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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. , .
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"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
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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
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