The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-25

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We witness and the relative luxury whlcl
Jaeger enjoyed In his regiment. and OF .whici
o hi. Se snder sns fn
the author Of which is unknown. which tn,
weavers OF the locality have adopted as thei
song OF revenge:
| LA CHANsoN DU LrScEuL.
| C'est nous guon appelr la canaille,
Mons , e,eyons 81. nou g., men poayons Pima
AAy:s no; mi s,no ssisan.:
C'sssno.' iinceui tstJ
Que nous tissons
Aba. rp.tron =. !. p.trle
gu, nous ,,snn n, q. s.u. 10. esrreau.
Suan .o aGsi 1S Sa SSat erIs
Avec nos mrs ct nos gsrcons
' sut c 'ssf sas a iias SSa' ~, s.''n'
Que nous tissonsl
| No,re IN Alison est notre bagns
| Les patrons en- sont les portisrr;
Mona Non, , ,s.ston. sur, iepr, meters
tyss aSs ne . 81 n nSs s saS,
| C.st ton linc.ui Qt.)
| Que nous tissops |
! This Marseillaise OF misery is repeated dur
ing the rest Of the piece. each time that the re-
matlc effect. .is simply the work Of Heine,
who pub ished it in his volume Of !" Poems and
note: Written after the great riot Of the
Of ssss p Which the PrussAn
such as it was in the piece Of NJ. Hanptmann:
shed tears. Seated before their looms they
sing; While grinding their teeth: ,,-.
| and we fastcn a thousand maedictons 70 every
| thread We weave, we weave.
- Cursed be the king, the king of the happy.
| ing the cold nights OF winter and in the long
has betrayed us. deceived u.s. and ridiculed us |.
| We weave. we weave
whose mercy we have lmpored in vain! He
| has taken from our pockets our last farthings,
and now he shoots us down like dogs. We
80. Cursed be our old country. Germany tho
land wherein infamy and shame alone prosper.
where everything smells OF mendacity and pu-
trefaction! Weweave. We weave.
The shuttle aes. the loom creaks: we
weave by day. We weave by night Old Ger
Pppt in the tissues thousand maledictions.
NJ. Naucaire. the well-known French poet,
wrote the adaptation. the text Of which |
Of the work OF N. Hauptmann. and ~ / con- ON
slider the adaptation superior to the original.
The revolt becomes accumulated in the tni.d
act The workmen assemble in a drinking
saloon. singing the revolutionary song. A po-
licoman enters and commands them to be
In the fourth act tho revolt breaks out. NJ.
Breisslser gives soiree at his residence.
noise sec he believes hs the
ShSe AFFAIR w , fa% dam
Jaeger is arrested as tho leader OF the revolt ed
q. Ioissmens , While NJ Drsisssgr and his
dwelling. loot 1t, and set fire to it. '''0
noteworthy feature In this act Is the part
TO- IS en
And for all that" he says. they are honest
f EyHpi' Godi' ''>'nN "'"' WIN nave always
10 tho nth act we are brought into the
named Hilse: He lives in mel ehSorinr Village
with his wife. who is blind. his son ami his
to e hsrdy
And the working weayers have done that"
said he 1T is i,mp9ssl BILE !" Finally The work
Thsy try to win over old Hiise and his son son
follow, the rioters: but no cannot hinder
hiis daushte5 Law from from Joining them:
little ones have suffered Suddeny W we hear ear
the flee q, and drums Of , an advancing regi.
fight. We hear the rattle of musketry. We
learn by the excamations OF the women who
gins. Gottlieb. becoming enraeed in the pres
rushes out, Old liilse. resigned. seats himsslf
in front OF his loom near the window We hear
a new volley and the noise OF the smashing OF
glass, The old weaver is shot and falls dead.
husband There is no reply. Answer me!''
she cries, Then. with the vague sentiment Of
what had happened. she adds: "keally, it is
enough to make one begin TO be afraid" and
-" In This WORK i Of NJ. Hauptmann two points
the careful effort to give to the plot merely
u relative yi,lue: 1t is not personagcs that he
i,aumert nor Backer that struggles with NJ
Dressiger, the police, and tho soldiers; it is
MT yrhi ph falls Iafa aU hap II &c hu
There Is no idyll in the piece, after the fashion
of Herman and Dorothy, These people have
and If they have many children. it is because
they are poor.
cate and almost Grscian care with which lie
hides from the 81 ectators every episode whose
brutality might be useless to the action. Con-
tlon OF the treasurer rieiller that we learn
the fate OF the policeman and OF the deliver
Of the w S Who in6abl the same novel as
the troops and the crowd. In TACT the author
ages is made to draw a moral. 1t is made
sufficiently plain BY u, the situations winch mel,
sometimes reaches the epic. Such. more
over was the Spni"n the PTEssian Govern.
n msp! Of NJ p ANTOINE here '" in Paris. OK
LHre s Gssn oFHS,sd IN Berlin
n ms prshicited TT mr. dia,eIy. and sff fs
example has been followed by the French
rupted the proEagando. but the literary
success remains. Here the pretext was that the
sight 0t tho Frnss!an uniform upon the vt GO
might excite the anger Of the French specta-
tors: hut 1t is clear that the work OF NJ. Haupt-
mann Is Of y general character and of such
intensity that the detail Of uniforms is
so to say completely effaced; The result
shows that in the treatment OF the subject and
tho manner OF it's presentation the interest is
general far beyond fropt!er considerations.
and strangely taking. This interest the so-
cialists have already PANIED fine struggle
the French and Prussian Govern NJ ents have
agreed 10 combat In remarkable kind OF in
ternational'sn.
The actors have been, equal to their DIM
cult tasks j have already said, believe. that
NJ. Antoine had broken with tho Tradition
OF our conseryatolre to como back to the nat
urai and To tho true Consequently lie has
become for, tho actors a precious professor.
MM Pons-Arles iIreiSSicrTl. Gemlrr fli1u-
inert. Arguillhre l.jntge,l and Mile. Nau
tLouisP. the wife OF hOflfrbl. and finally NJ.
Antoine himself In the par; OF the old Hiisf.
have been remarkable. We must also inent on
NJ. Amyot. who took tho part OF a commercial
traveller
NJ. Hauptmann was we'll qualified to put tho
revolt OF tho wtayrrG uIOn the stage. Himself