New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-21
CHIROPEAN'S GoODBY SOCIAL.
THE SUBJECT DRAMATIC ART" CALLS
FOR EXPRESSIONS FROM IRVING
AND JEFFERSON


Chiropean held its last meeting OF the season yes
terday afternoon in the Knapp Mansion. BEDFORD
ave. Brooklyn. There large attendance and
a buffet luncheon was served at 10 o'clock noon.
II was music and drama day. and Miss Grace NJ.
D. Hallam was the chairman Of the committee.
The following programme was given and was one
OF the most thoroughly enjoyable the club has ever
presented:
Songs Down In the Dewy Deil' words BY A.
Waymark. music by Henry sinarO end I'm Our
Boat" words by author OF John Halifax" music
by Frederic Cowcn). Carol Club. piano furnished By
Sohmer: piano solo, "Etude' QszO. Mrs. william
L. Beardsey; soprano soil, "Oh. Quand je oors
GAszD and lie Pere du Br-sn" tpavid), MISS
Natalie SeeboecIi question for discussion. HAS
Dramatic Art Progressed In the Same Degree as
Music?" (prescntation OF question Miss Grace NJ
j Hallam); papers Mrs. Darrell Simmons. Mrs
John X. Creevey, Mrs. Z. J. Grant. Miss Laura
sedgwick Collins: general discussion. Mrs Edwin
Knowles is chairman OF the Executive Committee.
The papers read were exceedingly interesting. and
the general discussion that followed brought out
a number Of clever speakers. Nine Cappiani one
of the guests read an extremely witty bright
paper the different styles Of opera, relating IL
the most entertaining manner some OF her own
youthful experimentation was some time ago.
she said archy-.and yet not so long. either
When Mrs. Florence Guck was called on for ner
paper. she responded BY saying she had done her
best TO secure for the club the greatest possible
feast by writing to Sir Henry irving in Dublin
and Joseph jefferson, asking them for short papers
on the subjec; OF the drama. Letters from the TWO
greatest living actors then read aloud ny
Mrs Quick.
Henry Irving wrote from Dublin and said: Il
am sincerely sorry that cannot meet your wishes.
But my time is so much occupied that cannot
write ;he paper you desire, though ! nave every
joseph Jefferson wrote: Il am so overworked
that have the time 1t would require 20 wr'I re-
an II o. ~ a
would take at least days thought ana WORK anu
even then 1t might not - worn or chropea
read an Interesting paper on the advancement OF
the drama She bes@n by sshns and the old
English dramatsts is the modern pay OF an , 0roes
nave and suppose always Will talk about the de-
cline OF the Yet It still lives ana DIGS ldii
TO snrvive to a ripe old age. There l. STEADY m
crease in pla yhoses and paygoers plays are better
mounted thea Lrcaly. than eyer hefore anu III.
is no decadence In the OF acting. True the pest
actors are no longer massed together In companies
in the largest cities they ma auG o ,br boen
quarters OF the globe; but never nane u, -nn,ar
more skilled performers men and women OF greater
genius than tread the boards TO-DAY IN an d.! us-
stenco and the acknowledged classics are the re-
suits OF the survival OF the iest ION oE, ngi ian.
thousand dramatic works produced ior ,ne ss6
speaking stage between the years l.pD ana ~. iii
rander Matthews says that Only sC ~ hs can + IL
with those picked and proved iroopS taa MA lne e
piece is measured SasNespeaTSe d siass have
tile about them TO elevate the taste OK the masses
Indeed the transcendenta! genius VI nv AZ
self is the only salt which Keeps some u ''e"'
sweet . -. -,o, a. ILL,
"Schopenhauer says: Not 10 go 10 the play IS IKE
,rvirc "a dress without Il looking glass. Does the
modern stage hold the mirror up 70 hd'Hi -
IL reflects the fauIts anu IOiNsf VI
iOd there are many reiiI 'illl-s
in ms world which delightful There are moo
ern PLAYS which eev@ting, Joyous ana .,hI'sy
ieci "TIas Dramatic Art Progressed IN EreaIei -
g-oe han Music" II do not mink, she saiu,
ihat the dramatic writers Of today nave MAJ NJ!
arv great advance over those OF iorty anu ~!
inglv toward productions OF Hghl cI.a "a a,,,
iiohi comedy flrCica plays and burlcsques iar o,
MIN hering plays Of more serious natu cl ot
ottcr hand I'm the musical world. ms hlieleeH.'.
cer.,rv mas witnessed the birth AID Development
of the highest form OF musical arr as W. !ct n"O
n BASED lnon the works OF the minor "a! - .,
Each Handel Mozart Haydn, Sluck bee'no WI
and n, hers have come to US from many Iahds
writer's OF great ability and originality, whose course
RAJ ever been upward-Schubert, Schumann Kos
.iri Nevcrbeer Auber. DoniZettL Mendelssohl,
Taf' Ferlloz. Chopin Verdi, Rubinstein iiszt ana
the great Wagner -. .,,o-.s -,ad
Mrs benjamin J. Harnett. one OF the e- guests reau
an interesting paper on the drama IN lHda: .ht-,
The next meeting Of the club VIII De OF 1le mr.
loved was that Of Mrs. Edwin Knowles. Ms Ms;
daniel simmons Mrs. John n Creeyey ana h; ni.ss
Laura Sedgwlck Collins presented tnel. Snuyse n,
I'm a clever entertaining way inc GueTSiS ~ H.
H. J. Richardson. Mrs. Emma K kustG1r' NE
George simpson Mrs. Arthur Raymond MIS-.
lane F. McKeon. Mrs. +. Y. Whpp!e MIS- Juha
B-owu Mrs. r Y. Mccormack, Mrs. d. J." BUCK
Mrs f c. Fessenden Mrs. w X r roIsOi MISE
Helen Chase Mrs A j. Eccles, Miss Florence i ,r
don Mrs F. II Reeve. Mrs. Captain Hardy MISS
a. Lambert Mrs J. l.. N, M9s Harnelt Miss
Johnson, Mrs. G. sarkey. Mrs, a: Hickey Mrs D.
r WIkinsor ard Ms T. q. Royce