The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-18
ON THE FOREIGN STAGE.
MATERIhLIs1Io HBL0DBAMAS BEoTN
THE LONDON SEASON.

| The London theatrical season always Yields,
| az one of its early products. . materialstio
| melodrama at the Drury Lane 1t 10 sure to
| contain one fresh episode OF exoitemen no
| matter how stale the rest OF the material may
| be- Last year It was the balloon ascension In
The Great Ruby" This year It 10 an Alpine
| avalanche In Hearts are Trumps." Some Of
| the characters 20 on a tour OF Switzerland.
| They scale n glacier. Tho mass OF Ice begins
| to fall The hero 10 the last In the line OF
| ohm bers. who are fastened 10 a safety rope.
He is suspended over the chasm. His weight
10 about to pull all his Dom panions. including
| his sweetheart after him inte tho abyss. To
save them. he cuts the rope and saves them at
what seems to be tho sacrifice Of his own life.
But no. too escapes death. Oeoil Raleigh IL
the author. He 10 . praoteed hand st that kind
OF thing. II was in this play that the late
Augustus DAILY contracted to place Ada Rehen
but after his death, having had her Ill Of sem
sational melodrama In The Great Ruby"
she withdrew from the cast The Swiss scene
has not ret proven It's popular value. 1t is less
novel in design. and seemingly less susceptible
OF thrilling treatment than the balloon Incl
dent was. or the divers descent and desp-ssa
duel in The White Heather" Each Of these
Drury Lane roussrs contains. also. an am
bilious representation of some London place
or occasion. This time II 10 . picture exhibi-
ton at the Royal Academy. whore q woman In
| diRnantly destroys q nude portrait Of her
| daughter. No doubt Hearts Are Trumps"
will be imported 10 America. The other noted
| homo OF strenuous melodrama. the Adslpht,
has new piece called with Flying Colors." In
| which the villain murders q naval officer In
| order to impersonats him In certain affairs OF
| love and money. Tho hero suffers many hard
| ships. including imprisonment. One OF the
tricks played on him is Ingenious He is In
| duoed to cheat at cards In order to cure
| young friend OF gambling. There 10 to be an
explana alton afterward and return OF the
money But the we'll m anfng hero IL instead
denounced and disgracsd as . blaekleE
gambler.
The same London which rejected Clyde
Fitchs "The Cowboy and the Lady."as offered
by N. O. Goodwin and Maxine Elliott. has 40
| oepted George q. Broadhurst's Tho Last
| Chapter" as sweet. tender and sympathetic
to quote from The Tymes-thouRh here In
New York 1t was = fat failure. Mr.. Goodwin
| retrieved himself over thore whh Mrs Ryley's
| An American Citizen" at Mr.. Frohman's tho
atre. and his success has led him into some
thing like business tanGle. Although he VIVA
| under contract to appear here At the Knicker-
booker. and follow that with tour. he signed
an agreement TO stay in London. at the Com
edy. until the end OF the year Then he tele-
Eraphed to bs released from the American en-
gagements His request has been promptly
refused.
Mrs. James Brown Potter 10 10 appear In .
dram alto version Of Ouida's novel THE Masser-
enes" which has been considered one OF her
best works and has escaped the attention Of
the adaptors longer than IL deserved sr
Arthur Sullivan and Basil Hood have decided
not to lay the scene OF their new comic opera In
the South sea Islands but IN Persia Oapt.
Marshall's next play Is to be sattrical comedy
with its scenes laid in an mag nary European
country. Mrs. Patrick Campbell is to appear In
q new play by TurReniefi the Russian drama
tlst. Owen Hall author OF The Qaiety Girl"
has written anew operetta TO be callsd Flora
Dora" and Leslie Stuart. hitherto known as Q
popular composer Of comic songs has written
his first operate score for this work Jane
Nay. sister OF Edward May 10 TO make her
first London appearance In IL.
Agnes Sorma explained to a Paris inter
viewer that she was not German but q Pole.
This has been answered with some warmth In
Germany with the charge that she was born In
Breslau and comes OF = Bohemian family. Her
family name was Pallaozek and her mother
has for many years been the keeper of q
woman's prison in Breslau. One OF Frau
Sorma's two sisters. both Of whom are on the
stage, appears under her own nam as q chorus
| singer in 4 Berlin theatre. Tho recent effort
OF the German Stage Union to compel
managers to supply all historical costumes
| to the actresses who desired them. was
| defeated through the opposition OF the pri-
| vate theatres. The discussion brought out the
| fact that in many German theatres the sub
| ordinate actresses receive only $32 Q month
and must furnish all their wardrobe. Sarah
| Bernhard will act Hamlet In Vienna during
October. and on the following evening Adele
sandrock will try the same character. josef
| Kainz has already joined the company at the
Hofburg Theatre and will probably remain
there the rest of his life. Tho Second Mrs.
Tanuueray" which has already been played
there in English and Italian by MIRA Patrick
Campbell and Eenora Duse. and &c Tho Adven-
lures OF Lady Ursula" are English plays re-
GENTLY acted in German In Berlin.
Eduardo Scarpetta, the best known low
comedian Of Italy. is soon to mako a tour
through tho European cities In the hope tina,
| he may enjoy some OF the success which has
come to his more serious colleagues. he
made his reputation In the Neapoltan FARGO,
and generally plays n the dialect Of that CITY.
he shssrs are 6er s'0 f R2S Ss9o
which Searpetta acts. Is a species of Harle-
auin Who appears to be very stupid hSt always
career Tith the mi.Esfen Iaes that e was "ss
d
altogether to Neapolitan farces. but has ap-
peared in the lighter French works which he
translates for his own use. He has made
italian versions Of most OF Labiohes plays
Hugo De Amiois, son Of the poet. Is the
author ot "a, pISSy recently acted II Turin, Il
mother compols all her daughters to marry al
the first opportunity. One OF these is the mis-
tress OF her younger sster's fance who Ia
unable to make UP his mind which OF the two
no prefers; Finally he decide. 70 let matters
remain as they are by marrying the woman to
| whom he 10 engaged and continuing his rela-
tons with the other, The critics found very
little Of the family ia lent IN this effort. After
Eleanora Dusc had tried in Rome and Florence
to make a success OF The Lton.ss and failed
II was given without her assistance in Rome.
Tho critics agreed that !ts author ought to be
sent to a mad house. Thus has the dramatic
season begun In Italy,
Emilio Mario who has long been one OF the
leading actors In Spain died recently In Ma
drid, His real name vas Mario Lopez chaveS
and he was born In Granada sixty -one years
ago. He studied music and declamation at
the Conservatore In Madrid under Jose Luna
the most famous French actor OF his day. He
made his debut at tho age OF IL and advan osd
rapidly. although 1t was not until after his re-
sition among the first actors OF his country
In 1875 he founded the Comedy Theatre in