Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-23

ARGARET AHGIIN and her
RR company. who are just com.
i MH pletlng a tour remarkable both
k'r,,.-,, for the dramatic achievement
tsSyf3H)H and for the range Of travel,
49, had recently while in southern
1no.a..a and Kentucky-or rather in
attempting to cross from Indiana into
Kentucky-a series OF experiences which
even this much Travelled company pro-
nounced "most extraordinary" and which
quite overshadowed all those wonderful
adventures OF Alice in Wonderland"
Even while the events were pelting
down upon them, and the elements taunt-
ing them, the participants suspected that
they were assisting in the presentation OF
some comic masterpieoe-unrehears
rather than witnessing, as they were. ma
lures idea Of jest. so perfect was the
sequence of ironic happenings.
Miss Angln and her com. any IL must
be remembered TO catch tue cauclde o.
nature. have Travelled literally about the
y. onder points of this country, and en-
joyed delightfully."- we'll ordered trip.
Aguratively speaking. Miss Anglin had
penetrated the fair bourne OF achieve
ment reached by only the few OF the
worlds greatest artists; in presenting the
Greek tragedy. "AHtigone" at the Greek
theatcr in Berkeley Cal, last June, she
scaled the real Olympic heights. and
added new and loftier summit of
achievement to the history of the drama
in America. The oXcelhng beauty OF the
production given on the California hills
was and u.s. for the wonder seems to
linger, reflected IN the hesitating. awe
touched manner IN which all who wit
messed the performance try TO tell Of its
Fpell The classic tragedy received a truly
hfe-givlng touch and so gripped the hearts
OF the 60OO moderns who sat out there
under the roof OF the eternal theater. thai
they find words too puny to tell OF what
they saw: and felt. And they speak. these
people who We're there, Of the ''Antgone'
as though it was the Greek heroine her
self come back to llfe, so vividly was she
portrayed and SO poignantN was her sor-
row voiced by her personifier.
II Is this achievement whose splendid
spell reaches even the reader Of the re-
viewers pen pictures, ana from a tour
which included other trumphs, that Miss
Anglin and her company then, journeyec
20 experience the irreverent pranks Of the
impish forces of nature.
Then, too. you should know that wnen
a star in the great solar system of these
United States moves about the orbit pre-
scribed by the booking deiues. every pro-
vision Is made that the travel may be as
comfortable as possible. and also that
chance delays may not mean the missing
OF engagements and the consequent dis
appointment Of audiences. Special cars as
comfortable as the car shops OF the rail-
roads In the district can supply administer
70 the comfort OF the star and her com
puny; special trains. when emergencies call
for them carry the players to the waiting
city. Manager Gallagher-and good man
ager must be infinitely more man OF
emergency, as you shall see, than is an
army officer In a campaign-had taken
every precaution, studied trains and con-
nection and made a schedule which should
hold as little Inconvenience or discomfort
as possible for his star and her company
The story OF which the foregoing is the
long preamble, should start with a picture
OF a beautiful. summary night in LeXing
ton. Ky. where the inhabitants OF the
quaint cid city nocked 10 the theater and
expressed a great appreciation OF the
Quainmess OF the Ola Chester people and
the charm OF Helena Richie" 1t should
tell also. that In Evansville, Ind, which
was the next city visited by the company
there was more appreciation from the
audience. But the players came out frou
the theater 10 find nature. weeping, and
this Was a Bat depressing Moreover
Evansville has a way OF taking life leis
urely. and this has so~affected the hote
servants that every guest In the hote
must also be 'leisurely''-Or leave town
The rain which the company felt upoT
leaving the theater continued through th'
hlght-the Inhabitants said Il had continued
Tor days and days the some unbroken. dis