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New-York tribune., 1908-12-22
aep41ork Daily G4ihnaie.
TUESDAY. DECEMBER %, 1905

This ne,cspaper IS otrfsd and p"ot'shed oy
rbe Tribune Association, Ne'o York corpora
.ssn: oMoe and principal place Of business
7,,b.,,e Ry,1djno. No. r58 Nassau street, Neio
York: ogden Mills president; JGnes IL. 60'-
rets. se~etory ord treasurer. The daaTeSS o.
The officer, is the Office Of this newspaper
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

ooipy n, ra aranh will prove TO he justified,
whether those in the first half are correct or
NOT Until there is some definite disclosure Oh
the Interpretation TO be put on the act o' 'ne
official who is charged with its execution anu
Of tie construction to be put upon 1t Dy tne
British courts there would seem to he hard!
sufficient reason for alarm.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22
PASTOR ACCEPTS CALL TO sRooKlfN

The Rev Arthur Mercer. OF Baltimore nAs -.
,epted p call to the Svedenborgan church -. %
New Jerusalem. Monroe Place and C'a' -
BROOKLYN The Rev. Dr- John Curtis Ase'. ..-4l.
pastorate OF forty-four years. resigned as -, ,xVI
and viii leave the church ON January . -. AZ
move 10 Cambridse Mass 20 take VI the dutlss
professor ot theology in the New ChHrch "a
cal school Mr. Mercer Is graduate % -, -
College and of the New Church Taeo10s''-- -
nary
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

And there is a "shorta age"-convey, the
wise call it-in the Lisbon municipal treasury
Of more than $I,O10opO One Of these days, if
this sort of thing is continued. the Portuguese
will come 70 the conclusion that there is some
need of governmental reform in their pictu-
rescue little land.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22
IL palaL Lama has bad hLs aLng in the giddZ

The Dalai Lama has had his fling in the giddy
whirl OF the outer world and now somewhat re
luctantly retires TO remote Lhassa, with pres
tiee diminished. illusions dispelled and mem
ory Of various headaches and chills. The Potala
will never again be what it was, and even as
THE Sincere and Loyal Spreader of Civiliza =
ton" His Tibetan Holiness will henceforth
scarcely rank above q doll whose sawdust in
terror has been disclosed.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22
GOVERNOR HUGHES COMING HERE

Albany. Dec M-Governor Hughes VIII 50 -.
morrow To New YORK 90 attend the dinner % -
New England Society He VIII return return ....,,,svs
Cbristn,as Day with his family at the sxseuH'
mansion
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

In admitting that the through which
his ship ran last week might be sixty feet high
the captain of La Provence makes a gracious
concession TO the opinion Of his passengers. 1t
won't do for d man in his position to be too
exact in such matters.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22
About People and SOcfdf IncfdenTS

, No 1903 Massachusetts avenue for the season. and
| will take possession al once
! Mrs Fairbanks. wife Of the Vice-Presdent viii
| go 10 Atlantic City "Wednesday. to remain sew
| a
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Mrs f r. Hartman will give small dnnsP
dance this evening at her home. on Fifth avenue,
for her debutante daughter. Miss Carol Hartman.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

4 youth may pose as human salamanca
and lave his hands and face in the flames of
alcohol But just wait till next July or Au-
gust. when somebody asks if it's hot enough
to suit him.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

Mrs William Armstrong Greer gave small
dance last night at her house. No. IS West Fh
street for her niece. Miss Noel Johnston. daush-
ter Of Mrs J. Herbert Johnston The glestA ngrs-
bering about fifty. were all OF the younger set
The cotilIon was led By GIVE J.. Du Val, dancing
with Miss Johnston, and the favors consisted cs
fancy parasols and chains of Venetian beads Tor
the girls and match boxes and other trinksts for
the men. Supper ssTved1at midnight after the
dance.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

The report that this country spends only 4
million dollars day for sugar is distinctly dis
appointing. If it is not grossly unjust to the
bonbon consuming capacity of the matinee girl
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

Mrs J. Allen Townsend viii also give a dance
this evening at her home. on Madison ayenus- Tor
her daughter, Miss Viola Townsend
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The Westchester County Magazine Is urging
the purchase by the city of the Edgar Allan Poe
cottage at Fordham as repository for Poe relies.
That little house" says the ma gazine. was
Poes home from JUne, 1876 until his death I'm Ral.
timore October :. lSi9. In the little cottage Of
Fordham his wife Virginia died There he wrote
such Of his poems 'Annabe Lee 'Eldorado
For Annie 'Claume, An Enigma To NV
Mother and the first draft OF The Bells This
house Is easily the most famous literary landmark
of greater New York
Does your husband swear"
II don't knox. have never con4panled him
over The s"h course chicago Record Herald
After long discussion the Chicago cit, Counru
has adopted two ordinances which it is believed
viii insure 4 safe and sane Fourth of july One
provides for licensing dealers sell fireworks and
the other prescribes the kind the small hoy can
make noise with on July 4. and on no otEer da5
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

An American Pompe" is announced in Arf-
zona The real Of the American Eesu-
vius which did the trick is not disclosed.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

Mrs Henry WheIsn. OF Devon, Penn . ne
guest Of her daughter. Mrs Robert Goelet AID
she will probably remain here over the hoiidayl
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones VIII leave toTs 70
day for their country place at Wilmington, y c
where they Will spend the holidays
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

Mrs Georg. Cobb Wilde wilIsivs a thest-s party,
followed by a supper in the Metropolitan Club an
mex on Thursday, January n. for her dsoutants
daughter, Miss Mary McKim Wide
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

General and Mrs J. Frederick Person entsr
=, 5fnrsr last evening at their house. IN West s3d
street.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

Mrs Gerald Livingston Hoyt gave dinner las
,igb+ AZ her house. in East 3sth street
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

,rA engagement Of their daughter. Miss Laura
Tow 10 Richard Gordon Babbage- Of this CITY
Miss Low IS the granddaughter Of the late jams
Low and is niece OF the late Mrs ylt7r HAITI
- No date has been set for the wedding
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

Among the many who arrived from Europe Fes-
+-5sZ- 1-are Mrs whiteIaw Reid and her son. Og
den Mills Reid
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

Mrs John r DrexeI viii give dinner this even
ing at her house. in East SD street
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

N- and Mrs r. Robert Scheu have returned %
town and at their house No 4 East "a street.
he winter
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

Miss Emmy Destinn. Miss Ada sassoH and Nr
Gilbert were the artists yesterday at the third this
season. OF Albert Norris Ragbys musical morn
ings Among those present we're Mrs Ambrose z.
L-inzsIsnd Mrs John Henry Hammond, AiTs-
Francis h Pendleton. Mrs. William Douglas
sloane Mrs Charles B. Alexander. Mrs Richard
C;au1brfII Mrs James Speysr, Mrs William Watts
sherman Miss Mildred and Miss Irene Sherman
NJ. Iaufs t-sss Tedvard Mrs Robert NJ Thomo-
son Mrs John Turner Atterbury and many othsrs
1fr,a SAn,brich will sing at next weeks concert
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

Mrs Henry F Dimock will give dinner tas
evening at her house in East Goth street.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

At the Mansion House tercentenary Milton
dinner in London. on December T. Ambassadors
Reid spoke as follows:
New-York tribune., 1908-12-22

Miss Tornelia GaHatin- daughter OF Mrs Albert
Fl CaIIatin gave small luncheon yesterday At
the New Weston.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-08

Max and Edwin Ford OF 1.-THE Four
Fords." at the Orpheum lately, are
about to branch out as producers They
have been saving a few coins of the
realm and will invest a neat sum in
pretentious vaudeville minstrel act,
carrying seven persons and special
scenery and electrical effects. This
piece win have its maiden production
In Des Moines.
For themselves next season the
-Four Fords'' win have a sketch writ
ten by w. II. Thompson.
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watch. These daily libations seemed,
toward the end of his life, to afford
Henrik Ibsen the one consolation of an
existence whose ingrained melancholy
impressed itself on all who got near
enough to him to converse informally
One day it was borne in upon this
observing old man that those who
haunted the public cafe of the Grand
hotel were, for the most part, his own
fellow countrymen, and that If he was
to be seen by travelling Englishmen,
Americans, Frenchmen, Germans and
Italians, 1t would be necessary to take
up his post in the hotel proper. Ac-
oordingly he chose for himself a table
in a most conspicuous part of the gal
lery, which overlooks the big garden,
where all foreigners take their dinners,
and thus it was possible to be the OBJ
served of all observers" with no fear
of being approached or inveigled into
conversation.
Having taken his seat, the first of
modern Morse writer's arranged his
newspaper his hat, his spectacles, with
all the business of a stage spinster.
Six pairs of eyeglasses were laid out in
a row on the table For every para
graph he read he placed fresh pair of
glasses on his nose, always pausing to
polish them and hold them to the light.
AS he read apparently absorbed in the
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The Re al IbSen
BY PERRIToN MAXWELL

Indisputably the most picturesque
figure In the old world literature of his
day, Henrik Ibsen was at once an in
veterate poseur and a misanthrope.
Nor did he care, whether the whole
world, pointing it's fingers at him, ex-
claimed Sour old man." so that it
noticed him at all. He seemed always
to dread the possibility of anyone pass
ing him without recognition. He loved
the gaze of the crowd as he loved his
daily tipple of brandy and soda. He
put himself on record as a reveler in
pessimism for its own sad sake, and
he was as outspoken in his dislike of
strangers as he was anxious that they
should cape at him and comment on
his personal appearance. Ibsen, great
genius and sociological scholar that he
was, acquired in his latter years the
small vices of q vain child. He was an
intellectual neacock.
To have visited Ghristiania and not
see DIR. Henrik Ibsen would have been
like touring Egypt and missing sight
of the Sphinx and pyramids. He was
the most interesting parsonage in the
Norwegian capital--and Ibsen before
any one was conscious of that fact.
Down the Karl Johanns Gade to the
Grand hotel he walked every day, rain
or shine; when the weather was par
ticularly inviting he paid two daily
visits to the hotel. On such days he
appeared punctually at 1 in the after
noon and again at in the evening.
Ibsen was above all things a method
ical man. His life was governed by the
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No clustered monk was more isolated
from the moving world than Henrik
Ibsen when the fever of composition
was upon him. He ate, slept lived
alone.
Asked why he followed the life of a
hermit while he was working upon d
new production, Ibsen replied with
characteristic terseneSs: II am living
with my characters at such times.
They have form and life. They talk
with me; they dine with me, They are
near me all the time l write down
their conversations, their thoughts. My
work comes along very fast. l never
have to erase a line. 1 have thought
out the plot in my mind; know the
play from the first scene to the last,
even the dialogue, and it Is only neces-
sary for me to write 1t out as quick
as possible. During this time / am not
Henrik Ibsen. do not live in Norway
nor in the world. My existence is apart
from life, in a sphere of my own crea~
ton peopled by beings of my own
creation"
Thus lived the real Ibsen, a two-sided
man of letters and the drama, one all
frills and foppery, vain, supercilious,
childish; the other the thinker, the
worker, the genius. The question was
put to Ibsen whether he favored a GER
tain social institution common to Ger
~
adopted by the Norweigians. Il favor
1t ?" he cried. Il am in favor of moth
ing; 1 have no remedies to suggest.
My plays are not doctrinary. They
tried to read strange, new meanings in
my Peer Gynt.' They looked for prob
lens where there were none. Peer
Gynt' is the story of all human life
presented in epitome; it Is youth, ambi-
ton, love, old age, truth-the greatest
thing have done. 1t will be my mon
ufnent when am gone; it will live
after me-"
Time seems TO be bearing out the
prophecy of this foremost writer of his
race. The world has already accepted
peer Gynt" as a gigantic picture of
human life and emotions and the critics
are agreed that in this wondrous spec
tacle of ever changing existence by the
little old man of Christiania, the stage
has work of consummate art the like
of which has not been produced since
Shakespeare's day
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contents of his newspaper, close OBJ
servers frequently detected the old
mans eyes rowing from the printed
page in the direction Of the people
looking his way. He was a sly old
rascal, was Ibsen. If ladies were among
those who watched him, the rudy face
at once lit up with the radiance of self
satisfaction. 1t was an i'll day for
Ibsen and the Grand hotel when for
eigners were few in the garden. But
the strange old genius was rarely with
out his audience, and the more the
audience stared and fiuttered the more
genial and luminous became the Ibsen
countenance. All this seems incredi-
BILE; it is the fact, and in the fact you
have a memory of the real Ibsen. Few
great men are admirable off their ped
estals; Ibsen was less so, perhaps,
than any of his contemporaries.
From his earliest childhood DR.. 1b-
sens life was an unhappy one, and al
though success came to him abundantly
in his latter days, 1t came too late to
change or sweeten him. He no longer
had the capacity for enjoying the fame
and the wealth which were his at the
end. He was compelled to fall back
upon himself for the greatest gratifict-
ton of his desires. His whims and
fads circled wholly around himself, and
the circle was a narrow one. AS a lad
in the unattractive town of Skten-his
native place-Ibsen's life was sunless
and poverty pinched. Till he was past
middle age he gained neither eounte-
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CURRENT BILLS AT
LOCAL PLAYHOUSES

GRAND-With fresh scenery, faces,
costumes, electrical and stage effects.
the isle of Spice" H. H. Frazee's
piquant musical mixture, comes to the
Grand opera house the week beginning
with the Sunday matinee this after
noon. 1t is only a mythical isle, that
is supposed to lie in the Sea Of Japan,
somewhere between Sakhalin and For
mosa, but 1t always Is summer there,
always merry and tuneful, and the in
habitants live their lives as do other
folks, have their love affairs, their
joys, their sorrows, and make their
little laws. Hence the plot of the play.
King Bompopka takes unto himself
wife every seven years. These wives
according to a decree of the king and
his chief advisers, Lord Kashon, the
court treasurer, and his brother, Lord
Konner, have to undergo period of
training in the Tomb of Silence for
seven years. At the. end of this time
she is supposed to know enough to
hold her tongue, so she 10 released and
married to the king. Teresa, the he
reditary owner of one-half the spice
fields In the kingdom, has been edu-
Gated in America, and while there
meets a young officer of the United
States marines, Lieutenant Katchall,
ana There 10 a mutual lOVe blLdlI. OpOu
her return to her native isle Teresa is
selected by the king for his next wife,
Teresa, of course, objects strenuously
to the tomb" and to the king. Kashon
and Konner insist that Teresa go to
the tomb" in order to conform to
the law, and to further thir own
scheme to place Asbena, their ally, on
the throne. The king endeavors to
have the tomb" law set aside. This
is opposed by Kashon and Konner, who
are planning to get Teresa away for
seven years so as to get possession OF
her rich spice fields.
This is the condition of affairs when
Lieutenant Katchall lands on the is
land with a detachment of marines
from the United States gunboat Roose-
welt. Katchall meets Teresa, learns
the state of things, and to prevent
the marriage places the island under
the flag of the United States. TWO
marines, Mackinaw and O'Grady, are
sent up in balloon for practice, the
/ balloon lands on the island near the
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occasion. It would add another wrinkle
to his brow to discover g. button miss
literature-is surely not founded on the
beaver of his tall silk hat. His clothes
were made of broadcloth of fine tex
ture; his tailor was the best In Chris
tiania. He always wore tile OF
metallic smoothness. His boots were
of patent leather Toilet articles he
carried about with him always and
everywhere, and frequently he brought
them into requisition in the most pub
lie places. While on exhibition In the
hotel garden in full view of cosfno-
politan throng it was no uncommon
act for him to take from his pocket
comb or brush and caressingly stroke
his famous white whiskers, or lift to
greater height his equally famous
white pompadour locks, which stood
straight up in the air like miniature
Mount Blanc. He had a trick of brush
ing his hat with the sleeve of his coat
Now and then he paused, looking long
and earnestly into the opening of his
headpiece. He presented at such a
time the picture of a leonine sage of the
Sagas deep in the maze of some vast
problem of the cosmos. 1t was all "a
mistake. It was Ibsen, critically view
ing Ibsen. There was a mirror fas-
tened in the bottom of his hat, and he
was looking after the twist of his
craYat.
But when Ibsen, the author, had
formulated the scheme for a new
drama, and had determined to weld
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nance nor encourag cement in his own
land indeed, he was deemed a man OF
no ability at all. His work was de-
rided, and over each new day hung the
pail of bitterest adversely. Nor was
his domestic life in an after day a
happy one. At the tine of his death he
was, as Norwegian wealth is estimated,
q very rich man. He was worth $2OO.OOO
and that Is a ~rincely fortune in Nor
way Ibsen did not know what to do
with all this money, so he boarded 1t;
he never could be induced to invest
penny of it. He trusted no one even in
the most trifing financial transactions.
In the face of his cloudy past it was
not therefore, surprising that Henrik
Ibsen grew more and more nissan
thropic and died shrouded in his own
conceit With so little that was genu-
inely joyous in his life, there was moth
ing left but the creature comforts and
the superficial adulation of a few
sightseeing foreigners. F'ame-even I'm
ature-is surely not founded on the
hasty scrutiny of ones person by a
handful of Cooks tourists; but that
sort of thing actually brought COM
placence to the mind of Henrik Ibsen.
Knowing that the moment he left his
house in Christiania he would become
the center Of interest along the streets,
he was always careful to dress for the
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kings palace, and the occupants are
taken for messengers from the sun.
These men are introduced to the KING
by Kashon and as a magician and an
astrologer. The king commands the as
trologer to produce money Tor hlm'
and on his failure to do so. they are
both sent to the Tomb of Silence as
a substitute for Teresa, and then the
king orders preparations for his we'd
ding The lieutenant trains the guns
of his warship on the kings palace,
Teresa turns over the spice helds 10
the king, the sailors are released, the
king marries the candidate who has
been in the tomb" (Asbena) and there
is a happy understanding for all
The musical numbers in the isle or
Spice" have become famous and con-
sist of 1.-THE Goo Goo Man." Peggy
Brady" "Silly Sailors" you and l.
the gorgeous transformation finale,
1.-THE Star of Fate" The Broomstlck
Witches" Uncle Sans Marines" and
Others which are rendered by the great
b. C. Whitney American Beauty
chorus.
THE cast consists of Harry B. Wat
son. Harry Williams. Percy Bacon, Ed
win Lang, Roberta Wilson, Matte
Martz, Lorette Convey, Sam Rose, Har-
ry Gunson and others.
ORPHEUM-With the exception OF
two numbers carried over from the bill
of last week, the Orpheum program
for the season, beginning with the mat
inee tomorrow, is composed wholly OF
new acts, most of which never nave
been seen in Los Angeles.
Heading the bill is Genarre, the &C.
centric Venetian band leader, who car
ries a complete band of twenty-six
pieces, said to be the largest now in
vaudeville The curtain-raiser presents
an interesting combination of thrill
ers. 1t shows a scene i'm Venice, on the
Grand canal. with its bridges palaces
and other accessories of romantic life
in that city. A tinkle of mandolins
and guitars Is heard and voices join in
the melody. Miss K. Carter contrib
utes to the effect of picturesque ro-
nance by singing 30 Sole ME- to the
accompaniment of the guitars. The
band gets in some effective work in
parade through the Venetian square,
with a complete concert of consider
able worth.
Nine. Theresa REM appears with her
educated horses, constituting one OF
the most attractive features of the
bill. Nine REM, who comes of the
celebrated family of that name, is YER
satile and has added to the unique
ness of her act by a daring "serpen-
tine dance" on horseback
Grace Emmett, with a good company
Continued on Pace 5evenl
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and mold It into form, then occurred
his metamorphosis from fop to work
mana workman obivious of the whole
wide world, it's peoples and its passions.
The butterfly drew baqk into us
chrysalis; the feasting crowds at the
Grand hotel could no longer feast their
eyes on Henrik Ibsen, nor watch nm
stroke his whislxers and sip brandy and
soda, at five-minute intervals. The Vul-
gar, vain, foolish old man had become
a venerable giant forging a masterpiece
in absolute solitude. Suddenly he would
shut himself up to write. He would
see no one. answer no communications:
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clock. He had his own table in the
gallery overlooking the garden, and the
minute he arrived a mute but well
trained waiter placed before the shaggy
philosopher and playwright a bottle of
brandy and another of soda. This was
the authors favorite stimulant, and
two glasses of the liquor his limit at a
sitting. With the care of a druggist
compounding d prescription he meas
ured and mixed his drink, which he
slipped, a swallow at a time, with such
perfect regularity that one could tell
off by his action the lapse of each five
minutes with no recourse to clock or
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Fruit Trees

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