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TTTE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 23, 1907.' THE BRITISn POINT OF VIEW Mist Marlowe Telia Some of Her Im pression! of London. UTILITY OF THE LONDON CLIMATE Mr. Sot her Explains Recall of the Trip and Ei plain War II Dmi Not Like Acting. NEW YORK, June 22 -"It's a long wsy from Verona," says Miss Marlowe, as the call boy shouts "Fifteen minutes." "Do you think I can talk to you and get there In time?" It was decided that she could. 80 she told about her trip to I.ondon. Miss Marlowe ha returned with all her old charm. Including; the famous .dimple. There aeemed to he even more than tha usual atmosphere of" perennial, bubbling effervescence about her. Her eyes dance and her smile Is frequent when she talks. Sha Insisted that sha was tired after the lonf season and tho six weeks of hard work In Iondon, but she did not look It 8he was dressed In brown, one of the empire (towns sha affects so faithfully, and her scoop hat had a bin cockade tn front and at the back took a sudden, sweep to her shoulder, ns the up-to-dnte man wears his I'anama, Her fingers constantly played with tha ribbons .of her brown chiffon ruche. Anything; more unlike a lovesick Jutlet It would be difficult to Imagine. Every American actress talks shout Ellen Terry when she Rets back from London. The phase of the subject Olscussed by Miss Marlowe was Miss Terry's marriage. "To be married four times you are quit sure It Is four? not five? Is pretty (rood evidence thst a woman looks favorably on the married state." she said. "To be mar ried once or twice what Is that?" Miss Marlowe made a chlfTon-Uke gesture and a toy dog present wagged his tall. "That may be merely early training or accident, but four ttmi-s only a woman who had a profound respect for and a devoted adher ence to principle could give that evidence, unless" Miss Marlowe waited for a suggestion. When It was given she shook her head decidedly. "No; I don't think It Is the gambling In stinct plsying a system, I believe It Is, as I say, a profound respect for the blessed state." This point settltd. Miss Marlowe took up the London trip. "I will let Mr. Sothern till you about It as a whole," she said, "hut there are a number of points I must emphasize, for they made such an Impression on me. Of 'I 1 " 1 1. j 1 . lip )(?iy mM alp8 m i WMmm-iP' 'm "WHAT 13 MORS THAN FIFTET'.N MINUTES FROM VERONAT" ours we were overwhelmed with our un expected success, for while we hoped for a moderate amount of popularity we -certainly did not anticipate anything like the reception we got. "It was my first experience over there as a star and I realise, now that I am get ting the right perspective, what a tremen dous advantage It has been for me to see London life as I did through the medium of my work. Vou can go to London and en Joy yourself In the season, but you don't see the real London unless you work there and gt the proper sense of values. "Then you are thrown riffht Into all the tangles and pf rplcxltles. you meet critics, drsmalic celebrities, first nlghters, society folk, on a different basis. You get a chance to find yourself. It Is Immensely Interesting and immensely developing, i Did I have to neglect the social? In fi"d. I did not. Mr, Sothern did. He worked all the time, and only went out rarely. But I was entertained at a number of charming functions. "I recall one at this moment especially delightful. It was a luncheon given at the home of Alice Meyn. 11. the English poetess and esaaylBt There Was a young violinist whe was so modest sbout his work that not until afterwsrd did I discover thst he was Francis McMillan; who has made such a name for himself. "Mrs. Meynell asked me If ha could play snyaryf yj' mm fa mMf:iy-' 1 MR. BOTHRRN. WHO ENVIES PAINT ERR AND LIKES THEIR COUNTRY LIFB AND THE COW. for me such a charming way of putting It and he said If I would permit It that he would feel like an archangel playing to a Madonna. After he had played I recited Keat'a 'Ode to a Grecian Urn,' and alto gether we had a regular college girls' party, where everybody has to do a stunt." Being questioned as to the attitude of London toward American actors, Mtss Mar lowe said: "I do hate to say anything that sounds In the least like a criticism, but honestly I will say, as you have put the question, that about the highest rralse. an English man can find to give an American Is to say that he is not the least bit like an Ameri can, even now. Having said that, he Is rather apt to convey the Impression that the' ultimate word has been said. I rely upon you to put this so It won't sound like a criticism, for they were kind to us. "One of the papers after our first per formance over there said almost In these words: 'They (meaning Mr. Bothern and myself) certainly cannot be regarded as Colonial.' "I think the London Tribune went still further and said: 'They speak the sort of English that went over there In the May flower and has stayed there since.' " 'All her phrasing.' said another Jour nal, 'and her accents are absolutely un American.' "Having said that we were not Colonial, that our speech had come over In the Mayflower and that we were un-American, could they go further In their praise? "The English are certainly tenacious of their opinions, once gained. That tha American accept Is a wild and weird ap pendage of the average American outfit is a clause of their creed. Ws had some very amusing experiences tn : relation to this. "In our company absolutely the only Individual who is not an Anglo-Saxon Is a Mr. Rlker, who speaks with a very slight German accent, which la really only an In centive to make him strive . even harder than the rest of us do to speak, correctly. He was, of course, picked out by the re views as the man who had a distinctly American accent. "We had one Englishman with us, not the haw-haw type, but with a very placid well bred voice. He, too, was selected as 1 mi mm ' 1 iMr!f 1 lie 1 it 'w ICNDO.N AT THE TEST OT JULIA 'MARLOWE. 1s1111s.1wsjsjssjss.111j c.isnynmtft .f TV 1 ii" mm an example of "the strange difference be tween the American Intonation end our own.' " Miss Marlowe takes her favorite attitude with hu mis on her kneca nnd a far-away look In her eyes. Her dimple stays per ilously new. Then she says In conclusion: "I like the climate over there. I have said something of this kind befo.'e, but I want to emphasize It. I want to say It again and again. "When things go wrong over here, what have we got to attribute the bias effect to? Nothing! Over thore, there Is al ways the climate. "They always tell you it Is unprece dentedly bad when you are there, and it probably Is; but I believe It Is unprece- dentedly bad all the time. If your hair gets out of curl, if your feathers ate stringy. If you quarrel with" your best friend, lay It all to the climate. I be lieve that Is one reason the English peo ple, are so well poised. What we need Is a climate of that kind!"V Mr. Sothern looks a Utile tired by his success. He takes a more serious retro spect. ' "It was hazardous," he says, "because we were storming a stronghold which has been maintained In the past by Buch men as Elr Henry Irving and Is at present held by Sir Deerbohm Tree. We took over ten productions for six weeks and that we did not produce them all was owing simply to the fact that we pleased them so much with our Shakespearian plays that they wanted nothing else. "The English are very conservative in regard- to their prejudices and opinions. For hundreds of years they have been forming opinions in regard to the classics, and In giving our renditions we were putting ourselves to the test. It would be false modesty not to admit that we have come off victorious, for the news papers have already said It many limes, and I think there was no dissenting opin ion. "For twenty years I have been hearing about the critical spirit of the English. It seemed to me that it was time I should at least try the sincerity of these reports. It got on my nerves. It was necessary to get It off. , "We had also been told that we were too conceited, that we needed something to take us down a peg. There were those who wanted to see us whacked on the head, so to speak. I. m'yself, thought If the whnck was coming, now was the time I was willing to sacrifice three months of our season. "There was no question of makln gmoney. No, we believed that Just on account of those magnificent traditions, those estab lished conventions, their opinion was more worth while than' any other we could get, even though it were unfavorable." "And?" "And we have come back more conceited than evr. I shall never forget that last night, the tremendous enthusiasm that wss expressed boxes, stalls, pit and gal leries let themselves go In a perfect ova tion of bravos. They wouldn't let us leave. They called us back again and again. It was magnificent. Nobody could help being pleased and proud. "The London audiences are not so apt to applaud the moment a situation Is over or a line happily expressed. They rather hold themselves in, and this sort of pent up approval Is shown between the acts and especially at the end. They are not reaching on the floor or under the seats for their hats just as the curtain goes down but remain to show their approval when It la really felt "We were taken more seriously over there, too. All our strenous effort was duly applauded; no slightest detail escaped observation and comment. "Hard work, unwearied patience, un flnchlng determination, the only stepping stones to success, are fully appreciated. There is nothing shallow, superficial or Indeterminate about tbelr judgements, and the subtle examination of their approval once passed they are very loyal." Mr. Bothern has had the cake of dra matic success for many years. With the Icing now added by his reoent tour, he sits and looks at It, and his expression Is that of a child suddenly grown philosophic. "If you act, a thousand things may hap pen to destroy your contemplated work. Tour highest, your best effort may he cramped by others' limitations and mis takes. "I remember one of the first plays I ever stage managed was 'Change Alley,' and on the first night at the crucial moment of the play a wheel in the machinery broke and for half an hour the house was in total darkness. Needless to say the play never recovered. "Yes." says Mr. Bothern, "it is a nerve racking, agitating profession, even with a I-ondon season as a panacea." hi iff; 7- A k Pi mii TASK OF THE BENEDICTINES A First Step to a Revision of the Vulgate. HAS LONO BEEN CONTEMPLATED Work Rntrasted by tke Pp to the Order The Variants mt the Valerate to Be Collected sad Compared, i ROME, June 12. The task of studying and comparing the variants of the Vulgsle version of the bible, which the pope l.as committed to the 'Benedictine order, Is of morldwlde Interest, and the action of the pope taken at this time Is of the utmost Importsnce in view of the conflict of ra tionalism and religion. The following de tails concerning tha matter are therefore of value. The first report that the holy father had Intrusted to the Beneoictlne order the revision of the text of the Vulgate was an exaggeration which grew out of the fact that the letter outlining the pope's wishes which Cardinal Rampolla sent to ma 5, mi ff. ti Y 1 T '.ho abbot-prlmate was not published until recently. The Benedictines have been In vited to undertake plainly and simply the continuation and completion of the col lection of variants of the Vulgate begu: by Verccllone in I860. An official revision on the part of the church of the authentic Latin version of the sacred scriptures Is not Intended, al though the step now being taken by the biblical commission has been considered as an Indispensable preliminary to such a revision. The limits of ths present task are set forth in the letter written by Cardinal Rampolla as president of the Pon tifical Commission de Re Bibllca. . At the recent conference of all the abbots, of the Benedictine order .held at Balnt Anselm on the Aventine, which is its International center, this letter was read by the abboi prlmate, Dom Idelbrande de Hemptinne. The cardinal, after recalling the institu tion of the commission of biblical studies by Leo XIII., says that "its object is not only that of encouraging In Catholic edu cation the study of those wise and sure rules, which, while accepting the conquests of science, do not depart from the tradi tions of the church, but also to give an impulse to biblical studies which are more Important now when troubled by uni versal doubt and the evolution of rational ism. "One of the most useful arguments." the Already the fathers in the Council of y wT-' rwrt4 sjsi rrsj v v 1 1 iiiii hsi-iii m uu,m ml m in isaiiswsssessissajsassswpss iliiimmllS'i ui 1 1 mm" mumumi .ilimiw' " " 11 mmmmm ' Ktwmm iiiiii i,hi m ,m, 1.11,11 in "j""" ' "" """'" " p",,"1""1 ' ' 11 """"' "' 111 V i? r insist on having just what they ask for. ' 'Just as Good" will not suffice, as substitution is the annihilator of confidence. 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HEYDEN, Manager, 1320 22-24 Leavenworth St., Omaha, Neb., Telephone Douglas 2341 posed ti the discussion of tha learned Is certainly an accurate and exhaustive study on the variants of the Iatln Vulgate. Already the Fathers In the Council of Trent, while recognizing the Vulgate as an authentic edition for the public uses of the church, admitted Its Imperfections and ex pressed a vote that with all diligence it should be submitted to a most minute ex amination and reduced to a more deflnl Mvely conformed shape to the original texts. "This task was Intrusted to the Holy Bee, and the Roman pontiffs, so far as the con ditions of their times permitted, did not hesitate to extend their cares toward a revision of the Vulgate, although It was not given them to arrive to the complete real isation of such difficult enterprise. Until the time comes for an Important revision which will enable an smended edition of the Vulgate to be published a preliminary study of preparation by means of -which the variants of the Vulgate either In codes or In the writings of the fathers can t collected 1s IndlspenslrAe. "Toward such a study several learned men have already contributed with Intel ligence and seal, and among these should be mentioned the Illustrious and Indefatig able Barnabite Father Vercellono. As this work Is very complex. It has been deemed opportune that It should he officially under taken by a religious order capable of dis- fir n.' :iA ' vhh.' lifs posing of means proportionate to the diffi cult undertaking. "The eminent cardinals of the Pontifical Commission for Biblical Studies have de cided, and his holiness. Pope Plus X has deigned to approve, that the Illustrious and worthy Benedictine order, whose pa tient and learned works In every branch of ecclesiastical erudition constitute a true monument of glories legitimate collected through the course of many centuries, should be officially Invited to undertake this most important and ponderous study. I appeal to you, father abbot primate, who with so much seal presides over the Bene dictine confederation of which the monas tery of Saint Anselm is the worthy center, so that with those sentiments of devotion to the Holy See which aro well known you assume in the name of the order this Im portant task, and while congratulating you on the high trust placed In the family of Balnt Benedict, I hope that the sons of such a great father will correspond with hasty joy and happy success to the honor able Invitation." The Vulgate Is the Itln version of the scriptures which the Cothollo church has declared to be, official and authentic. The name was originally- applied to the Greek translation of the Old Testament, which was the common or current version, as very probably before the time of Bt. Jerome there was no Latin version of the Ourv Very Best People Mble which was considered as the current or commonly received version. The name began to be transferred to the I. tin version and clung to It for many renturte after the time of Bt. Jerome. When the Counc'l of Trent Issued Its de rree on the suthentlclty of the Vulgate the term became Irrevocably fixed on the version of the scriptures made by St. Jerome. Bt. Jerome s work did not consist of Inde pendent translations from the original. At the request of Pope Pamnsua he under took the revision of the Latin text of the New Testament, corrected many errors, but retained faulty translations which did not alter the sense of tha original. Ijiter he revised hastily and imperfectly the Psalms, and his version, known as the Roman Psalter, was Introduced Into the Catholic church by Pope Iiamasus and re tained until the liturgical reforms msde by Plus V. In the year S5 St. Jerome left Rome for Palestine end at Rethlchom between the yesrs 2S8-g5J he made his second revlslo.1 of the Psalter, now known as the Galilean Psalter, aa It was flrst adopted In Fianc. Subsequently this version wss inserted in the Vulgate. In U St. Jerome began his translation of the Old Testament front the Hebrew origi nal. Including of course, a third version of ths Psalmf. which, however, has neve,- been Inserted In ths Vulgate and has never been In the public use of the church. The Volgate text of Wisdom, Eccleslaa tlcus, Baruch, Maccabees I and II is not St. Jerome's. Of the New Testament, the gospels are the revision of the old Latin based on Greek manuscripts, and the remainder of the New Testament Is again the old Latin hastily revised by the saint. The whole work of the translation of the Old Testa ment extended over the period 191-405. In the course of time, flrst the manu script copies and later the printed edi tions of the Vulgate were multiplied to such an extent that the errors of copyists and false translations, repeated, modified, sometimes corrected, often altered, had to be collected In what Is now known as the variants of the Vulgate. In 1693 Car dinal Bellamlno at ' the request of Pope Clement VIII published the revised edition of the Vulgate known as the Clementina. The Barnabite monk Vercellono under took the work of revision of the variants, but he died without completing his Work and only published one volume. .Since 18fi8, when Vercellone died, no further at tempt toward a revision of the variants was made until the pope entrusted the work to the Benedictine order. Aa Ingentoas Pollceansm. The most Ingenious and thorough police htrk tn the country has been discovered at Minneapolis. Minn., nnd has lot hit Job. It W(is discovered by the nntliorltle that Patrolman Charles Grlsln had made ( sleeping berth of a tool chest on the site oi the new Minneapolis cathedral, and the. sergeant on that beat further found that Orisln bad a small nlnrnt cluck In Ms hat to wake him every hour wnen he m re quired to pull the r-.itiol t-x I'nhaptlls the sergeant discovered tho rv umbent policeman In the tool slicd luot before tha time for registering nt the patrol box. and while talking to the policeman tho alarm clock In the officer's hat rang off. Honest Ministers. "Yes." said the rnilway claim agent. quoted by the New Orleans Times, " come across queer tilings sonietlmrs. The queerest thing In my experience was ths case of a minister. "This man was hurt in a nr end co. Uston and we gave him IVW damages. At the end of the year v.e got a letter from him that ran something like this: " 'My salary Is tin', and the accident caused nie to lose It for a twelvemonth. My medical expenses were 7W. My board t a mountain sanitarium for six months was t-riO. Other expenses due to this ac cident were. In round numbers, H.-'W; total J4.WVV You gave me t.".W0. Now 1 am baci to the pulpit again, as well nnd strong si evet, and I have $400 of your money ou m, r -v. biLM. yCg BtjfevrCTiNKOfioen.t hands. Not being entitled to that sum, t do what any other minister would do in my place I return tho money to you aa per check Inclosed.' "How was that for honesty?" said tha claim agent. "Tho ministers ate a wonder ful lot. We sent the I4O0 back to this hon est minister and he gave it to charity in our name." Jeeuis Went. Humor lightens, everything, even grin war, relates Youth's Companion, Jefferson Davis, with all the weight of a losing causa on his shoulders, could yet spare time to ' appreciate and respond to an artless ap peal. The Incident Is related by Captain Sutherland. Among the numerous papers received by the confederate president tha following turned up one day: "Dear Mr. President I want you to let Jeems C. of Co. ontli, 5th South Carolina Regiment, come home and get married. Jeems Is wlllin', but Jeems Capt'ln ha ain't wlllin'. Now when we all are wlllin' 'cept Jeems Capt'ln, I think you might let up and let Jeems come. I'll make hint go straight back when he's done got mar ried and fight hard as ever. "Your affectionate friend," etc Mrs. Davis, telling the story, added that Mr. Davis wrote his directions In regard tm the matter on the back of the letter. They, were: "Let Jeems ge."