The herald., 1898-05-29

have justified their belief in me-"
Within a day after the receipt of the
foregoing in this city a telegram from Lon
don announced that on the 23d inst. Mrs.
Leslie Carter was severely injured while
playing at the Adelphi theater. No par
tculars in explanation have been sent on,
and it is supposed that the accident may
not after all have proved a serious ono.
1t was the intention to prolong the run
OF 1.-THE Heart Of Maryland during the
| month Of July, the popular demand for it
being so strong. Mrs Carter will not ac
company the piece on Its tour through the
English provinces. but will devote herself
TO the study of her part in David Belasco's
new play, which may possibly be produced
in London. Mrs. Carter is enthusiastic over
the play and over her own role in 1t.
O O o
The entertainment furnished at the east
ern vaudeville houses Is not considered sat
| isfactory unless the program Includes one
| or two farces or comediettas, In which act
| ors and actresses from the so-caed
Legitimate" stage take part. This exam
pie is now being followed at the Orpheum
| in this city, and the entertainment Is there
| by improved so far as variety is concerned
and in some instances, like that furnished
| by Isabelle Urquhart the past week, the
farce is very welcome addition.
O O O
! We hear great deal In these days about
| the municipal ownership of street railways,
gas, electric power and water, but so far as
| [ have seen, the municipal ownership and
consequent control of theatrical amuse
| ments has not been advocated in this coun-
al an1t Hac
| in favor of it. that is argued ON behalf of
| the cty's ownership of the general wants
| The public must and will be amused, and
| too often is swndled into paying out good
| money for very indifferent, not to say vile,
shows. TheAe is no great stretch of the
| ina gination involved in the proposition
that the same nice, wise city council, and
| the same immaculate board Of education,
which severally control the quantity, kind
and method of the instruction impaired to
| the rising generation, should also have the
power to control and provide the dramatic
amusements which in their way exercise
so large an influence upon the minds of
adoescent youth. Certainly II the theater
were under some such censorship or super
vision, the complaints that now fill the
columns of the journals, of the immoral
| tendencies of the stage of the day, would
| cease for want of further foundation. Here
| Is how they manage things In the ancient
| German city of Cologne: The municipal
| council Of that sweet-scentet burg has
voted 1925 900 towards the expense of build
ing a second theater, and given the site for
| the new building besides. From the year
1902 the municipality will undertake the
| financial administration of both houses, the
| new and the old.
| Here Is a sample of how the gentle dra-
matte critic gets in his deadly work in the
| land of sauer kraut, sausage and beer:
"a dramatic poem in five acts, entitled,
"Mohammed der Prophet" by Otto Won
| der Pforten was given for the first time in
Berlin at the Theater Royal few nights
ago. 1t was not a success. A local critic
| saws of it: Take the story of Mohammed
| the Prophet and tell 1t little incorrectly,
| somewhat in the style of Old Moore's AL
| manack put your story then into miserable
| doggercl rhymes; and finally sawthe whole
into bits of dialogue-that is the drama
'Mohammed!
| Alma Kruger, who made her first APP
! pearancc in New York as the leading sup
port of Louis James few weeks since has
| made a success. The Criterion says: "She
| Is exceptionally fine at times and will some
| day be gifted artist, If she does not fall
| into the habits of a school which Is woe
! fully old-fa shioned. So far she has every
promise of great future before her. There
| is sincerity about Miss Kruger's interpre-
| ta.ions and an originality which mark her
| as individual and true. At present, like
most young actresses, she lacks perfect
| simplicity, but that will come in time. In
| Ophela we see her at her best, although
| her Desdemona and Juliet are charming
creations We must congratulate Miss
Kruger upon being one of the best COM
plete Ophelas we have seen for long
time
"Major James B. Pond was awarded last
week a congressional medal for bravery
at the battle of Baxter Springs, Kan, Oc
tober 6. 1861
The foregoing announcement, which Is
only few days old, Is typical of the
| slowness of government circumlocution
office. 1t is also emblematic of the speed
with which the administration is hurrying
to free those miserable starving Cubans
who were at deaths door before the war
was begun.
G. O O
In the course Of some editorial comments
upon '"The Lessons of the Season." the
Dramatic Mirror which has waged a
steady and relentless war upon the the
atrical trust, is moved to say as follows:
1.-THE theatrical season now closing has
enforced several lessons. Some of these
lessons are old, and others are new. To
those who study the stage it Is clearer
than ever that successful theatrical man.
agement is based on something more solid
than speculative energy and a gambling
impulse. Within the past year tho great
provincial public, so-called, has been ed
uca ted to quick detection of many shams
Of management. That public now knows
whether play ilamboyantly advertised as
a great New York success really is what
1t is claimed to be. And the number two
company, which was formerly foisted on
interior cities with false pretenses has alb
solutely lost It's hold. The places that
formerly knew 1t will know 1t no more
forever"
AS the Mirror has been the chief agency
in bringing about this desirable result, and
/ succeeded in enlistinr n largo and inf1uan.