El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-28
TyphOOn A Great Play
As Presented by Walker Whiteside
and Company, Ii Is Tremend-
Gus. OverpoWerinE.
JAPANESE legend; In the war. tn

! JAPANESE legend: In the war. the
! last great war, young man who lad
! recently been married was a soldier
or the Mikado. When he marched
away with his regiment he babe his
! bride goodbye without tears. for he
was a soldier of Nippon. But the
! thoughts of his bride bothered
/ him and prevented MIN from being
/ as good a soldier as lie might nave
! been one night he obtained leave ana
! slipped back nome, where ne found his
/ young wife sleeping peacefully. he
/ caressed her, then killed her. be re-
/ turned TO his regiment and MADE one
/ of the Mikado's best soldiers.
This little legend, told by H1ronari
/ over a cup of tet in Tokeramo's apart
| ments on the fifth OF May, when all
/ the Japanese children tell legends, was
| the 'TyphO0n' in miniature. All OF the
! devotion of the Japanese to their coun-
/ try, at whatever personal SacrlIlce, IS
told in that legend Of the last great
/ war This savage self-sacrifice was
/ the force which propelled The Ty-
phoon" to a powerful climax Monday
| evening at the Ell Paso theater, when
/ Walker Whiteside appeared In MS mas
I Jerpiecc OF dramatic art
Some critic has said that he would
rather have written The Typhoon"
than any other play he mad ever seen.
Ia deserves such a compliment. for II
is a SI;eat play, spIendidIy acted. There
is nothing sappsSng III The Typhoon.
Rather, IL is deep to The polEG- OF DelnS
oppressive, for it is heavy WIN the
atmosphere of the far east, the laIS4 OF
cherry blossoms, rice fields and storSS-
The plot Is a new arrangement of the-'
world-oId theme involving a mans duty
in conflict with the love for a woman.
Added to this is the fierce deYOtlOn OF
the Japanese for his country as eXem-
plified in the legend and the clash of
emotions, the chilled steel Of the ORR
entail, with the warm FLOODED Teutonlc
feeling. creates a really great drama.
TOkeramO, a japanese Of wonderful
intellect and possibilities, has been
commissioned by the mikado TO 60 to
Berlin and there absorb all that IS pest
and highest in the German civilization
for the good of Nippon. For two years
he works at his task, meeting the
learned German scientists, soldiers and
statesmen and setting down in his
books the results OF his observations
lie is asbissted in his work by group
of his cOuntrymen, likewise selected
By the Japanese government ana eacn
assigned a task. The work is almost
finished when a Woman-a fair-halred,
slender German girl Of the variety the
aters-cOmes into his life. At 1lrst she
is but a relaxation from his great work. I
But she grows into his life until she
is a part of il. She watches over MIN
as mother would a babe, and gives
to him the warm affection OF a woman.
She had Just had an affair with an 1
standards OF a man and she had cast
him off for the wonderfully fascln-
ating Japanese TOkeramo is warned
by Joshikawa, the Oldest of the Japan
csc colony in Berlin. that the woman
is interfering with his work for the
MikadO, warns him that he must put !
her off or fail in his duty TO Nippon. /
He obeys and almost succeeds, but the I
love of the beautiful Teuton is too 4
much even for his oriental self con- /
troll and he renounces his oath to the 4
emperor his work and his country Tor 1
her love. In a reYulsiOn OF feeling at I
his weakness, she denOunC5s him for MS ]
weakness. Worst OF all she defames /
his beloved country as a yellow spot 1
on the map of the world" This is too /
much for his self control. He kills her. /
Cold FLOODED Joshikawa, his friend, !
plans to save ToSeramo to his work by 1
having another of the Japanese colony I
claim the crime as his own Tokeramo /
is permitted to continue his work until /
il is COMPLETED. But the strain OF the 4
great effort and the loss of ulona IS I
too much for him and he dies
The play takes place in Iokeramo.
apartments in Berlin, sldlfully set TO /
bring out the clash between the Ger
man and the Japanese, which is the I
theme of The Typhoon." The setting 1
is a beautiful one of cherry, haf-ori- (
entail. half Teutonic, with heavy Ger
man draperies half concealing the deli I
cate Japanese bric-a-brac, oriental /
lamps and bowls of cherry blossoms
and chrysanthemums.
Great as is Mr.. Whiteside's imper-