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POET WALKS WITH PLUMBER IN PLAY Grocer Aids Carmel's Literati in Earnest Production of Biblical Drama Theater Among Pines Makes Beautiful and Romantic ting for Tragedy WALTER ANTHONY CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA. July The ordinary processes of conventional theatrical criticism may not be indulged in an appraisement of the worth of I'armcl'b neighborly presentation here tonight of Coiistanue iSkinnei's biblical clrajna It did not prove to be a great play, nor was it performed after the manner of professionalism. No mammoth orchestra gifted with Babel, but harmonious tongues led a spiritual way into the story of the son of Jetse. Instead there were four or live musicians hidden behind natural foliage, their music racks punctuated in the darkness under the pines by dots of light which gleamed like lireflies. There was no Margaret Anglin with glorious voice whispering or shouting her tiroes to the- night winds.

Instead there was, a young girl, scarcely IS years old, to whom the desperation and death of Michal. daughter of Saul, were given to portray. David himself wore an "awkward" air in the stressful moments of great emotion, and many of the theories dear to pendants and "students of the drains" were jarred in tire dramaturgy of Miss Skinner's play. All these things are necessarily true, but are likewise quite as inconsequential as other silly truths are. The performance was none the less impressive or enjoyable for the facts just laboriously forced through my enthusiasm which would be better served if fuller expressed.

If the performance was not professional In character, neither was it amateurish. It was a. thing apart, requiring its own rules of measurement and establishing, under the trees and within hearing of the turf, its own laws. PRAISED HV AUDIENCE It was worth the trip to hear and see. Its pictures and its tableaux were worthy the praise they received from the audience 1 the zeal and earnestness which characterized the performance carried conviction of truth to the beholder.

The intelligence that was apparent In the reading of the lines, and the deep sincerity that lightened the interpretation, were elements of appeal the big audience and the writer found delightfully irresistible. May 1 illustrate what I am trying to convey There may be lack of art exhibited in the concerted singing of a throng, or in the congregational intoning of a. hymn, but who has not felt a thrill in listening. to a multitude in tune and consonance with the sympathetic utterance ot a common sentiment? The unison of thought and the reyiforcement of belief that make a hymn a wonderfully expressive work when sung by patriotic soldiers or by the faithful effect a result which composers and poets rarely achieve in their So, tonight, the opening of the Forest theater In Carmel became a rite as well as a performance and its participants on the stage and the audience on the benches were believers, one and aIL 1 should not like the man who would scoff at the effort nur approve the tafcte of the one who could remain unimpressed- THBOI'GII FOREST PATH Imagine if you please a grove of pines and firs skirting a road that dips its toes in the sea and meandering into the woods turns into a bridal path, then to a footpath and then, I dare say, becomes lost in a squirrel hole somewhere south of Carmel. The particular grove of trees mentioned is a.

quarter of a mile from CarmeTs indeterminate center. A path leads off from the road, which you follow with pleasant assurance, not always enjoyed in. Carmel, that you are on the right track, -for dimly through the trees you discern lights. You can not lose your way be- cause the bushes by the wayside are as definite as walls in a gallery entrance. Pine trees start at your path's side hang Gothic walls of green above your head and the way underneath is soft with the carpet that the ancient, arched ceilings, like walls in an old room have shed.

You pass between gates hung on tree stumps, which seem to have been planted there the purpose, and in the shadow etandK the inevitable evil of all playhouses, the ticket taker. You make your peace with him and pass into the amphitheater. It is a clearing on a gentle slope. The back walls, like. those of a deliberately made theater, are semicircular.

The trees happen to stand that way. They embrace a regular enclosure which the one of the few artificial features of the place cuts like a segment. Arc lights, staring boldly from the underbrush far back, throw a flood of light over the audience's on to the stage, otherwise the forest theater is in darkness, cave when the players appear waving torches. The stage is the result of art and nature in mutually compensating moods. Through its T.

G. flooring, pine trees thrust up thriving heads," century old brothers of the platform beneath. Backstage the living and the dead mingle Is healthy confusion. You i can't tell which of the trees or which the clump of bushes is rooted in the roil below the stage or which was uprooted and carried thither to eke out what nature: not knowing about the forest theater, failed to place correctly. me say' in this connection that Ferdinand Burgdorff, the artist, was responsible mainly for the wonderful blending of the stage's outlines -with the beauty of the natural scene, with which no artist had anything whatever to do.

IX FAIRY LAXD But the play has begun in this fairy land. We are not to see all of it because telegraph facilities are not as completely outrageous in Carmel as elsewhere, and a Sunday morning paper refuses to rest or wait on the pleasure of a Saturday night's performance. Miss Skinner has taken the story of pavld and has treated it liberally. She has added romance, subtracted biblical history, multiplied events and has produced a series of episodes. These may r.ot by the most distant stretch the imagination be collected: Into the of a play wherein one scene rests on another and grows out of.it: but with the aid of Garnet who has staged the presentation, a collection of wonderfully vivid pictures and impressive tableaux are presented of the life of the sweet singer of Israel.

Miss Skinner has also some excellent dialogue, where 1 in she has caught with frequently, sure grasp the idiom of the St. James -bible. Herbert; Heron, -who has written some plays and who will write more, no doubt, was. He -headed --a' cast that for variety of employment could only be by singleness of purpose. He was picturesque in person and caught' with distinctness at time the spirit of -George; played- Saul, king of Israel.

He can scarcely be accounted an amateur, as his work under Holme at; the vUniversity of California, where he has Scenes of Biblical Times Mated in Carmel Forest I Saul Manship) Astar (Alice McGotoan), Nadab (Fordmand- and two soUiers. j. Saul (George Manship) and his daughter Mkhal Coolie). appeared in many, dramatic him. a sort of security of position which helped to make his Saul a vigorous royal figure.

-HAROLD IS HELEN" Helen Parks, a botanist who spends much- of her time in Carmel, was Jonathan. The name on the program, Harold Parker, 'was misleading, it being the wish of the player that her, sex be disguised. However, a gentleness of manner and a softness of voice made impersonation more impressive. George H. Boke was the prophet.

He was a striking, picturesque figure, -admirably gowned and wiggred in white. Nadab was played by, Ferdinand BurgdorfE. "The. artist suggested in his impersonation of the impulsive captain of Saul's hosts the freedom and bigness of his colorful canvases." J. W.

Hand, an" indisputable authority on the price of Carmel real estate, was braced on the program with J. the, gentleman from'his drug store more cosmetics for sunburn than correctives for -sickness. They were shepherds and the" possessors of the- comedy Then there was T. B. Reardon.

the plumber, who with Frederick Leldig, the grocer, shared honors as captains for Saul and played their rolesjearnestly. Miss Helen Cooke.was a surprise. I have seldom seen.a more graceful figure on the stage. As Michal, the daughter of Saul, who" for "her- love'of David gives up her Ufeou the 1 brink Vbf ths psalmist's she moved through, the play, backed by the ever ever growing pines, like, a come to life. -Such evidences of inexperience were shown iivher speeches were comD.ensated 5 -for7in; the; her assumption, and tlie girlish, tender charm' with which she invested it.

'Alice "MacGowari, who Miss Cooke's aunt and a -well known magazine contributor, made a' tragic.character of Astar, the "captured Amalekitiefr princess. She; showed histrionic, traits and was of the members of cast' to prove; that may thrive in" varied Miss; Maude as a "i a Mra. Bertha Newberry, Sterling i and Mrs." Jessie Frances Short, as tiring were graceful' in" their to-show is art and sentlment'-'Of the talented authoress, of the drama, owes," tlia producer, GarnetV a- great; debt for spectacle which. unfolded last nigh Carmel at -an hour- surf the sands, wh eh i- the trees sigh the the beautifully "dispersed afe'usually performance in" the forest theater was a -a -an an encouragemertt'to 1 western writers; to "notice new the jdevelopment of creative' activities- in creative west. than 1,000 toi see show, and will to'the assertion -that the; classic story -told with high distinction' ahd'that the 'pictures Holme drew 'living against the green of the grove will remain a vivid memory long-after.

many autumns theater in nbw coats of red and brown and amberi CONTRACTOR FILES SUIT aVER AUTO TRACK HE. Alters Brings Actjon -''Against Frank S. Turner Dispalch io The ROSA, July As math' of the -automobile V. racesVjwhich had be'r'postponcd Uast fall after the Rosa stock farm racetrack had Jbeenj'banketL by 'the -Sonoma, county. E.

against Fra'nk; Turner, 1 stock farm and one of known horsemen to l-ecoyeV' $500 I ad i i oo a 1 oil tlj'e' of hanging the" I in a kjbs. gi a.yso.ciu.ttoi:J.»v'f The tlie Albers him more than he. would: otherwise-h ave had to do TcoiUract rwith- the aiito; mobile association. This additional Albers- claims, cost him $265 for labor, and he sues for tlie. remainder as.

damages ner's actip'nJin moying.the stakes with out his 'f. AECHITECTUB AII EXHiBITIofo auyplces of the San Franoi.seo architectural rluti." an. exhibition' of sets of-drawinss of the Oakland t'ity JiflU'-cwnipetitliin, which has in" for siiriif timK 'will ho -held 4 TupSday, at MiPost KtrcPt. Tlipftirst prize $3,000 -whs awarded by the Oakland officials to the firm of-Parlmer Hornliostle. STOCKTON MAKES READY FOR Y.M.I.

Twenty--sixth Grand Open Slough City 1 1 A August 7 STOCIKTON! July members of. Stockton--) council No. Y. 1., are for the grand council'. of the jurisdictions of to to- 11.

$3 has completed. biggest 'days be August when annual general: will qri: that -day will- be- ifand 6,606. Special-trains eha'm Sacramento having reservations 'for. 'a of '10 icoa'ches." The "convention proper does not begin Bth August. -Three i years ago j.the"^ firsti reunion preliminary convention If rpenedH'n abbut' this' way: The cpnven.flph -wasito in Sacramento, and 1 as other organizations had- planned cbnveritio'ns; for the capital city.

the to promotion bodies; raised a large-sum' of money" to' entertain them. is and when'it -made demand for funds found they had all been expended. In order to' an extensive affair the conventiohmightbe the committees provided for bringing thousands, of visitors to' Sacramento for, the one As -a Result' 6.000 -people poured the making the. largest crowd of the' year. 'So.

successful was.the plan that it has been adopted each I The local members the gS oung Men's Institute will assemble at "Weber hallvat.9:3o Sunday morning and will prepare for to the excursionists who will on. both A feature.iwiir...be,the vmass Washington which: happens to be directly in 'f xMt 'of -'St. Mary's Catholic church. the. conclusion of the; mass the be sung the congrega.i tio'n.

-The parade ihrthe- morning -promises to. be a.big Music. -will be Tendered by several bands from neighbprjhg" cities, -The ilocal council a barbecue -to held "at Oak park in will' "also be a "baseball the "Panama of Sacramento and a team rom 1 gah Francisco. concert give nrduring.the;afternoon. The.

will Monday 'with requiem high mass -Mary's' or the the I souls "qf -deceased members. The grand council sessions ill be held at Weber The amusement for the first day- will consist of an open air concert at the' Stockton 1 hot mineral council will reconvene Tuesday morning; at 9 o'clock. Tuesday evenj tt IwUIl wUI Ibe served in -past grand ipfQcers." I The grand ball Vill be held at Oak park that night, the ladies institute; No. city 'assist Jin -'August there will be a trolley ride throughthe Tokayj belt; The general banquet will be held that evening: "VVilliarri P. -Kynch is president of Stockton council and W.

secretary. general reception for the grand council of the, following: Richard- Lauxen, chairrnan; William R. B. Tecfy. treasurer; John -11.

James H. Sharon. 11. B. Oullahan, P.

Lynch. Ales C. Oullahan, Daniel Murphy, C. V. Rendnn.

V. Finney. Chairman. I-anxen has appointed the follOTring chsirmpn of 'suboommltfeps: K. Oullahan.

FinahcV-John Smitbl Tress and- Alex C. Oullahan. KNOCKED AND ROBBEDr-Willlam Morrison' from BakersfleJd met a stranger on the coast Friday nijrht and had several-drinks with him. At Washlnjtton and -East streets the stranger Morrison down and took from his pockets. SLAYER OF BAR TENDER SENT 10 SANATORIUM Wallace A.

sell, son of Bussell, millionaire" tide -land owner, win- nefther be sent to; -asylum under the finding the lunacy commission, which 'adjudged him insane, nor will he be tried or the 'murder of "Joseph bap whom he shot down while making an individual raid oh a-gambiing-resort in theking street district' 12. the youth will be released- to the guardianship of his "father underJlO.ooo and will private sanatorium at Livermore, Gal. GROCER FINDS BURGLAR HIDING IN LAVATORY James Raisis. grocer, 793 Folsom street, returned home shortly after 1 o'clock" yesterday morning, he found the rear window of the open arid saw a man hiding In tne lavatory, "lie notified- Policeman Charles Maher. who arrested the Intruder and found on him 53.35 and three packages of stolen'cigarettes.

'The prisoner gave the name of Louis Folia. Edward Stone was arrested- at Twenty-ninth and 'Mission streets yesterday morning for breaking into the tooihouse of Frank Bonaccorso. Corbett avenue and street, and stealing tools. 39 AND ALL FACIAL DEFECTS RE- MOVED WITHOUT. PLASTERS, ELECTRICITY." KNIFE, FILL- ING OR NO LOSS OF.

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