New-York tribune., 1903-02-02
NOTES OF THE STAGE.
4 Bostonian Young Idea at Target Practice
Cheering Up in Chicago.

--hera has 17eer received by this department from
Boston ? remarkable communication, signed hy d
small girl. whose handwriting alone would procldIl
her not yet beyond fourteen Il more certain Know
edge were lacking II would appear that out et the
mouths Of Boston babes hut little praise Is per
fected Yet the letter may prove OF interest as
showing that the eternal feminine love OF auoIh. .
1nent lives in the Boston maidens breast at Ieast
IN the fourteenth year; the careful distinction
between .fl' and sick in the opening sentence
is worthy of going on record Here is the letter;
I was I'll most Of Thursday and was SO oi sick e.
Friday that 1 had TO come home from sehool az az
half past eleven, nevertheless went TO Mansnelo
the evening Il d9 6adnf baRe hsd but nsw sS E Owa was Z
succeeded in recovering. Mansfield didn't look Inueh
don't believe Brutus wept much neLore ne hse
Cesar ana II ne o, I5 ro es1e II is had and his
pronunciation unbearable Not hen1s , an sAte, t
the play I should have thought he was reading
pSG W saws the scenery and costumes were beau
+iful also the details were well carried out, the
n was perfectly ridiculous to all those men
hathe their hands in the blood et CesaF a4g Ihe
,7e 7 ~ ont aI+orGfber if they couldn't get any red
5 NJ Nh 3n1oET was great never stood up
Tor his side before. his Grafton quite won me
curtain call Mansfield was only clapped by few
peo5'e "a sIa,,f While the curtain was up.
know he did, because heard him
clv5e Fitch attended a performance Of The Little
Princes last Friday. and has since written to
Nr Dillingham; this terse and characteristic ap-
rreciation: Il think it's bully. enjoyed myself
Immensely. with an apple In my throat most OF the
time
II the Chicago papers are to be believed, Just
now that city abounds disciples OF the doIeful OF
the feminine persuasion The mothers belong still
10 an earlier and more practical generation and
when daughter comes home from the theatre TO
announce that she wept all through the perform
arce Heavens and with your white veil on"
q ark hat
r.ther the other night, of these modern daugh-
iers was enjoying a good cry in her chamber over
the pages Of a book, Jude, the Obscure, perhaps
when her mother awakened by the sounds OF
her moist rnirth, and inquiry through the door,
what's the matter? Have you the toothache or
is your engagement broken
GO hack 10 bed dear little mother, came voice
from within Ill IS the pain of all the world!'
The following evening the mother demonstrated
'You shall not sit down TO one Of those morbid
books again tonight she said. "but l shall pack
YOU of 10 the theatre with your father to have a
hearty laugh for once Give me the paper while I
50 mother ran her eye doEn the column. stopPed
You to see OF with you 70 The Joy of Living
That ought to cheer you up
VIC. Fseatrice Herford will give the first OF a
series of recitals at the Madison Square Theatre
this afternoon Her n2nol@pg9es6 @ 6efos today " vii rs be
Ush Party" and THE Shampoo Woman
The doorkeeper at the Manhattan Theatre has
rsd his little Joke again. and Ghosts inspired it,
too.
IT WIS last Friday afternoon he says, and
he lobby was filed with actors, most Of them
.,trseeaS waiting TO hold up Miss Shaw's manager
for masses Every now and then some one would
5riFt in end buy seat the box office. until there
were no more seats 10 be had-pardon me for
coughing 1 have q slight cold: but the great stir
around the entrance was made by TINS group OF
PROFESSIONALS. ! called one Of them over 70 me,
You advertising the snow IN grt4t a.. SLiape5
s.- Standing around here and blocking up the way,
] said ! am Miss Shaw VIII DC sfdteIuI 10
Heavens said she. so are: never thought
= that Girls she caIed-she really Saq q. :,
cts lot advertise any one else's SNOW" AeLS al
and 50 they went. and then Miss shaw's man
arer came downstairs
: week or two ago it was recorded in this column
mat as a reward OF merit large group OF Sunday
school pupils from Hoboken were brought over to
see Louis Mann in The Consul" Saturday after
roon nearly 1fiy choir boys different churches
IN Orange because of good behavior IN the last
Ferv months were taken 10 A Chinese Honey
moon and uf!stled merrily during the singing of
SIR rooley'' II this practice keeps up there viii
have 10 be a careful revision OF all the SUNDAY
sI4.ooi 4sJLa-ls ,ta
rl,tred: but the day may yet come when a slInlIar
punishment VIII be devised. and problem play De
reiS up the penalty Of improper conduct
Tonight at the irving Place Theatre Ferdinand
Bonn VIII be seen in Goethe's Faust" and at Mrs
osborn's Playhouse Much Ado About Nothing
VIII be made.
CROWN PRINCESS MAY COME HERE.
Paris Feb IA dispatch 10 the .'Matin' from
Acrtone states that the Crown Princess Of S&xony
-a " Giroa intend 10 60 TO the United States.