The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-24

t~erestinR 70 G-ermansaudienoes and shows the
habits Of Berliners on their travels. LUDWIG
Fulda and Felix Phtlippi have both produced
during the present season highly successful
comedies. Bahr's Josephine" lately produced
In Vienna, In said 10 be q deliberate plagiarism
OF an earlier work produced at one of tho free
theatres several years ago.
Sarah Bernhardt II to have o one-act play By
Edmond Roitand, who wrote for Coquolin the
drama "Cyrano de Bergerac," which IL just now
triumphant at the Porto 81. Martin in Paris. The
play isa pootical drama similar TO ''Forsthe
Grown" and half . dozen Others which have
been acted with great success in Paris and
made no impression anywhere else. M. Rostand
is only 80 years Did. His first play, Ia Prin-
cesse Cointaine" was acted In 1893 by Sarah
Bernhard, and "Romanesque" was given at the
Theatre Francais. Ia Princesse Cointaino'. is
now being played in Russia. The new piece for
Nine, Bernhardt IL. 20 be called The Stage"
sardou has recently been appearing as an actor
In Paris, but before an audience made up Of tho
msia" at the y VsadePiiiss Theatre FH@ tra'' One Of tho
important parts in this is the Danphin. Louis
body has yet been found capable Of acting the
role to the authors satisfaction. Sardou himself
nss G sSas a tSo actors sSs r Sre S az IsisG 20 ssssrs shd t Il If
tears, SO pathetic ia his performance OF the un-
fortunate Dauphin. Whether that BIO true or
" IhO utOly ~ tIhN0iihB v nuiuPOr ohu
ish.
Pierre Lott has lately submitted to Antoine
for, performance at bis theatre a flve-act drama
called Judith Renaudin." The play Ia, original
and not taken from any Of the novelist's books.
during the reign Of Louis XVI.
Capt. Drcyfus.s Martyrdom," after having
drawn crowded houses for three. weeks OF o
theatre in Amsterdam. was forbidden by the
SsSesdS' into t sRsy action Stts but but the ending vas
changed according to the latest news on the
subject. When the play was acted first 1t
ended with the reading Of the letter written by
Nine. Dreyfus to the Pope, Later. this was
changed after the Introduction Of the "veiled
saw the drama wound up in accordance, with
the latest tolegrams from Paris on the subject.
All Of the personages that figured In the trial
wereintroduced. II was tho excitement caused
by the performance that led tho authorities to
.Gustave Salvinl, who had received his share
of his fathers estate on condition that he never
,aot in Italy, appeared in Venice the other day.
He has been an actor for years, but has hither-
to deferred to his fathers wishes. Tomaso
In his country, and the action OF, his son 10
looked upon as another episode in the bad feel.
ing that has Ions existed between Thorn. He
appeared in. \ Hungarian play.
"The Geisha" has lately been sung In Russian
at Moscow. and ~Sudcrmann's Die Ehre' IL a
popular drama In Greece, where 1t liz acted In
the native language.
Another posthumous operetta by Won Suppe
has lately been discovered in Vienna. The work
was Almost completed before the composers
death, and is called The Parisian." The
paucity Of good .librottos. Under the title '"The
Opera Bali is sung a version OF the old French
farce, "Pink Dominos."