The Washington herald., 1907-01-06
ON THE FOREIGN STAGE.

A writer in a Berlin journal pred.>ts
that Strauss 'Salome" viii prove ti.e
most profitable opera ever written.
Charles Frohman has fixed Thursday
January 20. as the date for reinToducing
Edna Nay 70 the longing London public
in the new musical piece, Nelly Neil"
Signora Eleanore Duse is III with pneu-
monia at Genoa The circumstance that
she has been gradually declining i'm force
for long time naturally alarms the
/ friends of the great Italian actress for
the outcome Of her illness. She is forty
eight years of age,
Some Of the remarks Henry Arthur
Jones made about actor-managers In his
/ speeches during his late American visit
4 brought down on him the wrath Of Beer
/ bohm Tree. The two gentlemen have
/ been raking each other fore and aft I'm
/ the columns Of the London newspapers
since Henry Arthur returned home.
/ The London critics have had no end OF
/ dignified fun with Arthur Bourchier's i'm
/ personation Of Macbeth. The gist Of their
/ comment is that he played the part like
/ a quiet, cultured gentleman, whose great
/ est anxiety when contemplating the muir
/ der Of Duncan was TO do nothing that
/ could possibly be considered bad form
/ and subject him to chatting at the club.
/ Speaking of the late Sir Henry Irving
at a recent meeting in London. held for
the purpose of raising funds 20 erect a
memorial to him, John Hare said the
! great actor-manager's character was
| composed of "A mixture Of power. ol
genius, subtIety, Iarge-nearted charity.
/ gentieness, and simplicity which they
/ could hardly hope ever again to see
united in one
over in Rome they believe they have
IN a young composer named Virgilio an
/ other Mascagni- A new two-act opera by
him, recently produced. was begun when
he was seventeen years old. He worked
/ on il six years before he was willing Ia
present it to the public. which shows that
he possesses both perseverance and con
/ scientousness. It is called Jana" and
in style it recalls 'Cavalleria Rusticana. %
For the first time In stage history, per-
haps. the Paris correspondents Of the
London papers are finding eulogistiC
things to say of French production OF
a Shakespearean play anent NJ. Antoine
presentation of Julius Caesar at the
/ OdeoE. The setting of the piece is de-
scribed by the British critics as rarely
beautiful and artistic. and the work OF
the French actors is admitted To be moth
ing short Of perfection.
Another American idea has penetrated
Paris. Heretofore it has been the custom
in France to preserve the greatest
secrecy about plays about to be produced
But Nine Rejane threw this custom to
the winds when La Savelli" was pre-
sented recently at her new house, and
let the public know what sort of thing
they might expect when she appeared
for the first time i'm the dual capacity OF
actress and manager.
In skit now running at one of the
minor Paris theaters the packing house
revelations of Upton SincIairs The
Jungle" are coarsely satirized. The hit
of the piece is made by the discovery in
a patty made from Chicago products OF
a ring that had been worn by a mar
whose arm was torn of in the machinery
and ground up with the other meat Tho
French audiences are said to go into
convulsiOns Of laughter at this grewsomC
I incident