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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. And if she happens to be
in a cruel mood she lets him live, to
wander over the world dreaming of her
face, to be scorned and mocked of men.
"As if a blacker night could dawn on night,
"With tenfold gloom on moonless night un-
starred.
"A scene more tragic than defeat and blight,
'"Moro ilesperato than strife with hope de
barred,
"More fatal than the adamantino never.
"The sense that every straggle brings defeat
Because fate holds no prize to crown success :
That all the oracles are dumb or cheat
Because they bare no secret to express ;
"That none can pierce the Tast black veil
uncertain
"Because there is nolight beyond the curtain;
"That all ii vanity and nothingness.
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