New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22

group ana the members are In danger Of habit
uatlng themselves to unannerisms.
MI. w. Rothenstein. who ordered the club
lashion Of painting uninteresting women in
green frocks standing or lying on lounges in
poorly furnished rooms has had uanv imitators
anu MS influence is seen in many canvases in
ms eAhlpltlon He has variant of his own
theme in picture with the fanciful title of "A
fIower. Fruit and Thorn Piece and introduces
the same method of hard realism in his portrait
OF Herr and Frau Won X" Nj. Albert D.
hothenstein carries out the same idea with ag-
gressiVe power in the wan starved sewing
woman OF the Song of the Shirt" with the
single exception that the room, while the tene-
ii'eHI " misery, is spotlesy clean, and does not
correspond with the requirements of Hoods
pathetic lyric Mr.. Henry Tonks breaks away
from the conventions of the Art Club in his
Return from the Ball" in which two girls in
thelr hlghtdresses are listening with rapt faces
10 their mothers post-midnight impressions Of
social gayety she sits GREATNESS and ex-
hausted after the revel, and displays the spleI
dors of yellow and white fnery; and also in g.
portrait group of the three daughters of Mr..
Eogar Bishop, with faces alike yet differentiated
IN character and temperament, and with
Flronment of roses in a we'll ordered room Mr..
W. w. Russell also asserts his independence in
portrait of Mr.. Charles H. Moore in which
the bric-a-brac is so carefully and ostentatously
painted as to be fairly Academic; and Mr.. Orpen
is law unto himself in his vigorous albeit re-
pulsive, studies OF the nude, his admirable por-
trait Of himself. and The Chess Players" in
which a simple and effective scheme is thrown
out Of balance by awkwardly placed by
stander watching the game. Mr.. w. Strang
has three well drawn faces of amateurs admir-
Ing small statuette: Mr.. W. G.. Won Glenn two
ambitious pictures in THE jewel and Mother
hood; and Mr.. A. E. John two works of great
promise in the portrait OF Signorina Estelle
Dolores Cerutti and the realistic "Merikli,"
flower seller. with a we'll modelled face and eyes
sparkling with life. The exhibition the
whole is a Disappointing one. and enforces the
general conclusion that the men, while
making full use Of their powers of observation,
are laying undue stress upon their own point
of view.
The farce of the oldtme English household
tains its vitality for stage purposes. At the
Royalty Theatre all the familiar figures of the
servants hall to be seen in "Lyre and
Lancet" the joint work OF Mr.. Anstey and Mr..
Kinsey Peile. The pompous, plethoric butler, the
prim housekeeper, the stammering French chef,
the giddy, coquettish ladys maid. the frowsy
scullery maid. the bustling stableman and all
the other stock characters Of the servants quar-
ter of English country house reappear with
hairs over the niceties Of downstairs etiquette,
and romp together in the horseplay of noisy
dance. Above stairs there has been case of
mistaken identity. veterinary surgeon, who
has been sent for TO examine a horse, is taken
for a gushing young poet, who is TO be lionized
by sentimental heiresses and intellectual ma
irons and the mistake is rendered plausible, at
least for ten or fifteen minutes, by the coinct-
dence that his prize winning bulldog is named
Andromeda-the title Of the poets work The
vet accordingly has the best guest chamber,
dresses himself in the poets evening clothes
and dimes IN state at Wyvern Court, whereas
the literary aspirant is entertained in servants
hall, is kicked by the horse in the stable. is sus
pected of being a burglar and is caught in
"booby trap of -four and ink. All these trans
actions require two acts, and are classified in
the playful as comedy; and with Mr.. George Gid
dens and an energetic company to exaggerate
strained and thoughtess merriment. Tyre and
Lancet is inferior TO The Man from Blank
ley's," and meets the requirements OF Saints
bury's definition OF farce. dealing with an
actual or possible incident of ordinary life, to
which comic complexion is given by the treat
ment." Mr.. Barrie's genius has converted an
equally conventional servants hall into realm
Of topsyturvydom in his delightful fantasy, The
Admirable Crichton." L y. F.
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