Omaha daily bee., 1905-01-22
TALK OF EUROPEAN NoTABLES
Beerbohm Tree Plans Novelty for Re-
vivaI of One shnkespenrean
Comedy.

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LONDON, Jan. I.-Cspeci9' ~ to
The Bee)-Beerbohm Nval of
Much Ado About y aRes place at
His MaJestys theatc =, the evening of
Tuesday January "a with a view of
bringing Shakespeares comedy within the
compasss Of three acts Mr.. Tree has ar
ranged that the masked ball. during the
course of which Benedict and Beatrice have
their famous passage-at-arms, shall take
place, rot in the hall of LaOnato's house,
but in an orange grove adjoining 1t, the
latter scenes, wherein both lovers are ca
joled by their companions, being played
there also. To mark the passage of the
night an intermezzo, especially composed
by Mr. Raymond Roze, will be played by
the orchestra, and, so far possible, the
incidents between midnight and daybreak,
such the awakening of the birds, the
Growing of chanticler and the gradual move
ment typical Of the beginning of the work
ing day, are to be reproduced. An inno-
vatIon will further be effected in the ca
thedial scene, an ingenious change being
made from the interior to the exterior of
the building, where the concluding passages
of the act will be enacted.
The queen this week paid visit to Hon.
John Ward, who is gradually recovering
from his recent operation at Miss Nc
Cauls Nursing home. The queen re-
mained an hour, chatting with the invalid.
The king has twice visited his equerry
since his illness and has been kept daily
informed Of his progress. When the queen
was at Culford hail recently she was taken
by the Countess Cadogan to see an old
woman, aged "a, in the village. The queen
evinced the liveliest interest in the old
wOman's personal history AS her ma
jesty arose to go the beldame leaned for
ward and kissed the royal hand fervently.
Turning to Lady Cadogan, she said: Il
shall die happy now, for l have kissed the
hand of the Lords annointed." When
the queen left the cottage a guinea re-
mained behined to buy comforts for the
old woman
The rush of well known people to Egypt
is exceptionally heavy. Many plans have
been dsarranged owing to the difficulty of
securing berths on the steamers. The
earl and countess of Dalhousie. who
going up the Nile, accompanied by Hon.
Margaret Fraser, have had to postpone
their departure for this reason. Prince
Leopold of Battenberg has already arrived
at Cairo. Prince George of Cumberland is
at Assouan, wnere he will probably make
a long stay. There will be a battle of
flowers in Cairo, in the grounds of Chezrea
Casino, on February 5, and grand "Corso"
or carnival procession through the streets
on March Z.
Mrs Frank Mackay, who was thrown
from her horse while hunting recently with
the Quorn hounds and suffered conclusion
of the brain, is progressing very favorably.
Mrs. Mackay, who is one of the most popu-
lar Americans in society, and entertained
largely last season at 46 Upper Grosvenor
street, the home she rented from Prince
Alexis Dolgorouski, is devoted to hunting
and spends the winter over here solely for
this reason.
The countess of Warwick distributed this
week at Stratford town hall prizes to- stu
dents of the Carpenters Companys Tech
nical institute, and in an interesting address
said the utility of such establishments in
crowded localities like West Ham could not
be overestimated. Unfortunately in Eng
land public instruction was largely ef-
fected by party politics, but the City COM
panies had succeeded in keeping the at
mosphere of their governing bodies free
from the strife of tongues and had thus
succeeded notably in equipping the rising
generation with educational facilities to
enable them to fight the battle of life.
King Alfonso of Spain is giving his ad-
visers great anxiety owing to his youthful
intrepidity. His latest wish is to try bal
looming. He is not to be dissuaded and
has already decided TO make an ascent in
balloon which Senior Leopoldo de Maza has
bought in Paris for eSOO or in one of the
military balloons with which experiments
are now being made.
The king has received word from India
that his troops returning from Thibet
brought two living specimens of the kyang,
or wild ass, of Central Asia. 1t is in
tended to present them to the king. The
kyang were captured at a spot called the
Meadow of Wild Asses. They became so
tame that they would enter the camp and
feed with the mules, and on the return
journey they marched with the mules of
the Seventh Mountain battery as II they
had been accustomed to 1t all their lives
Prince Edward has received a curious
present, but one, withal in which the
prince is greatly interested. The present
consists of a glass box filled with living
ants at work on sand heaps. The little
prince spends hours daily watching the in
sects, The duke of Portland has also
bought an ant house for his 11-year-old son,
the marquis of Tichfeld, and his little
brother, Lord Norben Cavendsh- Bentnick
Admirers of Shakespeare in Rome have
formed a committee to raise subscriptions
for the erection of a monument of the poet
Umberto,
The German emperor recently received a
handsomely bound volume entitled For
est" by "F. Hugin." This is really
pseudonym for the kaiserins youngest sis
| ter, Princess Feadora OF Schleswig- -Hol-
STEM whose literary proclivities are we'll
known. Forest" contains four beautiful
novels, which are full of poetry of ma
ture,
Nine Sarah Bernhardt has reappeared at
her theater in Paris I'm la Sorciere" She
has had long and most successful tour
of Europe, her net receipts having ex-
ceeded 100000 Nine. Bernhardt is now a
very wealthy woman.
Lady Curzon of Kedleston has, since her
removal from Walmer TO Highcliffe castle,
undergone a marked improvement in health
and her progress toward convalescence has
been uninterrupted.