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Gossip About Plays and Players
ILXIAM VAL'QlfN MOODY may
rl ba an apostle ot the new socl
f I olog-y. One. Omaha man who
llliun. ou J.. i u lit... ..in
seeing "The Great Divide." At
any rate, the play affords much
food for thought, and Is not lightly to be
put aside, simply because some of its as
pects may not appeal to a delicate sense of
what should or should not be shown on the
stage. Mr. Moody must, have known this
when he was writing the play, and It Is
not at all improbable that he felt much as
did the Jury In the old story. The judge
had Instructed the jury that It waa to be
the Judge ot the facts, while the court
would be the Judge of the law. When the
verdict r.-as handed in the court was as
tonished at the findings, and expressed
himself very plainly. "I thought 1 told yon
that the court would be the judge of the
law," he thundered at the Jury. "So you
did, Jedge," responded the foreman, "so
you did, and we considered that p'lnt, too."
The brutality of the closing scene of the
first act of 'The Great Divide"1 Is utterly
abhorrent, especially when contrasted with
the opening scene, but it waa that very
contrast that the author aimed at and
which the producer has sought to empha
size. All the way through Its action the
contrast persists, but Its lines draw closer
and closer together, until the point of con
vergence la reached. Just aa the last cur
tain goea down, ahowtng Ruth In the arms
of Stephen, husband and wife finally
united and no longer strangers. It deala
with fundamentals, and not with the super
flclal refinements of society. It has many
phases that are repugnant In the extreme,
but It also has a thought that la worth
while considering.
has known that lover of hers. And she
gives herself without stint, and feels that
It is true that even, before the flight of
time began she was his.
And who shall say under what conditions
tills love Is born? "Was ever-woman In
such humor waced? Was ever woman In
such humor won?" queries the crafty Rich
ard, pleased both with the answer of tho
bereaved widow and his own guile. The
humors In which the woolngs and the win
nings of the world have been carried on
are as widely varied as the people of the
world. All of which has much to dT with
the growing belief that truth is not so
absolute as aome would liave us admit.
It is rather more relative than a fixed
fact, and, as morals are to aome extent
a matter of geography, so truth Is In a
very great degree a matter of Indi
viduality. One of our harmless amuse
ments Is to say what we would do if
we were placed In situations where we
aee others. It la so easy to speculate on
a line of personal conduct when one has
never bten called upon to put that specu
lation Into the form of action. But no one
has yet laid down a code for the govern
ment ot love-making or to regulate the
way of a man with a maid. One may
lure her with a bouquet and a box of
caramels, and another may win her with
a six-shooter and a strlnfr nf enlri mi?.
had not died In preference to living under
such conditions.. And this view has been
upheld. The course she did pursue has also
been upheld, and the reascnableness of the
outcome Is sustained by any amount or
argument. But the question Is not disposed
cf, net yet, and the commentators as a rulo
leave the fourth of King .Solomon's llt of
things he understood not Just where he did.
One of the speeches" In" "The Wolf," the
Eugene Walter"s play coming to the Boyd
this evening, has a bearing on this. Will
lam Courtenay as the French-Canadian
Jules Beaubien tells of his tove for Hilda
McTavlsh (portrayed by Krarjces Rinj).
The Innocent girl ot the woods does not
know what love Is, but she experiences
what she terms "the greet desire." Jules
then speaks to her as follows:
"Love Is the great desire, and all that
live have It. In the spring, when the snow
melts and the Ice crashes down the river,
when the pink flowers of the forest peep
from underrjeath the snowdrifts, then the
world is full of love. The ducks and the
geese are noisy In the romances. The he
wolf kills night and day to feed the mother
of his cube. The bull moose bellows in the
pride of his fatherhood. The robin watches
his 'bright-eyed mate on the next branch,
waiting for those three egis to bring new
life into the world. And all this, Hilda, is
the love Qod wanted men to have. But It
Is not so, Hilda. Some men some time have
sinned, and the great desire is not always
good nor pure.
t'nder what conditions and sustained by
what elements is a woman's love for a man
born and nurtured? Who can tell? In aj
current magaxlne the writer of a really I
beautiful love story asks who of all that
have ever watched through the night can
catch the moment of the dawn? Or who
knowa the time the touch of color and per
fume ceasea to be a bud and becomes a
rose? "There be three things which ure
too wonderful for jne, yea, four which I
know not: The way of an eagle In the air;
the way of a serpent upon a rock; the "way
of a eliip in the midst of the see; and tli i
way of a man with a maid. Even Solo
mon did not try to answer the quesitons.
With all Ills wisdom and all his experience,
and that Is reputed to have been same, he
passed along the question to those who
would come after him. The way ot the
eagle In the air it no longer so much of a
mystery as it was at that time. The mod
ern aviator Is knocking at the Inner door
of the secret, havlnf forced his way Into
the vestibule. The way ot the ship In the
midst of the sea Is plain, and easily deter
mined, so Is the way ot the serpent upon
the rock. But who can tell the way ot a
man with a maid? That we call love for
warjt of a better word la aa far from analy
sis now aa It ever waa. It la an Impelling
force In the affairs of man, and this
includes woman, "as It waa In the begin
ning, is now and ever shall be, world with
out end." And that this force should be
measured, and weighed, and reduced to its
molecular nakedness is not altogether de
sirable. The lover, "sighing like a furnace."
his bead full of thoughts that revolve
around the only woman In the world, does
not ask himself why he loves her; he Is
content to know that he does. While she,
some time or another sne will let him lake
her Into his arm, and as she lays, held
closely to his breast, resigrjng body and
soul into hi keeplni she never givea a
thought to any phase of the question other
than she love and Is beloved. "AH my
life, and eons and eons before," ansers
Kuth Jordan ti Dr. Wyngate Newberry
whtq Pt Ucmnds to be told how ong she
'Hilda, I have had the great desire like
i nil men T hnv. hnl nlwnvi hrrn atinti. hut .
.cv.. u no- m.mou. are jus; h.v, be.rj bad , nJ,c iearntd mucn n(1
as many ways a. there are couple. We ' x wleh t0 bc d. TV9 come,
never tire of asking what she could see .. , ,,, ,,.. ,, , ', ,..
heart lil:o the fangs of a wolf. I have been
In the north, when at noon tho red rlro
ct a distant sun I the only message from
trie warmth arM glow of the distant south
land. And then. In the cold and loneliness,
the great desire has como upon me. I
loved, hut sjmcwJiere, I knew my male was
waiting, and I'd cuddle up among my dogs
and sleep peacefully."
In him, or what he saw In her, and It
never occurs to us at such times as that
that others are asking the same tiling
of ourselves. And every man has at some
time asked himrelf what It wua that won
for lilm tha woman Into whose ears he
poured his hot words of passionate avowal.
And every man In whese veins flows red
blood has felt that divine insanity that
questioned nothing that Oared ail, that
reeked not tha cost nor the outcome, but
forgot all and everything In the presence
of the woman. And the woman herself
muat feel eonifthlng very much like this.
The intellect lias no part in this.
Ruth Jordan gave an. pie evidence of the
struggle of the physical woman trying to
break through the Intellectual swv.thlngs
that hell her back and circumsi ribed her.
It Is likely, altogether, that Khe did not
understand the nature of. her exaltation or.
that night when she was left alone at the
little ranch house In the desert. She had
been wonderfully happy for days, and her
exuberance was the tubjeet ot Inquiry
from lhoe around her. She ttcod In the
deor and apoetrcphlied the nUht, revelli j
in the sheer Joy of physical life. No matter
if she were the cultured daughter ot a
long line of puritanical ancestors,, and her
mind atored with the conventional beliefs
and rooted convictions of her race; in her
nature atlnel that Indefinable something
that made her turn buk at the supreme
moment. wh?n she held h?r captor's re
volver In he.- hand and turned It to her
head: she had not thn courage to pall the
trigger. She loved life and refused to
leave It. Nor did she, when she pointed it
at him, have the couiage to fire, for slid
could not take life. And, as he said after
wards, when their eyes f!rt met there
flashed a look that burned away all ques
tion of right and wrong. It wa blind In
stinct that led her to choose him as the
least brutal of the three.
Moss Empires. Tha Importance of this
combine j'oait'- best be I'txraveyed vto th
American reader by likening it to the
agreements of late years between the war-
ring factions In the vaudeville world of,
the I'nlted States. Inevitably It will have
the same results. To the American vaude
ville artist it Is interesting and welcome
because It will result In a concentration of
the booking business and the eoniaquent
possibility of booking for long routes,
even as long as two years solid in almost
as few mlnutea. But should It also re
sultand It is almost sure to do so in the
death of competition among managers and
the reduction of salaries to artists it will
not be the unmixed blessing that the sev
eral managers Interested would have us
believe. Of late years the salaries of per
formers, and especially of "stars" able to
dictate terms, have gone up amazingly in
England, and It is presumed that the first
business of the proposed combinations wl 1
ba tha letting of wind out of these inflations.
Incidentally the hlgii prices now paid in
tha United States to artists and the con
stant demand there for English artists of
the better class by such managers aa
Percy Williams and E. F. Proctor have
had a whole lot to do with the fattening
of the English artists' Saturday evening
envelopes. Every London manager of im
portance has been busily engaged for sev
eral years In keeping such artists as
George Robey, Little Ttch, Marie L'.oyd
and Wllkle Bard In England at any pi Ice
with varying success, and the "stars" have
taken advantage of the state of affairs
The result is that they are drawing from
I'M) to $T50 a week for one performance a
day and have been appearing at three and
sometimes four houses a night, a thing un
known and unpermitted In the United
States, where the basis of a contract be-
tween manager and artist Is the exclusive
services of the performer.
Roberts, Ada Reeve and Ruth Vincent.
During the coming engagement of Martir.
Harvey at the Adelphl, there being nc
parts In his opening plays for Mlna N. rir
8!lva, hi talented and dainty wife.- aht
will be seen, during the secmid week, in
a one-act play, "The House of Pierre,"
which 1 from the joint pen of Kate Jordan
and Julie Opp, the latter of whom la, of
course, the wife of William Faversham.
The Engllshborn but Amerlcan-brsd actor
and his wife, with their two children, are
living; the country Ufa far from the theater
and the Rlalto In an obscure corner of
Surrey, where Miss Opp put the finishing
touches to her dramatic effort.
Maude Adams is Staying tuletly with
friends In Berkshire. The American
actresa la very anxious to remain , unob
served as her health 1 not of the best,
and there is no doubt but that she would
be lionised were her presence generally
kr.own. The holiday season has brought
an exchange of "Peter Fans," between
England and the United Stntea for Pauline
Chise, who Is Identified with the Burrle
character over here, is spending a few
weiks on your side of the witr. I have
often wondered what Mls Chase's thoughts
must be In her native count ty, ftr she left
It ao obscure chorus girl with only a brief
spell of notoriety as a "PyJama Girl" In
"The Liberty Bells," to look back upon,
and she has worked her way over here Into
a position of a "darling of the Gods," the
deities Including J. M. Parrle, whose espe
cial protege she la, and Charlea Frohman,
who appears to have no end to confidence
In her ability or her drawing powers in
which Is it? JOHN AVA CARPENTER.
Now. many yards of newpspr and
rragazine space have hrn used In the de
bate as to what should have been her
J course. Her mother, anchored In the se
curity of the home where she had been
tskea a bride, thirty years before, wrarp.'d
up In the Utile thlngj of life, and but
tressed by the crystallised thought of s
long descent from ancestors similarly situ
ated, eaprfsfed horrified surprUs that Ryiq
During his stay in Omaha Henry Miller
responded quite readily to the Inqulsitoiiel
reporters who visited him, and discussed
his future plana In some detail. Mr. Mil
ler -vlll lay aside for a while the Joys of
acting and devote himself entirely to the
cares of management and production for
the next few months. Ha has four plays
In hand whlrf he hopes to bring out dur-
r.g the next ffew months, and these, with
ilia ones he has already under way. will
keep hint' quite busy. His chief interest
Just at this moment is "The Servant In
the House." whicli is enjoying a remark
ably euecessful season In Chicago. U will
continue there until holiday time, and then
will be sent out for a short tour. Omaha
will get to see It about tho first of the
year. A play he tried out while In San
Francisco, "Mater." will be given a chance,
and U iif. another by William Vaughn
Moody, "Tha Faith Doctor," to get Into
shape for the public. These plays, have no
part for him, and neither have plays by
Ferry Mackaye and Haddon Chambers hu
ha in hand. He ia awaiting Miss Auglin's
return from Australia before definitely de
ciding on several things, among them a
visit to England with "The Great Divide."
Mr. Miller spoke most hopefully of the
outlook for the theater In this country, ac
cepting the success ot the intellectual
drama, ss an evidence that the American
public will pay to see the better cia.s of
plays. He still holds that the theater must
first of all entertain, but Insists that mere
entertainment is not the end nor all that
is required. .
( OMBI..iTIO OK Ml'tlC MALLS
Oswald atoll, Hkt Controls Tweaty.
alar. About to Take Fifty Mer.
LONDON. Aug. 19 tUpeclal Correspond
ence ) Within a few weeks. If . present
plans nature, there will be a gigantic
amalgamation of Rngltah muilo halls un
der the' captaincy t Oswald Stoll and the
The new arrangements will throw some
thing Ilk seventy-eight theaters In Lon
don and the provinces under tha control of
Stoll and his aasoclates. The Moss Em
pires, of which he Is the managing director
and the guiding genius, already holds
sway over twenty-nine, Including the Hip
podrome and the big Coliseum In London.
The augmented string of house will be
managed from the Moss headquarters In
I,ondon and it la possible that some ot
them will be weeded out entirely in c;U-s
where competition has been most ruinous
If 1 were writing" for an English public
I would receive scores of protesting letters
If I were to assert that the enormous suc
cess of the Palace Theater of Varieties la
London marked' a real triumph for Amer
ican vaudeville. Yet such Is neverth;Uss
the fact, for the most successful of London
vaudeville houses Is based on American
linea and run with American Ideas. Und 'r
the management of Alfied Butt It ha
served up to a watting English public the
class of entertainment with which the bst
Ameilcan vaudeville houses In the larger
American cltle have been Identified,
adapted, of course, to English n?eds an J
taste. No one will deny the ab.ll y of
Mr. Butt, but the fact remains that his In
spiration la to be found on your sldd of
the water.
The Palace has declared a dividend of
to per cent, but that fact Is not a remark
able as the circumstance that the annual
report ahow a weekly profit of almost
15,000. It means that almost every seat
In the big theater, which has a seating
capacity of almost 10 haa bcn occupied
at every performance. For the past
months, of course. Its Mg business cen be
traced to the presence in tha Ull of Maud
Allan, the American dancer, but the policy
of the heuae has always been to present a
strong bill regurdUss of cost and such
American performer aa Marie Drerslrr,
R. G. Knowles and Anna Htkl have al
ternated with English and French favor
ites like Albert ' Chevallei, Ous Lien,
Louis Collins, Tvett Qullbert, Arthur
Cum Ina Eveata.
Tonight at the Boyd theater the Messrs
Shubert will present an all-star cast In
the romantic drama "The Wolf," by Eu
gene Walter, author of "Pall in Full," both
of which plays have met with phenomenal
success within ths last few months. The
cr.gsgement is for four days with a matinee
on Widncsdiiy. In the presenting company
will be sum William Courtenay aa Jules
Beaubien, Frances Ring as Hida MacTay.
ieh, Walter Hale as William MacDonaid,
Thoms.s Findlay aa Andrew MacTavlsh,
Sheridan Block' aa Batiste and William
Roscil as George Huntley. Mr. Walter haa
written the 'play in robust style. It Is a
story i.f the Hudson bay fur country and
of the irinml. eterntl struggle between men
fcr the p:seion of a woman. Dark pas
sion and pure s. ntlment are set In oppoel
tlon, hut there is nothing hackneyed. The
mm are not of tho familiar s. age type,
nor are the scene tf a mechanical order.
It story Is:
The lather of Hilda MarTaviah Is a Sci
tiMii. whose narrowness of mind drives ins
Wife Into the wurW, The child, Hilda, is
left behind. When MacDonaid, a hand
seine engineer, apnea; he covets the sim
ple gul and engages old MacTavlnrt in a
plot to lure Hiloa the way her irmitur had
gone. MacDonaid is nor a vtlli.m for the
"gods." however, and deeds of violence ha
leavea to the hero, which certainly reems to
be contrary to all the old traditions. Here
the art of the drsmaitet la seen at Its
best. There crop U Jules beuuhlen, a
Fiemh-Canadluit witn a (treak of OJlbway
iron his mother. MaeDonald had Kfi
Jules' sister to die wltii Ii-r unburn child.
'Jult-s recognise.) nlni and bliles his time.
Batiste, his loyal retainer, cia.se himfelt
gently as l.e swear that unless JuKa kills
alavDoraid he will. Bo enris act one, witli
the Interest of the house tense.
Jjles overheats the plotting of MacTavish
and MacDonaid In relerence to the inno
cent Hilda. MacDonaid had been married
and wa a gay blado on the White Way.
Jules of course loves Hilda. The. crisis
iin. Tne lrt spams the brutal grasp ot
the englm-er. MacTavish, enraged, declares
he whl i rush her life out wnh hia bare
hands. The French-Canadian intervenes,
strikng Mi(Dald with hie fist. The en
glneer at.enipt to craw hia revolver, but
bat ste t an i.im covered with a shotgun
In the cabin window. At this point tliu
tecond act eloae and on nay imagine
easily that the lnterea: ha lucres -J all
along.
Iminrral as he is. MacDonaid Is fearless
nn.1 peiet.'.tent. He takes to the path an!
comes upon Jules. He flrea at him, but his
shot does not go home. Then the two in
sake in tha most realistic and fiercest
hand-to-hand duel ever aaca oa aay siagu
(CoHUay4 os.Iw fev.aj