New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-18

pass the exhibition season there. Mrs William
G. Tiffany has resumed her Sunday receptions
Nice and Cannes unusually quiet On
Wednesday Mr. William X. Vanderbilt gave n
luncheon board his yacht, the Valiant at
Nice, to the Grand Duke Michael of Russia and
his wife, Countess Torby. Among the other
guests were Mrs. winslow and Nine Amen
koff. The Valiant with the party on board then
sailed TO Monte Carlo. On Thursday the Grand
Duke Michael and Countess Torby gave lunch
con to Mr.. w. X. Vanderbilt. Mr.. and Mrs w.
ough and Mrs. Winslow
Admirers of the late Rosa Bonheur will be
glad TO learn that model of a monument in
memory OF the great animal painter has lust
been completed by the sculptor Isidor Bonheur
and by her nephew. Henri Peyrol 1t will be
cast in bronze and measure four metres in
height. 1t will consist OF d superb bronze bull
modelled by Rosa Bonheur herself when she
painted her well known picture OF Bulls in the
Auvergne Mountains" The pedestal will be in
stone. bearing on it's faces in bronze relief re-
productions Of her pictures OF The Horse Fair
and The King of the Forest" At one end Of
the pedestal will be large bronze medallion
profile OF the artist, and on che other end a
suitable inscription.
La Normandie are NJ Henri de Regner, the
French symbolst poet. and his wife who is a
daughter Of NJ. Heredia, the author of Les
Trophies de Regnier." AS The Tribunes read
ers are already aware. he goes to deliver the
Hyde lectures at Harvard, as was done by MN.
Brunetiere, Rene Doumic and Edouard Rod In
replying to inquiries, NJ De Regnier said he
would give about fifty lectures contemporary
poetry. from the romantic to the symbolic
school II shall try he said Ito convey vivid
pictures of Victor Hugo, Leconte de Lise, Yer
laine Mallarme and Heredia, not forgetting the
youthful newcomers, whose names are as vet
familiar only in the somewhat circumscribed
literary circles of Paris. 1 shall begin at Har-
ward, and afterward visit Philadelphia, New
York, Chicago. San Francisco and New Orleans.
contemporary literature"
In replying to the question Are you likely to
come back with notes for book on American"
he said
NO. indeed. I could never hope to penetrate
the American soul in three months. 1 may bring
home some fugitive thoughts for a few news
paper or magazine articles about the United
States. but that is ALL
Among other passengers on La Normandie is
NJ. Albert Lynch. the Partisan portrait painter
who goes to fulfil some orders in New-York and
Boston
The Theatre des Nouveautes, hitherto associat-
ed with brilliant series Of broad and uproarious
farces, such as Feydeau's Dame de Chez
Maxim" and Hotel Libre Exchange and Alex
andre Bisson's "Controleur des Wagons Lifts"
has taken a successful fight into the realms or
genuine comedy. Les Maris de Leontine." by
Alfred Capus, brought out Wednesday, is one
Of the witttest and most delicious bits of satire
on French bourgeois morals that has been pro-
duced since Les Surprises du Divorce" The
story begins with a divorce and ends with two
marriages. 1t is the triumph the Austerlitz,
IL were of type of overimpressionable but
fascinating young Partisan woman, who fol-
lows her impulses in absolute disregard of con-
sequences and jumps through all preconceived
notions Of decorum circus rider springs
through paper hoops. The play abounds in
bons mots. The action is swift and replete with
droIl surprises and is devised With a mechan-
ism that runs to the end of the third act with
the precision of clockwork, each incident follow
ing naturally in logical sequence, neatly and
cleaniy cut in comedy of Moiere.
Alfred Capus is a clever writer on the staff Of
Figaro" HIS "Rosine" produced some time
ago at the Gymnase, was only partial success.
but LES Maris de LAontine" would have de-
lighted the late Francisque Sarcey for II is
faultess in construction and its dialogue has
the of true Gallo wit and sarcasm. Ger
man is excellent in the role Of the divorced hus-
band who. by unexpected combination OF cir
cumstances, becomes the very police commissary
called in unwittingly by his divorced wife's sec
ond husband. Mile. Cassive is comely actress
whose success Mime. Crevette in La Dame de
Chez Maxim seems to have spoiled her for
genuine comedy. She mars the part of Leontine
With concert hall yugarity and overcharged
caricature, but the audience half pardons her,
owing to the grace with which she wears a
charming gown III the new and fashionable
color known pastel blue.
Urban Gohiers play LIE Resort" was oh
jected to for political reasons by the Govern
ment censors. who. however allowed 1t a pri-
vate representation. which took place at the
Nouveau Theatre The play is gloomy evida entity
used by the author vehicle for his sociaIis-
tic theories but it contains dramatic scenes
which professional play writer might make
effective. The hero is young revolutionist
whose followers spur him on to street fighting
against the Government. He is in love with a
woman who at last gives him up in order to 60
back to her husband. The resort" or main
spring, OF his revolutionary ardor being thus
broken he finds death at the barbados. While
awaiting the time to strike blow for social
liberty, the hero's adherents are assembled in n
cellar. where each recapituates his grievances
against society. One has lost sons in a colonial
expedition organized by fnancers: another
paints picture of alleged abuses in the ranks
of the army. Each chapter in the text book of
Partisan socialism is in turn set forth In vivid
coors. GLIB
THE PLAGUE ~ MANILA.