The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-07

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City of New York when he was an
undergraduate there, and made some
Of its most successful productions.
An ancient fogey named William
Hazlitt always exasperating because
| always right, once wrote of art in gen.
eral, 1.-The greater the number of
| judges, the less capable must they be
of judging, for the addition to the num-
| Der of good ones will always be small.
while the multitude of bad ones is end
| less" No one has ever had the hardi
hood to intimate that the saying had
reference to the judges of dramatic
art
| Henri Bernstein's first play, The
| Thief" has been the subject of special
study at Harvard as an example of an
essentially vital play. That is, a
play which is true to life and human
nature independent of it's atmosphere
or scene. 1.-The Thief" is as true III
Oregon as in Paris where it was writ
| ten, and the audience of the west is
equally appreciative of it as the French
| audience
! The author of the great me!odrama
1.-THE Fires of Fate" as a medical
practitioner, in London was known as
Dr. Coyle. AS Conan Doyle he entered
literature and became famous as the
creator of Sherlock Holmes. AS Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle he made his ap-
still other fields for him to succeed in,
and since he is an Englishman, other
| titles that he may assume. He may
yet write poetry as Lord Doyle.
| Leaders of orchestra in fashionable
| New York restaurants and of bands
that play at balls are authority for the
statement that the Dollar Princess
Waltz" is demanded seven times as
often as any other piece of music being
played this winter. At a recent private
ball in Buffalo, for which a New York
orchestra was imported. all the music
played was from this tuneful musical
comedy which has scored SO marvellous
a success at the Knickerbocker theater
Miss Billie Burke is playing the last
weeks of what has proved a nearly two
years run of Love Watches" She
says that she is locking forward with
anticipation to the new Vaughan
play, Mrs. Dot in which she is next
to appear, yet she contemplates leav-
ing Love Watches with genuine
sorrow for she has become attached to
it, Moreover, it has been the vehicle Of
her greatest success thus far, and she
| feels that she owes it debt of graft
tude 1t seems to her little cruel to
send it to the storehouse and shut it
up in the dust and dark.
Otis SINNERS talented leading lady,
Miss Izetta Jewel, who is supporting
him in his new play, Your Humble
Servant" is what is known as a find"
Skinner had no idea that there was any
such person in eXistence-while at
II o'clock he had resolved to secure
her services as leading lady Miss
Jewel was playing in a little stock com.
pany in Portland, Oregon, in The
Little Minister" and Mr.. Skinner,
happening to drop into the performance
was struck by her talen and charm and
at once offered her an engagement
The gilded harpoon shot by Sir A.
w. Pinero straight through all of his
the shabbiness, the hypocrisy and
meannesses of England's middle class
1t was so in His House In Order
| it is so in Mid Ocean," now being
rehearsed by Miss Ethel Barrymore
Why? Because in the days of his APP
premiership at the playwright's craft,
when Pnero hungered for encourage
ment just as bitterly as he did for cakes
and ale, these same middle English
would have none of him-cOmedy or
drama. The littlest show of kindly
! encOura cement that might have made
a great Optimist was withheld, and
there quickly developed merciless sa-
tirist. They have long noses and Ing
| memories-these English Portuguese