Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1923, Page 5

! bead of the woman came away from ! the midadle of the separated body. The . ladies expressed much relief when the DUSE, N FAREWELL SUPRENE ARTIST Greatest Tragedienne Holds: Audience Spellbound With Marvelous Artistry. The world's greatest living tra- | gedienne, Eleonora Duse, with her | own company from Rome, appeared | for a single performan: Washing- | ton at Poll's Theater yesterday after- | noon, In “La Porta Chlusa’ trans- lated, “The Closed Door,” & play in| three acts by Marco Praga. l Drama, tragic to the core; a bird | With a broken wing, too frail to bear a song and vet a song that rose | full and clear and beautifully and faded with a smile in a broken heart Such, perhaps, will be the flight of fancy in after years that paints the farewell picture of the wondertul Duse in her performance in Washing- ton yesterday afternoon. i And no less wonderful was the great audience that cordially, almost affectionately, welcomed the great actress, whom the critics have placed on the pinnicle with Bernhardt, for its oft-repeated but t ered ap- | Plause sesmed to be pouring out u good-bye with its welcome rather than a tribute to exquisite art. | It mattered Iittle what the play ' might be, the unexpressed desire seemed to be just to see Duse—Duse alone—and to catch again a glimpse of her incomparable artist] 2 haps there may have been regret that Henrik Ibsen's ") ad to glve power and dramatic op- gle glance at the the great tragedienne a e explanation necessary. Tragedy of Mother Love. Porta Chiusa” 1s a sad, a c story of mother love. A son a borrowed name has med his origin and seeks to break away from those he loves, a saddened her most of all, to find & new name in a danger voyuge of discovery in a new country. It was presented by a cast of supreme merlt, with a supp even 'in its stron scenes, which rarely finds its way to the American | stage; and, although in Itallan and spoken with incredible speed, so well ‘were the lines delivered, with action suiting the word, that, with the brief synopsis of the story afforded by the rather generous program, but few could fail to comprehend its meaning Duse was the sorrowing, hearted mother who had - r life to shielding her B from her shame, and whose pitl love could scarce bear him out of her #ight. Hecr smile, when the door was closed in the climax that was to shut him off from her, perhaps forever. Wwas even more tragic than would have been her death. She was the living, breathing, suffering mother of the story. Art could not make her more so. ed technique, Support Wonderful. And the several characters of that story were faithfully and wonder- fully portrayed by the supporting artists, Memo Benassi, the polished actor who lived the life of the son: Tone Morino, the girl who loved and lost him; Lee Oriandini, the guilty but penitent father: Ciro Galvanl, the husband of the mother, and Alfredo Robert, the gentle priest and spir- itual adviser of them all 1t was a finished performance. But above and beyond it all, with an out- standing glo . was the & and the no less imposing affection that seemed to go her from an audlence that resented the Capital of the nited States in its every walk of life. SHRINERS CHORTLE AS WOMAN IS SAWED Thurston, Magician, Entertains Fellow Nobles at Caravan Club Luncheon. Nobles of Almas Shrine Temple who are also members of the Caravan Club witnessed enough of the mystic arts to keep them talking for some time to come yesterday, when Noble Thurs- ton, the magician, Mecca Temple, New York city, sawed a woman in two fol- lowing the club’s ladies' day luncheon at the City Club. Several of the members assisted in the sawing and fairly gasped when the her feet and Noble Thurston stood in victim was joined together again. | Following the luncheon, which was made merry by a number of the clubs | songs, a motion picture of the scenic spots’ traversed by the Canadian Na- | tional railways and complied by the! * Canadian government was shown. An- nouncement was made of a dance to- night at the New Willard Hotel Officers of the Caravan Club are: Henry €. Stein, president; John J. P. Mullane, | president; H. S. Shepard, secre- | reasurer; Rev. Dr. D. Ransome ! chaplain, and Walter Geary, ser- | geant-at-arms. The board of govern- ors is S. E. 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Solid Mahogany Wing Chair or Rocker, $24.50. Victrolas, $100. $10 pur- chase of Records delivers it. (Fourth floor.)