The times., 1898-05-08

and WashIugton's ContinentaIs without
feeling that those days had passed alto
gether OUT OF living history.
Despite the expense OF keeping the
house il occurs TO one that IN KsEnau and
Rife's resignIng the Grand Is the solution
OF the problem proposed when the Castle
Square Opera Company left here last
yeaE in the middle of successful sea-
son. Why would il not be practicable
for some enterprising manager 10 put
that company or one OF equal worth,
either operatic or dramatic. in the Grand.
which is undoubtedly the best house for
that sort OF thing in the city. The Castle
Square Company has Just triumphed in
New York as Il mas triumphed every
where else. and its presence here should
solve at once the question of how to
bring II back and what TO do with that
immense failure, the Grand Opera House.
One Of the most remarkable little wO-
men the theatrical season has brought
TO Washington is Katharine MuIkins.
whose clever work in a small role in
The Man From Mexico" was noticed
at the time in this paper above that OF
more important members of the cast.
Miss Mulkins IS a remarkably clever ac-
tress and her characterization OF the
rather unpTomising role mentioned de-
serves and has received the highest
I praise. Mixed with her great personal
beauty and genius for stage work ara
many other talents. not the least of
which is literary ability. Though only
/ seventeen years of age she has already
/ had published a complete volume %
| poems which has been most fayOrably
mentioned by critics everywhere. Among
the gems for which she is responsible
are the two following both OF which will
rank with anything OF their kind that
exists in contemporary verse The first
bears the somewhat indefinite title a.
Love" and reads:
How little dost thou know. love.
Midst the triumphs that are thine
| OF the madness and the sadness
] OF tins lonely heart OF mine.
How little dost thou know. love,
/ That many airy dream
I Has hlled soul with glory
/ Where thine image reigns supreme.
But if perchance thou knewest
/ Methinks answering thrill
Would treulble thy he1rt-strings
/ Ere its music should be still.
But still more beautiful than this gem
are the lines:
l saw two roses blooming
crimson and a white
/ They seemed to be bending forward
/ As though 70 kiss goodnight!
| / saw the white rose fading
and she looked sadly worn:
I | said with sigh. This kiss Is good By.
She cannot live till morn
/ Zen as spoke she faded
| While the last rays of the sun
\ Fell DER her there ike holy prayer,
! As her petals dropped one by one.
I Then 70 the ~oss. % .-;,,.s,r
! As her beauty brushed his side
/ | softly said. Your love i dead:
/ Your beautiful. beautiful BRIDE
/ The rose Of crimson shuddsred
/ As ! gazesI in his bleeding heart;
/ | murmured iOw, ''He, too. viii GO
/ They cannot live apart"
/ The rose Of crimson treu,bIed
/ Meath the tear OF passing cloud
7 And | said The gleam Of the mOonlisht's drsaz
Tonight viii be his shroud."
The song Of a nightingale reached me,
The moon rose clear and bright
/ saw az last, while the tears fell fast,
That the crimson lay with the white.
And speaking OF poets and poetry her.
are three verses. much less beautiful
and graceful than the others. but which
/ doubtless. serve their purpose quite as
well. They are the first OF the advertising
schemes provoked by Commodore Dewey's
victory of last Sunday, and are being
/ sent out on the backs of postal cards
/ by Frank Daniels enterprising press
agent.
All hail to gallant Dewey,
MAY his glory never die,
Le; his victory last Sunday
BE his cOuEtFy's idols eye
All hail TO young Frank Daniels
Who's cOnquerOT. too, they say,
/ For, while Dewey kills the Spaniards.
| Daniels drives the blues away.
| So. go to see Frank Daniels.
| II you'd laugh until you cry,
He's next week ct the Columbia.
With his opera ''Idol's Eye"