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~ idol} ia SA ; THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1909, Kathryn Kidder Returns to the Stage the Coming Week in Her Husbands Piay ‘Actress Who Has Been in Re- tirement for Several Years Will Appear in “A Woman} of Impulse” — Marie Doro! Will Bring “The Richest Girl? — “Meyer & Son” Will Be Established at the Garden Theatre. the stage on Monday evening In K “A Woman of Impulse,” a new play by her husband, Louis Anspacher, which will reopen the Herald Square Theatre. Miss Kidder will the role of an opera singer, ATHRYN KIDDER will return to personality jn the musical world of to- da: This woman, Leonora Veccl, fs the wife of Nerval de Valera, who! gives up his position as an attache of the Spanish Embassy at Washington to be with her. Her sudden !mpulses lead her into situations which are mi: understood. In guarding @ younger als- ter she places herself in what !s re- garded as a compromising position with Phillip Gaudineer, and her husband kills the man. Then she sacrifices herself to save her husband by means of ‘the unwritten law." In the end a recon- eiliation between them Is brought about. Among others in Miss Kidder's sup- port will be Cuyler Hastings, Charles ‘Wyngate, Frank E. Alken, Jane Mar- bury, Virginia Buchanan, Josephine Morse and Katherine Emmett. eee Marie Doro comes to the Criterfon Theatr» on Monday evening in ‘The Richest Girl," a farcical comedy by Gavault and Morton. Benjamine, daughter of “the Chocolate King” and the richest girl in Paris, finds herself 4o the country with a disabled automo- wile, and goes to the cottage of Paut Rormand, a quiet, peace-loving young man. She takes possession of the house, much to the discomfort of Paul, who js compelled to pass the night In an armchair, As @ result of her intru- sion and later developments Paul loses his flanceé and his business position. When he reminds her of her selfishness and the fact that she thinks the world moves only for her pleasure, she loves him for it. She decides to enter a con- vent, but fate throws the two together again, and they realize that they love each other, Orrin Johnson will play Paul, and the cast will also include 1ouls Massen, Frederic fc, Anne Meredith and Beatrice Moreland. oe e “Meyer & Son,’ a play by Thomas jdison which deals with the commer- cial, political and social conditions of ua Middle-Western clty in which a pow- erful Jewish family and a prominent Gentile family are placed in dramatic contrast, will be n at the Garden Theatre for the first time on Monday night, The inter-marriage question !s also involved In the play. A break in the relations between the families of Nathan Meyer, banker, and Major Gr occurs when Meyer tries to se- cure a franchise for a new telephone corporation in opposition to the estab- lished company, of which Gray {8 the head. ‘This affects the love affair of} Meyer’s son and Gray's daughter. The cast will include Wiluam Humphrey, Franklin Richie, H. G. Carlton, George C. Staley, Irene Moore,¢ Ethel Brown- ing and Henrietta Lee. see Among those who have volunteered their services for the Mrs. Lester Wal- lack benefit performance, to be gtven at Wallack’s Theatre on Friday after- noon, are Blanche Bates, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Eleanor Robson, Fannie Ward, ‘Anna Held, William Faversham, Will- fam Hodge and Thomas Wise. For the last week of his engagement at the Academy of Music David War- field will appear in “A Grand Army Man." Mrs. Leslie Carter will give another eae performance of ‘Zaza’ on ey oon of the Hour,” with Cyril Bott as the Mayor, will be the attrac- tion at tthe Grand Opera-House. Eddie Foy, in “Mr. Hamlet, of Broadway,” will be at the West End Wheatre. Mildred Holland will “The Schodl for Scandal” ile ‘Theatre. vr ajamin Chapin, fn “Honest Abe,” will give his interesting charactertza- tion of Lincoln at the Metropolis Thea- be seen in at the York- tre. ‘Beribner's Big Show will be seen at the Murray Hill Theatre The Olympic will have Reilly and Woods's Big Show. Rice and Barton’s Rose Hill Folly company will be the attraction at Hur- tig & Seamon's. Franz Lehar's operetta, “The Mouse- Trap Peddle: will remain the o ing at the Orpheum Concert Gar VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. At Hammerstein's will be Nell Bur- gess in "The County Fa: Waketleld in new “song r e he jn tmpersona’ Howar | orth, That Quart ver Cleop in “A Woman Leander Br and W. © Dill at Keith r Fords and Harry etter from Mother ed and Twenty-fifth Ave Tangus Birdland,” Fettx ¢ @ Boy Next Door,” t raymond. operatic singers, and others, tack Lorimer ead the I Hal tha Scotch World Wilk appear In| “suggested | to the author by a well-known, potent, KAT in “The Maid at the Bath,’ Hall in “The Man Who Dared, Watters and Tyson in travesties well-known plays, Lucy Weston the Heras Family’ of acrobats The Colonial Will have Fiske O'Hara FE DOF Re a.0.80, . and Otto Brothers, the acrobats and La V Annette Kellerma Venus,” comes to Alhambra, to- gether with the aprre Cit tet, "The Gibson Girl Scott in "The Wall in,” Smith and Campbell, Crouch and Welsh, Cas- selli's dogs and the Three Lelllotts in a musical specialty, The bill at the American Muste Hall Drew in “Billy’ Katle Barry, Harry Stella Mayhew and Billie d Nye and Ida Crispi, the English Lloyds, rope-walkers and dancers; the Three Saytons, con- tortionists, and James Casey and Maggie Le Clair in “The Irish Ten- ants.” Divin will include Sydney Tombstones,” Judge and Alma DeVere Joe Walcott, the colored fighter, witt | give exhibitions with his sparring partner, Jack Johnson, at Huber's Mu- seum, ‘Other features will be cess Verona in her Cleopatra dance and the Imperial Japanese ‘Acrobats. BROOKLYN AMUSEMENTS. “The Girl With the Green Eyes” will | be played at Payton's Theatre The Merry Maidens will be at the Empire. ——— 2. DRIVER HIT BY CAR IS DYING. Horse In Jaymmed Into Veatibule and Eggs Scattered, a trolley car at Prospect and Tremont avenues last night. He was hurled | spine, three broken ribs and Internal Injures, At Fordham Hospital it was sald he would probably die. The force of the collision “scooped up the horse, landing him on the Piat-| form of the car and break lass In the vest ack struck Motorm: him through the doors ° eral women became hytt wagon was loaded with | which were scatt “FORGET THE ae Obto Congressman Kills | printion for Ratsing Wreck, | WASHINGTC a | rem embering Maine." T sentiment, senta e Douglas f | House yesterday { k Jorder against an appropmacion ¢ [se the wreck of th yana Har Feb. ne Main rats SARATOGANS TO DINE. annual din Kn ‘The er nty ke “Lost and Found” Ads, Find ’Most Anyih'ng. At Atlantic Garden will be Aj and Rossi in “Heldelberg Student the agos, Tyson and Brown, Harvard! Prin: | “ Howard| of | in “Capt, Barry," George Mozart, Eng- | Nsh comedian; John B. Hymer and company in “The Devil and Tom Walk Charlotte Townsend and company fn “The Troubl Twe Working Is," th Four, Quar- | Agnes | j Substituted, A wagon driven by James Godfrey, al No, 489 Tremont avenue, was struck by | !aue_ performar twenty feet, receiving a fracture of the |M |WULLNER’S SIXTH RECITAL; SAM FRANKO'S OLD MUSIC, Appro-| Sere EIEN MARIE DOORS CRITERION THEATRE @OPVAIGMTT 1905 BURR MEINTOIN.STU. | HAMMERSTEIN'S PLANS FOR NEXT OPERA Baeaete \ made publ! ht some of his plans for next season in Opera House. first {s to remodel the house and give it a larger seating capacity. rand tler boxes will be taken out and four rows of seats at orchestra prices The elghteen proscenium | bexes left will be remodelled and the prices for them ralsed to $2,000 for one the season. nights a week the price will be $1,000 six performances a week Mr. Hammerstein at the Manha the night a week ¢ Jand for the $6,000 for t son. Several Wagn n operas will be In $ repertory, but sung in p Ita d French opera iw As already an will be an en new which Miles. Cavallert, and M, Nett! gaged Kanized. day, the Saturday evenings. 1 nbering e! opera grand comique, Dr. pathetic 1 , Sam Franko's | 4 summer sea bath a ' Chae Chris! harge of a et g 5 i witist Of | paint already belongs in Be Sonn | 8 owned by Mr. John E. B 1M n not on public view, ha hool room of th +t * nsion, Fifth avenu AN H t Sorolla exhit nin its mance artist | wily : ex t f fi gre u Sym Ig- naci vA & The f# nd 1 for at fg yi c e f t 1 c Mr. Ar Milton I 3 ‘ he « {oa “Blaze of Sunlight. { Entering the main ga x ely shade your eyes—for 1 t M h x ar RNA TA RIN BURGSTALLE eR | MUNICH, tle Mrs, Hesarier Onty 1S Miles Away tie nie b I \ever Sing Here Sgatn m > * } ' tl the beach of Valencia, or d 4 to be heard will and opera comique Laya and Melis have been en- orchestra, chorus and subscription performances for the | grand opera will be riday nights and Saturday matl- | scription opera com | es on Thursday Monday, ne season of 1%9-1910 nay) Monday. SORCLLAS 3 SUNNY SPA oe A Local m Over a Gr vante i Revealed. dal wave of bears true and just relation to —for this ts Mngoumned|y, the ving Maphattan treated. Sundays and he yet bee Every day, gg allke, literally by the gen thousands, to | clety, ‘at One Hundred and Fifty-six! | It ts safe to | wonte | aca say ction tion of art treasures w bellying in the su big brown oxen at dst the swirling breake: | sails and adn last One of The For four ne, Tetraz- Labia and men will be this year. Strauss's feature, for Wednes- | and | QOAQUIN lof Leonese peasants, with th opera | caparisoned donkey; which t [ieee works, is o in it destined for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Hispanic | historic landscape scenes. | Ag for the “Triste Heren Inheritance), outwardly f all Sor core or 80 Ire boys, Inmates of museum building of the Hispanic which stands like a temple on a| noble eminence overlooking the Hudson rumored, Soclety acquired a number of the por’ the most thoughtful 1e of th ISH PICTURES Tidal Wave of En- | eat Im- | pressionist Painter | coaiees SU N \V ORSHIP IN COL! OR “OD a thousand Americans who go The Romance Land of Cer-| debut, and three, perhaps, ma s Here Gorgeous- | By Henry Tyrrell. SOROLLA Y BASTIDA, a taken the place of Caruso when the un-Worshipping Impression'st painter | premier tenor has been unable to sing from the country of Valesquez,| and } faction. noletto, Murillo and Goya, came to | The writer had asked Mr, Martin why York in foggy Febru with some | there ts such a scarcity of good tenors, |30) of his pictures, The expected—nay, | With the exception of Mr. Martin nia ie inevitable—has happened. In Httle| self there ts no prominent more than a fortnigi ne, what might }tenor in the company of eithor of our} have been In amere| opera houses, Not only Caruso but pple of artis entoa|nearly all the leading tenors aro And the effect | Italians the cause most bril- man show" to| Jer, we have not heard a satisfactory | has ever aM In- cluded, rain or shine, morning and eve- go. new So- th street— i New York Keeps These. { that m over the All be felt | in the announcement that a number of} important of Sorolla's can-|§ than city’s ore Homeric | the most ‘vases are to remain here permanently These include the grand, Beaching the Boat the loose breeze, their toil rs of the SOROLLAw elr gally- wo repre- are also has traits and | (Sad and olla's ple- 4, cia" of nak asy! Only Three ina Thousand American Music Students May Hope to Win a Place in a New York Opera House Riccardo Martin, — the American — Operatic Tenor, Describes the Ony Way in Which to Become a ‘Recog- nized Artist at Home. RY SYLVESTER RAWLING, abroad to study the art of singing for the operatic stage not more than a hundred will reach a | hope to get a professional engageme It was Riccardo Martin who © young American tenor from Ken- Who has been singing leading | parts at the Metropolitan Opera-House He 's season with pronounced success. | ly has he acquitted himself well [In the roles assigned to him, but he has Dalmores ts a Frenchman and | Constantino is a Spaniard, but, with the Jexception of the latest comer, Carl | | German tenor for several yea Mr. Martin evaded the direct question and adrottly turned the conversation into the bri nader, and, perhaps, more | [Interesting channel of the co! | that confront the American singer who | Bes to Europe for voice training. Not a Musclal People. “Iam an American,” he sald, “from! lation of superb draughtsmanship magical, swift brushing in of color —white sails flashing on a purple sea, | Moorish bridges over the storied Tagus | flowers and oranges and pomegranates ming ainidst dark-green masses of folinge, love's young dream in pagan light and on golden sands, the tendef anxious of motherhood and babyhood, proud old beggar-ruffan ragged cloaks drinking red wine, bo jbuilders, net-menders and sail-makers jon the quays or along shore, girls sort- | Ing raising, and the scenes and occupa- | joyous blue sea—and the striking group| tions of orchard and grange, contrasted with the languorous tocratic interiors, All ments and many more, sprung spontaneously brain and luxury of aris: | these present: | from responsive Sorolla's master- eee }\utoblography In Paint} eee Here, in fact, !8 Sorolla's autob: |phy, vividly {nscribed tn paint. N tenths of the scenes are his nat Valencia or the adjacent shores of Biar- jritz and San Sebastian ehildrén are his own, and the b |senora whom ympathetle iide Garela, | wife. From thé |of the portraits jmight guess what is that the friendship of rar 1s Sorolla's at his command, while he is still In early middle | in 186%) and In the zenith of No more rapid, sure and viv jever made @ dash at the |Ught and motion and got with such eclat. Sorolla Is always ing, for the sake of truth and unity | of Impression, to paint a complete pic- |ture at @ single sitting—and more often | than not he has succeeded In this con- summate tour de force. Ever since as \ a boyish student he painted hi first academic picture In the ope al ring of Valencia he has been p ssed by the passion for light and laugnter and color Coming in, Ured, the other e for even now, here in New |counts that day lost in “ay e does | not achieve six or eight hours’ work on @ portrait or something—the impression- fbie Spaniard cairly embraced Dr. Mar- larly compiler of the cata. tlat otherwise severe and | professional gentleman chanced to have Jon w br red necktie! Oe {Our Debt to Velasquez. { en LD tee |logue. becaus. said this, | | Kentucky, | the ranks of the poo! through which their bodies glimmer, ayn seem to paves Sepracerrirgemeit It was {tious moment you this lyricat tmpetuc us naturally ae Dteathing ngs of my hoart, of my sympathy inspired palater was Velasa the Prado tied this asquez got rie background by one his flowing brush through {t | anne cont Ak Impressionism, } |G ne annem nme nnenrnrnennen rj | ature, the sun Itself, produces ¢ fects on this same le, but susly. The yeasion of evanescent visions i what we make des erate attempt cateh and of mate thing ‘ 1 Arla nor wor a ett thing i sit s ‘ shi absc nirm the Spaniards conte tion 9 c nd com paring these twe nuking moder masters, {f you s happer look pon a bune Uizons at i r even e French im | for the an t eyes, where everything; cans are not mus art of sing It seems | school In which to stu | lends to singin word ends in a vowel. cause of the ease of th voloas spec| ng we m to me, itsol! poses. A nat {development of a | Nearly all the Italian si of reputation w name and to learn oad. the lang shes nge gift a sin take a ho a RICCARDO MARTIN the means it as @ people we Ameri: the best 1age | lof and train him for nothing, To the atives, | veap. If necessary, besides teacher will ad- vance s very small from every point of view—to Keep the stuy No American can live as natives do, Cut Loose From he must cut lo 0 tle, “Me must ff sociates as from ¢ must with the Kk and t with study incessantly, In view. Every against him and he Sheer grit 1 fo he live alwa e 0 talent. Even at his pr the men with whom he clating for years will him, so bitter ‘And the di must, to stceeed until you are hired for ter how small, t whom you live ¥ e to hiss 5 per, the steale| Unfortunately, am pay for a first appedran and some in a troupe. ways at your elbow to so much a theatre can cheap orcl n Americans and send thelr success becomes of t! of them They ome glow! Well America er Y the Middle Wes perhaps, in the far W. ven in New York can't we de American t is no mustcal eny nee in which ur the cs 1 is sure to come, Italians, of their daily of Americ “When the American he finds this cond i He ts a foreisr ing to rob the native bread. He is a b right to }art way of Home Ties. dose from plague, eat habit ys with s hand will an win ont only of will ofessio and has been a to d ay the ir br some sit Agents are suxwest tt are {he is to have any measure of suc- He and and nis goal be real 1 debu out iter ead ang gly al- Fr be hired, with a orus, and rincipal p accounts 2B hem eventua irift back hi be no | velop sooner ot is in demand i from Broadw the arts of Ny? ore ‘when we have passed through the whirlpool of endeavor and landed safely in the lake with acepted ortists.”” TETRAZZINI IN A RINE REVIVAL OF “I PURITANI.” It was on Dee. 3, 1908, that Oscar Hammerstein opened his Manhattan Opera-House with a performance of “1 Puritant Bonei, the tenor who was expected to offset, or, at leust, to divide the vogue for Caruso at the Metropoll- tan Opera-Hous was the chief attrac: on, with little Mile. Pinkert, Ancona and Arimondi in the cast. Mueh has happened since then, Mr, Hammer- steln by his presentation of modern works that the older house \ attempt and by his excellent both old and new operas, drill perfection by |/s masterful conductor Campanini self as an esario, A revival Bellini's tuneful old opera last nig prefore, Was an assured § nt the te but the sop was the chief attraction, aint fairly outd{d herself as [lytra, e has never appeared to better ad- Vantage either as singer or actress. All the Mie stunts in singing for which she {gs famous were beautifully performed. Iler runs and trills and sustained high motes Were surpass ingly good, and the dramatle coloring raz she put into her volee Was accom panied by acting of no mean dimen- Sipns. Her disttaught. mind, brought about by the seeming desertion of her jlover, had no trace of the mad Lucia j It was a distinctly new creation that she presented, and one that was alto gether admirable. se, as Sir Rich never done anything He gang with p) ard beauty of voice, si applause showered e prin na, Constantino, Lord Arth i was Tet and Charpentier and Debussy shrug our shoulders at the antiquated | forms and the artificlallty of Bellini ng as the opera wa sung oy its and sensuous beauty. If Mr At to put the opera sing weeks of his season few will ‘be foun avil ALDA'S DEBUT AND CARUSO'S to and mght well have stepped t Maurice Leloir's famed illustrations of careful t to his ol his late his best, ay:| § As Des Grie | ing of his vole time lavish to He was not wholly although an occasion: so note, ion he ( an the soldie nd the other pai Spetrino conducted there a box gaped er tooth In a ém ten plety's was Feaptta caut ar ly filled, Here and a missing », attesting over music EMMA EAMES IN RECITAL CROWDS CARNEGIE HALL. na Eames gave ar al at Care) | negie“Hall yesterday afternoon that at- tracted an !mmense audience, She was all in white, sage bouque up % per c save for a hat and a core | and the women, who made } t. of the audience, vowed she was awfully sweet, TI were so audible and unrestrained that not a mere lone man could help are and h little the t to vote to maintain their was in good ors di dn't seen not atiee or to n man mly established him- |“ “Crucifix. For an encore to the latter they sang a “Don Giovanni” duet, t | best thing of the afternoon, Hames surely knows and can sing her Mozart, MARY GARDEN TO SING TWICE NEXT SATURDAY. Mr. Hammerstein's bills for next week at the Manhattan Opera House Include ‘a first performance thls season of “Trovatore” on Monday night with stinell!, Gerville-Reache, Zenatello, Summarco and Arimond! In the cast. his occasion Gluseppe Sturant, the juctor of Mr, Hammerstein's Philas delphla Opera House, and the Philadels hia orehestra and chorus will be subs ‘tuted for Campanint and the home players and chorus, “TL Purit with last night's cast, Will be sung on Wednesday, the only zint for the week. 1s announced for Friday, with Zenatello, Sammarco and De Se On Saturday Mary Garden will s at both the matinee and evening performances, { e' In the afters noon and In of Notre Dame at nig with the familiar & casts, ept on Monday night Campanini nduct all the ‘operas ha Elman will play Saint-Saens's violin concerto, with ( mpanini and th d Jay concert to-mor, Constantino wig “Salome” wi M. instead ¢ 48 previously announced, ats P.M, “PARSIFAL” ONCE MORE; VERDI'S REQUIEM en | the Metr “Parsifal” at tan Oper ast, Herta tmptly at ¢ week ans Barteredt tinee, wity RETURN IN “MANON.” repeated or me : t Sunday se last} might u NrOtATOBANINI a rked Frances Alda’s first a = here In the title part and iin to the stage ater a{ — HOME COUGH CURE J rie indisposition, Alda, from a vi Go to your drugg iWeationanalt standpoint, was the ideal M ounce eat It Bacor ound, two looked lke a bit of Dresden s punces of glyce nee Et puree and use It In » a tablespoonttt e bottle each Frevost's “Manon Lescaut." Her act eee , too, especially in the lighter s fer was most Vanenda ule Pratse stops} ANY druggist can supply gredients, short of her singing. Her volce, despite] Te Co fs a pine product a few really fine tones, was of metalite) Tt! | and comes only {2 hardness and bore a conspicious trem-| Halt ounce bottles, each incl in a ta olo bratfd | screw-top case, which Is air and pre+ serves the fhuid tis tn Benzine or Nophthal UNBURNABLE | || ‘WH Cleaning Fluid CANNOT EXPLODE CANNOT BURN Replaces danger- ous benzine and naphtha for all cleaning pur. poses. 15¢, 25, 50c & $1 Everywhere in coin or stamps to. C Go, 8 Send 10c. bona I s to Gar and sample of Carbona, Py Bakes more to ike pound’ ‘than other flour; therefore saves money. for the housewife. —_—-