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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1896)
kCf3SiBkaijuu-jA gj sSm fSBwrS- jes: decided it last Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr In-law. therefore he must be a fool. Marquett are dead. Probably the case After he came to England he never en hastened the death of both. Mr. Mar- ioyed himself excent whon ho was cruis- quett in particular worked hard and thought long over it and the successful issue is due to him. He was a truly great man . Thero Jb no one here or anywhere elso that can take his place. He had not time to make money. Ho thought littlo about it, but he left his children a stainless name, a name that all who knew the man reverence." Ho was careless about his dreES and some formalities ho never learned. He was courteous withtho gentleness and sweet ness of tho Ghevalior Bayard without a chevalier's nourishes. He had an absent-minded air, a simplicity and di rectness of speech that sot his apart. I think he never really lived here. People tell of his putting on other men's shoes, too big for him, and of him leaving his small ones, too small for any. all uncon sciously. Such stories are probably true. They might bo true considering Mr. Marquett's withdrawal from tho things which did not much matter to him, but very likely some joker made them up. It does not matter, they only illustrate his indifference) to shoes and things. He gave his life to win the Fitzgerald case and herein the tragedy. Modjeska's illness is a reminder that her retirement from the stage is not far off at any rate. Of English speaking act reuses there are none to take her place. There are Ellen Terry, Fanny Davenport, Julia Marlowe and Ada Rehan, none so great as Modjeska ex cept tho first, who is much greater. Julia Marlowo is the only one of these who can rival Modjeska in individual and personal charm. Each member of their audience goes away feeling that he has discovered a moat charming woman, that the rest of the audience has probably not responded to that elusive, appealing gayety, that womanly grace, freshness, simplicity, that in short, Julia or Helena, has been playing to him alone. He throws out his chest at this point at the same time that five or six hundred other manly chests swell with conviction as if at a military com mand. Fann Davenport is too robust to awaken this "My-Pladie-to-the Winds I'll-Fling-to-Shelter-Theo" emo tion. She never gets the affection of an audience. She must be content with admiration and the enthusiasm for a fine woman "be gad!" Ada Rehan does not do the appeal act either. She com mands, dazzles and plays to the audi ence as a whole. The stage is short of actresses just now. Leave out the Ital ian woman and the French woman and who is thero to match the genius of ing about in his yacht, where ho could not feel tho sneers of tho Gormans for having become an Englishman, nor tho jibes of tho English because ho was a Gernnn. Now ho is dead tho queen is inconsolablo and tho British public remembers him as a quiet re served gentleman who took their scoffing like a man without whine or bluster. The queen is said to have depended upon him mora than upon any ono else. His wife, tho Princess Beatrice, is her favor ite daughter and Princo Henry has beon the devoted son with Teutonic Con stancy. When tho duke of Glarenco died the queen mourned for him as the heir to tho British throne. She mourns for Battenberg as tho prop of her old age, one who always thought of her comfort and smoothed paths for her royal but dumpy feet which no hireling has tho knowledge and lovo to do and no ono in tho succession tho time for. But thero is no use of making a bad matter worse, Alfred Austin. In view of all the circumstances Tennyson him self would have bad hard work writing a poem in consolation to a peoplo for the loss of a butt. Don't you try it. Eleonora Daso never hurries her words when on tho stage. She takes her time like Joe Jefferson and other great actors and actresses. Sho novor leaves her audience very far behind her If at any time the action has been too rapid for tho peoplo to fully comprehend the state of all the character's emotions, Duse stops and keeps entirely still for a minute, and a minuto is a long time on the stago where a whole life is fre quently compressed into three hours. In this minute the audience gathers up the threads that Fate is spinning before them, it sees tho inevitablcness, irresist ableness of causes and prepares itself for the last agonies or the last triumph as the case may be. Duso's admirers have always said that in these moments when action stops and the almost pulse less audienco hangs upon tho quiver of her eyelid, Duse herself is lost in her character, that so far as feeling and ex perience can make her she is that other person. Her late revelations aro a ter rible shock to these admirers. At a per formance in Berlin a few weeks ago a number of peoplo tiled into the boxes quite late. Duse had two or three quiet spells just then which she says she em ployed to count the occupants of the boxes. She departed in the morning. In a short time tho 'manager of the opera house received a letter from the Hare, Irving, Jefferson, Williard, ManB- great actress requesting payment for field and Sol Smith Russell. If Mod jeska retires there will be a -vacuum in deed. Mary AnJerson Navarro should have stayed on the stage. I have al ways had a selfhh hope that her mar- the boxes and informing her the man ager was a woman how she came to know about the number and location of the audience. Tho manager replied that they were all dead heads. Duse said ned life might be a disappointment and they should not have beon, they were force her back on to the 6tage. If Na- nothing to her and that they must be varro had only turned out parsimonious settled for on the ordinary paying basis. or a gambler or drunkard, it would have And tne scrap goes on. been hard for Mary, his wife, and for him, but how many hearts would be The death of Sir Frederick Leighton lightened at the news that Mary Ander- the president of the Royal academy son was returning to the stage because will be deeply felt in England, which Navarro was a cad. Instead of that has not very many good Dainters left, fortune has forgotten us and let Na- I do not think or any, except Whistler, varro keep on being a good fellow, thus and he is not English, who belongs to permanently obscuring our Mary. The the modern anti literary anti-story-tell-latest news of Modjeska is that she is ing school. Sir Frederick Leighton was doing much better and will probably be a great colorist, or rather great amoug all right soon. English colorists who are all more or less muddy. His favorite subjects were dryards, nymphs and allegorical female Englishmen are apt to think men oi figures representing a Great Truth, other nations very absurd and to laugh He adopted a curious and unnatural at them scornfully. They made poor way of painting drapery. It looks like Henry of Battenberg's life a burden to theaichaic folds on early Greek paint him with their jokes. He was a German ing. It has been called corrugated iron prince without a kingdom and he mar- drapery and has all the soft, free flow ried an English princess, also without ing grace of that material. It has a'so a kingdom, and lived with hiB mother- the merit of looking classic. Sir Fred erick loved the academy and the acad emy loved him and honored him with all its might. He was so strict a formal ist, so rigidly respectable, so handsome, so well mado and ho attained such a pinnacle of fame that ho might have been Littlo Billeo's prototype, if Littlo Bille over had a prototypo.Of course tho Du Maurier Littlo Itilleo passed through his creators furnace soul before wo knew him and that would warm anything, even a peer of England. Sir Frederick's most celebrated picture is of a girl at a woll. Critics and literary identifiers must know what they aro about but they have nover suggested this person age as sitting for Littlo Billce. Perhaps it is because they are afraid. 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