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EFFIE SHANNON ELUCIDATES.

For two players TO carry on their
shoulders the entire burden OF an emo
tional four act drama such as Under
Orders" might seem an exhausting
Ia SIX, yet one OF the two at least, Eff1e
Shannon, upon stepping into the wings
after the performance is composed and
fresh in the tw!nkllng of an eye. This
is surely a psychic anomaly. As a
mother she sacrifices her soldier son,
as she believes, for the safety of her
country, and passes through a stage
of madness. but the Jekyl and Hyde
transformation from Mrs. Hyde to Miss
Shannon leaves no other trace than
the tears that still stand on the cheeks
OF the actress.
IT come of the stage like a drowned
rat" she observed, dabbing her eyes.
but the emotion is gone. I'm not even
tired"
80 you really feel all the emotion?"
exclaimed the unsophisticated visitor
Some authorities say that an actor
can represent emotion more skilfully
by not feeling IT."
THAT Is a canon of the French
school," she replied. 'Coquelin upheld
It. but Irving took the opposite view.
I never saw a truly emotional actor
who did not have all the feelings OF
the character. Duse does. and Bern
hardt does, although she is French,
and Mrs. Fiske does. I suffer every
thing that Mrs. Ford does in the play.
but don't carry II beyond the wings.
1T Is like being two separate per-
cons. Although have been Mrs. Ford
for two hours I don't feel any pain. |
am not sad. When ! was playing in
Years Of Discretion at the Belasco
Theatre I ate quantities OF cake al
every performance. People kept warn
Ing me that 1t would make me fat II /
didn't stop, kept right on and in the
course of the season ate $500 worth Of
cake. but II didn't make me fat,
What the character may dc
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feed. But she did not care to dilate
further upon the palmy days"
The apparent ease with which Miss
Shannon makes the two characters
that she plays seem like two abso-
lutely different women may well be a
matter OF wonder to the lay mind.
She explained the phenomenon by
calling attention to the strong con-
tract between the personalities Of the
two women. Mrs. Ford was all tender
less and loving kindness. The other
woman was hard and bitter. Her
heaat was flied with hate for the
aliens among whom she lived and
trlnged. She was only a fixture. as
it were, in her own home, for she
took no really vital part in the lives
OF her German husband and son.
Imagination is the great factor in
acting" said Miss Shannon. That is
what makes a character real. The
actor must do his share as well as the
dramatist. The dramatist creates the
role, but the actor must make 1t live
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doesn't affect the player. you see. A
player may begin a performance with
a toothache or some other pain and
into his role"
Somewhat like the passage Of the
astral body into another person." sug-
gested the visitor sasely. but before
Miss Shannon could reply there was
chorus of voices at the door. She
stepped out and the next moment was
enchanting how perfectly wonderful
somebody looted.
There is ono rational guess to haz-
ord IN the premises. Yes. 1t was
Maxine Elliott who was there. but
Miss Shannon excused herself for the
moment on the ground OF extremely
Important business and returned 10
the presence Of the somewhat inflated
visitor in the dressing room.
II want 10 say" she resumed, that
people ought to appreciate what Mr..
Woods has done in putting on this
play: what he has done for the the
atre and what he has done to demon
strate his instinct for the theatre.
Everybody said that such a play as
, this could not succeed. They thought
IL was merely a freak because it re-
auired only two players. each OF whom
took two parts.
This novelty OF Under Orders may
attract people out of mere curiosity,
but they Immediately become absorbed
IN the play. They forget that they
thought it was going 10 be freak. as
l did when I read II. That's what a
play should do. II doesn't matter
whether II has two characters or a
hundred. 1t must interest the audi
ence. !; must have no dull spots.
That Is what this play does. and
1t ends in a great climax. There are
no complicated knots left to be united
as in plays with sub-plots and nu-
norous love affairs. There is no sub
pot in it. 1t Is concentrated drama,
and there is not an end to everything
at the final curtain. The life OF the
characters goes right on. That of the
boy is only beginning"
Miss Shannon called attention TO
the necessity for perfect team work
in a play in which there are only TWO
| players. Al the end of the season
| she thought that she and Mr.. Hull
ought to be very good actors. In the
| days Of the stock companies she said
| that the players got TO know each
others moods and peculiarities SO
well that good team work was assured
but that now with the constant
changes in casts, when players were
whisked on and off. tempest tossed
smooth ensemble playing was sacri-
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There at least his taste for oratory
might be gratifled.
It never went further than that.
Speak as ha would on street corners.
exhort as fervently as he could in odd
times and places. Mr.. Bacon ran for
office in vain. The political party he
adhered to was destined to flourish
without him. The returns of each cleo
ton scarcely recognized the presence
Of his name on the ticket
So Frank Bacon left quietly and
Joined a repertoire company. Here life
was interesting, If troubled and uncer-
tain. He watched, waited and learned
something every day. He played a
child one night, a graybeard the next.
And when seven members Of the COM
pany deserted one fine day Mr.. Bacon
played four parts that night and five
at the matinee.
Two or three years of this sort OF
thing and the actor was ready for
something better. Recognizing his
ability, the manager of the famous Al
cazar Theatre in San Francisco en-
gagged him, and there he remained for
seventeen years. playing anything and
everything, winter and summer.
The earthquake shook Mr.. Bacon
from his fixed post. He decided to try
his luck on the other coast. With his
wife. daughter and son the actor en-
tered vaudeville and played his way
East until he reached the long
dreamed of New York. Almost at
once he met Winchell Smith. who gave
him ma RI in "The Fortune Hunter =
At this time Mr.. Bacon told the play
wright about his idea for "Lightnin'.'
but Mr.. Smith was too busy TO work
it out. Only after Mr.. Bacon had
PLAYED several seasons with 1.-The Gin
derella Man." stop Thief and The
Miracle Man" did he talk to Mr.
Smiths partner. John L. Golden
about his play. Mr.. Golden thought
! well of 1t and took it up with Mr.
= Smith. Mr.. Smith waxed enthusiastic
now that he had Turn to the Right
safely on its way. and set 10 work.
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A PLAY A WEEK.

Margaret Anglin in her de-
lightful military love comedy.
"Billeted," with a record of all
last season on Broadway. will be
the attraction at the Standard
Theatre this week.
The coming of Eyes of
Youth" with Alma Tell, to the
Bronx Opera House will be of
more than usual interest to thea
TRIGGERS. 1t ran for an entire
year at the Maxine Elliott.
Arthur Goodrich's play, Eyes
or No." comes to the Shubert-
Riviera Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
Next weeks attraction a.
Dixon's Theatre will be the first
production on any stage of the
new play. why Not Me, a
Womana" The play abounds in
startling situations.
Getting Together" the big
musical war play, comes to
Loew's Seventh Avenue Thea
tire under the auspices of the
British and Canadian recruiting
mission and with the coopera-
ton of the American military
ard naval forces. Blanche
Bates and Holbrook Blynn
head the cast.
Tiger Rose" with Lenore
Uric in the leading role, pre-
scented by David Belasco. with
the original Lyceum Theatre
production and cast, enters upon
the third week of its engagement
of four weeks in the Manhattan
Opera House.
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same opportunity as that sterling pay.
But in "Fiddlers Three" Conkey thinks
that the music will prove such hat
the public will clamor for more on tho
higher plane.
Last season" says Mr.. Conkcv. the
New York musical public supported
three opera companies, the Me,ropoh-
tan. Chicago and the San Carlo. From
what l could see the audiences ne~
larger than ever before. The San
Carlo company, which gave grand
opera at a popular price, was filed
every night. With such singers az
Salazar, Roger, Antola, Ferrabini and
Darclee. there was every reason why
these performances were sold out
tried to secure tickets for the Carlso
and also the new productions, and tie
best / could do was secure standing
room. When Galli-Curci. Murators
or Mary Garden appeared al the Lex
ington Avenue Opera House Il was
the same old story.
Then look at the concerts. There
were many new artists, and one knows
that new artists at both Aeolian and
Carnegie halls at their debuts seldom
draw enough money to the box oftics
to pay for the advertising. But las.
season, so / understand, nearly al It's
new artists paid expenses the frs,
time they appeared. Many Of 'hess
artists repeated their success always
drawing better houses.
Now this seems 10 me that Amer
leans will in the future only Ray 20
hear the best music That being ne
, case l feel certain that manages C..
our New York theatres will be for y
to look for better musical plays O.
they will lose money. l have found
that when an audience is educated 10
better music it is hard to give & a
cheaper variety. I also know thai.
II is hard to get musical productions
| equal TO The Merry Widow ia
! Mikado' and plays OF their type--ou:
! / feel sure that many Of our musical
I plays In the past have failed SIMPLY
! because the music was Of the raGli,rs
and jazz order
| In speaking f getting good singers
| Mr.. Conkev claims that no le''cr
voices are TO lie found anywhere \
| the world In all the opera houses
! in Europe one finds Americans S.nr.
I ing leading roles. Our own mus :
teachers have done wonders u hr'1s
about excellent voices and any ,o,os
teacher OF repute generally h4s I
couple OF good voices that the Pubic
would receive most generously
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THE PLAYS OF THE WEEK.

MoNDAY-Comedy John Williams AN Ideal
Husband" by Oscar Wilde
Theatre The Charles Frohman Company will intro
Skinner "Humpty Dumpty by Horace Vachel
Harris Joseph Klaw makes his debut mpresario
with Some Night" musical play by Harry Deli.
Klaw Eranger will produce 1.-THE
musical show, with music by
Caryl by Bolton
THEATRE Oliver Morosco will show
of the dramatic skill of Mr. and Mrs Hato called
The Walk OFFS
THURSDAY-Sewyn 20 will again comedy by
Cooper Megrue called Tea for Three"
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In the play one OF the characters also
has a fall from which 1t is equally inn
possible for him to rise.
Mr.. SINNERS role in the new piece
will be that Of a hairdresser. He will
be surrounded by a. company that will
include Elizabeth Risdon, who won
success here last season in George
Bernard Shaw's "Mesalliance" and in
Seven Days Leave; Beryl Mercer,
whose splendid performance as the old
lady in Barrie's one act masterpiece.
The Old Lady Shows Her Medals"
at the Empire Theatre, is we'll remem-
bered by New York theatregoers;
Ruth Rose. Maud Milton, Clara T.
Bracy, Fleming Ward, Morton Seton.
Robert Harrison, Ernest Elton. Will
lam Eville. John Rogers ana Walter
Scott. I.
Klaw & Changers annual autumn
Offering at the New Amsterdam The
atre-their first big musical comedy
production for the season just begin
ning-will be THE Girl Behind the
Cum" with which the famous play
house In West Forty-second street
will open for the regular season to-
morrow night. The book and lyrics Of
this piece are by Guy Bolton and p.
G. Wodehouse, the authors OF THE
Riviera Girl Miss Springtime" and
sc veral other successes in this series
! Of popular Klaw & Erlanger produc-
tons, and the music is by Ivan Caryl,
who wrote the score for The Pink
! Lady" one Of the earliest and most
pronounced hits on this same list.
The scenes Of the new play are laid
at the beautiful home near Paris OF a
famous French actress. The actress,
like many other Frenchwomen, has
adopted a soldier in the trenches as
her "godson." Her "godson" is the
cook Of his regiment, and when the
play begins he is about to pay her
his first visit. Instead of the cook
there arrives a handsome playwright,
| a polu in the same regiment, who to
further n scheme OF his own has per-
sHaded the friendly cook to change
places with him. The actress, Wishing
to repay her fiirtatious husband in
his own coin, makes desperate love to
the playwright. The complications
that ensue are said TO be Gallo as
we'll as amusing
Donald Brian will appear as the
play wright and Jack Hazard as the
actresses firtatious husband. while
Ada Meade will have the part of the
actress and Vida Bennett will i'm
personate the wife of the playwright
John r. Young has the role Of the
cook and other parts are assigned to
Frank Doane, Bert Gardner, Eva
Francis Virginia O'Brien. Cissie
Sewell, Florence Delmar. Gertrude
Rail and Elaine Palmer. Edgar Mac.
Gregor has directed the rehearsals Of
the company and Julian Mitchell has
trained the large chorus.
A preliminary engagement OF two
weeks at the Forrest Theatre in Phila
delphia has prepared the company FOL
its New York debut.
The regular season at the Morosco
Theatre will begin on Tuesday, when
Oliver Morosco will present Fred
eric and Fanny Hatton's new COM
coy The Walk-Ofs." Like other
Hatton plays. The Wark-Offs" is said
to be a smart comedy of metropolitan
life. The central figures are a rich
young Kentuckian with good, old fash
Toned ideas as to women and matri-
mony and beautiful New York cir
with a thoroughly worldly point o!
view. She is a member OF a family
which has kept its place by every
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TO-MORROw night the Shuberts
will resume the management
l. OF the Comedy Theatre on
Forty-first street. The first play will
be An Ideal Husband" by oscar
Wilde, which the Shuberts will pro-
duce with John D. Williams. The
five principal people in the cast are
Norman Trevor. Constance Collier.
Cyril Harcorrt, Julian LEstrange and
Beatrice Beckley. "An Ideal Husband"
was originally produced in London at
the St. James Theatre by George
Alexander, with Lewis Waller and
George Alexander in the leading roles.
The Shuberts have refurnished and
repainted the theatre.
, "Some Night" musical comedy
by Harry Deli, opens at the Har-
ris Theatre tomorrow under the
Management of Joseph klaw. 1t is
said that thrill and mystery accom-
pany its comedy and music. A young
girl with a stray package of bonds
worth $1,000 appeals to a blase young
man for help, and he assumes the
rde of detective. A real detective
enters later. Eventually the bonds
are returned and the hearts Of the
pseudo detective and helpless damsel
come into each others keeping.
Music. lyrics and book are the work
of Harry DELI. who has hitherto linn
tied his efforts to dancing. The cast
is headed by Forrest winant. whose
barytone enhances his reputation as
q comedian. The others are Roma
June. Charles Welsh-Homer. Camilla
Crume. Grace Edmonds, Louis Simon
Thomas II. Walsh, James c. Marlowe
Charles W. Meyer, Charles Hall
Charles Fulton and Jesse w. Wiling
ham. In addition are the speciality
dancers, Lambert and Fredricks, whit
have been added to the cast.
Otis Skinner will begin his annua
New York season under the direction
OF Charles Frohman. Inc. at thu
Lyceum Theatre tomorrow nigh
MONDAY, September 1Gl, appearing il
"Humpty- Dumpty." the new four &C
COMEDY written loi MIN W Aio' az
Annesley Vachell. Mr.. Nachell is vel
known in America as the author o
"Quinneys," THE Ledger" and 'Th
Case of Lady Gambler"
The new play must not be confuse
in any way with the old "Humpty
Dumpty" pantomime. Mr.. Vachell ha
taken his title from the familiar nur
sery rhyme, which tells how Humpty
Dumpty had a great fall, after whic
"all the Kings horses and all tn
Kings men couldn't set him up again.
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Tho mana cement and author wish il
made as emphatic as possible that the
play is an angle on and not of the tri-
angle and that Mr.. Megrue will be at
his best as writer of American
hGmor" The curtain will rise at SIS
J.. NJ. sharp and during the playing OF
the first scene OF the first act, which
be seated
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-08
SEVERE STORM HITS
LAKE CHARLES, LA.
Hardly building an LAKE
Charles Escapes Damage
and More Than 100 Are
Demolished BY Winds.

LAFAYETTE, La, Aug. The
tropical storm which hit the Louisiana
coast yesterday aftelnon wrought
great havoc in Lake Charles and
vicinity, according to stories told Dy
persons arriving here from that place
early today By boat and automobile.
len persons are reported TO have bcca
KILLED and property damage Of more
Than s., i,000O00 Is believed 10 have been
done. Hardly building IN Lake
Charles escaped damage, more than
100 being entirely demolished Eiec-
tric light, telephone and telegraph
wires were down and the city was an
total darkness last night
The storm lasted about two hours.
Striking the city nj o'clock it blew
with full force until p. m, at times
reaching a velocity estimated at l20
miles an hour. Ryan street, the prlnei-
pal business thoroughfare Of the city,
was the scene of great damage.
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-08
MRS. TOM HARRIS
DIED SUNDAY

Mrs. Tom Harris died Sunday
morning at o'clock after a lingering
illness Of many months. She was one
Of the oldest citizens OF Oxford hav-
ing come 10 this place from Maury Co
Tenn, with her parents, when she was
only ) years old Mrs. Harris was 81
years old the 9th day Of the past
June, she was formerly Miss Madeline
Craig and was a half sister to DIR.
Isom.
Mrs. Harris leaves four daughters.
Mesdames Frank Riley. Of Tupelo,
Miss, Mos Andrews. Of Memphis.
Tenn, Thomas Yates Of this place
and Miss Monte Harris and two liv-
ing sons. DR.. Hubert Harris. Of Mem
phis and Mr.. Dudley Harris, of Shelf
field. Ala, three sons and a husband
await her. She leaves number of
friends and relatives to mourn her
loss.
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-08
Oxford Lafayete County, Miss, Thursday August g. 1918

Regulations The draft board vii
not cal him FER induction SO long a
he remains member of the Student
Army Training Corps.
In order :aat the college stu Iepi
may not e-en appear to enjoy special
privileges, it is agreed, howeve-. that
when the day arrived on which ac-
cording 10 MS order number he worl
have beal drafted, had he NJ. a'-ead
volunteered, ihe fact is repai.ei 4
the President of the College. and L
the Commanding officer at the college
who in turn reparts it to Il. Adjutant
Gen .I;al. This is the day of reckon
ing for the college man. The presi-
dent of tho college and tie Command
ing officer viii then report to the
Chairman Of the Committee o.
Education and special training Of thc
War Department, for what form O.
military service the individual is i
their Judgment best qualified. The
viii Recommend either lat the stud
ent should continue his studies to pre-
pare for work in Mediciae, Engineer.
ing, Chemistry, Psychology, Econom
les, etc, or that he should 20 At once
TO an officers training Camp - pre-
pare for an officers commission in thC
infantry, artillery, etc, or that h
should be assigned to work in the ord
ance quaTterInaster, OF other Stat
Corps or sent Immediately to a divis
ion at one Of the camps. Lieut. Co
Rees, Commander Of the entire Stud
e1ts' Corps. ilas authority to dispose
his men in the way best suited &c NEE
the emergencies of the military an
national situatsn at the time. Tn
presumption : tll:.t, for the next yea
the largest proportion Of the studen
body reaching twe-.ty-cne years WI
be required t. supply q large part Of
the officers needed for the Nations
A1Tny. II Is understood tfa. loas
four or five times as rany officer
viii be required - the tial numbe
Of students wno VIII graduate f7or
I'll American colleges mi univezsities
Enlistmezt IN the Students ARM
Trzinieg Corps Therefore. while E
does Mt .lold out sry premise of q
officers commission. Il Is n the pre-
se-t time the plainast road leading j.
that direction
The student VINO shows q abili-g
for special service II his college ane
military work. VIII be ordered iut
active service as 4 private when his
day Of reckoning cornes- Enlistment
i for the duration Of the w2r. II
however. the student fails 70 improve
his college opportunities, he may b
dismissed from the college BY action
Of the college authorities and dis
charged from military service by tho
military authorities. He would then
he subject 20 the operation Of tbs
draft. His enlistment may be cancel
Oxford eagle., 1918-08-08
|UDENTs' ARMY
TRAINING CORPS
Laeuts' Training Corps ITO Be
rstsblished At The University
Uniforms Furnished Free.

hancelIor Powers, CT the Univer-
hss received advices from the
q Department at Washington to
effect that a rsilit-ry unit has
n established at ti-at institution.
( is good news to the people Of the
IL It viii mean much 20 the
kra Of Mississippi end viii make
! University a more potent influ-
L at this time when every educat-
Id influence with all others is need
| .c win the war. This action on the
\ Of the War Department is a
zt compliment to the University
|shere are many rigid requirements
kessary before a higher institution
earning can enjoy this privilege.
fhsacellor Powers states that all
Iians in the draft age who have
been called, and al others below
shove draft age, may get military
lining at the University, if they so
ire. Civilians who do not lodge on
campus may take the training b,
Sply natriculating for which n,
bye viii be made.
he War Department has approvec
following as the status of 4 stud.
enlisted in the Students Army
|ming CoIps:-
J student enlisted in the students
Fy Training Corps is in military
nee of the United States Be
se he does not receive pay, he Is
sed as on inactive service but in
ztOnal emergency the presiden.
cal him at any time to activs
nee. The student must be IS years
bgt and pursuing a course Of study
1e University he Is called 70
" service each summer when he
rds camp for six weeks AID re
q the pay Of q private The ea-
nsnt in this Corps is optional
Is relation TO the draft Is as fol-
b
lry student 50 enlisted. though IN
military service of the United
fss, Is technically on inactive duty,
therefore, must register after nc
reached daft age snd up0n notice
hs President Upon STATING upon
rueshsfrlire that he is a,rc1dv IN
miiita~T service of the GnIted
y. ne y-iIl be placed autsa.at.s>.iy
rs LOcsl Draft Board n Class y
provided ty the Seiectiye Sesvics