The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-05
DELINEATES
JAP CHARACTER
WALKER WHlTEslDE, IN GREAT
PRODUCTION, THE TYPHooN,
WILL APPEAR AT A, C. NEXT
WEEk-PLAT IS DELlNEATIoN
OF JAPANESE CHARACTER.

Said Walker Whiteside, who comes
terview: shakespeare tutored me in
Tokeramo in The Typhoon when as q
boy Of II, | was playing Hamlet, I
was preparing for Tokeramo's strug-
giles with himself. / was learning
my Desdainona writhed beneath a
~suffocattng pillow. When as Romeo
I babe Juliet good -night' on her bal
cony, I was preparing for my Toker-
amos turning from the tender arms
of his Illona to his task, his inexora-
BILE toll for Japan, with the words, Il
Iona, l must work. My Claude Mel
notte was aiding me even then to Gre
ate Tokeramo, and SO was Richard
greater degree than any other, was
Richelieu."
Continuing, Mr.. Whitesida said,
please do not misunderstood me.
This was not because | consider In
my retrospect that ] was a marvellous
Hamlet, or a great Melnotte, or a
peerless Romeo, Othello, Richard III,
or a Richelieu, but rather because, in
the deliniation Of each of these char
acters. l gained experience in the fun
damental passions and cultivated
traits of human nature. These expert
enoes finally converged through The
Melting Pot via The Magic Melody
into Tokeramo. When The Typhoon
came to me my lamps were trimmed
to illuminate the Japanese, for l had
absorbed sufficient of the subtle
knowledge Of the rae to be able to re-
fleet fol- others, what in it's time had
been mirrored or my own powers of
| observation"
A Japanese gentleman frequently
has eyebrows that grow in the form of
an arch. 1t has seemed to me- that a
genuine high caste Japanese always
has his brows arched against the COM
mon things Of life. A Japanese is very
| exacting in his requirements Of the
woman to whom hes gives his heart
n n is very much devoted to duty,
One must realize that a Tokeramo who
would become enamored of q BAEftn
woman Of the type of Illona, must have
| yielded first when in one of thet rare
moments of weakness that attack even
the strongest of. men. That he would
strive to keep his love to himself as
much as possible is also a character
istic Of the race. His RACES, too, would
be infrequent. My time of waiting be-
fore I succeeded in observing g. Japan
csc of high birth in the grasp of anger
was very long. However, my oppor-
tunity came at last. A friend of mine
had q Japanese servant whom he aft
erWard discovered was the agent of the
Nipponese secret service. All one sum
mer he cooked for my friend for $40 a
month, this being the period when his
studies at the university could not be
pursued. One hot July morning, I'M
expected company descended upon my
friends bungalow. and we all climbed
to the roof, making it an observatory
for the panorama which stretched
away from the hill upon which the
house was built.
by chance we caught a glimpse in
to the kitchen below US. We were just
in time to view the advent Of our
esteemed Japanese cook, just as the
family cat sprang upon the table and
began to feast upon the chicken he
had been trusting for the luncheon.
"The Jap reached for the cat. She
was q wild thing, and backed off the
table with her feet still in the chick
| ems breast bone. AS he struck at her,
she rolled off the table. carrying with
her the fowl, which fell into a pail OF
paint. ~ ~
"The combination was too much for
the Jap. Never before Or since have
/ seen wrath like that on a human
face. 1t was orange-red-rage, fed ON
centuries of suppression. J. did not
begrudge the loss Of my share Of the
luncheon, for l had had a priceless
insight into Japanese character"
During the past two years Walker
! Whiteside has developed the role of
/ a masterpiece of acting. His coming
next week should call forth legions OF
his Winnipeg friends who have lone
| a1pairoI hic work 'E. f..