Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-20

with its rails like a little bridge deck. car
still be seen from the road. Turner haG
the faculty common to many remarkable
men of awaking at any hour that he hat
determined upon before going to bed, anC
he is said to have struggled up to the ROOF
swathed in blanket to greet the sun and
make notes of the sky.
He told William Kingsley that he never
missed a single sunrise and not many sun
sets after he rented the cottage The &C
curacy of Thornbury's life of Turner is
not now accepted as 1t used to be- but the
story how within an hour of his death his
landlady wheeled the painter to the win
dow to look at the sunshine on the river
Is one of the great legends of the Thames
that must be true. You can see the win
dow just over the trees in the little front
garden. Here surely is chance for the
Turner enthusiasts. who compose one OF
the wealthiest bodies in the world. The
cottage and its grounds are to be bought
for the sum which not few collectors have
made out Of the rise in the value of his
pictures.
Till a BODY of subscribers in 1900 bought
from the executors of the late Earl of
Wharncliffe for G6,50O and presented to
the public Burne-Jones' king Cophetus
and the Beggar Maid" one of the most
representative works Of his middle period.
the imaginative painter of the angels of
pity and Of love was unrepresented at the
Tate Gallery. Under the will Of the late
Mr.. William 1mrie. one of the owners of
the White Star Line. there will in due time
be added Burne-Jones' large Free OF
Forgiveness" It shows two fhll-length
nude figures. occupying nearly the whole
of the picture space, projected forward to-
ward the spectator with the anatomy of
the limbs In powerful relief. The picture
was painted in 1882, and first seen at the
Grosvenor Gallery that year in the East
Room, close by the Venetian interior by
Sargent and Watts now widely-known
Dove That Returned Not Again." Mr..
Imrie's 'Rosetti," destined for the Tate
al DIV fc tic tto1xy
pure "Ecce Amelia Domini," painted in
1S49-50, and retouched in 1873 is of almost
equal interest. 1t Is smaller version than
that in the Walker Art Gallery of Dante
Dream" where Dante is led by Love to the
bier of Beatrice. The pictures will be emf
nently welcome when the time comes for
them to be handed to the nation.
Hard on the Stars.
M. Antoine, the new manager Of the
Odeon, the state theater of Paris, is evil
IDENTIFY determined to have no nonsense
over the star system. His posters for
his first production give the names Of the
whole of the company in one and the same
type, with nothing to distinguish the prin-
cipals from the merest cypher in the cast.
By adopting alphabetical order a fur
Their blow is. dealt to a system which it is
anticipated the Edna May incident of ten
days ago will help to do away with alto
gether 1t may not be generally known
that at Covent Garden there is never any
featuring of grand opera artists. The
names Of Melba and Caruso, for instance,
are printed in exactly the same type as
those of the other artists the names being
arranged in the order in which the char
acters are set out by the composer in the
various operas.
M. Antoines departure is, therefore.
only new in so far as he is applying the
Covent Garden system to the bills of ordi-
nary plays Grand opera represents the
zenith of stage art. the specific abilities
of the artists being far and away beyond
any other branch of the theatrical cult
Featuring and starring would seem,
therefore, to be associated with the more
ephemeral side of the stage. In some thea
tiers the practice obtains of printing the
names of the cast in the order in which
they make their appearance on the stage.
Not only does this help the audience at
once to know who's who, but is step in
the direction Of equalizing matters. at all
events In the programs L. H. MOORE.