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Sarah Bernhardt Bays that Rejane
was not a success in this country and
that the reason for it is that Rejane is a
comedienne and that comedy can not be
conveyed by hands, feet, eyes, mouth
as tragedy can. Sarah then tells the
tiresome tale she tells every time an
American reporter interviews her about
how the first time she played in New
York at the end of every live minutes
she heard a hissing sound and was un
able to account for it until its contin
ued repetition showed her sharpened
one married, the other jealous of her
sister's happiness, endeavoring to steal
her husband's love. Perhaps the great
est success Miss Cay van achieved was
in the melodrama of "Squire Kate,'
where she enacted one of two sisters in
love with the same man. Her assump
tion of jealous hatred was praised as a
Tiotably strong and effective piece of act
"Lillette and Jean will give her the
opportunity to paint her favorite picture.
Nat Roth who has managed Delia Fox
intellect that her audience was turn- since she became a star, gives up direct
ing in concert the leaves of librettos tag her decidedly earthly course for the
to find out what she was saying. Of sake of managing her leading man
course, as an artist she was shocked Jefferson de Angelis next season. Lin
to discover that her poses, gestures, coin people will remember Jefferson de
expressions needed any other interpreter. Angelis who played the funny, afraid
She naively adds that now she is in general in Delia Fox's troupe. Without
such perfect rapport with her Amer- him the audience would have been a
ican audiences there is no sale for solemn one. Delia Fox's name brought
librettos. Americans allow great the people, but they stayed to laugh
people to impose upon them. In a way with de Angelis. The young woman is
they have to, because there are so few very much over-estimated. She has
great ones and so many Americans, (not caught a few of De Wolf Hopper's tricks,
that the two are never co- such as the brea in his voice and his
incident.) It is impossible for the aud- nonchalance. But where she used to be
itor.who has only a literary acquaintance graceful, pretty and naif, she is heavy
with French, to understand what puffy and coarse. It is unjust to judge
sun-locks Sarah says. College grad- of an actress by one night's performance,
uates and people with a turn for French She may have had a cold the night she
novels frequently say that the success- was here, or the neuralgia, or rheuma
ion of French grunts and trills that tism, or nostalgia, or she may have been
reached their ears was perfectly intell- embarrassed by so large a house. At
igible. Other people who have not had ' any rate I will not accuse her of doing
the advantage of their training in small her best. Still it wi'l be surprising
deceptions say that her nose and ears if she fills the house twice in the same
and hail are so wonderfully trained to place without Jefferson de Angelis.
the expression of all the emotions that
they understood her at once. There is De Wolf Hopper has a hit in "El
no way of counfounding such by prov- Capitan " He wears a helmet with
ing them pretentious usleas you chance th tall plumes on it and his shoes
to sit beside such a cultured intelligence have high heels. Altogether his bix feet
when their divinity is speaking. Then look like seven. His wife does not, ap
ask it: "What did she say then!" parently reach above his kuees. But
What did she say then," till it goes they satisfy the instinct audiences and
mad. Duse's performance contains fre- matchmakeni hav for me'rcr th nnl'lr
quent encyclopediac silences, where-in
the humble mind may gather infor
mation of what has been and what will
be.
Undoubtedly Sarah is a Royal Bengal
Tiger. But she has been in the show
business for so long that her interviews
with reporters are as interesting as the
tricks of a subdued and exotic beast
and no more, A Chicago reporter in
terviewed her in St. Louis and she ex
hibited to him her touching fondness
for children. She had with her the
assail daughter of a friend and she
gushed and fluttered about her in a
very readable way and the child was
too small to exhibit surprise. She is the
property that Sarah brought with her
fromNewYork in order to make it easier
for her to show the reporter how wom
anly she is.
Georgia Cay van means to star next
season in a play written for her by
8arah Bernhardt called "Lillette and
Jean;" it telle the story of two sisters
and incompatible together and their ap
pearance is always enthusiastically ap
plauded. Tne critics say that De Wolf
has filed off his mrnnerisms and omited
acrobatic feats from "El Capitan until
the part, as he plays it, is pure comedy.
The topical trio, entitled '-The typical
tune of Zanzibar was written by
John Philip Sousa as an afterthought.
The scng has made a great hit, encore
verses ad libitum having been added to
meet the demands of the audience.
Messrs. Klein and SouBa are the com
posers of libretto and score. The papers
say that "Mr. Klein's libretto is clean,
clever and infinitely superior in ingenu
ity to the majority of comic opera books,
while Mr. Sousa's score is full of swing
and dash."
The younger Salvini is playing Ham
let and Othello with more of praise and
less of adverse criticism than he ex
pected. Of his Othe!lo the Tribune has
the following:
His Hamlet of a week ago has many
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Tickets on sale at Dunn's Drug Store, Wednesday 9 a. m., May 13.
Regular prices 25, 50, 75, $L00. '
"MISS JERRY" Last performances of Alexander Black's famous picture
play this afternoon at 2 o'clock and this evening at 8.