Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-16
EUROPEAN CAUSERIE.
Max O'Rell's Praise for American
Actors in London.
ADA REHAN'S POPULARITY.
Lady de Grey's Charms-The Peace
makers and What They Hope-Uni.
versai Arbitration - TO Protect the
Communities From Crime.
Special Correspondence Of THE EVENING STAR

| iI(h question of the hour at dinners and
| q ~ Eafternoon teas. There Is a chorus OF
kPralse going up from press and public
| @sSeSJ III favor of the DAILY Company as
whole, and OF Miss Rehan in particular To
| those who had not seen this actress before she
mas come as a revelation of sweetness and light
more and more bew!tching in each fresh role,
She mas pus the finishing touch to her fame
and to the thralldom of her admirers by her
exquisite impersonation of Rosdlind in "As
You Like It." She has enslaved us all. We
men talk OF little else for days after seeing her
ana our wives, sisters and sweethsarts. instead
OF being Jealous, are so subjugated by the fire
Oh her acting and the magic of her voice and
dictlon' that they join in the peans of praise
and when we are Laundering about, at u loss
for fresh adjectives to do justice to her charms,
they nobly come 10 the rescue and supply the
deficiency. 1t is great talent to be able to
play such widely different parts as Miss Rehan
does with equal success. In the modern PLAYS
she gives one that rare sense OF perfect stage
Illusion which makes one feel as IL the comedy
were happening and not being acted at all. II
Is such a treat to company of actors
who do not play to the house. but to one
another.and who SO excellenty fiji in with each
other that they form. as 1t were beauti-
| iui piece OF mosaic work.
| ENGLI III AND AMERICAN ACTORS
How is it that the best English speaking
company of comedians should be Americans?
am not prepared to say that America has
| more good actors than England but it is a fact
| that England cannot boast such a company as
AuSustln DAVIS and New Workers must be
pleased and proud to see this New York one
carrying off the theatrical hOnors of the Lon
don season IL stands to reason that actors
VINO are used 20 OlnyInn "a father mn At
customed to each others methods and be able
| TO produce Il better ensemble than "a group of
comparative strangers can do. and it also stands
| TO reason that a company containing stars of
the brlluancy of Miss Ada Rehan. John Drew,
Yrs. Gilbert and James Lewis must do better
| work than those composed of a single star and
| n dozen flashlights
by the bye. how poor and faint an idea Miss
| hehdns Photographs give of the grace and
| fascination of the Original. Photography in
| the case OF some women ought to be forbidden
Tor II Is painfully weak, when not positively
| llbelous.
| LADY DE GREY.
Talking OF lbelous portraits the worst I
ever saw in that line in America. was
going from Chicago to Minneapolis and the
tram passed through largo tract of forest
| land. Affixed to some trees well in view from
| tbe rails was gigantic board with a very ugly
picture OF womans face represented thereon
| III hefolc size ana bearing in huge letters the
| following inscription: Would you be as beauti-
| lui as Lady de Grey? Then use Greys per-
| 1umery. Fortunately for the advertiser Of
| Greys goods there is practically no law of
! lDei In America. but the fair countess can take
her revenge iii the assurance that this carica-
lure OF her IL most likely to act as a caution
against those soaps and salves. Even the best
pottralts OF Lady de Grey do her injustice be-
cause they utterly fail to give any idea of her
ANIMATION or to render her FRANK smile and
the liquid cleaning of her eyos that fairly
| dance with FUN when she is telling or enioyinQ
! good story. Outside the door OF her London
drawing room there Is a fine bust which does
justice to her beautiful lines but statuary is as
I powerless as other portraiture to render the
hundred charms which i'll her case fair mind
aods TO The falrcst matter, for Lady do Grey is
witty enough to be hailed with delight in
| French salons, besides being one of the bright.
est ornaments OF society in London which by
the way, owes her a debt OF gratitude for in
terestnS herself SO much in the opera 1t is
wen known IN muslca! circles that it is greatly
OWING 10 her eXertlons that We have the opera
| SET on Its feet again by Augustus Harris II
was she who obtained a promise from the Lead
ers OF society that they would not give any inn
portant entertainments on subscription nights,
and practically assured success to Mr.. Harris
piucky undertaking.
| LONG LIFE TO THE PEAcEMaKERsi
They have made themselves heard this week
In London in spite OF the scornful laugh that
Ai'N' bO''N up YIN Se btCtlOu OF the press.
The peace congress has been well attended.
was a little amused at the proposal OF one
| war hater. that every schOolmaster and sehoo OIL
| mistress should devote at least half an hour a
! day to teaching their pupils something about
the good qualities OF different people anu Of
| their glorious deeds in time Of peace Would
1t not be advisable first to take away their his
tory books, which are still teaching the rising
generation that war is glorious when their
country is on the winning side-and that sur
rounding nations are Tor the most part towards
and traitors? With the exception of Green a
History Of the English People," is there an
| English history used in schools which might
not be appropriately named History Of Eng
lands Wars?'
SCHOOL BOOK NOVELTY.
few years ago, French savant professor
at the Sorbonne, produced a wholesome nov
city in the way Of school books He coilected
all the splendid deeds Of philanthropists. and
SET them forth In his little volume. devotng
also good space to a faithful picture Of war as
II really is, and of the devastation and misery
1t has always brought in its train But, before
book Is adopted in French schools, it must
receive the sanction of the minister of public
instruction, SO this one was duly submitted tn
his scrutiny. He examined 1t and this was his
remark upon 1t: 1.-THE work is an excellent one
and We Will certainly put ii into use in schools.
when the provinces Of Alsace and Lorraine are
restored or to France" This reply is pretty typ
4
got what We want we will be so good. ~ only
want Trieste" says Italy; when have Con-
stantinople," says Russia; when there il moth
ing more for me TO lay hands on" says John
Bull.
| DREAM.
II our priests and professors liked they could
so permeate Europe with true Christianity that
there would soon be no more danger of Euro
pean wars. The gospel Of peace has been
preached here for nearly 1000 years. il is true.
| and we all believe in a theoretical kind OF vav
| that when our enemy smites us on one cheek
| we should rather offer him the other than smito
| back again, but unfor unately the same church
| that has read US these lessons has never lifted
her voice IN condemnation of battle and blood
| shed, but has often blessed swords and prayed
to an svenglng God to give the victory to her
| children. Our preachers and teachers might
If they would, get Europe ripe for a general
disarmament In about twenty years. dare saw.
but so long there are Kurds Tartars. Son
danese and creatures who will listen to no voice
but the voice Of the cannon. cannot see how
this project Of settling disputes Of all nations
by arbitration can be anything but dream
very beautiful one, but still Q dream win
Egypt disarm, and when the mahdi advances
with his hordes Of fanatic dervishes propose
arbitration2 Who believes such thing feas-
ible2 No, am afraid that until the last
trumpet sounds We shall look in vain for uni.
vsrsal love and peace. All! IL the world were
TO give signs Of sudden collapse tomorrow then
We might chance to see a collapse of quarrel
Ing, too. Enmites and jealousies would come
TO an end, every one would forgive and forget
ana would throw himself into every one else's