Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-07

America is now calling upon Europe 70 send
the fruits OF her hand and brain TO the worlds
fair at Chicago. Does any one believe that Eu-
ropesn writers are going to use their pens TO
induce her to respond. Do they believe that a
man who finds the ports of the states practi-
caliy closed to him is going to take his inven-
lions across to be looked at, initiated. and then.
to all lntenis and purposes, boycotted? Do they
believe that French art. which opens Its schools
free to American students. is going TO send its
creations to a country which puts a duty OF 30
per cent upon every foreign picture sold IN
America? Men cannot live by medals alone.
Does any one think that the hundreds of huge
blocks which in Chicago do duty for the build
lngs of Rome, Paris, Vienna will be sufficient
attraction to draw the European 1900 miles 70
see them? Personally l wish the undertaking
every success. but If the politicians of the
capitol think they are going the right way to
work TO get European help and patronage they
greatly underrate our sense or humor.
NEW DRAMA.
Before this letter reaches you you will have
probably had al account o: Mr.. Henry Arthur
Jones new play at the Shaftesbury Theater. A
new play by this dramatIst always creates a
good deal of stir. Like Alexander Dumas, the
younger. he is fond of taking a thesis 10 work
out, and so, whether his play is pleasing TO the
great mass of play-goers or not. il is sure to
contain much that Is suggestive and psycho-
logically interesting. Not that Mr.. Jones at
'kh oNNA NAiNaNt eubltNls dN MI llItnAS
loves TO handle; his northern tongue and the
pubic taste forbid. But he holds that il should
De the endeavor of every dramatlst to SO set
forth the life of his time that. If his work
should long outlast him. succeeding genera
tlons may be able TO reconstruct from his dia-
logue the world he lived in. 1t Is true. as Mr..
ii. A. Jones IS fond of saving. that one may
reconstruct the England OF Shakspeare's day
from his immortal pages. In Wealth" Mr..
Jones worked out u sentiment which / once
hAn n lnl lnnnEaAll - -. y
a man has more than a million the money
owns him. but not he the money" In the
"Mldd!eman' this prominent drarnatist gave
labor and capital, and now he treats in ''Ju-
DAN another essentially nineteenth century
growth: the conflict of religion and science.
to handle, and great eagerness Is felt TO see
wright who works for the English stage ha,
always a difficult task. because even in the best
theaters there are widely different people to
be pleased. 1t is a long way from the stalls TO
the gallery. but he must be equal to spanning
the bridge. Such dramatlsts as Messrs. Jones,
PInero and Buchanan have voluntarily made
their paths still more difficult by casting away
those two tlme-honored crutches, the ImpossI-
bic hero and the impossible villain; with no
superhuman hero as a peg to hang Linguistic
sentiments on 1t is hard to draw applause from
the gallery, and when such n play as The
MiddIeman' runs seven months in a London
theater II is an immense triumph for the
author, who has not even catered 20 the Brit
Ism love of horse-play. MAX O'RELL