B TALK WITn BEERBOHM TREE! New Actor Knight Rp.ngre from Wit ' to Philosophy. TITLE NOT YET REALLY IN USE At the Omaha Theaters THE OMAHA SUNDAY PEE: AUGUST 1, 1!09. 3 Two idrlirri Mho Help Oat the In taTTlw Keenly Interested In lkrirriirri, bat Not tare of Amrrlm Plana. William Morris AN.tit to Ilienk Into Omaha will) Another VauOevlIle Thratr "Silent Drama nt the Boyd, MUed Program at the Ilunrcx! nod !rana at tlio Alr-Iotiip. w HEN William Morris began hlj tire gamut from comely to drama and wild career as a buster of th'1 travel to Industrial and educational. Daisy vaudeville "trust." he Imor- HimjIiis has secured In "When the Band porated himself .and then began . Plays" another catchy song with beflttlns to dot the prairies with new. colored Illustrations. From William M,,r LONDON, July 24 There la an air of " theaters. Morris has secured rl' circuit of vaudeville come the Hereu- great oigmty about Hla Majesty's theater, I t"",ro1 r houses In New 101k. Chirnso. lean gymnasts. De Lano hroUiem, who wll "'"" porter, a resplendent per- m me oiiit iare rms. wnrre exhibit some stunts In hand balancing said tonage whom you mistake In the beginning n,n" of vaudeville that is to he truly manelous. The two IngTams lor one 01 the Royal Fualllers at least. " " rp.M even ine aovancea' type will contribute to the Ions bill their act aavises at your departure a taxi rather V" v'"w nurnea meir consisting of dexterous manipulation of loan a hansom with a manner that would rew montha ago. He Is now busy ; odd objects. They are said to be unusually grace a court function. English women ! Wlth vaudeville acheme that shall belt! clever, tit ill another novelty on the Dro- who ahop In the forenoon with trains to their gowns drop them when they approach the bit of pavement that fronta the estab lishment ao as to get Into the picture ,l ...1 t ..,luu..cr. mat ne nas inea - gram la the yodellng violinist, Chrl ir. rnougn io permit h)m sending an act Christopher, who, aside from possessing a on a world-girdling tour, booked solid from fine voice. Introduces much comedy along ... u. i.aving new iurK to the re- with his trick v turn. All i lolin playing. A s rlea tf projerly. Messenger boys going by tllt!,., . . ... ', lnLIUU""a scf nes dep ctln scenes in foreign clime tnelr foolish little caps more raklshly over their big ears, and chauffeurs tuot trium phantly. In the delicate frigldness of the Empire reception room stage Ingenues ask each other It It la really true, aa Wilde said, that a woman who would tell her age 'would tell anything and when you mention the reason for your appear ance to one of the employes he atuttera "Sir-Mister Tree," for the new dignity haa not reached the facile utter ance of everyday utterance. Incidentally you learn that while It la quite proper at thle moment to Bay "Tea 8lr-ee" when Sir Herbert addresses you he will not be Invested with his new honors for another week, having been merely formally noti fied of hla coming reward, after whteh he will be welcomed to all court ceremonies and levees, an honor which baa been be stowed from time to time upon Squire Bancroft, Henry Irving, John Hare and Charlea Wyndham. Radical that he Is, one of the members of the Tree company said that all the bonora lumped together did not amount to the O. M. (Order of Merit) which George Meredith had and that really "so far aa I can see the only good a "sir" does an actor la the knowledge that It pleaaea mother." It certainly pleases as well the corps of theater attendants, whom It lias Invested with a halo of superiority. On the W ay I p. ' So far as can be discovered In a casual Inspection the only weak point In the magnificence of the whole establishment la the possesaion of a tiny elevator, which la Introduced aa an "American lift," and which you work yourself by means of a pressed In thumb. Tou don't know why, but it stops when It gets there, which may be the reason It Is called American. The termination of your Journey is ,h!gh up for London, the sixth story, and you wait Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's word of wel come In a charming corner facing an oak door studded with big black nails. Tou are visibly Impressed, and if It were not that . you are allowed another moment's respite in the dome you would feel yourself abso lutely unequal to the occasion. The dome oonslsta of a suite of rooms, terminating In the aanctun sanctorum of "Sir Herbert," where he works and re ceives guests and professional compatriots. It Is a pleasant room with a semi-workaday aspect, big easy chairs and leather cov ered couches. The writing table has a fresh bouquet and la peppered with coro nated envelopes. There is a tiresome tele phone very much In evidence, which rings continually the Information that there Is a line of Impatient people watting to stand In your footsteps. While it Is being told with rare patience that Sir Herbert Is "fright fully occupied," you note the small Inner suite beyond the reception room, whej-e during the busiest season Sir Herbert lives, never leaving the theater, day or night. On Feat are of the Dome. There Is one artistic feature of the dome which deserves special attention and which la later pointed out to your notice by Its admiring owner. This is the line of wall panels, representing in the outer room scenes from the tragedies of Shakespeare and In the Inner a corresponding number from the comedies. Behind his chair Is the Falstaff, by some critics designated as Beerbohm Tree's best bit of work. The mural decoration was done by Charles Buchtel, whose paintings of Tree as King John, Malvollo in "Twelfth Night" and Isadora Isard in "Business Is Business" are masterpieces of clever portraiture. The originals of these aro in the actor's posses sion, and he also calls attention to a water color by a well known Japanese ar tist, representing a typical London crowd of first nlghters. pit and gallery, watched by sealous bobbies, entitled "Outside His Majesty's Theater." It is during the busiest of the busy sea son, when the fifth annual revival of Shakespearean plays, with a new one every night, is on the docket, preceded and succeeded by two weeks of 'The School for Scandal" series that has been Lon don's most popular success that the few minutes' Interview is accorded and It Is natural that the first Impression of .Sir Herbert is that of a very tired man, which even his great height and generous sited figure does not counterbalance. He Is not essentially dlf ferent from the Tree who visited America twelve years sgo and today admits with a sigh that he "only got as far aa Chi cago." H atands six feet one inch and bas lost all right to play the lean and melancholy Dane, Judging from physical proportions alone. He is clean shaven. Is slightly bald, has pale eyelashes, which shade very remarkable eyes, of the color of turquoise matrix normally, whioh change expression and tint, from the sapphire of a pleased hospitality to the gray green of cynical outbursts against the submerging tenth who believe themselves fitted to be playwrights because they own a bottle of .Ink, toward whom he Is particularly bitter, riaywrltlaa Not Eaay. It Is of them he says some time during the interview, "It Is only the smaller thlnk era in literature who imagine that they can turn out a play as eaaily as they cover a sheet of paper with scrawls. When the play is produced they recognise what an undertaking it Is and that you don't often find a good one any more than you often see a comet, a great poem, or a great paint ing. Playwrltlng 1 the . most difficult of all arts. Tou can afford to try experi ments in America perhaps, for you have a theatergoing pubKc drawn from a popu laf.'f iV of eighty or 100,000.000." A poetic linking young man has drifted In and Colled himself eerpenttnely in a deep chair. If you have committed the mistake 'men tally of looking upon the pre-Raphaelltlsh One as an Intruder you blot out your er ror, for frequently at your questions Sir Herbert tnrns with childlike trustfulness to him and asks "What do I think about So and 8o?" and the poetlo faced states with out a moment's hesitation Just what Sir Herbert does think, and Sir Herbert says that he does think It. Having adjusted him to the scheme o! the In tar lew, you start anew when the doer epejoa a4 ntwcoaier OU UjnaeU . I U, J I ...n u.., nuu MIS auvanceiw I fl .,, I. nmnh. rn the Krr.-n notice, say he ha, a house in Omaha. All, Tomorrow evening. In addition to the re rlfcht again, only no one In Omaha knows, u,ar performance, the customary half hou, V Bl? l r- f,om , B:30 be devoted to a vocal J. , ,: ",u,u"" Ior r. Morn, advance and pipe organ recital, during which Hen fin. .Li. . . OI ou,mln "t"lbach m render on the big Instrument, ...... in Winona, sometning tne like oi which we have never bleu. Definite an nouncement of the Iqcatlon and other de tails will be made later. All right. Air. Morris will find Omaha a live wire on ths vaudeville proposition, Just aa Mr by special request, the Intermezzo from "Cavallerla Rusticana," by Mascagni. ll.t other number will be "Miserere" from "Ii Trovatore," by Verdi. Miss Higglns will I sing during the recital "The Angel's Sere didn't If he can get his shows in here, he will find plenty of people ready to fall for them. They haye stood for about every thing that can be offered in the way of "supper acts," "song pluggers," "chasers," and the like, and one or two more will not make much difference. But Mr. Morris will have to hurry If he Is going to get his new theater ready to open by January 1, 1S10 Omaha Is already hooked up on one propo sition of that kind. "The Silent Drama" Is still drawing the ilU,... i v .. . , . did. and M..r. o,.ii.... 7... - " ""gn, "a nouwr ol "r uwn - u.ni nn b .-iitiaiiitnn . , . . , . . other entire change of program la prom ised for the last half of the week, starting Thursday, The Hlllman company will have two more weeks at their summer theater, corner KlKhteenth and Douglas streets. The coin pany Is now complete for the winter tour on the road and the new members art working hard to catch up In study; the last week the company will endeavor to play a new bill every night. This week. crowds, and proving that the neoule reallv I eommencing tonight, the company will be do like that sort of entertainment. Pictured Been in a comf,d' drama, entitled. "The of a high order are always welcome, and I Mtt,d of tlle wnl-" The "cenes are laid when they show real folks doing ' real 1 1,1 fVnn,i'1 anla an(1. while the play lb things, they become doubly Interesting. The!mole of a con"'dy ,han a drama, it con- pictures shown last week had a number lttlns a VM Pretty neart story and that were of uncommon Interest, including I abounds ln lliril""8 climaxes and dramatic the first pictures of the Wright bi others at sl,uatos- Hiram Flint Is determined to their areoplane experiments at Fon t Myer, i unlte " lars ",eel Plant lnt0 "e bl8 the big automobile race on the Indiana! consolldtion, but Peter Sterling refuses to track, and others of, that nature. Then the dramatic pictures, shewn were also ex tremely good, one of western life being especially reallstlo. The program tpr today go into the scheme, as It would bring ruin to over two-thirds of his employes. At a very critical time Flint causes Sterling's arrest for counterfeiting by placing some will be in keeping with the past, and. In a ' Plutes 'n his laboratory. This Is done cool and comfortable seat at the Uuyd the spectator will witftess a show that he will never regret. What Is said to be one of the best ar rangements of the popular summer time brand of vaudeville that is drawing such fine crowds to the Burwood this summer la the program prepared for the first half of the week, starting this afternoon. In a moving picture way there will be many new films displayed and covering the en- ln hopes that during the Investigation which would necessarily follow the Ster ling mills would have to be closed and Peter Sterling would lose the government contract for steel. Flint's plans are frus iraiea oy sue sterling, wno obtains a promise from the men to return to work under her management until her father should return a free man. The comedy is furnished by Slmonidea, a colored servant, and Michael Malone, who can do most any kind of work, but not too much. squarely Into the chair on the other side mtA 111 ,1. ll. hlma.lf .an In II ' Intn I. a versstlon. He Is in a way as important "We are sadly deficient in that regard an aid, apparently, as the pre-Kaphaellte youth, his keen wit acting aa pacer to that of Sir Herbert's. His name is mentioned. Mr. Comyns Carr and by the help of his mots and the mnemonics of the other, the Interview goes on to its legitimate conclusion. American Plays In Ensjland. Sir Herbert has been asked why It is that ao few American plays succeed In Englsnd, and responds at once before the pre-Raphaellte one can tell blm what to aay: "Tou people ln America think nothing of traveling. Tou come here with as little care and thought aa a New Tork man. would cross a ferry to Brooklyn Is It? The consequence la that you are more or less familiar with our life, and when we send plays to you they do not depict con ditions that are absolutely strange. But we don't go out there very much. We make our wills and take leave of our friends when we do. Tou know a lot more about us than i do about you, and the purely American play that we do see invariably depicts realities with which we are absolutely unfamiliar. It is a play of conditions that have merely local sig nificance." "They don't get outside the cab radius," Interpolates Mr. Comyns Carr, and the pre-Raphaellte murmurs: "Just within the shilling fare." Tou venture a suggestion that realities are supposed not to be local, but are cor rected Immediately by Sir Herbert. "That Is the unfortunate part of realit ies; they are so essentially local like or ganic diseases. Ideals, on the contrary, are not, and when the American playwright begins to send us plays with more Ideal istic tendencies, perhaps, who knowa? we may understand them better." Then courteously, as If the alleged Ignor ance concerning matters American may have wounded, Sir Herbert asks concerning the one fact that apparently haa lmpreased Itself on the English consciousness. Interested In Skyscrapers. "Tour skysorapers," he asks, feelingly, "are they er taller tban when I last heard?" Tou try to remember, having been away a month, and venture thirty-odd stories at random. "Only thirty-odd." he asks In a disap pointed tone and repeats to the pre-Ha- phaeltte One and to Mi: Carr. But the farmer compensates for the grief of his companions by stating a newly acquired fact ln aerial architecture. 'I'understand they vibrate when you get quite a bit up " He looks to you fdr emphasis, and with a smile at the thought of the office staff of some of the downtown buildings held in place by overhanging straps while they work you admit that the Interesting Item bad escaped so far your catalogue of com prehensive facts. He answers the challenge of that smile with quite an American alert ness. "Of course I didn't mean that they bow and scrspe to the ground," he ex plains, "but Just, well, wriggle a trifle In a high wind, like the Campunlle." Mr. Comyns Carr puts up a protesting finger. "Don't destroy the Illusion I was picturing an arcade of skyscrapers bending and courtesying all over the place " Sir Herbert Interpolates: "I am contln- sltous duke's bill." ' "It ought to pass," continues Sir Herbert. It reminds me of a repartee made by an American woman of my acquaintance, Someone said to her: 'Ah, but you Amer icans don't understand what blue blood gives.' 'No,' she said, 'but we understand perfectly what it takes away.' Quite clever, wasn't it?" When the laugh subsides Sir Herbert be comes the serious and Impressive manager actor once more. For a little while he has been the brilliant phrasemaker who says sharp and witty things so quickly that you cannot recall them, one verbal nail driving out another; he has been the Beerbohm Tree, who as toastmaster at the Gultry supper given a few nights before com menced his speech by saying: "When a pretty woman shows you her pretty rings, why, what can you do?" who, tired out by the importunities of his creditors when as dramatic sportsman he was plunging heav ily, said languidly, "I shall soon be able to retire on the blackmail I have not paid," who said to a friend that he could Imagine a man ln lively middle age praying, "Oh, God, give me back my enemies," and once upon a time corrected the mood of a neigh bor at a dinner party, who had gained a few laughs at the expense of his friends by saying. "Why not palliate the pangs of conversational vivisection with the chloro form of courtesy?" When He la Serious. In the serious mood he gives It as his opinion that, as one of those who stand at the top of the profession, he does not attempt to read the public mind prophet ically. He has no Inclination, no accom plishment ln that direction. He gives what he is Impelled to give, that is all. "We are the playthings of Fate. We know what we are Intended to do. No one of us Is essentially deceived as to the meaning of his life, do you think so? We must express that which Is In us seeking expression. "As you study the ssllent facts of life far below the surface we see that there is a certain force, indefinable and per sistent, which is the keynote of the man's conduct. He obeys it oftentimes ln spite of educative influences. He answers to its demand although It would often seem that in doing so he was turning his back on his best Interests. We look on and often oppose or advise, but he has the profound knowledge which puts to shame our lighter reading and proceeds onward to the goat of his desire. "Apply this reading to dramatic matters. Why does an actor scoff at the roles for which ln the public opinion he ently fitted In order to produce something for which there 1 apparently ileum i ..o mand nor understanding? He does It be cause he must. He doesn't look from his watch tower to discover whether the public eye Is turned ln the direction of romantic drama, of problem plays, of so cUl comedy. He doesn't care where they sre looking. His art demands the sacri fice of this idle Indecision. It demands that he be himself at all hazards. On a New French Play. "Just at present I am deeply interested ln philosophic questions and their ex pression in a new play by Biieuz's called 'La Fol,' which 1 shall produce here in the autumn, the translation of which is to be made by J. B. Fagan, author of 'The ONE DOLLAR DOWN . Secures for you this magnificent "Peoples Store" Pedestal Table one Ooiiasr Pooi Sale Tomorrow we inaugurate our nnnunl ONE DOLLAR DOWN SALE. 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What an original and satisfying manner of making an entry Into a strange city ' One ob the Dakes. Mr. Comyns Carr shakes his head as one who recognises his limitations. ''Not being an actor or a duke, i am aenarrea mat privilege, but I understand that there Is to be a bill presented to Increase tha Dum ber of tha aristocracy for asportation to nvartna. It la to ' be called "Tha necei- any rata. II Is full of interest', to me and has taken me Into many bypaths of rprc ulatlve thought. It sweeps aside the usual hypocrisies that govern stage craft in a very subtle way, applying the cor.dltl.ms of ancient Egypt to modern life, and In doing so making It possible to sptak with the greatest candor of the central fact and the questions of conscience which re late to it. "The central fact of life la of course hv, la Ultra any real doubt concerning thnt? Ambition is a tremendous motive power naturally, but for those who have the real sense of values there can be no doubt ln this regard, I think. In actual life, as on the stage, the love Interest must predominate. "Do I really believe that hypocrisy gov erns the stage? Don't you? Hasn't It al ways done so? Do we fsce the truth boldly? Do you In America, or do you chop and change to suit the scruples of a sham sensitiveness? "What do I think the American state needs most? Why. Tree, of course." The pre-Raphaellte One hopes that you will not put that remark in with the usual parenthesis of the Interviewer, say ing that Sir Herbert, with a pompous couh. stated, etc. You promise that you won't or that you will, you forget which, and then the conversation drifts- toward the history of His Majesty's Theater, fir Hubert gives some Interesting facts con cemlt.g It, one of them being that, unlike the majority of English houses, there are no fees to pay in his place for the privi lege of checking coats and hats or for programs. GERTRUDE LTNCH. PHONES Bell, Doug. 15Q6;ind. A-I506 If you have anything to sell or trade and want quick a'ilon advertise It ln Tha Bee Waat A4 column, We've tx-on made crazy by the HEAT -crazy enough to offer a half a dollar show for a dime. It's up to you to take ad vantage before we cool off. Glance at This Lay Out for the First Half of This Week to :30 r, at. The Kercaleaa Oymnarts, Tha Todeling Ylollnlst, DeLano Bros. CI1RIS CHRISTOPHER Slreot from Win. 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