The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-14

Whats the reason you don't: want my boys
lover she demands. as II the other. had limited
that tt wasn't worth having, and with her neXt
words ehe:i s saying that she wishes she had
never seen the young woman.
Henri Lavedan is the fortunate author Of
two plays which have found success in Paris.
'Catharine,'' acted at the Theatre Francais a
few weeks ago. has proved entirely acceptable
to Paris audiences, and now at the Gymnase
o comedy of French life called Tho New
Game has been acted with q success even
more complete. The only play of NJ. Lavedan
ever seen here was THE Prince d'Auree,"
which was called IAN American Duchess" and
suggested the original very slightly. The next
important play of tho French stage will be
Sardou's Pamela" written for Rejane, and
It Is expected to mako as great q triumph as
mime. Sans.Gene' won. It will DO followed
In interest by tho next play at the Theatre
Francois. which is to DO "The Martyr" by
Jean Richepin. II is o play Of life among tho
early Christians In Rome, and will be pro-
sented with great scenic splendor. Attention
was called to tho work last spring, when the
author demanded that It he returned to him
unless.itwas produced within q certain time.
Not only authors, but actors. who sometimes
get an appearance, are Impatient at the DELHI
crate methods Of the National French theatre.
Sarah Bcrnhardt, who has not met, with sue.
cess In one Of the plays acted at her theatre this
temporarily from the stage. It Is said that
take the Porte st. Martin, now MANAGED By
Coquelin;; who Is 70 return to tho Comedie Fran.
sst snm RssaP9 lake si III sh Rens siSSSsaing With f shG s pTsi;
s Be- has .aAS found too small 3or the poeiio
dramas she is anxious to produce. Then An.
f fqee th Mnt Soe ents .G sas s i1hero. enc en- ' Sslsha" H. i
shortly to be sung IN Paris In French.
D'Hnnunzio's La Vile Morte" in Milan. Rome
and Naples during, the next month. This SGT.
to its failure in Paris. 1t is now said that Duso
will GO to London IN the spring to play there
o oanH s SfSGaeed M as M hH%q1 sSe drama ae sSioh re- re:
e sfpsfR ing Il pr Wss s eailed ' @h"S Golden Ss W We dn%a''
an s%u tHalsa utterly, Johannes" ha. crowded til.
theatre in Berlin. MISUNDERSTANDING the anfs-
ceived. Its production in other German. cities
has met:with.euccess. so far as.the public i9 con-
ssernsd; The disappointment Sdnt astS over t h a, hrst psr.
S S%ert Is 1ao P.S which fcSt led tie X spe to anti Ia:
have supplied. Helen odilon. when she eomes
70 this, country. viii 30 seen In Josephine"
sSsSi:h. "fk II e laid t anS { ma ass G Rafiz IGS@ x III
also return hero In March.
Arthur Eggeling. who vas s,poPSlar ACTOR for
poNorGi rohrohb ~ ~ A,mB tiuco Ahoatro
pany In 81. Petersburg.
The musical FARGO to succeed The Geisha"' will
have Its scenes laid In ancient Greece. and the
contrast of modern customs with those of that
period are. said to supply the humor.. Owen
Hall and the accustomed number Of collabora-
tors have written 1t. Edward Compton Will
soon retire from the stage, Ellen Terry, Hem
ry Irving, Charles Wyndham, and Forbes
Robertson will act the screen scene from ''The
School for Scandal" at the benont to be given
to Nelly Farren. Nellie Farren Is writing her
"reminiscences. The journey of Mrs. Patrick
Campbell and Forbes Robertson to Germany
with Hamlet" has brought out this tnforma-
ton concerning an earlier invasion by English
tit may be interesting to point out that a
company of English comedians carried Ham
let TO Germany toward tho end of the sixteenth
century. when a rough German TRANSLATION OF
eat record of a performance OF Hamlet, a Prinz
be attributed to the year 1915. but according
to Mr.. Israel Gollanez, 1t Is just possible that
we have some portion of the lost pre-Shake-
spearean Hamlet In q German MSS. version
bearing the date 'Protz. Oct. 81, 17l0.' which 10
probably a late and moderniZed copy of a much
older manuscript This play. 'Fratricide Pun
ished. or Prince Hamlet Of Denmark was first
printed IN ISL, and, has been frequently re-
published since then"
Two plays by English literary mon are soon
to be seen on the London stage. One of these is
by no less u person than George Meredith. His
novel, "1he Egoist," will be made into a play.
Morley Roberts has written 'The Leading
Lady" a drama OF stage life, shortly to be seen.