The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-09

and frail an actress. Anyway. II Miss
Adams does return to the stage. prob
ably it may not know her long. She
seems to have beaten out her heart on
it. and having forced herself against her
strength. she may not be able to live III
its exciting atmosphere. The stage has
killed many of its devotees and it may
claim the life of Lady Babbie.
E.lenora Duse has returned to America
after seven years absence with finer.
broader art than before. and her health
seemingly in its former precarious state.
She began her season at the Victoria
Theatre on Tuesday night before a
crowded auditorium, for the great lta-
ian is held in extraordinary favor by
refined intelligent class of New Workers
who seldom attend the play in its usual
course Of foolish entertainment. Yet
Buses performances are not food for IN
fants She insists this year that we
cannot have her unless we accept DAN
nunzio. Her repertory Is brief. consist
ing only OF this decadent genius Two
drama-.La &Gioconda'. and La C1tta
Morta.' Happily few folk understand
the Italian language, and in this ignor-
ance among her admirers Duse puts
forth matters in La Citta Morta" that
would terrify US If they were told IN
English. Enough is known. however.
from the carefully worded books Of the
ay to tensify the wave of unrighteous
wrath which at present is sweeping over
the metropolis on account of the I'M
common prosperity of immoral dramas.
OF these wicked pieces we have four
in the vernacular.4 and each OF them IS
packing the house. After strenuous et-
forts to dispose of other attractions al
ready booked at that house the engage
ment of Two Schools has been extend
ed in the Madison Square. No seats are
to be had for love or money at Iris, :.
and Madam Du Barry is repeating IN
her second year the success she won In
her first. BY some inexplicable lack or
logic Mrs Campbell's new drama, The
Joy of Living. has been included IN the
ScatalOuge8 OF dramatic wick ednesS. HOW
ever. a pharasaical fit has fallen on our
critics, and at present anything short OF
Mother Goose is to their feverish notions
as red rag Is to a bull Sudermann s
drama is a master work. and so far as
action goes. entirely decorous. but because
his heroine married in haste to repent at
leisure, the authorities on art have leo
crusade on it. William Winters IAN
guage in describing the play is not only
much worse than the piece itself. but 40
solutely unprintable In any paper eA-
Cepls tho 1FlOuue, WHICH, w oSSooAAs -
its age. allows its venerable critic
frankness OF expression which Is ennar-
RAISING. The fact is there Is no impro-
pretty whatever In The Joy OF Living
This TRADE on it. however, has been OF
such great advantage to the box ONCE
that although at first she had little nope
Of making the drama earn the cost OF
Its production, Mrs Campbell IS now IN
fair way to make a fortune out OF IL
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This years drama seems to be a chap
ter Of incidents to actors. Maude Adams
has been III for six months. Marie
Dressler is lying between life and death
stricken by that appalling malady typhoid
fever. Mabel Banton Is dying. Clyde FITCH
had nervous prostration during the early
and appendicitis in the latter summer
and now he is laid up with broken
ankle. Julia Marlowe has broken down
In health. disbanded her company and
is under the care of physicians. Weldon
Grossmith was so severely burned last
week by a Roman candle during a politi-
cal meeting, which he stopped to witt
ness, that the little English actor is car
ryinG out his engagement at the BPrin-
cess Theatre with the greatest OF dit
fculty. Mrs. Pat Campbell fell sick last
week and had to close her theatre for
two nights Eleanora Duse became Ill
after her first performance In Boston.
There seems to be a species OF artistic
microbe epidemic among our players
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