The age-herald., 1897-12-26
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deal of nervous energy on his recent star ring tour, and when he returned to New York was anything but strong. One night the past week when the performance was over he collapsed in his dressing room. Mrs. Hackett and Miss Mannering drove home with the invalid and the physicians who were summoned detected the symp- toms of typhoid His mother and sweet heart have been his only nurses, until re- gently when they have yielded reluctantly to trained nurses.
 Lewis Morrison was conspicuous figure in the shopping districts last Thursday morning. He was sauntering along Twentieth street looking so young and viz orous that some one suggested that after all it might have been his under-study.
 Sarah Bernhardt's new play is the first drama of Mirbeau, and from all accounts it has made profound impression in Paris. The story R5 to this effect. Its action is confined to the half-savage squalor of factory village and its characters to the ragged, hungry and brutalized victims of bad employer. There are two scenes Tn that employers luxurious chateau, but Sarah does not appear in these. In the first act she is an ignorant, wretched work girl in a blue smock. She reappears In the fourth act clad in rusty black as kind of Louise Michel the wife and co-worker of agitator who incites the men to strike The last act, one of barricades and murderous volleys from the troops. with many people killed, raises the audience to great pitch of excitement and gives the tragedienne notable new death scene.
 The play is said to provide so much dis order from socialists in the gallery cheer ing the strikers and from the bourgeoisie in the stalls applauding the soldiers, that the government may find it prudent to in- terrupt the run of this new tragedy.
 Paul Potter Is at present in America He came over to see his latest play. 'The Con- querors," launched. It is also to be pro- duced in London early in the year.
 May Irwin has received an offer to pre- sent "The Swell Miss Ftzwell" in Berlin and other German cities. It Is said that she will remain here and sell the German rights to the play.
 Mrs. Kendall has accepted "The Elder Miss Blossom" new comedy. which will probably be played in America In the au- tumn.
 Olga Nethersole contemplates producing a new draInatization of Rudyard Kiplng's '"rhe Light That Failed"
 One of the events in Paris recently was the sale of Jane Hadings jewels.
 Sarah Bernhardt, in an interview. says: My life is wearied by the ccaseless watch lam obliged to keep against vitriol." She has been escorted every where, having been threatened by the mother of Mile. Klein, who said soma months ago she would use vitriol and who at Sarah's instance was confined to an asylum.
 "A Desperate Foe" a story of the Ten nessee blue grass from the pen of Miss Alma Rittenberry, of Birmingham, has re- gently been reviewed by MT. Valentine, the dramatzer of Mrs. Dollie Higbee Guep- ports novel, 'In Gods Country" He pro- nounces the local atmosphere of the story admirable, and the situations dramatic. His review is very encouraging to Miss MT. Valentine says the story would un- doubtedly make play and that the scenes might be laid in Europe equally as well as in the United States.
 The assassin of William Terrlss, the great English actor, Is said to bear strik- ing resemblance to Guiteau, the differentia- ton being that instead of being a lawyer cracked with political egotism, he is pauper actor diseased with the vanity of the tragic villain. His behavior in court is like Gunteau's at every point and he is eager to make personal hits in the reports for the reading public. The English pa- pers say that the murder of Chamberlain or Balfour would not have created the same universal agitation as the assassina- ton of poor Ferris
 ANNIE KENDRICK WALKER.