Arizona republican., 1910-05-05
.fsmERAlOA PLEASED
 THE MOST CRITICAL
4 Highly Entertaining Performance at
 the Arizona School of Music.

1 X lot of make believe men making love
 to lot of real girls and doing the best that could be expected of them
 under the circumstances--the girls were naturally in a receptive mood, of
 course. and lending all the encourage
 meDt possible. but. oh. the difference, ! Women are born to be made love to-
 aEd somehow trousers do not fully add the inspiration that leads to a quick
 perception of the psychological mo- ' nent. or furnish the muscle that Is re- 1 qurcd for a real love hug.
 1 IL was all about EsmersIda, who. 1 with her father and mother and lot
 of her friends held forth in the Arizona School Of Music last night. It was fine, ! of course, even after all the criticism ! that an entertainment lays itself open 1 to when people are forced to assume
 unnatural parts. The rendition was l splendid and all present enjoyed it fully. IL is only regretted that 8 larger
 audience had not assembled. as it sure ly would had it understood, but Phoe- ! nix people seldom understand until it 1 is too late. The entertainment was given D. tlie Ipuoiis or Caroline Reed Thompson, teacher c! eln.'ution in the Arizona ScGool of Music, and only members of the class participated. There are few gentlemen in the class. so il was decided to eliminate them entirely and give the masculine parts to the ladies best suited for their pre- sentation. Incidentally. it is announced that the little company Of players will appear in Glendale Saturday evening under the auspices of the Glendale Nomans' club, the proceeds to be given to the Glendale city park.
 Rcverting 10 last nights entertain
 ment. it was in all seriousness well pre- scnted and reflects great credit on
 Miss Thompson and the school as well as on the participants. who gave evi dcnce of persistent and painstalling study. Whatever of criticism is ven tured should be laid to the physical fact that few women can be found with masculine voices, and there are few men in the world who are not glad of that fact. Those who last night ss- sumed masculine parts did their utmost
 to lower and deepen their tones, but they were still women, and with, SAY. two or three of them on the stage in company with one or two who were playing women's parts, one Was easily
 perpleXed. He naturally followed tone to all the women characters first. and the dialogue would often be well disposed of before he discovered which man was talking.
 man was talking. This. of course, only in the beginning, before the visitor got acquainted with the cast
 If should be said. however. in all honor and truthfulncss. that the lines were almost perfectly committed and
 were clearly and distinctly spoken.
 which is saving lot for people unused
 10 the stage. And in point Of 'atti-
 tudes." the ladies who were playing
 natural parts were entirely at case, while those who were playing mascu- line parts handled the situations much better than one would suspect.
 Father and Mother Rogers were fine. Mrs. Forbes, as mother, was well nigh perfect. not only in attire. but in her conception of the role and its execu-
 tion. Mrs. krebs. as the old
 man. had a makeup that could moi he
 criticised. In fact. it was hard to be-
 lieve from the first that she was any
 thing except q hen-peckcd old man. ex-
 cept in the first act, when the voice
 seemed bit too falsetto. But later. when it became apparent just how
 submissive and abused he was, il
 seemed much more fitting.
 Miss Fayette Mckee was assigned
 io the title role which proved to bc
 very natural one for q young lady oi
 her age and talents and her delin-
 cation was very effective. the woman's
 soul of her conquering at last. over
 inc mlchinations of her ambitious and
 misguided mother.
 Mrs. Elizabeth SipeS and Miss
 Katherine McNichol as Kate and Nora.
 sisters of the young Partisan artist
 did yell. Miss McNichol having q part
 that was in It's nature bcwitcliing. giy
 ing opportunities that were made tine
 most of and in the most realistic and
 human way imagipablc.
 Mrs. otis r.. Young clcvcrIy fulfilled a contract that might well have cm- barrasscd more experienced players for she not only had to overcome the handicap of fcmiuiniiy once. but in two instances as she appeared in two n,asculinc roles: first as George Drew the spcculator who buys the old farm thinking it an iron mine and later as Jack Desmond. an artist of Paris. in whose apartments some of the im- portant scenes of the drama are enacted. If the writer dared to eX- press an-opinion he would say the lat ter roll was the best portrayed. being thc best suited for a feminine player. It might also be said that there are few men players even among profes- sionals who seem perfectly at home in the part of half-mincr. half capitalist. for there is usually too much or too little makeup and too much or too little swa-ger. lt is no small credit to say Mrs. Young made an average spcculator but a better artist
 Probably of all the ladies Miss Al tha Perry who appeared as Dave liar dy the Carolina lover of EsmeraIda was best adapted for a masculine part by reason of her lower voice and in her manner and makeup enacted well the hcro's fate in the premises made and provided by Mfr. Burnett the author of the lines.
 Estabrook a man of leisure was Miss 1 Alberta Pederson who appears at fre- quent intervals throughout the story. 1 accompanyinc Drey. on his initial visit |