New-York tribune., 1910-11-20

thousand persons attended The recstns,
are said to have been $4,000. OF which Bern.
hardt received 50 per cent, OF $500.
Sir John Hare cOntradicts the statene,,
which. he believes. mas emanated from,
America" that he is professionally to viyi.
America next spring.
Bernard Shaw's new play. according :,
"The Daily Telegraph" Of London. lis en-
titled The Dark Lady Of the Sonnets.' and
is to be presented for the first time by Ii.
National Shakespeare Memorial Committe,
at two matinees, organized for the benest
Of the scheme to take place al the Hav-
market on the 18th and 18th insts. Tn,
author himself modestIy speaks OF his pieos
as merely an interlUde. which in perform
auce will last only half an hour. The char.
acters are limited to foUr-Queen Elizabeth
Mary F'itton Ghe Dark Lady,. Shakespeare
and a Beefeater. The theory that the DARK
Lady was Mistress Fitton. first put for.
ward by the late Thomas Tyler "a learned
translator of Ecclesiasles). has been
adopted in the interlude. and Mr.. shaw has
avaiIed himself Of the opportunity 70 ex-
pIode the notion that the man SHAKE
speare.' as Baconiaus call him. was al
Hliterate prOletaTian-a mistake which to0s
in even so shrewd genius as Mark Twain
Shakespeare. according 70 Mr. Shaw, was
the son of a merchant, who considered HIM.
self gentleman. and married woman 6.
good family, who considered herself LADY
an time when the modern conception 0:
a middle class did not exist To class hin
with stabIerlen and casUal la5crers, and %
build upon that aDsurdity q theory tnat 70
could not have written Loves La0ors Lost
*. Mr. Shaw contends about a. sensibls
as 10 class George Washington as negro
..Tbe more impartiaIly. the more patisnt-
" and the more respectfully. 50 far as re-
CARDS the laws of critical and legal evi-
drnce. We examine the results OF Halliwel
pti11ipps among the dead and Sidney Lee
among the living. the more convinced 90
We in sorue. cases at least become thz.
almost the whole matter Is a great Psg-
h;.ps' except in two points, that one VIII
lam Shakespeare. OF S-ratford-on-Ayoa.
was as man Of letters. actually the au-
thor Of at anv rate the great mass Of the
work which now goes by his name, and that
ne Was liked and respected by nearly all
who knew him. These things are proved,
The first critically. the second legally and
.ap add considerably. and to the critical
,,robabiiities immensely But legally and
historically we are left. at least in the way
Of c,rtaInties with series OF dates snd
farts mostly relating TO matter OF pure
business and hnance-a skeleton whleh IS
ftss1f far from complete, and which, N
most points. can only be clothed Win ths
flesh OF human and literary interest by the
most periIous process OF conjecture -F1O-
fessor George S4intsbury. in The Cam
bridge History of EnGlisn Literature
something clinsing white, cloudy. ela-
s:ve and eternal hangs about this exJracs.
dfnarv creature of febrjle genius. mex
harstibIe physical and spiritual resources,
aseIess vibrant. fascinating, and unlike all
other women n the world so the word
seems d tribute TO that elusive stranseness
i'm her rather than a sum OF her talents
and achievements She is Cverhuman and
unreal. because nobody after her pattern
or of her fantasticaI atmospheric indiVtdu-
ality has ever come in contact with the o.
dfnary mass of plain. wise. gracious or
otherwise human beings. She is divinity
ard where are those who do not admit her
With beating pulses into their honely, ma
ine idolatry2 She is back. and the years
have passed her by with fingers on thef
lips and the suns and moons and comets
have veiled their hours that no record {"
them should hesitate for a scientific n
stant upon her sphinxIike, irresistible I%es.
and figure
This is the choicest Chicagoese on ins
subject of Bernhard
r. c. Cartons new comedy. Eccentric
Lord Comberdene." will be George Alex
ander's next production a the S. James :
The Cottage in the Air" which falsl
at New York's New Theatre. has IN Hs
English version. Priscilla Runs Away
which was not miscast. reached its leiI
performance at the HaynlarkeJ. LOndol-
The Blue Bird with MaeterIncks new
act. called The Palace Of Happiness. Si
be revived in London week before Christ
mas
Adeline Genee. upon her return TO E1'
rope. will make her first appearance at ta'
home OF the Countess de B6arn in the haV
Dominique i'll Paris. il The London EF
press is correctly Informed The countess
1t appears. has probably the most spleAo4
private theatre in the world II has stag
as large as His MaJesJy's ard an auui'V
rum. sumptuously furnished. capable =
holding a thousand of msdame.s frieA1,-
Here are To be met everybody Who
smartest and most wonderful in ParsA-
society. and poets and dramatists, miiA'.
aires and people of quality all meet sa-D
other in this splendid salon.