The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
MUSIC AND DRAMA In BERLIN.
ADJUSTMENTS Nv THE KAISER
SLEEPLESS CAPITAL.
Influence of the Menu Upon Playwright
and Composer "Lustlge Ehemanner''
Gay Partisan Play Turned Into Ger
man-"Der E,anE elImann'' and why
q, puaasa.a tn. n ,saar I'm pnat Nns. M


man-"Der EranEellmann" and why
II Pleased the kaiser Ballet Notes.
If late rising and early retring-in the
nnatitina, sense-be any criterion OF a
Weltstddt, then Berlin is fairly entitled to
honors claimed by New York, London.
Paris. The city never goes to bed You
may arrive before midnight and venture
out for coffee and you will see a vast con-
course of people eating, drinking, smoking
after the fatigue of theatre-going. Or
you enter the city in stealthy morning
train at about $50. Apparently the same
crowd sits and smokes, and eats and drinks
At o'clock in the morning its character
has changed "A little; there are fewer
women to be seen-of the domestic breed
the Friedrichstrdsse is no longer illuminated
for it is daylight, but the cafes are full OF
mon drinking coffee, all animation and
buzzing with talk. So deceptive is the
scene that the innocent wayfarer from
verdant New York is apt to be deceived
temperatures he eXclaims: What an
early rising and industrious community
in this!'
Later on this admiration is transposed TO
another key: what citizens with tough con-
stitutions does Berlin boast" Mind you,
this is not an idvllc beer-absorbng town
like Munich. where every one reires to
snore at o'clock in the morning: nor is it
in the same class with Vienna, where, pos
sbly cumulative of the example of Manayunk,
Pa. the inhabitants tuck in their toes at
10 O'Clock in the evening. Berlin is noe
tambulistc II must work in relays, else
the men who sit up all night in cafes could
never 20 about the concerns of the day.
And il contains esta blishmenis that have
never closed their doors from the day they
were opened,
A city which so loves its midnight leisure
must, of necessity, be prone to theatrical
pleasures. Its many theatres are, for the
most part, model establishments, though
INTELLECTUALLY one notable excep-
ton-not to be compared to Vienna S.
In Paris June il the month Of decadence
in the food theatrical Yet you have the
Coincide FRANCHISE all the year round the
Opera which doesn't count for much artis-
tically, and the Opera Comique, which
sometimes does. Climate has little to
do with the matter. But convention
other name for lazy habit also rules the
construction Of plays on the Continent
be they never so advanced" or
realistic. In Paris, where folks dine late
the early acts are stretched out intermi-
nably. Acts one and two are devoted TO
idle talk, thinly spread over few meagre
incidents, until it is 10 O'Clock before any
thing of moment has occurred BY IL 80
you know that the hero or the heroine il
in mortal peril. and shortly after midnight
the tale is told and the audience dismissed
This is the Paris convention and it is nearly
the New York convention-Iet the play
wait upon good appetite and digestion
will take care OF itself
London is not much earlier though it
more frequently resorts to the curtain
raiser" q damnable device which like the
rorspeise and hors d9urres of the CONT
mental dinner often spoil the appetite for
the more solid food which follows. Paris.
too, Is fond of the half-hour airy proverb
or comedietta, and once at the Renaissance
l had to endure two before | reached the
play / sought. In Germany the theatre
going convention il also controlled by the
kitchen, as midday is the dinner hour.
s o'clock or whereabouts time for coffee,
and theatres begin at or 7 80 in the evening
The dramatst cuts his cloth accordingly
About Q o'clock, for some inexplicable
reason tho German Graves food and drink
No,hin, h,,t So oal,a = sa,,, -,
'ns o"' 'o"ee' '""7'
iuItiVe sausage since noon! D0nner0et'r
hct one IN Drlel EXPOSITION le" minutes
IhterIuue, oheh act Two ana usually with
'ne same scenic se'tlhg ana theh Lungd
Pausu. Every one goes mo the FooDies
70 Iook lor reirestllel!l anu nl'eeil mlnutes
eoeVoteu 10 Teocl'y EXERCISES III swallow
ing. c9nparen 10 Wtllcli 'he american
Quich Lu"Ch 'aka haPess'E VNh'hu IN me
race
Dlees'loh cohtros the Pu'se OF we thea' re
sorosu, az ~ nome 9hN We hours vary
pig men IKE ipsef Ma 'rhhcN or haupt,,
ihahr ana Ie" o,herS write as 'he VINO
ns,e,n' put the pay virgins VINO are a1ter
pubic FAVOR ana ducats study the dinlng
SITUATION. Even lIe newer operas are DUH
WIN an eyeon Ihelhehu nor InusVl II ps sup
posed that the So, 'alIea advanced men
are not innuenced py tHlS convention. In
vienna l saw Ackerrnann, new piece,
ana Ns nrst TWO acts were practlcaly put
one sawed INTO halves; as was the case with
Naohtasyl. Here. however, Gorky q
thoughts we're far from seeking 10 concillate
the pubic stomach
| saw several plays of interest i'll Berlin,
despite the lateness Of the season. AT the
Residenz, usually devoted to exotic farce
comedy, Herr Segmund Lautenburg' 8
clever company appeared in Les Maris