New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
STAGE NOTES.


r.5 Terry and Julia Nelson have
-,.yed in The Scarlet Pimpernel' 1910
70. and TIE run seems good for another
sssson, they say.
.,thovch Sarah Bernhsrdt is not to ap-
..,r AZ TIE Hppodrome in New York, she
Fs,l aunear at the Coliseum in London.
- engagement there begins in Septem-
Der.
CIR Charles Wyndham and MARI Moore
..vive The Case Of Rehellious Susan at
~. Criterion. in London. next Wednesday
evening
preobrajensky. Kiakscht, Kyasht, Po-
..b,-zkava Nikolayeva. TschoGkoff and
v.,ssyina are the names of some Of the ST.
p.,ersburg dancers now enchanting the
-strous Of the London variety theatres.
pariowa and MordlKin continue their sue
..ss at the Palace Theatre, where, by the
,sv. Clarioe Vance is performing.
rnen Terry and her husband, James
r.-4v. played in The Merchant Of Ven
49, et the Strstford Festival. 1t is I'M
,ecessary 10 say what Miss Terry's Portia
xss like The whole world knows that.
er- Nr Carew's ShylociS, according TO one
r-,t;c. was an agreeable surprise. almost
an innovation. The Jew. in his concep-
,ioa. was not an old man, rot day too
cid 10 be the father Of Jessica looking
.,o,, seventeen Mt carew speaks his
,,nes in a silveTv voice, MUSICALE rapidly,
,o,,blv. nervously just as one might hear
che Hebrew-Spanish spoken in the streets
- salonica to-day His Shylock has a
al ard e
.,rnle. natural unaffected. sad. almost
usstf,1l Jew There is nothing grotesque
.hout his makeup lie is neither a Fagin
,or 2 -CIoches de Corneville' n1ise-. He is
sn che vigor of middle age. an entirely nat
v-al and convincing picture
az ike A theatre when there is good
,lsr in IT, About TIE theatre ! care lit
u. and about its past nothing at ALL
Max Beerhohni.
.rTbe American public is eager TO read
.-d listen 10 'Chantecier' IN translation
from which the poetic charm has been
thoroughly eliminated. because the play
has made q great sensation But would our
,t.stricaI managers have cared to look
,x,ce at the manuscript OF an American
NAV Of so original q sort. and especially if
!. we're written in beautiful verse like Ros-
,srd's. sparklirs with humor and ononla-
.opoesis and bristling with sly illusions
oyer the heads Of an uneducated audience?
Ana vet il is precisely ny its poetry that
English drama in the past has held its high
rank. at tie present day it is not to Eng
fish that one turns for poetic drama a
drama Of literary merit but TO French
or German or Italian. The countries where
the drama is taken The most seriously are
also the countries where the eInbelllsh-
rents Of verse are not merely tolerated but
esteemed -Chantecler' mag not be q mas
terpiece. nor Rostand q genius Of the high
est rank but the fact that France can
rrczuoe ;f.e.l while America cannot is suf-
sciently ilIuminative. and gives sufficient
Justification for the endowed theatre. -
sprncfe!d Republican.
II is in America that interest in The
One an.l5lersau Passion Play and all that
eoncer1.S i seems TO burn hottest" says
Archtha ID Marshall in The London Daily
Mail" As / write people are crowding
into the town for The final rehearsal, which
Is really tie first performance. tomorrow.
and il IS like an American INVASION /
should say that nine Of ten OF the arrivals
are American, and so it will be all through
the summer They are coming over in
thousands. even from the Far Western
Btstes and there must be hundreds OF peo-
pie now in America who are making money
OFT Of the Passion Play in one way Or an
other There are people who do nothing
but lecture on il in one town or another
wear in and wear out and they can always
draw audiences. and there are actually Gin
ematogTaph shows purporting 10 be taken
from the Oberammergau players. although
no such thing has ever been allowed TO be
ecne here. and none but official photo
graphs even must ne taken
The London theatres are overrun' as those
81 New York will he. with Russian dancers
each Of whom claims to be the principal
Cancer n the Imperial Opera House, st
Petersburg" ''The Daily Chronicle thus
tl18datss:
'Tn Russia YOU become 4 dancer not Only
by degrees but by degree. If you qualify
70 the requisite high standard for being the
principal dancer a. the Imperial Opera
House ST. Petersburg, you are that persol'
vsethe- you really are or not. / will en-
tssrc- TO make it still palmer. however IN
elsuifed i. may seem TO pamper stray dis
Believers It's this way, or this-about just
&c seoord engineer on a ship may, o.
must hoid chief engineers ticket, so any
cancer ct the Imperial Opera House may
fof all we know. possess a certificate enul-
Ing her on an emergency 20 go INTO the
bill as the principal dancer Of all the hus-
Eiss There are some hundreds of prlnci-
pal dancers OF all the Russias, male ana fe-
rale-nostlv. thank goodness, female me
srt Of dancing is very serious business
-E6sed in Russia A Russian dancer Nv
Is fraught with diplomas, or with the strns-
&c for them and IL takes much longer 1or
st Petersburg girl to qualify for the ranks
OF the Imperial Opera House ballet than II
fskes for London girl to become the lea"-
ing dancer al a West End theatre il IL
Part of tie secret nature of the Russians
-aat their girls shall not do their practising
n Pablo"
IN TIE death OF King Edward the tneatreS
nave lost. as every one knows, an ardent
patron. but they will find in due time, Tine
Aonoon Globe" thinks, that King George
not less keen playgoer, and that IN ms
oountenance Of the drama he viii follow
ciosely IN the steps Of MS father Like ms
predecessor, the new King has shown 4
genuine fondness for the theatre, ana NE
"Se has been equally cosmopolitan ~
neVer fails 70 visit the best plays 81 the
sssson with his royal consoTt, and oiteh
axss his sons 70 the theatre. Only TWO
nights before the death OF King Edward