San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 57, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 17, 1907 Page: 22 of 24
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(From Our New York Dramatic Corre-
epondent]
Richard mansfield and
"Peer Gynt" at the New Am-
sterdam theater have carried
the dramatic season of 1906-07
to its climax. Mr Mansfield never gave
a finer illustration of his powers and he
has placed Peer Uynt among the limit-
td number of immortal stage charac-
ters.
Evidences of Mr Mansfield’s keen in-
sight into the characters he pictures
have never been lacking. And these ev-
idences recur constantly as one watches
him unfold the career of Peer Gynt.
Again we are reminded that Mr. Mans-
field does not merely play or act stage
characters. He creates them.
There is no other actor today who
could equal Mr. Mansfield's perform-
ance. He has mastered the meanings
that Ibsen intended to convey has un-
covered them from frequent obscurity
of expression and undoubtedly achieves
the extreme height of effect permitted
by the poetic drama.
The Symbolic Meanings.
Probably the symbolic significance of
the character of Peer Gynt has been
overenlarged on by several writers.
Whether it has or not Is largely a mat-
ter of individual opinion. But in any
event no matter what Ibsen's underly-
ing ihotive was his Peer Gynt is in-
human is divested of artificial
J/idications of symbolism and allegory
z Some might say that Ibsen in his build-
$ $ $ Sorts of Timely Sporting Gossip &
THE sudden change that occur-1 drygoods clerk Into a great publicity
red recently in the opinions of | promoter but it cannot "transmulgri-
President Eliot of Harvard I fy” a supersensitive theorizer into a full
university on the subject of blooded athlete.
athletics was one of those humorous
episodes that sometimes enliven the ca- Ryan Willing to Make 142.
reer of a nation. Tommy Ryan middleweight champion.
President Roosevelt’s well known an- is now desirous of adding another belt
nouncement of recent date that he to his list. That Is the welterweight
wanted young America to be stalwart trophy. He declared recently when he
and strong and that rough sports made returned from Hot Springs. Ark. where
reliable men caused the worthy Presl- he disposed of Dave Barry in five
dent Eliot to jump up out of his dreams rounds that he would like to settle all
and say in effect: "Why goodness gra- the talk about his being a heavyweight.
CASTLEWOOD. 2:0914 PACING KING OF THE WESTERN HALF
clous me that's just what I think. |
Harvard boys shall be just as rough as :
they want to be. They shall even play j
football and be allowed to stay up aft- i
er 7 o'clock In the evening."
The public remembering President I
Eliot’s widely displayed displeasure at .
such ruffianly pastimes as hockey bas-
ketball football etc. a few weeks be-
fore President Roosevelt's statement
was at first at a loss to know just why
the Harvard hothouse flower had clam-
bered on to the band wagon with such
lack of dignity and evident absence of
premeditation.
The solution received In many quar-
ters is that President Eliot was trying
to avoid being classed with what Pres-
ident Roosevelt defined as ’•mollycod-
dles.’’ If this solution Is correct would
It not be a pertinent question to pro-
pound. "Did the boss of fair Harvard
succeed in eluding classification with
the mollycoddles?”
Muchness of wordism can change a
ing of symbolic representation was
guided by his well known and inherent
fondness for naturalness.
Mr. Mansfield interprets the play and
the character with the authoritative-
ness of one who thinks deeply. He
lends remarkable illumination to the
shades and colors of this character of
unusual intricacy. He meets its varied
turns and twists with surpassing versa-
tility.
The Play Outlined.
"Peer Gymt” is presented in five acts
and a total of twelve scenes. At the
opening are seen Peer and his mother
at their Norwegian mountain home. He
evidences his desire to have power over
men by telling Ase. the mother (ably
played by Emma Dunn) that he will ;
one day be a king or a kaiser. "You are
crazy." retorts Ase. and the audience
associating "kaiser" with the word
"crazy” thereupon laugh delightedly.
In a turbulent mood Peer to spite his
mother picks her up bodily and im-
plants her on the mill house roof where
she is left calling loudly for help and
so the curtain falls on the first scene.
Later Peer goes to Hegstad farm to
attend a peasant wedding ceremony.
MILE TRACKS.
| To get away from that he says he will
I challenge Billy Mellody and fight him
' for the title he holds. This means that
| Ryan will have to get down to 142 or
145 pounds which seems almost impos-
sible for him.
Ryan's ambition to do a lot of fight-
i ing is stirred up now. and he declares
| he will do almost anything to get a
। match. He will take on Mellody
Thomas or any other fighter In the
j business if the inducements are worth
the while. He is willing to take on Joe
Thomae at 154 pounds ringside If a
club WiU proffer a good purse. The
same hoi\s good for any other pugilist.
Christie to Race Abroad.
Walter ChX'De stated recently that
he would salt' (or Europe in June to
I complete for the Grand
! Prix race in France early in July. His
entry of his Improved racing car was
I made after the forrmM closing of the
' entries through the foiwgn representa-
SAN ANTONIO SUNDAY LIGHT SAN ANTONIO TEXAS SUNDAY MARCH 17 1907.
His unbridled imagination here leads
dim to cut merry capers to drink bold-
y of too much poor brandy and to re-
ate how he imprisoned the devil in a
lutshell. He asked the smithy to crack
he shell. On smiting it a mighty blow
m his anvil the devil escaped in a sheet
>f flame and burst the walls of the
shop asunder. "Since then the smith
las been my enemy” says Peer.
Here It is that Peer meets the girl
Solveig and falls in love with her.
rhinking that she has slighted him.
Peer in unsimple and impure bravado
leizes on the bride ana carries her oft
nto the mountains.
True to the unstable spirit of human-
ly that Peer may be said to individu-
ilize he soon wearies of his new ad-
venture and the bride Ingrid (Evelyn
five of the Automobile Club of Ameri- a sign of coming spring. I don't know I
ca. Mr. Christie has made several one when it is introduced to me.
changes in detail In his car. and he be- A striking feature of plans for the j
lleves it Is capable of lasting through coming annual diamond campaign is I
the 500 mile race at high speed. He the signing of almost all the old time
will be the only American competitor players who appeared in the game last
In the big French contest and probably : year. Several of these men were
the only American who will be seen in thought to have long outlived their use-
any of the big foreign road races of the ! fulness as active major league players
year. | But evidently ball players never die.
j never grow old and seldom get divorced
Farewell to Clouded Amateur Skating from the salary kitty. There are fewer
The ice sport season is closing. The ! young players in the game at present
principal feature of the ice campaigns I than there should be. Some ball man-
of 1906-07 was the fight of the Amateur agers hate to spend time in developing
Athletic union for control of amateur young players. They want only men of
skating. The decrepit National Skating I established reputations overlooking the
association presided over by Slayback. । ta< t that many noted men are known
the professional rink manager at Vero- chiefly for what they have done in the
na Lake N. J near Montclair had past. not what they can do today or
been going from bad to very bad and tomorrow.
it is refreshing to think that a clean But it is In the developing of young
unassailable body like the Amateur talent by managers that teams will In
Athletic union his wrested from It the the long run profit the most provided
control of the sport. the team Is strong enough to do good
Amateur skating in America has been : work while the "kindergarten class" is
rapidly declining ever since the lament- being "put through the mill." And it is
able death of Father Bill" Curtis in the development of young players that
the White mountains back in the late "ill prove the biggest aid to profession-
nineties. But the Amateur Athletic un- al ball in the future.
ion will give the game new life and BEN TAVIS
high standing.
KENTUCKY RACING DATES.
Baseball Talk. The Kentucky state racing commis-
Spring Is springing usward. The lusty slon recently announced the dates for
lilt of the cock robin will soon be per- race meetings. The Lexington track
colating among the ethereal zephyrs will be open from April 27 to May 4
If you don't believe it stop to observe seven days; Louisville May 6 to June
that it is’more than two weeks since a I 8. thirty days; Latonia. June 10 to July
National league ball team began its | 13 thirty days. The sense of the meet-
journey to the center of its prepara- Ing was jhat Latonia receive further
tory training operations. If that isn’t I dates for the fall of 1907. The com-
CHAMPION DELFH GIRL PERFECT TYPE OF AIREDALE TERRIER
Cdictiard
AND AJ HE APPEW
IN
1 Loomis) he dismisses with little ado.
In the meantime the peasantry organ-
ize for a man hunt. They pursue Peer
crying for summary vengeance. His is
a crime no man shall li\e to boast of.
But their prey eludes them and Peer
Anally is overcome through exhaustion
and falls into a subconscious state. His
mind wanders and the Dovre king’s
daughter appears in his fancy and she
leads him to the hall where the myste-
rious Dovre king holds his cojirt. Mys-
ticism at this period of the play now
. holds full sway and the mighty Peer
I cries lustily to his mother for help—-
brute strength calling on the weakness
it has despised for protection from
overwhelming terror.
The Trolls flee and Peer meets The
1 Great Boyg. On awakening to find Sol-
veig and Helga near Peer gains control
of his disordered mind but the two
watchers hasten_away.
The Outlaw.
Now it is the outlaw Peer that we
see forced to lead a hermit’s life. Sol-
veig. who has loved him since their first
meeting seeks and finds him and would
dwell with Peer in the forest. But Con-
sequences in the person of the Dovre
king's daughter ruin Peer’s hopes of
happiness by appearing and making
known her power and intention of for-
ever keeping them apart. Petitioning
Solveig to await his return. Peer dis-
heartened. goes saddened away.
Again Peer craves for his mother. He
goes to her cabin to gain her comfort
only to find her dying. So over the
seas he goes on her death the Wander-
lust once more governing him body and
soul.
Thirty Years Pass.
When the second pert of the drama
unfolds with act two Peer is found in
Morocco thirty years later. Wealth is
his. and ambition has not yet been
stifled in him by life and the world.
He announces to his associates that
he will become emperor of the world.
Not wishing to see the world made the
private chattel of an individual or tor
some other reason these confidants of
mission passed a resolution approving
and commending the work of the Ken-
tucky breeding bureau and pledged its
aid in every way possible.
Dates were granted to the New
Louisville Jockey club with the under-
standing that a thirty days’ meeting
will be allowed to Churchill Downs and
thirty to Douglas park one meeting in
the spring and one in the fall. Officials
of the tracks are to choose the dates
most suitable to them.
CLASSIC SUBURBAN RACE DRAWS
INCREASED ENTRIES.
Next to the fact that Richard Cro-
ker will start some horses In this year’s
Suburban handicap the big Sheepi-
head Bay (New York) feature Is
notable for an increase of fourteen over
the number of entries made last year.
It will be seen by the list that Salvi-
dere the champion two-year-bld of last
season is entered for the first time
against the old horses. Like Artful
and Burgomaster who are not en-
tered in the Brooklyn handicap this
colt makes his appearance in the stake
because he has a month's more time In
which to be trained before he is called
upon to race.
The horses that are eligible to race In
the Suburban handicap are:
Age. Age.
Go Between 6 Whimsical 4
FHs 6 Dr. Gardner 4
Ostrich 6 Prince of Coins ... 4
Martin Doyle 5 Cottontown 4
Olseau 5 Don Diego 4
Agile 5 Tiptoe 4
Dandelion 5 Avaunteer 4
Cederstrom 5 Comedienne 4
Artful 5 Faust 3
Inferno 5 Salvldere 3
Cairngorm 5 Arclte 3
Wexford 5 W. H. Daniel 3
Oxford 5 Cloverscrest 3
Far West 5 Ballot 3
Blandy 5 Gretna Green 3
Bedouin 5 Grimaldi 3
Dishabille 5 Philander 3
Dreamer 5 Superman 3
Imp. Blnkestown.. 5 Veil 3
The Quail 4 Court Dress 3
Str Huon 4 Electioneer 3
Hot Toddy 4 J. C. Core 3
Beacon Light 4 Sewell 3
Good Luck 4 They're Off 3
Hyperion II 4 Malacca 3
Kuroki ... 4 Berkeley 3
Burgomaster 4 Fountalnhluo 3
Ironsides 4 Holdfast 3
Running Water . 4 De Mund 3
Inquisitor 4 Horace E 3
Bull's Eve 4 Frank Gill 3
Clark Griffith 4 Penarris 3
Gonavant 4 Bat Masterson .... 3
Ocean Spray- 4 Kentucky Beau.. 3
Accountant 4 Okenite 3
Entree 4 Montgomery 3
Israfel 4 Old Honesty 3
TROTS TEN MILES IN THIRTY
MINUTES.
In one of the greatest long distance
harness races ever held in this country
the trotter Sim Brlno 2:23ft owned by
Felix Rose of Worcester. Mass recent-
ly defeated Nan Patterson an unmark-
Peer steal his yacht and desert him.
Peer makes his way across the Sahara
desert on the prancing steed of an Ara-
bian prophet. At the coast he embarks
for his old home. Solveig in a previous
scene hai been disclosed waiting for
him.
The Shipwreck.
The vessel bearing Peer to Norway
is wrecked and the bitterness and un-
reasonableness of disappointed world
worn old age take Peer for their very
own.
Peer and Solveig Reunited.
His brain unhinged shattered in body
and spirit. Peer Gynt returns to the
Scenes of his youth. Solveig's hut is
now the center of a village that has
grown up. An auction has taken place
in the market square and Peer "all his
dreams and aspirations threadbare”
again meets the Dovre king and en-
counters The Button Molder. What
Peer wants is a rest a quiet interval
in which to compose the body that Uis
tempestuous spirit has in the past so
abused. Vainly does old Peer Gynt seek
for the salvation that some people say
is offered In this world. When hope is
about dead In the feeble wanderer's
heart out comes Solveig from her lowly
hut to welcome and to comfort him
and It is her love that entwines around
WILLIE HOPPE AMERICAN BILLIARD CHAMPION WHO HAS
ed mare by Kremlin owned by Joseph I
Harper of Fitchburg Mass. winning a j
purse of $2OO in a ten mile race over
the road near Worcester from Green-
dale to the Metropolitan reservoir of
Clinton. The time of the race was ex-
actly thirty minutes.
Both horses are trotters and accord-
ing to horsemen who followed at no
time during the race was there more
Peer Gynt’s last days and provides a
haven for his long tortured soul.
The principal members of the sup-
porting company played their roles with
effective excellence. Emma Dunn's
Study of Ase was a striking feature
and Adelaide Nowak as Solveig was ac-
ceptable in every Instance. Henry Wen-
man and Arthur Forrest shone In the
roles at supernatural beings Mr. Wen-
man as king of the Dovre Trolls and
Mr. Forrest as The Strange Passenger
and The Button Molder.
The stage settings were magnificently
conceived and executed and the musio
proved highly pleasing.
ROSE STAHL'S AMBITION.
Rose Stahl who was recently Intro-
duced as a star in James Forbes’ “Ths
Chorus Lady” wishes she was a
newspaper woman—a reporter. If you
please. She has always hankered after
a Journalistic career and In so doing
she has wished to carry out the teach-
ings in Vesta Tilley's song. "Following
In Father’s Footsteps." “Father" is
Colonel E. C. Stahl who in early life
was a writer on musical and dramatic
topics for various western newspapers
and was at one time the critic on ths
Chicago Inter Ocean. At present he
is the proprietor of an influential paper
in Trenton N. J. As a young girl Miss
Stahl was her father's companion at
"first nights" and after graduating
from a Montreal convent she devoted
herself for a time to reportorlal work.
She ascribes her failure to “make
good” as a news gatherer to a "lack of
curiosity."
"If in my rounds I saw a crowd col-
lected in the street” said she recently
"I Invariably followed my first impulse
to run away from what I feared might
be a distressing sight. An hour after-
ward I would wake up to the fact that
I should have Investigated and reported
the matter to my editor. Taken out of
city work I tried the social column but
was no more successful. If I received
a tip on a family secret the mother
wife or sister had only to throw her-
self on my mercy cry a little and I
would solemnly vow never to breathe
a word of it. I had none of that brav-
ery. that splendid sense of duty which
is the great characteristic of the true
newspaper woman.
"While the stage has been good to
me furnishing my livelihood and great
happiness in my heart of hearts I envy
the lot of the writer. Her career is
more broadening and more helpful than
that of the actress. From the practical
standpoint she Is to be envied as well
as from the spiritual standpoint. It
makes no difference how much flesh she
acquires and how many wrinkles she has
when she can sit in her room and write.
She can welcome maturity with no
haunting thought of the pitiless cal-
cium or that insidious and relentless
Increase of the waist line. I wish X
were a newspaper woman.”
A RUSSIAN DRAMA.
The latest issue of Transatlantic
Tales contains a verbatim translation
of Leopold Kampfs drama. “On the
Eve.” which is a graphic picture of the
Russia of today. In Germany it was
suppressed both in book and play form
and it shared the same fate in Austria
and Denmark. It is stated that the
drama is to be' produced shortly in this
country.
INVADED EUROPE.
’ than seventy-five feet between the
j racers. M. T. Senecal Judge with Fred
Burlingame stakeholder followed the
race In an automobile.
Alter being close to'gether for several
miles Sim Brlno opened up a gap of
about seventy-five feet but several
times Nan Patterson pulled up on al-
most even terms with the Worcester
horse.
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