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Show The Drama and Music MARIE RAPPOLD, the Grand Opera soprano, has given to the world her views on the subject of acting in Grand Opera. While ad vocating sound dramatic training for opera singers, and applauding the modern mod-ern tendency on the operatic stage toward a greater semblance of realism, real-ism, she excuses the too conspicuous advances to the footlights of most opera singers as a necessity in order that their voices may carry to the audience. The same excuse has been employed em-ployed by innumerable dramatic players play-ers and stage managers who have not had the wit and skill to reconcile the limitations of the stage to tne requirements require-ments of realism. "When actors have turned unnaturally to the front in delivering de-livering their lines, it has always Been said in their behalf that they were compelled to do it if they would make themselves understood. And yet the best of our modern players find little difficulty in avoiding avoid-ing the appearance of talking to the audience. At times they even turn their backs on the hoiiBe, but moro often they contrive by adroit management man-agement so that the exigencies of the changing situations place them In positions where they speak toward the front without apparent intention to do so. Obviously, opera' singers ftiay feel under greater necessity to deliver directly di-rectly to the audience, but it would seem possible for them to do this less openly if they would employ the same skill in stage management that is so often seen in the drama. Nevertheless, it is a most encour-aging encour-aging sign when so distinguished a singer as Marie Rappold recognizes the ludicrous figures cut by opera, stars when they employ the exaggerated exagger-ated gestures of melodrama and march inartistically to the footlights every time they open their mouths. An especially luscious and enticingly enticing-ly colored plum is the part of The "Daughter of Heaven, the poetic title given by the Chinese to their eta-press eta-press in the Pierre Lot! drama, which will lie produced at a New York theatre thea-tre in October. Names of possible In. terpreters are anxiously bandied, but the choice will depend upon George Tyler's conferences "while abroad. Nobody No-body has told me so, but my astral self whispers in my corporeal ear that since there is no Durbar this year Maxine Elliott may be induced MARJORIE RAMBEAU The Irish Beauty Who Co-Stars at the Orpheum with Willard Mack Next Week in "Paid in Full."' to transform herself into a Chinese empress for a time. There will be four hundred perso'ns in the cast. Caramba of Milan has promised to teach us things we never knew about costuming, and it Is cheerfully cheer-fully predicted that it will be, in the language of the much lamented genius, ge-nius, "Tody Hamilton," the greatest production ever made anywhere by any one. Rose Stahl is so happy in her island in a lake environment in the North "Woods, and so enchanted with rising at six and retiring at nine, and rowing row-ing and fishing the nours between, that she says it will he hard ' return re-turn from her excursion into th land of the real to "The world or palm and make believe." Maclyn Arbuckle is bridging the gap between vaudeville and his return to The Roundup, by loafing the hours away at Waddington, N. Y., his summer sum-mer home. Paul Armstrong has completed a four-act drama of tenement life iri New York City, called "The Escape." It will be tried by Holbrook Blinn and other members of "The Romance ot the Underworld" company at the Majestic Ma-jestic Theatre, Los Angeles, Cal., on November 3. The purpose of the drama is to show that reform in the slums must be brought about by the people themselves. Marc Klaw, in London, has disposed of the rights to "The Pink Lady" for China, India, and Japan. THE ORPHEUM. "It is a truly great play." This is the estimate placed on Eugene Walter's Walt-er's "Paid in Full," which will bo the offering all week at the Orpheum, by the Philadelphia North American. Not alone the public interest in "Paid in Full," because of its enormous enor-mous success, but its notable superiority super-iority as a play and the graphic accuracy ac-curacy with which it depicts the so-cial so-cial conditions it deals with, com. mends it for special consideration. "How many men are there," asks the newspaper, "who have at one time in their lives fought the man higher up with his hand upon the pay roll? How many women, wives of these men, battling for their 'raise', have consecrated their lives to fighting the good fight along with the men they love and have found their reward in the mere glory of the struggle? A great many, yos, a very great many. "Paid in Full" is this economic theme, caught into final, appealing, gripping dra.ma. It is one play out ol a thousand." The Orpheum players will present this iplay that had such a brilliant two yoars' run in Now York, for the first time in Salt Lake at popular prices, and it is no idle boast to affirw that Mr. Mack and his associates will give a finished production. The cast is a short one. Joe Brooks comes first. This weakling who whines his way through life and steals what he cannot earn will ho portrayed by E. Forrest Taylor. Capt. Williams will be played by Walter Seymour. The role of Jl'msey Smith, the man who has risen from obscurity and 1b making mak-ing his way despite the handicap of his boyhood, will be played by Mr. Mack, while Frank Jonasson plays the role of the Japanese servant. Jog 'Brooks' mother-in-law has been assigned as-signed to Mrs Lillian Devoreux, a new face In the company, and Rosa Roma is cast for the part of the daughter, Beth Harris. Marjorle Ram-beau, Ram-beau, the young Irish beauty, makes her initial bow to the Salt Lake public in the strong part of Emma Brooks, H one in -which she scored heavily re- H ccntly in Los Angeles. H "Paid in Full" will run all week with H the usual matinees Thursday and M Saturday. B H Claude Grahame-White, English avi- H ator, and Dorothy Taylor, of Now M York, were married at Widford, Eng- H land, on June 27. Sir Gilbert and H Lady Parker, Sir Herbert and Lady H Tree, and Robert Loraine were guests. H Roswell Christopher Colt, hrother- H in-law of Ethel Barrymore, and Dor- M othy Baradale Chapman, of Winnipeg, B were married on June 27 at Knights- H bridge, England. M H David Warfleld looked in on a San j Francisco court on June 21, seeing a H youth sentenced to ninety days in H jail for embezzlement The boy broke H down, sobbing bitterly, and the actor, H deeply impressed, made a plea for clemency, which resulted in the culprit's cul-prit's release in charge of Mr. War-field, War-field, who paid the faro to his home in Wisconsin. Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, authoress, smoked a cigarette after supper at the South Shore Country club, Chicago, Chi-cago, last week, and deeply shocked that centre of propriety. "There are so many ridiculous prejudices in America," Am-erica," Mrs. Atherton said for publication. publica-tion. "Cigarettes are harmless." Walter Damrosch has decided to pay royalties to Edmond Rostand when he produces an operatic version of Cyrano de Bergerac next season. It had been reported that Rostand oh. jecteTl to an opera based upon his famous fa-mous play. |