Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 54, 8 January 1912 — Page 2

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m IRE HEW YORK DRAMATIC CRITICS?

Strange Comments on Cuirent Plays Emanate from the Metropolis. Aborn Opera Company at Gennett the Fifteenth.

Great Crowd Disappointed Saturday Night by Late Train Preventing La Follette Speaking Here.

(Continued from Pas One.) tee, realizing bis extreme weakened physical condition, advised his retiring and continuing on the name train which would reach Washington Sunday afternoon where it was necessary for him to be In consultation on Benate matters before Monday morning. When the committee advised his retirement he asked the committee to nay to the people of Richmond for him that if he could be excused this time, and God permitted him to live, he would come back to Richmond on any date that could be arranged between the Richmond people and his WashIngton managers. The Senator then dictated and signed the following statement to be published In the local papers Latter From Senator. On board Penn. Train. No. :!0. Jan, 6th, 1912. To the Hoosier State Progressive League, Richmond, Indiana. I recall with a great deal of pleasure having addressed a great audience in Richmond while I was Governor of Wisconsin and looked forward with special delight to this meeting at the homo city of my friend R. O. Leeds. I regret very much that owing to :i belated train It was not possible to reach Richmond In time to permit of my addressing the" meeting. After conferring with your committee, which boarded the train at Indianapolis, It was decided that it, would be best to arrange for another meeting at a later date during the present winter, to be agreed upon between your committee and the manager of the Progressive campaign at Washington. I now definitely engage to be in Richmond upon that date. (8lgned) Robert M. La Follette. The members of the Hoosier State Progressive League wish to express their appreciation of the patience shown by the audience at the coliseum and the people gathered at the station on the arrival of the train. The committee acted upon its best judgment in making the decision, which we think would have been endorsed by all, could they have been confronted with the adverse circumstances and the weakened physical condition -of Senator La Follette. Progressive principles are a live Issue and In Senator La Kollette the people of Richmond will find not only a pioneer but a clear exponent of its tenets." HOOSIER STATU PROGRESSIVE LEAGUE Alfred Bavis, Secretary. Tsnuary 8th, 1912.

Tee Late. 'Mr. P.. drove up In a hansom and entert;l the Jeweler's shop accompanied by bin vnlet. who carried an oblong Iwi f utrel. Mr. B. naked for a private Interview, and on being shown Into the office he opened the box. exWMlng n splendid array of diamond uud pearl necklaces, earrings, tiaras and rings. "Mrs. II." he said. "Is now abroad. Uefore she returns I wont yoa to extract I fame atones and replace them wl'b pood Imitation, selling the real jewels and giving me the money. This, of course. Is to be a confidential trans mliwi. Mrs. U. Is to know nothing of It." "My dear sir." suid he Jeweler. "1 should be glad to do as you ask. but It la Impossible. Two years ago Mrs. B. called here on tu same errand that now brings you. snd this errand In her case was successful. The paste Jewels that you offer me are worth little more thnu the hire of the ban now awaiting you outside." London Tit Bits. Thackeray and Cetenel Newceme. Mr. Louis MelUlic tells a characteristic story of Thnckeruy s fondness for his greatest hero. "It was outside EranV he writes, "that Lowell being on a visit to London, met the novelist looking so haggard and worn that he asked If be were 111. Come Inside, and I'll tell you all about It' snld the Utter. 1 have killed the colonel.' At a table In a quiet corner Thackeray took the manuscript from his pocket and read the chapter that records the death of Colonel New-come. When ha came to the end the tears that had been swelling his lids trickled down Ma face, and the last word was almost an inarticulate sob."--London Chronicle.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. The standards of dramatic criticism in New York are somewhat an- j

omalous.

Mr. Daniel Frohman once said to the j writer that theatrical critics in the I metropolis became bo sated that it was difficult for them to be entirely j

Just that it wasn't surprising. Or

words to this effect.

Perhaps this may be so. And then again perhaps it may not.

And If it is it is not. an unusual 1 state. The professional writer who i haunts the theater is apt to be sated anywhere. In New Orleans, or San , Francisco, or Chicago, or Keokuk or j

even in Richmond, Indiana. I

It doesn't take long to sift the thins j out, to shako it down, to divide the sheep from the goats, to tell the chaff j

from the wheat. That Is. it doesn't after you've been at it for any extended period. Although tbiB, of course, is part of the business. If you can't do that why you should be retired to some other department the courthouse run, say, or visiting the undertakers' offices. It Isn't at all what you may like or what you may not like your personal predilections have nothing to do with it. You've got to "put yourself in hla place."

You must be able to get the point

of view of the author, the actor and the producer. When you get that you have a basis of operation. You can then judge what they are doing by the general rules governing dramatic art.

Do or do they not succeed in achiev-! ing the thing they are after? That's j what you want to know and what the

audience wants to know. The professional writer of average acumen gets at It by the rules of the game. The audience through a certain psychology that hits an average without knowing it. These "remarks" have been Inspired by looking over the New York papers' account of "The Grain of Dust," which

has recently opened a several week's . engagement in that city and was well j received by the public the critics, bo

far as the writer's perusal of their diatribes went, uniting as one man in deriding the play because it Included in its role a stenographer. Nobody thinks, and its producer never claimed, that "The Grain of Dust" Is a great play. Neither was Phillips' novel from which it was taken a great novel. The fault, Indeed, of the play Is that It is painted in too neutral a tint the contrasts ' are not vivid enough. And It lac ks in humour of a certain sort. But to ridicule Miss Izetta Jewel, in instance, for her colorless presentation of the stenographer after abus

ing the play because it has such a character In its story shows a certain crassness on the part of the celebrated New York critics one might expect In a graduate of a college of journalism. In the first place it is stated that they hadn't read the novel. If they had they should know that the more colorlessly the stenographer is played the more successful is she

depicting the author's conception. Miss Jewel comes about as near the original as anyone could because the original cannot be transferred to the stage. As said the other day the reason for this Is that the passion of the hero is subjective. It creates an object which It deludes itself into thinking breathes the breath of life and love but which Is a human dummy. Miss Jewel shows dramatic intelligence In imbuing her characterization with this subtlety 86 near as she can. No-one could do it. It is the charm of the book but it cannot be made the charm of the play. The Gotham critics give it the merry ha ha this is the season of the telephone girl and the stenographer, they say. The stenographer marries the rich man she always does, she leaves home and then comes back be sure she does that she leaves to make a

'climax in (he third act but never 1 fear she'll be back at the flnale and

stuff of this sort.

What's the odds who's in a play or

what characters it depicts whether they're rich men or poor men, stenog

raphers or "society ladies," telephone

girls or school teachers, beggars or capitalists, kings or queens if the red blood of life is injected into its artistic veins.

Its life no matter in what phase. And if its life there is truth and

beauty and poetry and imagination even If it is a telephone girl or a stenographer. Life is an exquisite thing. Art is divine. Fuse the two and you have the climax of all things. There are many amusing things about New York but none more so than its alleged "dramatic criticisms." That is since the erudite Mr. William Winter has retired from the field. If a critic thinks a play is bad why doesn't he give some intelligent reason for thinking it is? . Why merely say "ha ha a play about a rich man and a stenographer rotten same old thing come let us repair to those theatric haunts where und raped ladies in profusion twinkle in and out to the tune of nightmarish music for this is Art." At this distance the New York critic seems a provincial, entirely complacent and quite amusing ass.

Now is the time for the Richmond public, to put itself through its musical and theatric paces. On Monday, the fifteenth, one of the best known American operatic organizations will be at. the Gennett in a presentation of the famous opera. "Martha." with whose music everyone is more or less familiar. The Aborn Grand Opera Company, which makes its presentations in English, maintains a very high standard both theatrically and musically, and is affected by the best musical element of the country. Not long since they played a week's engagement in English's in Indianapolis to big audiences. Here is an opportunity to see a classic, which is also a popular opera, presented as well as you will see or hear it outside the Metropolitan Company and if the town passes this up Mr. Murray may well feel that all it is worth while to bring here is such ancient and honorables as Uncle Tom's Cabin and its ilk. To that portion of the local public which attended the Chautauqua last summer, it may be interesting to know that excerpts from Martha were given by the Haines-Kellogg Singing party and given, be it said, with a certain degree of eclat.

The opera is full of action, melody, life and color, the story 1b an interesting one and, altogether, the company should sing and play to a "capacity house."

SAVING MONEY. A Dollar a Week Put Into the Bank Is a Good Investment. "It Is mighty hard." said an unfortunate workingnian some time ago to the writer, "to save up a thousand dollars by laying aside a dollar or two. a week and then to take It out of the sarins bank and lose it to a get rich quick swindler, as I have just done." The poor fellow could work and save, but he had not had even a kindergarten education In finance, else bis story would have been different. He had never given a thought to interest and so was absolutely ignorant of growth through compound Interest and. of course, had never beard of that wonderful process of accumulation known as "progressive compound interest." One dollar deposited In a savings bank that pays 4 per cent will amount to $2.19 in twenty years. This is simple compound Interest. Now. if you deposit J1 every year for twenty years, cr $20 in all, the sum to your credit will have grown to $30.97. Any wage earner can put by $1 a week. That money deposited In a savings bank for twenty years will have increased to $1,612. A deposit of $5 a week will have grown to $8,000. and this at 4 per cent will be $320 a year. There is no secret, no mystery, about this. It is as clear as the cloudless sun, and the method is just as clean and honest" Christian Herald.

Primitive Man and Exercise. Exercise in primitive times was the price of life. It was only after we had learned to live by our wits and exercise became a luxury that It began to run into fads. If primitive man neglected his al fresco Delsartean exercises and let his muscles soften he simply provided a tender tidbit for some of his confreres, carnivore or cannibal. It was a case of eat or be eaten, and his motto was, "Do it first." The gorgeous possibilities of power through repose had not yet dawned on him. In those days man didn't exercise. He just "humped." He had to. From "Exercise and Health," by Woods Hutchinson.

Agreat German saengerfest will be held in St. Paul, Minn., in July, when German singers will go to St. Paul from various parts of the country. The German societies of the city will be at work throughout the winter, and will expend between $35,000 and $40,000 in preparations.

CANT BEAD THOR U?Z. When Actors Do Not Fce the Audience It Bother th Desf. Time and time a gam we're asked to have our actors face the audience squarely when speaking tines that are of great importance." a theatrical manager said recently. "The explanation for the requi-st is generally the same that deaf people in the audience who depend oa lip reading rather than hearing lose the run of the play if some important lines are spoken by a person whose lips can't be read. An actor or actress who's stuck on posing in profile is always- the despair of the deaf people in the audience, as they say it's almost impossible to read lips in jpronle. "Out ticket agent hears another side of the same question. People tell him when buying tickets that some one In the party is stone deaf and must read the lips of the actors in order to follow the play. Then they ask htm on which side of the theater these particular seats should be located to make this Up reading the most satisfactory. Often the stage setting decides which way the actors must face, and If a deaf person gets on the wrong side of the house the play Is practically lost." New Vork Sun.

The Painter and the Cobbler. The painter Apelles, who nourished in the time of Alexander, was shown a picture by an inferior arti who boasted of having sketched it out in an exceedingly short space of time. "Yes, I can see that very well," said Apelles, "but I am surprised that you did not make several other pic-tores exactly like this in the same space of time." We are Indebted, according to tradition, to this same Apelles for one of our common phrases. The painter had listened with patience and profit to a cobbler's criticism of the sandals in a picture. But when the cobbler began to enlarge the field of bis criticism to other parts of the painting he received this rebuke from Apelles: 'Shoemaker, stick to your last."

Auburn Haired Women. History avers that women with auburn hair have wielded a strong influence in all ages. The women familiar

j to history who belonged to this sisterhood were Isabella of Castile, Helen

of Troy, Catherine I. of Russia, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth of England, Mary Stuart, Anne of Russia, ex-Empress Eugenie, Lucrezia Borgia and Beatrice Cenci.

HINDU WOUEN. Whatever Their Station They Are Gracious and PicturesqueThere are. of course, all kinds of Hindus. They range from the- lowest levels of superstition and ignorance to high attainments of Intelligence and culture. But in one respect they are all alike. "Never once." says Mr. Begbie, "have I detected the very smallest smirch of vulgarity either in manners or in dress." The Ulnda may believe in 30,000.000 gods, he may hold that the world is flat and that his soul's salvation is endangered by the shadow of a European. but he will have charm of manner and make a picture either in the unbandseted jungle or on the platform of a railway terminus." But the Indian woman Is the crown of her creation, as, of course, all women are everywhere. She may be unable to read or write, she nut crive

food to idols and believe that her god i or devil rides around the village at nigixt on a plaster horse or mud ele-'. phant. "but she will be modest audi gracious In her manner, and her dress 1 will be as beautiful as the flowers of; the field." No matter how savage'

and heathen, how ignorant and stupid these people may be. they "have a nobility in their manner and a loveliness in their raiment." San Francisco Argonaut. Environment. The street car conductor was about to be transferred to another line. Not his to reason why, yet on that occasion he did. and with the chief of the department. "I don't like that line," be said. "What's the matter with it?" asked the chief. "It's commonplace," said the conductor. "I will lose my good manners If I go down there. The line 1 am on now la a well dressed line and a liberal education for the railway employee. I am not the same man I was when I was moved up there two years ago from a downtown line. I a mmore polite, my voice is lower, and I have spruced up in general appearance. It Is that way with every man In the business. Put him on a line patronized by well dressed people and he will fix up to fit his surroundings. If I go back on that other line I will lose polish.' All the chief said then was "Well, well," but the conductor was not transferredNew York Sun.

BUILDING A CHARACTER. Character is the wool I of ttoaor from which coat of taai cm be woven (Haft the swiftest show of shame or the keenest knif of dism pule cannot pierce. Every though that enters out mind, every act we do and every word we Mer adds a link to the golden chained character. Our faaures and oat successes help to form reputation that may

be destroyed by an external iorce.

but the destruchoQ of a

can be effected only by .ternal farce.

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Pretty High Hlfls. A distinguished astronomer once took the trouble to measure In several paintings the sise of the moon and to deduce from It the height of the mountains shown In the same picture. Tie found that the average height of the hnie was about forty-three miles, while one Slant peak , raised Its head more than a hundred miles above sea level. Tamer, who was one of the greatest Hasten of landscape composition end coloring, freqaaatiy exaggerates the height of hla hUU -with the intention of

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The Range of Vision. Data have been gathered in Germany with reference to the distance at which persons may be recognized by their faces and figures. If one has good eyes, the Germans claim, one cannot recognize a person whom he has seen but once before at a greater distance than twenty-five meters (eighty-two feet). If the person is well known to one, one may recognize him at from fifty to a hundred meters, and if it is a member of one's family, even at 150 meters. The whites of the eyes may be seen a from twenty-seven to twenty-eight meters and the eyes themselves at seventy-two to seventy-three meters. The different parts of the body and the slightest movements are distinguishable at ninety-one meters. The limbs show at 182 meters. At 540 meters a moving man appears only as an indefinite form, and at 720 meters (2.361.6 feet) the movements of the body are no longer visible. Scientific American.

Friends. Put your heart into the search for a friend, freely offer assistance to any of the crowd who needs it, and, soon er or later, you will find a hand out stretched toward yours, and your sou; will meet Its likeness. Do not imitate those who, shut up in their individual ity as in a citadel, indifferent to all passers by. yet send forth on the four winds of heaven the melancholy cry. "There are no friends!" They do ex 1st. be sure of it. but only for thote who seek, for those deeply interested in the search and for those who do not remain content to spin out the thread of life In a corner like a spider's web. Intended to catch happiness.

Instincts That Lead to Death.

Professor Mivart proved that there are "instincts" that lead to death by falling to adapt themselves to a change of circumstances. Migratory quail by thousands perish in the deserts of northern Africa, where their ancestors used to find a comfortable winter resort, abounding with forests and even with grain fields, if we shall credit Pliny's account of the Numidian coast lands. The forests are gone, but myriads of quail still follow In the same route at the risk of starvation.

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