Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-02-01
GOSSIP OF PARIS TREATERS
who GO Abroad Lose Their
Popularity In the French
Capital.

Copyright. 1893, by Press Publishing Coz
PARIS, Jan. 31.-CNew York World Ca
legram-Special Telegram. michel Nor
ton, who wrote the adaptation Of Count
Tolstois Resurrection" which is now be-
ing rehearsed in New York and London, is
adapting Paul de Courcelle's new play for
Sarah Bernhard, taken from Goethes "Sor-
rows Of Young werther" which will be
produced in the tragedienne's theater in
Paris February 20. Mr. Morton says:
DE Courcelles play provides Nine.
Bernhard with another male part. She
described werther as The Hamlet of Love
and is very enthusiastic about the charac-
ter"
Mr. Morton's adaptation will be simple
and poetic In treatment.
Speaking OF Resurrection" Mr.. Morton
says it will be produced simultaneously ia
New York and London, February II, coin
Gliding with the hundredth night in Paris.
Mr. Kemper of the firm Of Wagenhals &
Kemper. managers, arrived on one boat
and went back on the next, having spent a
day and a night with the playwright re-
hearsing Resurrection all the time. Mr..
Morton said; He has the true concep-
tion of the play and l am convinced that
the New York production will be equal TO
the French and English versions. While
here Mr.. Kemper bought all the costumes,
furniture and bibelots for Resurrection"
They are now on the way to America.
promised MIR. Kemper that on the frst
night in New York before the curtain goes
up | will send a cable telling how the
play was received in London the same
night. So much interest is taken in Mr.
Trees production that the Figaro will send
a special critic to London for the opening.
The effect which will be produced by Res
direction will be to inculcate in the peo-
pie of America Tolstoi's Gospel Of Human
Tenderness to the Fallen and Despised. ="
While American authors and playwrights
are invading Paris, some old favorites are
rapidly losing ground.
The fate OF Bernhardt's latest production
"Theroigne de Mericourt," is evidence that
the actress popularity is waning. The
play is a splendid historical spectacle, ap-
parently having all the elements of suc-
cess is beautifully staged has over sixty
speaking parts and cost an enormous
amount of money to produce, yet it has
been a disastrous failuFe The only ex-
PLANTATION is that Bernhardts drawing pow
ers are failing. Her frequent tours abroad
| also have cooled the admiration which
Parisians formerly had for Bernhard, and
| her latest one in which she accepted
| money from Berlin audiences, was a sore
| disappointment to her friends.
| Bernhard only makes money in the
French provinces and abroad Were it not
that she has Paris theater on a twenty
year lease, and that in order to secure the
municipal subvention she must give GER
tain number OF performances annually in
the capital. her Appearances in Paris would
be even rareT.
Coquelin too, makes a great deal more
money in America, England and Germany
than at home. So he has given up the
Theater Porte St. Martin and will make q
new tour lasting till 1904. His great popu-
larity with Parisians is past. When the
German emperor received Coqueln the ma
tional press was filled with violent protests
against his unpatriotic conduct. Now that
he has repeated the offense, the best thtne
he can do is to tour. Even Nine. Retan
another great player, jeopardized her popu
larlty by touring abroad Her reception or
her return from South America was dis
tnctly cool Partisan theater-goers like
to keep their artists to themselves.