The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-03-23

ing the voices of the young ladies'
gives every indication that within .
few years not a few of these girls will
be numbered among the great oper-
attic stars of the country. Cosgrove
& Lang, the managers, have assem-
bled a clever staff of competent as
sistants and have provided for this
years tour the best scenic, electrical
and costume equipment hat o
can buy. Everything is complete.
This nay be the last tour of the
west that the Juvenile Bostonians will
make for some years. Their success
last season in the middle west attract
ed the attention of the Shuberts and
other New York managers who made
fiattering inducements to Cosgrove &
Lang for an eastern invasion. Con-
sidering the very few western Or
CARNATIONS that make an eastern sue
cess this offer is one that establishes
the merit and the public favor Of the
organization.
The Juvenile Bostonians are under
lined at the Fargo operahouse for next
Tuesday evening, appearing in that
tuneful operetta of the Balkans, The
Dream Girl. The sale of seats opens
Monday
The Barrier, which appears at the
Fargo operahouse on March 80, is a
strong and human drama of the Alas
ka that so few know-not the mining,
trapping or trading regions, but the
sunny, summary farming country, of
which Rex Beach is the only chron-
icler. The story is based on the love
between a white man and a supposedly
Indian-tainted girl, and in it figure
an army officer, a villain and his ac-
complete of the human type, a fine
comedy character, and several others
to make up the story as MI. Beach Sd
masterfully has told it in his novel.
Naturally it requires a strong force
adequately to interpret so virile a tale,
and this organization has to meet these
requirements-which it does, as is
proved by its long stay at the New
Amsterdam theatre, New York, and
its success On it's present t~ransconti-
mental tour. Heading it are NorvaI
McGregor, as John Gale, Grace John
son, especially selected to interpret
Necie, the lovely heroine; Max Steinle,
well and ~fayorably known as a come
dian, as No Greek Lee; Lee Miller US
Captain Bruuel, the hero, and Matte
Hyde as Alluna, with other characters
in like capable hands. The New York
effects, scenery and costumes are used
throughout.
1t would seem su~perfluous to re-
hearse here the story of The Barrier,
fer everyone has read Mr.. Beach's
very excellent novel. Suffice it to say
it Is the only real tale of the last west;
the frontier now forever gone 1t
breathes the freedom of the Alaskan
plains; it brims with the virility of
the life of that wild region, and yet it
has the humanness of real men and
women who show their genuine quail
tiles under circumstances such as
these. 1t vas written while Mr.. Beach
was full Of the memories of six years
under Arctic skies, when his vigor of
the early twenties was at it's best, and
before any other plans and plots had
entered his brain to confuse or vitiate
his splendid quality. In dramatizing
it, he has the expert service Of Eugene
Presbery, and the result is a play as
atmospheric and virile as is the book.
The combination Of novel, drama and
company is ideal.
Though there are many who will
deny the assertion, the fact remains