The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-03-26

oNins Celenrated. aud where the Young
,uaueap IS appearing for the first time in
hnlchefnocNers. 10 one of the best In tic
pay, and was admirably acted hy the en-
tire company. Tho play was handsomely
ani eNtravaeantly staged The garden
scene was particularly finc
MISS Blair certainly docs as good work
IN the character OF Clornda Wildairs as
sne ever has done. AS the beautiful
naughty and imperial lady of quality she
Is cxcellently cast. and was enth,,s,ass
tlcally received, being several times ro.
called.
The Sir John oxon OF Mr.. William
Bramwell was a splendid portrayal In
deed, IL rivaed Miss Blalr's for the stellar
honors. Miss Lucia Moore was good
lady Tantillion, and Mir. Arnold gave a
very natural presentation OF what a SUI
perb old rake Sir Godfrey was.
Dorothy usner, who plays the role of
Julia in why Smith Left Home has a
passion for being photographed. Nor is
this the outcome of great personal vanity
1.-The pleasure of seeing ones counterfeit
presenlment staring ia picturesque pose
from shop windows, or looking at one
with Photographic complacency from every
possible point of vantage. Miss Usner
never ceasing trips TO the photographers
are missions fraught with meaning She
holds-she proves 1t, too--that every
photographer should illustrate an idea;
that woman can be photographed a
hundred times in the same costume and
not look the same In any two of the pie
lures. The writer saw fifty pictures of
her the other day, all different She was
everything from a rollickng Pierrot 10
boy SICK from smoking his first cigar:
a nfr tt,t., ftsf,.
spring TO q withered old bag dying from
consumption. II was a most interesting
collection, interesting because there was "A
fundamental idea behind each bit of paste
board. One photograph is unique mas
much as Miss Usner attempted to make
herself three different women at once.
She sought 10 embody in herself the COM
posite photograph of Mrs. Potter. Minnie
Madden Fiskc and Duse. The result Is
startling, The picture has Mrs, Potters
disordered arrangement of hair, Minnie
Madden Fiske's characteristic pose OF
elbowed arms, the chin resting on clasped
hands Duse's eyes. nose, half-open mouth
and general expression II is a wonder
fully clever idea conxiacingly executed
Last week. Dr.. William ]. oSullivan,
the expert on insanity Of Boston, is re-
ported to have said, Il suffered an evening
of Wagner. 1t was not the first time; 1t
served, however TO confirm an opinion
that has steadily built itself within me
that Wagner was unatic. Where other
mauacs howl and yell vocally. Wagner
roared and insanely shouted in his operas;
where they smash glass or pottery or
other hreakables, Wagner skaters har
monies. Plainly, Wagner was lunatic
of sounds"
A biograph film that has created some
thing of sensation among New York
photographers is a picture entitled New
York to Brooklyn" The camera was
placed oil Brooklyn bridge train and its
sl-seeing eye gathered everything on and
about the bridge from one side TO the
other The film is $50 feet in length the
longest ever made. Thirty-two pictures a
second we're taken, aggregating 5400 dis
tnct views. Tho train crossed the bridge
in three minutes. tho fastest time ever
made across the structure, the usual time
being six minutes.
~
During one of my trips through Eu-
rope" says Tim Murphy, Il found my
self in small village with no razors
They had been packed in my handbag
which / had left al the hotel where
stayed the day before. There was no
barber shop in the place and ] was in
ouandary as 10 how ! might get shaved.
The innkoeper told me that there was
a man in the village who occasionally
shaved people and ! determined TO RISK
a CIT or two and send for him, The anna
four barber arrived with his rhzol, ana
after little hesitation he said TO me-
"'Will you please, sir lie down HAT on
your back while / shave you, sir?'
Ia -Ha 1.u 9.
tom, of the country. stretched out COM
fortably on my back and asarly went 10
sleep while tho fcllow shaved me, so iight
was his touch When he had finished
arose and said,
80 am curious to know why you asked
mo TO lie down to be shaved
Because, sir was his ingenious reply,
Il never before shaved a live man.
II may add that ! sent for no more
amateur BARRIERS to shave me during my
trip