The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-12

How can q divorce he secured without
a due and sufficient oause2 II Ia finally
decided that II Kitty refuses to kiss her
husband in the presence Of witnesses, that
will be enough 10 furnish him with pre-
text. He protests he doesn't wish 10 be
refused. The Peruvian is inflexible. And
the servants what nasty mess. A 8emi-
nine storm bursts-the widow goes into
Mysteries and Reginald after vainly EN-
deavoring to enter Kitty's room, spends the
night In the garden and catches bad cold.
The next day the tangle " az bad az bad
can be, Reginald rebels. He loves his
wife and elopss with her. The Peruvian
10 writing letter of reconciliation TO her
! former lover as the curtain drops. The
piece bubbles over with fun, not too broad,
and while some Of the situations ara i'm
probable the general story is told well
and swiftly.
The acting. az New York will judge for
itself this season. IL Of superior kind.
Leonard Boyne, greatly improved In style
since he was in America, Ia Sir Reginald
Belsise, and shares the honors with Miss
Tempest. Miss Granville is the widow.
Miss Tempest has scored the hit Of her
trlumphal career.
THE Marriage Of Kitty" was preceded
by curtain raiser entitled "The Way Of
War;" by Francis Provost. It Ia q bit Of
sentimental and patriotic hub-dub, the
scene being Dutch girls bedroom at
Morgensdorp. South Africa. A young
British soldier climbs up the water pipe
like the cream chocolate officer In Bernard
Shaws Arms and the Manic see the
girl no loves To do this he runs the risk
OF being shot by the watchful Boes. The
girl repulses him, outraged that the man
should come to her bed room. His peril
J finally causes her to relax her severity.
Devising q plan Of escape the pair leave
the room. There Is the usual theatrio
thrill when Boer calls out from below,
asking il the girl has seen an English soldier.
Ernest Mainwaring and Lillian Wheeler
played the two ungrateful parts. The
woman was better than the man.
Why ia it that curtain-rasers are in
variably stupid In Paris at the Odeon
at the Renaissance, AZ in London. these
| little pieces are nuisance, Why?
"The School Girl. !" at the Prince Of Wales's
made hit at once. 1t is by H. Hamilton
and Paul Potter. the music by Leslie Stuart
| Edna May and Violet Cameron are In the
long list OF characters. For those who
| like this sort Of nonsense The School Girl"
fills the bill, II is amusing and the produc-
ton elaborate.
| At Wyndham's Hubert Henry Davies's
new four-act comedy, Mrs. Gorringe's
Necklace, "is enjoying success The author
has made better, II not violently original,
play than his Cynthia, which Elsie de Wolf.
last spring. The acting Of Mary Moore
and Charles Wyndham would carry piece
Of less calibre
Luckily I missed The Girl from Rays"
The Medal and the Maid" my Lady
OF which are hugely patronized. But
| when oI-- does not have to sit through
this music and wit. why purposely seek
sorrow?
The old Garrick comedy, The Clandestine
Marriage" at the Haymarket, was well
worth visiting il only for the performance
The play itself is DULY artificial. Cyril
Maude, Miss Ferrar and Mrs. Charles Cal
vert-Aas Mrs.. Heidelberg were admirable:
40 was the complete cast "'' - -
Ialso saw The Worst Woman in 10 ncion"
before II left the Adelphi and found II out
melodrarha In London by long shot, for
there are several melodramas fnasq,lerad-
ing as solemn dramas.
Pressed by time, I could hear but one con-
cert by the Beethoven festival inaugurated
by Herr Kr,lsn. But WeinRartlsr con-
Quoted the "Eroica," and fine, sorceful
reading 1t was. His fnales-he also pre-
scented the Second Symphony are brilliant
overwhelming; yet found his slow move
ments troubled by too conscious an in
tellectuality. and in the case OF the f fiat
symphony decided squareness A logical
brain has this great conductor: he seems
to fear sentimer al exaggeration The
last movement OF the "Eroica" was O treat.
Herr Weingartner also does wonders with
the Beethoven Overtures.
The afternoon Of the last 'GDtter-
dammerung' I went early 10 tho KenslnQ-
and incest houses In London, though II
is on the Surrey sida-to hear Macbeth"
played by the F. r. Benson Shakes pearian
Company. Mr.. Benson has a reputation
in England for turning OUT the best actors
now on the boards. Oscar Asche and his
tory Of the company includes mrh trit1es
as Hamlet, winters Tale THE Merry
wives Of Windsor" "The Merchant Of Ven
ice" and Macbeth All these pieces are
PLAYED by students who have been coached
nv Mr. and Mrs. Benson. Mr. Benson was
Macbeth and Mrs. Benson Lady Moe
beth. She did fairly we'll though she has not
the voice. figure, nor even the conception
Of the role hut she was better than Mr.
Benson. I had not been prepared for
his abysmal badness. not knowing that
the worst of actors sometimes makes the
best Of teachers. Well Mr. Benson must
be an excellent teacheri.
His pupils were better TO a man than
their master, who stumbled and stalksd
and stammered. He seemed 10 he suffer
ing from bad attack Of stage fright. and
he fell over his words and his legs like
very amateur. There was not q single
redeemng trait In the performance II
James Owen 0Connor had ever cssayed
Macbsth he would, am sure have given
Mr.. Benson points The company from
the bleeding Sergeont to Duncan was,
at least, not tiresome. And curious II
was after the witch scene on the blasted
heath to drive over TO Covent Garden
and see the curtains part on tho Three
Norns spinning the destiny Of the gods.
Wagner was a close student OF Shake
speare.
Rodin was in London for ten days al nd for
O short time the guest of Arthur Symons,
the latter poet who really looks like one
While In Pc ris went to the great sculptor's
ateliers on the Rue de rUniverst&, where
may be seen some Of his later compost ions---
the "Victor Hugo" end thRt never 20 be for
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