The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-03-28
RESURRECTION.


Everybody has read Toso Resurrection which started in
the English version in the Cosmopolitan, and then having
Tor lew chapters was withdrawn beause the editor Of that
monthly toned down of Iosos and language The
Cosmopolitan tried to Bowerge but pulled up The book
has run through many editions and has been widely read
languages SO that the queamisnesS OF the Cosmopolitan only
subject OF laughter the unegenerae and chagrn those
who wanted to swaddle Tostos genius in unseemy under
garments. g.
The popularity and strength Of the novel shown by the fact
that at the present moment less than three versions of
the stage in Paris in London
The Paris version for hundred nights before the Eng
sh and American versions the ootgh 1t immense
y popular and still running The play now having won
derfu in New York and London and will undoubtedly
be carried to all the principal cities Of the Union.
People have been apt to say that the stage as an educator has
ceased to have mission and only occupied by vaudeville and
farce comedy supplemented by exceedingly vulgar socaed
comic operas The success OF such play as Resurrecton
gives firm denial this 1osos book and the plays founded
deal with the great question OF the fall character and
its awakening from its moral degradation and its resurrection
into and worter sphere is only another working
out of Goehes problem Faust the repetition of the hope
inspired by the life of Mary Magdaene The essence of such
work touches the foundation Of morality and Of ethics Such
theme must be treated by master hand No puny genius
approach it. .... .:,... .:.i. .....
There have been great giving plays of late the Chris
ton Ben ur Rome, The Sign of the Cross and SO TO all
these audiences have ocked but of these have
ed the literary and moral value Of Toos Resurrection If
people will crowd to see such plays the stage is by no means in
decadnt position but fg those highest and grandest
duties which has filled in fines past from the days of Greek
drama through the great zabetan and the great German
dramaists to the present time, l,,.....f
large of great actors managers take their
seriously and realize its duies q o them is pride and
honor have successfully laid before large audiences the great
lessons of LIES tragedy For aei5a tragedy But the beauty
and deasm of the tragedy needs be shown and the grandeur
the moral has be shown overcoming the sordd
roundings. This Tosos showed his novel, and this DOUBT
has been emphasized in the plays.
What power has literary genius when well applied 1t APP
peas country but many speaks in Ian
but in every known and cultivated tongue The history
of Toos Resurrection only the history of every great
epece which goes the heart of human and of life and
not for today, but for all times.
-:O.
Federal buildings take from twelve fifteen years
In view OF this fact the wild rush which made while is
!! site and be ready for all eventualies.
The Cuban Senate has received warning that had better take
the Treaty it is and try amend it. Our wise
kupea might take warning the Organic Act He will find
< he is mOnkeyng with buzz-saw.
-O:
The honors of sometimes the of the newspaper
Melton Prior Frederick Ve and several others the
staff of the Illustrated London News who represented paper
upon them War correspondents and artists
5 quite much risk the COmbaants nowadays. 1t
common thing for correspondent be shot action and
die of disease lay the seeds of DEATH This is of American
and British correspondents The Spanish correspondents
energetic however To them due the kilograms Sui
ton of MoroccO day and the Petenders the
This class of gentry within hundred miles of
where the they reported took place and simply teegaphed
the rumOrs of the bazaars invented them themselves.