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failure, while in this country it was one
of the season's successes. Undoubtedly
Mr. Mansfield's irony made the play,
and if it was a gratuitous invention of
his own brain, then the greater Mans
field he. However, Mr. Shaw wrote the
drama, and if it has succeeded beyond
its deserts he has a right to object,
though such a proceeding is some
what unucual.
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Patti, dear old lady, now that she has
lost her voice, is going to start out in a
musical pantomime called "Mlrka, the
Enchantress' in which she does not
have to sng a note except one little so'.o
right at the end. We did think
that psrhaps wh?n she lost that ever
lasting vics fiiillir and forever she
would let us rest, but no, not so Now
she appears in a deaf and dumb creation
in which she does not have to speak.
She, whose only charm was her voice,
is actually going to Paris this fall in a
play in which she does not sing. She will
establish herself in Sarah Bernhardt's
Renaissance theatre, and the poor
Parisians will feel it their duty to go to
see her because, forsooth, thirty years
ago this woman used losing.
So Jean de'Reszke, it seems, is not
overjoyed at the prospect of Calve's
return. Perhaps it is because, like
Barnes, he does not like to see her eat
, with her knife; perhaps because he has concerned about the form it took,
sometime in the past happened to come
in contact with her peppery temper;
perhaps because he is a little, just a
little bit afraid of her. De Beszke is a
great artist, a perfect singer, and he
still makes, in spite of his fifty odd
yean, as graceful and charming a lover
as any prima could wish for. But after
all age is age and art cannot quite con
ceal it. Youth's candles are burnt out
and with what shall he meet that
ardent flame, that scorching whirlwind
of passion with which the Spanish
woman will descend upon him every
night? It is only when he plays with
Calve that people call de Beszke "cold,"
and he does not like being called cold.
He is not cold at all; he is always tender
and sympathetic; but a tenor must have
more than tenderness te hold his own
with Calve, and one does not have that
at fifty, not even tenor?.
There is an amusing "scrap"' going on
in .New York just now between Richard
Mansfield, actor, and G. Bernard Shaw,
playwright. Last summer Mr. Shaw
wrote a play which he called "Arms and
The Man," and Mr. Mansfield played
it. Mr. Mansfield thought the play was
a satire and played it as such with
magnificent success. Everyone else,
thought it was a satire and the critics
heaped unconditional praise upon the
head of Mr. Shaw, Baying that such a
piece of audacious cynicism had not
been flung at the world for years. They
called Mr. Shaw the master cynic since
Juvenal. Well, now after this realistic
masterpiece has run for a whole year
as successfully as any masterpiece or
work of merit'can ever run in New York,
and after Mansfield's impersonations of
the beib,CaptaiABluntaehli, has become
a by word for delicate irony Mr. G.Bern
ard Shaw-says that Mansfield has spoil
ed his play and ruined his reputation.
He declares that he never meant the
-sjay to be satirical, and that if rightly
fkayed Bluntschli would-be one of the
sfcet pathetic and touching character
in the world." "Mr. Shaw apparently
forgets that in Loudon, where the play
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Things like this make one wonder how
much of what we call the art of the
world was intentionally so. I
have always wondered just what
Shakespeare would say if he could read
the forbidding tomes of Shakespearian
literature written in all languages, and
I have always privately maintained the
Browning commentaries and encyclo
pedias were largely instrumental in
bringing about that gentleman's demise.
It is queer what work the philosophers
and critics make -of artists anyway.
If Shakespeare were alive today he
probably could not answer the vexed
Shakesperian questions. As Henry
James says, he simply planted his
geniuB and let it grow and ho was not
particularly responsible for or even
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Several years ago I visited a spiritual
medium who for the small sum of one
dollar evolved the shade of Sir William
Shakespeare. As soon as I was assured
that the great William was at my
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News comes from London that Mrs.
Pat Campbell who scored such a
tremendous success as The Notorious
Mrs. Ebbsmith, is able, because of a
peculiar formation of the breast bone
to wear a lower cut than any other
woman on the stage. And yet they
say she continues to fool with "methods''
and waste her time on "art." How
very foolish of Mrs. Pat, when she has
such a neck. Art is a poor excuse any
way; a sort of apology for existing in
vented by people who haven't got necas
and things. Its all. very well for Bern
hardt and Duse to talk about art when
they have to wear chokers. Art and
chokers go together someway. But
what need have people like Mrs. Pat of
art? They are art themselves God's
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At a recent open air performance of Pauline Hall, who will soon be with
various Shakesperian roles De Wolfe us again has been doing Europe on a
Hopper made such another large sen- "quad" this summer. The chances are
Now that Mark Twain has lost all his nation as Fa WaJ that he has decided to that she will be prettier and plumper
Duy oui uranesounitanapiay.iQecnar- and jollier than even But 'after all
acter regularly. Let's see; De Wolfe is bicycling has its disadvantages. Pray
six feet seven in his atockings - with a heaven that she be not tanned!
big thunderiug voice that- sounds like a
whole bowling ally in action;. a princely uTrilby" is being played in Chicago,
pair of legs and such-irrepressible good "The Gallery Boy" went to see the play;
humor that he can make you laugh by and here are his impressions-of-ithe
merely standing still. Well, he may do. opening-scenes: "De orchestry tummed
I should not.be greatly, surprised if he a little, an' up went de rag. . A nice, fat,
made an excellent Fdlstaff- - Besides be inudderly loidy came out an' dusted de
has seen Maurel play Verdi's FaUtaff furniture, an' talked wid herself. Den
and that's a whole Shakesperian edu- in cuns as big an actor as Sullivan, an'
cation in itself. He will probably he had whiskers an' golden hair; an' de
handle Inclines smoothly, for it-must loidy called s'im Taffy.-j 'Shemustbe
be remembered that this is not his sweet on 'im,' said Chimmie.-Den. in,
Shakesperian debut. DidnThe'use to cums anoder feller wid a rush Scotch
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Romeo years ago? Dey all changed togs, an' trun tings on
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