The sun., 1903-02-05
,HE STAGE HERE And ABROAD
HERR BONN ~ TWO ROLES AND
EX(ELIING ~ BOTH.
A sirens Pe,ruch,o OF Type Never
Seen on Broadway-But the Play
Would Have surprised Shakespeare
Problem OF the lnsatisf actory Ending.


The fact that at the conclusion OF play
bv Ganyhoper in Vienna, last week, the
. audience did not know the piece was ended
calls attention To the increase in this style
q dramatic work Ibsen set the fashion
in "A Dolls House 1t is only month ago
that We described Mrs. Fiske's experience
with that play on the road. In one place
,he manager was forced to announce that
the curtain was down for good--exactly
the same thing that occurred at Vienna.
Would IL not be a good thing II Cont nued
in our next" be plaCarded on the curtain?
What the miracle" is that Nora Heimty
talks about is not dvulgcd. though very
likely it alludes to her speedy return to the
dolls house, especially II ii rained out Of
doors and she had forgotten her umbrella
and golo-hes. Later lbeen did something
Of the sort in Little Eyolf." The ending
l. what a musician would call -an unre-
solved harmony" suspension Of judg-
rnent This lack Of fnality usually sends
an audience home in bad humor -as al
vays docs those two big chords that bruise
each other at the close of Richard STRAUSS
Also Sprach Zarathustra."
The trait expresses in poet. composer
and playwright species OF ment al attitude
10 lIt NlhNtlSt tCet eApitSSeu ny NHc Wtu-
worn Huxley phrase-agnostic. Why, asks
lb,en in effect. should | settle anybody's
future? ! am not gcd so he sends
Nora ont into the night seeking for her lost
.ef.re-pect. Why. echoes Mr.. Pirero,
should I show you the fate Of Iris Belldny?
am not a moralist. SO he sends he poor,
weak Great ure out into the mud of London's
streets. there To lose the little that is good
in her. Let US hope for the sake of several
Vow England clergymen that Iris was
brand plucked from the burning by Croker
Harrington,
And there are hundreds of the modern
plays that have unsat isfactory endings.
let US not forget that Mr.. Pinero himself
altered the ending Of THE Profigate."
thereby giving a violent wrench to the
probabi.ii es-for Dunston Renshau is hope
less as husband every straw in the wind
Of the story tells the tale. Yet to please
Mr.. Hare, who was pleasing the goody-
gooty British public, n strong and logical
conclusion was dropped and weaker one
substituted, a so-called happy curtain.
ANY observer knows that this ending means
unhappiness for the married pair. How
ever. we must not take our puppets too
seriously, and peering at the possibilities
after a final curtain is pushing the case
too far
That curiosity about our fellow man is
legitimate and 10 be gratifed when and
where We can is proved daily by the crowd
in front OF Brentano's window. II Is not
picture of a new Partisan ddnseuse or the
announcement Of gay, yellow w-backed novels
that attracts, but a colored plate upon which
is printed the head Of young gorilla facing
the head Of European. The remarks made
hv the throng Of men and women on the
sidewalk, while hardly edifying, demon
strate that the Darwinian doct rine Of evolu-
tion seems to have filtered into their COM
prehension. Nor are the two profiles ex-
hihited radically different Any actor in
search Of a makeup for our refined modern
comic operas has an excellent pattern to
model after.
They are not all in, though the list Of
manager who have not applied for the
Metropolitan Opera House management
il gradually narrowing. The latest is
or was Rudolph Aronson. He proposed
a partnership scheme TO Max Hirsch. Mr.
Hirsch's reply was crisply colloquial.
'Nwhin' doin'.- he wrote. II ia only
fair 10 Mr.. Hirsch TO add that he is not the
retailer Of this aneodote. 1t leaked.
All said and done, the drunken man who
was elected by his Elizabethan contem-
poraries last week at the Short version of
Romeo and Juliet proved to be the best
actor Of the company before or behind
the fcotlights Of Mrs Osborn's Playhouse.
His name was not on the bills. but that did
not dot ract from the illusion of his CHEEKY
wit And what a critic he was. for he
would insist upon interrupting the per-
formance with groans and hisses'
terrible fellow TO let loose upon some other
shows in town!
The literary inquest over Mary and her
little lamb recalls the vivid poem. or rather,
variant Of it. said 20 have been given to
Manager Fred Gomez of Boston by Andrew
Carnegie Whether the verse was thrown
~ in The interval of donating acres Of books
devoted to the acquisition Of wealth, we
oaHnot say. The lines are stirring. and
10 a nature of the Smoky City fraught with
tender. ray sooty, memories. Here they
G!C.
Mary had little lamb.
It's ncece was white as snow;
II followed her 10 Pitts0urg-
And now loo. at the ID thing
There was a double bill at the Irving
Place Theatre on Tuesday night. to satisfy