The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-18

formances OF "Cyrano de BerRerac" amounted
TO more than 500 a performance. The drama
has been given 100 times In tho provincial
towns OF France and Coquelln has repeated in
London his Paris success In tho play.
Ermcte Norvelli made q deep impression
In Paris, and one feature OF his acting In
Praga's "Allcluia" Is said to have surpassed
any similar effort at intense and vivid portrayal
OF a death scene. This was supposed to follow
m attnck OF paralysis. and tho horrible detail
with which II was performed revolted the audi
ence while 1t interested II. Prnea's play is
typical Of the morbid dramas that seem to find
popularity to-day in Italy. 1t tells tho story
Of n man who discovered his wife'R inf
deity. killed her lover In a duel. and
then compelled the woman for her daughters
sake to live with him. TIL girl grows up and
her father learns that, in spite OF his care and
sacrifice. she has deceived her husband and
been turned out OF doors. Sho protests that
she il innocent, and her husband as we'll as her
father hope that this ia true. But conclusive
proof OF her guilt was at hand and the shock OF
II kills her father. II was this scene which No.
reli acted with such great effect.
The German Emperor hos recently expressed
his great regret that the, German theatre is
known TO the world through the plays OF Suder-
mann, Fulda, and Hauptmann. for he regards
them as representative OF the worst influences
1f Ssrp Gut t tSinEs tS;at l9&s TRe % S!sss as HG IS The
most pernlcious drama ever written. He
W wpo wr IiEs e fbe nave %ea EIssT Won alo MIi{SSsafIsTSc n
The 1fEo iUeD U or JOSEPH Ka%S. who
wrote comedies 70 the Emperor's taste.
s sid psns scsille sHo a ''Hliftstlls s ff oo revo Put ST9,
thinks TINT Goethe is too olympian and, leasing
BqrnEsim'" greatly. Max CRUDE has written in
EImper1r saw the classical repeftoire q the
SaXe-Metningen players, and was so much i'm
pressed by them that he hesitates to go to
the theatre nov, for fear that they may not be as
because THE Viewers" was acted there. and
ts SfSRsISSS' i FSid hTFnRtFRhn IL. Fa HIIlHz nSS"s ddSs mot not
Of it's satire, that is not SURPRISING: He has
s sCFHS'gI far SNS H'SHSs that f% ,% "Mme, Sans n' aS SaeS
lighttul, and believes that the military heroes
Of a nation should always be kept before the
'CoGueiIin is delighted that tho practice of
speaking from the footlights has grown so pop
ular IN his country and recalls that Moliere
and Kyrle ,IBellew will be seen in The Medi-
eIns MS G4ssv which hif1no1 h1s been ;s 10 re GSntS IN for r
6ndesqH S''S IN Paris and I has q no idea. Of
Tili eome to to t Roste% SoU Z gyinl,s. oi so%eI aGitq rs
Of Cissies, Marie Corclll, in a recent interview.
sion as on tho Lowest rung of the ladder
and defines it as mere mimicry and devoid Of
any creative element, Arthur Pinero's next
Zangwcll has written a play for Richard Mans
field. Charles .Frohman Is. to have a new
comedy, by J. NJ. Barrie. Mrs. Craigie John
| for George Alexander. Richard H." which
Henry Irving will produce next season. has not
II was last given at q regular performance on
March II. 1857. by. Charles Kcan., 1t was ono
Of the most splendid of the revivals he made.
and much of the play was sacrificed to the
spectacular features OF the performance. There
were in~terpolations, and the most pronounced
and fourth acts OF an historical episode" rep
rcsentins the arrival In. London of BoEn0broEe.
followed by the deposed king. One-third of the
| lines We're sacrificed In order to make time for
the spectacular features Of the production. But
to have been better than any formerly in use.