THE COURIER.
this is in print he will be better. There bids a long adieu to tho "City of Pain
are bo many other men who have noth- and of Pleasure."
ing better to do than b ill. Don't go
out this journey. Mr. Mansfield. There Abbey Shoffu and Gfau
are plenty of yellows who can do that, doing their level best to got rid of Miss
but "England hath need of thee." RuB6eIK She ha8 o8t J ma q
for them and they have given up the
The Dramatic Mirror in speaking of battle, They have put all tho great
Cora Tanner announces that she is singers and prima donnas in tho world
"tall, svelte and gracefrl." Now since through to their great mutual glory,
when has Cora Tanner become svelte? but Lillian the fair with her ten chirpy
How she must have.cbanged! little tones is too much for them. Mr.
Abbey saB if Miss Rusell could be
Mme. J.udith Gautier has written a Pereuaded to go out into the provinces
new Hindoo play called "ABpara" for and play ehe couId bave money to burn,
Bernhardt. Mme. Gautier, it will be butBbe will not leave the cities where
remembered, translated from the Jap- everone tired of her. Sho keeps
anese "Heart of Ruby," the play that baDK,nB around New York and Boston
failed at Daly's last year because it was that g,vo her the cold shoulder, while
too poetic to succeed. Mme. Gautier is !he BmaI,er citieB who have been pant-
the daughter of Theophile Gautier, the e and PerishiDB and withering up for
author of those luxuriant oriental '"" B'KUV Ul uer Bue wm n01 ue,Bn IO
studies "Fortunio" and "Une Nuit De
Cleopatre." The French are full of
oriental feeling. Those hot winds that
blow up from Provence carry the odor
of citron and orange groves even to
Paris. Said Daudet, "O
of the South, ye are
French art is full of them. Tho great
passions never become wholly conven
tionalized in France. Every year that
hot blood and ardorous enthusiasm
from the south pour into Paris, into
Parisian life and Parisian thought.
visit.
Young Mr. Bryan, they Bay, has
written to Fitzgerald Murphy, the
author of "The Silver Lining," con-
wind and fire gratulating him upon his treatment of
irresistible." tne 8lver question.
Zelia do Lussan has been singing
Carmen in Dublin. The Dublin Times
says of her: "Mile, de Lussan was
always a darling, del ghtful and charm
ing vivacious Carmen; but to this she
Beneath that most polished suavity in has added an audacious suggestiveness
the world there is always something of and an almost unlimited abandon,
the savage. It comes from the South, Many people will object to her pcrform-
with the poets and the orators. In tbo
last forty years a whole oriental vocab
ulary has crept into the French lan
guage. Half of the best novels, the
greatest pictures, the most perfect
music are oriental in theme and treat
ment. Last season Bernhardt played
"The Earthen Chariot,'" a Sanskrit
drama four thousand years old. No
one imbibed more of this oriental
atmosphere than Gautier. He stands
next to Flaubert in handling oriental
color. There are pages in his oriental
sketches that seem to palpitate with
heat, like a line of sand hills in the
South that dances and vibrates in tho
yellow glare of noon. There are sen
tences that ring out like the clank of
auce as being altogether too broad, but
they cannot but admit the genius which
so happily introduces a spirit that was
perhaps lacking in previous years, and
a close attention to finished detail that
is quite new. For instance, after the
tight in the cigar factory, wo find
Carmen with her hair in wild disorder,
and the lace of her gown almost in
tatters little realistic attentions that
were much appreciated by the audi
ence. Mile, de Lussan is original
enough also to defy the conventional
costumes that have always been looked
for in a Carmen. The broad treatment
of the part was much redeemed by the
magnificent singing of tho gifted prima
donna." I would go a long way to see
golden armour, chapters that are em- de Lussan's "audacious suggestiveness
balmed in spices and heavy with the and unlimited abandon." The Dublin
odors of the vale of Cashmere. Judith Times man has lost his head. It
Gautier has followed her father's simply is not possible. Mile, de Lussan
eastern studies and gone beyond him. is a nice little person with a nice smilo
The academy of Franco never questions and an angular form without a singlo
her translations from the Japanese, natural curve on it. Tho only kind of
Sanshrit and Hindoo. Sho is a lin- abandon sho can simulate is a sort of
guist, an etymologist, a poet, a novelist giggling school girl abandon that might
and a dramatist. She has literally do for the Three Little Maids of the
"ransacked the ages, spoiled the
climes," and yet she is a Parisienne.
They are strange people, those women
of Paris; they are so versatile and they
can touch upon so many extremes.
They are, on a general average, about
the most learned women in the world,
Mikado, but is pretty light diet for
Carmen. Zelia "broad," tho idea!
Why I should as soon accuse Maggie
Mitchell or Effie Ellsller of being broad.
Why sho is as sweet and innocent as a
new born babe, and very nearly as art
less. Imagine a thin Carmen with a
W. C. A. manners and slender bunday
school arm. Bah!
and yet they are never "digs" like other Band-of-Hope smile and engaging Y.
learned women. Study never takes any
of the vivacity out of them. They learn
a language as they learn a dance.
Clara Morris is en route again with
Thie week tolls the passing bell for her doctors and demijohns, her opiates
Mr. Frohman's colossal production and hot water bags and all tho other
"The City of Pleasure." It is to be things with which this histrionic
withdrawn an ignominious failure. For invalid drags her attenuated person to
once New York has found a play too and fro across the continent. There is
broad and too flabby and all the no reason for Miss Morris being in her
thousands that Mr. Frohman has put present physical condition. She is
into it can not save it. It is a play of years younger than Bernhardt and yet
low.charactere, low passionB, low inci- she is a wreck. It all came of reckless
dents. Its plot was fished up from the living. To see Clara Morris at this
slums of Paris. It was the story of a stage of her career is certainly painful
gigolette who loved a notorious tough and yet I should advise every young
and fought another woman with a dirk person who has never heard her to grit
knife for him. It is a drama of the his teeth and sit at least one play
gutter. Self-respecting people have no through. He will see an instance of an
wish to see it. The great passions of art unique and without a rival in its
life are terrible and violent enough in way. Clara Morris was one of those
their most elevated form. In their lowest exceptions who can not be explained or
they are revolting. So at least the analysized. she is great, original and
New York public has decided and it inimitable, even iu her decline.
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