The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-22

of me or my work has pleased be as
much as this tribute. I'm for the
clean play first, last and all theh time,
and what's more important, / know
that the public is too The temporary
prosperity that has come to certain
managers who have this season pre-
scented plays which-oh, well what's
the use of naming them--every one
knows that there are two or three
salacious comedies now before the pub
lie, which have won a certain meas
ure of financial success. This this sue
cess is one of the most ephemeral kind
is as sure as death and taxes. No
play that is not wholesome can have
any real value and without real value
there can be no success.
The day is past when the theatre
going public will go to the theatre
Just because it Is open. 1t is no long
err the show business" but the show
me business" The public insists up
on knowing what it is going to pay it's
good money for.
! hate to talk about myself, but
I've had the most phenomenal sue
cess in a season of failures. I am per-
fectly sure there is reason for it,
People know that I've always given
them perfectly clean entertainments.
My motto is clean plays for clean
people
So we are all happy-the public be-
cause 1t is getting clean wholesome fun
and because I'm able to give ii to
them.
It's a remarkable thing how seldom
the theatre going public as whole
goes wrong. It's verdict is nearly al
ways the true one. All this talk about
plays being over the heads Of audiences
Is rot, pure and simple; good plays
never fail, and bad plays nearly all
ways come to grief, and that's about
all there is to 1t. Certainly the great
amusement loving public is a fine
healthy, clean minded public and will
have nothing to do with the vile, un-
clean plays. The small element which
cares for that sort Of thing gives such
pieces a fictitious popularity which
does not misiead any one.
: William Faversham will present
Charles Frederic Nirdlinger's great
play The World and His Wife, at the
Fargo operahouse, Monday evening.
i Scandal and its far reaching effect on
the innocent is the theme of the play.
The story deals with the household of
/ Don Julian, in Madrid Don Julian,
a rich banker, lives In luxury with
charming wife, fedora, and a part of
his household there is Don Ernesto.
loyal, true friend of both of them. But
the gossips OF Madrid are unable to
understand, and there has been a good
deal Of unpleasant gable The three
/ interested parties talk the situation
| over frankly. They laugh at il all: but
Ernesto has seen that in the face OF
the gossip the only thing for him TO
do is to leave Madrid. He has packed
up and is going, but the tragedy OF 1t
all has moved too swiftly. When Err
negto goes out to purchase his tickets
the insult Is hurled OF him in a public
cafe, by notorious bully. one OF the
best swordsmen In Spain. Ernesto
knocks him down, and duel Is ar
ranged. But In the meantime, fedora
\ has unfortunately heard that her hus-
band and Ernesto have quarreIed, and
she comes In her anxiety to Ernesto,s
room. Julian considers that 1t is his
place to defend his wifes honor he
takes Ernesto's place and Is wounded
| He comes to Ernestos room, and there
| fnds his wife fedora might have
remained in hiding, but as her husband
Falls into chair with b cry OF pain,
she comes out Of an ante-room. SEE
vero and the dest all see her. and to