The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-30
Especial Cable from the Information,
BY IA RACONTEUSE,


BY IA RAcoNTEUsE.
Paris, May 3O.-The artistic attrac-
tions of the capital at this moment
are mainly foreign. Undoubtedly the
finest picture show here is the Dutch
masters hanging in the Jeu de Paume
OF the Ruileries. There is extraordi-
nary force and truth displayed in
these two hundred works of the Dutch
school. You find here the Holland of
the seventeenth century calm and
joyous, looking out with attentive and
seeing eyes at flat green pastures and
windmills reflected in shimmering
waters of canals-great because true
and simple, and never seeking to de-
Jude with false weights and measures.
Then there is that astonishing sor-
cerer Rembrandt, of whom Michelot
said that he OWNED everything. His
genius is represented here by numer.
Gus and important canvases, including
those pure chefs d'aeuvre. The Old
Women with the Bible THE Good
Samaritan" and Christ at Emmaus."
Just as there is nothing in the ex-
hibitions to compare with these Ba-
tavian splendors, SO, in the region of
the opera and the dance there is none
TO surpass the superb artistes from
Russia who are with us at this mo-
ment. At the Opera, where they have
revived Emmanuel Chabrier's Gwen
doline," twenty years after his death
the principal interpreter is a young
Russian prima dcnna--Mlle. Kousniet-
zoff. Not only has she a superb voice,
particularly in her high notes, which
are astonishingly clear and birdlike,
but she possesses refined beauty and
"silhouett" on the stage which are
rare and attractive.
Mile. Trouhanova, another Russian,
| or rather. Polish artistic, has captured
Paris with the grace of her dancing
She is not the first to transcribe music
| In terms of poses and "entre-chats,"
but she has certainly succeeded in Civ
ing terpsichorean rendering to
Gluck, Weber, Chopin and Grieg,
which has been surpassed by none
who have proceeded her in this mod
ern adaptation of a classic art.
AT the "Theater Sarah Bernhardt" a
| Russian season has commenced with
the interesting play La Roussalka, "
masterpiece of Dergonyjaki; at the
| Vaudeville Franco Wiennese series
is in process OF arrangement, whilst
at the Chatelet the height of cosmo-
politanian is reached in the new play,
La Mystere de st. Sebastian" Writ
ten by Gabrielle d'Annunzio, it is to
be mined by the Austrian dancer Ru-
binstein to the music of Debussy; the
spoken parts lin French verse by the
Italian author) are to be played by
Niles. Vera Sergine, young Russian
actress, who has made her reputation
in Paris and Paz Perrer, gifted
daughter of the Spanish reformer.
! Mr.. J. Pierpont Morgan has been at
Florence, writes friend of mine, who
is living in that delightful Italian city
and Florence is, as usual after his Wis.
it's. richer in money and poorer in
works of art.
1t is well known fact that when
the famous American millionaire visits
Florence it is with a view to making
some extraordinary purchase in con
nection with art. He travels about in
a hired landau. attired in a manner
far from beng the modern idea of the
way in which millionaire should be
Iclad, and assumes the name of com
mon person. However, he cannot dis
lguise the endowments of Nature which
were plentifully bestowed in the shape
OF warts on his nose and other parts
of his face. He is a man of few words
He spots" picture, deprecates it,
merits and says, What is the price.
That is his one cry. What is thu
price,"
This year he was particularly in
terested in some canvasses at the Elk
hibition at Florence, which were no
for sale. and belonged to a Prince wht
resided in Vienna. Straightway Mr.
Pierpont Morgan remarked that h,
would journey to the Austrian capital
and offer the owner five times tn,
market value of the pictures, Stain,
that nobody ever refused to part will
property for which he is buyer
Among the Florentines J. p. NJ. mean
Price" and nothing more.
At present there are no fewer thai
seventy thousand strangers in tn,
Eternal City. This is an eXtraordinar,
total and far outnumbers that of an,
previous year. OF course, the attrac
ton is the exhibition in connection
with the fiftieth anniversary of tn,
proclamation of Rome as being tn,
capital of United Italy-more correctl
speaking Disunited Italy. 1t is estimat
ed that Rome will be crowded during
the whole of the months of June an,
, July, as suites of rooms have been en
, gagged at the different hotels and per
sions for people who intend to remain
during that period. Thousands o