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whom he was prepared to renounce Tor
 the cause that he considered right. en- ters his office again, and in silence they sink into each others arms.
 Mir. Patterson Is not without distfn. guished precedent for his assertion oi a suicidal conclusion to a problem ill., ustrated fictionally. Rudyard Kipins and Arthur Wing Pinero are honorable names for him to quote. The novel of The Light That Failed" may still be bought with its first suicidal conclusion
 the blind hero riding to sure death in a battle because his boyhood's sweet heart has deserted him In his afliction' Or, if you prefer a pleasanter finish. you may get the amended edition In which the girl returns to comfort cheer and marry her lover. None of the several plays made from the story even fore shadows the original deuouement Pine TO altered the last fifty words or so of his drama of "The Profiigate" about as long after It's first performance as Pat terson has with "The Fourth Estate" Furthermore, the cases are similar In advising compromise as the most popu lar, If not noblest course.
 Throughout the drama of journalism the editor heroicaliy puts aside the temptation of the woman he loves, and adheres to moral principle In the Pinero play, 1t Is the woman who holds out against the pleading of her hus- band when she learns of his prohigacy. At last, the man prepares glass of poison and drains it. That. at least
 was the course Forbes Robertson took for three weeks. Then Sir John-Hare ---his own part in the performance over. but his interest as manager still ko,I.--noserved that the people in front were not satisfied. So he persuaded Pinero to make the wife come in full of forgiveness just as the husband lifts
 the glass to kill himself and there is happy curtain. That was twenty years ago, and Pinero couldn't be- the auto. crat he is now. On the other hand. ir hts latest play he follows his story | fearlessly to its logical conclusion | and, acclaimed as an artistic triumph
 it has been shelved after scarce
 month. ,s.-!l., 5yss s s,f asrgf- Is 1t sure that most folks dislike | plays that end with death for the prin, cipal personage? Shakespeare Killed Macbeth, Otheilo, Brutus and Hamlet with gory blades: yet they are his most popular four tragic creations; and who would be missed more from modern plays than Camille. Lady Isabel Little Eva with their narrowing demi'ss? It won't do to generaliZe much about pub- lie preferesceS RoDert EoSsOn iS ttl- ting his audiences see him die and then live again in the same evening The
 mortuary piece is The Outpost" a new breyity by James Alexander, intwhich two lovers of one girl are scouts in a Philippine jungle. Jeff steals letters meant by her for the preferred Billy, but owns up when Billy bravely saves his life. and then gets himself killed by a shot from the enemy. It is extra grim with Edeson very impressive as the Jeff. During the rest of the even- ing he iS a b1rlesque bravo making fun of heroisnf in "The Noble. Spaniard." :"
 The present actor-managers In Lon don won't act in the short preface plays so commonly used there. Their belief is that to go before au audience in one guise and Immediately pass into anoth- CT is disillusioning. Again. opinions may differ. It wasn't long ago that Henry Irving frequently of a Saturday night began with Dickens's grotesque Alfred Jingle and ended with the Lyons mall robber and the imperilled traveller three diverse characters in one bill.