Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06
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Columbia Players.

arms like windmills. strutting from one
piece of furniture 10 another, posing
themselves on one foot with the elbow
fixed on the mantelpiece"-and he might
look pretty. man or woman they are
acting, to be sure, and that is the worst
part of it,
OF course. none of our stock players does
this-and IL Is pleasant to think they
are not going to do it-any more
And now we are going to have some
thing real good, for George NJ. Conan Is
his cherished aim of making a COM
prehensive tour of the world, and de-
vote his entire time to the writing of
plays, which will be produced exclu-
and the Conan Grand Opera House, in
Chicago" Mr.. Cohan has already made
into play Earl Derr Bigger's novel,
Seven Keys to Baldpate." and it will be
produced at the Astor Theater i'm Sep
TENDER, with Wallace Eddinger in the
leading role.
THERE COMES TIME-Stanley
James, one of the willing workers of the
Columbia Players, is getting sour on ma
tional holidays and other provocations to
extra matinees. He has always been a
firm adherent of the once-a-day perform
ance and anything resembling a greater
frequency always disturbs him.
Caught in q ruminant frame of mind
after the extra matinee the Fourth OF
July, he observed about in this way: 1T
ain't"-for> his New England vernacular
Will pursue him when ne isn't watching
lit amt that a man can't get used 10 any
thing, and / suppose IL IS the same thing
with a woman don't know. But these
two-a-days like musical comedies by
stock companies, will get a mans goat
after while
Like as not they can be compared te
the economical mans horse that had such
q good appetite he started to feed him or
saw dust. after putting green goggles or
him. Tt vas just to fill up the main par
Of the vacuum.' the man said. because
did give him some oats, But just when
Moral. Ef you work 'em easy like yo,
can get almost anything out of man ant
beast. But there'il come a time som,
day.
IS 1T A vINDICATION?-A year ag
the embattled Irish Players returned I
Ireland from America with the curse
OF thousands of their countrymen fol
lowing them across the water. True low
ers of their art fought yaliantly for them
but their own countrymen-.
Bourke Cochran, the New York orator
IS reported as saying, in an address mad
after one of their recent performances
the following:
With all these elements of progress il
Ireland, industrial. religious and ma
tionai. conspicuous Oh every side, Their
were many who doubted that the life o
Ireland had actually revived. because evi
dences Of an intellectual revival seemes
still TO be lacking. These doubters coul,
not believe that national Ireland wa
really alive, while intellectual lrelan
remained apparently torpid, inert, dead
Where now they ask, is there even
faint survival of that mighty eloquenc
by which Edmund Burke raised a Ian
guage-not his own. but an alien tongue
TO such majesty that English speech a
he exemplified it became in the opinio
OF Lord Macaulay the most powerful We
hicie ever used by man for the expires
sion Of thought, save only that one Il
which Demosthenes spoke and Home
kang? What sign Is there in these day
6f that forensic brilliancy with whic
Henry Grattan defended 50 forcefully tn
claim OF Ireland to independence tina
although freedom has been denied he
py force, nobody has ever since sue
cessfully questioned her right to it? Wha
hand now sweeps the harp of Thoma
Moore, making it swell once more wit
the deatpless tones of Ireland's ancien
|music?'
'sHeii. ladies and gentlemen, an answe
-eompie;e and reassuring--to al thes