TflE OMAFIA ILLUSTRATED BEE.
February 10, If.-
Talk About Plays, Players and Playhouses
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,At"D ADAMS has won In New
York a greater success, from a
purely nrtlstlc point of view, In
her new piny, " 'Op o' Me Thumb,"
tlinn sh- pff Kiiinrd as Hab-
Me In "The Little Minister." ThU Is truo
for several reasons, but chirfly because
the nsrris book, wlien prepared for the
Mage, discovered the fart that the fnro-
hortenlns; of the rersprctlvs hail dis
torted the outline of tho leading charac
ter!", and mueh of what was most to be
udmired In them, as created for the novel,
had "jeen entirely omitted In the stage
version. This reacted principally agaln.U
Dabble, and the part was only to be ap
preciated by those who were thoroughly
familiar with the Kgyptlan as rhe whlsks-1
In and out through tin: tale of the dominie,
and these were dl.inppointed by tho cur
tailment enforced In arranginj the novel
for the piny. Miss Adams ho been won
derfully and deservedly successful In the
role, but the Babble she gives us Is an
Adams and not ft linrrle Egyptian. It
fits perfectly Into the stage picture, and
elicits the warmest and most sympathetic
support, hut It Is never the Babble thnt
won the heart of the Autd Mch minister
against his Judgment, unseasoned though
that wis. Mr. Dlshaxt perforce suffers
In the estimation of those who first met
hlni on the streets of Thrums when h is
compelled to surrender, sans discretion, to
the charms of tho llmrrior he meets In tTl
play. This, too, is an expedient, wllly
nllly, duo to the exigencies of making a
passably good play out of a. corking; good
book. Thank goodness, ioim books defy
the dramatist "The Bight of Way." for
example.
In the new play Miss Adams embodies
that peculiar something all have felt and
few havo had tho ability to define that
glorious capacity for lifting one's self
above sordid surroundings and in the lim
itless expanse of imagination revelling In
the personal possession of all those things
harsh circumstances have withheld. Tho
capacity for building castles in the air
has been tho salt that has savored many
a life that would otherwlso lmve been hope
lessly Insipid, and has given ft radiant
nimbus to existence otherwise dull of the
dullest. Hero Is tho story of the play as
told by Mr. John Corhln In the New York
gun, the enthusiastic pralso of Miss
Adam's acting being omitted, but fully en
dorsed: When Frederick Fenn and Richard Brlce
wrote "Op O' Me Thumb," nothing was
further trom their minds, no iloubt, than
any idea thnt they wero deullng with a
universal human table. Yet at the risk
of alarming them and striding terror to
the minds of the audiences that, at '"'J
command of tho poignant art of Miss
Maude Adums, are nightly alfcxoiving in
sa'-'.y tears, It must be said that that is Juat
waac they wei doingor at least that 13
wlir.t they cell it In Uunnany.
On the face of It It is such ft simple and
unpretenliuud story. Its millleu U a cock
ney steam laundry, and Its heruinc,
. Amr.nda. U the humblest, tho hom'.iest, and
the most miserable of the girls that march
and Iron the-e. A child of the wurn
housc, sho has no fath? at all, and no
mo'.hrr-at least to speak of. Worse thun
this, while every other 'Airlef as 'cr 'Arry.
sh has never so much as arrested for a
moment tho roving eye. She thinks, end
the oihors think, that this hi beeaus she
Is plain una winched and stuirld. But in
reality l Is bece.use she has a mind and
hftart too rare and glorious for the com
prehension of 'Arry.
But she also has pride t-ven van.ty.'
And, so to be able to hold her head up.
she plants ar.d tends the garden of lies.
8ha makes believe to herself and makes
the othen believe that she Is the heroine
of a real life ronmnce. For the present
h. yes! she is a laundry hand. But sho
has a father wro, if not Just a king or po
tentate, Is one of the mightiest in the land:
and she has a lover, the handsomest of
swains, who some day will come and claim
her aa hU own. Ermine and Jewels are her
birthright, ar.d some day she will come
Into It. (All this in the language of the
family herald, of course, as interpreted
In the vernacular of the cockney.) The
proof of It nil? From time to time they
send hr gilts of diamonds and eiieralds
and rubles. She has never show.i these
to the other girls, and they look askance
at her fables. But she sticks to her lies
so well that the-V half believe her. espe
cially as from time to time one of her rela
tive dies she has Invented a large and
mortuarlly Inclined family of them and
she wears ft band of crepo on her sleevo In
token of her sorrow.
As for the lover, he Is a handsome coster,
who has left his shirt to ,be washed and
failed to call for It. For months she has
tended It with the most faithful care, wash
lutf and Ironing it weekly, so as to have it
In readiness when the hand of fato Is lifted
and he calls to take her away to her own. It
Is n very cockney shirt, with broad red
strlf.es but all the more pluiiHible for that
In the mlndn of the other girls as the em
blem of tho hero lover who I to transform
the drudge of the, Btcam luundry into a
beautiful princess.
How Is It that out of this sort of thing a
spirit, enn be evoked that brings salt to the
yes. and make It stream down to smart
ati the Hps? Because It Is the artistic em
bodiment, I take it, of the poverty of all
our lives, and of the pathetic, eagerness with
which we take refuge from them in tho
flowering garden of art. If we were able
to feel In o,ur own persons all the world
hn'ds of the good and the true and the
beautiful, who would ever snend his
precious hours with the mrro works of tho
Imagination? We nhould be too busv by far
doing the grant deeds, thinking the high
thoiiKhts, s'elnff the splendid visions. "I
don't read books," said the literary fop of
DuManrler. "I write them:" The saying Is
funny because It is so much truer than he
knew. The overman, when he comes, will
not even write books. He will be far too
d-eply absorbed in his own Illimitable life
Only, of course. In n world hedged In by nil
the ofcMenta of birth, the snares of tho
devil and the limitation of death, such a
thing ss tho overman 1st not possible.
Whether we know It or not. we are all
nnrtermen. Our parent Is ft clod, and we. are
destined to spend our lives in this sordid
steam laundry of society, washing our own
soiled linen, and the soiled linen nf others.
The happiest thing we know is the power
of renins; In the ftrlpcd shirt the emblem
of glorious hope of subliming It out of the
workadny'world Into the region of the crea
tive Imagination: And thie of us who
know this power find life Itself the most
pitifully Inadequate to our desires.
There comes a time, of course, when It
seems as If the vision of the srfrlped shirt
were coming true. Mr. Horace Greensmlth
tarns up In the steam luundry to claim It
of Amanda. In her heart she knows thnt.
handsome ss he I", Mr. Horace Oreensmlth
Is not the vision she has Invited her friends
to ndmtre with her. But she would so
dearly love to believe thst he Is! For she
Is terribly lonesome, having nn!v the vision
nt which to warm her heart while the under
men without Imnrrlnntlon are frolicking In
the bravery of a holiday at Hamstcd Heath!
fin Amanda lavs her heart, with all lt
onulence of loving Imaginations, nt the feet
of Mr. Horace Oreensmlth.
Tt Is ft lucky chance for Amsnda thst Mr.
Horace Oreenpmlth Is as dull as h Is
honest. Borne gllmmerlrg of the nllshf of
Amnnda penetrates his thick skull, nnd In
Pity he agrees to take her out for the holi
day on Hsmsted Heath. But he happens to
think vnln buck thst bo what n moV-a
he will look amonsr the gay throng with
this 'Ittle runt on his nrm. So Instead of
ngreelnr to come to the launrfrv to feth
ber forth among the other rM. he tells
her to meet him In the eecrecv of n ielr
borlnr slier, snrl Instead of the public hill
top of 'Apnv 'Arreted he proposes the seclu
sion of s nook In Fpnln forest. This Is too
much for the pride of Amnd. flh scorna
him like a heroine of fsmllv hera'ldrv. and
broken In heart turns bspv from him to live
still alone In he tru'der of dr.,rna
A tragedy? Far from It! Professor Bar
rett Wendell used to shock his pupil rand
perhaps still shocks 'tm!l bv asojrlng them
that even the story of Romeo and Juliet
has the hsppiest possible ending. If their
marriage had prospered, as one terms It.
those meetings on the balcony, lit hv the
moon nnd set to mus'c by the nightingale,
would hsve ended, he says. In the 'dull
cntnlogue of common things." In winning
her Horace Grefnsmlth. Amanda would
have been more normally happy, perhaps
but only by giving over her garden of
dreams for sordid reality. The ws.shlng
of that pink striped shirt would have be
come a mere Monday encounter with soiled
linen. In losing- Horace Oreensmlth.
Amanda saved her garden of dreams. Man
than that, she added a flower to It. tha
most beautiful of all. For as Horace
Oreensmlth leaves her he give her the two
shilling pin from his neck clout. It Is a
thing of rubles and emerald and diamonds,
and one divines that It will not now be
necessary for any more of Amanda's rela
tives to die. Out of that pin how many
absurd, vain dreams will she conjum up
so much more beautiful than any of us Is
permitted to live. i
It Is objected that there Is no hint of this
universal human significance In the story
that the authors hitve given us nothing but
the plain facts nf two verv humblo and
realistic souls! Well and good, but what
is It. then, that brings forth those nightly
tributaries to the brine that puddles the
floor of the playhouse? It can onlv be that
the pathos in the live of these dreary
cockneys sets us all swimming In the salt
river of our own defeated aspirations.
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Comlnir Events,
Andrew Mack's popularity in Omaha is
something this rollicking young Irish sing
ing comedian can always bank upon. To
Irishmen and their descendants he is
doubly dear and for that reason his friends
and admirers are legion. Ho will be seen
Tuesday and Wednesday .evenings and a
Wednesday matinee at the Boyd theater.
In "The Wy to Kenmare," his latest ro
mantic Irish comedy, Mr. Mack Is un
doubtedly scoring the greatest success of
his career. He has a character In Dan
Mugulre, the rollicking, warm hearted,
heroic, silver voiced Irish gentleman, which
fits him perfectly. .''The Way to Kenmare"
presents a tale of the love, adventure and
daring; of a young Irishman, , heir to an
earldom, who, after making a fortune in
the mines of Colorado, returns to Ireland
to secure his legal rights, also the hand
of the girl he lovej. He succeed in both,
but not until he has had numerous excit
ing and thrilling encounters and escapades,
in which, of course, as tho hero (Dan Ma
gulre) he Invariably triumphs. Mr. Mack
has never acted better or sung with greater
success than In his new play. His "Rose
of Kenmare," "Dan, My Darlin' Dan,"
"She Just Suits Me," and "Tha Legend of
tho Magulres," comlnsr in for no end of
applause and encorer. The supporting cast
It should be said, la an exceptionally strong
one, including such wel known people as
William Townsend, Oeorge Deyo, Edward
Kennedy, Eddie Heron, Edward Brandt,
Misa Annie Mack Berlyu, Miss Josephine
Lovett and Miss Mae Stevenson. Crowded
houses were the rule all last week and tho
advanc'o Hale shows that they are bound
to continue for tho balance of the engage
ment. Tho Barrows-Lancaster company In a
comedctto entitled, "When Georgina Was
Eighteen," come first on the list of play
ers of the new bill that opens the week
with a niatincs today at the Orpheum.
"When Georgina Wus Eighteen" is the
work of Robert Burns Mantel, dramatic
critic of the Chicago Inter Ocean. H Is
described as a lively and refreshing little
piece with some very humorous situations.
The theme rests on the trials and troubles
of eloping young lovers before an old Jus
tice of the pesce. who. It Is discovered.
Is the girl's father, which does not hinder
the usual nnd desired beautiful ending.
"A Daughter of the Gods," u quaint con
celt, will bo the vehicle In which Harry
Earle Godfrey and Miss Yeta Henderson
will make their first local bid for favor.
For Its theme It has tho strange doings,
mannerisms und sentiments of a daughter
of a god, who, like Galatea, comes forth
after It.'"") years of dormancy In her mar
ble form contrasting with those of an up-to-date
American gentlema.i forming
strange misunderstandings, from which
delicate humor arises. The musical Avaios,
two men and two women, constitute the
musical tec. tures. They render cn xlophones
a program of mixed selections. Including
tuneful popular numbers and such classical
numbers as the overtures from "William
Tell." Harry V. FlUgerald is a kalledo
senpic change artist, who In a very brief
space of time depicts numerous types of
character, making ft complete change of
costumo and make-up with each as he
drifts along with his talks. J. Roger West
and Ida Van Siclen present a lively little
musical comedy called, "The College Gym
nasium." E. J. Flanagan furnishes some
of his own unique entertainment, while
J. W. Kurtls and his dogs provide one of
those canine circuses that serve to Interest
and amuse young and old. "An Impossible
Voyage," a motion picture In thnrty-nlne
scenes, will be projected by the, Klnodrome.
An unusual red-letter event Is scheduled
at the Orpheum for the week beginning
Sunday matinee. February W. The
Orpheum Road Fhow will be the specinl
attraction. The roster of the famous ag
gregation of vaudeville stars this season
embraces Mclntyre and Heath, the .noted
black-fare comedians; Ppessardy's bears
and ponies: the four Madcaps, terpslcho
rran artifts; Clarice Vance, the southern
fUngor: Frank and Jen Lalona, musical
comedians; Smlrl and Kessler. presenting
"The Bell Boy and the Maid." and the
Bard brothers, sensational acrobats.
"Tho Fatal Wedding." a play full of
heart Interest, by Theodore Kremer, and
under the management of Sullivan, Harris
& Woods, will begin an engagement lit
the Krug theater for five nights and two
matinees starting with a matinee today.
One of the most Important characters In
"The Fatal Wedding." Is that of "Jessie."
a child of 8 years, who is known as "The
Little Mother." This part Is enacted by
the Misses Cora Qulnten and Baby Keefe,
each alternating with the other at the
various performances. Tills character Is
of such great Importance, that Sullivan,
Harris Woods have spent much time
In securing children competent to play It.
In the Misses Qulnten and Keefe they
think they have secured the very best
talent available. The part is a great
strain on the physical powers of any child
actress. The scenic effects are very vivid
and realistic, and show a number of
reproductions of well known New York
scenes, among them being the criminal
court, while In session and the Interior
of the famous Grace church, while a
wedding ceremony is In progress. Another
scene which hns attracted widespread at
tention Is the Palisades of the Hudson on
Music and Musical Notes
Music Calendar for the Week.
WEDNESDAY' Omaha Opera company.
Crelghton College Auditorium. "Pinafore,"
8:15 p. m.: High School Boys' Glee Club,
Unity church, 8:15 p. m.
THURSDAY Ysaye, Auditorium, 8:15 p. m.
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PI Parsifal::! After all the exclte
I mAnt ft honncfnflr no foe the Oer-
man production, along comes the
announcement that Henry W.
Savage's English-speaking company will
givo tho great festival drama at Boyd'4
March 14 and 15. Surely Omaha ought to
know "Parsifal" when It gets through with
various versions. The next thins on the pro
gram should be a Cook's excursion to Bay
rcutli. Then the various stages would be
complete.
With all the German opera talk "Lucia"
has been rather lost Bight of. After tho
strenuous, difficult stretches of Wagner's
masterpiece It will come like a breath of
aprlng over a misty landscape. It is eo
tuneful, so spontaneous.
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Donizett! was about 88 when he conceived
the idea of weaving an opera about "The
Bride of Lammcrmoor." He was much more
of a reader than most composers and was
deeply devoted to Scott. Of all his operas
"Lucia" remains perenlally young and pop
ular; all tho great prima donnas have
found in It an opportunity to show what
they could do. "The Mad Scene," In the
third act furnishes material for phenomenal
woik, and a master chance for applause.
The Cavatina in the first act is most ex
quisito where Lucy, Btanding by the foun
dation, tells Allsa of her anxiety for Ed
gardo. How one of his house of Ravens
wood, dist.-ated by his Jealousy murdered
his plightci mistress nnd threw her body
Into this very fount; then In terror she con
fesses that once In the waning moon the
phantom of the dead lady rose before her
with soundless, white lips and warned her
of disaster. Then suddenly her mood
changes, and the pure, Joyous love song
which follows is one of the gems of the
opera.
The duet In the first act, between Lucia
and Edgardo, always arouses the great
est enthusiasm. There Is In It a chance
for pure lyric singing, gradually working
to a great climax. With Sembrlch and
Caruso It ought to set a good many people
to cheering. Sembrlch has a way of plumb-
Ing the depths of even quiet, conservative
listeners. I was once sitting next to what
seemed to bo a calm, peaceful business
man at the Auditorium In Chicago. Som
brich was Binging. When she finished he
leaped to his feet and fairly roared,
"Brava! brava!" Such a demonstration Is
not usual in this country, with our con
trolled emotions.
All music lovers are familiar with the
sextet. The choruses In "Lucia" are so
tuneful that it is hard to keep the stage
hands from Joining In. There Is a cer
tain finale in tho second act, where It Is
Just about impossible for anybody with a
rag of music about them to remain dumb.
When Madame Sembrlch was last. In
Omaha she sang In "Don PasqualF." This
opera was written while Donizetti wus
living In Paris; he changed his nutlve
Idea of fun to suit the light, gay humor
of ths French.
Not long ago, In an article on the great
melodists of Italian opera (Verdi, Ro9slnl,
Donizetti and Bellini), I came upon a para
graph which Is well worth quoting, as It
seems to answer entirely numerous ques
tionings of "The Barber of Seville," "Don
Pusquale" and other of the "old-fashioned"
so-called "thin" operas (even
"Lucia"). Clifford Cox says:
"In writing of the four great melodists
of Italian 'opera, I feel reluctant to Invite
my reader to the contemplation of such
delicate and beautiful art without having
ascertained his susceptibility to the re
fined nnd subtle In music. The palate
vitiated by strong spirits, Is Indifferent ti
the soft wines of Burgundy, the mentality
which finds Its pabulum in the coarse
realism of Zola, experiences only ennui at
the perusal of 'Paul and Virginia' or
'The Vicar of Wakefield." It Is popular to
call tho music of today the music of ths
future. What folly! The present of today
Is the past of tomorrow, and so on for
ever. How Inapt it Is to call any art,
perfectly developed, 'old-fashioned.
"Let us be broad minded, and thus bring
ourselves to at sympathetic understanding
of the art of Qther days. Ws shall then
perceive its wondrous beauties and be
humble In our appreciation of them."
No more radical contrast can be Im
agined than "Parsifal" and "Lucia." Ths
first opera is the incarnation of modernism
In music; deep, complicated; requiring all
one's brain power to grasp. "Lucia" Is
like a whiff of lavendsr from some old
chest. After we have done the festival
drama, with every nerve on the alert,
what a rellf to sink lazily back the next
night and listen to Donizetti's melodies
will) a Joyful spirit. Somebody has said
that the ubject of Italian opera was
primarily "to please." When Sembrlch
sings one can well believe It. Her art
belongs to the palmy days of the Italian
me)' dlsts, before the shadow of the music
drama fell upon Verdi. Her vocalization
Is sparkling, delicate, und entrancing.
Among tho prims-donnas which ws Ameri
cans know so well, she shines as a bright
particular star. Her voice Is delicious be
yond Imagining; the artistic temperament
Is hers to a marvellous degree, and she
has also great perioral beauty and a
rudlunt, gracious, personality.
Besides being u greut sinner, she Is a
pluulHt of marked ability. She parti
cularly delight in Chopin, and is said to
play his music exquisitely. This fact
alone speaks volumes for her temperament.
Not content with these colossal accom
plishments, she also plays the violin. In
St. Petersburg she once gave a concert
for the poor students' fun, In which her
genius supplied Uie entire program of
vocal, piano and violin numbers. The
receipts were 9,000 roubles, and tremendoun
excitement prevailed. The Russians are
wild enthusiast, and twenty or thirty
recalls are often given a great artist, and
not Infrequently her carriage Is drawn
home by a frantic; populace.
The "Trilby" story In connection with'
Mme. Sembrlch Is romantic and perhaps
true, but one who has watched Herr Sten
gel with his talented wife rather resents
the Svengal! part ot It.
Herr Stengel was her teacher when she
was studying tho piano. They were al
ready married when the Journey to Vienna
was made for the "finishing" with Franz
Liszt; Lampertl, tho younger, gave her first
singing lessons.
With Sembrlch In memory stand PattI,
with whoso wondrous career we are all fa
miliar; Gerster, the brilliant soprano, who
mysteriously lost her lovely voice; lima dl
Mui'Bka, the auburn-haired Hungarian she
of the picturesque golden belt and the elc
tric F sharp above high C; and Albani who
might almost bo claimed as an American.
However, all these singers are past their
prime. Dl Murska Is dead and the rest be
long practically to a bygone era. Sembrlch
Is the last one of the old Italian school,
and yet we read that even her voice of lale
years has grown dramatic in its timbre.
A special spring tour will be made by
the Pittsburg orchestra, beginning April 24.
Mr. Paur, besides being a famous conductor,
is also a phenomenal pianist. He has been
doing a good deal of playing this season.
Ho will alternate as soloist with Mme.
Gadskl.
The tour will be booked by Mr. Loudan
Charlton from New York and Omaha is to
be included In the itinerary.
It Is rather a pity that the Omaha Opera
company with "Pinafore" and the high
school boys with their Glee club concert
have chosen ths same date, February 2",
for preservation.
A wag asked his friend the other day
"Whut is the most popular song now sung
In Omaha?" The friend being dense as
a guesser, pleaded for the answer. The
reply wus, "Com)& Where the Lindens
Bloom!"
In the midst of an ultra-clvlllzed, exotic
frenzy for "Parsifal" what a tonic to run
slap-bang without warning upon Kllping's
"Song of the Banjo." All you need to
have done to understand that, is to have
lived. It is music with the poetry left
out, and the hard, brutal facts of life
stripped naked; a desperate heart-racking
song with no moonlight and no soft
breezes, but a certain exultant, martial
almost Pagan spirit for a background.
a IVoadwood half
"You couldn't pack
a nine
You mustn't leave
damr
fiddle In the
You eouidu t raft an organ up the Nile
And play it in an equatorial swamp.
I travel with the cooking pots and pails.
I'm sandwiched 'tween the coffee and
the pork
And when tho dusty Column checks and
trails,
You snuuld hear me spur the rear
guard to a walk;
With my "Plily-wlily-wlnky-wlnky-popp;"
(O it's any tune that conies into my
head.i;
So I see them, moving forward, 'til they
dro;
So 1 play 'em up to water and to bed.
And tha tunes that mean so much to you
alone, .
Common tunes that make you choke
and blow your nose.
Vulgar tunes that bring tho laugh that
brings the groan,
I can rip your very heart strings out
with thoso;
With the feasting, and the folly, and the
fun
And the lying, and the lusting, and the
drink,
And the locrrv play that drops you, when
you're done.
To thought that burn 'Ike irons
If you think.
With my Plunka-iunka, lunka-Iunkn-lunk !
Here's a trifle on account ot pleasures
rast.
Era tus wit that made you win, gives
you eyes to see your sin,
Ann the healthier repentance at tho
last!
I, the Joy of life unquestioned I, the
Greek
I, the everlasting Wonder Song of
Youth!
The eight stanzas are an inspiration.
Many's the man I'll warrant who can
repeat them. MARY LEARNED.
Xotes and Personals.
Mr. Cuscsden's second Philharmonic club
concert will be given February 28 at the
First Christian church.
The postponed Tuesdav Morning Musical
club recital was held Friday at the resi
dence of Mrs. K F. Crofoot.
Members of the Concert Promoters may
renerve their seats on Monday morning for
Ysaye. Membership curds must positively
be presented.
Mr. Bchiotterheck of Pittsburg, the man
ager of the trunsiontinental tour of the
Metropolitan Opera company, was In the
city Friday making aome final arrange
ments. The Tuesday Morning Musical club gave
up its progrum at Mrs. Koumse s 1 Hl week
on uccount of the norm. Mia. Hagcuow,
the violinist, was unable to cume up from
Lincoln.
Mr. Borgluin and Mr. Cuscaden had a
small private violin recital to test the ucou
st.es of the Auditorium. With I lie aid of
the shell, which was built for the band,
every tone was clearly heard, both up and
dowustulr.i.
On Friday night In Council Bluffs the
Maslcal Art piciity. Mr. Lima, leader, guve
Us second concert. The coIoIhIb were Franz
Wllcztk. violin: Frank H.i'1.l.-l( flute ami
Frank Oscar Newlean baritone. The enter
tainment watt given to the Uachi-rs by the
Board of EUuiulloa.
a winter's night. In this scene a great
snow storm is in progress. In which original
and novel effects are Introduced, making
It most striking snd picturesque.
. . Gossip from Stag land.
Blanche Walsh's success fn the Clyde
Fitch melodrama Is as remarkable ss it
Is deserved.
Julie and Crystal Heme nre to be starred
under the direction of their mother. Bleth
ers "Wife" will be their main play.
Henry Miller closed his season Saturday
night at Washington, presenting "Joseph
Entangled." He will soon open a spring
tour In a New York production, not yet
announced.
Richard Mansfield will present seven
plavs during his four weeks' engagement
at the New Amsterdam In New York. Tills
will be the last of his long engagements
before his Hnnual tour.
Thompson & Dundy will open their New
York Hippodrome next Saturday night.
Plans are made for making the affair a
show that will cause Father Knicker
bocker to alt up and notice it.
The fire at the Casino not only knocked
Lillian Russell out of her closing week in
New York, but it settled temporarily the
revival of ''Florodora." It was the Snuhert
plan to send "Lady Tessle" on the road,
and now they can do it without compunc
tion. Grace George Is said to be successful In
her new play of "Abigail." It deals with
an orphaned New England girl, who makes
her own way In the world, and shows
scenes from "Bohemia" It Is to be hoped
that Mlsss George will have the courage
to break away from this sort of thing some
day and try a play that is worth while.
Another nice little chapter of the war is
about to be written. When Author Mc
Lellan offered "Leah Kleschna" to Charles
Frohman it was declined. Harrison Urey
Flake took it up, and it is a success. Now
comes Mr. Frohman with the announce
ment that he has setured the English
rights and Mr. Flake with the counter
assertion that he owns the English rights.
A law suit In the English courts seems
next in order.
All theaters suffered from poor attend
ance during the recent cold spell, the re
ports from every city In the country being
of the same tenor. In Chicago one night
James K. Hackett, while thanking his
scanty audience for the Interest shown in
attendance, said he couldn't help thinking
them foolish to turn out In such weather
to attend a play. Most people were of Mr.
Hackett's mind, apparently, for they didn't
go out to the theaters In any great num
bers. EDUCATIONAL, SOTE9.
President Roosevelt will speak on Wash
ington's birthday at the University of Penn
sylvania on the subject, "Home Maxims of
Washington."
A course in meteorology Is the latest ad
dition to the curriculum of the University
of Wisconsin. The course will be under the
direction of James L. Bartlett of the
United States weather bureau.
Columbia is expecting a great many
teachers who will attend the annual meet
ing of the National Educational association
at Asbury Park to attend the summer
school Immediately after tho close of the
convention, ss New York Is within auch a
short distance.
Andrew Carnegie has given the Rensse
laer polytechnic Institute of Troy, N. Y.,
$126,000 to rebuild the main . building, de
stroyed by fire last June. As Is usual with
Carnegie gifts, the new building will be
called in honor of the donor, Carnegie hall.
The sum of money which it Is proposed
to raise for Harvard before commence
ment day Is 83,5uO,0O, and the class of Jsu.
the one with wnich President Roosevelt was
graduated, will give Independently the sum
of tioo.oco.
The Central Board of Education of Pitts
burg has appropriated $5,0"0 for this year's
work In the children's playgrounds and va
cation schools, and the joint committee of
the playgrounds and women's clubs is much
elated over the result of their efforts. Ijisi
year the amount appropriated was only
13,600.
The University of Iowa has Just com
pleted a new gymnasium, which will be
formally dedicated on Wednesday, Febru
ary 12. The building Is rapidly nearlng
completion and will ha occupied as soon aa
dedicated. It Is a commodious building and
up-to-date in every way.
Union Theological seminary has been
made the recipient of a gitt of tl,ouO,000 by
someone who does not wish his name
known. Tne seminary will have a new
site next to Columblu, and us it can afilllate
wttn tne university, tne sum given wm no
douut prove altogether adequate for the
purely theological needs of the seminary.
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
The American Bible society last year
sent forth nearly 2,000,000 scriptures.
There are 100 Christian Endeavor societies
In France, one-fifth of which are Metho
dist Rev. John B. Mancebo (colored) of Co
lumbia, S. C, has sailed for Cuba, his old
home, to enter upon episcopal work there.
A boulder with a tablet of bronze is to
be placed in the village of Cromwell, Conn.,
on the site where tne first two churches
Stood, 1715-1840.
The latest authentic figures It Is said give
the number of Catholics in the world us
230,000,100; of Protestants of all denomina
tions, 140,0u0,0u0, and Greek or Russian
Catholics, luO,0W),(W0.
Miss Grace A. Hughes, In writing of her
work in the hospitals of Osaka, Japan,
says that men from all ports of the coun
try are in these hospitals, and most of
them who have been visited and given the
gOKjiol, "have never heard a sermon or
seen a portion of God's word."
The cathedral In the City of Mexico,
which stands upon the site of the famous
Aztec temple, is one of the largest and
most elaborate cathedrals in America The
cost of the exterior was about $2,000,000,
while the decorations of the choir alone
cost $1,600,000, Its wonderful railings having
been made In Macao. The cathedral was
built under the auxplces of Charles V and
Pooe Clement VII.
Over G2,0eO wretched men sought shelter,
food and help at the old Jerry McAuley
mission, in New York, last year. Forty
thousand nights' lodgings and 60,000 meals
wore given. It is said that lUjout 90 per.
cent of the applicants were once Sunday
school scholars, and In jne eroujv of forty
six, twelve were college graduates. The
mission Is almost directly under the end
of Brooklyn bridge, and Is open from early
morning till lute at night.
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