Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-11-23
War and Peace.

suppose thai you read in The Trib-
une last week about the elaborate nav
al review in New York waters. / don't
want to be a '%'repeater,' and l shan't
say a word about the spectacle itself.
But 1T is too hard for me to refrain
from letting Aucassin have his fling,
although-yOur your benefit as We'll as
my OWL shall cut it short.
one afternoon a day or two before
the review took place. Aucassin and
l took a walk up to the Hudson. He
led me there. ostensibly for no rea-
motive. We walked from Ninety-sixth
street to One hundred and Thirty-fifth
street. and ell! the way Aucassin kept
me near the river bank. The fleet was
then lying at anchor in the Hudson.
beginning below our starting point and
continuing further up than we vent.
The vessels We saw We're sufficient.
however,. to serve the purpose my
friend had in view.
III you are bent upon a story this
round. patient reader. you will be dis
appointed. / am not at this moment in
a story telling mood; 1 can try only
to report what happened.
Well. but on this promenade moth
ing really happened. Aucassin talked
a good deal. as is his habit. but I've
quite forgotten what he aid. He spoke
mainly. 1 believe, about d~readnoughts.
So' APSSi' XXI dllu SuCI
like instruments of destruction as 1
have no knowledge of, and I rather
fancy that my ingenious companion
enjoyed himself at my expense. j
claimed to be adept in naval ter
minolcgy, of which fact Aucassin is
well aware.
On arriving at Grants tomb I
stopped and Aucassin with me. 1 stood
reading over again. for the Tooth time
perhaps. the simple inscription over
the entrance to the masoleum. And
thus ! delivered myself to Aucassin:
derful. beautiful thing for the greatest
warrior the world has aver known to
have said: What a fitting epitaph.
What a."
But my charming friend Aucassin
was engrossed in admiration of an ugly
warship lying at anchor below.
About Actors and Acting.
=. H. sothern n Julia Marlowe
(Mrs. Sothern), who arrived here from
England q fortnight ago, opened a
four weeks engagement at the old
Manhattan opera house on Monday
evening. Their repertory for the cur
LAS You Like It." "Twelfth Night"
1.-THE Tanning Of the shrew."
Mr.. Sothern inc Miss Marlowe are
today the foremost actors of Shake
speare. In their chosen field they are
tndtsputable leaders,. Irving and Mans
field are dead. Ellen Terry has become
a lecturer. and Tree n Mantell were
never even In h race. After the Soth-
ems visit to London some five years
ago. the brilliant critic and poet, Ar
thur Symons. wrote of their acting:
nothing on h same level, no such
honesty and capacity of art, no such
worthy results"
For one l can help wishing that
they would not limit themselves to
Shakespeare. Both have in the past
ic drama. What a JOY it would be to
see the brilliant couple in Ibsen,
Hauptmann, ~Strindberg, Brieux, Pr
nero.
1t would he better. I hold, not to
have Shakespeare played at all than
to neglect the modern drama as Soth-
ern and Marlowe do. 1t Is the drama
OF today. the drama of contemporary
life, that has the deepest meaning for
the most of us. This Is why Mrs.
Fiske alone Is of more importance to
stage than Mr.. Sothern and Miss
Marlowe combined: this season she is
going to produce three new plays. And
Shakespeare as a playwright IL today
little more than a curiosity. I could
prove this to you. statistically and 9TH
erwise, but lacking space I must ask
you now to take my word for 1t.
The leading performers in the see.
nically elaborate production OF Robert
Kitchens dramatization Of his own
novel. THE Garden Of Allah,' now be-
ing played at the Century theater. are
Mary Mannering and Lewis Waller, the
English romantic actor. Mary Ander-
o de Navarro assisted In the stage
management Of this production. She
has returned to her home In England.
THE Drama Players" OF Chicago.
have been performing at the Lyric thee