The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-01

That for ways that are dark l And for tricks that are vain, The heather Chimes Is peculiar" But
 l A glimpse of this weird sketch certain | ly emphasizes the poets lines. There you have the Chinese atmosphere | in all of it's queer exotic nature, with the scent of opium and Hashesh, the great Dragon covered walls the dense, pene- trating aroma of pois>,ns and teas and medicines. and the sulien low class Chi
 nese "Moy Cow swaying and bending
 over the little tabaret of inlaid antiulles
 and the suave, courteous, deliberate, sim
 uous fand in our sense) non-normal Chi
 nese gentleman of wealth and position
 See Yup-.'
 With the smile that is childlike and hland'
 It sort of gives you the "creeps'' when you see the workings or the vari-coored
 minds of these yellow men and the depths
 they explore and the tremendous cun- ming they possess.
 You scarcely believed before that such people really exist. because the average l Americans idea of the Chinaman is his
 laundryman-simple, kind, and docile.
 "The Green Beetle is a daring thing
 daring in the sense that 1t involves an
 expression of an opinion of an oriental on the Christian religion
 Anybody who takes offense at this, how ever, has only narrow mind to censure
 for it is the oriental outlook, the outlook
 of the educated oriental who has adopted
 the veneer of civilization. but whose in-
 stincts are unchanged. and it is delivered
 with an impressiveness that cannot fail
 to appeal.
 With the cold, calculatingly executed design in his mind the Chinese gentleman
 of The Green Beetle is the first stage
 Chinaman who has made the theory of White Slavery in Chinatown in the least degree plausible. Queer
 Isn't it.
 How these plays of Chinese character crop sporadically on the theatrical hori- zon every now and then, as witness ..The Cat and the Cherub'' which set everybody a-wondering whether or not some day
 new field mightnt be explored by the drama with Chinatown as a back kground While the Chinese gentlman, See Yup, played with tremendous effect by MT Louis Cassavant. a former Boston opera company star, is the real hero of the 'The Green Beetle" with his sonorous vibrating voice and pulsating gripping personality, the character part" which Mir Frederick R. Seaton plays, Moy Cow, is the one with which this story has | to do.
 Moy Cow is the silent member of the 1 cast
 | Only twice does he raise his voice, and l then as a weird accompaniment in dole | ful tones to the beating of the death
 gong over the two inert, prostrate forms | of the victims of the deadly poison ad-
 ministered at the instigaton of the suave | See Yup.
 | Mr. Seaton is a veteran character &C.,
 tor. and his name is synonymous with | successful portrayals of various roles
 since he was merely youngster starting | in the game.
 | His Chinese makeup is nothing short
 of artistic and the sullen. dogged, ex-
 pression, which is conveyed even to his
 slow. dragging, sulky. movements, shows
 keen observation and tremendous
 amount of study of the oriental which
 must have required years of labor and
 ambition.
 | I was talking with Mir. Seaton yester- day about The Green Beetle" and the author of it and how 1t happened'' and dozen and one other things that were of interest to me.