The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21

only Producs. portrait oSst;, he .syS; And
Ing more than this, nc answers that It 10 not
mere portrait busts that he evolves from the
,%qssIshhsSI Of The e created nc. thss. lies some:
are striking lkenesses. but in their innermost
conception the busts represent honorable
sfaIi. . Ssad ~: : :Isc:.lS S s::f' h. ,p SSusils 900 e
himself as he see. the eood-natured moneyed
EPssop,e p U,o him a., gold %d, and ps stlsI; t for
u Ssi lsilsa t 70 ID tsG m '.ss o. G Ms i SsisI III al ss ss.s
IN TIE home snvironments: an atmospnete SO
effect already during the previoys night when
the train crossed the frontier. While there was
% sssrS II,,I any y,s ,tss,c' y yo S ,ns s s,sprs ssio 5a, aa az
no one entered the cars, still the train waited
un eternity. and on the, platform uniformed
tones s%e.oy sapp TSI.si W Without color a%' the words
ringing meanlessly out. on the night air.
9pbek and his wife show themselves as
individuals to whom ior the moment every.
distance Is gradually widening; He feels des.
and he IS forced to make stnfY for ths general
public because the lame Inspiration has xone
out. She IL disappointed in her wopanly en-.
G ioSs' H. aiS GeG no. keep sp0 his Is p @oulise T pariSs
the period Of. attraction he had promised to
lead her up o high mountain. she SAYS. to show
But nothing cams Of il. For the spiendor
which he promised was the effulgence OF love.
and that he could not give her. even though he
t DSsre e" Of s s1tsr. o," b sE ian up Ss he h Si!nS
SAYS, words did not mean anything TO him
merely a form OF speech. Deeper down It
will. whenever desire and love encom pass him.
promise the worlds possessions to the woman
who draws him on; And many q woman sees
we days intoxicssion has spent itseli,
t~iredNdead to each other~we now fnd, them
here, For them life no longer exists: Lie has
But as yet they may be able to throw. aside the
shroud and awaken 70 a resuyrectton's day.
In various guises lie still beokons them.
Arnold Rubek sees. as in a haze, 9 mystiiying.
indefnnble picture OF q woman. m" fantastic.
which Ibsen In his peculiar mood OF challenge
stu insists on employing in ever'day existence e noe
despair. which the Travelling Lady" among
the characters In the play. person ,fies. she
white. followed cosely by the deaconess in her
garb OF black, Her features are OF the palest
hue, her eyelids lowered the eyes them selves
The hear artist meets his former model. tSis woman
who loved him and would have sacrificed her
self for him. But she was TO him. as she, now
repeats il. an episode In his life. IA he had for
merIy Expressed it an episode, until now once
more they are thrown together.
The conversation which here takes place be-
tween the artist and she who is called Irene IL
Even though germs OF insanity seem 70 Turk 10
her eyes aud speech; even while she has muir
der in her heart, and carries the dagger a'd n
making Of Irene a character grandly sublime
That which now max es clear to both how each
has misunderstood the other ia drawn fearless.
" and strongly from start TO finish. The
iliariy in The Masterbuilder," death ends I,
him what has bappened to her since last they
were together she became q variety performer
she favored such as bought her dearly, ,thes'
whom she rewarded ,i@ IT in SsadSd or ana uss sbs
has q name with a foreign. Slavic sound. She
Is mystiiyiug and mystifed. but she recollect'
eySrythins from ,ha the nays b 9i 6 tse,f aT s".
inquiries about The Day, o. ,Resurrsgtion,
the statue, which she GALS their enid, am ~,
| blood-rich woman. has been imprisoned In
death chamber with walls, upholstered anC
har4 before the only window OF the L,nte
fashion, does II say outright that Irene is in
sane. But the terociy in her speech. the drea'
from, which she suffers the tra'ght.jacS
the silent deaconess who guards over her an.
follows her step by step, and whom Irene, !
turns follows lke one oerelt ot Mli y tbon Uni
the insane mind was described direct. IL |
seldom that in poetry insane talk become
effective. because mans erratlc speech Is un
interesting. But here we have a young an
still heautitu! woman VINO STANDS as an Illus
tration o%fiile's broken rose stems she AWAKEN
pity and arouses attention. And then tn
words themselves, are 80 beautiful,
Then the remarkable. that TINS woman : ac
c~usation and complaint, contains no moral; n
moral whatever, Tor when reason the eh,ir
actly this It Is which removes. "When, We Dea'
Awaken from the c9mmonplace. hau lteh
come ike some goddess OF revenge ana nc
cused kuhek with having WORKED nor r9lh al
has here occurred, ms Is why she Ieets ~
or sorrow; thar she stqol oeiore nun ir "
ulness ot her, splennlu huulty TOT nun !
gaze upon, ,or me turtherancs OF nun sen ~
MS art-ahu that ne dIu h't ieco''o 'ho oho'
Irene-But the dearest OF all the gifts you ha'
forgotten
Prof Rubek-Whatg grit was thatI A.
Irene gave YOU ny young, ivnR soul; Az AZ,
men steoh mere rev = "nT ~. Nv raj I AZ
soul lStsres AZ MIN s'erns'' I'M VA II" Wv
oil. Arnold
With this the first act comes 70 q close D,
Ia between comes the RESURRECTION OF Nal
and the resurrection o. the nesh. she mas me
the mighty hunter. Cliheim, whose name aloi
sounds sufficently brutal. and VINO reITeseh,
tho tough and healthy elementin NE UIthen
would rather NUM- the prpwu oeal' " say
but ne also incluurs ani9hk W TbPs ia
and eagle, woman ana Ielnueer. Iuis iuu
viuual VINO mas Ior corlIaueS III roxe'Neena .
fresh KILLED meat, arouses It'e rrle Maja
a sense OF life ana loyfuIness. Sne declares
Rubek that she il going To the mountain s Wi
Tlfheim on a bear hunt. lust a. Rubek HI
promised Irene that he. will take her 70 u
towering regions above the SKY. the Esirs a