The morning call., 1893-07-23

perience. sExpensiveness. without talent. in the
ensemble~of his comranies has been his ruin
he etOfOre.
Guy de Msupassant, the celebrated French
author. who died In a madhOuSe near Paris re-
cectly contributed three plays to the French
STAGE.
Julia Marlowe and her leading man, Robert
T,her are married, all right II appears There
is a clause in Miss ar!owe's contract with her
manager whereby she agrees not to marry be-
fore next summer. but love laughs al theatrical
contracts as well as at ocksmiths.
Eighteen opeia companies wall show up In The
UDiled States next season. There will be music
In the air.
Norway has forbidden the production of
CheruDnrs Requiem. Why?
Albert Chevalier. who sings costermonger's
songs in the London music halls, Will bring bis
garbage to The United States next fall
the public OF Adelaide. South Australia In the
month mo IL, H. OF MAJ, May last with "Mihy White"
other Interesting lrit1es. Gourlay trained in
San francisco once with Matt Salsbury's
Iroubadours. Now he claims that since Geol ge
Coppin,> retirement from The Australian stage
White" Daniel White) left on the boards.
The Algerians" is the name Of Smith and
DE Koven's new opera for Marie Tempest. She
VIII VIII produce . 1t at the beginning OF the season
sold "The Fencing Master" for 10000.
Mascagni hesiIates to visit tile Chicago Fair
next month because he considers the of1er too
small. Half the gro.. receipts realized at the
peifoi nance of his operas was promised him.
London phrenologist has just been sam
ping Paderew.kps bumps. "Paderewski is
man OF science, but there are drawbacks. not
wiihstandins. HE would ideaitze his love,
and earth and heaven would seem to meet-tha
one wlldern ss of flowers the other a fleecy
maze of seven-hued clouds" This seems very
nice OF Paderewski. and it Is good deal TO
find out from one bump; but. on the other
hand. the erea musician is destitute of pro.
found and steady feeling In the direction OF
love" Our own conviction Is that 1t is impos-
sIble accurately to measure the bumts OF the
great Pole til he has had his hair cut.
Henry Abbey finds nothing more to his taste
and liking than idlng about the. Worlds Fair.
He says: II put in there all the time 1 can
spare from coIlrciing money and writing
cheeks HIS New York theater which he Is
sure will be The handsomest in that city, will
be opened by Henry Irving next fall.
The total subscriptions 10 the new Boston
s334.OOo. The sum OF $4,000 is sIll needed,
and earnest appeals are made 10 the citizens
ITO retain for Boston its prominence In music"
Mr. Laurence Hutton's tribute to Edwin
Booth. published by the Harpers, is Illustrated
from The original portraits furnished by Mr..
Booths family.
Among the theatrical portraits at the Art
Palace at the Worlds Fair are Miss Rehan as
Lady Teazle and Mrs Brown Potter as Pau
line, both by Jan Van Beers. The portraits
are. OF course. exquisite. Mrs Pottersis per
maps. tDe D0tteT executed OF tne l WO. 1nlS ac-
,ress, says the Chicago Tribune. is inde so
bewl,chlngly pretty that the picture inspires
the regret that one ever saw her act.
WheI the Comedie Francais dtd "Adrienne
Lecouvreur" at Drnry Lane. recently. The early
eighteenth century costumes were perfect but
the rooms Of the Princesse de Bouilion were
lighted with incandescent electric lamps.
Georges Berr played COouelin's part in sc rim
goire' at Drury Lane. The Westminster Ga
zeite says his portrayal was more pathetic and
less comic" than Coquelin's.
j. Comyns Carr. arr critic, dramatist, author
Of the plays of Far From the MaddIng Crowd"
Called Back" Ozark Days" and "a Fires ide
Hamlet has Written play for Henry Irving
called "Kins Arthur" In November Mr.. Carr
will take The manaeeme n of the Comedy Thea
ter and produce another now play Of his own.
He Is A years old, aud has written half a dozen
books about art.
Beerbnhm Zee, who is about to make tour
of The United States. is not an 1bsenitc. But
pOetry and imagination. In producing "An
Enemy of Society" he had rather to tone down
points than 10 exaRgeraie them. Il really
think" he says, THAT an English audience do
not need TO have some things repeated and
hammered into them as much as apparently
the audience for which Ibsen wrote. There is
one side on which the genius of Ibsen is, In my
judgment. distinctly wanting. He has hardly
any love OF beauty. have no sympathy with
the people who can only see in him the ugly
and dismal But lie does seem 10 eschew The
beautiful. To me this Is defect. There are
people, think, who prefer tn ugly, who find
u sort Of esthetic pleasure IN ugllness for its
own SAKE. Strange thing. l remember once
In a little mountain place in Gei niany-Ihe
funeral OF young GIRL saw all old woman
crying, and spoke TO her. She was my daugh-
ter the old woman said 'an1 she was so
young, and she had such a beautiful goitre =
lbsenism Is as rabid as anti. lbsenism. Why if
you admire fungus deny beauty to a flower :?
And vice versa"