Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-06-02
OMAR, THE TENTMAKER
IS A NEW DEPARTURE
Ancient Persian Wine Bibber
imnOrtaGzed By Fitzgerald
and Guy Bates Post

"Omar, The Tentmakcr" was a de-
parture; some said it was master,
piece Others said it was simply an ori.
entail melodrama. 1t pointed no par.
ueular moral and taught no par.
ueular lesson but the complcxity of IT'S
lines brought many Il tense dramatic
moment and showed flashes of clever
comedy.
Omar loved Shy Irene, the daughter
of the great ! Am--owiug TO the
scarcity of programs this spelling is all
phonetic and uncertain Omar sought
the hand of Shy Irene and | Am said
IN poetry, eco to h---ln Omar un.
derstood II in prose. Thus he loved and
lost and took to the flowing bowl as
Others have done even before and since.
To Omar's wine bcfoggcd eyes the
red of the lost Shy Irene IS lips shown
in the wine and many were the carress-
es' Shy Irene was married TO the Shah
Of Shahs and she sent her daughter
back to Omar. Omar brought the Girl
up carefully and taught her how to sew,
on tents, and to appreciate his poetry
which she did, showing that she was n
dutiful daughter, Then she fell in love
with Il blonde Christian slave. Omar s
old love, east from her home with the
shah of Shahs, secured position as
queen of gang Of desert robbers aud
the curtain arose ON the second act
with Omar and the blonde both in iail.
This was necessary, however, otherwise
they would have had no place to escape
from.
In the great police court scene
HACK EN-, the villainous governor want.
ed to kill Omar slowly, lie put the poet
into stocks and the cXccutioncrs ticklod
the soles of his bare feet. While he
was enjoying this eNc;uciutng torture
Shy Irene, known as Bamboo, the desert
queen, pleaded for the life Of Omar TO
the new Nizier
Ni1am, the Nizicr, happened to be one
Of Omar 3 old college chums. He went
into oriental politics and got elected to
the VizicrsAip, which appeared to be a
job somewhere between the Grand Duke
Of Graustnrk and the Oswald West, Of
Oregon Anyway he pardoncd Omar.
In the excitement the blonde and
Omar's daughter escaped on the old
family horse and outiistanced the fiery
stceds of their pufsucrs. They Lochin.
varod il to the border Of the desert and
lived happily ever nftcward in dry ter.
ritory, MawTuss, the deputy son of
Omar brought back the glad news un.
censored, escaping by being disguia
as u Christian by means Of goat hair
wig Then he died.
The grand Nizicr offered Omnr n
| high government position but Omar said
too much booze had untitled him foI
the position and he declined this wa,
in the thirteenth century. The Vizicl
then gave Omar house and lot with a
| garden whore he could see the moon and
there he was joined by his old sweet
heart, Shy Irene who entered at thit
time h, Z, T., Then for the first time
in his life Omar turned down an empty
glass before he had drunk, or was drunk
It might be said
As was stated in the beginning some
said it was masterpiece, others said II
was an oriental mcodwma stepped in
wine At any rate there was enough
Of it that an might have separate
opinion ruitcd TO the individual point
Of view
In passing. credit SHOULD be given Ia
Borncr for wigs 10 Miller for shoes, Ia
| Vail for costumes, 10 Waters for
theatre, go =. T.. q H. for strcctcars