The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-28
The STAGE HERE And ABROAD
MRS. OSBORN'S HOLIDAY OFFER.
ING WRONGLY NAMED.

Sarah Bernhardt's Nitality-Duse Takes
Her Art Seriously, but Life Easily
Mansfield Making Money With Julius
Cesar"-Old Plays seen In London.
Fad and Folly" is really tommyrot.
Not that there is much Of the original tom
my Rot" left. but the quality comes well
within the scope .of that very expressive
phrase. II was put on at the intimate
handbook OF clever Mrs. Osborn last night
and proved to be a series of turns. with
the slender chain Of a story often snapped.
Stafford Waters furnished the music, Rupert
Hughes the words; but then Mr.. Hughes
was revised by Paul West. and there were
rumors flying in the Hobbies that a whole
new scene had been written and rehearsed
during an entr'acte and played In the final
scene. They are regular devils for versa
tility up at this playhousel
However. Blanche Ring sang her favoritee
numbers. There's Strange Fascination.
and THE Belle of Avenue A." among other
things, and Harry Conor, The Human
Sprinkling Cart" and erstwhile invalid
OF A Trip 10 Chinatown, spoke a funny
song about microbes and acted with the
aid of an atomizer. He made people laugh,
and that is what he was there for. Felix
Harey, from way Down East" sang
Run, Boys, Run" music by Harry Waller,
with great success. He was an A. ID. /.
boy. There was a parody Of Iris. called
-Crysis, by Joseph Herbert that pleased,
and what with the lively music, picturesque
costumes and pretty girls ,Drina de
Wolfe among them Fad and Folly" was
much applauded by an audience that peered
suspiciously AT one another. fearing 10
world When Stanford White came in
there was a sigh of satisfaction. Every one
knew that he was all right.
Sarah Bernhardts vitality is extraordi-
nary. She has at the age of three score and
more attacked Berlin with all the audacity
OF young conquering woman. That she
met with a chilly reception from the critics
was to have been expected. for, apart from
her political views her style of acting and
the plays she presented are old-fashioned
to Berlin audiences, accu-t omed to the
novelties of Hauptmann, Suiermann and
the rest. And. then, DuSe, with her re-
pressed, anti-theatric methods, has given
the Germans something more to their lik.
ing II was in the ultra classic alone that
Sarah really pleased, in -Phedre.
Yet what a woman she is. At time
when other actresses are on the shelf this
artist i, signing for new worlds to conquer
She IL tircless. A. an example, the pr. sent
writer saw her at Rouen. Frarc', last
year. Saturday night she played. sunday
morning at $50 she had hrcakfasted
and with a bunch of violetS in her hand
her face happy, wreathcd in smiles she
left her hotel TO catch the train for Paris
where she was announced for the Sunday
matinee She went down to Rouen Satur.
day; she returned Sunday. Sunday night
she played again. Three performances
and four hours of travel in tSenty-foui
hours seemed child's play to this activ,
dame. When she l. the same age a. oui
Mrs. Gilbert she will not only travel from
Buffalo to the Falls-sh will shoot Niagara
itself.
II vas rot DCse who was sick last weeh
in baltimore. but her leadi mar, RCsas
rlna. hen DLsC feels tired she does rot
feign illr ess, but serGs word to her man agci
through Joseph Smith, Ter JeIsoral rep.
iesef alive, that she will rot appear. Al &
The doesn't. She is the real primd donna
Of the drama,
Nr. Mar sfeld j. rot only coming 10 New
York reXt week with much gold in bulk
but he has ordered a $4,000 private car
that he will Use after his o; gag, mctt er.d'
Eeie, about the middle OF oai Gary loui
sLCC' aful actor II to-day "A true artist oCrat
Royalty itielf does rot fare better The
tables have leon turi ed with a ven geaI @
since ShakesI cares times
Thackeray, az might have been foreseen
must succumb TO the pertinacious drama
tizer. After vanity Fair" "Pendcnnis
will yield up its life on the Potter's vince
Paul. of the wcl-known tribe of Posters
has written a stage version for Jo'' Woe
who " doubtless make a cal i ri Ma 10
Pendennis But the drama where l., / /
lui~ mu-! Thackerayan Of tho great novel
lists works.
In Inn nd xsi.strt l,n v,la 1.
have familiar look nowadays. Tn
White Heather" is AT the Grand AZ tn
Pavilion BARLEY CampbelrS siberia
Sherlock Holmes" with Julian Royce il
the title role, is showing a, the camden
Caste il Icing given al the Erix;on Thea
tre Sweet Nell Of Old Irury," by Pau
kaster. is playing at the oronet; Arizona
I, at the Elephant and Castle; A chimes
honeymoon al In" Alexandra; Thu
Three Musketocrs' at the Lyric, Hammer
smith; The Silver Ki'g" ~ the Dalton
Are You a Mason" at tho borough Thea
tire, STAFFORD; The Lady Slavov "A, Tia
County Theatre, hing-top; "Th' fata
Wedding" with Belt Coo,e, is at tho shake 5
peare, (laIlam Junction. Old favorite
are hard to lose-,his l. meant literally.
We shall rro.aby witness Lsu~cac
Tolsmar'S Bethlehem" in New York som
day.
Prof. Weissmann is quoted In the Iondo
Era as saying. AT the present nome.
there il TO English drama. Tho plays tina
are put on the English stage are piece
turned out by literary wordmcn, Just n
boots and shoes are maLuiaO tured for In
Australian CT Indian markets. Howev.,
CaradoNi. a! i may SOU q, j. neverti "'r.
true; the B:i i,h theatre has slain Eng
i,h drama The English theatre O
ground not because tho greatest theme
are exl austed. but because the Euglis
theatregoer, With the narrc w-mi dcdnes
Of the Islander, would not tolerate o II th
stage the treatment Of new themes PORTRAY
ing the sex life of MAJ XII d."
This judgment applies equally well {
the American drama and novel, both q
which are pershing from sheer inanitior
for the want of rich. red blood, new idea
and artistic workmanship. But why Il
erary workmen,' Prof. Weissmann? VII
not i'll crate bunglers who don't kno'
their mother speech. much less the dehcat
complexities Of dramatic psychology?
When NJ. lie Bargy and Nine Bart,
Of the Com61ie FRANCHISE, Paris. went
Spain short time ago they entered thu
country at Perpignan, NJ. Lc Bargy boz