The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, September 07, 1895, Image 7
THE COURIER. ix no! Calve, its the samo the world over. The chickens "flutter" for the corn just as the frock coats that will crowd the Metropolitan this winter go for the song and name. Chickens are not adept at disinterested affection any more than the rest of us. Olive Schriner colored her thrilling novel "The African Farm" with the lucid Eentence, "The chickens were wiser.'' They certainly are not foolish enough to cherish a dis interested passion for Calve. Besides, Calve, if it were not for your voice and the corn, why in the name of goodness should either we or the chickens love you for your temper? Calve, in a wild letter to a friend in Paris said she wished she need never re turn to the stagt but could spend all her life warbling the great master among her chickens. Well, now no one is com pelling Calve to return to the stage. If she prefers the chickenB let her have them and marble Bizet's impassioned measures to them until the become very nightingales. Perhaps she can even train a rooster orchestra. If she loves chickens better than two thousand a night let her have them, and start a wholesale poultry farm foi all the wprld cares. Actors and singers are always talking about longing to exchange the calciums for the sunlight, chaoipange for spring water and grease paint for new mown hay. But in the end they generally find that the calciums are bet ter suited to thoir complexion and cham pagne to their digestion. They are al ways wishing they could return to the old homestead and go a-haying in the meadows and fish in the brook and live there the world forgetting, by the world forgot. They forget that there never were any tish in this brook, and that in the hay field there is tan and sweat and dirt as well as the odor of clover. If they should try that sort of life for three weeks their artistic temperament would be so pained, and their artistic tempers would become so awry that the other inhabitants of the dear old homestead would find it expedient Jto move into town. There was but one anthentic case of a philosopher who exchanged a kingdom for a cabbage garden, and if I remember rightly his subjects aided him very materially in the exchange, as they thought he bad missed nis calling. Miss Isadore Rush, Mr. Reed's blond, and popular leading lady, has, like most of them, had a history. I have gleaned a considerable portion of her very eventful career from a Lincoln lady who used to live in Wilkes Barre.Penn., the town where "l6sy" RubIi was born and grew up. Miss Rush was the daughter of Captain Rush, a dashing gentleman without any visible occu pation, a sort of all round sporting man. Her mother is an Irish woman, florid and rather stout. Isadore was like her father, handsome and inclined to be wild. She put in all her early years shocking the peaceful town of Wilkes Barre. She defied authorities at school, and general sentiment elsewhere, but because of her vivacity and beauty she was always popular among her father's friends, who knew a pretty woman when they 6aw one. Jack White, her first husbanu, died in the south. Soon after ward Isadore married Nat Wolf, a wealthy druggist in Wilkes Barre and helped him spend his income very effectually. She ran about the country a good deal in those dajs, and once on a trip to New York met Mr. Reed. There were two things that Isa dore Rush always could do. She could dress and she could act. Every one who knew her always won dered why she aid not go on the stage. Probably her ambitions and taste in that direction had something to do with the complications which followed her acquantance with Roland Reed. Her husband, Mr. Wolf, naturally dis approved of the connection and obtained a divorce. After a short preparation in a dramatic schocl. Miss Rush went directly into Mr. Reed's company and has been with him ever since. Last year her career very nearly ended in a railroad accident, but Mr. Reed finally succeeded in rescuing her and carrying her out of the car window. Sinco Miss Rush went on the stgo her family moved to New York where her brother, "Forry' is in the business und her sister, Carrie, is a Bales-woman. MisB Rush has one child living, born during the Becond year of her marriage with Jack White. ' It may interest the American popu lace to know that Roland Reed's wife was Johanna Sommers. Whatever the future holds for Mascagni, he has always that one opera. Most of us would bo content to have written just that and then cease to be. There are parts of it that will "Die not till the the whole world dies." There is the Seduction song we heard Scalchi sing three years ago, that would seduce the archangels themselves as in the days when the sons of God saw that the daughters or men were fair. Then there ib the intermezzo, yes there is the inter mezzo. It would be worth writing a whole opera for that alone. It is unique in music as "The City of Dreadful Night" is in poetry. With its bass that labors and fails and struggles, that suffers and protests in its black despair; its treble that never yields, never falters, dips sometimes toward the lower octaves like a bird that is faint with its death wound, and then flies on, flies on. That treble that knows and sees the hopelessness of all things and yet never wavers; love betrayed that still loves on, hope deferred that still hopes on; it is the despair which passes despair, despair sublime, impersonal, and full of awe as though it comprehended universal futil ity and universal doom. They say that Mascagni is at work on a new opera, The news is not entirely welcome for ten chances to one it means another disappointment. It has been several years now since the advent of Cavalleria Rusticana and yet Mascagni has done nothing worthy of himself since then. People have begun to doubt whether he will ever again equal those magnificent measures that hunger and poverty and despair drove him to, or whether that opera will stand his one witness to the world as Carmen stands for Bizet. So often these peculiar and unique works of art are without successors. Not every composer can be like Verdi, great a hundred times. There is a kind of musical genius which rather larks musical intelligence, a sort of emotional tone fury which expresses itself once and dies. The muse plays queer tricks with men, and she can only be courted, never compelled. She is ail things to all men. Soaietime3 she is as constant as Penelope, as she has been to Verdi for these eighty years. Sometimes she is fickle as Cleopatra, knows her lover but once and then throws him to the crocodiles. 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