The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-05

Gilson, a vocalist who is already we'll known
pioyment abroad. The ,Rgsseil Brothers
SsS St Of military G I views isSS Wit HR' BE- protsctod By the
warEraph. and 2o-minuto bits WIN be contrib
T &SsI. D the iSsLlyors' ll SrN rated s sonE FIX;
Yorke and Adams, Ed. J. Boyle, Webb and
HaSs.n, %Wiilismsop and stone, the Cranes ana
Helene Mora are named for tOday'S continuous
concert programme.
"spartacus," and in a way that is new to the
variety shows. for there will DO no joke about
vaudeville travestios OF the tragedy. though
him as. a subject for their assaults. Followers
Ct vaudeville have not evinSed a decided liking
MORT. and Minnie stsliEmaan were iindorSsd
to be Sl sss5Gtod fS at ali iiIH L sS;oa sRf b. " W.lt s 3 With K
this actors robust rendering. First of special:
i isSm Win q SERIES BE P dt %isnos E d snS who wG Sla l. Estso Ssl
iE%aitnfF n RI 4'i nTst l sIpioit sssoF The FSS R %S"nST t s%S
comicaiiy, are also in tho bill.
The dramatic feature of the bill at P%roctor's
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players will be Charles Kent and Eleanor Barry.
gloomy ballads, she now deals in sentiment and
qP uSiifs.'" Leo s'E De9va alto will IiN pTopoi "aa globe SbSV up
spiral track to nearly the height Of the prosce-
surface. Hayes and Lytton will offer a now bur.
iesouo OF a recently successful play, and among
fSG Stns Van s and N StSa : the the oF %SiH troupe;
and Swift and Chase. Patriotic visitors will be
from from ' sha F1o Fl wf militsry camp CAMPS o. arc T brSnd % meW.
A vaudeville concert keeps this theatre open
'h Pss st5eF 3 iist 1 "pd S Sy9 Soagsa by James F. Ho.y,
a 6Gn II 1sTl w Saiso i tn tn P : slss' n by hii%;Slf' T fRS
1iNtad voraliufa r Maud MoIptyra thu Wood
sisters. Kathryn Pearl and the Westons, and
performers in other lines. for it all can't be
Lo Moynos, Wyllo and SANFORD, Derenda and
Breon, Byron and Blanche, Horace Goldin and
Burto.
The free stages of Europe have transferred
their attention from morbid and realistic do
piotion of modern life to that which shows the
influence of the poetic spirit that has been
brought back to the drama by Maeterlinck and
Hauptmann. Tho period Of the intensely lola
csque has como to an end, even In tho private
theatres, whore they could DO performed with
all necessary attention to their particular quail
ties. Not only have tho imitators among the
younger writer's abandoned this school. The
same change came over the masters first.
Hauptmann'S forthcoming work is to be as fan
tastic as Tho Sunken Bell" and will be
written in verse. He shows no tendency to
return to tho school of Before Sunrise"
and college Crampton." Sudermann has evil
IDENTITY given up his intensely modern studies Of
German life for plays like "Morituri" and
johannes" They may be quite as contempt
raneouB in thought as Honor or "Sodom's
End" but they are poetic In form. The Italians
are still In the psychological state into which
lola led them, and their hardness in returning
to what is romantic even in its superficial char
acteristics may be understood when ono consid-
| as how lOnp their ata ue ~aa hopalaaelv rop mod
to the conventional limits of the old classical
drama. For that reason the younger drama
lists are revealing still in the morbidezzd
OF the intensely realistic. In the Biblical
plays of Bovio there arc some traces Of
the newer symbolic and poetic writer's. 1t is
the psychological that shares with this school
the attention of tho new writers. This shows
itself in The Wife of scarli, :" THE Rights of
play as "Faithless," The French, with ali their
respect for the classical drama. were emanci-
pated from its traditions long before tho Italian
stage was, and. they have been able to accept
the works of the school that Maeterlinck
prolonged course Of the resiis Sio' stage. Which.
combined witt the school Of n%nslysis and intro
The German free theatres have devoted much
Of their time the past year to the presentation
G Gsm ssisS ne ecud RS9s ct tho eF rssiistio r donzS eli da wftS E
%e eos ssy%G tbe w and te Of P Ps{s Sios written TT that b1
they were appreciated, By the critics. That
~ e slsys Pfs 81: kln Hs P% ss5''% 5o'{ Sns vars %ss
author, Who called tho work "a dramatizsd
ballad. For PURPOSES Of Emancipation It
than After the Ball" or my Mother Was a
Lady" But it told a story; Only X, two charac-
knight stood on the balcony of his castle, await
ing 2 Visit from her lover; who came every
q~ation. He Kills her when she does not
he deny takes ssr her guilt place and; on Ft tRs BALCONY lie hand ID
OF ST9 al. eb bis 5iv S1sr, T I1on Pa Rsrf bsSHtI d H f5H
with which the author had depicted tho over:
whelming., eager. impatient love Of the woman
the schools which have recently been at work IN
the drama arc plainly discernible in this effort
always on the free stages. Recently in Paris
a APspin The gaze hero at h PA shsAtf liz " is work a S Ssllse
prince held prisoner BY q usurper; who has
plans to escape. declare himself dictator, and
win over his fathers adherents.; He conadeS
frSe n%0' Fearta y that i"s h he p win NJ b iH Eiiiod dn IN Il tho g
attempt. they betray his secret. When the time
SaTe bs tF Wis Msr aatsmp II the dss g%firdS 10 Of th s9s pf hi%.
self from a window and ls killed. These two
dramas illustrate the kind Of work which is Just
ny as we'll as this recent italian play indicates
the condition of the same field in Italy.
1t is always with tho soul that tho young
Italians are concerned. whether or not they de.
clare that in their titles. The, Profile of q
Soul" Is a name that combines the exact and
the poetic rather disconcertingly. and the same
qualities are to be found in the drama. A
young man who possesses such a curious dispo'
} sition that his betrothed refuses to marry him
accepts her dismissal and goes TO another coun,
> try. There he becomes rich. and then returns to
his native land to seek for the woman he loves
still. Following the example of better known
; heroines. she has married. But her old lover
sttll desires her and urges the woman to be his
, The solution of the situation Ia intensely Ibsen
! esque. After the incomprehensible hero has
said that his highest ideals seem only possible
OF accomplishment after his earthly wishes
have been thwarted. the heroine takes Advan
C tage OF this admission TO free herself from him
She advises him that there was never a better
, opportunity for him to work his ideals out tc
their final accomplishment, as she has no idet
v of gratifying his wishes. He takes that advic,
and the two separate finally.
. Such are some OF the most recent examples o