The evening world., 1910-12-15

ERNHARDT and La Tosca!''
X There's n combination hard TO
- beat! To see the sublime Sarah
as Tosca Is a dramatic education in
Itself, for II is TO see her in her most
striking, II not her greatest. role. Long
after she Is dead her tombstone will
throb. In the Dyes of the world, will
the emotions OF Floria Tosca.
II was not surprising, therefore. 20
find the Globe Theatre packed TO tho
doors yesterday afternoon. All the
boxes were filled, there were two extra
cows OF chairs in the orchestra. and
only the roof stopped the audience from
going farther. And Il ever women were
fascinated by woman It was on this
same p~aipitating afternoon.
In spite OF a slight h~oarseness. Nine.
Bernhardt rang as she always rings
when she Is on her mettle. There we're
times when she seemed to be saving her
energies. and the long waits between
acts Justified the suspicion that she had
no intention Of exhausting herself be-
fore the evening performance.
But her coquetry at the beginning OF
that terrific third act-"starred' in
black letters on the programme-was
delightful. 1t was like sunshine before
a thunderstorm, or a child playing with
fire. The cries of the tortured lover,
always narrowing to the nerves, were
inercifully subdued. Bernhard. unlike
Sardou. has learned not to revei In nor
ror. Only her soos have grown more
terrible with time.
The stabbing OF Scarpia, too, was done
MNNl m V.fntYaHNu. - As,a - F.a.. a.
the bitter disappointment Of my melo-
o"nmatic soul! I'm sorry to say that
tire killing was rather tame. Sarah
,untented herself with one lunge "A:
S'arpia's breast instead OF driving tn
tie knife a second and third time and
tdcn turning IL around, as she used to
a.. The horrible struggle between tho
g. furiated woman and the wounded
man that the book OF the play tells
ycii about in the funniest English ever
writ wasn't as horrible, as It sounds.
and when Sarah wiped the blood of her
ands II was all too apparent that there
vas nothing TO wipe.
Some of the matter-of-fact women IN
;ie audience giggled at this point. just
IS they had laughed in the wrong place
W1en l. Tos' a, in her agony over her
overs torture. calls Scarpia bdci;
1glin and again before she betrays
Angelotti. The merry wives and maid
,Is evidently thought she was Coquet-
ling with the sinister gentleman. In
tie love scene that had gone before
sarah was n charming mixture OF ador-
ton, Jealousy, coquetry and ill-tcmper.
When Il woman OF sixty-seven can do
1It sort OF thing ~she-well, she must
e a French woman,
The S'arp!a of NJ. Maxudian deserves
1cre than q passing word of praise. In
lane. Berphardt's company there are a
umD<r Ct capaH,c actors-but NJ. Max
Ian IL an artist IN II class by himself.
re varied approximations he las given
sight well he taken as models by some
: our actors VINO trust To "~persorallty''
~ carry them along. II vas only tho
Njner day. tina: his actor played Chr, st.
yesterday his Scarpil was a finely
"o.scd triumph OF sinister cunning. a
. feature OF intellect and passion with
1lt humanity, Italian TO the core, tar
an dn the SWIFT play Of expression, and
alan ab9ve AL IN mis- impersona! pur-
at ~ his victims, 1t was a fine per-
:ornnrce.
-THfS beats the Dutch. r. II, Suth-
ern Is going to play an English
Shylock with German accompani-
aent when Ernest Won Possart comes
3, town. The great German actor. wl.o
.Cglns an engagement at the living
PLACE Theatre on Dec. %. will turn
aoout In the interest of fair play ana
act Shylock in German to Julia Mar
H..-E- Dbl. -. A. I'll