New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
NOTES OF THE STAGE.
Sada Yacco Nay Reuisit 4menca-
Demands on COnriedS Charity.

| Sddd ! dccO Ndy KeJl@t Hme'3Cd-
Demands on COnried's Charity.
sada Yacco the. Duse Cor Bernhardt or what
II isl Of the Japanese stage. may visit Amer
! lea again with OTTO Kawakami, her husband They
are going to the Argentine Republic 10 play next
season. and II is their plan TO come from there to
the United States Sada Yacco declares that she
owes everything TO America, SO far as her pres
ent style as an actress is concerned. She declared
recently TO one Of her countrymen that she and
her husband see little hope of improving the Japa-
nese stage at present, owing to the japanese habit
Of sitting at the theatre, smoking ana ch CHAT
will be some time yet she thinks, before the thea
holy place Of poetry and human beauty
In the course Of Nine. Bernhardts recent
gagement in Boston incident occurred which
shows, perhaps that there is truth in the assertion
that actress ambitious in her declining
to put aside theatrcalism and assume the garments
OF modern dramatic holiness. e. of realism. The
performance was Mazda" and four minutes be
still in the throes, the stage manager, by
some mistake rang DOWN the curtain Nine ne
herself Of no vocabulary; but, as she walked quietly
off through the wings, past the stage manager, she
softly remarked to him, That will cost you two
weeks pay"
Mr. Conried received more money from his bene-
fit last week than was first stated. The final
returns Melted him a check for s32,4Oo and some
odd cents. But he says this isn't much as might
be supposed. because already the begging letters
have begun 10 pour in. After the of of
his benefits has been spread abroad. he says, he
gets all requests for several ensuing weeks
some Of which it would require o a Carnegie 9e1
a who represented himself in destitute circum-
stances, with nineteen children to take care Of
Walter NJ Lawrence has purchased a new
comedy from Miss Anne Crawford Flexner who
dramatized Mrs. Wigs Of the Cabbage Patch"
The contract by which William J. Kelley became
an aotor-manager at the Yorkve Theatre has
been extended to cover next season. The follow
ing year he VIII be seen on Broadway. IT is said
tneiudfhg .'R9meo and juliet Hamlet" The
When Mile Yvette Guilbert gives her first re-
cital at the Lyceum Theatre this afternoon the
audience viii find copies of the words of all her
chansons. printed with English transatons by
John y. Raphael (''PercivalO. The aim Of these
translations is apparently TO keep so far as pos
sibe the spirit of the originals, and considerable
departure from the originals has, consequently, re
suited in many instances. Some Of the modern
chansons have been rendered into cockney, and
proper names have been changed. occasionally,
with more rhyme than reason. For instance, 1t
seems hardly necessary to convert French places
into English to make Paris and Lyon London anS
Felixstowe, is done in Entire Paris ct Lyon"
The old sixteenth century chanson. lie Cure de
Pomponne" is rendered with admirable spirit, but
it is little surprising find the cure of Pom
ponne become Father Mike, Of Mayo! Here is the
first stanza Of the translation:
Off TO confess me I did 60
To Pafb Bss Ms ssa h y Fb3ssr pF S6
aid not mind IL in the least"
6 8sIe Fa s6sl M 5f5ss5 hs af Mayo
After narrating how good Father Michael ordered
her 10 Rome, TO expiate her sin and how she in
along for company, and how, hnally, the kind
ltthSI u e, CiIIq GU
closes follows (the translator having. 1t will be
observed, eased the sentenceD:
Nf Barn KISS oa me sfSs Ss 59G F eRS 50
love 70 purge my sins that way
Good Father Mic6ae OF Mayo
In this particular poem the last two lines of each
stanza form the first two of the next. pleasant
variant Of the rondeau form carried into the bal
"a Gu" on her list ballad which of course in
theme is not really new, nor confined 10 France.
best period OF the old Border ballads.
E s. Willard IS reported TO have rid himself OF
an epigram in the of his recent engage
ment in Boston. just what inspired it is mys-
terry Harvard has always been most respectful
and appreciative Of MI Willard Boston, he is
reported 10 have said, us a boyr1dden town.
VIII NJ Cressy apparently has torn leaf out of
Mr.. Howellss book for he has written a one-act
play, winch VIII De performed at HrOctOrS I'D
Street Theatre to-day. with the scene laid in
sleeping car. However, ne goes Mr.. HOwells sew
era better in respect. for he his car 10
appear 10 be moving the rate of forty miles an
hour. Mr.. Howels's stood in the station at
Worcester, Mass, didn't it? Or it South
birmingham? Mr.. Cressy viii not appear in the
sketch himself
A deep mystery shrouds the theme of the play
Rostand is writing for Miss Eleanor Robson, and
IL is made known by her mana gers that this mys-
Va ngf he lnti1 he riseo Of ba
curtain year. Yet all contrive TO
worry through the summer somehow. which ought
10 be mercifully tempered TO fever Of curiosity.
Rigo the Hungarian Gypsy fiddler who has per-
sistently refused all American offers TO appear in
vaudeville the concert stage since his affair
with the Princess Chimay Will make his New-York
debut at the Colonial Theatre next Monday even
ing.
Rgo sailed from the other side week ago on
the big new German liner Amerika, which IS due
10 arrive in this port to-day
FROM MARS TO CHICAGO