Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-05-12

| street and leave theatrical afiaire alone. Il =
astonishing what great number OF men thirus
| aging theater is the quinteseence OF happino0
and Q 10y forever. 1t ID noticeable, howevee,
that as soon as they get . dose OF the thing
| they long for some other way Of squanderfng
man to become an actor, for then he can pose
| In the eyes Of women and receive public ap-
plause for his work; but what chance lie there
| for q manager, and. above all. where IL the
charm about the work. Outsiders are rushing
| into the theaters from every direction now and
] the chances are that next year we shall have
| more theaters than We can stand. This re-
minds me that one Of the new theaters is to b
| built by q. man who is at present an alderman
| In Brooklyn. but who, six years ago, was O
wanderer and almost q tramp. His name 10
Behman. He and another young man named
| Hyde put up o rude stage and few benches In
Brooklyn five or six years ago and opened .
| variety theater at ten cents admission. So
cleyerly did they manage their shows that e
the end of the year they were able to rent ths
building and put many improvements. The
next year they bought the building outright and
erected a handsome theater with three galleries
and now they own two theaters in Brooklyn.
Both of them pay enormous profits. and they
now are about to erect another building In New
York. The new theater will cost them at least
$50, 900 but they are able TO manage It nicely.
Hyde and Behman are the most successful mea
in the theatrical world to-day.
bAlMl MORSE AGAIN.
Salmi Morse can never be crushed After
being sat upon by the catire press Of America,
scorned by citizens, beaten by the law and held
under by legislation. he arises in his might and
speaks as follows. ''Where are the cranks who
objected to the production of the Passion On
the day Mayor Grace refused the license he was
thrown out OF his carriage In the Central Park;
Delafeld. who backed the mayor dropped dead
three days later William K. Dodge an active
opponent Of the Passion is also dead; Henry
Bergh, another enemy, has had his collar bono
broken by an accident; Captain Williams, who
was SO conspicuous In the suppression Of the
Passion, Is about to lose his position; and,
worst OF all, Mayor Cooper has been bounced
from the governing committee Of the Union
Club" Thus does Morse rise superior to his
difficulties and hurl defiance az his enemies
DEATH OF CREMATION.
Whathas becomeOf the crematlonists? wonder
If they have given up all hope OF converting
people to their special belief. The interest in
cremation seems to have died q natural death
Nobody regrets it. and 1t has gone entirely out
Of the discussion Of the questions of the day. lt
is only few years ago that II was the top sub
ject In importance, and societies were being
formed all over the country. The believers IN
cremation at that time passed as advanced
thinkers, but now they are regarded a. cranks.
Several furnaces were started In different parts
Of the country. and We heard q great deal about
enthusiasts who made 1t special clause in their
wills that they would be cremated after death.
But the furnaces are apparently still unem-
ployed, for We hear nothing Of men being
cremated 1 do not believe that anybody ever
really relished the idea Of being burned after
death. and the advocates Of the cremation theoFy
were drawn more BY the novelty of the thing
than from any Unborn conviction. Most people
prefer being buried In the good old Christiaa
style.
MADAME BoRRY
has not proved O success She was brought
out with q great flourish Of trumpets 1t the
Fifth Avenue Theater last Monday night as Ca
MALE, but the large audience which assembled
to see her first performance could and no ~
equate excuse for her appearance on the stage.
Camille has been Overdone anyhow. Modjosks
Rhea, Prescott, Gerstinger, Davenport, Bern
hardt, and every other actress with any fancy
for the emotional in art, has played Consius -
often in New York that people are thoroughly
tired OF her. An actress, to create any sense
ton in Camille now, must be greater than any
OF those have just named; and this Madame
Borry certainly is not. She is said to have como
from the Imperial Theater. st. Petersburg
This Is pleasing statement that is made about
every actress who comes to America now-a-daya
The Imperial Theater, st. Petersburg. is appa-
rently an inc xhaustible mine Of emotional ORA
matte talent. After her appearance on Mon
day night, L imagine Madame Berry will feel
like returning again TO he.Impefiai 1heater in
the capital OF Russia, and let New York alone.
She spoke English very well, but was simply an
utterly Indifferent actress. She might have
been worse. She certainly could have been
better.
MRS. JAMES BROWN POTTER
who recently made great success here in the
Princess" has been urged to go on the stage
She is the best Of the amateurs In New York
society, and Is very successful in getting nm
entertainments for charity. The last beneficiary
was the Barthoidi statue. Her husband, Mr.
Howard Potter. of the firm OF Brown Brothers
and Company, takes the utmost delight In his
wife's talent. She is q charming woman. and
she certainly carried Tennyson's Princess on
her shoulders during the performance at the
Madison Square Theater. Her taste for dress Is
certainly inferior to her dramatic instinct One
OF her costumes in the Princess was
particularly unbecoming 1t was quite
excusable in Mrs. Potter to wish to show her
shapely feet and ankles but after all it is neces-
sary to keep the conventionalities In view. The
play did not call for dress of quite the breyity
that Mrs. Potter gave It. This il the most de-
lightful of inaccuracies I'm an actress If she be
really pretty and it strikes me that nobody can
ind fault with it SO long as the costume be not
absolutely indelicate unless he is prig or cad
But the world is full Of Just such people. as 10
evnced by the enormous amount of talk that
has been circulated by Mrs. Potter's now almost
famous Princess dress.
Saturday Smiles.
Says Sydney Smith, II believe one reason