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pen of Marie Corelli is stiU'fecund and
the fiction of Marion Crawford is still
published there is no danger of our
American actors becoming too intel
ligent. It is strange that our actors
fall into such drivelling and careless
habits. It is a sort of custom and
tradition in America that an actor must
lose whatever scholarly tastes and
habits he may have been born with. It
is not necessary. Those foreign fellows
manage to keep them all their lives, and
yet they can act a bit. The crying
need among American actors is not so
much talent as intelligence; not so
much intelligence as culture, knowledge
of the things that are. I was talking
"the drama" last season with one of the
most popular and successful corned,
iennes of one of the best metropolitan
companies, and she insisted on talking
about "Isbens" Ghosts and chirped
blissfully on as thocgh the worla and
all its treasures were hers. 1 was
rather floored by that. I supposed
that she would at least know the few
things immediately pertaining to her
profession. Again I spoke of George
Meredith to one of our leading "stars''
and certainly one of our best comedians
and ho replied with charming confi
dence that he did not like his "Esther
Waters," but he thought "Lucille' a
beautiful production. Jf in a moment
of madness you should mention Fiske to
one of them he would think you meant
Clyde Fitch and pity you for your
ignorance. Wo have brighter men than
Henry Irving and men more talented,
but they let themselves go. That is a
habit with Americans. To be cheap
successfully, to do the trivial well, that's
all that matters. We produce clever
farceurs and we writo the best rot iu
the world, and our cocktails are excel
lent. Speaking of American literature O,
its a great act! American literature
reminds me of what a really excellent
6tory Marion Crawford has just spoiled
in the Century. Why he did it no man
knows, for his mistake was one of the
most palpable sort and one most
easily rectified. If he had simply
stopped short six months ago he would
have left one perfect work of art to
make his children proud of his name.
The last six months he has devoted
exclusively to mutilating it. Well, Mr.
Crawford is a true American; ho has
made a "good thing' out of literature,
he is what wo cill "a success." He
publishes a new novel every few months
and writes countless "articles" beside.
He is a very rich man. In each of his
bulky volumes there is evidence of his
talent, talent that it it had been treated
with reverence might have been inval
uable to the world. Somehow Craw
ford's career seems one of the saddest
things in this present chapter of Amer
ican history. We deserve it so richly.
I have always thought he suggested
Henry James' melancholy "Lesson of
the Master." It hits him much harder
than the expurgated part of "Trilby"
ever hit Whistler. I thought though,
when "Casa Braccio" began, that
perhaps now that Crawford was rich
and famous enough, perhaps he was
writing that one story for his own per
sonal pleasure and satisfaction, to
satisfy. tho yearning in him that cannot
yet be dead. But 1 suppose the curse
of having sold one's Eelf is that one is
always branded with a trade mark and
can never escape from the habits of his
vice." Truth once betrayed tracks the
betrayer to his grave, He had better
go out at once like Judas and hang
himself. Like Midas, the Phrygian,
when he seeks for beauty he will find
only gold, gold that cannot buy per
fection. So Lassello's scientific talk is no mere
midsummer madness, no mere artist's
freak, but a fixed and unfortunate fact.
He has actually invested his fortune i i
a big chemical factory over in Franco
and will devote the rest of his hfo to
science. And yet ho has not lost his
voice nor acquired permanent tonsilitis.
He simply declares that scienco was his
first love and that ho has returned to it.
That may be true, but even M. Lissello
must acknowledge that art has made a
pretty good substitute, all these years,
from a remunerative standpoint at any
rate. Of course it Monsieur really finds
bisulphate of copper more exciting than
grand opera he has a righ to choose it.
And now tho news comes that Jean and
Edouard de Reszke have bought a lot of
landed property in Poland near
Czentochow and Plawne. I suppose
next season we shall hear that they
have retired to their Polish estates and
gone to practicing agriculture, and that
Calvo has returned to her chickens for
good, anJ perhaps Melba will discover
a latent passion for drawn work or
china painting. Then we may as well
close the Metropolitan and tho Audi
torium. When France and Poland
desert us wo have little left, heaven
knows.
Poor Bernhardt is in trouble again
A young woman named Klein has been
protesting for several years that she is
Bernhardt's daughter, and recently she
has become so violent in her per
secutions that she makes life almost
unbearable, and Bernhardt has sent
her to an asylum. A certain Parisian
newspaper insinuated that she had used
the peculiarly powerful influence she
held in certain quarters to get the girl
out of the way. Tho actress was en
raged and Maurice, her son, challenged
the editor to fight. In spito of the fact
that Mile. Klein has red hair I am in
clined to think that herclaims are unjust.
Bernhardt would not have any scruples
about acknowledging her. But it must
be awkward though, to be by a large,
raw-boned, red haired madamoiselle
who wants to call her mamma.
In her last interview with a reporter
Bernhardt said that she was shocked
and grieved that tho women of Paris
shoi.Id wear bloomers. It is too bad
about the women of Paris! She said
furthermore that she considered them
highly immodest and degrading and
the sight of them was painful to her.
Speak gently! It is a sad and cruel
thing that Mine. Bernhardt should be
shocked. Masculine costume is well
known to have unspeakablo terrors for
her, and I suppose even bloomers are
enough to frighten her. To tell tho
truth she should never travel without
a chaperone and every precaution should
be taken to preserve her tender
illusions.
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