The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-13

numor o. her laugh In the second song sqnds
oysr the SadisS nc ss sSss th sP snsiss sssssI IEasaset
9Ssm S,d to BE- IN = Elow Of careless good humor:
o onS . S,IfS' s 81 shs song FbS are ya n9s n t Hsssss &c.
scribe the way in which different kinds Of per
e eSns laugh A. Joke, the second part Of the
tion or effort and with about the same case that
have BEEN told tsSFa 70 4 her s'R the SotFcs SG makes %'E her
P ON With thorough success. 1t is a delight
Miss Anterior in her humor and naturainess
sSss% mssn May irwin IL, II hG Go PG SSIIEs Ssr has in t tsS
picture Miss. irwin in a short skirt. Miss
Aihertcn evidently. realized that 1t would be IS
the accustomed nbbreyintion OF tho serio-comic.
But a long skirt would never have done AT Kos.
tSnercai black s ve, seS M a,SfS = E fSSbPEShn Peaches
down to a point bali way between her ankles
the unbendinE dignity OF velvet trimmed. With
JET; The dross Is cut low In the mock and Miss
that KIND, Ing IN fact ,s Of W sfi 9ip Sordsrss 0di snser s%sHS
which approached skittishness would be out OF
All place In connection with her weight and her
black velvet, she enters deliberately and crosses
the stage with the dignity Of an ocean steamer
ference in May TWINS case what she wears or
how large shc looks, 1t Is as little important in
and the charm of easy graceful acting are all
the spectators care. anything about SO soon as
,a%s has commenced saaa m to sinF: gilbert M.at, F, Sso !
finished and amusing in its way as anything
that New York had ever heard before. But in
rsal fun and spontaneity 1t Is not TO DO compared
10 Miss Atherton's.
yiotorien sardou has read to the actors Of the
Vaudeville tho new play which he has written
for Thorn and Nine. Rejane. Its leading char
ecter 10 Pamela, o grisette, and as she is said
to have been concerned in the attempt to rescue
the Dauphin, there must be some resemblance
to the story used by Balzac In his Pamela
Giraud," which was acted first of the Gaite
Theatre in Paris on Sept. o. ls43, and was one
Of the most successful attempts at play writing
ever made by Balzac. Sardou's new work has
the same title, Pamela" In the play by Bal
zao the girl keeps q flower shop. Her lover.
who is implicated in q conspiracy against the
Dauphin. Is In reality q man Of wealth, al
though she believes him to be q simple work
ingman. He becomes involved In the plot and
is arrested. In order to save his life and her
own the girl IL compelled to swear that her
lover passed the whole OF a certain night in her
company. Ultimately she is married to him In
spite Of the difference in their posit ons. The
play by Balzac seems enough in the style of
Sardou to be the work Of that master. The
heroine Of Sardou's play is said to have been an
actual figure OF the days before the Restoration
and kept a shop In the street now known as tine
AdO w AhShOAiSu. II ultuSIt 6td
published in regard to Sardou's play 1t is i'm.
possible to say whether or not 1t is a new yer.
sion Of the old Balzac melodrama. But the
resemblance between the two is striking enough
from the details already known.
Oscar Wilde is said to have finished q play
which will be acted in Paris In French at tho
Theatre de rGuvre. It deals with q classical
subject. This will not be the first work he has
accepted a drama called "Salome' several years
Sgo, put II was never sro acted e: Charles lies ,Wynd.
cided not to produce II. n' pen' Ou' nus a0-
Beerbohm Tree is to have a play by Robert
g Ests hoais adNs y edr from a .. pGSei s b. Paul R0Gr;;
has just been acted in London without particu-
Lar success, and "A Lady Of Quality, with
one Of the provincial towns. win soon be brought
fa nj IT be 4 ssHs that se H RHsA the Asr rsas s%it ssas t eaa h. The
Gently given in London, It's failure Is easily
phasis the story told in Rome by Mime. lola
says that the Italian iss' poet tte would Dsia S never have awe
so%aissiOs t T. do IT, eaa she he' ALSO iS9 s says t h,& she she
has sent an artist te Athens 20 make the neses.
scum there for the Paris production. Of. the
play. Eleonora puse. who has lately been
giving "A Spring Mornings Dream" in the Itai:
these words after the Milan cpitics had
agreed that it was literary but not dramatic
init t'I that i is not t thea sRcahFh 81 she es said. .but TT It
is as fresh and fragrant as a branch Of lilacs:
occasionally from what is merely theatricaii
That to-day dominates the theatre only too
Tie Theatre an der Wien has lately pre-
sented an operetta which has brought rather
tardy success to the theatre. 1t has during
Flower Mary Is the title OF the operetta, and
the scene is laid in America. The text shows
the same accurate knowledge of American life
Palmay returned from London to sing in the
operetta, which seems to have. been more
Viennese works. Charles Weinberger whose
was sung in German at the Terrace Garden
for his score, which is said to be uncommonly
fresh and melodious. Mark Twain sat in q
tell whether he was laughing at the humor Of
the text or the novel views on American life
WHICH the lbretto presented.
Berlin. will soon be tried In French. THE shop
Gill" which was given there two years ago.
was not received with much favor, and IL met
with the same discouraging experience in
Francois de curel,s latest play was acted a few
proved to be even less dramatic than any of it's
Predecessors, and was practically a thesis on
tween capital. and labor. 1t was called THE
Lions Meal" The Theatre Antoine has been
exceptionally successful during the present
season.
Good Music nj the Metropolitan.
The popular concert at the Metropolitan Opera
House last night drew a good-siZed audience
to listen to a programme which included such
potent names as those OF Ysaye and Pol
Plancon. NJ. Piancon had distinguished his
second appearance here by singing three new