The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1903, Page 9

ToT erErrre FN eee . 4 KATE CAREW’S DIRECTORY. — > ee ed The Best Acting of the Week—Mary Shaw and Fred- ih erick Lewis in “Ghosts” at the Manhattan, 4 The Worst Acting—That wouldn't be kind, but Mrs. id Osborn’s Capulet is—er—strange. ne The Best New Play . i The Worst New Play } Warn’t None- i Next Week's Most Delicious Promise—Comte Robert; b | de Montesquiou, at Sherry’s, Thursday. & fae aa id +77IS ever a solemn pleasure to plant the diadem of publicity upon the up- is tilted brow of modest merit. Hence this tardy, but not unsought, e tribute to the popper of the Pink Pajama Girl. 8 Writing from his office at No. 2688 Broadway, that hitherto unsung “—— @enefactor of his species thus demurely lifts ¢he brazen knocker of Fame: 20% bent e a Ign Ls loo ome oO ott “Dear Madam: ‘Lillian Austin,’ the ‘Pink Pajama Girl’ of the ‘Liberty Belles’ Co., is the daughter of J. Austin Shaw, of this city, Eastern Editor and Manager of the Chicago ‘Florists’ Review,’ one of the leading horti- cultural papers of this country. Yours fraternally, (Signed) “J, AUSTIN SHAW.” No, you can't expect to grasp it all In a breath. Let it steal over you “ty degrees. s a ro a R. SHAW modestly refrains from announcing himeelf as a poet, but in- closes a copy of “New Century Ditties,” by J. Austin Shaw, with a half-tone of the author on the title page. All the verses appear to be in eulogy of mere male persons in the trade, For example: Y PLEASANT MEMORIES. ‘ As o'er my travels vast my memory wanders Amid the things that thrill me with delight Are happy moments spent with Edgar Saunders, The man who sees in life no need of night! Always a cheery word and pleasant smile, And beverage inspiring to beguile, The “Little Brown Jug" opened first, then sung! Small wonder Edgar Saunders stays so young! One almost hesitates to turn the hissing calcium of renown on this raw: son of the use, lest he wither and curl up. But no, I don’t believe he will. My only quariel with Mr. Shaw 1s that he has not touched the lute on the paternal string to the lilt of a madrigal or pajamagal. as a a ed ND now for the ineffable Compte Robert de Montesquiou. Sherty’s Thursday. First of seven “conferences” at $35 the bunch, Mrs. Astor ~ at head of patronesses, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt at foot. Tea and music. ; a rad a a "Miss Kate Carew. BAR MADAM: Won't you please write something about the play, ‘Ghosts,’ by Ebsen, because I am quite upset by my husband saying that I did wrong in going to the theatre, and showing me all thé pavers =WORLD'S MY OWN CHUL! -OOLN- OOw-ET * THE WORLD: .SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1903. H OM Ey MAGAZT .THE “< WEEK << AT << THE ~ THEATRES. SOTHERN AT THE GARDEN. containing such terrible criticisms—as if It were a disgrace to be seen at such a play. “I thought it waa deeply sad, though the acting was simply splendid, I thought, but not so much like a play as real life. I know @ lady who has been my friend for years whose life in some ways is almost exactly Ike that of Mrs. Alving shown in the play, ‘Ghosts.’ She has often talked to me about her troubles, and so nave many others—and if in real life why not on the stage? I would like to take this lady to see the play, because it would help her and explain some things. But my husband says ‘No!’ “That 1s why I ask you to write something in the paper that I can show him. Please explain what Ibsen meant when be wrote {t, what do you think of {t, would you advise me lo see {t again, and is tt printed In book form? Yours very truly, 8. H., Brooklyn All of which recalls the Eurl of Beaconsfield’s reply to 4 correspondent: “My Dear Sir: J have read your letter. Oh, my dear sir! Your obedient servant, BEACONSFIBLD.” wt a H, my dear Brooklyn lady! And when Ihave tele- pathed Henrik Ibsen, composed a profound essay On a melancholy theme, and stirred up mutiny In a happy Brooklyn home, ts there nothing else you would Nke? But there, there! Don’t bother your head about the erities, dear Brook- lyn lady, They might be worse. An English admirer of Ibsen has collected a bouquet of the printed phrases} that were hurled at "Ghosts" whin it was first presented| in London, twelve years ago. “An open drain” and “revoltingly suggestive and blasphemous’ are among the mildest missiles in a Billingsgate pelting match that would have our local critics “faded,” as Mr. Devery would | ro ed man being {s here concentrated fn one fascinating picture,” Or this from the French of Jules Lemaitre: “It is truthful and profound. A spiritual revolu- tion, of the greatest and most gpneral interest, is portrayed in it with vigor, with daring, and with a sort of fierce emotion and vehemence—I refer to ths moral crisis und one by the virtuous, meditative and proud Mrs. Helen Alving.” OF, jam Dean Ff dorsement of Mr “But, after all, Bok himself: what one felt was the greatness of Ibsen's conception, The dramatist obtruded himself no more than the actor; they were both there to ex- 5 a most important conyiction in ethics and in thetics, . For one of those moments so rare in the theats ‘e, the spectator had a sense of al- solute drama, Each sharer in that great theatrical event, the g test I have ever known, did well, and some of them more than well.” There, now! Hy) wt stions why not on the stage?” wt w wt UT to “If in ver life, your Alas! | wish I knew, But real life “don't ge the stage in these latitudes “What did Ibsen mean when he wrote {t?" He & himself in a letter, in the reader the sensation of having lived througa a passage of actua! experience.” “Is it printed in book form?! if you ave seary of views originally expressed in a forren tung, sample this, from the pen of our own Will- wells, whose respectability enjoys the in- ly purpose was to evokal < BY < KATE ~< CARE FREQUENT FIRST-NIGHTERS.. . | yes. “Would you advise me to see it again?” 2 H'm! T dunno. ‘Oose wifey is ‘00, and what is his weight ot wt we LY to “Virginia,” Poston--and this {fs official M Maude Adams will reappear next No- vember at the Empire Theatre, New York; there has been nothing de- cided as yet regarding her pla as wt ws HE much misunderstoodsgentles ll man who is conduoting thé Elizabethan Shatespeare show at Mrs. Osborn's Playhouse probably did not intend to hoax the savants who write about such matters for the papers, but many of them gravely in- sisted on belng hoaxed They wrote testily about the in- ferlor production of “Romeo and Jul- fet." ‘They sneered at the bare boanis. They ‘roasted’ the scene- painter for having cone nothing bet- ter than letter some placards “A Street,” “A Gerden,” and so on. They lamented the absence of property trees, and furniture “by” So-and-So (with a notice in the programme) They loosed shafts of wit at Capulet’s rough-house balcony. I wonder is {it too late to announce that these heinous defects were all intentional? I enjoyed it. The show was sym- pathetic to me. I was “right with it.” I hope the manager will do some more Blizabethan plays. Me and ‘Lizbeth gets on awful friendly like. But I also hope that he won't print the programme in red ink that trans- fers itself to kid gioves. "Lizbeth wouldn't a’ stood for that—not much she wouldn't! : We talk about stage “{Ilusions” only because we can't think of a bet- ter word. Stage fllusions don't {llooze. If they did—if Belasco could make you forget that you were in a theatre and believe that you were watching ac- tual occurrences in Japan and Pur- gatory and Heaven—you would be a logical candidate for a keeper and a straitjacket, No. 1.—The Good, Gray Poet of Criticism, ynich Jonds up to this—that Amusements, Amusements “Romeo and Juliet” in the i t- i 0 tng "Bllsgbetbon ‘fake’ at" Mier WUBER'S 1TH ST MUSEUM, TRY. PROGTOR'S_ $9:8Ahin, born’s, without scenery or “effects,” came as near to !lloozing me as any Stage spectacle I ever saw—infinitely more so than Manfield’s ‘steenty- billion-dollar “Brutus,” Try it and ‘convince yourself that Shakespeare is best when he shakes the scene-painter. But don't leave your imagination at home. velock. show ret ae ns Kathleen Mavourcen. IN THE 1, THE LIO! 10 Sig, De triloquiat ; Gots; Frederick the dat $3 Olt AV. blll SL. Dol SL sien ee __ BEST STOCK oO SKATING RINK}: Terseliesate Hockey me OT RRVARD VS, COLUMB Reserved seate Pet Siver 7D LENCOL eats THURS. iig'W yerrit vo rtade WV. ay Buchanan DALY’S 2eatea = The BLO oe WEBER & PIBLDS 8° Bratman THE MUSIOAL, TWIRLY- H q roberiand } Crawford, 1 Stock Fi ye Rosedale, TIETROPOLITAN OPERA-HOUSE, GRAND OVERA SEASON 1902-1903. rr] vt ot Under the Direction of TUR. TAU iT Pi Prices ES, the experiment proves that Fre sg rand’ Popular Concert Koc SCHEFF, BRIDEWBLL, CAMP. Hntire Opera Orchestra, Cond e, Feb. 2, at § ag wi BER PIANO USED.” Joe Welch | Grand! ‘The Peddler’ Sex NBR OP. MAT. WED. EATS CHARLES | FROUMAN present SE CRANE | DAVID HARUM, scibaay OF MUSIC, ttn st. @ Irving Pi AS NEVER SEE: DO! FLORODORA ND GREATER TITAN l orgiastic Belascoisms of scenery and light and color, however beautiful and wonderful and import- ant In themselves, have no business with real drama—drama as 1S drama, Any manager caught spending more than $14 on a “production” of Shakes- peare should be punishable with fine and imprisonment. If you object that the public couldn't be driven to Shakespeare sans scenery, you only prove my case, Let them have the scenery with Harry B. Smith or Clyde Fitch—they will like it just as well. 2 Admtnsion, 80, BROADWAY | WED. MATS 50. NOW a a a OME of the Elizabethans are quaint actors, Popper Capulet outcherries the Cherry Sisters, Mateteda said Bre, 815 eee iaus, THE STICKINESS OF Dut Harry Leighton’s Mercutio is like PASTOR’ Soo RE ish AMERICAN: ST. AND a& generous act in a pawn office. if a Ek eo on ver- 14 & LURK GOLDEN, aMIRL a KESSNER, ¥ Most {mportant of all, Miss Fer-| GEO, FULU:R GOUDEN. SMI & KEsee nanda Eliscu’s Juliet {s an uncom- monly interesting young person. We have had our pale and intel- lectual Juliets with scenery, and our comfy tra-la-la Juliets with Gounod’s music; but this little stranger of a Juliet with an Old Testament name and Japanese hair projects some lava into the Chuliet business. Miss Eliscu is worth weather eye upon. EXTRA BIG SHOW TO-DAY. EMPIRE THEATRE. 0 Evenings, $20. Mais, To MAuestiC aes i, WIZARD OF OZ MATINEE TO-D GAY MORNING GLO Ce IgNT, GRAND CONCERE, tath St. Theai JIM BLUDSO, ‘a “ah Feb. § —AN BiB Mate, Wed 4 THE. NEW SAVOY 7H BOTH TIME TURSDAY. “801 Mats, To-day & Wed With CLARA keeping a ins wb Rrenings, $20. The Girl Wn ine Green Eyes Bi0OL KATE CAREW. - CRITERION THEATRE, way and 41th = METROPOLL ne . x aot 3 Weeks. Eves, 815. Mat. To-day 15. ¢ LV) ’ = Sara <i JULIA MARLOWE he pt GARDEN THEATRE, HE WLY Wohi vn nisin eee 4 Extra Ma Ma’ luee pia INCESS u ; THEA d Mat, To-day BELASCO THEAT RE Victoria. 4 Wi VIOLA ALLEN & WEEKS ms OSBORN'S PLANES . ‘Boe. to SR TNR day, 3 IE 1 WERE KING $.20. Mats. To-day & Thur. 2.3 PLOUis WAN The Cal MADISON a4 CASINO ELIZABETH TYREE in GRETKA GREEN, k £3 pares SCRE te ae ae Wet OME & JULIET. HAKLE aan rp 5 | a pea a | lanhattan, Fre et ah 8 Moin p| WEST END. “The | Pa ol Hong.” MW ONE Neat We ATLANTIC |Modgee & ba ‘KEITH'S, ao ii i —2 =: =: > =? ws —F¥ = =: Ky NEW ROL ps| Aro RAPH, Tornight at 9 | jouwny “ARSHR * MONTAUK ¥ WILLIAM FAVERSHAM — in IMPRUDENCE, ARCHING | Hore, Bc. and S0e say. “The critics,” says a historian of the affray, “seemed to infect one an- other with a sort of ungovernable panic,” Over there they've recovered al- most to the extent of thinking for two consecutive minutes, but over here Ibsen is still a panicky propo- sition, al % Pal OWEVER, if you must have a Hsu of critical comfort, dear Brooklyn lady, you may take your choice of these from the Ger- man: “The play is filled with moral earnestness, There is ab- solutely no ground for outery Against it from the ethical polot of view.” “The play has become a classic. From it alone have gone forth a hundred threads of influence, in fea mont divarne directinns, ree Whatever arouge thi ore ‘ote Ipodern iN Bastor Manders Mrs Alvin (Mary Shaw) CM Wilkinson.) A YARD OF JBSEN. MOTHER cue } | Me THE gu | Oswald (Freak, Lewis) Rig ne Wing? Kline