The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1910, Page 19

The Even New Plays Possart’s Shylock i Is Shakespeare Brought Down to Earth. BY CHARLES DARNTON. BRMANS are giving their greatest actor, Ernst von Possart, an enthusiastic Weloome at the Irving Place Theatre, where the distinguished visitor | crowding the house at Bernhardt prices. Last night Herr von Possart appeared in “The Merchant of Venice.” His Shylock 1s Shakespeare brought down to earth. In seeing this production you nay have a few tiine-honored {lusions destroyed, for It 1s so full of realism (hat there js little poetry left. But you will have at least one full-sized, able- bodied thrill, and that's something you don’t get very often in home-made pro- Juctions which treat Shakespeare with such reverence that there's hardly any eal life left in them. Although these German actors take Shakespeare very aturally they make the (rial scene unusually dramatic. It is here that they get urprisingly good results. Possart doesn't bother about hat our actors #0 often lov to the trial scene is a common “racial grandeur’ and the other majestic things J into the part. ‘The Shylock that he brings mixture of greed, hatred and revenge. He Uke fingers to snatch the precious bond; he whete his knife savagely on the sole of his shoe; with a wolfiah gleam in his eyes to seize his victim, ‘The knife Is quiver- ing above Antonto's breast when Portia halts the Jew with a word The rest of the scene is played with the knife occupying the centre of the stage. When it fatis from B Shylock’s hand it burtes he floor and there it stays. It's all over but ‘he shouting — and ow Antonio's joy- ul friends did Their last night! shouts ¢ asized Shylock silence. Possart’s Jew 1s a broken man indeed. 80 broken that he cannot walk alone. This is the only moment when you feel the slightest eympathy for him Although he touches his head at evety mention of Abra- ligion. To a decided Yiddish Ernst von Po: Shylock. Gertrude de Lalsky as Portia. ham, the Rialto seems 1 ore to him than his r accent Possart adds gestures ordinanily used here for comedy purposes only. But &is clawing fingers and his relentless eye keep th Shylock from being funny He Is always sinister, in a mean, ugly way. From first to last Possart is a reallst. Some of the minor parts come in for strang oh, whom we know as a ha comedy character by a tall yor ass. The youth who played Ls b ttle regard f le treatment. The Prince of Arra- shty, self-important grandee, was played as a ig man In a blond wig who acted like a concetted incelot Gobbo rattled away at a crazy pace with sof the part. Miss Gertrude de Lalsky was not sways successful In ¢ and warmth, but her acting In the trial vene was intelligent Antonio was completely overcome by emo- Jon when the decision went against him, but he bore up as Shylock went down md took the coun’ the sin Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers Love and Gossip. -afi OUNG people, do not gossip. And do not listen to gos- y sip. Few things cause more trouble than listening to ‘what he said about you" or “I heard her telling some one thus and so about Mary.” ‘The foundation of love or Ming 1s trust. Ef you cannot truest a person do not friendship for him or her, and if you do give your trust refuse to Hsten to the unkind things other peopi€ may have to say about the object of that trust. In any case you should Mke people for what they are lo you, If they are loyal to you it is not your place to question their loyalty to ¢ rs. My dears, there is an old fashioned rule (but 4t 1s never- theless a very good one) our grandmothers used to say: ou have not something kind to say about a person do not say anything t remember, boys ind girls, do not gossip. oves Fier, Another Girl. man who signs his let- A 1. 8." writes ave been calling fre- quently upou a young lady and I have fallen bi love with ly She 1 a ver nice girl in every way, with the excen tlon of one fault. She drinks intoxicat- Ing liquors. And I do not approve of this, What shall 1 a Explgin kindly to the young lady why you 4 not approve of the habit, and ask her if she does not think enough of you to give tt up. Not Attentive. A GIRL who signs her, letter “V. A” writes: “A man I know has told me he Joves me, and I told him I loved! hind, But he does not pay much att j reason I have ceased to call, because tion to me. In fact, he {8 more atten-| when I did we would frequently q tive to another girl. This makes me] rel and she would become very | very sad. What shall 1 do?" sulting. Was 4t not wise for me to ‘Treat the young man tndffferently, | coase my attentions?” and do not feel that you should a I surely think {t better to cease to wpt his attentions unless he is will- call upon @ girl who was frequently fing to confine them to yoi insulting. YOUNC GIRL who signs her letter “1, P.”_ writes: “I am in love with @ young man and engaged to marry him. He used to call steadily upon another girl before he was engaged to me, he apparently gave her up, but re- cently he has been calling upon her again, Is this right?” Have @ plain talk with the young man about the other girl and find out exactly how he feels. If he cares more for her than he does for you it is better for you to find it out at of A Bad Temper. ter “R. T." writes; A “I like a girl very much, but she has @ terrible temper. For that YOUNG man who signs his let- Gleaned From Here and There. — aré over 170,000,000 acres under wheat cultivation in the world. China Is spending $200,000,000 on the rehabilitation of her army and navy. 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To “do good, for good ts good to do,""|who profit rarely heed or r means 80 very many things that are| It means being | veld test member. on each day's record, It will They will scurry over the bricks of} wash out much that the world values your little helpfulnesses and kowtow {and that {ts raucous volce has praised. rton, gypsy,| broad as life and pitiful as death. It/open-moutied to plaster and stueco) And, seeing th 4 Will soon learn to worn bribe! Means a generosity of mind, which is’ sham, whl use your Iittle path !care as little for its valuation as for its much more than a generosity of ¢. and then leave it to the weeds of for- applause, AO / 09 pe sand for feet that etumbie and are un- certain. Te will not be motioed: tor those } bac i | 1taneans @ yielding to others the priv!- Ketfulness and the waters of oblivion.| And you will tind that you are brea Tear the ‘old woman’ from your breast, | ieee Of uninking for. th and They will take your little gifts of Ume ing cleaner air, purer eter, You are not and wait—the tinkling the camel's | having a mind of their own, It means and effort with the uation Of fearing a ghoulish visitant, with reward bell." being sympathetically helpful when ad- small change, and wratitude for in one hand and dire threat in the other The “old woman" means fear, and tn] vice ig asked und uncriticaily silent! ostentatious ¢ toh that costs Instead, yo art (s attuned to a low, Arabia death son a black camel, | when it ts not, It means a sharp analy- | nothing. sweet call (hrough desert silences—faine Bocording to belief. So the Mnes are sis of one's own thought and deed and| And you will become furuiiar with the | and and very t the “tinkling worth something as @ Year 18) giving the benefit of the doubt to the |aloes-taste of “benefits forgot | of the camel's bell,” about to roll up its curtain, lother fellow. It means putting one’s) But then can you turn back to the) And so ast you Await the coming Our reasons for “doing good" are too| self to personal inconvenience to do nd bis ‘ ‘ame! ri free of hysterical |many, We'need to be simple-to do something helpful or kindly, for whic woman, ou el ex. | good for good's sake. We need to get one will receive little credit, leas thanks, You ta nm, You have chosen tho wiser jaway from the Idea of reward either and no reward. |sham gods ¥ n part d the recbipense of quietude is |here or in @ iife to come, That {8 bar- And all this is not easy. Much of tt ts done your | alt + wlready yours, | ter. j irksome, most of it is thankless, all of and you are with y nN LAfe's violent coloring attracts less. We need to get away from fear, That it is unexciting. | soul. As you have in little things and Jught turns from noonda fe, to buy future safety by present phil-! But it 18 doing good for good's suke— | for others you have builded all unc heat to moonlit wastes—to the velver anthropy. That also ts barter, We need doing the right thing quietly, steadily, | sotously for yourself, and your humbte stillness of desert sands—to the hush to do good as the day comes and passes, It is the faying, brick by brick, of a rick path has led you to ways of p and peace and mystery t I ywita which ls much more dificult than a@ little walk through marsh and quick- aptness and py At promine Phantom camel-rider nod, for good is good to do—and for w that line es your luminous and tender and whose kiss means the beginning of life, Tee Gita oD ” er 29, Ca 1910. Another ARSENE uu LUPIN Story | Copyright, 1010, by Maurice Lebiane.) AYNOPSIS 0) CHAPTERS, The kceat the Count de Geavres, ip. is entered by Wurgiaw, The ¢ Suzanne, and Ini niece, Maymonde, are awakeie ig we. The 4 emful of . falls, “The senseless ia lily room, tary, John peries, by happened. it ferorters pry ore Beautrelet, who shows nis points Lapin, ‘cleverness the mystery the’ Picked up on the In the. er he house "On. the boty i om of th fo publish ‘a Jad"s solution | CHAPTER IV. (Continued.) | he youngster, This is one of those blows which A man must expect when rushes headlong into the fray as you did. The | Worst disastera lie in wait for him. The destiny of fighters will have tt so, We must suffer ft as bravely an" Then, with a sort of he continued: “You were seo: We are not enemies, I ha first I felt for you, for the intelligent r known It for long. From the very you are, Jereature that an involuntary |Sympathy—and admiration, And that Is why I wanted to say this to you—don't ‘be offended whatever you do: I should be extremely sorry to offend you—but T must say ft: well, give up struggling against mo Tam not saying this out of vanity—nor because I despise you but, you wee, the struggle is too unequal, You do not know—nobody knows—all the resources which I have at my command. Look here, this secret of the Hollow Needle which you are trying #o vainly to unravel: suppose for a moment that it 1s a formidable, inexhaustible treas. ure—or else an invistble, prodigious, fantastic refuge—or both, perhaps. Think of the superhuman power which I must derive from it! And you do not know, either, all th mirces which T have within myself—all that my will and my tmagt nable me to under take and to rtake successfully, Only think that my whole life-ev ince I was born, T might almost say: has tended toward the same alm, that I worked like a convict before becom- ing what IT am and to realize, In its perfection, the type which I wished to create—which I have succeeded in cre ating. That belng 4o—what can you do? At that very moment when you think that victory Mes within your grasp it will escape you—there will be something of which you have not thought—a trifte “0 grain of sand which T shall have put in the right place unknown to you, 1 entreat you, give up—I should be obliged to hurt you, and the thought distresses “And, placing his hand on the ‘a forehead, he repeated, “Once more youngster, give up. I should only hurt you, Who knows {f the trap into which you will Inevitably fall has not already opened under your footsteps?” Beautrelet uncovered his face. He was no longer oryin heard Lupin's words? One might doubted tt, Judging by his tnatten‘tve air. For two or three minutes te was allent He se to weign tne docision whieh ho Was nbqut to tine, to examine the reasons for and against, to count up the favorable and unfavorable chances, A last, he sald to Lapin: “If T change the sense of the article, if T confirm the version of your death an? if I undertake never to contradtet th false version which T shall have sanc tloned. do swear that my father will be fr “T swear My friends have taker your father by motor car to anoth provinctal town, At 7 o'clock to-morrow morning, df the article in the Grand uirnal ty what T want !t to be, T abal! Jephone to them an mur father t “Very.well,” sald Henutrelet mit to your condittons."* Quickly, aw though he saw no object tn prolonging conversation after ac copting his defeat, he rose, took hts hat howed to me, howed to Ly and went out, Lapin watebed him go. Vatened te the sound of the door closing and mut tered: “Poor Uttle beggar! they will restore Ivherty.”” “T sub At § o'clock the next morning T sent my man out to buy the Grand Journal It was twenty minutes before he brought me a copy, moat of kiosks bein already sold ont ded the r with pap feverts), let's article appeared on | I give tt am It stood and quoted in the pross of the » few sentence ital process rat have uh inve etn mnatract 4 say the 1 tra | Ambrumesy. In my work and the jJudgm: tails, deductions, indu " and only a minor degree and, in any case, are monplace. No, I shall cor with setting forth tw I followed; and. seen that, In so #6! n sol » tw » they ralne, nay told the story just as it in the exact order of different incl. dents. Tt may be said that some ese in cidents are not proved and that [ leave too large @ fleld to conje That ts quite tr But, in my v my theory 4 founded upon & suMclenty large num ber of proved fa » be able to say that even those facts which are uot proved must follow 1 the strict logic ents siream is so often y bed ors inde less the intervals an pela me st Phe first riddle that confronted me, a riddle not in detail, but. as a whole, w how caine It that Lupin, morta wounded, one migh’ say, managed te live for five or six Weeks without ng, Medicine or food, at the bot @ dark hole Let us start at th sinning, On ursday, he 16th of 1, at 4 o'clock in the mo Lupin, surprised n the midd) nis most daring laries, rans away tng to the Srul by the path lea ina and drops down she “The Hollow Needle” By Maurice Leblane He drags himself painfully along, fatis again and picks himself up in the des perate hape of reaching the chapel. The chapel contains a crypt, the existence of whjoh he hax discovered by acckdent. if he Ban burrow there he may be saved. By dint of an effort he approaches { he iy but a few yards away when @ sound of footsteps approaches, Hai assed and lost, he lets himself go, enemy arrives. It is Mile. Raymond Saint-Veran his is the prologue, or father the first scene of the drama, What happened between them? This the easier to guess inasmuch as the of the adventure gives all the necessary clues. At the girls feet lies @ wounded man, exhausted by suf- fering, who will be captured in two minutes. ‘This man has been wounded by herself, Wilt she also give him up? If he is Jean Daval's murderer, « she will let destiny take its course. But in quick sentences he tells her the truth about this awful ynurder com- mitted by her uncle, M, de Geavres, She believes him. What will she do? Nobody can see them, The footman Victor ig watching the littl door, The ther, Albert, posted at the drawing- room window, has lost sight of both of them, Will she give up the man she has wo ? ‘The girl ts carried away by a move. ment of irresistible pity, which any woman will understand. Instructed by Lupin, with @ few movements phe binds fs the wound with his handkerohlef, to nd 1 the marks which the blood would leave. ‘Then, with the ald of the key Whioh he gives her, #he opens the door of the chapel. He enters, supported by the wil, She locks the door again and walk# away. Albert arrives, If the chapel had been visited at that moment or at least during the next few minutes, before Lupin had had time to reoover his strength, to raise the flag- stone and disappear by the stairs lead- ing to the crypt, he would have been taken, But this visit did not take plac» until six hours later and then only in the most superficial way, As it fs, Lupin ts saved; and saved by whom? By the girl who very nearly killed him. Th rth, whether #be wishes it or no. int-Veran ts his accom- plice, Not only 4s she no len to give him vr able . but she ts obliged to ntinue her work, else the wounded man will periah in the shelter in whieh ® has helped to conceal him. ‘There- © she continues, For that matter, if her feminine {n- stinct makes the task a compulsory one, It aiso makes it easy, She ds full of artifice, she foresees and foremtally everything. It is she who gives the ex- amining magistrate a false description ot Arsene Lupin (the reader will re- nember the difference of opinion on this subject between the cousins). It ‘8 khe obviously who, thanks to cer- tain signs which T do not know of, sus- pects an accomplice of Luptn's in the driver of the fly. She warns him, She informs him of the urgent need of an eration. It 1s she, no doubt, who substitutes one cap for the other, I¢ is she who causes the famous letter pe written in which mhe ds personally threatened, How, after that, & % pos- sible to suspect her? It \s she who at that moment when ! was about to confide my first im- pressions to the examining’ magistrate pretends to have seen me the day be- fore in the copsewood, alarms M. Fi- eul on my score and reduces me to “ft 4 dangerous move, no doubt, ve t arouses my attention and Mrects {t against the person who as- sails me with an accusation which I know to be false; but an efflcactous ove because the most important thing vf all t# to gain tlme and close my te Lastly, (t {8 she who during forty days feeds Lupin, brings him hia medicine the chemist at Ouville will produce the oreseriptions which he made up for Mile de Saint-Veran), nurses htm, ‘reases bis wound, watches over him ‘nd cures him. Here we have the first of our two nblems solved at the same time that @ Ambrunesy mystery {s set forth. Arsene Lupin found, close ut hand, in the ateau ftaelf, the assistance which was ndispensable to him in order, firwt, not to be discovered, and, secondly, to live. He now lives. And we come to the second problem, corresponding with the nd Ambruncsy mystery, the atudy of which served me as a conducting me- ‘ium. Why does Lupin, allve, free, at ‘he head of his gang, omnipotent, as be- fore—why does Lupin make desperate ef- efforts with whieh Tam con- Into collision to force the dea of his death upon the police and the We must remember that Mille. de eran was a very pretty girl. The Photographs reproduced in the papers af- tor her disappearance give but an im- perfect notion of her beauty. That fot- ws which was bound to follow, Lupin, cing this lovely girl daily for five or longing for her presence when «he ts not there, subjected to her charm vnd grace when she is there, inhaling tho ool perfume of her breath when site 1s over him; Lupin becomes enan- of Nis nurse, Gratitude turns to , admiration to passion. She te his Ivation, but she ts also the joy of his the dream of his lonely hours, bis his hope, his very life. respects her suMfciently not to e of the girl's devotion to direct his ‘There ts, in fact, a ce decision apparent in the ang. But loves her his scruples weaken and, as Mile. sint-Veran refuses to be touched y a love that offends her, as she re- xes her visits when they become less hecessary, a8 she ceases them entirely on the day when he ts oured—desper- maddened by grief, he takes a ter rible resolve. He leaves his lair, pre- pares his stroke and, on Saturday, the 6th of June, assisted by his accom. plices, he carries off the girl, This ts not all. The abduction must not be known, All search, all eurmises, all hope even, must be cut ehont. Mil de Saint-Veran must paws for de There is a mock murder: proofs a: supplied for the police inquiries, ‘Ther. is doubt about the erime, a crime, fur that matter, not unexpected, a crim foretold by the accomplices, a erime perpetrated to revenge the chief's deat’ through this very fact—obser marvellous ingenuity of the co ception—-through thig very fact, the bellef in this death is, 80 to speak, stimulated, it ts ns sough to suggest a belief; it ls necessary to cdmpel a certainty, Lupin foresees my tnterference. I am sure to guess the trickery of the chapel. am sure to discover the crypt. And, as the crypt will be empty, the whole scaffaiding wil come to the ground, ‘The crypt sill not be empty. (To Re Continued.) ved tent He take advan: and not to make use of hi confederates, tain lack of acts of the alse en ea