Evening star., 1901-12-20

crate and fll-bred men and women were to
Keep up a continuous performance clatter
during the progress of the show. Such a
party would unquestionably be sat down
upon with very little ceremony in Washing
ton. But the sheep-like New Workers, ha-
bituated to imposition of all sorts, endure
this Kind of thing year in and year out,
with rarely even so small a manifestation
OF dlsapproval as a mild hiss. These un-
derbred occupants Of boxes, 1t is always
de!lshtful to observe, never make any
noise When attending a performance of
Richard Mansfield. They know better. for
on Two occasions that nervous and testy
performer has deliberately halted the show
and walked over to giggling and chatterng
pox-hoaders and said a few things to them
that have caused their ears to tingle. to
the enthusiastic and almost uproarious joy
OF the audience
RELATION Of Long Hair to Music.
New York has another musician with hair
to idolize. This Kubelik lad from Bohemia
is undoubtedly a remarkable violinist, but
If he were snub-nosed and freckled, and the
possessor of a straggly growth of close
clipped carrot hair, it Is questionable
whether he would evoke the tremendous
enthusiasm that has been his portion since
his first New York appearance. But he
looks like the young Goethe, or, better, Mo-
zart in his prime, and he has a fine hir-
suite mop on top Of his head cut and ar
ranged after the Rubinstein pattern and
thus equipped, he has had no trouble what
ever IN captivating New York on his very
first try. The influence of hair in its rela-
uon to musical success would be fine
topic Tor some G. Bernard Shaw His hair
was at least 15-per-cent factor in making
Paderewski colossal success as a public
piano Virtuoso, and even the mighty Ysaye
owed not little Of his worldwide popu-
larlty OF few years ago to his carefully
neglected. name. Who can say, in fact that
the interesting moujik-style hair. of Liszt
himself did not enter largely into the grin
which he maintained upon the musical
world throughout his long career? Nobly
as young kubelik performs on his instru-
ment, 1t is about ten to one that If some
predatory individual, looking for stuffine
for sofa pillow. were to shear the Rohe,
mian boy's locks some night while he slept
the violinist would suffer a diminution of
popular appreciation that would make his
managers heart ache
For couple of weeks past there has hean
on exhibition In Maiden Lane gem deal
ers window beautiful and STRANGELY fas-
clnatlng stone. Crowds stand in front of
the window all day long, gazing at the gem
with half-entranced air, and the ewes Of
the women who look upon it become almost
as bright as the Jewel itself. This gem is
Lne nope diamond. 1t is a marvelously
brilliant diamond, with the fire of the sun.
lit morning sea and with glacier-like CLEANS
Of blue shooting from every facet. Some
thing or evil seems to attach to the stone
saSl IL IT'S sang ulHdry history had In some
way become entangled with it's flares of
light. The diamond does not of course
date back to the days OF the Roman en-
pire; as one of its interested historians
crudely maintains, for the art of diamond
cutting was unknown in the days of the
Roman empire; but it dates back far
enough to have set Indian principalities and
provinces in many ablaze and to have been
the means OF causing many an itching
palm to itch no more. Throats have been
cut on account Of it, and for centuries it
was the illuminate center and incentive of
dark deeds. 1t has adorned the brows of
dusky prtncesses and 1t has been hid away
In the rags of outcast thieves. It has re-
posed in shadowy Buddhist and Parsee
temples. and it has been buried inglorious,y
ding its beautiful ba,eful lign. upon so
many scenes of knavery and violence and
bloodshed, here it is blinking on a cushion
in dingy window OF dingier street in
New York at the outset of the twentieth
century, the property Of a jeweler whose
one superstition with reference to the gem
is that he will not be able to get for it the
price he asks. An imperishabie, indestructi-
BILE piece of radiant devfltry is the Hope
diamond, and its havoc has never seeming
ly ceased since the hour it was taken, a
poor-looking piece of blue dirt, from the
bowels of the earth. It stands little chance
of drifting into the possession Of so off,
hand. grandiose customer as Robert Louis
Stevensons Prince Florizel, who, it Will be
recalled, tossed q gem with a similarly evil
history into the Thames with as little COM
junction as II the diamond had been an
out-burned cigarette stub. c. L. C.
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