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Show 1 THEATERS AT THE ORPHEUM. A stirring tale of the north. in which some exceedingly virile charac ters are presented, was unfolded be-iforc be-iforc a large audience at the Orpheum last night when Eugene Walter's great play. "The Wolf," was given by a capable ca-pable company. Like Rex Beach. Eugene Walter has the power and ability to draw remarkably remark-ably strong characters and he has used his talent to good advantage in writing 'The Wolf ' He has pictured for the players the characters of men and women as one- might find them In the surroundings which are the background of the play. The story of how McDonald n American engineer. attemptB to se cure for himself, Hilda, the daughter of a half-cracked Scotch settler, Mc-Tavlsh. Mc-Tavlsh. and how he Is prevented from fulfilling his purpose bv the young woodsmen, Jules Beaublen. assisted by the half breed Baptlste. is so well known that it does not need repetition here. There are but few characters need ed to present the play but each has a strong role to handle. Hilda was 1 played by Jessica Ray, who gave a very' womanly characterization of the lonesome daughter of a 6tern father She put many fine touches Into her lines The delightful figure of Jules Beaublen Beau-blen was admirably played by Fred I R. Cantway He sustained the role throughout In a manner that freed It i of any traces of violent melodrama. Hush O'Connell as McDonald, the engineer, Bike! Oifford as the stern Smtehraan. Clay Connell and Clyde Watson fllleed the pictures of the characters they represented. The scenic features and stage ef-fectfl ef-fectfl which arc peculiar to Walter's plavs. are found to a pronounced ex-tDl ex-tDl In "The Wolf." The unusual manner In which the first act opens and the dramatic ending of the piece give to the play added Interest because be-cause the features are out of the or d I nary. . |