Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-28

point YOU to the time when thirteen
dramas Of Shakespeare were holding
the Berlin stage simultaneously. The
reason that relatively few of them are
now on view is that so many OF the
young actors east for heroic and ro-
mantle roles have gone TO the front.
The German Shakespeare society
held It's annual birthday meeting IN
Weimar on April % ana among other
transactions voted 5000 marks OF It's
funds for the purchase of German war
bonds Nobody in Germany has dis
covered the least touch ot irony in the
business.
German Classic Drama.
German classic drama is represent
ed In the current bills by Faust
(part -, Schillers Marie Stuart ("
and Il play of Grilparzer's. Ibsen's
Peer Gynt Is on view at two the
aters and is given IN a five-hour per-
Torrance and is largely attended at
I both houses
Among tho world famous modern
/ bills are Myer- Foerster's "Old neidel-
berg which Mr. Mansfield brought
out in so captivating a manner i'm our
country. The Five Frankfurters. "a
romance of the Rothsehlds, which
D
and Home" one OF the most signlti.
cant OF modern German plaAs
Last Thursday evening the Konig-
I liehes Sehauspielhaus made "a notable
revival Of Ludwig Fulda's @1'hc Twin
Sister"
The list of current operas Is amaz-
I ing IN its worth and variety Here are
some of the works being sung. Par
! sival "1paiRena in Aulis. THE
Daughter of the Regiment" Aida.
I Der RosenkaValicr," La Boheme. ."
carmen" In Traviata.' THE Bar
I tered Bride" "Undine." Martha"
I The Jewess." and Die Flodermaus,
/ The variety theaters are packed,
+ even the enormous winter garden
I, which is at least twice the size Of
any variety theater We have in Chi
/ cago Here ! saw a good routine bill
OF vaudeville.
I There were no exceptional novel
/ ties but fifteen good standard num-
hers. Among them was the traVesty
I act of the American team OF Barnes
and King, who We're programmed as
"Zauber- parodsten' (magic paro-
dists) and who went very well in
I deed The house was crowded and
/ there were seats and tables ut all
]
The notable of the bin was the IA
nous actor, Ferdinand Bonn, whom
I we used to hear OF in America az a
representative German actor OF Shake
/ spcare. He recifed the long dialogue
between Othello and lago in which
Iago poisons the Moor's mind, and he
put extraordinary vehemenco and "A
good deal OF suhtlety into the scene.
For an encore he did the blistering
Hymn of Hate" which Prof Robert
| Herrick has pronounced the only
brilliant poetry the war has produced
ON either side. That piece MIR. Bonn
made not so much vtriolic MS passion
ate, and he received prodigious APP
pause al the close of L.
More impressive than the hand
clapping at tho end of the poem was
the CHASTITY stiffness that hung over
the audience while the actor was re-
citing 1t was as If every man ana
woman in the great gold hall were sit
ting rigid and feeling To the depths of
the soul every word that was uttered
Won Ilindenburg an Idol.
There was also a series of imperson-
ations-in uniform, wiggery and facial
play-of notables of this war, and of
the Franco Prussian, by Ludwig /
Amann, mimic whom We have seen
in America. Everybody he imperson
ated was cheered- Bismarck Moltke. /
Count Zeppelin. the old King of Ba-
varia. and the rest.
But the whirwihd came when he
reached the field marshal who is the |
idol of Germany-No Hindenburg /
Then there were cheers and waving |
for a minute or so.
What struck me as remarkable was