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in Octave Feuillet's masterpiece
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a. artajr company
-. Seats on sale Thursday, March, 26. '
Prices 50c to $L50
NOIE Mr. Manstield's "Baron Chevrial" in "A Parisian Romance" is one of
his geatest characterizations.
I WE AND OUR NEIGHBORS 'i
An English lady recently said to Mr.
Whistler that she thought some of the
soefiw along the Thames embankment
were quite as pretty as his pictures of
them. "Really." he said, "then English
sceaery must be looking up."
The Royal Academy has elected Sir
John Millsis president of 'the academy
in place of Sir Frederick Leightoc.de
ceased. ,8ir JohnMillais k probably
more familiar to the American public,
whkh likes genre pictures than any
other artist, foreign or native. An
"Enumeration of the titles of his pictures
Brings up his frank reds and greens and
bluer, lie has no moods difficult to
understand, no tender melting twilights
which may contain one or a dozen peo
ple, no songs without words, no brood
ing mists nor tantalizing evasive color.
"Babbles," "Cherry Ripe," "The Hugue
not "Lovers," "Alone at Last" and
"Ophelia" are as familiar to us as the
"Honey I'se in Town," "Aunt Dinah" is
to contemporary Lincoln. He will
make a good president for the Royal
Academy. That institution is conven
tion, precedent, tradition housed. Sir
John will never startle its members by
any original eccentric motions. He
knew what to expect from them, lhey
knew what to expect from him. He is
noVaa unworthy successor to Sir Fred
ericlleighton. His academy picture
wttTnotsaakeEogland ashamed of her-
. sett, bat he has not the poetry, the
imagination of his predecessor. Tenny
son's title is now a laughing stock. The
presidency at the Royal Academy has
net lent a particle .of its -worth or dig
nity Became Sir John MUlaw holds it
His handsome .John Bullish face, with;
Hs sensitive mouth, will look well at the
head of the staircase dispensing smiles
and encouragement on private view and
reception nights. The young painters
will not be discouraged by incompre
hensible, incredible genius in him.
Although his pictures have gone all
over the world, "Cherry Ripe" and
'The Taxidermist.' are not beyond the
reach of talent and industry. A life like
his honor crowned at last, makes a
common soul who loves beauty but can
not create it, pause befere he draws the
knife across his throat. Robust indus
try, pathetic constancy to the common
place are rewarded by the highest seats
in the country. Stay despairing soul!
there may be room on that sofa for thee'
The spectacle of the academy has prob
ably saved many lives. Art would
sooner they had died. The little chil
dren and women, whom geniuses only
torment, are happy to have their stupid
ancestor or spouse abide with them.
Sir John Millais will increase the aver
age length of life in England. The
next statistics on the death rate in the
different professions will show a mys
terious decrease in the mortality of ar
tists. It will be laid to the increase of
vegetarianiem.the cold "bawth"habi t.the
habit of wearing loose clothes or of
smoking very large pipes or of warming
the blood by sunset transports. It -will
be none of these. It is only the Sir
John Millais habit and only a few of us
know it.
It looks as though the armory would
echo to dancing feet again before this
school year is over. If the students do
come into their own the first hop might
be opened by an allegorical procession
showing the downfall-of prejudice and
the triumph of -right. The coarplete-
victory of light over darkness may be derer's cell, led her along the way that
shown by arranging a boxing match be- has the electric chair at the end. placed
tween the "chairs' of electricity and her in it and bound her just as the con
philosophy. A good "chair" match is demed are bound. She tried to feel as
one of the most interesting and instruc- the condemned man feels when he is
tive contests that can be witnessed and electrocuted. She sayB it would be the
the university has put up a number in height of cruelty and savagery to exe
the twenty-five years that it has served cute a woman in that chair. Women
the public A leery tipping table match are supposed to be able to bear pain
is a contest between imbeciles. But the with more fortitude than men. If it be
sight of two excited "chairs' knocking necessary to kill a woman for an atro
each other's legs and arms off is worth clous crime, she will probably regret her
a semester's laboratory work. The sentence and its execution no more than
committee in charge of the arrange- a man, and suffer no more in anticipa
ments should conscientiously labor to tion. The walk from the cell to the
make the "chair" contest perfect in chair an d being strapped in is all that
every detail for the sake of the stu- hurts. "The rest is silence."
The New York World sends Nellie
Bly to writt up launching the surf-boat
and the life-saving service and Nellie
Bly goes out in the boat with the crew
when the sleet freezes on her cheek and
dents.
The reviewers, curiously enough, are
making much of Stephen Crane's "Red
Badge of Courage." The author's pict-
ture was in the Sunday papers of Lin- her hands and feet are nearly frozen.
coin, New York and Chicago, which in- They send her to a menagery's winter
form us that the English are reading quarters. She rides on an elephant
the book- with eagerness. One must and makes him obey orders. She learns
be eager indeed in order to read to ride a bare back horse, she eats with
it through. It lacks incident, convict women in the penitentiary, and
action, go. It has footmarks show- this is modern feminine journalism in
mg that genius has passed that way,
but it fails of other demonstrations. A n
author must first make us love the man
who is to relate his personal experience.
Shakspere always does. Otherwise
the man is a bore and his audience wish
his hairbreath escapes had been fatal
New York City on "The World.'
Nebraska people are receiving attent
tion all over the country. Wherever
they go they are celebrated for some,
thing. Senator Thurston's noble re
nunciation of his siro and his son is
We can listen to Little Billee's or to quoted in the principle papers as a bon
Trilby's moanB with increasing sym- mot, much in little, a great saying of a
pathy. We begin to fidget immediately great man." That word will appear in
Svengali speaks. Why should we give the next edition of "Familiar Quota
our time to the dirty cruel one when tions" with a cross reference to "come
Trilby waits. So with Crane's private, home either with your shield or upon
he obtrudes, detains us from more fas- it" and other maternal addresses. None
cinating people. His assumption that . of the papers have commented upon the
we want to hear the long story of a palpable plagiarism of this voluntary
chance acquaintance is impertinent and and patriotic sacrifice. Abraham did
a liberty that the few resent the same thing and Senator Thurston
bound his little son and laid him on the
"Nellie Bly" went to New York's state satiated altar of his country in a like
prison and the warden put her in mur- spirit In these days the mother of an
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