The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-12

end of another seasons work her life
in the theater became ulbearable.
Since her retirement she has never for
one instant wished to return to her
old work. Mrs. de Navarro never ad-
vises girls to go on the stage. She is
glad to say that twenty or thirty stage
struck girls whom she has known have
wisely given up their dreams after
having the whole story of dramatic
artists life laid bare by her before
them. This, observes the Philadelphia
Bulletin. is not the way that Charlotte
Cushman looked at the subject If
girl asked her advice about going on
the stage, she advised her to go If she
had any talent for acting. She re-
garded her profession from the stand
ard of a great artist. Mary Anderson
was always a charming personality
but she was never great artist. Her
acting showed that she was not en-
amored of her profession. She had
beautiful voice and fine, statuesque
presence and that charm that always
attaches to a sweet and gracious ma
ture but when>you have said that, you
have said all Ask Modjeska or Jeffer-
SUI WHAT llty lIlllh VI lile iItol al l,
and they will tell you that they think
very highly of it. But, then. Modjeska
and jefferson are great artists.
Mr.. Irving has incurred a good deal
of criticism by his estimate of Macbeth
in a speech which he delivered before
the literary society of Owens college,
Manchester. He described him as one
of the bloodiest and most hypocritical
characters in Shakespeare, and main
tanned that his apparent hesitation in
the scenes with his wife was due solely
to his hypocrisy. He was poet with
his brain and villain with his heart,
and the mere appreciation of his wick
edness gave irony to his grim humor
and zest to his crime. He loved through
out to paint himself and his deeds in
the blackest pigments, and to bring
to the exercise of his wickedness the
conscious deliberation of an intellec-
! tual voluptuary,"
j. Aldrich Libbey, who was one OF
the important features of the Pauline
Hall Opera company, writes to the
Chicago Herald that he resigned from
that organization and left 1t at Men,
phis, Tenn, owing to an unjust fine OF
s. imposed upon him by the manage
ment. whereupon the Herald moralizes
thus: He was charged with the horrl-
| BILE offense OF "unwarrantable frivol-
| ity." In such a staid and serious or
ganizatlon as that over which the Sc
| date and almost puritanical Miss Hall
| presides anything like frivolity must
have seemed simply intolerable. 1t is
| really astonishing that gentleman
who has appeared to be the very es-
| sence of dignity and proprlety should
have been tempted to frivolity before
those examples of stern propriety who
constitute the rank and file of the Pau
line Hall Opera company. II he had
only saved his irresistible impulse
toward frivolousness until he became
attached to some real gay organizat ton
the offense would seem slight but lev
| ity in the neighborhood of Pauline Hall
Is not sin to be easily forgiven. Five
dollars is a very cheap price for such
| an offense.
FoOTLIGHT FLASHES:
A lynching scene is the realistic fea-
ture of "A Cracker-Jack."
| Robert Mantell, they say, has dropped
"Parrhasius" from his repertory.
C. Y. Dazey, the author of I'm Old Ken
tuck" IL out with brand new play,
which Jacob Lift win soon "try on the
dogs"
Among the many players who got
something about Christmas time was
Mark Price, of Marie Burroughs COM
pany. He got" the bounce.
The members of Richard Mansiield's 5
company presented Mr. and Mrs. Mans
field with silver salad set at the Lyceum
theater, Baltimore, on Christmas.
Lewis Morrison has accepted version
of the "Flying Dutchman." written by
Harrison Grey Flske, editor Of the Dra-