Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 14, 1890, Page 16

N number. I recall Booth and Barrett, THE 1OUNGER IN THE LOBBY, | o Swacho ™std P “Bowers o |1 22042 W. Koeeno, Marie Prescott, Mare * Wain: JO-NEN wright, Louis James, Thirty years ago threa times this numbor were on the road Orders s Bhakespeare Ontgrowing the Theater or | and uh-‘|;ml-m.u.,|. enfm‘m pnrirulhlm‘s r;llho 4 many-sided mind of the man who slecps SRR B the People Outgrowing Shakespoare? sofully amid the scenos of bis hnylwnlhl Solicitid Shakespeare with us moderns is moro of & study than ever, commentators cannot agree PLAYS AT THE THEATERS TH'S WEEK. |-upon the meanine of any two obscure words and_per consequence iho people who go to — Shakespearean performances grow fewer | | ALL ever What ts Doing in the Musical and [ They adiniro the genius of the poet who 1L time, b Dramatic World — An Episode in | Will live for all t t he worlk of tho dramatist grow able with the Which a Blind Prddier Fiddled | dawning of the years, Tus LOUNGER. AND 5, ) P & ; | I Out His Fine. n 7 Inglish 3 Vale ~af g pantor % soveliy a6y, Whick SIZES GONSKCTE Vo Four months of the present theatrical sea 4 an Agragem » b()MA aon belong to the history of tho stage, yet | hights Boyd’s opera house this even- LI B0 N ] N ESN ABOVE BAC during that time we have not seen a Shak spearean play produ bt either of the opera house, nor do the boo show thut Wo are to enjoy 4 Shakespearsau revival for months to ¢ Can it be true, as Tonce heard a sagacious nctor remark, “Shakespeare is outgrowing y of the ns would point to this state of af- st It 15 certainly much moro diffcult to play Hamlet acceptably in our day than it was in Kemble's time, In fact, there has been a y growth of the fon that it cannot slayed atall up to the conception that we rmed of it fon, the question n asserts itself, Has Shapespeare out- grown the ti + or has the theater out- | e well aw are that some eritics will that question and wonder > will discuss in the s. But, my : friends, of superficiality. ~ Clear clear vision wi itatingly acknow that the ulte o6f great thou no thought of comparison in their perpetuity with the performance of at deeds, Nor is their any sadness in the reflection, for ~the al scale of value bears refercnce to character and not t talents, Sa$ what you will, yon cannot get aws from the fact that at thoughts must L modified, recast, weighed in the balance, ad- justed to the changed order of things as the rld moves on, Carlylo will not be tlie naster we believe him o bundred years Tolstol may be regarded in those s the farceurof the nineteenth Will be quite forwotten, e with 0 mies who tried to the world bolie: tthey wero giints in intellcet, leaders in the onward progiess of tho race. To ¢ Plato or a Shakespeare or even a Moses somewhere apen the broad rie of time and decree that mankind shailnot live st that fllustrious monument is te put one mon chain around all the Galileos of the I'he possibility of the world outgrow Shakespears oroceurs to anyboc must confess ivis with o just_appreciation of tho magnitude of the cffront Lam committing to even intimate that Shakespeare may be forgotten “in the coming by . But let us look at the question from a purely literary pointof view, free from the sentimen tulity which surrounds the proslem, and you caniot belp but admit that there exists many grounds for these premises, It that the public knows today than the people of twenty y . Ho hus grown iuto their studics and Lecome partof their pleasures. He lies now in every form of art, and with the aid of commentator and painter he found on_eve sk and on all tables, Next tothe bible, speare 1s the most widely xead bool in the world, 1t would be uscless for me to tell you that the plays of the Avonian poet were not in- tended to be read. . They came into literature by a crooked and devious pathway. The late Mr. Boucicault has clearly this out by his statement that the theatrical properties fashioned with the one purpose of attracting and holding a rude pub- ic through its sensibilities. 1 believe when you fully debate this view of the subject in your own mind you will reudily see in just How far ourpublic has out- grown Shakespeare, and in just how far Shakespeare has outgrown the public he wrote for, ‘W hen he wrote forall time he was a poet when he wrote for Lis generation he was a playwright. The poct will live on in higher, purer atmospheres. Butthe dramatist will adjusted, modified, misinterproted, dis- guised, adopted to the changed and_changing conditions of man, morally, physically, in- tellectually, socially. What are these changed conditions? Just, {ndulge me for a very short time and Iwill try to make it clear. You have seen Salvini play Othello, not once, probably, but many times. In this charicter you s¢o Salvini at his best, and his interpretation of the roleis much nearer to the spirit of Shakespeare the poet than any actor of our time. Andwhy! Because he doesn't sophisticate it intelligenti Be- causo he does not make it conform to On_the other hand, when Booth plays Othello it is coldly classical. Intellectualiy, it is very great, but passion has been relegated to the shadows and the ‘blackumoor” in Edwin Booth's hands is a foreigner to his own soul. On tho other hand, Mr. Booth’s Iago is a magnificent study and in every way worthy the great fame of the leading actor of the American stage. But why is this so? The answer is found, firstly, in the make-up of the man, and secondly, in the environments which surround Othello and which are no- ticoably absent in Tago. ‘When we bring the master before modern eyes we cut him, Expurgation is written upon every line and in this wholesome prun- ing much of the fine wheat is carried away to become the principal food of other nations, while we are compelled to put up with the chaft which remains, We go to Schlegel and read his story in favorof romanticism, Then we hie ou es 10 Ulrici and learn bis theory of metaphysics. Butwe are not satisfied, and after a while we come across this thought of Boucicault's : “Shakespeare wrote his plays for the theater of his time and not for tho fastidious taste of ours, and he and his collaborateurs a keen, practical dramatic or theatric sense of how to reach the somewhat coarse sensiblli- ties of that time.” 1 was reading recently a very exhaustive article upon the Hamlets of the stage by Howard, jr., and during_the course of hi ticle incidentally speaking of the German Shalespearian actors and their grasp of the situations and possibilities 1 the works of the master dranatist says: “Sonnenthal gave us the nearest approach to tho Shakespearcan Hamlet, a Hamlet in which the actor sunk his personality deep in the greater creation of the master mind, There was no disagreeable mannerism to re- call us from the charmed past to the present; originully dreamy, poetic, whose mind becauio neither wary nor unstrung, but whose motives of action wre clearly defined, as Shakespeare doubtless Intended, before cunning commentators and pedantic players began to see subtle and far- otched meanings in every line however sim- pie and innocent it looked upon the face, ““Phe German actors aud theater-goers have been fortunate to have escaped the be- wildering explanatory and commentative ab- surdities unfortunately so intimately con- nected with English ‘Shakespearcan ™ stage and literary - tradition. Shakespeare was translited for them by some of the greatest lite minds of Germany, "Tho night's version of “Ham- let,” for instance, was by Schlegel, and be- tween it aud the original thero is very little 10 chooso for poetic beauty and dramatic strength and terseness of expression, If there is anything to be preferred it is that in the German all the ridiculous quibbles about the significance of words or lines are settled once for all; and German actors have thus been abloto devote their entire atten- tion to the attempt to give broad and poetic interpretations to the drama as a whole, instead of sponding valuable timo in the at: tempt to elucidate points and passages which have only & minor bearing cn the uction of the history,” Tt is significant that such writers for the Prose as A. C Wheeler (Nym Crinkle), Joe 1oward, jr., Henry Guy ~Carleton, Henry Megargee, Richard Neville, daily workers in the active lifo of the newspaper world who have kept in touch with the theater for a quarter of a century, many of them for a generation, do ot hesitate to take the ground whioh I have tried to reflect fu this article. Twenty-five years ago you could have found twenty aotors to have played Lear and played it well How many ucters can you count today who would even attempt the partt s Again. The companies playing Shake- Apearcan roles today are vidiculously few in wppropriate one for the r holiday times, And besides this reputation of being the most expensive organization of i now travelit atorers in this special line, and they sutdone all their previous efforts in this yany embraces the renowned Paul thiand his er pantomi 1t 18 an openin and Tropp, Tha Ful his, be given of thi appearcd their s it has been instantaneo A matin ven Wednesda d that Dounelly is thicker than 1is still nearer to a shadow, and appened ;T ting togethe a ' short time talking over next s . Girard_finally leaned ove and 'in & doleful voico 4 here, old man, this show is not uced.” See you now. round and as fat asa woll fod bishoj I am about ready to do the living skele- dimo museum. St tovios will be getting around soon. They will thiuk that I'm 1ot in it; that in fact we don't earn h to feed two.? looked s g d as_that round 51 faco of his would permit, and it was not fair, but he did could even upa bit, thou “A vou uow? are ) Datielly? Then,” said Girard in o st whisper—one of ' the_ sort ho give, and which ean be hes head Bay to Long Bran:h out of it. Con 0 the chemist's and you order s antifat and 1 will take malt.” It was agreed, They next went to the vhemist. They explained theiv predica- ment. The chemist could give them just the thines. He could make them up himself much better than the ready-made the market. s up nd the men began todie ¥ two dags, threo days passed. Then Don nelly begin to reatest diliculty in getting bis wa about _his never girth and rushed to Girard in greut te “Elere, old_man, look at this,” he cried, “I am_ all bloating Girard turned a palo facc to him sadly wrapped tho waisteoat he was put on almost twice around him. With one im- pulse the men made for the chemist. The chemist lnughed. It wos A slight mis- take. He had mixed those children up, that wasall. The fat man had been living on malt and the lean man had anti-fatted—that was all—but now the men are doing ther level best to get back where they were be- fore, and will be quite content if one can get his stage dresses on and the other kecp bis from sagging. By tho way, Domnelly ana Gerard are to appear at Boyd's next week, beginning Thursday, Decomber 18, in their great suc- cess, “Nutural Gas,” in'a new meter. The next attraction at the Grand opera house is the Grand opera company in *“T'he Gondolicr,” the engagement being for ouo week from tonight, one night only. A fall house may be expected. The Eden Maseo 15 fast forging_ to the frout as n theater second tonone. Manager Lawler has already successfully played sov- eral farce and comedy compauies at his house af the popular prices, but ho has made a new departure this weck, and in the Bijou theater he will present’ the thriling = Eng- lish drama, “The Villige Blacksmith'? or “Links of Crime.” Jean Anthony, the pop- ular young actor, supported by an excollont company, will mako his initial bow in Omaha in this ‘romantic production. The plot of this drama is admirably woven and intensely interesting throughout. In presenting this play to the public at s Mr, Lawler has expended a being confident that the large patronage hitherto enjoyed by the Musee will be auxiliarated by his enterprise. In the Vaudeville theater the Nashville stu- dents will hold the boards this week. This troupe renders the negro melodies of the old plantation slavery days in a plamtive, pathetic or jovial manner that eannot fail to I 1322 LFarnam St COLLARS. ; SHIRTS MADE 700) ORDIER Albert Calin 1322 Larnam St. FIOHNCER S 28 FIOLIDA Y PRESEIN WHITE AND FANCY touch the feclings of all. Tom Withers, the greatest wing dancer_of America, will’ also appear on this stage iu his faney buck and wing dances. J. E. Richards, the vocalist, whose ability as a singer is of national re: nown, is another attraction. The curio de- partment has not been neglected this week. Manager Lawler has secured Donaldson's Traveling World'’s Fair, a collection of rare beasts, curious bitds and creeping reptiles, including the nursing baby monkey, the only oneborn in captivity. T'his isan’ amusing feature for young and old alike. Other standard attractions will aid in making up an instructive, amusing and interesting en- tertainment. He Invaded the Prince’s Rooms. A very funny story comes from Montreal, where Miss Murgaret Mather's company has been playing, John Malone and Gilmore Scott, two members of the organization, were interested, and developments that might have been almost internationally startling were only just avoided, Here is the story as written by Mr, Scott: “Last Friday Mr, Malone asked me if 1 would go to the Wind- sor hotel at 4 o'clock and run over his part with him in ‘Leab.’ Isaid I would. ‘Come to No. 219,’ he said, ‘and walk rightup.’ I went to the hotel at the appointed time and out on the elevator, instructing the boy to let me off for No. 214, He did so. The hall was dark, but after a little unrvew: wondering Isaw No. 217, 1knew thew which the numbers ran. No. 210 was next door. The aoor was slightly ajar, but I politely rapped. Not a sound, not a re- sponse. 1 walkedin, but saw no Malone. “I was furious. He had asked me to come and was not there to receive me, On the wall T saw a number of elegant suits of clothes, beautifully made and of the finest mate: “Malone's swell, auyway,’ I said to myself. “Then I noticed & sword hanging up. It was a beauty mounted in solid gold. = I supposed it was the stage ‘prop’, used by Ma- lone in *The Honeymoon.' The burcau was, loaded down with the most superb toilet articles, 1 picked up a brush, and found a monogram and crest on the back in silver, T was beginning to grow Qizzy at the sightof all this splendor. Sud- denly I'became awarel was in a suite of rooms, and one moment later I knewjthat they were those of Prince George of England, I bolted quicker than can Le imagined, and flew about tofind Malone, who was snugly ensconsed in No. 218, him that L bad visited the prince by mistake, and ho roared, They all say thatit™ is wonderful I should have got in'and out unobscrved, as tho room was constantly guarded by the military, If I had been found 1 should have bad “great diMculty in explaining that I hud no designs upon the safety of the possible king of Eng- and. Fiddling Out His fine. There was a little private and select mu- sicale down in the recorder’s court in Au- gusta, Ga., tho other morning after court was over, which netted the performer, who was biind, the sum of §10, For several days past the guests in the dif- ferent hotels have been every evening treated tomusic by & blind fiddier who made a liv- ing by passing around bis hat afterhe had finished one or two popular selections, such as “Down Went McGinty,” “Where Did You Get That Hatt'ete. He lacks a great i SHIRTS. Allsizes in necks; alllengths in in sleeves. Full Dress Shirts. IMPORTED BATH ROBES. $3.00 AND UPWARD. ALBERT CAIIN, SILK AND LINEN ned Gloves. MUFFLERS, Handkerchiefs. INSILK AND CASHMERE, _Li SILK AND EMBROIDERED Suspenders. HOLIDAY S Neckwear. Underwear and Hosiery. Cashmere, Wool and Cotton. Driving Gloves. Night Robes. Umbrellas and Canes. Toilet Sets & w7 § Collar and Cuff Boxes. FASHIONABLE MEN'S FURNISHER (322 FARNAM ST, OMAHA, deal of being a at artist, but from the amount of money that fulls into his hat he seems to get there just the same, says the Augusta Chronicle. The other night Drury, which is his name, got full to such an exient that he could not navigate. He was arrested and brought be- fore_the recorder. The recorder fined him $10, but on account of his affliction the fine was remitted on condition that he would give the courta few selections. Drury secured bis fladle and in a few winutes the melodious strains of “‘Fifteen Dollars in My Inside Pocket” and *'Way Down in Dixie” were vibrating through the sanctum sanctorum of the recorder, Upon being requested to nlay ‘Little Annie Rooney,”” the blind performer sollapsed and the entertainment was con- cluded. Musical und Dramatic. The above is extremely subtle, and may re- quire a deal of thinking over. Booth and Barrett played’to very poor bus- iness in Boston a fortnight ago. m Reeves, the veteran English tenor, is jugling with'an offer of $30,000 for filty con- Gerts to be given in Austral Sir Arthur Sullivan’s *‘Yeoman of the Guard” has been produced in German at the Friedrich-Willelmstadt theater, Berlin The opera met with great success, Mr. Aronson, is it true that the MeKinley bill's effect upon the price of lamb's vool has some conneetion with the movement in favor of long skirts versus roundly-filled tights and hosiery in comic opera? “Pye Old Homestead,” it has been defi- nitely settled, will close its long run at the Academy of Music, New York, this season, It will be followed next Augus® with “Tho Soudan,” which will be staged for a season’s run, The “Biack Flag,’ “Fun on the Bristol,” “Muldoon'’s Picnic,” and “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” almost complete the list of American productions touring the British provinces, while English productions are to be found in this country by the score. Mr. Richard Mansfield is engaged with the writing of a four-act comedy that will proba- bly be produced by him next season, It deals in”a seml-satirical way with the story of “Don Juan,” though following an etirely original conceit of the author's that gives promise of @ bright and amusing play. From Paris comes the rumor that Sara Bernbardt, moved by the attention attracted by the live serpent which she uses in the death scene of *“‘Cleopatra,” has decided to discharge that animal from the castof the play, Kven the great, the unapproachable Sara is not above professional jealousy. They are very anxiovs in Parls to make amends for their rude conduct toward Wag- nera few years ago, M. Verdhurst, tho new director and lessee of the Eden theater, has gone to Germany to solicit. Mme. Wazmer's suthorization W0 Peatess “‘ledensriu.” Bub | giee of shortiess.” g why Mmo Wagner's permission is necessary The singularly romantic incidents of Mr. Mansfield’s stige carcer known, but few people are aware that his life is mavked by circumstances of a interesting story is told of the peculiar will under which Mr. Mansfield inherits—or does not inlerit, the property left him by his mother. By the provisions of the will ho could not inherit the property until he married. years from the date of the will be- Seven years have Mansfield is still similar character. passed since then, and i unmarried, and the property, which has in the meantime materially increased in value, is still awaiting the actor's abandonment of knows_thoroughly well how it is herself, contributes to Kate Field’s Washington an article on the ** tion of the Burlesque,” in which she s 3 of the skirt in the drama Templeton, who e evolution forms a curious three years it has been rising higher and higher, tights have been more and more ed, and truoks have gradually disap- But the evolution has been so that it is only in looking backsuch a number of years that the wonderful change Theé return of Lydia Thomps this country emphasizes these facts. the only celobrated woman alive who has witnessed in ter time the change from pru to license in_stage adornment, she first became an notress thirty-two years it is true she was only fourteen atthe London andicnces had just been amazed, shocked and interested at a revival of Mii- sic “The Mask of Comus,’ in w a number of young women wore the Gre costume, dressed 10 the heel, but with aslash leon one side that permitted thoe leftleg to be manager dared in those days deliberately to shorten the skirts of her first great dinghood in the seen at intervals. of his ctiorus. successes, the part of Red F burlesqué of that name, given ut the Drury reached down to midway between the knee It was only five years after- ward that her whole leg was exposed. evolution was repid in England, as here, and reached the climax when ‘The Black Crook’ was produced at Niblo's garden in 1806, fore that timg ballet-dancers had worn a sort 1t was fluffy and full, and, though the spectators did not realize it, the trunks were worn to the knee, Fannie Ellsler became famous, even that was objected to, and the authorities made her lengthen her skirts by three inches. W hether proved ou this or not, the fact re- mains that only a few years late jected to the skirts of a balletd and the ankle, of combination skirt. neer because So far as that ¥ 1 feature is concerned, the skirt has probably reachied its final de- HONEY FORTHE LADIES. A revival ot the hoopskirt, is threatened, George Sand--Love is the virtue of woman. One-seventh of the land owners in Great Britain are women. «Tennyson—Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love, This season’s hats are trimmed as much in the back as in the front. Sicilienne has returned to favor as large sleeves for woolen frocks. Black and white striped silks are used for skirts and for dresses entire, Brilliant red and vivid shades of yellow ave at resent a rage in millinery. Tho popularity of silk and]wool fabrics, and checked striped cheviots, continues. Faille royale, faille Francaise, peau de soie and drap ’Alma are among the scason’s silks, A frill of red chiffon is worn around the neck of a black dress, letting it taper to the waist line, A number of energetic Parisian ladies have formed a league for the emancipation of women from the different kinds of social thralldom under which they live, Miss Alice Longfellow, daughter of the poet, is a fine amateur puotographer, and has mado @ specialty of storm pictures taken along the Massachusetts co 10 illustrate a new book of sea songs, which will sqon be issued. ‘When the sale of tickets for the Patti con- certs in St. Petersburg begau, people stood in line the whole of the night waiting for the (}pvnlng of the box office in the morning. Thousands of people were gathered in the crowd, while those actually in line numbered about fifteen hundyed. A syndicate of widows Is being formed to he French government to help Lucien ¢ a renewal of the Panama con- from the governmentof Columbia. This union will be numerically great, as 16,000 freo and independent ladies sre inter- ested in the Panama affair, A young woman who had a check for §14on a certain Detroit bank presented it at the cashier's desk, who politely said: “You will please endorse it, miss.” She took it over to the desk and wroteon the back: ‘‘I'want this money aw/ful bad yours truly please pay the bearer.” Some of the most remarkable bathing cos- tumes seen at Ostend this year were com- posed of thin black cashmere and worn with a while scarf about tho waist. Another strik- ing costume, worn with no corsets and over fino flesh-cofored tights, had a white Russian blouse, embroidered in metallic thread; trodsers confined at the knee with embroid* ered bands, and white buckskin leggins. Here is a newly wvented watch holster for lady riders. Itis on_English device. The Lolster 15 made of solld leather and is fastened to the off side of the saddle by means of a Protected by a glass lid at the top is a silver keyless wateh, which the figures are more than us 1ally dis- is further encased ina v or electro-plate, Miss Lillian Blanche F woman in the last g Chicago union college of During her attendance constant companion, taking notes of the lec tures, reading all the books to her, and wi ing at her dictation uot only tho | signed, but the examinations as well, aring has written several and her poems frequently appear in the mag- white dial, on ing, the only ating class of the is totally blind. mother was her Nine of the clever daughte conforred upon them the dogr of arts at the Royal university 5t commencement. v is now entitled to write 1 Miss Maud Joynt taiued the degree of honors in moder i for scholarship th ems with the men, and, of course e of bachelor in the compe- One of the features of social practice in v yea as beon the show n,be made on ficticious ! Fitzhams desi visions of their own for ¥« Il tho requisites, ries from another, their from a third tradesman and garaish the din- ner tablewith the costly pineappleof the are ouly two women in America on iia of Oficier de 1 ed. and Mrs. Jolin She whom the in is one of them, vears at every entertainmer pride is a small silver medallion bearing an olive branch twined with laurel and per from a purple rivbon, with justifiab with & volumi- ctificate, was presented vy the French instruction in recognition | minister of publ i v pursuits of the distinguiished is described as follows : or, in other words, the stylish m by the ultra fashionable nowadays, grecting each other by a considered properly dor are raised to at least th received another addition, and every one who cares to do just the right thing ‘at the right time should, after the hands are clasped at the height of the chin, wave them ight to left in a slow and delib ng in the phot 50 much by women. very light and flat. is conceaicd ben: tic, thelens forming & simulated scarf pin. It contains six plates about on and one-half inches square, and catches a subject at dis- > of two or threo fect, Tho shuite iing the top button of tho charged by means o ber tubing «d with the bulb ¢ in the pockel itess Taafe, in order to promote the nother-of-pearl industry, vlow ebb, has inaugurated the custom of wing carved mother-of-pearl hairping on In the same manner A ; st in the mdus- r - \press Bugine of I'rance brought prints into fashion to help the manufacturer e, the princess of has br hopoplin_into popular and the royal ladies of England have avse and and despised Harris cloth one of the most univ. s for stieet gowns both in | as London. ‘The society 10 Dres of that state, having purc y the Pow Horn Williamsbure and bought the house at k' ricksburg in Washington's mother lived and di moving to acquire the possession of the older portion of Jumestown, including the yard and ruins of the church t As the liest Bnglish settlement in the United States and the scene of the exploits of Captain John Simith and Pocahostas, it is to be hoped their fforts will succced, and that they will be ablo to save thes: orios as effectually 4s the women of the ry saved the wlies of Mount Vernon. 1. Borlyack, in Vienna, became the agent some time ago fora_ French firm that makes food for young babies. In order that he might distribu mples of the food ads vantageously he undertook a superficial usof the new-born childeen of - the fme ung men whom he en- tain sum am f inhos- pitabio w > wor the and, with the aid of lists without any of Vienna nurseries. 'The result w o fow ( Herr Berlyack was senain baby food hit or miss among the | spinsters and young married couples ) town, The Vieanese mind does not apprecis ate this kind of a joke, and within twenty- four hours Herr Berlyack was i court to answer the charge of insulting an un woman of forty years. He told his ven to the detail that his wicked tukers had misled bim into mai 10 an unmarried Austrian ministor of state s He was 1ot off with a fine in the case in ques. tion, as well as in several others that he spe peared in during the next week, - Bindeididn, Dr. Birnoy cures catareh Bo bligy