The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

1t Is on the return from this long
tour that the company comes 70 Keo-
kuk for one night, on it's way back
home in the east. On this trans-con-
tinental tour Conrad Nagel appeared
longer than any actor in recent years
in each principal city visited, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Ia
coma, Portland. Oregon, Salt Lake
City, Ogden. Omaha. Kansas City,
Saint Louis and others, including
breaking all records at the Broadway
theatre, Denver
Entirely Unspoied by Adulation.
Nobody would much blame young
man still in his twenties for having
his head turned by such achievements
and so much acclaim. 1t has not in
creased the hat size of Conrad Nagel
bit. He is exactly the same fine
grained. pleasant. quiet, almost retir-
Ing young man he was when he was
nothing but student in fresh water
college. He ignores both wine and
women and sends the bundles of mash
notes from silly girls to his mother for
her ed1tcation. After all this success
and adulation and travel, his mother is
still his confidante, as always, and he
telling of this fact His boyhood
friends and old friends are Just as mucb
MS chums now as they ever were
Very remarkable, also, is that in the
very beginning of his career, this
young man should win success in such
a dlficult part that REQUIRES more YER
satllity than any other one in the his.
tory Of the drama. That is why two
hundred actors failed to measure up
to lit demands as a prime necessity
not the ability to play Part, but the
ap1ilty to play twenty parts. entirely
dlfferent, all with equal perfection.
Why Two Hunared Failed.
This play Of Hobart1 belongs in the
general class Of the old morality PLAYS
and is morality play brought up-to. |
the-minute The plot is the journey OF
youth through life meeting in turn the |
scores of virtues and vices, upiifts and |
pitfalls found in real life.
There are over fifty persons on that
company payroll, and most of them
ire trying to ruin the youth. In his
Quincy Youth meets personified Friy.
'lity, Excitement, Passion, Intoxica. |
ion, Frality, Love. Hope, Pleasure. De-
'ett, SANDER, and others, in homes.
restaurants. barrooms. gambling halls,
md elsewhere. A few minutes after
'elng waiter, Youth is drunken
nan ABOUT town, and in a few minutes
more he IS losing all his money in a
GAMBLING house despite all his friend
experience can do to prevent it, That
yonrad Nagel swiftly changes from
me to another character. radicallv dif.
erent dozen times between the fret
nd the rinal curtain of "Experiance"
makes his wonderful success in the
'art of Youth almost one Of the mir.
.cles Of real life.
The Influence Of the Ministers
But neither the part nor the Dlav 10
ctually repulsive, for after knowing
he holloWness and mockery In the
ices, Youth walking with Crime. in
ront of a church, recalls Mother Love
nd wins out One reason tho Dlav
as made so sensational and appea]
the public IS that it pictures with
erect veracity many things the prb.
C generally hears of occasionally but
eldom Or never saw before. As a mar
err of fact it has been seen bv more
eople in the last few years than ever
aw Ben Hur' or "The Old Home II
tead"
That is the sort of success the keo-
ok product now known from coast TO
cast as Conrad Nagel, the illustrious
ctor, has made-and with II all. one
Tho has known him intimatelv all his
fe has a sneaking notion that this
ltest addition to Keokuk's han of
anne likes best of all the fact that
lany ministers of the gospel praise
he play he is depicting and urge
to see 1t and heed It, There
) that line of Baptist preachers reach
lg from Conrad Nagel back to his d,
at.great-grandfather Roger Will
ans. it should not be forgotten In
Ludying this famous young actor.