The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-02

AS we are not likely to have him
Hong, mayEexplain why Victor HUGO
is ever being feted, save by Fmfle
: ZOla. his literary Ghibeline. Beyond
t doubt a great many people make
capital out of the old man. About
a year ago his jubilee was kept. and
: half street named after him: the
: Originator of the idea s'struck lie. .
/, las he founded journal to advocate
/ the movement, and which now
) tflourishes like bay tree. On the
: present occasion Hugo was honored
because entering upon his Slst wear.
and chiefly by intimate friends,
:. "George and jeanne" his grand
| children, appear to be destined to
remain ever little children; the old
Ipoet spoke as a dying man, he con-
fesSed he had not long to live, and
i he was happy at the prospect of
7nOTS .jGTluG UitR. He cOnfded bis
two grand childrenstO France. A
4 gushlng felloW-poet, after reeling off
some AleXandrineS, asked permits
sion 10 kiss Hugo, who after the
embrace, put on his slippers like a
common mortal and retired to bed.
La Coincide FT'GllcdiSe has b rought
out "Barberine," three act comedy
by Alfred de MuSSet. The old queS-
ton has naturally been revived,
ought De Musset'S plays to be acted
or read ? The success of "Barberine"
is conclusive fOr-botb. Perhaps De
MusSet was the only Frenchman Whs
knew and appreciated Shakespeare
as an Englishman. The plot of
BGTbe7i7le is taken from Massinger's
picture" who had himself Dor
rOWed the story from an English
poem of the fourteenth century. In
1851, de Musset read his comedy be-
fore the artistes of the theatre,
whose vote decides whether piece
shall be accepted or refused. Some
of the artisteS yawned. others
nodded-a form OF criticism very
expressive. Gentlemen and
ladies" said de Musset, "since the
piece does not interest you, and its
reading is no pleasure to me, we
shall now stop" Then he rolled up
his manuscript, and withdrew. Yet
they pumped for its acceptance
subject to correction. In 1876, it
was decided to bring out the play,
but which has only now taken
place.
A young fop, de Rosenberg,
combination of Don Juan and
Leporello, bets with the Hungarian
Comte Uric, that he will seduce his
wife. The Comte, instead of break
ing the neck of the idiot, or run
ming him through the body, for
such a dishOnOrable proposal, &C
cepts, and accords aim free access
to their castle. At first, the countess
(Barberine) does not understand
Rosenberg, but later, she does, and
walls him up in toner as an expia-
ton for his insults. She tells him
through the grating, that he will
$50 remain for year, during which
time, he shall have nothing to eat,
unless he earns it by the spinning
wheel. like old women. "My
distaf and spindle are my
lance and sword he observes.
Woman, she avenges herself with
the arms of woman. This Merry
Wives of Windsor punishment
proves that her humOr was more In
question than her virtue. But poets
have licenses; the divine Williams
placed a seaport in Bohemia, and
Orlandos and ROsalind's to dialogue
in the forest of ArdenneS. rne
Queen of Hungary arrives at the
castle to testify her admiration for
Barberine's excellence, stating the
home of a virtuOus woman WAS a
house of God. -r-
The charm Of the piece is in the
beauty of the prose; nothieg more
pure, more scientifically exquisite,
or so delicious, since La Fontaine
and TenelOn. 1t is like a SYM
phony of Hadyn or Mozart executed
by accomplished artistes. Mile
Baretta as Barberine, was the ideal
imagined by the author; de Rosem-
berg not being a poetical role, is I'M
attractive. Coqueline junior, Gam
betta's chum, Is a wonderful imper-
sonatiOn in the part of a Jewish
pedlar, selling magic mirrors, Kale-
kaiu is the Asiatie chamber maid of
the countess, and is represented by
Mile Teyghine, a Russian dsbutGnte
with a strong Caucasian accent.
very pretty and talented, Since the
Italian Mile Araldi, this, the first
theatre in France, has never wit
messed a foreign actress on its stage,
and a Tartar too. However, Napo-
leon L predicted the possible Tartar
ization of old Europe. The scenery
is magnificent, and a curfew bell
tableau makes you feel to be in the
reign of William the Conqueror
rather than under the Third Re-
public.
NJ. HumbeTt, an able man, though
communist, was taken prisoner
on the eve of his marriage. He re-.
turned from New Caledonia with
the amnestied, and the week after
he entered Paris was married to his
true love. They had two children;
the first rolled into the ere some
months ago and was burned to
death the second has just been found
dead in its little cot, having been
suffocated by a portion of a sheet
getting into its little throat, that it
took for the bottle.
Rich, old and unprotected ladies
are very tempting objects for mur-
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