The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

can he found any day on the board of
trade, gets himself so seriously disliked
by the government of the car in try
ing to exIricate Billy (the young LADY,
from a trying predicament, that he Is
sent forwith to do service for his i'm
perial majesty in one of the mines in
western Siberia. Billy having caused
his arrest in a certain sense, takes t
upon herself to get his freedom back
again, and she does it, only to make
him a prisoner in her own keeping, as
the service says, It'll death do us part"
The production of "Zorah," which Mr.
Lift will make. it is said, is an elaborate
one.
The universal admiration for the sur
viving fragments of the last works of
Sappho, the poetess of Mitylene, 1.-THE
tenth muse" as Horace called her, is
proved by the innumerable poems that
have been dedicated to her memory,
by the limitations she has inspired and
by the fact that she has been the theme
of so many poems from Ovid down to
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Lord
Tennvson. So has it been with play
wrights and novelists. We read Of
'Sappho and Phao, a comedie in five
acts, and in prose, by ]. Lilley, played
before the queens majestic on Shrove
the boys of Plowes, 1884" which is the
love story of the poetess for one Phao,
a ferryman. Daudet was undoubted-
ly indebted to the story of the life Of
the immortal poetess for his romance
of Sappho, and thus it is that Clyde
Fitch himself owes much to this won
derful woman for the play he has COM
pleted for Miss Olga Nethersole and
which she is to producein her approach
nf ~ fire.
The theatrical season just ahead of
us promises to be chiefly remarkable
because of the unusual number Of
dramatized novels which figure prom
inently among the announcements Of
Forthcoming productions. 1t is safe to
say that, although the mode of such
dramatizations seems now to be reach
ing its height, public interest in this
never been so expectant or so wide
spread Among the more notable stage
versions Of recent novels which have
been announced to appear in New York
during the coming season are: when
Knighthood was in Flower" in which
Julia Marlowe is to play the part Of
Mary Tudor; Zangwill's Children of
the Ghetto with Blanche Bates as
Hannah and Wilton Lackaye as Reb
Shemuel, the father of Hannah: BE
side the Bonnie Brier Bush with j.
H. Stoddart as Lachlan Campbell and
Reuben Fax as "Posty''; THE Gadfly,"
in which Stuart Robson will imperson-
ate the hero: Conan Doyle's Sherlock
Holmes" which has been adapted by
William Gillette, who will also create
the character of the great detective on
the stage; Ben Hur," which is being
dramatized by William Young, and
which will be one of the great spectac-
ular shows of the season; and the new
play that Clyde Fitch is dramatizing
from Daudets "Sappho" for Olga Meth
ersole. Thackeray and Dickens will
be both represented on the New York
stage early in the season through the
dramatizations respectively of Vanity
Fair and "A Tale of Two Cities" The
latter version is called 1.-THE Only
Way" and has been very successful in
London; in this country Edward Nor
gan and Henry Miller will take promi-
nent parts in the play when it appears
at the Herald Square. Beside the
Bonnie Brier Bush" Is the only other
play among the foregoing dramatiza-
tions that has already been out on trial,
and its immediate and unbroken sue
cess last spring presages a warm well
come for 1t in the metropolis. OF all
this batch of most interesting titles. the
one, of course, that piques interest at
the highest point, and to which we look
forward with most eagerness, is Mrs.
Fiske's Becky Sharp"