Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-30
AM USEME NTS.
Walker Whiteside Appears in Latest
Success, "The Melting Pot.'

Walker Whiteside Appears in Latest
Success, "The Melting Pot"
Marshalltown saw for the first time
last night Mr.. Walker Whiteside in his
latest success, The Melting Pot" by
Israel Zangwiil The audience, which
was of very good proportions consid-
| ering the weather, was INN ensely
pleased, and Mr.. Whiteside and his
company We're accorded the heartiest
kind of applause, including several
curtain calls.
| Zangwill's theme for his peculiar
conception of the play is a combina-
ton of Americanism and religion. He
rortrays the differences in faith in the
4 Jew and the Gentle, and attempts to
/ show that the prosecuted Jew, by in
1 termarriage with the Gentle, will in
4 time become the ideal American. The
Russian playwright touches upon lat
( ter cay history also basing the hatred
\ of his Jewish hero on that hero's loss
| of family in the kishiniff massacre.
| David Quixano, a Russian Jew, and
an artist on the violin, falls in love
with Vera Revendal, a Russian chris
tan and a member of the nobility,
| who has come to America to do settle
ment work
The girl is revolutionist, while
her father, Baron Revendal led the
soldiers in their attack on the Jews in
Kishiniff Naturally when David
whose love is returned by Vera, recog-
nizes the face of her father, which has
haunted him ever since the terrible
night in which his family met DEATH
he cannot reconcile himself to the mar
riage, which is strenuously opposed by
the baron. David has forsaken his own
people to wed his love- but because of
this sea of blood that he finds stands
| between him and Vera, he would sacri-
fee his love. Love, however, triurn phs
in the end.
/ Mr.. Whteside appeared to fine adj
vantage in the role of David and with
out doubt the character is better suited
to his physique and style of acting
than anything in which he has been
seen locally. When Whiteside played
Shakespeare his Stature was against
him in everything he attempted save
his Hamlet. He finally forsook Shake
4 speare for the romantic drama, and
pleased local audiences with both his
When We Are King and 1.-THE Magic
L,
and his style of acting pleasing mel
ancholy as most of his characters APP
( pear Zangwill's hero is youth, and
naturally Whiteside's youthful appear
ailce is in keeping with the character.
4 larger physique, however would not
De out of place even in his David, and
especially in the love scenes with
Vera.
"A more desirable Vera could not have
been pictured than Crystal Herne's in
depreciation of the beautiful character
Miss Hernes emotional work was of A
superior quality, and her voice and
mannerisms were most pleasing. Other
remarkable character studies were
given by Louise Muldener as Frau
Quixano, Henry Vogel, as Herr Pappei-
meister and Henry Bergman as Mendel
Quixano.
Miss Herne, who appears in the lead
ing feminine role, is daughter of
James A. Hearne, author of "Shore
Acres" Miss Herne was with Arnold
Daily last season in '"The Regeneration"
and previous to last season was John
Drew's leading woman.
Il Mr.. Whiteside, who has recently
closed a long run in Chicago, appears
= in Des Moines tonight, and closes mis-