The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22
WARDE HAS CALL.
Veteran Tragedian viii Return
to the Stage.
Appear in Shakespearian Relies
Next Fall.
LECTURES In TOPEKA.
Appeared at Chautanqua This
Afternoon.
Refuses to Admit He Is Tired
of Platform.
LECTURES IN TOPEKA.

Frederick Warde, veteran of the
Shakespearian stage, said in Topeka to-
day that he will return to the drama
after SIX years spent upon the Chautau-
qua platform. Mr.. Warde will open
the season in Norfolk, Va, in October,
then will proceed to the southern states
playing in ''Timon of Athens.
The call has been too strong to re-
sist.' he said. Il want TO finish my
assembly work and take a short vaca-
ton. after which rehearsals will begin
in September. I am no longer young,
you know, and the strain of Chautau-
qua work makes my vacation much
needed
What are your impressions of the
Chautauqua work." he was asked, the
questioner meaning as regarded his
PERSONA, work
Mr.. Warde launched into rapid reci-
tai of it's benefits, the quality of the
assembly to bring into closer touch with
political world, the masses who other
wise could nor obtain the knowledge of
their personality, and the broadening
circle thus made assimilative-
But, of your impressions of it as re-
CARDS your own work?'' the questioner
made more plain his interrogation.
"Oh,' the veteran actor drew himself
up Enthusiastically, 81 don't care to
say and he drew his lips together
after the fashion of a wise man Of
old
Then he relaxed.
Don't think for a minute he said,
that the Chautauqua work is so big
as the drama. though it is gratifying.
even astonishing. and of course en-
couraging, how interested in the
drama are those who go to the Chau-
tauquas.
There is a varying difference in the
drama and the Chautauqua that gives
the latter its satisfaction he con-
tinued. "In the Chautauqua one comes
in personal touch with his audience,
he gets TO know them and they to
know him.
ION the stage always there is line
between one and his audience. 1t is
the line of the footlights. And then.
ones impersonation. There is mot
that personal touch"
call of stage seemed TO show itself on
the features drawn in a manner char
acteristic of the veteran actor.
who would think that it has been
thirty-four years since I first visited
Topeka ?" he Intercepted.
Quickly he followed his question
with the statement that he first came
here in 1876, playing Mare Antony in
Julius Caesar. He then was accom-
panied by E. L. Davenport and Law
renee Barrett. two of the actors who
have made the ShakeSpearian stage
what it has stood for and been recog-
nized as in the dramatic world
In 1879 he returned to Topeka, sup
porting John Mccullough. Since that
time his visits have been frequent. I'M
til the last six years. The last time he
was here was with Louis James in
The Tempest
Mr.. Warde then launched into a
general conversation He discussed the
opportunities of the west, as against
the stability of the east, adding that
when the states of f6a mid had
grown in age theirs would become a
standing like that of the old Vir-
ginia colonies, and the line of con-
trast would draw closer and closer to-
gether, fading in the end.
in that WISE he continued. cit