The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-05-03
From Gay New York


unusual quality Of his voice was OBJ
served by a music lover. who inter
ested some influential people in the
boy, and he was enabled To study
When nineteen years Of age he sang
\ with Mascsgnrs opera company. He
is now but twenty-four. He can sing
in four languages. He will leave in
a few months for Milan, where he will
study until mis- voice attains the high
est it is capable Of He has found
enthusiastic friends in Bonci and De
! Cisneros.
That men are but children of
larger growth" was illustrated by the
crowds of adults. unaccompanied by
the juvenile members of their families,
that filed into Madison Square Garden
during the four weeks it sheltered
Barnum & Baileys circus. And those
same adults are now fiocking there
for Buffalo Bits Wild West Show.
And they may be found nightly at
the Hippodrome. BY the way the
Sioux Indians who take so prominent
part in that spectacular drama of I
western life, Pioneer Days" at the !
Hippodrome, gave a cordial welcome I
to the members Of their tribe who ar
rived few days ago with Col. Cody.
They presented the newcomers with
one and five dollar bills, assuring them
that they would soon be in position
to return the gifts
About Plays and Players.
A delicious bit of comedy which a
New York public is
now Thoroughly enjoying is Sardou's
'Dvorcons" in which the role of Cy-
pienne is charmingly interpreted by
Grace George. With the able assis-
.ance of Frank Worthing and Robert
T. Haines she is putting 80 much
'erve into this old play, that in order
0 crafty the desire OF the many who
want to hear it the engagement at ,
Nallack's has been extended until hot S
weather. compels the closing of this t
heatre's doors. The plot is so we'll :
nown that it needs but cusory men =
ion. Cypienne, young, beautiful, S
ager for the pleasures of life, has t.
cen married to Henri des q
runelles, once a man of the world, .
ow at middle age DESTROYS of living q
| quiet ease, beguiling the time with d
nipple inventions. Naturally this $.
pes not suit the young wife, and ere =,
ng she drifts into an innocent fiirta- a,
on with his cousin, Adhemar, an G.
my officer. The divorce bill is pend y
g in the Chamber of Deputies, and ~
it is passed by Cyprienne extends to
rail herself of it to rid herself of -
enri and wed Adhemar. But neither IN
the men intend to let things come
such issue, the former because he
res not wish the comfortable routine
his life disturbed by any change in
S domestic menage, the latter be- A,
use his income does not permit
m to marry. To induce Cyprienne
elope with him, he shows her
gus telegram announcing the sue ms
Ssful passage of the divorce bill. ce1
,nri discovers the plot, and pretend no
, to believe the contents of the tele- no,
I'M, he offers his aid to the lovers sio
smoothing their road toward mar aT
ge. He contrives to render him on,
t so fascinating, and his rival so loo
iculous while thus engaged, that off
prienne wonders why she could n,
II have dreamed # leaving him, ad,
is relieved TO learn after many f.v
using Ito the audience) complica- ca,
Is that the divorce Dill mas not SUP
sed. To the part of Cyprienne
IS George brings youth, beauty, and -
acity, and that indefnable some. Ell
lg which for lack of better name
term personal magnetism.
is because David Belasco has dis
cred the secret of enduing every
: he presents with the atmosphere N
its locale that he has scored Edi
many successes. This is true Of afte
e Rose of the Rancho" which for Floi
months has been drawing enthus- line
lie audiences to the theatre which seth
IS his name, The elements which ava
II into the plot of The Rose of the vote
cho" are the old ones of love, side
busy. doubt, but arranged to ap- put
most strongly to the eye and ear. and
are given beautiful picture Of niue
in old California on the eve of
American invasion, with its feudal ~ A
ndor, ease, and ight-heartedness. ] N
lie large cast necessary to the per
on of this picture, the honors cas-
all TO Frances Starr, who is one Amo
ent the arch coquette, the next
loving woman, and yet the next