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THE COURIER. 9 THE PASSING SHOW I When Homer wished for a tongue of iron and a throat of brass that he might tell the ships and the number of them that catne from distant Argos,he should have eared time and eloquence and merely wished to be an advance man. Advance men can talk till the town clock stops, till the cows come home, till the grass on your grave grows green. And of all advance men I never met no one who could out-talk Mr. Lawrence Mareton, the husband and playwright of Lillian Lewis. A good share of his con versation Mr. Marston devoted to Cleo patra, and to clearing Cleopatra's record, which latter was kind and considerate of him. Mr. Marston is very pure that Antony and Cleopatra were married. I tllinlr rift Aran tiaa ttinrriAa aa s nVi performed the ceremony and knows who M B0DKB B,nB of; a" men dream f' that were the bridesmaids and best men. "Of onl' OD0 in hundreds ever k,noWB "J6' course she was married to Antony a!izefl- It leaps up and strikes you be quothhe. "Why, just think how that teen the eyes, makes you hold your affair would have hurt her social stand- breath and tremb,e' And thlrends ing in Egypt if she had not been!" meof what Plutarch 6a-8' that Cleo Truly. Then Mr. Marston thinks that patra's chiefest charm was not in her Cleopatra was married to Julius Casar beautiful face, nor her keen wit, nor her also, despite the fact that Julius was no wea,th of wiBdotn' but ",D ne mn longer young and had a wife in Rome. lt? of what she had to g,ve' !?.her When humbly asked as to whether this versatility, her intensity, her sensitive much married queen were Pompey's wife ness to every emotion, her whole luxur also, Mr. Marston hedged and said he iant personality. thought that little story about Pompey t wiBh it had n Sardou's Cleopatra and the languid lily of the Nile was all thatMifia Lewis played, for, compared to gossip. And the numerous slave stories Shakespeare's it is cheap and tawdry, it he is sure were all slander. He thinks. , iM if Q, i-D H;rmv tn one feels that in her veins there flows the blood of a hundred centuries of kings. And the restlessness of her when he is gone. How she beats the u.ied pillows with feaverish impa tience and strains her eyes out across the glowing desert and the sleepy Nile. The madness of her fury when the mes senger delivers his news, how her face became famished and hungry and her eyes burnjd like a tiger's and her very llesh seemed to cleave to her bones. How, but bah! it is not possible to de scribe it. It wa6like the lightning which tlashe6and terrifies and is gone. Through it all she keeps doing little things that you do not expect to see on the 6tage, things that make you feel within your self bow she loves and how 6he hates. She gives you those .moments of abso lute reality of experience, of positive knowledge that are the te:t of all great art. 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There have been innumerable at temps to dramatize that greatest love story of the ages. They began with Virgil, who tried to do it in that dra matic fourth book of the Eneid in the person of the infelix Dido. Since then poets and dramatists and novelists ga lore have struggled with it. But among them all the great William is the only man who has made a possible character of the Egyptian queen. Some wise men say, indeed, that he had a living model for it, and that his Cleopatra "with Phoebus' armorous pinches black and wrinkled deep in time" was none other than the Dark Lady of the Sonnets. The more one reads the Sonnets the more probable that seems, and yet I think he waB great enough to have done it without a model. He had no model for C:esar or Brutus or Antony and cer tainly none for Juliet. His mind worked independently of any romances or trag edies in his own life. It, in itself, had loved all loves, suffered all Borrow, known all tragedies. 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England, no love in dusky Elizabethian , 1043 O STREET " London could have brought to him the Vn!,, T7. 7 There was just good thing about Lil- sun and langor of the south, the beauty Wn, ? 1 ? . be expected husband saw fit to have spoken by Han Lewis' Cleopatra, and that was and luxury and abundant life of the . m ,- - Antny "" if Bne LepWus and Enobarbus. Now the only that, as hunger makes one dream of lotus land. It was nmnBincr , ,;i . . . "um lo Ine ,ove 8ne made parpose of that scene is to recall to banquets, it recalled the only Cleopatra it was painful to see the childish way in u ciiiiu worm me Beeine. me roval which thnv n nvoH tritli ,; nEgyptian or Sarah Bernhardt. I could see it all again, that royal creature with the face of flame.every inch a queen and always a woman. The bewildering re ality of that first scene with Mark An tony in which her caresses are few, fit ful, unexpected, light as air.and hot as kingdoms and provinces. But Cleonatra ..uccuiiucw wuuwnicn was one woman or the ages, one unique she sends him from, her back to Rome, product of the centuries, she had more uou bud loucues nis ewora witn Her than mortal resources and nps ana invoaes me god or victory, and inspired was almost great pur poses and mangled his great art the other night "Father, forgive them, for they knew not what they did." The gleeful, irresponsible way in which they went through that fiist ccene where An tony is down in Egypt kissine awav would set a limit to the love she made men feel sho "must needs find out new heaven, new earth.'' Well, Bhe found them. She was more than a woman, sne was a realization of things dreamed Antony Egypt and that one queen of serpents, recall them until he drinks and drinks again, till his foot steps are unsteady and he finally goes out l.tk.t.L J . .. . " . . "" "D UUB'V t - . Burewu pnuooopner, Enobarbus, flushed and reeling, leaning on the said to Antony when a repentent mood steady arm of Caesar, the beginning to the love she more than mortal. was on him. "O, sir, you had them left unseen A wonderful piece of work, Which not to have oeen blest withal Would haTe discredited your traTer To know Cleopatra was then a sort of finishing touch to a great man's educa tion. If a man waB to be traveled and experienced he must see her, as today, given to Antony the dignity and majestj "c mum see me Pall Sty-leu Of Celebrated Hats Now on aoie by JS - pyramids. All the took post graduate J. A. SMITHjSoleagt greatest Romans work in Egypt. The finest drinking scene in literature was cut out the other night, while a dozen trivial scenes were left in. The ta k about the serpents of Egypt which akes place between Lepidus and i tony Miss Lewis and her versatile the end. They failed utterly to brine out the meaning cf that scene where the fight ib declared by sea, where the gods have first mad he whom they would di stray and Antony cries "By sea. by sea!"' I wonder if any other poet could have v that Shakespeare eives him in defeat. After Actium, when Antony meets the queen he says, "O whither hast though led mo, Egypt? t Thy full supremacy thou knewest, And that thy beck might from the bidding 'f the Gods Command me." It is said with a simplicity and pathos that dignify even its weakness.And O.the 23c oc 10c 10c ar&&i wmmmm "-S TT -"r . ' i 'uuyjJjj.'i".i'.jaJ