New Britain herald., 1917-11-30

de Musset. Dr. Guiseppi Pagello, Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin.
 MT. Cross plays Chopin, the great composer He enters the play and George San6's heart in the last act. He is at reception in the Baron de Rothchilds house. George Sand Is al- ready bored with her Italian passion, Pagello, and she has seat money to his mistress to bring her up to Paris that she may be free of him.
 Chopin has thus far refused to meet her. But George knows the mood in which to approach him. It is the sin gular blend of mistress and mother with which she had begun the con- quest of de Musset in the first act when she said to his mother who at first had refused her attentions upon her son: 'I am at once your sons mistress and his mother" She wins over Chopin, while Liszt, in another room, plays his beautiful compost tion. "Dream of Love-" Both Chopin and George leave the reception room and their whereabouts is discovered from the letter George has written to her publisher: She has gone "to put the poor, tired boy (Chopin) to bed.'
 Although Mr. Cross appears only in
 
 him and Madame Sand, and both play CTS have plenty of opportunity for capable acting. It is a distinct step for MT. Cross progress as an actor in his present appearance with Mrs. Fiske this famous American actress who began playing at three and was star at fifteen.
 New Britain people would recog- nize the same voice and walk of MT. Cross as they knew him on the Lyce- um stage. But that Is all. He Is now more important player. AB Chopin he is dressed in the conventional dress of the time, with blue velvet coat and buff colored trousers and, of course, a wig made up as you would expect a great artist would wear his hair. He is a charming Chopin and looks we'll and appears well besides Madame Sand.
 John Corbin, the dramatic critic of the New York Times, said: 'The Chopin of Alfred Cross and the Liszt of Owen Meech were commendable figures of genius" The reviewer in the Journal of Commerce observed that "F'erdinand Qottschalk is excel lent as the cynical Heine and Alfred Cross as Chopin" "I!szt and Chopin" wrote the critic of the Evening Mail, i "are conventional figures also, though agreeably visualized as young men by Owen Meech and Alfred Cross" Ralph Block of the New York Tribune was pleased that "Alfred Cross Is a quite satisfying Chopin giving the part the tenderness and dreaminess 1t ought to have" and Rennold Wifi in the Morn ing Telegraph said that Chopin in the hands of Alfred Cross is a dreamy, plaintive f1gure.'
 Historically, Chopin left Vienna in 1881 and went to Paris where he met George Sand. His health began to fail in 1889 and George Sand went with him to Majorca, situated i'll one of the Belearic Islands east of Spain. Main ly owing to her tender care, the oom- poser recovered his health for time. Just before his death-he was victim of tuberculosis-he said that the de- struction of his relations with George Sand Gin 1S47) broke up his life. Sand, as was true, of her relations with many of lovers, wrote novel founded upon her life with the composer. The book was called, "A Winter at Ma jorca."
 Any writing which concerns Mrs. Fiske-such as this comment about MT. Cross-should have something to say about that great comedy actress otherwise justice would not be done to her art Mrs Fiske, in all her act ing has eXerted 2 great lntelectual effect She has already said that she considers the part of Madame sand as her best role. Passionate rebellion