Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-13
"HEIDELBERG"IS
ABLY REVIVED
BELASC0 STOCK COMPANY IS
SEEN IN GERMAN DRAMA
Miss Magrane Plays Well in a Role
Ideally Suited to Her Tempera-
notwithstanding Vaudeville
Bill at Los Angeles

"Old Heidelberg" a drama in five acts, by
Wilhelm Meyer Forster, as played by the
Relasco stock company Tuesday evening
Oct. Il, 1909.
Karl Heinrich, hereditary prince of
Sachsen Harrisburg, of the palace at
Harrisburg ................ Lewis $. stone
Staats Minister Won Haughk .........
.................. william p. Freeman
HoGmarshall Freiherr Won Passarge
Kammerherr Won Breitenberg ..........,
..................... Harry Andrews
Kammerherr Baron Won Netting :.....
...,........... ................ STANLEY TWIST
DIR. Juttuer, tutor of Karl Heinrich.
Observation-Disclosures. james X. Applebee
Lutz, valet TO Karl Heinrich Frank f. Camp
SchOlerman, lackey ........ Charles Giblyn
CLAM, lackey. y.................. Fred Hamer
Reuter-, lackey. y.-............. John j. Cook
Graf DetIey Won Asterberg, student of
the corps "Saxonia". Richard Vivian
Carl Biz, student of the corps "saxonia"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Charles Ruggles
Kurt Englebrecht, student of the corps
''saXonia" .............. Ralph Russell
"enz s,B Won Bsnsin student of the corps P;,,tou
'SaXOnia' ....... Elmer Clifton
Won Reinecke, of the corps "saxonia"
................. Clarence NOight
Won WeddeT, student of the corps "saxO-
st.,dS BOrussia tdant :, ti o Charles hGE, Dwyer
Neumann, student of the corps 'Rhenan-
Eckhardt, student of the corps wal
Winkelman student of the corps West
phalia" "...................... GOf stein
OF the inn at Heidelberg
Ruder the innkeeper. ...... William Harris
KellermRnn, his waiter ...... Howard Scott
Frau Ruder, Ruder's wife. ..............
............... Miss Adele Harrington
Frau DorfeI, his aunt. Miss Ida Lewis
Kathle, his niece ...... Miss That's Magrane
BY w. HERBERT BLAKE
The tragedy of royalty which dis
covers itself human and yet is debar-
red from human life by the barriers
of caste and crown; the tragedy of
duty which lends a shade of reason
to the sacrifice, and the tragedy of
youth suddenly stunned into age; this
is the three fold appeal of "Old Held
elberg," which is being elaborately
and ably revived by the Belasco stock
company this week.
A prince becomes a student for a
few short months after twenty years
of the artificial and cramping atmo-
sphere of court life. Then, on a sud-
den summons, he returns to take up
the reins of the government, leaving
love and friendship and happiness be-
hind. In the last act he goes back
to Heidelberg, the fair and famous,
and his journey is a long mockery of
the days that were. His old associ-
ates now hail him as a monarch, not
a comrade. Only the girl he loved,
and must renounce, has not forgot
ten the man in the ruler. And it is
the man, not the ruler, who gives her
up for good and all, and wends his
weary way back to the city of palaces
and punctilious lackeys, a toy of the
state no less than its sovereign.
Despite a robust American conviction
that the sacrifice at bottom, is a hol-
low one, one feels that it's results may
yet be cleansing and ennobling, as is
the case in all true tragedy. A great
breath of freedom has been let into the
musty halls of an aged dynasty Old
Heidelberg has bred a prince, who has
won his title by claiming the right to
suffer, by yielding the thing he most
desired, and yielding it blindly and Bit
terly, against every instinct of his ma
ture. For the woman the future is less
alluring. She has but a memory thar
stings and burns, and rare story to
tell the grandchildren at her>knee when
she has settled down to a reminiscent
old age with her Franz in Austria. 1t
is beautiful and romantic, of course,
but it cannot quell the ache in ones
throat that it should be so.
The play Is acted coherently and I'M
pressively in its principal roles. Ever
at his best in a romantic part Mr.
Stone blends boyish dignity and the
austere democracy of the German stu
dent with excellent effect. He let's us
see the change in the prince from act
to act, and at the climax achieves an
effect Of simple, poignant pat1os. HIS