The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-08-03

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been closed for the past seven weeks,
it is but the darkness preceding the
dawn Of what promises to develop into
the e~ffulgence OF a big dramatic sea-
son, a little slow In commencing per-
haps, but by Sept. l Mgr. G. p Walk
er's plans will have been matured and
some of the finest attractions, dramatic
and musical, to be seen on the Amer
lean stage will be found among the
bookings OF the Fargo operahouse.
From q gorgeous Ruedelapaixian
gown, with it's rare applique and point
lace, to a cheap, limiting calico dress.
This is the ~sartorial Transformation
Miss Margaret Ellington has passed
through from The Thief to Kindling.
From an a~ristocratic drawing room,
with it's air of wealth and opulent ease,
to a dingy room in a squalid east side
New York tenement, with it's paucity
of rude furniture and its confined and
unhealthy atmosphere.
This is the radical geographical
change from Henri Bernstein's social
drama to Charles Kenyon's tragic
comedy OF the sIuns.
From the polished repartee OF So
ciety's most cultured members, with
it's nuanc of infection and its inn
peccable grammar, to the illiteral
speech Of the submerged tenth.
This is the conversational metamor-
pflosis which takes place between the
last act Of Miss nlington's last play,
The Thief, and her present one, Kind
ling.
Indeed it is a long call in every way
from the ~aristocratic social drama to
the struggles surrounding the charac-
ters in Kindling.
The very appeals Of the two dramas
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The cat-Iike and INSCRIPTIONS love of
woman for a man, which Is the basis
of Bernstein's play, gives way in Kind
ling to that tender and more profound
yet just as OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
mother love.
Marie Louise voysin and Maggie
Schultz represent the two eternal and
opposing types Of womanhood. There
is no thought of Maggie's part to be-
gile and please her husband at what
ever cost. Heine is her man and she
belongs to Heine. That geometr1cal
relationship known as the eternal trt-
angle rarely intrudes upon the prim-
tive serenity Of slum marriages, such
as hers, There r few soul ~yearntngs
below the dead line, where Maggie
moves and has her being. The sub
merged members OF her social set are
homogeneous through necessity. They
have neither time nor opportunity to
make love to spouses not their own.
1t is a crude monogamy, but 1t saves
| complications and worry.
Marie Louise Voysin, in The Thief,
was afraid always she would lose her
husbands love. And 1t was in order
to ward against any such turn of her
marital tide that she Joined the ranks
of the light fingered gentry. Maggie's
troubles, however, grow out of an en-
tirely different cause. The n great
overwhelming desire Of her nature is
to give birth to a strong, healthy
child. 1t is the a~ctuating force of her
life, and when she finds that such a
thing is impossible under the condi-
tons of her environment, she becomes
patheticaly desperate. It is her pitiful
struggles which form the foundation OF
this great play.
Miss Ellington will be seen at the
Fargo o~perahouse on wednesday even
ing, Aug. Il.
Most of the thrills to be enjoyed
while viewing Of1cer 666, the melo-
dramatic farce that Conan q Harris
will present here the coming season,
are ~traceable to the several police and
cracksmen characters introduced dur
ing the three acts of this exciting play.
We may outgrow our Uncle Toms
Cabin habit, and tire Of trotting along
the tear trail with the heroine in East
Lynne, but the mystery suggested in
a play built around q battle of wits
between a crook and the police force
furnishes an appeal that few of US
can resist.