The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
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Lswis Morris, who II coming to lecture In this
city next winter. was supposed 70 be the Queens
choice for Poet Laureate in 1892, although
the subsequent selection Of Alfred Austin
proved how erroneous that superstition was.
He IL not related to the late William Morris.
and. indeed. beyond his name. there was never
any resemblance In him to the well-known poet.
Lewis Morris has always been known as q Sc
verely proper poet who regulated his life and
works in accordance with the most eonven-
tioual standards in spite Of his professions
circumstance which was believed to be responsi-
bic in a large measure for the favor with which
the Queen was thought to rcgard his can
didature. Before he became a poet Mr..
Morris WAS a lawyer. and he wAs for a while in
terested IN educational matters in Wales. He
is now about 90 years old, and leads, when in
England, the easy life OF a country gentleman.
He has ample means, and his approaching visit
TO the United States could not have been under
taken merely with the idea OF profit. It was
toward the close o. his career as a lawyer that
the two volumes which grounded his reputation
as n poet made their appearance. He bus writ
saries which is said to have gained for him the
particular friendship OF Queen Victoria. Lewis
Morris Is said TO be her havorite poet. Just as
Marie Corelli Is her favorite novelist.
Ernst Van Dyck, who is to come to New York
during the winter after next. has been with
Jean de Reszke and Tamagno, and IS one Of
the leading teuors Of Europe. He Is a Bel
gian BY birth. although his reputation was
made at Vienna and Bayreuth. During the
earlier part Of his career he was an unusually
handsome man. but within recent years he has
grown very stout. with . proportiouate loss Of
good looks. 1t was about six years ago. when he
went to Paris to sing In "Lohengrin" at the
Opera there. that his figure first began to show
an increase in size that was quite incompatible
with beauty. He has always been a favorite at
Bayreuth in certain roles. and scarcely q season
has passed there without his appearance since
the time he frst took part in the Wagner festi-
val performances. In Vienna Van Dyck Is great
~ admired. although it is q curious fact that
he has sung moro important roles in other cities
than he ever did In the opera house in which he
is regularly engaged The leading tenor of the
| company in Vienna IL W~inklemann, and to him
fall the leading roles IN. the productions. He
the only opportunity that Van Dyck has to APP
pear in these operas comes when W~inklemann Is
R gss pysk fT Tfll s. ss'S parsisula sRs I SsetaI at Eot tss
METROPOLITAN from the fact that be sings equally
well in French and German; Although it is true
that some Of his most striking successes have
been made in operas that are not particularly
popular here. he is, nevertheless, the possessor
tenor roles in the Wagner operas. Vienna re
CARDS him as 4 very dne Faust and Romeo. and
seasons that have not been heard outside OF
Vienna; lt was he who was brought
sG t @bie w ;si Fef%sH g nat he t bss fa@s 10
stand as the great Wasne.tan tenor before Paris
there. It has been said frequently that he has
$1,000 a performance. 1t ia fair to say that he
IS not to receive that rate from Mr.. Grau. Van
Dyck is a man OF family. and is said to combine
! artistic emlneDCG and domestic tastes 10 an uQ-
usual degree
The baletul trace Of the theatrical boarder
rests now on two uptown hotels whose closed
windows bear witness to the subsequent de-
uioralization which overtakes the hostelries
that shelter the vaRrant umm At the
I corner OF Thirty-eighth street and Sixth ave-
nue. stands a dve story building which passed
through as many changes OF tame as a burlesque
! prima donna without any corresponding change
in character. That remained always the same.
The last proprietor to keep the hotel shut It up
two years ago with the announcement that it
would never be possible for any man to make It
successful. The place never recovered from the
shock caused BY the invasion Of q company Of
English chorus girls about six years ago. They
settled in the establishment and their reputa-
tions settled on it. From q classic British
the hotel in It's mutation of titles. but
the visit OF those English chorus girls had
le[L eueCIB InAL could not Do eraGlCateO-
Now the place Is vacant and the windows
yawn az the passing elevated trains. An
other hotel which guartered the profession has
lately closed It's doors to all but one tenant. and
he will not be got out There dwelt the chorus
girls, the comedians, the soubrettes. and the
press agents in a harmony that ultimately
brought the place to grief. No rash outsider
OF the hotel. The actors had it all 10 them
selves, anG. they enjoyed this hotel in their own
merry. thoughtless way. The person they hap
pened 70 think Of least WAS the proprietor, and
he never realized that so fully as the day the
hotel had to be shut up.
Shirley Richardson Tuck's midnight marriage
to Susette Virginia Bernard, an actress with q
wide circle Of acquaintance, was known in one
New York club last week to half a dozen me-; (,
who were pledged to secrecy, and it was told a.
an excellent joke on the elderly Wall street
man who had been friendly with the
actress. This Wall street man attended all
the young womAn's root-garden parties until
the evening OF July 30. when Mr.. Tuck and
Miss Bernard after = gay dinner went away
and were married. As the story was told in
this club, the elderly Wall street man called al
Miss BernArt's apartment on the following day
to give her a tip on the stock market, and. IN
answer to his inquiries, the maid said:
She's gone, and she told me TO give you this
letter."
The broker opened the note and read some
thing like this:
Dian Oh Man: You can go to Hoboken- I hav.
gone 10 get married. Good-by.
That isn't exactly what the note said. bu. 1t Il
near enough 10 convey the meaning. One OF the