The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-03-24
ness and delicacy, instead of being
striking or remarkable

ness and delcacy, instead of being
striking or remarkable.
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1t is an interesting bit of news that
John Drew next season is to kick up
his heels in a comedy that has several
strong melodramatic situations. The
drift toward melodrama has been
marked recently but one would have
thought Drew would be the last one
to be caught in the tide He is to ap-
pear in play by II. H. Davies, author
of cousin Kate" and Mrs. Goringe's
Necklace" Sir Charles Wyndham has
been received enthusiastically in the
play in London, the Daily Chronicle
going so far as to express the opinion
that only Henry A. Jones could equal
the work.
Evidently London is going to be
strong in theatrical attractions this
year Nat c. Goodwin writes that he
is not coming back to America until
he has captured London, and has al
ready made arrangements to produce
Mr.. De Miles comedy 1.-THE Genius
and the Model" there, with Miss Edna
Goodrich in the leading woman's role.
Miss Henrietta Crosman announces
that she will play "As You Like IT,
there this spring, with Harry Wood
ruff as her Orlando, and with the So
thern-Marlowe season at the Waldorf
a feature of the early autumn, Ameri-
can artists will be well to the fore
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Lord Percy st. Maur, who has just
celebrated the fifty-eighth anniversary
Of his birth, is heir presumptive to the
Duke of Somerset and lives at Burton
hall, the scene of one of the most eX-
traordinary romances in the peerage.
1t was occupied by Charles Godfrey
Mundy, who had a very beautiful ward.
She was the natural daughter of Lord
Tamworth, only son of the seventh
Earl Ferries. When the son died the
child was taken by it's mother to the
Ferries mansion, where the old lord
said, TT has poor Tamworth's eyes,"
and then and there adopted it, bidding
the mother no more to show her face.
The child grew up, and after Lord
Ferries death she was committed to the
guardianship of Mr.. Mundy at Burton
hall, with $4,000 a year and two fine
estates. One day a woman appeared at
the hall and demanded admittance The
servants sought to drive her away, but
she would not go, and finally the pro-
prietor of the house allowed her to be
admitted. She was the mother of the
beautiful, richly lowered ward.
They persuaded her to go into the
drawing room just to glance at her
child. She was not allowed to speak
simply to pass through the room. They
led her through. There sat her own
daughter playing the piano. She glanc-
ed up without any sign of recognition;
did not speak, made no sign and the
unhappy woman went away, faithful to
her vow not TO open her lips. She had
seen her child; that was all. Never
again did mother and daughter meet
The girl became the Duchess de Sfor-
"a, wife of one of the bluest blooded
men in Europe. The mother kept a lit
tie inn at Syston, in Leicestershire, and
was there when Lord Percy st. Maur's
father bought Burton hall, where this
little tragedy was played.
| have been reading this week of one
great poet who was unable to carry
out the great ideal of his life. The man
was Victor Hugo, and his ideal was
marriage with royal princess-Prin-
cess Helena of Mecklenburg- Schwerin
who, in the year of Queen Victoria's
coronation, was married to the Duke of
Orleans.
The story is POLITICALLY pathetic HUI
go first met the princess at a fete Civ
en- by Louis Philippe in honor of her
coming marriage. AS soon as she
heard who he was she went to him
with hand outstretched and said: Il
have been waiting for this moment. NJ.
Hugo. You and M. Victor Cousin (the
great philosopher and Platonist who
introduced Germany to Frances no.
tice) are the two Frenchmen 1 have
longed to see. I know your verses by
heart and the first thing | did when
I arrived i'm Paris was to visit your
Notre Dame"
Such a confession from so gracious
young princess was perhaps more
than enough to turn a poets head I.
have often heard the late Paul Meu-
rice tell the story, and when he told it
Hugo's great friend and faithful B1s-
well always added: "They met i'm 1887,
the princess and poet, and in 1888 Hugo
produced 'Ruy Bias"