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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1897)
f$&. TS&ZVplv' T-& v?SVa?.S; v 'f ' Vis.g-r.'"'-. --C" l spr- ? : p- . . . 1 V '10 THE COURIER.: i'y It. K Mr 3 !-. ., I'' THE THEATRE, De Wolf Hopper and his large com pany played t9 a splendid house at the Fuokeon Wednesday eight. Parquet, boxes, dress circle, balsony and gallery were tilled by a well aresssd, respon sive, easily tickled audience. Mr Hopper and his company were re peatedly called before the curtain. In response to repeated demands for ''Caaey.' Mr. Hopper said he bad given Casey for the last time. It was a great disappointment to many who had never teen Casey and never will unlcs3 Mr. Hopper consents to be his medium. ElCapitan hasect the street boys and the university students singing and whittling, the"ypical Tune of Zanzi bar," and paits of the love song and tbe easiest parts of the chorus. 1 Capitan baa more of a riot than is usually be stoyed upon light npera. The composer of the score devidea a very flattering recognition with the play wright. Of course De Wclf Hopper plays a oward'spirt. Nothing else has been written for him since the possibili ties of his voice were fully recognized. It would nevertheless be pleasant to see him play a man's part since he his more thin the average of bis proportions- The scenes were ad mirably set. The scenery of act II was particularly interesting and fort ign. In the background mountains towering Bountains, shut in a valley with a stream tumbling down the centre, in the middle foreground terraced temples of the pe culiar Peruvian arpect, suggesting all kinds of cruel sacrifices. In the scene where El CapUan is baing crowned by byv his future bride whom be has not courted and does not want, the unwilling bigamist w wreathed with buds and the brides maids are using their privilege to kiss the bridegrosm, the princess Marghanza, his wife, and Isabel, -the granddaughter of the king, enter with their maids, all of them clothed in black. They surround the prison in which they suppose the viceroy is confined, they moan and pray and groan with supplicating arms uprakeJ. The -contrast between this eceae to the left of thestigeand the May pole scene, with the husband and father as the pole Which the Tight side i" mourning is the essence of true comedy. The large company is made up of hand some men and women, fetching and ap .prcpriately costumed. Tbe chorus was especially effeceive, well trained and tuned. Edna Wallace Hopper is cute and vivacious. Herstcckin trade con sists of the ix and a half feet of com ,aiedian that shs possesses and .some very pretty dresses. Miss Nella ,'Bergen, who played Isabel, Medigua's -daughter, is a strikingly beautiful wo tswa with a flexible and sweet soprano voice, with bo apparent turn for ecting, bat her looks and voice aio enough for lone person. Every time the corrpany was all on the stae the, effect was cha:uing because of the discrimination .shown in the c ilor of the costumes. I should have supposed that so prac tised an actor; as Mr. Hopper is, would Bot introduce an imitation drunk scene .but he did. Thit resource of continu ous performar.es actors since a stage was first setup boies ths most ingenuous audience. All conventional phases of the drunk act have bven acted to shreds anl Mr. Hoppsr did bot depart from the conventional. Any chance sot of the tt.eeti can do bet'er. At tbe best is tin ait loathsome and should not te in the repertory of any first class actor. Adg'e.the young Mexican woman who has bees at thcFanks for two wee'ie with faerlhree boas is an interesting type. 'With her black eye a od the straight black .'hairsCa Mexican she spssks Eaglkh with Bely a slight accent which k "fcotkeabte when she orders Prince the big lion to "jemp, jomp, queek." A bluish scar from the inside corner of her right eye to the tip of ber nose, shows where, two months ago in St. Louis, the lioness Victoria clawed open the skin of her face. It was during tbe Cachuci ' which every evening ehe dances towards the end of her turn with the lions. In thiB Spanish dance she bends backward with her head inclined to first one side then another. It is noticeable that the lions, having been driven to crouch in the corners of the cage, fix their flaming eyes upon her and at every wave of the gauzy dress, make perilous passes at her with their paws. That night in St. Louis she came two inches too near and she felt tbe ripping stab ot Victoria's paws and the blood blinded her. The peop'e were alarmed but she kept on with the dance. When she went to her state room a physician in the audience was asked for and one connected with the hospital responded. He sewed up the bone-deep cut, bo that now only the narrow bluish scar is to be seen. Adgie siya that tbe lions are controlled by fear alone. That they do not eat human beings and would cot molest one unless starving or first attacked by a man. They are dazzled by light and uncon trollable in the dark. This is why for her act there are always extra lights. 'In San Francisco a year ago a man named Boone who had trained his lions from cubs, for seventeen years was eweep irg out the cage. The lights went out and the lions sprang upon his neck, they always spring for the neck, got the head from the shoulders and were tear his body to pieces when an old man, who had been crippled by training lions himself lighted a lamp, sprang into the cage and with an iron bar clubbed the lions into releasing the body and head which he dragged from the cage. Adgie pounds. her lions with the ieaded end of a whip when they snap at her. It is absurd to ree so small a body beat and bully three healthy lions into obedience but Adgie does it with the splendid audacity ot an admiral walking the quarter-deck tnongst bursting shells. The Woodward company plays to good houeee. Among them are good actors. Their selection of plays is almost entirely from an English source. Three act comedies if you wish to be polite made up of dialogue which in crossing the ocean has lost the point of its jokes tbe plot of i's plot. In reality they are school dialogues sold by the half dozen for ten cents. The country from which these plays are taken should pay the exporters a bounly for riddance of so much unmerciful dulness. It speaks well for the company that they were able to introduce a little funny business into these dreary plays. regent3 hasty and much indignation was expressed. Prof. Wolfe's classes are cmong tho largest in the university' and those who have attended his lec tures for any length of time are strong ly attached to bim. Tbe real reasons which make it Lest for the university that Prof. Wolfe should not longer be connected with it aio of no greater force now than they were -several years 8go. These reasons are entirely un connected with his religious be lief, politics, his knowledge of philosophy or bis ability to teach it. The testimony of students professors and men in his own depart ment express perfect confidence in his scholarship. It is a matter of record that Prof. Wolfe baa been unofficially in structed by the board of regents more tran occe to confine his competent at tention to bis own department. Fail ing to Bee th9 inevitable result 61 not, complying with such instructions the uni versity faculty wilt lose an accomplished member. Members of the alumnae, who reside, in Lincoln havn frequently beard severe criticisms of various mem bers of the university faculty. The source of these aspersions has been in variably identical, Such a spirit in so large and diverse a body is incompatible with the peaceful pursuit and com munication of knowledge, scientific or literary. The board of regents of tha university is composed of men ot wide experience ot affairs. Their loyalty and devotion t3 the university is unques t'oned. They have considered the action they took Wednesday morning for several years. It antedated at least by one year the present chancellor's arrival. In the early days of the university the relationship between students and the individual professors was much more confidential than it can be at pres ent; when many of the -"classes are so large that they must be divided into two divisions. It is difficult for the alumnal professors who are remnants of that time tc realize that tbe cabals of and confidential relations between students and professors are no longer possible they were never dignified. The student's resentment of Prof. Wolfe's dismissal was much lessened when they learned the reasons for it Previous to the devotional chapel exer cises of the morning a reference to the action of tbe board of regents was hiss ed by seme of tho students who after wards in mass meeting assembled pas sed a resolution of apology to the chan cellor. Tbe majority of the students in the university are men ot breeding, in capable of such coarseness. But a few ex cited men who happen to be students uneobered by tho struggle of life, can make noise enough to obscure hundreds of gentlemen. This was the case en Thursday morning. About twenty of the resident alumnai met on Thursday morning to consider the case ot Pro fessor Wolfe ari the regents. After much discussion and many objections from this section of the alumnae it was decided to send a committee to ask' the regents to defer conclusive actios until Professor Wolfe's friends might have an opportunity to look into the reasons for bis dismissal. The regents received the request of the committee with courtesy but, considering tbe very long time the matter has been under discussion they replied that their action was final, and adjourned without date. Professor Adams, who has been con nected with the department of literature was asked to resign because his de-' partment and Prof. Sherman's over lapped and the necessity for economy, mates such a condition mnwke. i Dr. Clark's resignation was accepted last December. v . Mies Parker, who has been the talented and efficient bead. !o the art department tendered her reekjf nation because the dropping of the pre paratory department and the- establish ment of classes in mechanical drawing withdrew a large num ber of- the students whom 'she taught. The art department has been made an adjunct of the school of music, which is most unfortunate for the art school. Great Special hat sale. All our nobby sprier J8r7 hats and caps for men- boys and chiUft&wiBbe mold at 1-5 off thk week only. Armstrong Oothtng Co. THE UNIVERSITY. A large number ot the students at tbe university were much excited on Thurs day morning to learn that. Prof. H. K. Wolfe had been notified that the best interests of the university required that his connection with the university should cease at tho expiration of four months from the time ot notics. 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