New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY. MARCH g. 1901

great staying power. and so far refuse to part
with their holdings. Great apprehension pre-
walls in banking circles lest the tendency TO sell
VIII set in. II the japanese succeed IN captur-
| ing Port Arthur, or other japanese victories
ensue. long headed fnanciers predict In sucn
event a most disastrous avalanche OF down.
ward prices and panic The masses OF poor.
small investors still cling to their Russian
stocks with faith worthy of a better cause
and profess mistaken confidence in the ultimate
success Of their autocratic ally.
The tirnidity Of large capitalists is illustrated
by the fact that the famous historic chateau.
the Maison Laffitte. which two hundred and fifty
years ago cost 100000 francs. and where the
Comte Artois gave memorable fetes to Louis
XVI and Marie Antoinette. with park Of
twenty thousand metres, is now offered for
sale by fits Russian proprietor. NJ. Gromme.
for 100000 francs. but he cannot find a pur-
chaser. Another example was at the art auction
at the Hotel Drouot on Wednesday. when a
superb portrait Of Queen Marie Leczynsks.
painted by Natter. was sold for the of
16100 francs. the equivalent OF IS. DO to Count
Louis de Turenne after moderate biddings from
Mrs. Edward Andre and Count de Gramedo.
the professional dealers not feeling confidence
enough TO buy a picture which on their own
estimates was worth double the price paid by
Count de Turenne.
Half a dozen clever new plays have been pro-
duced during the week Among these Les
Oiseaux de Passage" by Maurice Donnay and
Lucien Deserves, produced last night at the
Theatre Antoine is decided success. 1t Is a
romantic drama in which the heroine, young
Russian girl OF Nihilist tendencies, under
goes purely official platonic marriage with an
almost unknown peasant who. according to
arrangement, renounces forthwith his marital
IN, H.,
her parents. There are stirring sentimental
events in the Latin Quarter of Paris. where the
young woman arrives TO pursue her art studies
somewhat suggestive Of Trilby. The last act
comes TO a rather melancholy end in Siberia.
The play is strongly written and full Of action.
and it is one Of the best plays of the present
season.
Another boulevard success is a highly sea-
soned comedy by Georges Feydeau at the Nou-
veautes Theatre. called La Main Passe." in
which there is a maze of double barrelled d.
vorces and meretricious complications that
would not be tolerated on any American stage.
La Main Passe," however, was welcomed with
fervid enthusiasm by the boulevard public. and
promises as long a run as the Dame de Chez
Maxim" by the same author.
A pleasing little one act play "L'Escarpolette"
by an American. Miss Grace Constant Louns-
berry, translated into French by NJ Nigond was
successfully produced on Wednesday at the
Theatre Sarah Bernhard and admirably acted
by Nine Moreno. Nine Sarah Bernhard took
great pains to mount the little American cur
tain raiser with great taste. 1t is the story of a
girl in love with an admirer known to her only
by his infiammatOry letters. She refuses the
hand OF college professor in order to remain
faithful to her mysterious sutton. only TO find
In the end that the professor and the fervent
letter writer are one and the same man, and
they are married G r.