The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-30

Madness, Tor they are conducting one OF
the largest free advertising schemes ever
produced. If Fitxsimmons believes that
Corbett does not mean business. why does
he not accept one OF the former cham
pion's rash offers? 1t would cost nothing
and would be a sure way of proving
whether Corbett IL serious or not Fffz
however, Is satisfied In talking about the
matter as a biur and in appearing before
the pubic to heap epithets upon Gen
tleman jim" Corbett undoubtedly is sat-
isfied in appearing In the role of the
wronged hero and in manufacturing
and shipping out sensational challenges TO
his alleged foeman.
Dear old John l.. Sullivan. who can al
ways be depended upon for an editorial
expression on any known subject of the
heavens above. the earth beneath or the
waters under the EARTH has this much to
say in order not to be entirely shut out OF
1t all:
what do think OF these fellows? Well
don't know what to think Of them. They
make me tired. ! don't know why the
people stand IT. Two fighters who put
up such an Old-woman scrap as they did
at Carson ought not to be so forward in
their remarks. Corbett Is doing the lin
dandy act, but his head Is full OF feath-
ers, and he don't mean what he says; or
II he does. the man is a chump There
IL no doubt that Fitz could fight Corbett
again. but these conditions are nonsense.
Corbett has no can to fight solely for
glory and give all the gate receipts 20
Fitz- Let them get together on sensi-
Bile basis ard arrange a fight and quit
this grand-stand talking. 1t makes people
sick"
HMW
Seattle annually contributes something
to the professional stage, and / doubt IL
there is town in the country that shell
lnr
ricai people. Some OF those who have en-
gagged In the theatrical business have al
ready made places for themselves, and
otners who have the stage in mind will
undoubtedly succeed. but the majority
here, as elsewhere. are simply fascinated
BY the glare Of the footlights and know
nothing OF the life that is on the other
side OF them. They will hardly venture
1t. and the burning desire to act Will con-
sumo itself with its own fire. The latest
acquisitions by the professional stage of
local talent are those by 1.-The Gay Mat
inee Girl" company which took away
with 1t Misses Bertha and Ella Koch.
sisters OF Mrs. Grace Koch-Baer. Both
OF these young ladies are well known in
amateur dramatic circles IN this city. as
clever singers and dancers, and their flu
ture lies with themselves as they start
well equipped for farce-comedy work,
which is the line they have adopted.
Their stage names are Bertha La France
and Ella de Wolf.
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The Potter play. THE Conquerors. has
reused the warmest kind of discussion.
The critics have assailed it from the
standpoint Of morality, while at the same
time it has afforded Viola Allen an ex-
cellent opportunity for good acting. The
personal hit Miss Allen made remains as
the one fact about which there has arisen
no controversy.
A year or so ago Mr.. Potter told Mr.
Frohman he had an idea for a play In
the first act the heroine throws glass
Of wine inca mans face for insulting her.
at the end OF the third act she loves him.
Mr.. Frohman accepted the unwritten
pfay 50 well did hi HE the. theme. Tho
New York public says the story Is too
advanced" and the dramat:st has been
obliged to come to his own defense which
ne has done In the columns OF the press
Mr.. Potter was to have sailed the middle
OF the week for London, having come to
New York for the express purpose OF
experimenting this play. but remained
over few days TO rewr!te the fourth
act.
Mr.. Potter says he wrote the play for
women. ut is a tart story, but the whole
tendency of the stage Is towards real
ism. In The ConQuerors' I've tried to
draw the line between realism and bru.
tality-between the Theater Francois and
the Theater Libre" The play created
such storm that Sidney Rosenfed. who
has written n few weird things himself.
says ii is vicious, and that there is need
or an American censor
This play seems TO have capped the
climax of all that has gone before The
winter has not been without its sensa-
tons. for with "A Nights Session. THE
Proper Caper' and others OF a similar
quality. the New York public must have
Weakened several mornings with a very
bad taste In its mouth. IL plays are con-
fessedly written for women, and that IL
the kind Of play women are supposed to
write. why Is it that Martha Morto, and
Madeleine Lueette Ryley wrote "a Bach
eiors Romance" AN American Citizen"
"A Coat of Many Colorsr" They should
have written something women could
have enjoyed. yet who will deny that the
very kernel OF the success OF these three
plays is that women have accepted and
enjoyed them.
Western people are not quite KEYED Tn
TO an acceptance of things as are those
OF IAN older civilization, represented bv
New York theater-goers. and Pptter's
play. THE ConQuerors Judging from
what has been said OF IL. passes all pre-
vious attempts at realism. In note on
this page viii he found tho information
that the principal card AT 4 New YORK
music hail is a woman who disrobes as
though retiring for the night. ia fun view
of the audience. This suggestion should
be satisfying TO the most exacting, but
The Potter play exhibits an ATTEMPT on
the part OF a French officer to rayish a
girl One Eastern critic in trying TO r,,-
View the performance and at the same
time conceal IT, actual brutality. says:
Petite language cannot express the
goings-on IN this production: It simply
ofends good taste and passes all limits
hitherto set upon the metropolitan stage
The action is supposed 20 occur during tho
tranco-German war. in and around an
old chateau In Brittany. during the night
OF the day OF the crowning disaster at
Sedan. During the first act a troufa of
ballet girls from Paris are brought to
the place. and the revelry begins. II
winds up by one Of the ladies' of TIE
house throwing 4 glass OF champagne n
10 The face OF one II the officers who
vows TO be revenged. In the next act
genuine trouble begins the scene being
laid in an inn. After dances kx rx{s...