The Washington times., 1894-05-13
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But two things are now necessary to con-
vince US that the Hinrich people are great
opera company, but failing to hear them,
some will still doubt The ladies have none
of them pulled hair yet, and no one has lost
any diamonds. Really. Mr.. Fort, this is gross
carelessness on your part.
The famous Living Pictures" is still on
models have been sent to Chicago. The New
York Sun notices the change for the worse In
the exhibition.
Nearly all its artistic value Is lost. The
original women are regular artists models
brought over from Europe, and they are ac-
customed to pose for painters. They are
young, slim, have never borne children, and
the lines Of their figures are pure and grace
full. They have led lives OF abstinence in eating
and drinking, which is a part OF the require
ments of artists models in Europe, and their
faces are clean-cut and destitute OF fat. In
the place of these slim and graceful figures
the management have put on chorus women,
who have apparently been chosen because Of
the girth OF their calves and their enormous
chest and hip measurements.
In Europe no model is ever permitted TO
stays spoils the lines of the figure. This is
not the ease with the chorus girl, with whom
lacing holds high place in the realm OF art.
Hence the illusion in the reproduction Of
classical pictures is lost by the substitution OF
the laced and distorted figures of the average
chorus woman for the clean lines and classi-
cal symmetry of the figure required for the
artistic standard.
Tho orrop for fha hall
morrow afternoon between the America"
and milk White Flag companies are nearly
completed. Eddie Foy has volunteered as IN
extra on the America" team. Millard
Adams and Biff Hail are named as umpires.
"Jobson made quite a hit when he made
his first appearance on the stage"
''What was his part?"
'The Ghost in Hamlet He appeared five
minutes ahead of time. and the effect on
Hamlet was very fine, Life.
Sadie Martinot in her long career on the
stage has made collection valued ut S100. 900,
of the tributes offered her by friends. There
are jewels, paintings, furniture, fabrics and
bric-a-brac. She will sell the whole beautiful
collection at auction. She gives it as her
reason that she is hauiperedin her work by it.
Richard Mansfield is giving up some OF his
most successful characters. He will play In
Philadelphia for the last time "Beau Brum-
MEL "a Partisan Romance" "Prince Karl"
and "Dr. Jekyli and Mr. HYDE 1 should
think Mr.. Mansfield would hesitate a long
time before he throws aside these plays
which have made his reputation for others, in
which his fame is not nearly so bright.
Mr.. Mansfield is poseur and more or less
a charatan. but in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde his charlatanism has been wonderfully
successful, and in "A Partisan Romance he
has shown that he is exceedingly clever and
the possessor of dramatic instinct (Which by
the way he. claims he does not possess, because
there is no such thing).
He avows that the only reason he ever goes
on the stage, which he detests, Is to make
money. II this is so, his giving up OF these
plays is strange. Certainly there is great
deal more moneyin them for him if he wishes it.
Mansfield reminds me OF Rudyard KIpling
Their characters are very similar in many
ways They are wonderfully clever, you
know, but such bioomin' cads, sometimes.
And their caddishness is in the same lines.
OF course Kiplings chump qualities may be
gotten over by him in time. Sometimes it
almost seems now as If he had outgrown
them. The difference between the two, with
regard to America is that kipling's things
have been natural to a conceited, exception
ally talented, exceptionally young English
man Mansfields attitude is smaller. He is
an American. more or less. aad he doesn't
like America. He doesn't like American
manners He doesn't like anything. His
caddishness is essential.
This little story l Gull from the Lobbyist In
the Philadelphia North American. 1t is
unique gem. with much of the brilliance and
much of the paste of Mansfield. do not
doubt that Frank Slocum really heard these
Frank Slocum, Richard Mansfeld's active
avant courier, tells graphic anecdote illus
trating the fondress that ali actor may develop
for even so unromantic tool of his profession
as II wig.
"The other night" said slocum, Mansfield
called me into his dressing room. where he was
unpacking an old trunk. Out of this he drew n
veteran wig, which he eyed with amusement,
which subsequently bordered on emotion He
pointed at it and then soliloluiZed, Farewell,
old fellow; I'll not need you any more, now that
newer productions occupy my thoughts and my
time. You stood by me well during the long
months in which your passive talents aided the
Baron Chevrial in a Partisan Romance
MANY time and oft have you shivered with
the tremor of apoplexy, completed with
my death. TO the tinkle of glasses and the
discord of mautilin laughter We have died to-
with you with affection, but go you must, in your
turn, like all of u.s. TO be succeeded by newer and
younger ones of your kind. Here, Slocum,' he
added. handing me the wig, take this as n
souvenir of my Baron Chevrial, part to which
am indebted for much, If not the most, of what
and money l have earned as an
actor
"fie gave it TO me with a plain feeling" con-
tinued Slocum, land for n man as little given to
sentiment as Mansfield he evinced quite as
much emotion as q horseman experiences in
parting with favorite hunter"
It's really too bad that "a man who can say
and do such bright things as he is never quite
earnest or honest with himself or anyone else
..
1.-THE Silver King" Is at the American Wilson
Barrett is Of the cast-New York Sun.
Which some will consider nor sufficiently
notice OF the En2lishman.
The largest ''ad." In the Mirror of May 70,
with one exception. is that Of James ]. Cor
bett, prize-Dghter, gentleman, and actor.
A certain western, newspaper has seen
fit to criticise the writer Of this column
for expressing an opinion Of Rose Coghlan
which the western paper did not agree with.
II remember rightly, the remark to which |
The western critic took exception spoke 70 |