The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-15
Dramatic

articles. pictures, studies and gossip
about the great dramattst.
Genevieve Ward, whose name is but
an echo to this generation-shall we
ever lose the memory of her in Forget
Me Not?"-wilI read Volumnia in Ger
fOlanus' on May 20, at a reading under
the auspices of the British Empire
Shakespeare society. J. H. Leigh will
read COriolanuS. The Court theater is
to be the place selected for the affair."
Mr.. Lytton, of the Coronet theater,
Noting Hill has invented a device for
changing scenes by electricity. He
touches a button on a plate in the
wings and the trick is accomplished.
Here Is an idea for Mr.. Conreid The
recalcltrant stage hand would soon
come to order if such an invention
could be made practical But then he
in his turn, might invent plate with
a button which, if touched would kill
the manager. Anything to touch a
manager.
AT Bristol, Martin Harvey's perform
ance of THE Only Way" and "a Ciga-
rette Makers Romance" was warmly
praised from local pulpit as being
ennob1ng.' This is as curious a spec
IInen or criticism as that recently made
IN this city by clergyman who de-
nounced French plays in terms so
temptingly luscious that his audience
must have fairly longed to see the most
unsayory specimen at once. Let Sleep
Ing dramas lie, say we.
Miss Deronda Mayo. daughter of the
late Frank Mayo, who has been play
ing in Tit for Tat. in New York this
spring, announces her engagement to
John Green, wealthy mine owner Of
colorado Springs, Col, and with the
end of the present week will retire
from the stage to take up the more do
meStlc position Of Mr.. Green's wife.
Miss Mayo is the last member of this
once famous family of players to aban-
don the stage.
Concerning moral and immoral plays.
virginia Harmed (Mrs. E. H. Sothern)
makes this distinction:
The play in which a woman sins
and is punished is a moral play. The
play IN which she sins and escapes
punishment is immoral Whatever
SHOWS that her punishment is inevf-
table has moral influence" she said:
ana there you have It,"
Virginia Harmed, whose cougbless
Camille met with fine approval from
Harlem audiences, has been induced
10 give Broadway a view of her nor
sonai version of the famous Dumas
heroine, and she will follow Merely
Mary Ann" into the Garrick theater
tomorrow evening, where for a single
week she will portray a Marguerite
yet different from the rIpe. robust
AnglIn fype with the lid on" saws the
New York Press. Like the other. Miss
Harned's Camille" is radically differ
ent from ancient traditions and meth
ods, and her elimination of puIm0nic
py-pIaX seems a praiseworthy if dar-
ing departure. Another new method Is
employed by Miss Harmed in the death
scene. an entirely original conception
that Is both impressive and dramatic
as the deathbeds wherein the many
Camllles Of other days have expired
Miss Harned's final moments find her
praying. 1t is the end, peaceful. sub
iiIne, e, without any repulsive convul-
This type OF theatergoer aourishes
on both sides of the Atlantic, saws the
New York Sun. Wednesday night at
tne empire theater while Julia Mar
rowe was in the middle of her row with
hef stage brother, Henry VIII, a Young
woman very much excited asked her
escort why the royal Harry and Mary
should SO quarrel.
Hush!" he whispered. zone vor1ld
suppose you never read English his
tory. Miss Marlowe is Suppressed 70 ba
one or his divorced wives That is the
reason why the queen, Katherine of