The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-04-29
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The Current Women.

men to reap the prestige OF management
Theatrical management. especially. requires
man. and wherever women have managed thea
tres successfully there has been hard mascu-
line brain sccrctod somewhere in a back Office
| whose business 1t was 10 manage the man
agcrcss.
| Isupposc those thonghte were suGgcstod 10y
| the announcement that Miss Katherine Rodgers
! is TO manage the Eagle Theatre.
And in view Of all that theatrical history
teaches us on this subjective instinctivcly ask
oureclvcs-who s to manage Miss Rodgcrs2
know nothing whatever OF the capacity or
purpose If this lady She IL familiar TO me only
as IN actress of very decided and very peculiar
ability and what l say relates rather to the sex
than to her.
Experience hns taught mo TINT women run
theatres az a rule in order that they may cast
the uoccs. and the consequence Is the man
agcrcSs always secur = notorcty at the expense
of the busin. So. l hope. therefore. that in di-
rccting thu Eoalc Theatre Miss Rodgers will
herself bc we'll dire ted.
In which case W. may cxpoctt to sec the beau
tifu little uptown house assume leading po-
sition among the wiin awake and cnterprisng
est. blishronts OF the metropolis.
just now W. have boon treated by the Eagle
Theatre t, a novel exhibition Of talent in Miss
II s,sic Darling who ratl cr rockl.ssly tried on
Tho robos OF Lady Macbeth"
Heavy as thoy were they could not conceal the
Inherent sweetness # the woman.
On tn whole he." Lady Macbeth was Of
nurihginous order 1t WIS too soft too uupy;
too much li'.c magnificent Charlotte Russo.
trembling odorous edible.
Now You know very we'll that Lady Mac
both IL not "a doss IT dish. That hearty COM
pound Of steel. gold entrusted. and imperial
blood cannot be shaped in a farina mould.
There H. certain neshly cNIlgence about
Miss Darling that cat hes the eye; and her eos
tunes by q orge-hor costumes are infinite
and unparalleled. Mature gavchcr the curves Of
beauty. the unDons,ious arm sweep SUP, rb"
ana various other things. hut nature never in
tended that she should use them in Lady
M h.th."
FIR nature keeps that corner for special or
ean.2ations.
And well il Is for u- that she docs or we
should have slocp-walking business in every
wa regulated family where there are good
looking girls with round arms and plenty Of
leisure.
Now this chrome Shakespeare business is
really to- bad. 1t only succeeds in hanging Lad
coti ia our recollection and II Is as-e had Lad
a sturdy man manager &, kccp hor ia IT, traces
Of "ul-avor this would not have happened.
An tr,s- should nevor forget that hero is
always one-tAirl nly.e N L than women IN an
hNllfn.c OF lINhll t. Ahliilu''' W. NV
ceunn. and ,nr-thiri more women than men in
tho Held i.r dramatic hoR1ts. THIS relation
slip seems To- point To- thu ia I that one sex de-
-ir~ to contemi late The o'her To- Doe ,9ut'm-
PLACID. And Pin h j. well - take tA' Judgment II
tat majority which is o. be- pleased.
: | think that judgment is avcrso 70 sweet
! Lrig M1,it1.s N0t that an men do not like 90
look upon fin women :. n on and on the stage
e worry n.u u as they In to look at tho Trakona
stations. ~ any other magnificent product of
, na;ure-but that when they want art they 10 noi
d goto tie con;aeti. fnr II.
u That. | venture % Say with fear and tremh-
. ling. is w-akn Of our sisters. who hlv,
Z boon known 10 eat reain caramo.s while Desde-
= mona was sulJ 'utng
n Nobody is so willing as myself 70 fall lowr
y and worship that symbol II divine goolnes,
: AMI exccll noe that oitcuest looks through IL,
L phys al orLunizNion Of woman ut rs. with
/, exquisite irony. AMI cons 20 ny. - Emerson
" luf~ u. -. Is. | am willn- t. lc admired ny
90 rpn. hut | -n waiting f'ra .fter order oi mar
@ tnan has yct alI '.rei.' THIS IT. the sovereign
I IS OF Nero beauty. and it sometimes tourho
Y us with IT, ar'an power in faces that have Ncrl
q LITTLE soul under them.
- But it cannot nl the measure of art And no
>. body f.os thnt. like a man who 81. sut care io
u cream cursmols
i. Bessie played Padt,e. I helleve. vest rlay
Il Al. there Was r0le ut ont IT six for her
f. bu-ie-,rin4mel AMI -langleil Docs uot tn
!. N.ry nam, 4 Darling sugg. -iltf
u VIZ. what faIina'eoUs iuen y -he must hav
T. run herself into that hrs-r m-n- r+~ ~
". aaha-trr lamps Of her soul twinklri. VIVA
rs n0un"-. what con'urs, vi Al Como lakes a
sentiment flowed like heayen-mlAei mush uuo
r. the multltuirl
Idare 80, she was Plnlme for peiur
gallery. or for "A free lunch at which the gluiton
- ou- oye could gorge iisol.
D. II the genius II the stage had desired 10 sho'
a.. hy contrast what the ineNorahe laws Of stag
- ar arc. il could not have Elected Us purI b.
heitor than iy bringing Darling in her NIL
y triumph close upon the iliusiriou- defeat
~. Dickinson. For one has AZ least inherited j
her na-h something of the grace ~ pant omim'
w | without which dramati art remains u though
n AMI ,anuot ho thing.
- And the muse Of tho Eagle Theatre declare
H., in con-' luence tia, for all popular purposes
ht clever beauty Is preferable 10 an awkWar
genius.
- Miss b ssic will take my strictures kindl
H. because She has The public with her, ani h
~ kno ", that even dare not deny her ceru.i
III order Of talent.
ne Aft,r She has volurtuously vanished W. -ha
have Rodgers. and then will come dist.n
order ol art Tor this woman's work remin,
me II those india ink cartoons that we nov,
life get ril 4. ana she seems 10 make them il
drlillr IN our memory with noodles.
ho What an addition 81 our gallery 1t would be-
~ she. TOO. played Lady M1ebaN. W. have had
ia oil ID OF Ntriol occasionally ia impasto.
- wai.r. in chrome. Rodgers wonld give it t. Us
40 cgtinco. IS clear cut as a Roman gem.
~" But 81 course a gon would b' out Of place
a picture gallery. and cameo would not ha'
49, the blood rrl color Of Shakespeare s wor..
90, There Is "A delicate hint Of ii.on In the nj
80, She comes slowly up this way with II
-, spring She brngs I'od with her ana II
IT, birds 10 sns If summer in fun throntel onse
r. Some women always remind me of summe
"a Il dare wager sloat that Nelson WIS born
10 June.l
is They talk strawherrios and cream, IN,
oy breathe perfumes. as il indeed they had be-
~ hnnry-ucklcd in the infancy Of art.
,l Let MS welcome this naive artist 10 the Fiji
all Avenue Theatre for she carries thu key % sun
~ nor comedies in which the world is alwa,
no green and fresh. let the scason he what it may
IN BY that time John Mccullough Will be- out