Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume40 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 40
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive era social gospel
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itherfor good or ill, uponthose who give thembirth. The elucida-tion of this idea wasa risky undertaking,but it has been soconvincingly accom-plished that it isnot exaggerating tosay that Mr. Thomasprobablyacceleratedthe cause of telepa-thy more in oneshort season thanscores of pamphletsand agitators haddone in a dozenyears. Messrs. Shu-bert accepted thisplay after it had been rejected by manymanagers and Mr. Thomas had beendubbed crazy for his pains, and it wasstaged in first-class fashion both in NewYork and elsewhere. John Mason madehis advent as a star in the leading part inNew York and achieved a distinct success.That admirable actress, Mrs. Fiske,has done so many big and memorablethings for the American stage that it hasbecome almost trite to accord her due asthe first of American actresses. Thisseason she added to her collection ofremarkable character studies that ofRebecca West in Rosmersholm, sur-rounding herself, as usual, with a com-pany of artists in full sympathy with her
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ACT I—DON QUIXOTE.(E. fl. Sothern as Don Quixote and Rowland Buckstonc as Sancho Panza. ideals and efforts, including BruceMcRae, George Arliss, Albert Bruningand Fuller Mellish. Rosmersholm is one of Ibsensstudies of a human soul struggling underconditions which alternately tend tostultify and ennoble it. The unhappyRebecca West is a subtle character crea-tion and it required Mrs. Fiskes supremetouch to illumine it and compel sym-pathy and understanding from the audi-tor. It is in just such parts that Mrs.Fiske manifests her genius to the highestdegree and endears herself to all loversof sincere, thoughtful and realistic acting.It is the modern spirit shedding lightupon what might otherwise be dark andDigitized by GOOgle 22 The Notable Plays of a Season. mystifying, revealing the master mindamong modern dramatists. Say what they please about Ibsen, hisplays, though apparently local in settingand limited in activity, have a meaningfar beyond the mere limitations of localityand actio

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