Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-08

and goddesses.
As for Mr. llarrott, his lIonlani II 10
zoe The dryest, hardest piece 0f abstract
defamation that ] have ever ecep him
attempt, Could llernanl have colll1
into bis spanish battora with
the Spanish swing II tht
cavaliers, plumed and p0ntl.
cal; With The airs OF Sanaoesa aud
the scents az seville; could 81 have
awakened the romance Of provence an0
~ the character with that moonlight that
still shimmera IN song on the ginndal-
qnvert could he have been lover with
the trnpiu passion OF the South and lung
.bo apeli of a light, mclnhious knight.
hood over the incidents, we would have
accepted him, play and 81, for We take
tho PAST II Il only brings us The lie ol the
past hut fhe husk Of the past bahi ii
reminds one Of those phosphatcs that am
brought home from the crematoy and
put 40 for remembrance as II llma we're
love
While we nre giving our sincctctt aym-
patty 10 Nernaui we are not unmindfnl
~ the prodinious strides MIR, Barrett IS
makiGg along The path OF mgpaaerlal sue.
cess, he u at this moment The Napoleon
ut 3ctprniauagerh. He has swallowed
mp Mfr, Edwin Booth, for he is TO
manage him And n over a worthy
representative American actor wanted
management u i Mr., liooth. he has been
piling up money so continuously that he
has forgotten All about his fame,
Then he is playing the same Hamlet In
tho same way, with the same sticks, az
the Filth Avenue thnatur, tld the open
Ing night the house was half full don't
believe there were Ave people In the the.
alter who went TO see Hamlet, They all
went to see Edwin Booth,
And on that parildi0us Weakness Mr..
Booth, the atarriest transformer Of them
oil, represents himself
When you got Barrett and Booth side
and slide as we have them now, you have
a live man and live actor In sharp con.
trast. one stands In tho current that
drifts toward him, picking up the Boating
wealth the other IL lighting his way up
stream aud making things lively on shore.
am very glad 10 be able TO report that
Miss Maud Miller, the young woman who
abused her father In the newspapers aud
got an engagement with Mr.. John A..
Stevens, ceased 70 interest the town the
moment she stopped writing about
her father and went 20 acting /
lrNhh'ANb+ h"A wv W. ANAA AifHAAhNDt thNA WV
! understand why she WAS SO much more
successful Ia portraying her domestic at.
fairs thnn IN pictnFlng other paoplc'R. OF
course you know that we have had Moro
sini schiling az the cR6inO for weeks
drawing money, because she married u
eoachman because other SILL, small
voice and anklea
It's awful diseouraglnS to men with
daiiphterA--aud eoaehlnan
Sophie Eyre comes back In Belasco's
now piece az Wallack's ON the 18th. BY
the way IL turns out that this new piece
IL nFernanden sailed, Can you Imagine
anything newer than thntI | wonder "
I Deasco ever did do anything new
| A pretty little war OF turtle doves has
been raging IA this theater between Eyre
and Robe. believe all the establishments
takes sides Arhero arc Robe days and
! Eyre days, and BelaAco, after three o.
four reheareals, went of some
where and called upon the
rocks TO fall and cover him,
Margaret Mathcr IL winding up her AS
tonlshing New York season with week
Of comedy. The most astonishing thing
about this season has been the fact that
not single newspaper man In the city
has been able TO get word ont Of her or
even 10 see her anywhere but on the
stage. Even MIR. Joe Howard acknowl.
edged himself baflled
saw this woman Ave years ago, poor,
unknown, friendless. She IL worth $780,
600 to-day. The stage has its victories,
! but It has TO have its manager first.
The latest Wagner blast Is called
"Ricnzi.n The hosts are marshalling for
Friday night az the metropolitan. This
IL the opera that makes the trumpetcrs
lead the orchestra with bloody lips.
| n IA Ia he tho lnht Wild fanfare OF nm