do you find 1T haid 10
throw about him the air, OF mystery
and romatic aioofness that scenes ~,
the quality Mansfield most so .,,ss Nv
You mustn't confuse me with my
old friend MIR. Ward" was the m
mediate answer. He was the scholaf
cf his plays. whose interest ran "
hguring out their niceties of thought.
With me / act them as II feel them,
that is all l know. Peer sryht "
me is nothing { not natural. cam
see ANYTHING in the character that
| isn't excessively natural, and l. try 70
| nIay il that way. or mystic aiool-
ness YOU won't find u trace in my
work. 49,
| Mrs. James, who was present, mas
not shared the veteran shakespe III
was more enthusiastic over the he"
| role TO her husband she SAID;
Don't say there's nothing new IN
| the role she urged. tits all new. US
na,uralness is its newness You Know
wa have played in some places "hNi 'i
MIR. Mansfield previously had peeL'
! ana that always the people iou ih'l
vonr naturaluess the one VARIATION
rom The play as Mansfield produced
Mrs. James spsnt the whole summer,
after she and her husband came NV
the possession of the Mansfield li'a,'u-
script and stage properties. aiIailsiis
the costumes for her cast, then pei'i :
brought together and in personally su7
perintending the rehearshls. haNs
. studied the play" she said. "stuulsu !,
I from TOP 10 bottom and IEhont mo
that lbsen is vague or mysterious. Cnis
10 those who don't take time to ioilo"
y the progress of his thought from ~, tht
| beginning does lle so appear. z ee
largely, in which the loyalty Of q seru
inc love is put to a test of 80 years
4 waiting. Perhaps the girls don't WA
that way now. but that's what the pa!
is--thea life story of a man from ~
youth to his old age, with the tSllipta
tons and sins that come into u, ail'
tho finding at the end what is OF mos
value. The symboliGal characters ar
so common i'll the play as those oil req
life. There is the old woman Il
green, symbolizing lust; the ugly brat
. typical of consequences and penalties
the Trolls standing for ones sins in'
. faults. You know the story-Peer Gym
meets as a young man a girl ne Whoi1
loves, young, true, spiritual, AhseiS'
) at her apparent repulse, he steals ava.
!, bride from wedding feast whom II
takes IN n mountain cave. But Their
he finds that love has not come VII
him. ana he casts her out. pinins 10
: the vision of his ideal love he hat
passed BY Falling asleep In his noun
tain retreat the green woman comes
and the Trolls, and Il voice, symboiiz
= ing his conscience. When the Wona
who was his ideal comes to his iift
his heart is heavy with nisueeds, an
) he commands her to wait unit
t he /, has carried his burden alon
4 to {, point where he can lay II down /
honor After that he looms UP as
: yacht owner in Morocco. with wsait
: to satate king. In an instant itttt
/ thirty years OF devotion on me pa
8 ! OF his former love, his wealth is sWe,
E from him, and then BUNDLED and broh
: Ell he turns back to her as he turhG
: away in his youth, when he did not VI
g derstanti the call of soul companionshi
j made to him."
Peer Gynt" comes TO SAT- Lag, axe, ~ Z,
New orleans. via the route from II
;, southwest From here 1t goes 10 l.c
: Angeles and then up the coast TO VIC
toria. from which point 1t goes east
: Baltimore, the city In which 1t was &c
vertised to appear with Richard Man
field in the title role just before II
final illness came on
Louis James Is an exponent OF u
u branch of the drama which has mo
|. severely suffered from tho inroads
S vaudeville upon the legitimate stag
~ know it." he said, when asked II u
y drama felt the vaudeville pressure,
II know they catch the crowds these day
: Most of my friends. in fact. Are in
: vaudeville It's the vogue. Al
IS Frederick Warde--ile came down
is Dallas to shake hands with me as
q passed through there on this tour
Warde's gone into the Chautauaua le
i ture field. Vaudeville has wiped mn
II strclsy of the map, and what It "
70 do to the legitimate drama cam
J. of course predict. Shakespeare,
think, has been played beyond the Il
" terest OF his audiences. and know
"a only two actors who are trying to Tor
= q hearing for. him now Both are g
ceI)ent players, but--well. how ala Ma
/; tell draw here in Salt Lake.
- Mrs James Is authority for the sta'
r. ment that Peer Gynt will be the COZ
- panS's sole production not only ioi
:, the rest of this season. but for ne
g season as we'll, it being their hope
~ ~ open in Boston with the play next Sc
al tember