Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30

~ on from the community and the
4 atmosphere is left to the prac-
tically undisputed tenancy of the
grin germ The I<ipling verses whose
forceful rhythm has been as much an al
lurement to the adolescent cynic who
quotes poetry as certain stanzas from the
Rubaiyat prove to the more sentimentally
inclined were introduced in 1.-The Dawn
Of n Tomorrow and also in ~ Fool
There Was" The result was an impress
sion that vampires differ: that they re-
spond perhaps 10 the laws of heredlty,
environment and natural selection, not
10 mention compensation and supply and
demand Instead OF being weird ire
sponsble creatures, they are distinguish
cd by varying characteristics which de-
velop in response to conditions and are
to a degree susceptible of orderly CLASH
fication The vampires who fitted
through The Dawn of Tomorrow
were small bat-like creatures, who disap-
peared with the dawn and were easily
shooed away at any time. The one in
~ Fool There Was is mysterious and
ara. terrifying and monstrous, whose at
tributes i. those of the pteroda ctyl,
must be largely matters OF imagination.
.'-The Dawn of Tomorrow is a proof
of tic potency of melodrama when it is
well acted. Miss Eleanor Robson has
received so many sincere tributes of ad-
miraton for her art an actress that
comment merely multiplies itself in the
same strain. She is one of the few play
ers who combine marked personal charm
with extraordinary polish of method. The
play is called "a play of cheerfulness'-
which it conspicuously is not. 1t con-
tains a wholesome. helpful sermon split
up into a series of speeches delivered by
the principal character but these
speeches do not invite popular interest
SO much as the more or less familiar
situations and climaxes developed around
q series of characters drawn with viv-
illness worthy of Dickens himself MIR.
Beasco's favorite situation. that of the
heroine who secretes lover and stands
off his pursuers with her woman's wit,
is the essential element of the play.
Glad is sort of refined and elevated
Mark Tapley. whose optimism is almost
desperate in its intensity and requires
series of events very remote from ord
nary experience for its vindcation. The
cheer.uIness a thoughtful auditor might
find in an outline OF practical methods to
ameliorate conditions of pitiful degrade
ton is not forthcoming. The situation
in Appleblossom court is left precisely
as it was at first revealed, despite the
determination of the characters for
whom il has been the scene of rescues
from suicide and imprisonment 10 apply
thei: lives to its regeneration The play
has three acts. and even an authors en-
thusiasm could hardly imagine a fourth
showing the slum cleaned up morally
and physically. Yet the example of
Glad is pleasure and an inspiration.
She is a personality interesting because
exceptional
The vampires in 1.-The Dawn of To-
morrow" fit through the action incident
ally as assistant jewellers to a high-born
villain without whom no melodrama il
complete. In "A Fool There Was the
vampire occupies a commanding position.
She is a creature of fantastic unreaity,
AIRED wrath seeming to symbolic every
temptation which lures men from honest
happiness. The character is uncanny in
its absence of human motive. 1t is in
spircd by neither mercenary greed. desire
for vengeance nor covetousness of affec-
ton To consider the vampire a human
character rather than an categorical fig
ure who moves through the play some
thing as THE Devil" moved through the
drama thus entitled would be a fanati-
cal arraignment of feminine influence. 1t
would express only the crude philosophy
which blames the woman for everything
that goes wrong. This is, perhaps. per-
manent masculine tendency. Only a
chronological barrier prevented Adam
from reciting THE Vampire to Eve
when the angel with the flaming sword
turned them out of the garden. But, like
most of our primal impulses. this tenden-
cy is both inartistic and illogical. Hav-
ing accepted the vampire of the play as a
pei sonitication and not parsonage, the
work becomes powerful in its appeal to
interest a revelation of fearful things at
which the finer feelings may rebel, but
which reason and remembrance refuse
to dismiss.
The leading feminine role in "A Fool
There Was brings a new dramatic figure
to the attention of Washington audiences.
MIR billiard was well known. though never
before distinguished for work of such
consistent high-kcyed seriousness. His
stE4y of some of the phases OF the phys
zeal lapse that results from dissipation
is nothing less than scientific in its faith
fulness. Mrs. Henderson, SO far as local
theatric interest is concerned, is a dis
coVery. She is one Of those rare figures
an emotional actress in the true sense of
the term. Her effects are attained by
temperamental force and not by physical
demonstration. Her role is a most trying
one, full of delicate psychology as well
as tense dramatic feeling, and the fact
that she fills it so capably gives her right
10 rank among the few actresses whose
work makes extensive demand on both
nerve force and brain power.
PHILANDER JOHNSON.
EM.ARkABLH MAkE-UP.-Ceorg
NASH. who plays the dominating role In
Augustus Thomas new play The
Harvest Moon" discloses a remarks Die
makeup. The personal appearance Of
Monsieur Favin, the distinguished old
Frcuchman in The Harvest Moon is a
composite of three celebrated French
judges of the present day Mr.. Nash
went to Paris last summer for the sole
purpose OF studying the makeup for the
part. He found IL in the front row of
judges of the high court that sit in the
Paais de Justice. The mustache the
red ribbon of the Legion of Honor and
the costume were all easy to reproduce
but the thick iron-gray hair was neces-
sary TO give reality to the characterize.
ton, and for that reason the wigmaker
had an arduous and important task