The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-29

these Is Mrs. Saint Roche, and another Is her
husband. But OF the two, Mira. Sdfnt.R Roche Is
social lot that is plainly shown TO bo guilty.
ct her horror at the thougnt OF having received
mo her mouse an ayowedly disrcputable woman
about her beyond that more fact; and the per
son who would tell her is her husband. lie ise
tho lifo of his wife and her friends, who have
come to view the whole business with an evi.
stand what It all means. Young Edipard Oriei
IL not an Interesting figure, and for that rea-
son MT. Morgan's acting. seems moro than ever
AIRY sympathy for him from the spectators.
The woman who hates to go to the theatre be-
cause IL hurrles her dinner; the old couple VINO
ut the ,ago Of 60 and more are still in the honey.
moon begun so many, years before; the slight
London, and tho two or three studies Of English
glrlhood are the, more or less striking person
ages thu move through the serious and inciden.
esting. truthfully drawn and admirably select
cd lot they are. In the mere matter OF its char
acter study, the second act, which has little or no
bearing on the rest Of the play, Is possibly the
most interesting.
Tho circus which is housed now in Forty
second street conforms to the traditional idea Of
n circus moro closely than the usual circus
which finds its way to New York. Thoro are
not the grandeur and bewilderment Of the
three-ring affairs, but the quality Of the Per.
Torrance is good, and the circus atmosphere Of
the kind that 10 learned in childhood is strong.
There are clowns, for instance. who talk quito
as the first clowns one can remember did, while
the young ladies on horseback ride slowly
around the ring trying not to look bored to
death, and escaping 1t only as much rs q peri
odic and mirthless smile suddenly turned on
the spectators can help them to. There is one
clown at Doris's who describes himself as
Shakespearean. and sets the spectators to
guessing what that term can possibly refer to.
1t is only when he comes to the end OF his jokes
and repeats a long list of the names Of Shake
spearo's plays that the! realize what there 10
poet, One difficulty with a permanent" circus
lies In the fact that the prevailing vaudeville
sS :. tS,s nsssr sysr si Of dhs SI Rert .ba saSG Tna r dssa
and all that tho acrobats and tumblers can do
Is usually to be seen in the music halls. BY that
circus. usually has more Of the features on
view which go to mako up q circus programme.
this Il is Wisely made a Particular feature o. tho
programme uptown. There is so much in the
Idea OF the circus appealing to everybody that
should have had to wait so long before some
attempt was made to found one here. Paris
and Berlin has two. One Of them is quite
pretentious. During q long period OF every
some Of the other European cities are never
bereft Of the enjoyment that can be got out Of
the ring. In the past we have been aCcus-
sively and not extensively, crowding 1t all into
a few brief weeks, but then 1t WAS very, liber:
the Forty-second street circus, Which will dis
tribute. she pleasures over the whole year. Per
sons who like any circus ought to like that one,
as 1t has many OF the qualities that rake them
popular. There are some good riders among
tho men and women. as we'll as some acrobats
The place is well ventilated and comfortable.
Some of the actors to play in Beerbohm Trees
forthcoming production of Julius Cesar" are
well known here. Mr.. Tree is to play Brutus,
Frank McLeay, who was seen here with Wilson
Barrett, will be tho Cassius and Lily Hamburg
is to act Calpurnia. Mrs. Tree has selected the
small part of Brutus'S page. The delay in the
production of Sir Henry Irving's new play.
Peter the Great" may make Julius Cesar
the first of the important winter performances
in London.
"The Scarlet Feather which was lately
given with only fairly successful results in Lon.
don, is taken from an old operetta Of Lecocq's
which had never been given much outside OF
France. One of the Americans who has been q
we'll received feature Of the cast of this play Is
tram has also been praised for singing and act
e ENC - st. toTJ john np'i itis aerioasiy Announced that
the new version OF, 1.-THE Grand Duchess" pre-
pared for London does not contain either the
second song or the famous Say to him."
Eleanora Duse has not been received with the
same favor that was shown to her In several
Italian towns before she went to Paris. Some
of tho Italian critics have complained that she
has gained in art at the cost OF her naturalncsa
and now seeks to hide. by artihcinlity the de.
cline in the loss of her former inspiration.
Arthur Pinero's new comedy will be given In
London at the beginning of January.
The Italian actors are highly popular in Ger
many to-day. -Four different companies will
play during the winter in Berlin.
Nine. Rejane has been successful enough In
Russia to compensate for the lack of apprecia
ton she encountered in this country. Her
the theatre would holu and she was honored by
the presence of the Car and Czarina at several
performances.
The population of Marseilles has lately re
belled violently against the withdrawal OF The
subvention paid annually to the principal the
atre in the city. No satisfactory reason wat
given for the act and the public decided tc
make a demonstration against the municipal
Government. This was held in the theatre
during a performances; ana o. the Hproar was a.
pedoes and small bombs. But nobody was killed