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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1899)
"wpii mm nw9.ummmimi9mmmmmmm r THE COURIER nrtMnvwrevHiviiivoK T llffTTTTTTf'TTTnifttllMMMlnui jTHE PASSING SHOW W I LLA GATHER tv THE PLAYIR'S.RUBAIAT. '13iearJoant Afcfalthnrsnot . to Mot new, j-f f . ' An lo'i of chilly Hi WeV-kkjrf yeu In aeene gay comer of flUrVelace, Say, wonktn't feat fa W ougli 'Tnogh some there are who- talk ot'arr ana tnat, ., Ami somethere be.wotdi elt. '.. . , . .where Bernhardt eat, v , Ahl let ue blow oatcaafa and ' edge our dune, '" fc-n' . . ... And let the critic .mikmur . . .", through hla hat. , . , -".t ' t "For acme who wore.ihc ladrel on their brow, Ajrftalked.of Consecration!-- , .. ' well, I trow ,, ,;- . They lie asleep In aonmaequeetaeaieBOt, And Delia Fox le bwraeng 'money now." Front -Johoetooe Bennetfe ' Apograph Albaae. ..; . She had been witlhua again, jovial, nattyi Johnnie Benortf, haiMellow,-well-met, and the trimaeet tailor-made New Wouan of them all. She ia another one who hat learned how fo(cheat tljne: her cheeke are juat aauddy and her big gray eyee m frank a$d frolicsome and boyish: aa they were;? in the days of "Jane," right or nine years ago. 'While' ehe waa here ahehadInAb'deeson her toe, an unromantic affliction, but a very painful one, and every night ehe would force her -ewollen fooMotd-herruaeet boot, half fainting with pain, and five- : minutee later would -be skipping, and dancing i about the etage of , the Bijou theatre -ae .gay aa a eohoolboy on hie holiday. For downright , grit, juet give me theee proteeeional women. 1 have eeen .Lizzie Hudeon, Collier faint dead away in the winge where ehe etood, waiting for her cue, and then go on.and idance, radiantly beautiful at an embaaay ball, and Olga Nethereole leave.the doc toe's .hande to go on for the 3rst act of Canaille, ,and Annie RuerelL chatter be eide the, chilly flrq-side of a drawing room "eet" when her throat waa full of bronchltia. Death, ie the only excuee which the etage manager will accept, 'and then he ie inclined to grumble be-, cauae the, funeral waa not poetponed until the end of the eeaeon. flow often will the immortal and peer leee vintage of old Dumas be eerved up to ue, and under how many namer. How mightily doea that virile and fecund geniua hold ite own through all the shifting .ohangee and innovatlone of the drame, how we are driven again and again to beg .or borrow from ite teeming table exquisitely eimple phraawg of the vigorl Though Mr. Sothern'e produc .pjeaageJnitbe latter part of the Allegro, tlon of "The Three Mueketeere' out--which leaecompaaied only by the melan- rivale in splendor all former American k chqly French homee., Heavanet what, preeentatione of the play, the new adap variety "there ie in that compoaition! tatlon by Mr. Henry Hamilton ie not a what brilliant rune, what raviahlng happy' one. "The Three Guardsmen," melodiee,: what daiillng paeeag4B of ad originally presented, wae a drama bravura, what whiepering of vtbaetringeeageated by a romance. Mr. Hamil wierd and aweetaa the mueiu of a wind ton'e yefeion ie that bane of the modern out the romance he ueed the eoft pedal almoet continually.cheokingthe vlbra tiona of the notee eherply, ekimmlog the aurface of the. tones, making.tone bub blee, aa it were. Surely tbie man ha in a wonderful degree that element of daa elo grace which eo dietlnguleaee Joaeffy. That quality. et cod, out above allothere harp, So delicately doea Rosenthal in tone thoee eofter paeeagee that we eeened indeed.' to hear "the borne of :elMand faiptly blowing," The Rondo wae Executed without the elieion of a note, the rune fairly whietllng after each other, and the marvellous finale ,wae played, with a brilliancy, a- 4ethi a craebing, impetuoae fxmer which eom pletely euberdineled .an . oroheetrai of eixty .pieces. After nine eaooree Mr. Roeeatha! f Ytyad the.Oheplo.walU that theatre, a dramatized novel. The intereet of the play originally centered in "Anne of Auatrla'e" intrigue with Buckingham, the devotion of the mueketeere to her cauae, "d'Artagnan'a" queet for the re covery . of k her diamond!. And with their recovery, the queen'e reecue and "Richelieu'e" defeat, the piece naturally ends. 'Not content with eo finely dra matic and aufflcient a plot, Mr. Hamil ton hae tried to ewallow the. en tire novel. The splendid ecene in "BuckinghamV vaguely that the Lady de Winter when eho ie pleading "O come at onco, fly with me, there ie no time to lose,' ebould calmly proceed to takeoff her impoeing hat. It ie not suggestive of inetant flight. But Boon the mystery le made clear, when the three mueketeere who are etlll four enter and foil her fiendleh plane and the noble Athoe compete her to drink a Borgia poieon, then you realize that hor dying agonlee would prove fatal to that triumph of millinery, and though our mortal bodiee die, yet ehall our hata live, e Mr. Sothern'e company ie excellent throughout. Dumas' spirited charact ers have eeldom been more worthily played. The appearance of "Kaoul d'Artagnan" ae Mr. E, A. Sothern could not be otherwise than intereeting, even If a little incongruoue. What a soulful, serious, sentimental Gascon this! What an ardent, fervidly romantic fellow has this roistering daredevil become! What impaeeioned intensity hae thia offer veecen,t,hot beaded, Irresponsible Latin cultivated! I think in thie caee Dumas would agree that it ie a wise father who Paderewakii always playebatla ery ship, and1 the Inn scene, eo essential to knows hie own child. Mr. Sothern'e different manner,, making '..tbkde and the' strongest treatment of . the plot, are eiitha o'ut,otthoMchamlagransvas cut out to make room for two flat, and unprofitable acta which follow the re--j cov'ery of the diamonds and the natural end of the. play. Acta which have no Joeeffy-alwaye doee. ' i'j , forte is bie Intensity: in the moet lm- possible and strained situatlone he can make you believe in hie sincerity. Na ture haa endowed him with a pair of eoulfuleyee great bow-windows' of the dramatid sequence or Justification, are eeull which are capable of looking un Woefully in the nature of an anti-climax, epeakabla anguish for houre together .Iu'faJepereonal appearanee thia Herr RoeeuthaLcvfgeeta tarPoUek workman rather-then an artfet. Be ''not detvd by hia leonine photographs. He ia a and hich accompllah' nothing save to nd which would deceive the elect ahbrt, rthtdkly-,. built 'man with the glw'loneof Austria" an opportunity themeelvee. He takes his amorous woes shoulders ofa porter .and aahaggyun- t6 bey lamentably silly and tearful, and and, hie .caramel heroice with an-awful, ,. kempt head of hair. His clothes are ""ay de Winter" a chanceto Indulge enuaaering eeriouenees. And this is all rumpWd'and 'ill-fitting arid he doea nbt ,tul ruTber tn reaplendent gowns and to very ane, nut it is ecarcely.the Oaaoon eved take the trouble to brush' thti ha ok the Scenery toplecea with, a dag- temperament. Imagine d'Artagnan with cigarette aihee'from hie coat when he er- "Idy de Winter" In thie instance the Sotbero eyee and the Sothero sigh entera the concert room. At the hotel happens to be played By a gifted actress nd the Sothern quiver and the Sothern where he stopped they 'tremble athh nd"aoperbly handsome woman, Edith "aweetheart., O'eat imposeible! Mr. name. Well, if one were a Roaenthal Crane, but all the'eame that Is no reaeon Sothern ia an actor of , par ts,-but he Is one could 'afford to have all the carpet ?ft after the P1 ' donft nd ever, out of hia atmoephere in Gaacony. In pulled up from one'e rooms, and the he ,'hobld have two entire acta to flit ihott, hia d'Artagnan'' ia impaeeioned curtain .torn down apd the furniture out dusky boudoirs in a robe de nuit, where he waa wont to be gay, fervid fired into the corridor, and even to Al't , with a pealm-elnging Puritan, drink where he waa wont to be gallaat, heroic empty a lobster Newburg down the Borla poiaone and mutilate the ecenery. where he was wont to be' impudent, waiter'anecklf it pleaaed one to do so. The intereet of the piece ends with the aincere where he was wont to be third act; the rest ie gratuitous melo- boaatf ul, aober where he, waa wont to be Theee eeem to be thedaveof there- r"" i""UUB,,r'uVB0"rur"a,,,"B ---"' "" an an- .u.i nr iUa, ff..f w. --4 ux peraonaeand quite robe poor "Anne of can thrust and parry or mutter "par blue" is "producing" Dumas' "Three Muaketeere," which, added up, of course, make four. Duaaaa' arithmetic waa al ways too deep for me. But then I peraonaeand quite robe poor "A line Auatria" of her dignity. largement of the aoul. Pjttsburo, Pa. waa (Last Friday evening Moritz Roaenthal played at the Carnegie musac hall with the - Pitteburg symphony orcheatra, of which Victor Herbert, author of the "Wizard of the Nile,'' is .conductor. Mr. Roaenthal played aeveral of hie own compositions, eo preposterously difficult of execution that probably no other liv ing, pianiat would care to attack them. The piece de resistance of his. program, however, waa Chopin's.famoua Concerto in E Minor with orcheetral accompani ment, which haa been eo cleverly edited and adapted and exemplified that it afforde juet the opportupity for an abed lute maater of the keyboard like. Roaen thal to bewilder hie, udltore. I believe it ie esteemed one ot the 'noblest compo elttone in all the literature ot.the piano. Ethelbert Nevin styles U an apotheosis of the instrument. J believe the, Largo movement hue suffered lees from editing and interpolation and'hee reined more of the original poetry of .Chopln than the Allegro and Rondo, and it, -.W in that, that Roenthal1ex.hlbited hla won dart ul pianlseimo effects. In those in volved, intricate melodieemore delipate than the atrande of aepider a w eb,or, the fantaatlo tracerlee of the. froet, upon the window pan, amerr.lacework of Bound, the panlet4lplyfl,l! " ybtletiee of execution whereby he fairty illumin atee a composition. He takee up a pboiaaimo paaeage and Actually whittlea itodowjvuntil it is bu a ghoet of aound, 'a mere breath of thetrlnge. Through- After the end of the diamond episode Mr. Sothern'e vereion of the play take up Lady de Winter'a. plot to, kill Buck- once conditioned in mathematics. Now ingham and dActagnan. D.'Artagnao it ia Mr. Eddie Sothern whoaaRiree to enters the ladj'a apartmeote at night the fiery Gaecon. With.much,flauntiog dieguiaed aa one .of her lovete just aa .of befeathered hata and sweeping of though .that wily hidyoouldn't have tojd) velvet .trains and tumbling of cardinal, the differeoee-randimakea. turioue , love corpsee he opened hia dazzling edition de to her in Sothern (aahion, and iwheedjee luxe of the play at the Alvin theatre from her the de telle of her plan. Then here. He haa ataged the piece with, a he diecloeee hie identity apd aha .at reckless r magnificence calculated to tempta .to kill him with her dagger it atrike.dumb the humbleepectator accue- eeema ehe alwaya wore one, even in her tomed to service worn evening apparel and meagre drawing room "sete." The coetuming ieoneof Hermann'a triumphs. I had tea with the veteran coetumer night dresa d'Artagnan drawn hia aword and a moet unequal andungal lant.duel follows. Finally d'Artagnan makea hie. escape through a door and when I was In New York, up in hie queer, Lady, de Winter, wounded and halt . little rooms full of armor and "settlee' and quaint cabinets and old lacea and brocades, and the little Frenchman with toe oily black wig told me of the in- -effable pleasure it afforded him to clothe Mmer moojesae e, queeniy ngure ana mad, proceeds to etab the canvae door again and again, miking horrid gaabee in the nice new ecenery. Then , her at tendante rueh in and ehe falla to the floor, dead to all appearaacee, and.vou feel confident that the world and .the 9 ' If you want the J I ' ma ; You want the ' Z Immmi r illllllMel HanHenVeVV tOtis Skinner's kingly legs, and confided play are well rid other, and begins to to me that Sbakapere waa hia paieion. ,He ie the first costumer in America, and he haa done bie beat for Mr. Eddie Soth ern. The ecenea follow each other in bewildering aucueealon, each a gdrgeoue picture of the gayeet court and the gay (et capital of Europe. The ladiee have gowns unlimited, the gentlemen never appear twice in the same attire. The feminine portion of the audience, which isneedleas.to aay, waa large, gave little fluttering gaapa .of pure happineea at Mr. Sothern'e beautiful clothes. wonder whoae career the next act will take up. But alaa for vajn hopeel in the .next act ehe appeara more radiant than ever in a purple velvet gown eo beautiful that it almoet juetifiea that crazy, auperfluoue aot, and .a hat that ie the moet genuinely .artietlc feature of the play. She cornea to the convent where d'Artagnan haa hidden away hie Illy little eweetbeart, to persuade that trusting maid, that, although aha haa kidnapped her and ehut her up in the Clean, well ventilated cara. Cool in eummer. Warm in winter. Elegant dinere. Pay only for what you order. Ele gant chair cars. Attentive porters. Everything the beat by the Burlington. G. W. BONNBI.L, C. P. &T. A , BTKADY EMPLOYMENT. For a good, reliable ea'eaman, band ling our Lubrica tins- Oil. RwinM The . Baatile id the fourth act, aha ia her beat ff egl Mm ""J Threaher euppliea from vaiwvyaHUMHUIH, JJIUOrSI MrBQB play, of couree,is only another vrekm and deareat fiiend.and to inraigle he r .ndprofluK of "The Three Guardamen." Dear me! to fly with her. 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