New-York tribune., 1905-01-01

haired painter himself is near by and looking
directly at il. the hanging committee may have
intended it as an allegory of his laborious life.
The Whistler memorial exhibition in the New
Gallery will be another remarkable one-man
show over two hundred and fifty separate
etchings viii be shown. with many duplicates.
The King. without public knowledge. has been
collector of whistler's etchings for a long pc
riod and will lend one hundred and forty-nine
examples. including the Spithead series. which
the artist presented to Queen Victoria after the
great naval review. These Will be shown as the
ROYAL Gallery etchings. over one hundred
paintings have already been promised, and there
will be another hundred. The Luxembourg CAL
lery Paris through the intervention of the
Foreign Office and the British Ambassador, has
made the first exception to its established rule
and granted permission for the exhibition of
the portrait Of the painters mother In London.
The Glasgow Gallery will lend the portrait of
Carlyle and the owners of private collections
are equally obliging. The only refusals to lend
come from a dozen American owners Of paint
ings. The Carnegie Institute. the Boston Mu-
scum, the Chicago Museum and the Pittsburg
Gallery have all behaved handsomely, but A. A.
Pope, Of Cleveland. is almost the only private
collector who has consented to send works to
here of the lack of reciprocity between the art
collectors OF the two countries British col
lectors have contributed freely to the Worlds
Fair shows at St. Louis Chicago and Philadel-
phia, but American collectors are not willing
to take the trouble to send art treasures across
the ocean when wanted here
The first royal visit OF the new year will be
made at Chatsworth. and will be followed by
rarf1
drives TO the Peak District are to be the chief
attractions. Two sevees have been added to the
courts already arranged before Easter. and the
Prince of Wales may hold another one after
the Kings departure TO the Mediterranean The
enervatng weather has driven many people of
fashion TO the South of France Italy and the
Engadine and thens will be little social life
in the smart sets in London before the meeting
of Parliament.
The theatres are filling up now that the
fogs have been scattered by the winds The
Drury Lane pantomirne, THE White Cat" is
better than usual. with a bright ballet and
brilliant scenic effects and a consistent plot
The halfpenny censors complain of the vugarity
of the topical songs, but this is a feature bor-
rowed from the music halls. J. NJ Barrie's
of genius. with episodes taken from 1.-The Little
White Bird" but virtually new creation. It
10 d ldlltdSy DdSSu upon stories OF
fairies, redskins and pirates and sparkles with
whimsical humor. No more delightful holiday
play for children Of all ages ever written.
Charles E. Hamilton has provided clean and
wholesome entertainment at Wyndhams Thea
tire, where Patrick Bidwelrs simple little Irish
play. Peggy Machree." has been produced, with
pretty music. Marie Dainton singing daintily
and frolicking through her part. It has an in
teligible eighteenth century story and is SUI
perior to the ordinary musical comedy The
hands Of the clock were turned back in the
Strand this week, where the Lyceum Theatre
the scene Of Sir Henry Irving's triumph has
been opened music hall, with three per-
formances daily. / N r