The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-19
AT THE AUDITORIUM
The Engagement of David warfleld.

David Belasco win present for an engagement of one performance at the Auditorium on Saturday, November 20, David Warield in The Music Master the tendel comedy drama in which he achieved his greatest fame. The distinguished actor has not ap peared here in ."The Music Master" His atlztie triumph in this play has been so great, and the popular element of appeal so many, that tho New York public demanded five con. secutive seasons of this unique and human drama. Only for a few months was the long and unprecedented met. r0poliian engagement interrupted as a brief tour was made of a few of the largest cities of the country.
 Entonr, as well as in New York, MT. Warfeld broke an records in the his. tcry of the American stage.
 The Music Master is a comedy drama in three acts, written by Chas. Klein and perfected and 'humanized' by David Belesco, who, of course, made the production and added the many fine atmospheric end poetie touches Writers who think the phrase heart interest" too trite and homely, will describe the fundamental appeal of the play in other words, but heart interest is what they mean and hesrit interest is exDctly what the key note of "The Music Master'' is.
 The story involves the primary and tenderesf emotiorIs of man. The pas sion for home and the wistfuI love fer a child who has passed out of reaeh. The music master is in the rera0n of Herr yon Barwig, a culti v9aed German of the most refined type. who. in Leipsic. is conductor of 2 prcmiuent orchestra. compcser of dis incticn and 8 man of social posi-. ton. His home life is happy. but his love is divided between his family. a wife and dauehter-and his art.
 One night he returns home after a Triumphant performance for the first time of new symphony he has writ. fen and turning for the final triumphs. fhe loving rlaudits of his wife, he finds instead 8 shattered home. broken life-his wife has fled with their baby girl with a false friend to America. He fellows in search. The play opens with this much pf his life's story known. The musician and cul- fured gentleman is seen in his studio ar apology fer a home. in the poor. est quarters in New York.
 Sixteen years of his life have gone in hopeless, heaEt breaking search. They comprise a chapter of his life filled with deprivation, humiliations and suffering in body and spirit. He IS reduced p3.fably in his musical pres tlge, for he is forced to teach the neighboring poor-who seldom pay and to play the violin at night in a dime museum for a pittance.
 But all this suffering for a love that "vaunteth not itself" has sweet ened his disrc,;ithm. and he becomes philosopher of the heart and mind The story is strong and human. but it Is unfolded by the gentle, beautiful ants of Warfield and BeIasco, like the openin of tender petals of a delicate flower.
 To minnteiy follow the search of the gentle, philcsophie old man who con. tinues to brighten his own. as well as others dark path bv the acts and words of love- would be unfair to tFnse who have not seen the play.
 The production is the same that was seen in New York. and the com pany almost identical Miss Marie Rates happily remembered for her deliehtful comedy with MT. Wlarfeld in "The Auctioneer" still plays she lovalle "Mfs. Houston" the landlady.