The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-20

Nine. st. R. Playter will give a concert
at the theater after Lent for the benefit
of the Cathedral fund, at which she will
bring out child prodigy, Yettie Herman,
whose remarkable musical skill has al
ready excited a great deal of interest. The
child is years old, of Russian parents
She not only plays the most difficult
music of Schubert, Chopin and Beethoven
by note, reading at sight, and then MEM
orizing with the utmost precision, but she
sings equally as well as she plays The
child is a pupil of Nine. Playter, by whom
she is considered in every way the most
remarkable of prodigies. Her heretofore
limited opportunity for instruction has
rendered her playing and singing even
more remarkable than had she been under
instruction a long time. Besides this feat
ure, Nine. Playter has enlisted the sup
port of number of leading singers in the
city in behalf of the concert.
In one of his protests against british
ness on the stage. William Winter writes:
"Stores of inordinate appetite, amorous
mischance, carnal delirium, slaughter, and
sudden death, whether in novels or in
plays, are cheap and nasty and to per-
sons who possess good health and good
taste their exposition upon the stage is a
repulsive bore The purpose of art should
be beauty, not deformity-the exhibition
of an ideal to be emulated. not a horror
to be shunHed-the excitement of noble
emotion, not of disgust"
Sarah Bernhardt expects to return to
the stage about the LIST of April. Mean
while her son, Maurice, has entered the
lists as dramatic author. In collabora-
ton with Herhique Annie he has written
a four-act drama, the story of which is
adapted from one of the best romances of
George Sand, Gabriel" 1t is not as yet
decided whether the play is TO have the
same name or not
The play being written Jointly by Bron-
son Howard and Charles Klein will be
ready for production next fall 1t is
comedy of Washington manners of to-
day. with a dramatic background.
Stuart Robson celebrated his SD birth
day on March 4 at Richmond Va. where
he made his professional debut in 1858.
The title of Sir Henry Irvings new play
which he is shortly to produce in London,
is 1.-THE Medicine Man" Hypnotism fur
nishes the motive of the play, Sir Henry
hypnotically detecting the murderer Sir
Henry will thus have role somewhat
between that of his Matthias, the Poilsn
lew. victim of mesnerism, and the
"SvgengaHr of Beerbohm Tree.
Henrik Ibsen. the great Norwegian dra-
matist. will celebrate to-day the 10Th an
niversary of his birth. He was born at
Skien the capital of Bratsberg. There is
said. however, to be Scotch blood in his
veins. and he is also of German descent
ON his mothers side. He speaks German
with fuency. Medicine claimed him be-
core he turned to literature. His first
drama. "Catiline," was published forty
eight years ago, under the pseudonym of
RTvniolf Biarme, so that this much-whis-
rered and much-haired veteran has served
The stage for nearly a half-century he
was then only p years old, and just en-
terinq upon his university career. 1t was
tbroI,eh the influence Of Ole Bull, the VIC
iiniet that Ibsen became director of the
national Theater at Bergen, from which
bo succeeded 10 the same post al the
Norske Theater, Christiania. His most
recent plays have been Little Eyot ana
"cabriel Borkman" and he is now at work,
according to Dame Rumor, on THE Rat
Child"
Won Bulow often conducted entire cont
cert programmes without score and LED
o,en wagner music dramas from MEM
~ He had memorized all the sonatas
Of Beethoven and could give a score oI