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THE OLD FRENCH STAGE.
ANECDOTES OF ACTORS OF. TWENTY
ODD YEARS AGO.
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They Were All Put “En Vedette”—’.Irying
to Be Accurate in the Matter of Costum-
ing—Brunet Behind the Wall—Some of
the Curious Blunders of Theatre Goers.
M. Frederic Febvre, societaire of the Come-
die Francoise, has just published a volume to
which, with questionable taste, he has given
the punning title “On the Borders of the
Scene” (Seine), the French word “scene” be-
ing pronounced exactly like the name of the
river. Like most of the works written by
famous actors, it is rather disappointing.
Yet it contains some curious anecdotes. He
tells, for instance, how the manager of the
Theatre de la Gaife, when “Henry III and
in 1856, remarked proudly, “I have just
ruined myself for the costumes and furniture
and accessories; they will cost me at least
$1,200.” “That sum,” continued Febvre,
“represents about what was paid for my cos-
tumes, armor and arms in the role of the
Due de Guise when that piece was mounted
at the Comedic Francaise in 1889.”
ALL WERE “EN vnnmn.”
He also cites a superb remark made by
Frederic Lemaitre when “Henry III” was
given at the Gaite. All the leading perform-
ers demanded the privilege of having their
names “en vedette,” that is to say, at the
head of the programme, and in letters larger
than the type allotted to the rest. In his em-
baramment Hostein consulted Lemaitre as to
what he should do. “Put everybody “en ve-
dette,”’ responded Lemaitre, “and stick me
in with the rest. The public will find me out
at the performance.” So the entire cast was
published with the names arranged in the
form of a horseshoe.
M. Febvre quotes the following remark of
Talma, which was told him by one of the
sons of the tragedian. One evening, in his
dressing room, Talma had just put on the
costume of Manlius. After having cast a
long glance on the draperies of his toga, he
said to his son, “There! half of my part is
played.” I‘Vhich proves the extreme import—
ance attached by the celebrated tragedian to
the details of his dress. Melingue, who was
widely famed as a melodramatic actor, and
who created several of the leading roles in
the principal pieces of the elder Dumas, was
also noted for the carefully studied details of
his costume. The artistic draping of his
classic robes rather worried the tragedians of
the Rue Richelieu.
“I remember one day,” says Febvre, “we
were playing two Circassian chiefs in the
‘Schamyl’ of Paul Meurice at the Porte St.
Martin. Melingue was accustomed to come
to the theatre at 4 o’clock, though the per-
formance did not begin till half past 7. 0n
passing before his dressing room I noticed
that he was very busy. I entered, and was
struck dumb with amazement. He was shav-
ing his legs from the knee to the ankle, as a.
man shaves his chin. Then, this operation
finished, he painted his legs as he had pointed
his face, and put on his babouches. As may
be imagined no tights, however fine, could
have given a result similar to that obtained
by this novel process.
“Yet, in trying to be too accurate, the ac-
tor may more easily attain the comic side of
the well known phrase, ‘A picture stepped
from its frame.’ Of this I will give two ex-
amples. In the drama of ‘Oliver Basselin’at
‘the Theatre de la Renaissance, Adolphe Ber-
ton was to play ‘King Charles VII.’ In his
love of accuracy the actor had borrowed from
the Museum of Artillery a real hemlet of the
period. Had it become rusty during its long
sojourn in the midst of all that historical
ironware, or did it possess a hidden spring of
which the actor knew nothing? At all events,
in the midst of the most thrilling scene of the
drama, the vizor suddenly fell, and Berton,
.in spite of all his efforts, could not raise it
again. So he was forced to finish the piece
in that unpleasant predicament, and Charles
VII anticipated the legend of the Iron Mask.”
Febvre gives an amusing instance of con-
sciousness in costume on the part of an actor
called Brunet. In a comedy called “A House
as a Lottery Prize,” he played the role of a
landlord, who spoke on the other side of the
wall, and in consequence was unseen by the
audience. Nevertheless every evening Brunet
dressed himself carefully, even to the wig and
spectacles. The manager remarked to him
one evening that he took a great deal of use
judge of the correctness of his costume. “No,
no! it is not useless,” answered Brunet. “With
the dress of the landlord I assume his hear-
ing, and with his hearing his voice. Beddos,
suppose the wall were to fall!"
Febvre also notes the fact that certain styles
of dress are only suitable for certain kinds of
plays. He remarks, for instance, that the
Louis XIV costume is seldom employed for
tragic dramas, but is perfectly suited “for
comedy, as are also those of the Regency and
of Louis XV. The Middle Ages and the
reign of Louis XIII are the most appropri-
ate for the “cloak and sword dramas.” The
Louis XVI costume is reserved for calm and
discreet plays, which cause more drawing
forth of handkerchiefs on the part of the
spectators than of swords among the ac-
tOrs. A costume often employed in dramas
of a demi-tone and always with success is
that of the First Empire. The hardest of all
costumes for the actor to wear is, without
contradiction, that of the reign of Louis XV.
The embroidered coat, satin brooches and
high heeled’shoes demand in the wearing a
peculiar ease of manner and bearing.
COMMENTS or ercrarons.
Febvre gives some amusing instances of the
lack of comprehension manifested by specta-
tors, certainly of average intelligence, con-
cerning the plots and incidents of plays that
they have witnemed. He once gave a young
servant of his own tickets of admission to go
see “The Courier of Lyons.” He asked him
the next day if he thought that Lesurquos
was guilty or innocent. “Of course he was
guilty, monsieur,” was the answer, “as the
two men were only the same one disguised.”
Then in “The Children’s Doctor,” by Den-
nery, when it was represented at the Gaite
theatre, Febvre played the part ofslthe lover
of the piece, a young officer who only appears
in the second and fifth acts. There was also
the role of a young mother whose death took
place early in the action. In the last-act the
heroine was supposed to be dying, and her
lover, forcing his way into her room, cried
vehemently, “Letme pass-Jet mepaas! Alive
and the curtain fell on the happiest kind of
denouement, namely, the approaching mar-
riage of a youthful pair. One evening after
the play, Febvre and several of his compon-
ions went to the cafe of the theatre to take
some refreshments. Near the table at which
they had placed themselves sat a party of old
been premnt at the performance, and who
were discussing the piece and the actors.
One of them, a stout old woman, whose
reddened eyes showed how much she had on-
icene that I liked immense y; it was that at
the end, who're the mother disguises herself
:u an amoer to
{mfg-It was in that wayshehad com
hendodvthe sudden‘ entrance of the .
hiledolphia Telegraph.
Iona—Letterinr
His Court” was to be revived at that house '
less trouble, since none of the spectators could'
.or dead, I must see her!” The girl revives, '
clothes dealers from the Temple, who had.
joyed, the play, remarked: “There‘i’i'vas'one”
get to see her dying dough-9'
. OLD area’s FORTY-THIRD.
no Wouldn’t Bo BInflbd, but Was _Deter-
mined to Stand by His Record.
My father was sheriff of a certain county
in Kansas about twenty years ago, and dur-
ing a certain .summer we received on a sen-
tence for six months a very tough fellow
named Joe Williams. He had been sentenced
for attempted horse stealing, and my father
knew that a sharp watch must be kept over
him or he would take French leave.
Joe had put in about two weeks on his term
when my mother started off on a visit, was
hurt en route, and father had to go to her.
His first deputy and assistant jailer was a
man of 50, named Stebbins, who was his
cousin. “Steb” was a peppery old chap and
a. great bra" and liar. According to his state-
ments he had licked more men, killed more
Indians, run down more horse thieves and
helped lynch more desperadoos than any other
man living. Father cautioned him over and
over about watching Williams, who was the
only prisoner we had, and “Stab” sturdily
replied:
“You go right along and rest easy, Henry.
If I was fool ’nuif to let him git 9.wa I’d ex-
pect to be shot and throwed to the gophors.”
Father had scarcely gone when Williams
began calling, and I went into the corridor
with the old man to see what was wanted. I
was only 10 years old, but I can vividly recall
everything. The jail was made of rough
stone and one-half of it was the sheriff’s resi-
dence. The jail part was only one big room,
with a plain but stout iron grated door lead-
ing into the corridor. As the weather was
warm, both corridor doors were open. IV hen
we looked in on Joe he said:
“See here, Steb, I hear you are bragging a
good deal about how many men you have put
on their backs.”
“There’s no brag about it,” replied the old
man. “I never found ahuman I couldn’t lay
down in five minutes.”
“That’s all wind, and you know it,” re-
torted Joe. “You ought to be ashamed of
your jaw.”
“I’Vho you talking to?”
“To you, you old wind bag! You talk of
wrestling! IVhy, I kin grease the floor with
your carcass!”
“Don’t git my dander up!” warned Steb in
a tremulous voice, “or I’ll trounce you!”
“Ti-ounce me! Say, old blowhard, I kin
lather you with one hand tied behind me! If
I could only git at you I’d make you holler in
one round!”
“Shet up!” 4
“I won’t, and you ain’t big ’nuif to make
me. ” ‘
“Yes, I am!”
“You’re a liar!”
“Take that back!”
“Never I”
“Take that back or I’ll come in and make
pulp of you!”
“You dosn’t! I’ll dare ye to come in and
pint a finger at me!”
Some more of the sort followed, and Steb
got the idea that he must enforce his authori-
ty or suffer a loss of prestige. He was the
older but also the bigger man, and he kept
getting mad until he finally peeled off his
coat, unlocked the door, and dodged in. He
made for \Villiams, but the latter ducked
under his arm, upset me at the door, and was
off like a shot, and before pursuit could be
organized he was beyond reach. Old Steb
stood in the back door and watched him for
fully five minutes before saying a word.
Then I heard him growl:
“Consarn him for skipping out, but I’ve
got the consolation of knowing that he’s the
forty-third man I’ve licked outer his boots in
the last five years!”—New York Sun.
She Forgot Something.
“Now, you’re sure you have everything in
the trunk, my dear?” asked Mr. Younglove,
before beginning the back breaking process
of roping his wife’s trunk when they were
about to start for a little trip west.
“Yes, dear.” she said, “I’ve every single
thing in.”
“Well, be sure, now; I wouldn’t unrope
and rerope this thing' again for a fifty dollar
bill.” And, half an hour later, when he was
lyingpn the floor panting and, gasping from
his efforts, Mrs. 'Younglove said sweetly: '
“There, dear, I have forgotten something
after all. How careless of me! \Vould you
mind opening the trunk, dear, and putting in
my dressing sacque? I entirely forgot it, and
I really can’t get along without it. And
here’s my box of handkerchiefs; and my
slippers are in the closet—and oh, here are
my cuffs and collars and my little shoulder
shawl. I believe I left my box of ribbons in
the drawer—yes, here it is, and my common
fan, too, and one of your shirts. Here’s my
rubbers and waterproof and my little black
turban and the basque to my blue suit, and
my watered silk sash, and my little workbox
that I’ll be sure to need before we get home.
How careless I am, anyhow! Hurry and
open the trunk, dear; it’s most train time!”
—Exchange.
. Hereditary, Transmisslgn.
It is certainly very odd (says The Nation)
that the popular faith in “blood” should, for
political and social purposes, be as strong as
it is, in view of the extreme rarity with
which parents transmit either great mental
or moral qualities to their offspring. Able
sons of able fathers are by no means un-
known phenomena, but they are too scarce
to warrant the respect with which all chil-
- dren of remarkable parents are still treated.
The explanation of the anomaly probably is
that the popular mind is still so much nfi’ect-
ed by the transmission of physical qualities
that it infers from it the transmission of the
nobler Ones also. The hereditary transmis-
sion of physical qualities is as common
among men as among the animals. The
large men and the strong men are apt to
have large and strong sons, and may have
sons with as much brains, or tenacity, or in-
dustry, or integrity; but the popular pre-
sumption is apt to convert the “may” into
“must.” .
Seeking Diamonds Near Home.
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South. African fields. Yet the fact is that
ourgreat New York jewelry houses are con-
- :tinnally-on the lookout for new stones and
new places to find them.
It is not so long ago that Tiffany & Co. had
their expert, George Kunz, hurry away to an
interior Kentucky town, where it had been
reported that some precious stones had been
"found along the hill sides that bordered the
little municipality.
He came back after a journey and search-
ing investigation that must have cost the
firm a few thousand dollars, but I have not
heard of his finding any Kentucky Kohi-
noors. Still, the fact stands that Tiffany &
Co. and the other great diamond firms watch
daily and carefullyevcry chance that may
occur to find the precious stones nearer home
-, than in the South African fields. And very
often they succeed—Exporter and Finan-
cier. .- - . .
Love’s Madness.
Madeline (fondly)—George, dearest, Icould
was full 'of the queerest marks.
George (a very young MAM-Good heavens!
I have sent you a prescription, and have given
your, letter to the prescription clerk! And
.3110 patient died -’ - j ' '
' (Falls inconvulsionsr—Pittsburg Bulletin.
HOW TO JUDGE.
“Judge the people by their aetion"——’tisa rule you
often get—
“Judge the actions by their people" is awisor
maxim yet.
Have I known you, brother, sister? Have I
looked into your heart?
Mingled with your thoughts my feelings, taken
of your life y part?
Through the we of your convictions sent the
shuttle of my thought,
Till the web became a Credo, for us both, of
should and ought?
Seen, in thousand ways, your nature, in all act
and look and speech?
By that large induction only I your law of. being,
reach.
N ow I hear of this wrong action—what is that to
you and me?
Sin within you may have done it—i’ruit, not na-
ture, to the tree.
Foreign graft has come to beam—mistletoe
grows on your bong — .
If I ever really knew you, then, my friend, I know
you now.
So I say, (‘I‘He never did it,” or “He did not so in-
ten '19
Or “Some foreign power o’eroame .him“—so l
judge the action, friend!
Let the mere outside observer note appearance as:
he can,
We, more righteous judgment passing, test each.
action by its man.
—James Freeman Clarke.
Jimmie’s Opinions.
Interested fathers and mothers are often.
anxious to see their children’s school reports,
but possibly they might gain a deeper knowl-
edge of the childish mind if they also perusedl
Tommy’s or Dicky’s examination papers.
One child brought two of his papers home
for inspection, because, as he indignantly de-r
clarcd, he “saw the teacher laugh when. she-
was correcting ’em.” ‘
“I knew they were mine,” he protested, .
“because both times she looked at me and ‘
said: ‘0 Jimmie, Jimmie, what shall we do :
with you?’ Now, you look at ’em, um, and ‘
tell me what’s the matter ?” .
‘ ‘Ma” looked and made two choice extracts,
over which she herself could not forbear
smiling.
“Mountains have a great effect on the rain-
fall. They are very useful at such times, be-
cause when it rains people can take to the
mountains for shelter.”
“The reason you can’t boil eggs at a high
altitude is because there is notenough pres»
sure of the atmosphere to harden the yolk.”
“Did you understand exactly whatyou.
meant by these answers?” asked. his mother,.
mildly.
“P’raps not,” said Jimmie, with an air of'
indifference, “but that’s what the book said,.
anyway i”——Youth’s Companion.
.;.- ..- ..y‘-
A Drama on George Washington.
The late Mr. Martin Farquhar Tupper'
once aspired to distinction as adramatist.
His “Washington, a Drama in Five Acts,”of
which a privately printed copy is now before
us, was written in 1875, as a note by the-
author records, “for the centenary of Amer
ican independence,” and was “intended. for:
representation in the: United States.” Mr.
Tupper was bitterly disappointedat hisfail—
ure to induce any manager of a leading
theatre in America to producehis piece. It
is in blank verse, and introduces Washington
and his wife, Benedict Arnold and his‘sister -
Mary, Patrick Henry, John Adams, Benja-
min Franklin, the Marquis de Lafayette and
Major Andre.
The general is rather more addicted in the
play to long rhetorical speeches than history
would warrant us in expecting, and the
drama suffers from a general execs of dia-
logue over action. Stirring businem, howev— » ,
, er, is provided in the fourth act. Mr.Tupper,
who quietly drops poor Honora Sueyd, sup-
poses Andre and Mary Arnold to be betroth-
ed; and he represents his heroine as steel.-
iug upon the privacy of Washington when.
the latter is lying sick in the camp at Valley
Forge, and making a desperate attemptto
stab him after the later fashion of Charlotte
Corday. This is in revenge for his obdurato
determination that Andre shall be executed
as a spy. .
The general, however, having been saved
by the timely interposition of Mrs; Washing-
ton, who appears to be ca paigning with her
husband, the latter gene. ously condoms the
treacherous act; for the author, who like Mr.
Puff had a fancy for complexity in the sen-_
timental relations of his personages, .has'
imagined Mary to be no other than the “un-
known lowland beauty,” the “earliest love”
of Washington,- who, recognizing her, ad-
dresses her gallantly as “My unknown pas-
sion flower of hot sixteen 1” On the whole, it-
seems a pity that American playgoers were
balked of the entertainment which they un-
doubtedly might have derived from Mr. Top--
per’s bold method of handling his historical
materials. —London Daily News.
«To Flannel Shirt for Kim.
A Lewiston little boy declared a philo-
sophic independence and accepted the con-
sequences in so matter of fact a way last.
week that it may make a story, even if it is
not so very funny.’ His mother dressed him
upinanew flannel shirt and sent him to,
school. The shirt irritated his cuticle, or, in
other words, he itched. When he came home
that night he was cross—and very cross» for
so small a boy—and he declared. he and} the
shirt had parted company forever. The
next morning, as his mother prepared to
dress him for school, the boy drew the line
at the shirt. “No,” said he, “I donlt wanter
wear that shirt.” A brief debate ensued, in j
which the boy appeared to have formed his
Opinion and to have decided to stick to it.
The question when put to [the house was
carried by the boy,‘who would not don the-
shirt. '
“If you will not; wear it,” said his mother,
I shall send you back to bed.”
Back to bed he Went. 'He got no dinner. 7
Afternoon came. 'A neighbor went in to see
him—his mother telling herthat she had a, '
bad boy upstairs. The boy lay there in bed.
wide awake, his little cheeks flushedwith the;
situation, but showing no signs of change of
heart. _ '
“Don’t you want to goto school?” asked
the neighbor.
“School I” wasthe reply; “I shall never go-
to school again”,
’“Don’t you Want? to!” _
“Yes; but .I can’t. 'I’ve got/”to stay here.”
“IAll your life?”
“Yes’m,” was the reply; “all my life. I
shan’t everget up again, prob’ly.”
What could a mother’sheart do against so
philosophic an acceptanceof» the termination
of a life careeras this? What but kis him_ _
at tea time and go and buy the little bunch
of pluck some downy little undershirts that ‘
shock]. never tickle him—Lewiston Journal.
Senator decomn‘mmin 1:" .
Though, on his first long speech in the
house of representatives, so good a judgp as
John Quincy Adams had pronounced him a
ruin of infirm promise, his term in the
house had been too brief tojustify thepre-
diction; it ,was left for WW! to fulfill
the hope: of, ,the representative, 2,119; f“
chosen chairman: of - the. .wmniiueé*-qu.mm‘
not make out your lost love letter stall. It :tary' adults, in compliment *9 1m” m
fameg-sbui‘ahis most conspicuous functioiim
the deem-of the concatenation“.
and southern..institdfionsl--.-1hm-1!h9-£t '
member the stormygsessionmqtdsw-bo and
1850-’51 cmnotrhafv'e'tfbrgotizii the force and
, the heat with-which commit. defended
the doctrines 'p‘eculiartozhio‘jection of tho
cumtry.-— ., ’e Weekly.
Norwalk Chronicler