Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-07
At the Theaters

Eva Lang and company In a three-act
drama, by David Belasco and Richard
ton OF o. d. Woodward The cast:
kearney Of Washington, D. C..,.....;.;.
....t.,................... Theodore Friebus
Don Luis De La Torpe Spark of Mon
- teFey OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. GreydOn OK
Padre Antonio, superior OF the mission
northumberland. Won Weithoff
Lieutenant Larkin Of the state militia.
Kinkaid, Of Beaver, land jumper..........
Rigsby ......:......,,...,..,...... Phil Kupp
TTu a, "a mnieteer ..'......... 'Ralph NANNY
! omasso, old Castro servant. Oliver Pugh
Ortega, "a .yRquero. ~!...s. William T. Hayes
rico, water carrier. ,,.............N. walters
FRA Mateo, a Frenehman. Clarence Austin
- gdruener ..,.... ...s,..-...sc John morgan
AT the dance
Paspuai ................ Charles f., Grazier
oento ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Leo Riley
Estudilla ..................... Roy Barnes
I'll Tocealro, master Of the dance. 49,.
....;.......... ................W William Harris
Sonora Donna Petrona Castro. read 81
her family ...,....,.... henrietta Naders
Sonora Kenton, her daughter; ...-.;,.;
Juanita, granddaughter OF Sonora Castro
called La Rosasdel Rancho. .."...
Her friends
Trinidad ...,. Ethel Valentine
6eatrz ................,... Mayme Williams
CarlOtta ..,................-.. Judith Harle
Guadeloupe Juanlta's duenna ......:..;
Sonora Alcantra, Trinidad's duenna.....
...,.'...... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Mary KEGS
Asrada, Indian woman......... Eula Howard
Judging by the response OF yesterdays
audiences, The Rose of the Rancho" is
the kind of play audiences most care for.
The Woodward company is not inclined to
complain of TIE reception of either Peter
Pan" or SHAM but the color and action,
the romance and tension of the Belasco-
Tully rnelodrama appeal to practically
everyone. including those over whose heads
whiz the subtle satire of Mr. Barrie and
even the points in the clever dialogue of
sham"
Although the play as a whole may not
have the absolute merit Of either OF It's
predecessors, it affords Miss Lang a. role
in which she is seen to great advantage.
The early California girl daughter, Of an
American father and a Spanish mother and
inheriting qualities from each, is not "a
shallow character. but delightfuIly complex
a role played with keen insight by Miss
Lang Part of her charm for her audience
lies in the scenes wherein she alternately
flaunts and encourages her American lover
so that he. as it were, thinks one minute
they are great pals and the next wonders
II they've ever met. The spectacle of q
pretty girl flirting desperately on the stage
is ever most divertIng
Mr.. Friebus is the stalwart honest
Grinso, whose foresight saves the Castro
rancho from the landgrabbers The part
is that of a typical romantic drama hero
Mr.. Frlebus tones down somewhat It's sac
charine quality and makes the man hu
manly possible.
MI. lngraham has come into his owl
again. He is the Kinkaid OF the cast dis
possessor under shabby technicality of ole
Spanish families. When played here before
the part was given as that of a rather con
ventional stage Yankee with the manner
isms pertaining to the stage New Eng
lander and to him only is all tn,
world. Kinkaid as Mr. y Ingraham in
terprets him is not really devoid o
lower class American characteristics bu
the result is no longer an impossible carl
cature. Mr. Van Wlethoff, new recruit I,
the company is the padre. He is excellen
in the role save for a habit of slight,
over-emphasizing his points Miss Hudson
is cast as Juanitas implacable mother,
part which 1t must be delightful to pla,
! IL only for the reason that the woman re
mains sternly obdurate clear to the end.
! A thinking part in the play is given T.
child of few years, daughter of Mr. In
graham. BY curious coincidence this in
FAINT thus making her stage debut was bor
in California on land once owned By
real Castro family.
/ The stage settings Of the play are hand
some and artistic in the extreme. Il wa
not better mounted In New York