The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-03-10
n A n A.
The Modern Camille
compared with the
Old.
a Meeting Of Aaron Burr
and Mrs. Hamilton.

From the London World.
What Is Mana? Well Mana 10 La
Trayiata treated after the manner OF
naturalism. the Enew school in literature
What is the naturalism2 All, well.
na:uralism is lpositivism in literature,
sclence-the truth, the whole truth, and
actual eautory. Is my meaning plain
now? | am afraid not: but I.hardly know
how to make it clearer. except by carrying
out the comparison between the work of
lola and the work of Dumas La Travia-
ia is a certain person treated it the man
ner of the old school: Mana is the same
person treated in the manner of the new.
| The heroine of the old school is made
morally interesting. She has mind as
we'll as body. noble sentiments. 'the
precious gift of tears" The heroine of the
new has nothing Of all this, but ia simply
la beautiful brute.
The young uauralists sniff contemptu-
ously at the work of Damas fills as fade;
and this stupendous thing has come to
pass, that the Dame aux Camelias has
lived to be laughed at a prude. The
marked difference in treatment between
the two pieces runs right through to the
very death scenes with which they close.
Il Dame aux Camelias fades away 10 a
mist of sentiment and poetry, Artistic
L
perish of consumption, disease which
admits of her outward beauty and keeping
up pleasant appearances to the very last
"a more than Roman, q French death.
Mana dies of small pox, done to the life.
10, the face that Mile. Massin 1.-THE most
beautiful actress In Paris) turns to the
laudience In that fiual scene! At the risk
of an anti climax | beg TO give the follow
ling receipt for this effect. as it ia sure to
be wanted by careful theatrical house
wives in England one OF these days.
Powder with rouge and ground lumber
mixed for the general hue and stick out
with points of pure lumber here and there
for the ,spots; whiten the lips and the
forehead to the roots of the hair and
blacken freely under the eyes.
The piece has been got up at great cost.
and is evidently meant to have good run.
It is very long; its ten tableaux are really
Item acts. There is the boudoir of Mana
the morning after her first success on the
. stage, with biIlets and bouquets arriving
in Z. shower. There is the green room al
the play, with all kinds of psople-some
distinguished and rich-comIng in. There
lis the pretty country house, the title deeds
of which, valued at loo 900 francs. one OF
The rich people delicateIy encloses in 9
nosegay presented to Mana. Here all her
friends come to see her in her new role of
a shepherdess. which, to do her justice.
she plays with sincere belief in Its reali
ty for q few days. But soon we find her
| in town again in the Japanese drawing
; room of her splendid house. and here from
the dining room beyond comes the conviv-
!, ial tumuit of her daily dinner party of a
, dozen. By aud by We are seeing the
Jockeys weighed ut Lcrs chamrs, VIXEN the
= horse named after Mana kas wen the blue
ribbon of the French turf.
The personaxes of the piece are simply
tlegiou. There must be something like
e fortv names down on the play bill, and the
' characters they represent belong TO all
e classes 10 society -distinguished LeRltlm
list and Imperialist noblemep, journalists.
bankers. well dressed adventures. little
boys who had hardly left their mothers
apron strings. old men with good dea
more than one foot in the grave-all the
I world, in tact-the world Of high COM
1 merce, the world of sport, tho world o.
j journalism, the world Of the ,heatre-i
lmotley throng, It says much for the genius
Iof French organization that Nj. Busnach
r the adapter, should have been able to pu
so many people on the stage withou
letting them to get into each others way
IOf course we have to pay the penalty o
THAT method of treatment-the character
lonly tell in the mass.
UNPLEASANT MEETING,
When on an official visit to the Unite
70 States in 1858 spent day or two Q
ID Mr.. Stuart Brownies place on the Ne
shore OF the Hudson river, abov
= Hobokep. uGen. Taylor OF Ohio wa
another guest. and as the house was at q
great distance from the spot where til
!. fatal cuel between Burr and Hamllto
" took place, tJuly IL. 1904 q conversatio
arose on the event, and the charteristic
4 public and private. Of the two men. Ter
Tavlor told US that when a very your
dav on board river boat and among Il
passengers we're Mrs. Hamilton. wldo
Of Ak xander Hamilton. and Aaron Bur
who.bad returned to the states after b
enforced absence in Europe. in cons
~ uuence of his proved reasonable practice
. Burr was then an old man. but still II
tai. ed III UGH of bis former confidence an
manner. especially with ladies. To tt
I'd astonishment Of those who knew him {
IN discovering that Mrs Hamilton was {
- board the steam boat. he approached he
took eff his hat. and bowling, said MIR
Hamilton. believed My name is Burr
Tue effect upon the lady, DOW well stricks
lin wears, was electric. Rising from b
seat, she eatbeFeu heT uFese, Us III 10 tous
I'm Burr with it would be contamination, Dire
herself up, and, looking at him from hei
10 foot. swept away With a dignity al
grace worthy of her best days, and le
him gtepding abashed. if he were capat
in of feeling So, before the spec ators Bu
repIsced his hat upon his head al
slowly moved back to the seat he had pu
9d posely lett to make bis experiment up
The feelings of the widow of the man
nd had slain, for one cannot suppose that
had any intention to apologize or fxpiaI
since this was i'm possible.
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