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udy NY waiter hlntblSys Will u
tension" dressing room. which 10 de-
scribed IN these words: The room will
contain a powerful Tesla coil and the
walls will be wound with heavy insu-
lated copper wire carrying high fire.
quency positive currents. Tired artists
will enter this high frequency cage anu
emerge filled with ozone and thor
oughly electrified. 1t is expected that a
short visit to the pep house. as the
artists have already termed Il, will
send any act upon the stage keyed up
to blowing Off steam pressure"
Evidently the cold plunges, shower
baths and other expedients Cor keeping
up the spirits of the artists intro
duced last week failed to do the trick.
Eliz Gergely. who Is to be Sayt in
one of the companies Henry w. Savage
will send out this season in the oper-
eta OF that name. is a native OF Hun
gary but had all her dramatic exper-
| fence in this country. Brought to this
city at the age of fourteen, she en-
tered the Morris High School in New
York city. Because OF her imperfect
English she was placed in a grade lower
than she had been in at Budapest
| Ashamed to be in a class with smaller
girls she one day applied to oscar Ham,
merstein for IA position in his opera
! company. He laughed at her and told
her to run home and play with her
dolls Next day she borrowed gown
/ from her mother. put up her hair and
reappeared at Mr.. Hammerstein's Of
! flee. He recognized her at once and
was amused and gave her an engage
ment as a boy in the chorus OF Car
men" She finished the season with
Oscar Hammerstein. Her parents, see
/ ing that she was determined to so on
the stage. had her join German com
panies. so that for three years she was
with the Irving Place stock in New
York and for three years with the
Philadelphia German company. In
"Sari" she will make her first appear
ance in English.
The Selwyns have accepted for pro-
duction next season a novelty farce by
Edwin Milton Royle called Peace and
Quiet" which Is said to be worthy OF
the author of THE Squaw Man" 1t
is described as OF "contemporaneous
international interest" which is
phrase worthy OF the vocabulary of the
late Augustin DAILY.
Mary Ryan will be the heroine OF
THE House Of Glass when Conan q
Harris produce this comedy by Max
Marein in September.
Carl Stall, who next season Is golns
to sing and act the part OF RACE, the
gypsy musician. in Henry w. Savage
production OF the operetta "Sari, Is
genuine original "Florodora" sex
tet boy. That was his first engage
ment on the stage. Previously he haC
studied voice In Milan under Giulio Mo
retti for a year and then under Franz
, Emerich in Berlin for three years Al
. ter his engagement with "Florodora" h
returned to Italy and sang In CRANE
opera in Barese. He Is native OF Gin
clnnati and was educated at Canasiu
, College In Buffalo. His father was
wealthy grocer. Mr.. Stall says that o
the Ave boys with him in the mrs
. production OF "Florodora" only on
other Is now on the stage. The remain
a ing four are successful in commercial
a pursuits.
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STARS IN VAUDEVILLE.
what the Theatres VIII Oner This
Week.

Houd!ni viii walk through a brick
wall this week at the Victoria Theatre,
which seems a wonderful achievement to
a man who finds Broadway too crowded
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in laughter at their squabbles. The two
successors to Alexander Carr and Bar
ney Bernard are admirable. There are
qualities in Potash & Perlmutter" which
seem to promise Il longer life than
most Of the dramas put on the stage
every year. II is verltable kosher
slice of life that will delight spectators
of every kind.
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IN THE OPEN AIR.
Resorts Near the City for a sunday
Outing.

The dance contests continue in the
Castle summer House at Luna Park and
Vernon Castle often acts as judge and
gives brief talks on the principles Of the
art. Then there are the free vaudeville,
the band concerts and all the varied
attractions OF the most popular summer
park at Coney Island.
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NOTES OF THE MOVING PICTURE
WORLD.
New Programme Mt the Nitngroph
Jhrntre This Week.

The Vitagraph Theatre will offer three
novelties tomorrow and there will be
in addition to this new programme a list
OF picture plays released during thu
week. The Vitagraph Company has alsc
secured The rights TO five Of the Inos'
popular stories OF Cyrus Townsend
Brady.
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William a. Brady has arranged with
Sir Charles Wyndham to produce IN
London TOO Many Cooks" which is
still such a success at the Thlrty-n.nth
Street Theatre. In all probability
Frank Craven will act the same part he
did here. Five companies will play the
farce in this country next season.
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London Will soon see The Dummy"
which is probably American enough to
make as great a hit there as II has at
the Hudson Theatre. II is unfortunate
that Ernest Truck cannot play the young
hero there, as such a youthful aspect
combined with such skill in his profess
sion is rare. Then the cool villainy Of
Edward Ellis ought to be part of every
performance OF the play.
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Glen Island has one great natural
beauty in its flowers which are always
carefully cultivated and have been for
years one Of the most attractive features
Of this resort Then the lawns are a
pleasure to see. For others there are
the Tyroese cabaret and the other sights
OF Little Germany. To-day there will be
games Of water baseball and water polo
during the water carnival on the bath
ing beach.
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North Beach has two free fireworks
displays They are held on Thursdays
and Sundays. There is the largest bath
ing pavilion on Long Island Sound for
those who enjoy the facilities Of the fine
bathing beach.
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kitty Mackaye" is still to be seen at
the Comedy Theatre and will in all
probability continue TO be given there
during the early winter months. The
first appearance OF the second company
will take place on July 90 in the North
west
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The Palace Theatre is to be equipped,
according TO a bulletin issued yester-
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Joan Sawyer is at the Palace Theatre
this week dancing with Benne Dixon and
Nigel Barrie. She will soon be seen In
a ballet which has a scenic background
by Leon Bakst. Adelaide and Hughes
are also dancing at the Palace. and the
Seven Foys are also to be seen there.
Belle Baker and Ruth Roye are also
held on the bill along with De Haven
and Nice, who are to be seen in a dance
described as 1.-THE Tangle Footed Monkey
Wrench" Then there are others OF
the quality that the Palace offers always
Laura Guerite will appear at the New
Brighton this week, along with Harry
Carroll, who wrote the music for The
Passing show OF 1914" Laura Hamil-
ton will dance with him Wlnsor Nc
Cay will show his wonderful moving pic
ture Of Gerry" Then there are two one
act plays, The Blue Diamond" by John
Willard. and ITO Save one Girl" by
Paul Armstrong.
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PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

Roy Cooper McGrues Under Cover"
which has been a success during the
past season in Boston, will be produced
simultaneously in this city and Chi
cago some time during the month OF
August. In this city the play will be
given at the Cort Theatre. while in Chi
cago 1t will be acted at the Cohan
Grand Opera House,
II. b. Warner has been engaged 10
head the Chicago company, which will
also include Isabel Irving, Rita Stan
wood. Ruth Donnelly, T. J. McGrane
Earle Mitchell. William Courtleigh, Jr.
and Frank Kingdom. william Courte-
nay. Lilly Cahill. Lucille Watson, Rae
Selwyn and Ralph Morgan are in the
New York company.
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1t has been decided to bring 10 the
Manhattan Opera House the company
which has been acting The Story OF
the Rosary" for the past two years ii.
its entirety, and n new company will be
engaged to continue the London run
The scenery and costumes will also be
brought from London. The play viii be
acted at the Manhattan Opera House in
Septpmber,
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Henry w Savage will start his sea-
son with two companies in "Sari " one
company in Along Came Ruth" and one
in Walter Browns morality play EVERY
woman" He will make original pro-
auctions later In the season.
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Lawrence Reising, author of ut Can
Be Done" has written new comedy
which will soon be produced by the
Shuberts. It is called Apartment X
IA" He has also sold plays to A. II
Woods and w. A. Brady.
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Eta Hager has been engaged as lead
ing actress in the company that will
support Victor Morley in the Pollock
Gordon play MY Best Girl" in which
Clifton Crawford was first seen. Miss
Hager has been heard in "The Gelsha"
and THE FREELY"
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Mary Ryan will be the heroine or
THE House OF Glass when Conan &
Harris produce this comedy by Max
Marein in September.
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hold appears 10 have been sympathetic
10 French culture. Miss Cassatt was
not more than five or six years old
when she first saw Paris. and she was
still i'm her teens when. having made
up her mind 10 become painter, she
began the life abroad which she has led
ever since. She had had then no seri-
Gus instruction, and for that matter,
her temperament inclined her 10 rely
for her training more upon the mu-
seums than upon the schools. She went
10 Italy, and for eight months lived at
Parma. sitting at the feet of Correggio.
Then she went to Spain. Presumably
she was interested IN Velasquez but
she says nothing about having felt his
influence on the other hand, she
speaks Of her enthusiasm for the works
Of Rubens in the Prado. and. in facr.
next turned her steps TO Antwerp.
where for a whole summer she devoted
herself 20 the Flemish master. There
followed a visit to Rome and after that
return to Paris, where, in 1874, she
permanently settled herself. NJ. Segard
tells us Of her mistaken loyalty to The
French capital. She has never been a
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The point cannot be pressed TOO far In
this instance or i'm any other a mas
ter does not utterly modify his style
with every change Of theme. Inc
Gainsborough Of this portrait Is un-
mistakably the GsnsbOroUgh Of the
Hon Anne DuncOmbe.' But the dit-
ference is sufficient TO Justify the cita-
ton of this work as an illustration OF
the gusto-and the peculiar success
with which eminent painters. famous
for their portraits Of women. have now
and then attacked their portraits OF
men. Is il that they experience Ger
tain liberation Of the spirit? We have
heard one Of the most brilliant Of mod
ern painters on this subject He SAID
that none Of the women VINO had sat to
Linn had ever asked him. in 80 many
words or even by indirect hints, 10 mix
nattery with his pigments. But he
added with humorous sigh. 'soT g.
how ! feel all the time the force Of an
unspoken plea Man surely has his
vanity. but il may be that al the best
some sporting instinct. and at the
worst a Kind Of cowardce, keeps him
from exercising a similarly subtle ext
gencc.
I'm the exhibition OF French portraits
which is al the Enrich gallery there are
several characteristic portraits OF
women. and ordinarily these works by
L.argilliere. Van Loo and Vigee lie Brur
would make their due impression. But
as il happens-and to our entire salts
faction-they are cast completely in the
shade by the portraits Of men. There
is something invigorating about the
Antoine Coyzevox" Of Rigaud. II is
true that the red face Of the sculptor
is ovcremphasized. but one condOnes
this for the sake Of the free and for
chile manner in which the rather
pompous bust is drawn. And there are
two other portraits Of men in the show
which are sources Of pure delight one
OF them is painted by woman. Aimee
Duvivier. Not even the more renowned
Vigee ever demonstrated more clcverly
that a woman. once in blue moon.
may paint as well as man. This
MARQUIS d'Acquevlle" is really
brilliant performance, especially as re-
CARDS the fine craftsmanship which 50
accurately and with such a note Of
style expresses every essential detail
The Young dandys lace iabot offers by
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i.gs 10y Miss Cecilia BeauX. most of
them old friends which if is delightful
TO see again. This artist has a notable
facility. and beneath il some sterling
technical qualities The Salmagundi
club is making its annual exhibition of
Illustrations, black and white pictures
and etchings 10y members. At the City
club the paintings and sculptures 10y
Robert Vonnoh and his wife which
were recently at the MontrOss gallery
have been placed on view. Paintings
by Charles P. Grippe are at the Katz
gallery Portraits in water color by
Miss L. NJ Barnard. of London, are at
the Arlington gallery, pictures by Ram
dali Davey are at the Carroll gallery,
and at the Photo Secession there are
paintings by Marsden Hartley. The
Strauss gallery shows paintings by A..
Champollon. \ comparative exhibit
tion of the engravngs Of Durer, Lucas
van Leyden and Marcantonio may be
seen at the Ederheimer gallery. The
,Prang gallery shows the modern art Of
Austria and Germany as applied TO in
terror decoration, advertising illustra-
ton. and so on.
The collection Of old masters formed
by the late Leon Hirsch will be placed
on exhibition at the American Art
Galleries next Saturday morning. The
sale takes place in the grand ballroom
of the Plaza Hotel on the evening Of
January % 1t is apparent from the
catalogue that this group Of some fifty
odd paintings is one OF high impor-
lance The Dutch and Flemish schools
predominate but there are some inter
esting Spanish and Italian pieces
REYNOLDS. Lawrence Turner and other
English masters also figure in the list.
I'm the French section there is an eX-
ample Of David which from the repro
duction shows that here. too, Mr.
Hirsch sought and found the best. His
PORTRAITS and pictures are accompanied
by an unusual number of favorable
opinions from leading critics. \ few
pieces OF old sculpture and three or
four modern paintings round out an
assemblage of works Of art which may
hc expected 10 make something Of
sensation.
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Continued on seventh page.
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Some Eighteenth Century Por
traits of Men.

The great period OF llght, decorative
elegance in art was emphatically "A
period of feminine influence. Fashion
able taste has reasonably enough
looked for some of its most character
istic souvenirs among portraits of
women, But fashionable taste has
been unfortunate in its comparative
neglect Of the portraits Of men. and We
welcome every sign of a new DISPOSE
ton on the part of the American coll
lector TO redress the balance. AS was
noted in The Tribune of January 10 in
review of the loan exhibition OF Brit
ish portraits al the DuVeen gallery, the
glittering company OF court beauties
there commemorated has n witchery
due 10 the subjects as well as TO the
masters who painted them. But how
good it is 10 encounter i'm that world of
lovely women portrait like the
Charles Frederick Abel" Of Gainsbor-
ough The old musician was himself d
courtier. like So many Of the artists
ing table, quill in hand, with his viol
da gambia leaning against his knee. he
is not by any means lost in the fine
frenzy Of composition. He. too. is en-
veloped i'm the stately atmosphere of
his artistocratic milieu. Here, OBJ
viously, is the man who was chamber
musician to the Queen. Yet it is plain
that Gainsborough. like every great
artist in portrature. rose ardently TO
model. seized upon the chance TO sim
plify his method using in his brush
work the bold. rather than the caress-
ing, touch which was within his scope.
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jealous traveller. From 1874 to 1881
she did not quit the city or its en-
virons. and though she has long had
beautiful country house at Mesnil-
Theribus. il is significant that II IS on'y
two hours away from her Paris home.
The first work that she sent 10 the
Salon. in 1872. was a picture OF two
young women throwing bonbons IN the
carnival. II was painted at Parma and
clearly showed, ST. says. her feeling
for Correggio. In 1873 she sent the
picture of a girl offering glass Of
water to a bullfghtcr. The following
wear she was represented by the head
Of a young girl which she had painted
at Rome under the influence of Ru-
bens. When her Offering for 1870.
portrait Of her sister. was rejected she
OWNED that the jury had not been sat
isfed with the background so she
painted il over again. lowering the KEY,
which had been found too light. and in
the next Salon the same portrait was
q.
fused. but this time had no occasion
TO do her work over again. on the con-
trary. at this moment Degas asked her
to exhibit with him and his friends. the
Impressionist group then rising in,o
view. and she accepted with JOY. a.
ready" she said. II had recognized who
were my true masters. / admired
Manet Courbct and Degas. | hated
conventional art. Now began to
live" That had been a lucky day for
her when. at the time of her stay IN
Antwerp. she had made the acQuaint-
ance of NJ. Tourny. the man who had
copied the old masters for Theirs. He
was walking through the Salon of 1871
with Degas one day when he stopped
his friend before the portrait in the
manner Of Rubens mentioned above.
the one sent from Rome. The great
artist looked and said: That is genu-
inc. There is one who sees as / do
II was TOurny who ultimately took
Degas to visit Miss Cassatt. and it was
on the occasion of that visit that he
asked her to join his circle.
She helped to make history. When
in the spring of 1879 Degas and his
comrades organized. at No - Avenue
de rOpcra. the fourth exhibition
through which they sought TO challenge
the official wing of the French school,
they were still outlaws, but were be
ginning TO make themselves felt. They
got their name from impression, the
title OF a picture contributed by Monet.
Degas didn't like il. He wanted them
TO call themselves independents II
they had done so Miss Cassatt, too,
would have been pleased. She was
thinking then Of a broad independence,
not of any tradition, old or just in
vented. The merest glimpse of the
atelier of Chaplin, to which she seems
to have been introduced early ir her
career. was enough to confirm her dis
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been put there, perhaps. only by "a
woman. But the qualities which make
that work of lasting value are those Of
which YOU can only say that they were
put there by good painter Degas.
with his sardonic humor, once looked
at a picture Of hers and grufIiy made
denial that a woman could draw 50
we'll He has always been one of her
loyal admirers and one Of her most
helpful critics. ". Segard has pad
her a tribute both generous and just.
It will be pity if his book is not
translated into English. There must
be countless readers here who would
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New Light on Miss Mary Gas
satt and Her Art.

once i'm while there arrives book
on art which is, in it's way, quite as
opposite quite as fun Of the life Of he
moment. as any local exhibition Sucn
"a book we recognize i'm Mary Cassatt:
Tn Peintre dcs Enfants ct des Meres'
q richly illustrated little volume which
NJ. Achille Segard has just published
I'm Paris. II has double significance
FOR the American commentator In the
first place. il IS good To know that tins
fine painter has thus been honored
i'm France. where she has long made
her home Secondly through ;he in
teryention Of NJ Segard we are for the
first time vouchsafcd some details on
the career of an artist who is as mod
est and reserved as she is brilliant IT
was indeed time for the publication Of
biography OF Miss Cassatt. Surely.
when we are flooded with all manner
of facts relating to pretty nearly every
winner Of "A small popular success. we
may justly enough be permitted t.
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itself a passage of extraordinarily good
technique. Apropos Of this matter o.
costume. the gorgeous waistcoat suS-
gests that Mile. Duvivier was not, per-
haps, fully instructed in the difficult
question Of values. She ought to have
painted that rich floral pattern. on its
light ground. with a little more reserve.
But taking the portrait as whole.
looking 10 the skilful placing of the
figure. its delicate detachment from the
background. and the charming effect
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the later decades Of the eivh,,.
fury and the first hail ., ,he',-
'eenth. Bodily wss never a srs, !. =, ~
and sometimes the sentimer,.s. ''s
which he was wont to lapse I.sS.- ~
pictures a little faded. They /,
the saying goes. and the o,s e h
subject seems to carry with /, ''''.
fashioned manner especially /. = y
to composition. On the Other A W.
we have said. Bodily could a. a
when he is content to do tia, r.
at life without any roman,I. 'a'
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This is golden time for the connoiS-
seur. There are pictures everywhere
and Quantities of them are worth sec
ing. The remarkable loan exhibition 'i
eighteenth century English portraits al
The Duvcen gallery had scarcely got
under way when another of kindred in
tcrcst appeared. This is the show OF
paintings by Gainsborough and Turner.
from various private collections. which
was opened at the Knoedler gallery.
like the Duveen show. for the benefit of
the Artists Fund and Artists Aid So
ciety. Some Of the other affairs now
current are traVersed below, and still
the list is not exhausted. There is a
capital exhibition at the Women's Cos
mopoltan Club of portraits and draw
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which is got out of the old desk and
the bust which crowns it, one cannot
but feel that this forgotten artist had
the root of the matter in her.
\ good pendant 10 her handsome
work is supplied in the jean Baptiste
Isabey' of Louis Bodily, that neat
craftsman who is best known TO col
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MATTERS Of ART
$7 'g a1s, S. 49,
Miss Mary Cassatt-Flitherto Uncu6hshed
Facts Relating to Her Work and Person
ahty-A Rare Portrait Of Her
Old French Paintings
Ignacio Zuloaga.
u, ROYAL CORTi>~OI.

know a little about the evolution OF
really substantial talent
Miss Cassatt spoke conciseiy but
freely to her interlocutor Imprcssing
unon him that she was thorough
American. she went on TO add that heH
family was of French origin. bearing
the name of Cossart when the first Of
her ancestors to come To this country
left his native land i'm the seventeenth
century. IT was not long atterward
that her mothers forefathers came here
from Scotland. The Cassatts have al
WAYS been established in Pennsylvania
and the artist was born there, in Pitts
burgh. something over sixty years ago.
Her father was a banker Of liberal ed
ucational ideas and the entire house
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be glad TO have it. They would value.
too. we know, the frontispiece, re-
production of the only photograph or
the artist that has yet been published.
Long ago Degas and Pissarro Dota
made portraits of Miss Cassatt oit
these have been destroyed or have gone
astraN.