El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-02
CHAUTAUQUA IS
NOW OPERATING
Opens With shaksperean
Players; Grand Opera is
the Program Tonight.


The big chautauqua. which during
! the remainder of the week will offer
large array of attractions, has been
launched. It came into being Monday
/ night when the COmus Players. dramat-
/ ic artists played to good sized audi
! ence-an audience that almost forgot
J the chill of the damp night air in its
! enthusiasm for the initial Offering.
! The Comus players are small in num-
Der. but artists every one. Their YER
satility was forcibly displayed Monday
night in their appearance. first in
Shaksperean roles and later in modern
drama They were equally at home in
scene from AS You Like It." and in
Carson of the North Woods" a plav of
modern times but with a backwoods
setting.
"As You Like IT.
The "As You Like It" scene was but
sketch. The stage setting was as
bare, nearly, Is the stage settings Of
Shakspere's time, when much was left
to the imagination, and IL avs intended
that II should be so. a bench that
served as part of the furniture in the
play offered later in the evening was
supposed to represent the log where
TouchstOne sat during the love scene
between Rosalind and the unsophisti-
Gated Orlando. The scene was that
wherein Rosalind, disguised in the garb
of youth and accompanied by Touch
stone. met Orlando in the wood and
made love to him. It was but a short
sketch. but very ably presented, with
Janet Young, a well known Pacific
coast actress. in the role of Rosalind.
North Woods Play.
Carson of the North Woods" breathes
the air Of the stories of Ralph Conner
and Sir Gilbert Parker, dealing with
French Canadians and the great woods
of the Canadian frontier. The story
starts in Quebec and has to do with a
cynical but very successful criminal
lawyer who wins a strongly contested
case in which backwoodsman is
charged with the murder of another
Canadian. Carson, the lawyer unhap-
PLY married, has evil associates and.
despite the warning OF the backwoods-
man and his daughter, who has fallen
in love with the lawyer, goes to his
favorite haunts on the night following /
the trial because of a note left by his !
wife that she would be out for the |
evening. He is set upon by enemies ]
made through his success at the trial /
but for the quick work Of the back |
woodsman.
Carson. suffering from a blow on the /
head, is taken in hand by the rescuer !
and daughter and carried into the north /
woods, where he is nursed for two 1
years. Finally an operation brings /
back his memory. A recent newspaper
tells him of the remarriage of his wife /
to a childhood lover, and of the gem
eral belief that he met death at the
hands Of ruffians.
Believed Dead; StlII Lives.
Thought to be dead. he decides to re-
main in the woods and follow the trade
Of a carpenter. Naturally enough he
has fallen in love with his charming |
nurse, but the possibility OF discovery 1
and a respect for handmade laws
causes him TO shrink from marriage, I
although urged by the backwoodsman
that Gods law OF love is greater than
mans conventions. The lovers decide ]
to await developments. confident that J
the barrier will be removed, and there
the story ends.
Janet Young was especially charm
ing in the role of the backwoodsman's
laughter, and she was very ably sup
ported by Ralph Ash, as Carson, and
he other members of the company.
Tonight and nightly hereafter. the I
will open at instead Of
go. Grand opera is the program to-
hight
OPERATE Company Sings.
The International operate company {
which appeared at the Chautauqua tent I
tuesday afternoon and will appear
L
4 ChautauQua in FL PasO for the first
f 105 Chautauqua engagements. The !
Ompany is composed of a mixed
uartet and a piano soloist and has
cen together for the past six years.
he company is headed by Burt
1cKinnie and is composed of Mrs. Nc )
.innie, J. Allen Grub. Mrs. Grubb and !
Iiss Day.
During the winter concert season the
ompany plays a series of lyceum en-
agements and, after a brief rest at I
heir homes, they start the summer in =
work. Last season the I
International company played with the .
carson Chautauqua system and ap- n
cared in IS eastern states From Fl .
aso the company viii go to Deming, | i
here the Chautauqua which is appear T
~ FL Paso VIII also appear and from f
lere they viii go to Los Angeles for a I
cries OF Chautauquas on the coast
The Night Program.
The program for the evening concert !,
the company is as follows: T
Quartet - lane 'Son v
10. Hear the Gentle Lark ....... Bisbop a
Mrs. Burt McKinnie o
found an Alarm" Judas Maccabeas)..
J. Allen Grub
wing duet from 'Veronioue''. 1900. Mesa ger | T
Mr. and Mrs. McKinnie a
roup OF songs in Japanese costume 80. F
900. WoOdfOrd- Finden ! II
Mrs Heidenreich =
rhe Brigand" ......................S Spence .
Mr.. McKinnie :
,xtet from Lucia. ..-..........D onizett
Arranged for Quartet
aion Military Polonaise. .........
...........--..:. 800. Opus So Chopin
Miss Day II
Part II.
Entire second act from opera Martha" in |
stume by the entire company.