New-York tribune., 1900-04-22

Esrf Of Hopetown. as Lord Chamberlain. -.
.,eived so many protests that he called uno,
Mr. Bedford. the examiner Of plays 10 Justify
his conduct in sanctioning the production The
agitators do not appear TO have considered their
own inconsistency by allowing plays like The
Decenerates'' and The Gay Lord Quex" TO ns
without a protest. and in concentrating their
reformatory agencies upon the auburn haired
Zaza Mr.. Re6ford is a pains4aking censor
whose conduct in passing plays is regulated bv
set principles and he would have stultiied him
self i he had rejected ''Zaza'' after sanctionng
twenty plays which could be named. Lord
Hopetown being new TO the business of Lord
Chamberlain. the Office has required a second
reading of the play. and the agitators at present
are good business agents in the interests OF the
box office. The English stage needs purificati ton
but sudden spasms Of virtue after a long period
Of insensibiIity 10 the evil tendencies Of the
drama are ineffective.
Charles Wyndhams production of "Cyrano"
mas 6isap ppointed the critics and the public His
own acting is below his usual form and the
performance as a whole is inferior in every re-
spect TO Coquelin's mastery work at the Lyceum
Theatre with his French company Edna May
opens her season On Monday in An American
Beauty" and there viii be a rapid succession Of
new pieces during the next fortnight.
with q fashionable throng al the private view
Of the spring exhibition. The chief attraction
is AIr SarEent's portrait Of the child Of the
Hon. Victoria Stanley in a white frock and red
sacQue and hat Il is a perfect child portrait
naturally posed and painted with strong strokes
in the b-ushwork There is a sense of arrested
movement and childish waywardness. Mr. Sar-
gen; also has a strong portrait OF General Ian
Hamilton There are two portraits by Mr.. Shan
non. but both women are overdressed and the
arricauv posed. Mr Watts has a study of nlists
on Loeb Ness. under blue sky. and two por-
traits, one sad visaged one Of Sir Wilfrid Blunt
ana The other Of Miss Lima Duff Gordon in
grange draperes. John Collier has a good
picture entitled Proposal with a lady in
pink looking at a screen and listening without
emotion 10 an eager lovers pleading. The best
landscapes are Alfred East's 'Lago Maggiore''
rich IN color and beauty. and Mr.. Peppercorn's
sornhre study OF evening light on a prosaic
pasture Alfred Parsons and Mr Henry have
Characteristic works. and Mr.. Boughton a dainty
pair Of literary pictures. There are several
feeble tributes 10 the memory of Burne-JOnes in
form Of miscaIculated pre- -Raphaelitism. such
as Spencer StanhoDe's Expulsion from Eden
and Mrs De Morgan-s Spear Of Ithuriel" Mr.
BrangVyn has q, mosaic OF color entitled Char
i-y~ sir James Linton tells q story from the
'Decsneron-~ and Walter Crane exhibits an
angel of peace with an olive branch under the
suggestive title Of The Stranger" The most
promising works are three pictures by Edward
srort. one is an orchard scene lighted UP by
The brillianCe Of q scarlet apron worn by an
apple gatherer: another is The Widows Acre
with 1ne effects Of gathering darkness, and the
third is a sundown with vista Of tranquil
pasture
The Guildhau show is drawing great crowds
Of visitors including the advance guard Of
American tourists. Next years show win con-
sist Of foreign works. especially those Of For
tuny and Velasquez.
Justices Barrett and O'Brien have been see
ing the sights Of London for the last few days
The Rev. T De Witt Talmage has gone TO Man
chester. where he viii preach tomorrow. Bishop
and Mrs HartzeIl sailed to-day on the ST. Louis
tor New York TO attend the missionary coun-
cll after four years Of Methodist mission work
in South Africa. Mr.. Henry White goes over
on the same ship for private business Mr.
Frank DOdd sails by the Lucania after couvfnc-
ing himself that the hook trade in London is
ceptonaIly dull He has secured for Dodd,
Mead & Co strong work by Spencer WIkin-
son. the military expert who has doubled the
circulation OF The Morning Post" It is en-
titled War and Policy" and includes a critical
review Of the American civil conflict. Of which
tle auLnCr mas made a special study MT PEAR
scr who has followed Mr.. Harinsvorth closely
since the DAYS when they clerks in the
employ Of Sir George Newnes. viii bring out a
half-penny paper next week. which will be an
essential imitation Of The Dl4ly Mail" Mr.
Pearson has made a fortune already in minor
periodicals, and when his Daily Express be-
comes a power in politics he will be ready to
follow M Harmsworth into Parliament
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