Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-09
PREEHANp HorRs.
Something Ab5ut ModJsska, Artists and
Social EYeuts.
SAY FgAncrsco. june 6. 1889

SAN f-aNtlSCO, June D, 1000.
You bad Modiesks in "Adrieune." Is
she not charming! a gentleman who had
seen all the good acting in Germany and
France, as well as here at home, unhesitat-
ingly pronounced Modjeska the most spir-
itual actfess he had ever seen, that quality
being most beautifully apparent in her love
scenes IN Adrienne. Ny last glimpse Of
her was II Mary Stuart last Friday
night. Her version Of Schiller is said not
10 be as good as the one Ellmenreich
played, which again sadly garbles the orig
inal. 1t is Mary Stuart az we wish she
were and not as later history shows her 70
rs; besides Madame Mojjssks made il
diguiied and gracious and tender, as she
alone seems 70 have the secret Of doing.
Her celebrated entrance into the wood, IN
the scene where she meets Elizabeth later,
was ike the settling down OF q beautiful
white bird. Her light graceful drapery is
disposed about her IN the most effective
manner, and her oUtburst OF Joy at her mo-
nentary liberty 10 the open ar is Just that
mingling Of the child and the woman That
artists OF the French school seem 20 coun.
terfeit more successfully than E0glish-
speaking actresses. For the communion
scene at the close Of the play, for whose
realism Eilmsnreich was criticised, Ma
dame Modjeaka substituted a recitation in
Latin Of tne Psalm Ode Profundis Gle
mayi, and the effect was exalting. Her
old servant Melville Tetires backward
HOLDING ALOFr THE cRUCIFIx,
Which seems to draw Mary ike magnet.
She follows With slow, d,vout steps and
folded pray erful hands, repeating this
Latin psalm in the deepest and most SOL
emn tones OF her wonderful voice, and
seems already bali in heaven. The beau
siful Continental pronunciation Of the
Latin made the recitation like a chant
Madame M0diesks s1id that the part really
ended with a confession Of love for Leices.
ter, but such sn exit she thought dnsuita.
bic for q Queen going to execution, and,
with her usual good taste and facility OF
resource, added .his psalm. She confessed
enchantiugly that she had a remorse. In
Warsaw once young Polish student pre-.
sented her with fowers tied with the Pol
ish colors, and as Poland Is politically out
of existence, the student was expelled
from his college for the reasonable act
Considering 1t injustice, be challenged the
superior officer who expelled him ; they
met, and tho young Pole was killed. l
have just been hearing
THE HISTORY on A GREAT ESCRAVING,
Oae of the proofs of which may be sent to
California. It Is of Rlpbael's School Of
Athens. The original painting is in
Venice, and tbithar the author of the en-
craving went every year for sketches and
study. It has taken him thirteen years 30
complete it, for, besides the immense diff
iioulTy Of the undertaking, he could only
work on it az rare leisure moments, for he
h8s two departments under his charge in
the Berlin Muee1m-the chair Of Fine Arts
and the Imperial Printing Establishment.
lie ia Hem Louis Jlc0bi, formerly art pro-
lessor IN the University CT Vienna. The
Austrian Government has purchased the
plate OF The School Of Athens" and mas
given Herr jacob 20 600 forms, equivalent
TO about S33 4o0 and thirty of the first
proofs, the proofs 50 before letters 80 they
are called, before the name Of the picture
is put on the border 0ne OF these proofs
viii cost $500 in the United States, and all
may be difficult to sell because they are so
costly. At the celebration of Raphael's
birthday at Ur5ino. on the 9Th of April,
the Austrian Government sent one Of the
proois of Herr JacobI's engraving of
" School Of Athens 60 the authorities at
Usbino, with q memorial Herr Jacobs
wife De q sister Of Bernard Nstorp Of this
city, a partner ia the firm Of WIlkens &
Co, himself connoisseur Ia all art mat
ters. His brother, Gustave Nstorp, is
studying sculpture under the famous Koiin
10 Paris, Baden Powell, the barrister's son,
being a fellow worker with him in the same
studio. Gustave Natorp's first exhibited
work. " Hercules in Hades, two-thirds
Of life size. was very highly commended BY
Thurat, arr critic on the Courier IAterHG-
tjeR9i, a Paris paper. In the elaborate
style Of modern Partisan journalism, NJ
Thurat asys that there IS nothing tashless
and maTrowisss about bis
GHOST OF HERCULES.
Bat it represents powerful man who must
have sinaed great deal. Gustave Natorp
has also finished decorative vase with a
design Of skaters, which NJ Thurat char
soterizss as an endless glide, harmoni-
Gus spiral, rayishing attitudes, de roale.
faeat de faraa9ois" Pen Browning, the
poet Brownlng's son, is another Of Mr..
Natorp's Paris art chums, and the three.
with Mr.. Kiuloch, a young Scotch land
owner, give a dinner at the English Inter
national Club, OF the Nav Club, as it is
called, recently removed from the Avenue
Matiguon to the corner Of the Boulevard
Malesherbes and Place de la Madeleine.
All the hosts are at liberty to Invite guests,
snd Gonoourt, the reslist novel writer, and
the poet Theodore de Banville, whose
early verses were commended by Sainte
Beuve, have been among the diners at the
new club.
There are but two solitary pieces Of home
gossip Julian Bix, the artist, is said to
be engaged to Miss Nellie Hops, who Is
also an artist, and Miss George Richards
snd Mr. Blow are to be married on the
l9.h OF this mouth, which the late Mr..
BongfslloW, in bis Poets Calendar, was
pleased to call the month of marriages.
PHILIP SHIRLEY.