New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-14

almost foo numerous TO be even looked at by the
Princess 1t is remarked that the family III
luck. the Prince having won $4,000 thls "eoA "'
Newmarket, not by racing.
A sentence in the letters Of Edward Fitzgerald
lately published. has stung Mr. Browning luto
violent retort Fitzgerald thanked God thaV MIS-
Browning was dead. lie has himself been ue"u
six wears; but Mr. Browning sends twelve Ines OF
verse TO THE Athcnaeum" 10 say that Wcrc no
alive kicking would be his lot, as cur anu Vii'n
adds:
wbiIe more appropriate greeting lends you
grace,
Surely TO spit there glorifcs your face
Spittjng-from lips once sanctifed by herS'
Fityqcrald,s editor ought to have suppressed the
passage: and Mr. Browning hlmseh lnis"V ""''
suppressed his answer.
There is some comment on the hnahciAi suoccSS
-. tho CorI Pa Opera Company with its eight per
oor. d;,iderde for the last half year. They are
ahIs 70 do this the directors announce without
a,-onirn tho urofts of the Italian
,ooson at Covent Garden That Is
luckv. for there are no prohS a'
Covent Garden Italian opera is there gwen
ON q ouarantee AGAINST loss by Lord DE Grey, Alr.
Henry OppenheiIn, LORI Charles Beresford ana
Mr. DE Murietta. Thus far they have palu Uhelr
- rd bope for a balance of three or Tour
.,'r,'oa,d Mounds at the end Of the season. Paul
- AZ the Prince Of WalcS's Theatre has
been the most profitable production OF thls COM
MANY Miss Agnes Huntington having sung anu
acted her way into the good graces OF Lohooh'
This however, which is strictly hight opera is III
some danger of being turned into burleSque oy
the efforts of sundry low comedians TOO lohu VI
rags. Mr. RosaS death has removed the nrln
hand which kept these gentlemen In ORDER
The ouiet of General Boulanger's life in London
was relieved last night by dining win MT anu
Mrs Jeune. There were present to meet MN 'he
Duchess of ST. Adams, the Dowager Duchess ol
Marlborough and her daughter, Lady Sarah open
/ cer-C Churchill: Lord and Lady Dorchester LORD
and Lady Baltimore, Sir JCseph and Lady Boehhi'
Sir Henry Hoare, Mr.. Wentworth Beaumont ana
others 1t is denied and affirmed with equal
positiveness that General Boulanger was asKeo
last week TO the garden party at MARLBOROUGH
House The proceedings of his partlsanS this
wccl, in Paris do not add TO his popularity IN
England, where by portion of the population
respect for Parliamentary institutions Is SUN pre-
served. He looks in none too good health.
Mime Sarah Bernhardt's London season began
| with difficulties which soon became pubic. NO
! less satisfactory first night has been seen III
!
the right people There was, except Sir Fred
erick Loighton Mr.. Leopold de Rothschlld ana
/ tbe critics hardly a wcll-llnown person present
There was half an hours deay at the start and
! there was an apology from NJ Berton for Nine
! Sarsh's Illness and demand for Indulgence
Then NJ Danala was seen to be Ill also, ana
things were going wrong generally. Nine Sarah
walked through most of her business, except
what she sat through. The heat was intoleraole'
and the audience as aTathetjc as the actors. ms
WAS on Tuesday On Thursday out came letter
from Nine Sarah, oil of which almost all OF the
m pers declined TO publish, so vehement was IT,
She was not i'll it the conduct of her man
ager that was i'll. There was no proper scenery
there we're no carpenters Nine. Sarah ana hef
cornradc, were themselves setting scenes durin1
the long long entractes. Never" cried Nine
! Sarah in her shrillest tones, never dld
manager treat art and artists Wlti
more insoent cOntemptl7 This bolt
aimed straight at NJ Mayer, was met by NJ.
MAYER after the manner OF kllran, by stepping
aside The astute imprcSaro, who has seen Nine
Sarah angry before. now maintains silence
which is certainly dignihed and probably dis
Greet. Paris meanwhile, shivcrs with indigna-
ton. And yet Nine. Sarah, in spite of every
thing. played her marvellous death scene almost
as marvellously AZ ever. The play IS a poor
thing the last four minutes OF it are worth
all the rest, and they are four minutes OF panto-
mime Not one word is said There Is nothing
but movement, gesture. expression; theh sliehce
then an outburst of applause from the speIloounu
house and from the press next morning.
Among other plays in rehearsal for America Is
David GaIricll,7 in which Mr.. Charles Wynd
ham again appeared this week at the criterion
Theatre, with Miss Mary Moore. Mr.. Wynd
hams serious acting continues to develop III d
striking way. His power over the emotions OF III
audience has become yisibly greater, his study o.
his art shows admirable results, ana aItoSe'he
! when YOU see him next autumn you Will hrulS
recognize in this intense, various, forclDe DaVlu
(iarrIck the creator Of so many frivolous heroe'
Of frivolous and farcical comedy.
Mr. and Mrs. Kendall gave their last perform
ance last evening prior to their departure iol
America Mr. Grundy's white Lee has kept
IFS ulace in the bill at the Court Theatre, thanks
solely to their acting and they open Win ID,
hear i'm New-York Weak as the piece l., II
nre,ant. both in characters that SUIT them, and
Mrs Kendall at moments at her very pest she
has scop, both for pathOs, of which Mr.. Grundy
sunnles too much and for delicate coquetry. Mt
Kendall in his farewell speech alluded to theli
American tour as one Of twentythree weeks only
Mrs Chamberlain will help her husband to pre-
side over the Kendall dinner on tuesday next
q. w. 5.