The herald., 1897-04-04

wax taper in the effulgent rays of the
MONDAY sun when it comes 10 compar-
I ing his talent and his want of magnetism
with her opulent powers.
Otis Skinner, recently Mime. Nodes
ka's leading man, appeared at the Bald
win theater in San Francisco Monday
night in the title role of His Grace, De
Grammont." According to the San Fran
cisco press. the actor and the play are
the days of Charts H., 'the wickedest
gentleman of Europe" and the story
tells of his vain pursuit of Mistress
Hamilton, whom he finally relinquishes
for a new brunette beauty. Maud Dur
bin is said to be a very charming pink
| and white Mistress Hamilton.
Alphonse Daudet's dralpa. "L'Arle-
sienne" (The Woman of Arles) was pro-
duced last week for the first time in
America at the Broadway theater, New
York. The play, which has had three
successful foreign productions has beer
done into English by Charles Henry
Meltzer. The descriptive music is re-
| tanned as originally composed by Bizet.
For several years this drama has been
| in the hands of Americans and it began
| to look as though it would never be
played in the United States. A syn
dicate of wealthy hackers is RESPONSE
! BILE for its appearance now, and the first
night proved it a notable success, the
music especially being delightful.
| Thomas w. Keene says that the Amer
| lean critic is very powerful Individual.
| He has made and unmade people. "A
i thoughtful, serious review of a pre- ten
tous dramatic performance is always
| read with interest 1t should be as
| much to the public as the performance
itself. Intelligent acting always mer-
| its an intelligent review. The newspa-
FER and the theater are bound in closer
ties than is apparent on the surface"
The other day an actor found unex-
| pected diversion in a Godforsaken lit
| tie town on the Pennsylvania circuit.
| He found, says the Dramatic Mirror,
| that someone had painted a spray of
roses on one OF the panels of the door of
the room he occupied in the best hotel
of the place. Beside it were inscribed
the following lines: "As soon seek roses
in December, ice in June; hope. con-
stancy in mind, corn in chaff; believe
woman, or an epitaph, or any other thing
that's false before you'd trust in crit
les. byron. Beneath. in another
handwriting, was written: Say, youse
is dead right about dose critics. Dey
is no good, see ?"-John l.. Sullivan.
Jessie Bartlett Davis says the most
tiresome thing to a woman on the
stage is the necessity of looking pretty
every night She declares that "as long
as a woman's personality is her chief
stock in trade, there is something SOL
emn in the cut of bang, grave i'm
portance in the fit of a costume and
curling irons and pigments rank as fac
tors of success far above hstrionic gifts
and Delsartian graces."
AT the dramatists' and managers din
ner given in New York to celebrate the
passage by congress of the amendments
to the copyright law, and referred to in
these columns last week, a number of
clever after-dinner speeches were made
and some good anecdotes related
Brander Mathews said: 81 remember
hearing Mr. Lowell at the banquet to
Henry Irving say that good after
dinner speech ought to contain plati-
tude, quotation and an anecdotet. I
have given you the quotation, the plati-
ture Eou can find for yourselves, and
| will give you little anecdote: There