The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-12

NtttoE, MUSICAL Onle, anu AnnNhEOWs Ano E0u i
garden viii be put TO use beginning with next
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Intyro, Frey and Fields, Foy and CLARK. the
wilson's; tho Nelson sisters. val vino; tne las
VauaSVIiiloD. u0'' '"0 last name
Counting as much IS names can in the show
Mo canaan and Troja, but the current bur
issoue. its burlesquoEmS. and rsp5ehsnsi6ls lying
At the Eden Music wars heroes are now we'll
represented In the wax works, nomo In statu-
osque poses, Others shown as they toll over
wars dreadful engines. These are all recent
ever before. Band concerts ana cincmatographe
exhibitions are given to-day as on week days,
the Pleasure Palace and PFootor's Theatre. have
programme that, cover both afternoon and
lem MSsie Hall where John Kornoil and Annie
Myers will be leaders.
Some Of the distinctly summer entertainments
are under way, and others will start soon. Banda
Rosa is making music at the Lenox Lyoeum,
the spacious interior of which has a cool, green
aspect. After q programme Of mostly classical
numbers, with a few lapses into tuneful popu'
larity, the regular concert terminates at IL
o'clock. and the Hungarian orchestra plays
thereafter In the palm garden.
The roof Of the Madison Square Garden will be
opened on Saturday night. Tho metropolitan
Permanent Orchestra, which played thero last
year. is employed again. with Horny p. Schmitt
welding tho baton in place Of the late Anton
Seidl. Tho big roof resort has boon put into
attractive order with electric lights and an
The season q fireworks at Manhattan Beach
will begin. next Thursday night. The DocoTa-
tncle will be amplined and improved. Spacious
and ships have been oonstructod. The famous
great ado of booming cannon and burgsinE
shells. This show Is right in the line OF Pain
achievements. and no doubt will DO arousing
The Casino roof garden will be opened next
Rico's "'summer Nights" and are to consist Of
vaudeville, The garden atop. OF the American
downstairs audience between acts of the opera
and afterward;
ular summon resort The devices Of amuse-
ment are various on afternoons; while In the
sTS u ii.aEede ESi b SRiet%i sn ealkcaiated to pie please seth the
multitude; There is vspdevills; too; .
ing Rn garden again H this sn anER%S;.G making nightly
trips up the Hudson, beginning, on June 80.
There will be vaudeville shows simultaneously
on two stages and music by Slafer's orchestra.
1t is said that "The Ambassador which
" John Oliver Hobbies" wrote for the st. James
Theatre in London, contains delightful studies
of character, witty dialogue and much Of the
pi4AobNJ bbeO ~ Nhu oSAS VI eHS eubhO %
fiction. But 1t is wofully lacking in dramatic
interest. With very slight change this Same
description could be applied to half the plays
written to-day. Most of them show truthful
studies Of life and character. Many arc witty
and nearly all undramatic. A directly anal
oRous case-only in the regularity with
which the formula appears-can DO found
in the work of contemporary musicians. The
judgments on their efforts are that great tochni-
cal facility md Aniah all that infalli0anca and
study can impart, are noticeable in their work
everything. in fact. is present except tho origi-
nality and melody that alone can make any work
vital. This is the unvarying estimate of the
composers who write to-day. Massenet, Hum
perdiuck. Giordano, Leoncavallo. Puocini, and
since "Cavalleria Rusticana," Mascagni. are I'M
failingly described in this manner whenever
they give q new work to the world. Only tho reg
ularity with which this criticism is made makes
the musicians In this instance comparable to tho
dramatists. All of the scores which these men
produce show that they have learned entirely
the technical side of their art. The orchestra 10
in their hands an instrument which they can
completely control. The complaint is that they
lack originality. That is the quality which tho
newer play wrights possess in abundance. 1t is
the ignorance Of their craft that makes them
different from the composers. 1t is this which
makes their plays truthful" and interest
ms" in the study Of character" and frequent.
ly witty in dialogue and keeps them simulta.
neopsly undramatic, ,r,
, and Scribe In France are dramatic. So IN Eng.
: nothing is 50 Important to the dramatic interest
, is not powerful in itself. But it was the
!. ever written. Poetry and character came later.
r but it was many years before tho drama and the
: t5e t ! "tasS 70 realize how IlttIe tS%s may
T SScstherine. successful plays of tho season in
Paris, we're dialogue, character, life, every;
Is Of. q kind that would be little appro
i Giatsd in this country; There was one play
: a in R Rbip,9 5ass season and "h hFed0 6aa FTf2RF GIt' 1 was
Pamela" the %EEeHtepst disaster Of the season
Z on a5as; %lsn S 81 That HS stteap aei is r al shnRac to;
and chiefly one character. "Lysiane." in which
Sarah Bernhardt appeared, is little more thar
. bought dT dramatic Is late as the yy .%S. in N ThiSt
o maE"ars gradually finding appreciation in tn,
A1delphi Theatre. One exception to this must
a. They were tolerated with stories because they
belong tc q period too remote to make any at
y OF the English dramHtists to-day is toward tn,
Is easy, untheatrical transfer of the dialogue. ant
- Is writers can do it 50 well as the Frenehm en- be
n cause few are such capable literary men.
le In Germany the tendency OF the stage Il
a toward tho " undramatic." In the sense that tn
- word has been defined. All of the younI
Is writer's follow that movement without thI
n. slightest depression toward Sardou. Not lonI
m ago a play called THE Scenario" was produced
IL here. It was the transfer of written dlalogu,
IA telling a story without a trace OF ~theatrica
o. effectiveness, or any apparent attempt, at It, t
10 the stage from the pages OF a book. Their
Iv was little or nothing dramatic about tn
y whole plRy-at least, 1t was no more drN
10 matte represented by. actors than II woul
n, have been road aloud. That was the worl
u. of an amateur. and just in that way tn
writers of tho younger school in Germany ar
10 working An active season at the Irving Plac
e Theatre brings forward half a dozen play
as written in Just the naive fashion Of this one
z, Usually they deal with other than melodramati
4. matters. and tho subject OF The Scenario
was as old as the hills.
u These dramas are new and their influence O
At tho theatre remains to be seen. Already
D. looks as II a play that told a story, in the onl
or way that q play can. with force and effect, ma
d. become az little priced In art as q picture tina