The Portland daily press., 1901-01-22
1--we and redemption rather than Mig
gardIin6 IS, hypocrisy and hell fire.

1--we and redemption rather than mig
gardiin6 IS, hypocrisy and hell fire.
THE BURTON HOLMES COURSE.
Secure your tickets now, If you have
not already done 90 for the Burton
Holmes course OF illustrated lectures
which opens in City hall next Thursday
evening, 1t win be one OF the fines
courses of illustrated lectures ever given
In this city, while the still and moving
pictures will be the best that 1t Is possible
to produce. The opening lecture win be
1.-The edge Of China" and a rare treat is
in store for all who attend. The sale Of
evening tickets opens this morning at
Cressey, Jones g. ALIENS.
NOTES
The custom OF actors appearing befor
the curtain at tte close OF q scene In re-
sponse to the plaudits OF the public, ha
long been abolished from the Berlin stage
on first nights and, according to letter
in London newspaper, the manager OF
the Classical Court Theatre at Weimar
has now undertaken to stop 1t on all
other nights. In proclamation 10 the
public he refers to it as "inartistie aud
obsoIsta,n and announces that In agree
ment with all members of the hjstrionic
staff, he has ordained that from January
/, 1901, no call on the part OF the rublic,
however urgent, for an actor, shall be re-
sponded to. An exception Will he made
TO this rule in the case OF foreign actors
| who may wish for the Observance Of the
| old custom.
Sienora Duse is credited with the fol-
| lowing utterancez In q reported interview
with an Italian journalist: 80 save the
theatre the theatre must be destroyed,
and Its actors and actresses must die OF
the plagus. They poison art and make II
i'm possihls We should return 10 the
Greeks and play In the opsn air. Boxes,
stalls, evening dress, and lsts dinners XII
| the drama. Since Shakespeare and the
Greeks thsre have been no dram atists.
| Ibssng Ibssn Ia like q room with all It's
furniture. What do l care for chairs aud
tablesy / want Rome, Athens, tins
| Coliseum, the Aoropolis want beauty
and fire. adore Masterlinck, but he only
| gives me shafows, children, mists, and
| spirits2. So am condemend to play SAr'
dou and Pineroi Some day, however. q
woman Will come-a young, beautiful
woman, all fire and fame-and will de
what 1 once dreamed to do, but failed.
am too tired now, ANA cannot begin my
| life again.
MIR. RudyaId kipling is using his holi
day In South Africa in writing his hrsi
play says the London Daily Mail.
! ''I1e DECENTRALIZATION ot ub AHu1 tnn'
Failed Is the work OF George Fleming,
but the author is himself working ON q
stage version OF his famous 'Jungl
HOOK which he is under contract to com
plese for Mr.. ii. IL. Hay-Cameron b.
April next 1t is understood that this
piece is intended for Christmas produc
ton. Mr.. Cameron. it is said. was th'
first man to suggest the dramatization o.
"Alice In Wonderland. which proved Il
be a most proftagble speculation
That Sembrich's musical equipment Il
not confinsd to vocal art alons is wei
enough kknown. "More than onoe,
writes August Sranuth In the Phiiadsl
phia Musician. "shs has accomplished th'
marv ellous feat of playing violin CON
certo and piano concerto, aud alEo sing
ing an aria at tue same evening. OF lat
sne has given up violin uractice, and sh
begins TO complain that she has not evei
time to praotlss the plano. However,
when last winter at her apaItments q
the savoy Hotel, In New YORK, SOM
friends began t1 discuss Paehmann
Chopin interpret itlons, she took hand
In the argument, and finally sat down a.
the piano and played the G-sharp mtno
study and the A-fiag major Ballads In
fashion that would have delighted eyei
her country-man. the great composer him
self %