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IN THE SWORD i),k_NCE. MRS. CAMPBELL DANCES LIKE HERODIAS' DAUGHTER. A London Estimate of Her Performance In the Character of th• New Juliet Mr. Cori.Isn as Mercutio - Forbes - Rohe rts o - F COURSE IN criticising the gen- eral effect, the play and the acting cen- trist be altogether left o though unfair much of ceount, mild be too ress on them, writes G 13. Shaw of the preseut London production of \Romeo and Juliet.\ Perhape, the most difficult character in the play as lar as finesse of execution 'soca is der- eitio. We see Niercutio in his first icene as a wit and fantasist of the float delicate order. In his next, ap- parently without any shock to, the 'illizabethan sense of congruity. e he is t detestable and intolerable cad, the ixact prototype of our modern •Arry. rhe change gives such another glimpse :nto the manners of that time as you set in \Much Ado' from' the astonish- ment which Benedick creates by taking o washing his face every day. By ttage tradition, Mercutio is as much a fe0F7ye FORBES-ROBERTSON. leading part as Romeo. If not more so. Therefore, when the manager chooses Romeo, he should be particularly care- ful to choose a good eiercutio, lest he should appear to have that part - Pur- posely underplayed. Perhaps this was why Mr. Forbes -Robertson went so far out of his way as to east Mr. Coghlau for the part. If so he overreached himself. - for he could not possibly have made a worse choice. I really cannot express myself politely on the subject of Mr. Coghlan's performance. He lounges, he mumbles. he 'delivers the - Queen Mab speech in a raffish patter which takes, and is apparenCy delib- erately meant to take, all beauty of lone and grace of Measure out of it. It may be that Mr. Coghlan has studied the part carefully, and come to the conclusion that since the visit Of th( Montagues to Capulet's ball is a young itiood's escapade. Mercutio should be represented as coming half drunk and lolling o . the stone seat outside to re- peat a tipsy eigmareSe about nothing. In that case I must express my entire disagreement with Mr. Coghian's read- ing. Shakespeare never leaves me in any doubt as to when he means an,ac- tor to play Sir Toby Belch and when to play Mercutio, or when he means an actor to speak measured verses and whfm slipshod colloquial prose. Far better than Mr. Coghlan's Mer- mitio and yet quite the worst imper- sonation I have ever seen of a not very difficult old v omen's part was Miss Dolores Drununond's Nurse. Tybalt's is such an unmercifully bad part that one can hardly demand anything from its representative except that he should brush his hair when he comes to his itte le's ball (a condition which he in- , -- es se r \ CHARLES variably repudiates) and that he should he so cansummate a swordsman as in 111I k. it safe for Romeo to fall on him with absolute altandenment. and anni- hilate him as .lean tie Reszke used to annihilate Motitariol. This is one of the great sensations of the play; unless an actor is capable of a really terrible explosion of rage, he would better let Borneo alone. Unfortunately the \fire - eyed - fury\ before which Tybalt fals Iles outside the gentlemanly limits of e Mr. Forhes-Robertsen•s stage Instinct; and it may be that his skill as an ester le not equal to the task of working up the audience to the point, at which they will imagine an explo!ien which can- not, of coarse, he real. At all events the duel scene has none of the murderous excitement which is the whole dramatic poke of it; it is tamed down to a mere formal pretext for the banishment of Romeo. Mr. Forbes-Robertson has evidently no nympathy with Shakespeare's love of a shindy; you see his love of law and order coming out in his tage manage- ment of the fightieg scenes. Nobody Is allowed to enjoy the scrimmage; Cap- uiet and Montague are silenced; and the spectators of the duel are women—I should say ladies—who look intensely shocked to see gentlemen of position so grossly forgetting themselves. Mr. Forbes -Robertson himself fights with unconcealed repugnance; he makes you feel that to do it. in that disorderly way, withoat seconds, wiehont a doctor, showing temper about it, and actually calling his adversary names, jars un- speakably on him. Far otherwise have we seen him as Orlando wrestling with Charles. But there the contest was in the presenee of a court, with measured ground and due formality—under Queensberry rules, so to speak. For the rest, Mr. Forbes -Robertson is very handsome, very well dressed, very perfectly behaved. .1-lis assortment of tones, of gestures, of facial expressions, of attitudes, are limited to half a dozen apiece; but they are carefully selected and all of the best.. The arrangements in the last scene are exceedingly nice; the tomb of the (lapulets is beautifully' kept, well lighted, and conveniently ac- cessible by a couple of broad steps— quite like.a new cathedral chapel. In- deed, when Romeo, contemplating the bier of Juliet (which reflected the ats• most credit on the un(lertaker) said: \I will stay with. thee. And never from this palace of dim nig,ht Depart again,\ I felt that the sacrifice thateeia was making in doing without a proper flip- eral was greatly softened. Romeo was a gentleman to the last. He laid out Paris after killing him as carefully as if he' were fohling up his bestec:othes. One remembers Irving, a dim figure dragging a horrible burden down through the gloom \Into the rotten jaws of death,\ and reflects on the differences of imaginative temperament that un- derlie the differences of acting and stage-managing. As to Juliet, she danced like the daughter of Herodias. And site knew the measure of her lines to a hair's- breadth. Did ; not say, long ago, that Mrs. Tanqueray's piano -playing was worth all the rest of her? And yet was taken in by Mrs. Tanqueray—also IV Mrs. Ebbsmith, as we all were. Woman's great art is to Ile low, and yet the imagination of the male endow her with depths. How Mrs. Patrick Campbe•I must have laughed at us whilst we were giving her all the credit —if credit it were—for our silly psy- chologIzieg over those Pinero parts! As Juliet she still fits herself into the hospitable manly heart without effort, simply because she is a wonderful per- son, not only in mere facial prettiness, MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL. in which respect she is perhaps not su- perior to the bevy of \extra ladles\ in the •fashionable scenes in the new Drury Lane play, not even in her light, beautifully proportioned figure, but in the extraordinary swiftness and cer- tainty of her physical self -command. I am convinced that Mrs. Patrick Camp- bell could thread a needle with her toes at the flret attempt as rapidly, as smoothly, as prettily. and with as much attention to spare for doing any- thing else at the same time as she can play an arpeggio. This physical talent, which is seldom conseious:y recognized except when it is professedly special- ized in some particular direction (as in the cage, for instance, of Miss Lefty Lind) will, when accompanied by Mtn- blenens of mind, quick observation and lively theatrical instinct, carry an act- IT!41 with a rush to the front of her pro- fession, as it has carried Mrs. Patrick (7amphell. lier Juliet, nevertheless, is an Immature performance at all the ex- ceptional points, which. p:eliee remem- ber. are not very numerous, much of Juliet's business being of kind that no \leading lady\ of ordinary ability (meld possibly fall in. All the con - rebus ideas gathered by her from the part and carried out in planned strokes of her own are commonplace. There is not a touch of tragedy. not a throb of love or fear, temper instead of passion; in short, a Juliet as unawakened as Richard III, one le whose death yott don't believe, though you would not cry over It if you did believe. Nothing of it is memorah:e except the dance—the irresistible (lance. PLAYER FOLK. H. M. Harrison writes that he expecte to soon take the road in his comedy, \Old 'rime Rockse t Mae North IS said to be doing well in her first starring venture She is now touring the south in \Only a Farmer's Daughter,\ melee the management of Josh E. Ogden, The Lizzie Es ans Repereery company stranded in Plainfield, N. J. It Is stated that a disagreement between Miss Evans and her manager, regard- ing a play she wanted in her repertory, was the cause of the company going to , pieces. MR. .11 STICE GRAY. HIS RECENT ILLNESS CAUSED SOME UNNECESSARY ALARM. 1:14.10...1.1.1cat SO. et. of ills Life — Dradu- nit , of 1i'.r.cr. 4.ao. School ,and a foottogin Is Int...I-I:ably AgAhist the Cori...silo:is. e ----- s ORA E , . GRAY. \ 1 the youngest of the 'associate justices of the United I States Supreme ' court, and whose 1-2 recent ' illness caueed tome alarm. was called to his present position by President' Arthur. Justice Gray wee horn in Boston, Mass., March 24, !-.' • Ile received a thorough prelindume . e- ucat ion and was a graduate [rem I! . r- vari in 1845, and from the Hacea I Law School in 1849. He was admit to the bar in 1851, end found I. , I at use in a field congenial to et - slat talents and inclinations, I it. \::::i apeointed reporter of the sucrethe ju- dicial court of Massachuseete in 1854 and held that, position until 18 , 11, whea he war appointed associate justice of the saute court August 23, 1864. His rensareable legal abilfly . was mini- fested in his position on this , Ii-niU ,, I Leech and in 1873 he was mese': thief justice of the court. In ths. ; sition he became widely knowa bee of his legal lemming and the though' fullness and fairness of his deeision I, and December 19, 18S1, he was commie- sioemi associate justtee of th 3 Stipreme Court of the United States. He ha-s filled the difficult position with all the itnil;ty an fairness that was expeeteil of him ami is a distinguished member of the highest judicial tribunal of the world. He is one of the hardest work - He lie inbers of a body where bard a..., HORACE GRAY. kerk has been the rule for . 1 long Cum, in feet feom the beginning of the goy- ererne tie and his opinions are respected by his ereociates as highly as is his character by the country. He has in- veriabiy voted against the integeols o! uorporations. In the income tax cases, (ickever, he voted with the chief juet!ce. Ile Broke the Bank. Mexican Herald: A local sport named $alazar walked into the gambling room of the Cantina del Teatro at the com- mencement of play the other afternoon. The first hand at monte was being dealt. Laying down what appeared to be a ten -dollar bill with $4 in silver on the top of it op the \siete tb bastes:* he calmly awaited the result of the draw. The card won and on the deal- er proceeding to open the ten -dollar bile he was surprised to find needle folded inside two one thousand -dollar bills. The sport had won $2.014, which was promptly paid, although it took the whole bank and $14 more to do it. The lucky gambler rolled a cigarette in the customary Mexican nonchalent manner and, 'cowing rolitely to the croupiers, left the room, leaving those gentry star- ing vacantly at the waste of green cloth what In frontTWO NOTEI) NVOMEN. of them and wondering was the best thing to do. An Ape's Superstition. Chief Utan, the auburn -haired crang- outan,g at the zoo, is very superstitious and his convictione with regard to straws ere not limited to the mere fact that they tell how the wind blows. The chief believes that chewing a strati with certain supernatural qualities will bring his dinner hour around before oho o'clock, the regular time, and he daily. tries to put this theory into practice. From among the heap of straws in his cage ,he selects with great care the longest and straightest, and, after hay- ; lug placed it in his mouth, he goes to the glass front of his cage and, shading his eyes with his hand, peers to the right and left in search of the keeper with his dinner. If the keeper is not in sight the chief throws the straw away as not possessing sufficient \charm\ and selects enother. This performance Is repeated over and over with the ut- most gravity until the meal arrives. -- Philadelphia Record. a Deorze Alfred Townson George Alfred Townsend, wh por- trait is printea above, is knewn to newepaier readers everywhere as \Gath\ has lately attached himself to 'he stele of the New York Morning Journal. As a writer on potitleel af- fairs Mr. Townsend has no peer. He \yes born in Georgetown, Del., in 1841. Summer Lintatrien a tn Greenland. The. summer just- passed was the mildest ever known in Greenland, ac- cording to reports brought here on the bark Silicon, which arrived on Sunday from Ivigtut. The mountains for the first time ever known are bare of ice and snow, and wild animals accustomed to extremC cold have been compelled to go further north. Birds are plenti- ful, as well as other kinds of game, particularly grouse, and a number were shot by the Silleon's passeogers. Blue- berries were plentiful for the first time in nattily years. The water about the southern ceast of the island was warm enough to bathe in, a luxury in whicif the natives seldom indulge. Those on the Silicon who took an Arc- tIc bath for the first time say that they have met with colder water often ou the Jereey coast. Buy a Pewter Porringer instanter. Have you a pewter porringer? If you. haven't do not rest until you come across one. Have it polished at a shop where such things are done and keep it for a bonbon tray. It will alm2st rival silver for brightness, anti is one of those things which guests at wo- men's luncheons are inclined to call \dears.\ The pewter of our ancestors was frequently - of extremely good shape, and any pieces of it look well In a dining room cabinet. Outwitting the Cashier. Minke—So Gunton's cashier has run off with the funds, eh? Well, it's Gun - ton's own fault—no management. No one will ever hear of my cashier run- ning off. Winks—Ho* do you manage? Minks—Simple enough. I give my wife the freedom of the safe, and it's all the cashier can do to corner enough to pay his own salary. PRESIDENT CRESPO OF VENEZUELA. ir d t i % f`. 04601 YtT. • see r (-) 'MEAUX WHO DARED TO DEFY ENGLAND IN THE GAME THEIR STORIES HAVE BEEN READ BY MILLIONS. Anna Katharine Green and her Liter- ary Produettoti, Ilarziet t're•eott Spofford's Work in the Field of Fic- tion—The Formers' Poems. • HE MOST ASTON- ishing thing about thet widely -read novel, \The Leav- euworth Case,\ in that it was written by a woman. It is now used in Yale .ol:ege as a text book to show tile fallacy of circum- stantial evidence, and is the subject of comments by learned lawyers, to whom It appeals by its mastery of legal points. Anna Katharine Green, which is the authqr's maiden name, and tho one by which she is known throughout the world, in- herits her legal turn of mind. She is the daughter of a lawyer, and was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1846. While she was yet a child the family removed to Buffalo, and there her edu- cation was conducted until she was old enough to enter Ripley Fen he college at Poultney, Vt. In her childhood she sompoeed innumerable poems and stor- ANNA IS \ 'MARINE GREEN lea, and soon after her graduation she wrote her first novel, \The Leaven- worth Case,\ which at once attracted the attention of the literary world, and was afterward dramatized. Her suc- cess brought eager invitations frefi publishers to furnish them stories, and other novels followed, including \A Strange Disappearance,\ \The Sword of Damotles.\ \Hand and Ring.\ \X. Y. Z.,\ \The Mill Mystery,\ \7 to 12,\ \Be- hind Closed Doors,\ \The Forsaken Inn,\ \A Matter of Millions,\ \Cynthia Wakeham's Money,\ and \The Old Stone House.\ her poetical works are embraced in a volume entitled \The De- fense of the Bride, and Other Poems,\ and \Risifl's Daughter,' a drama. In November, 1884, she was married to Charles Rohifs, of Brooklyn. N. Y. With descriptions and fancies gilt tor ing with delights and every variety of splendor, the stories of Harriet Prescott Spofford would be charming if their only merit was their artistic coloring. Mrs. Spofford began writ4ng when very young. She was born in Calais, Me.. April 3. 1835. but in her youth was taken by her parents to Newburyport. Mass., which city has ever since been her home. At the age of seventeen she was graduated at tile Pinkerton acad- emy, at Derry. N. II. While s in school at Newburyport her prize essay on hamlet attracted the attention of Thomas Went- worth iligginson, who became her friend and counselor. Her father. Joseph N. Prescott, suffered a stroke of paralysis which permanently disabled him, and her mother ale() became a con- firmed invalid, so that she felt the need of making her talents .available. and began to contribute to the Boston story papers. In 1859 her sparkling story of Parisian life, entitled \In a Cellar,\ appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, and gave her a reputation. From that day HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. she \Vasa welcome contributor. 'In 1865 slue was married to Richard S. Spofford, a lawyer of Boston. Among Mrs. Spoffordei published works may be mentloned \Sir Rohan's Ghost,\ \The Amber Gods, and Other Stories,\ \Azarian.\ \New England Legends.\ \The Thief in the Night.\ \Art Decora- tion Applied to Furniture.\ \Nenrgule of Carithas.\ \Poerris \{tester Stanicy at St. Mark's,\ \The Servant 1;1;1 Qua - Lion,\ and \Ballads About Authors. • The New. Wafl rooted to the spot \Not fable,\ he 1. , ,,i , p011, hy whet he RAW l'ancing only to le. cure list th r wo- 0150 actually alighted from the street car while facing tc.warfl the front the knight errant hfioened home and donned his heaviest coat of mail. \She Is not fable.\ he kept muttering to himself. ' She V[iPti4... oetroit OF GRA le Tr ' 1 \'\ r - SETTLING AN 'OLD GRUDGE. STwo Chickamauga Veterans Remind, Each Other of the Time Long Ago. \Right here,\ said the old Union sol- dier, digging his cane into the grounel. \1 stood on picket duty thief) -two years ago.\ \And I stood on picket duty right over there,\ said the grizzled old Con- federate warrior, pointing with his long finger at a spot a few furlongs away. \I wonaer,\ exclaimed the former, \If you are the Johnny Reb that gave me a plug of tobacco wheu I hadn't had a chaw for twenty-four hours and was half-dead for one!\ \If you're the Yank that gave me a canteen nearly full of whisky when I was dying for a drink,\ rejolued the coutherner, \I am.\ The voice of the old veteran front the north trembled slight13 when he spoke again. \I have always thought,\ he said, \that if I ever met that man this side of the fords of the river Jordan Jul tell him that tnat touacco was the mean- est, orneriest. good-for-nothingest, dog- goned stuff that I ever put into my mouth.\ \Yank replied the old boy in 'gray, with emotion, \I've always wanted to live long enough to meet the man that gave me that whisky and tell him it was the vilest, nastiest, cheapest, in- fernaiest booze Uri over insulted the stomach of a white man, begad, salt!\ Then the two old warriors shook hands and moveel off arm in arm in the direction of a tent that had a barrel inside of It. DALTON M CARTHY. The Leader of the Equal Rights Part! In Dominion of Canada. Dalton McCarthy occupies an envia- ble position in Canada. He is about fifty years of age and was for many years a barrister of prominence in Barrie, Ontario. He moved to To- ronto, wherv his success was contin- ued. He became a queen's counsel, taking a lively interest in politics, and became eventually a member of the Dominion parliament. Ile attached himself to the conservatives and soon acquired prominence in its councils. The time came when certain differences of opinion between him 'and the leaders of the party became so marked that he separated from them, though his af- filiations did not extend In tile direction of the liberals. He became the recog- nized head of what was known as the equal right; party—a sort of bal- ance -wheel. The party has never be- come dominant in Canada, but has al- ways been respected alike by conserva- tives and liberals. Mr. McCarthy, aside from being a jurist of admitted DALTON M'CARTIIY. great ability, is a fluent and ready debater and a forceful man in support of any measure which he may counters. atom in the Dominion parliament. Simplicity of the l'ehrices• of Wales. The Prineess of Wales is always loath to adopt any exaggerated fashion. Simple bonnets, neither too high nor too broad, are those shit. prefers. Many b u ttoned gloves she invariably dis- cards for those v..ith but three or four buttons. At the theater she has lately appeared in something approaching derni-toilet. with long sleeves to her wrists, and a deeollettage the least pro- nounced possible. At the opera she of course, much smarter, although she seldom adopts the grande toilette of dames of less high degree. As to jewels, abe wears not too many dia- monds, but just diamonds enough, and is rarely without her long necklace of pearls. If the princess has a weaknese it is for old lace. Her col- lection of lace is, indeed, a beautiful one, and one of great value. A [(roil Dr3Ittaft, System. It is said that the most perfect town in the world, as regards its drainage system. Is ['Minim). near enicago, sit- uated on the bank of I.nkci Calumei, and containing about 12,000 inhabi- tants. The whole of the sewage he pumped to a farm of 300 acres, titre , . mires distant from the town. The sewers are sentilated by connecting all of them with a high chimney stack, whl it also serves for the engem fir( .1 at the pumping station. The. caner. - mime e le that when one is passing an open grating in the street, he is not assailed by whiffs of malodorous gewrr gas. on the contrary, time down draught. CRIIRed by tb 0 high central chimne% sticks the fresh outside air into the seis'ere. w 111(11 are thus legit wholt. some and Innocuous.—Ex. meat. )(unhand \My deals, It ens •,•.1., thonghtful of You to buy this elegard antoking-Jacket for me., but I reall. cannot afford to wear anything, ao ruin ottsiv expensive •• Wife \That's too had. Mit mind, thee will take it back s \end give you the money s\ \Oh. no, but they a ill exchange it for a di res pattern.\ never • th tic th is 8a ha se let so wa pr ta yo le di do a
