The record-union., 1899-07-23

turn your pack on peOple you cic PdSs-
ing going in and out Of your seat, and
do not trample on their toes. Evident
ly seats are built differently abroad,
for people would not thank you to go
out facing them in London. A rule
that has more application here is that
which forbids one to interrupt the per-
formance by loud private conversation,
and in lesser degree that which en-
joins the spectator not to laugh or cry
with too much ostentation. Sucking
sugar plums is another vile habit which
comes under M. Sarcey's ban, but, hap
PLY, it is not a crime that is preva-
lent in many parts of London house.
A regulation which is more applicable
to concerts than to theatrical perform
ances is that you should not rustic your
program or book of the words, nor beat
time to the music with your tlead or
foot. Lastly, when the theater is
emptying, people should not block up
the entrance to stare at the women, or
to talk ostentationsly to their footmen.
apply to foreigners, but three or four
of them should be printed on every the
atrical program in large letters.
The Milan Secolo: A company Of
wandering comedians have been oct
ing at PrZemysl a play entitled Cap
tain Dreyfus" The public followed
with such interest the action of the
drama that several of the spectators
waited for Henry and "Esterhazy
as they left the theater and cudgeled
the two miscreants. The two artists
who had sustained the parts of the
Uhlan and the forger were conducted
back to their lodgings in pitfable
state by the police. And now who will
give them compensation?
Eleanora Duse will reappear in
America next season in a company of
her own, perhaps in conjunction with
Signor Ermete Jacconi, who is said to
be as great an actor as she is an act
ress. She is now living in Venice.
Signora Duse is an omnivorous read
er and especially enjoys the works of
Gabriel d'Annunzio and Friedrich
Nietzsche, both of whom she knows
personally and admires intensely. She
does everything intensely.
"Duse is always an actress" said a
cause in 1894 and again in 1886 was
interested in her American tour.
never could tell whether she was really
in earnest or only acting. 1t was the
same on and off the stage. She had
passions, whims, emotions and odd fam
cies. One of them was her abhorrenca
of newspaper interviews. She was once
interviewed, but only once. 1t was IN
Paris and she never submitted again
to the ordeal.
One day a New York newspaper re-
porter got into the elevator with her in
my office building, and on his way up
stairs began to ask questions in Ital-
ian.
Are you a reporter she asked, as
suming Lady Macbeth pose.
"'I am answered the young man
humbly
"'A reporter! You want to interview
me?'
"T do
'A-a-a-a-h.'
This was said in that tone Of voice
which led the elevator boy to turn pale,
and in his intense excitement he stop
ped the car.
and she pointed her finger at the re-
porter as if it We're a loaded pistol
He fed as from plague-fed on the
run, and didn't stop until he reached
the street. When we got to my office
the Signora started in to .A-a-a-h
me, but 1 switched off on to business
and the incident ended. 1t was clev-
er piece of acting, though"
A French actress of good standing
is generally perfectly gowned on the
stage, and can portray the grande
dame to her finger tips. This is more
remarkable, as the stage here is rarely
if ever recruited, as it is in England
and America, from the we'll bred cul-
tured Glass; Off the stage the French
actress is conspicuous by her deport-
ment, her dressing, and, above all, BY
the art with which she makes up her
face. Yet, strangely enough, she Is
often taken by strangers for a repre-
sentative French woman. A group o1
English speaking visitors beside me
seemed to make this common mistake
in their discussion of three women neal
them.
ly, but too we'll, rather an amusing in
cident occurred recently. Two wei
known Spanish dancers in beautiful
lace gowns appeared on the scene with
their faces painted in a more pro-
nounced manner than that approved
by Parisians. The two dancers were
followed from booth to booth by silent
crowd, and they soon found 1t con-
venient to retreat. This shows thai
there is always, even in Paris, a stan.
dard that must not be disregarded.-
Paris Letter in New York Tribune.
A burlesque Is to be produced in New
York, entitled 1.-THE Girl in the Moon.
1t is an impression in theatrical cir
cles that Ada Rehan was Daly's part
ner in his enterprises, and has beer
for the last four years.
When George H. Broadhurst christ
ened his first. comedy What Happened
to JONES' it is probable that he did moi
anticipate the extent of the epidemic
he was starting. The latest is "Wha'
Did Tompkins Do?" and Harry Carson
Clarke has it for next season.
When Julia Marlowe plays Barbara
Frietche," she will not say shoot, i
you must. this old, gray head No, in
deed, Clyde Fitch does not believe tha
Barbara Frietche was an old woman
and his play makes her as young a:
Miss Marlowe can make her, and JUS
as pretty.
! Gustavo Salvini is said to have beer
so successful as an actor that hi.
father has finally approved of hi.
choice of career His style of actin.