New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
STAGE NOTES

mas long since hailed az a genlsins -.
tragic acting in the grand manner. am
was most interesting TO see how II on.
hyalIed yesterdays audience Despits ba.
ears the actresses dictIon seemed "a d.
u,atio az ever. her gesture as swift and sr
nressiye, her face as eloquent. her ss,,,.
madness in the fourth act as terrible ~,
pathos as affecting. We do not often a.
or hear anything so fine on the stage a,
her "Oh, welcome hone.' in the scens !.
her sons triumph. delivered as IL was w,fb
1nIifted arms and eyes. as a thank oss,.
ing TO the gods: so bitter as her 'eYou
have done a brave deed.' 70 Brutus ans
sicinius after Corfolanus's banlshmeut. a,
so~charged with pathos as her
There's no man IN the v.,-t.
More hound to 3 mother: yet here he let's m.
like one IN the stocks
Indeed. tho whole impersonation 4, f,u
Of beauties: the natural woman Is aneJy
blended with the proud patFfcian. and sbs
enthusiasm Of the house over il was a,
credftabIe 10 the audiences taste as II ws,
to the actress's power.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's latest PLAY. "a
Pot Of Caviare." does not seem to De a
much more interesting composition tha,
his "F1res of Fate" THE London Morn.
ing Post says Of t.:
'sTn the Boxer insuFrectIon certain TO-.
ons frequenting the bungalow OF an aze5
man of scientific pursuits are poisoned bv
rim that they may not fall into the hands
of the enemy. II Is not the first tir,s
he has been in state of siege IN China
and on a previous occasion. although hi.
life was spared because his knouIedge Of
medicine came in useful 90 hts captors, tie
fate of his daughter was such as 70 leave
mo doubt in his mind as TO the right course
to pursue. He confdes only in the colonel.
the others die OF or vrithe and stirau IN
their chairs without notion that anythIns
much is anliss. except Jessie. young CIR.
who too late. divines the professors pan.
The professor does not take any caviar,
himself, and so fs In position whs1 re
relief party, which has been despaa-- as
breaks In to cry do not touch t.z czxi-
arerr The incident Is depIorable. bzs ncs
new-in essence il is 20 be found. 70. II
stance, In Romeo and JuIiet''-yet soms-
how II does not. as handled by Sir Artagr
Conan DOYLE, strike one as dramatic. He
does not interest one in the characters
ones most poignant feelings regarding then
being that the colonel is a singUlariy in.
competent officer SO TO nnisread the position
of affairs. and the professor monster o.
meanness not TO take eaviare with ths
rest
Besier's Don ran six and a half months
n London Produced by Herbert Trench
at the Haynnarket. 10 was moved 70 the
Kfngsway and thence 20 the Criterion
Charles Hartrey, tn The Naked Truth
now has a part which. from all accounts
fits him better than any other that he has
played In years not excepting the well re-
membered one in "a Messenger from
Mars"
The Little Theatre. in the Strand. nearly
opposite the Adelphi Theatre. will be. as II:
name implies, a very small house Il is
intended for bright plays. small companies
and the management of Gertrude Kingston.
who hopes TO give il some such relation &C
London life as the Prince OF Wales's Thea
tre had. years ago, under the management
of the Bancrofts-
! Under conditions as nearly as possible
identical with those of the early Eliza
bethan stage The Two Gentlemen Of
Verona has been produced in London
Why do not some of these persons who
rage for reproducing the conditions" Of
the stage Of the past Try their hands at
Macbeth in eighteenth century costumes,
after the Garrick manner? Light the stays
with candles. and give US Hamlet with
full bottomed wig
Writing of Julius Cesar az the Shake
spearian Festival performance at His Ma.
jesty's Theatre. a London critic says: Mr..
Lyn Harding as Brutus quite failed 70 sug-
gest the intellectual strength. the moral
and poetic rectitude and the rich humanity
which. suddenly confronted with Cassius's
murderous scheme. are SO cOnvulsed that
the noble nature of the man becomes httls
more than a tragic ruin To pass from the
general to the particular. we cannet recall
any more casual impartiRg OF a piece OF
entirely uninteresting information on the
stage than his 'Portia is dead -
OF Lewis Walters revival Of The Ri.
walls Tine Pail Mall Gazette says, Wa
should have been very happy with more
Sheridan and less scenery.
Nine Rejane. in an interview says:
French dramatists are very reticent as 10
their work do not know what they are
providing for me-"
Sir Herbert Tree played Hamlet the other
day and caught train Immediately after
the performance. whereUpon a newspapers
writer thus unburdened himself:
"Oh. that all Hsmlets had train 10
catch. 1t speeds them up so that they
surprise aud delight by speaking after the
manner Of human beings more or less in
terested in what is happening 10 them.
Miss Josephine Preston Peabody Mrs
Lionel Marks. whose prize play. The
fiper' will be produced at Stratford-on-
Avon this week. is described by a British
interviewer as the most interesting figure
oi the whole festival She turns out TO be
not only an American but a delightful
american, young. pretty. soft OF voice and
quiet OF manner. full OF a curious Old-fash-
oned grace that tells cf her native Boston
ana an almost unbelievable contrast % the
',rident type Of American woman ths. most
of us know and all have heard. As she
'at In high-Waissed gown Of wedswood
'lae. with her hair coiIed on top in the
'Id eighteenth century way she looked foE
III the world as IL she could have sat Toz
'hs portrait OF A Jane Austen heroine"
ahe Ehsaeeshsn stage production n
"ndon tnis sprias seems TO have been car
ess satisfactory than the patrons oe the
iech advertised Shakespearian series az
ms Mafesty's had a right to expsct. "ras
pany Chronicle saws. Ma. onlx- wss tkS