Review of reviews and world's work . ic as are interested only know just where to look for it. Youin the dran, ted that the Xew Theater may tell this to people in plain prose, and 1 for the highest sort of they pay no attention, but if you tell it todramatic art, whether it madi I money them in poetic allegory and act it before by i and I frankly i that their eyes with striking scenery and gorgeous I ere disappointed costumes, it make- an impression that mere with th« .!- Mot that one words cannot make. Of the many people t results in a tir-t among my acquaintance who have seen Thendard was no


Review of reviews and world's work . ic as are interested only know just where to look for it. Youin the dran, ted that the Xew Theater may tell this to people in plain prose, and 1 for the highest sort of they pay no attention, but if you tell it todramatic art, whether it madi I money them in poetic allegory and act it before by i and I frankly i that their eyes with striking scenery and gorgeous I ere disappointed costumes, it make- an impression that mere with th« .!- Mot that one words cannot make. Of the many people t results in a tir-t among my acquaintance who have seen Thendard was not what I had Blue Bird, only one or two have failed to be r impressed by it, but these one or two weredid] that unimaginative and looked at things in a prac- r tical way, considering it absurd thai Bi iould< ut a slice off ol his stoma* h and band it5 to the children to eat. The ( hildren did nbl fell upon il and ate il withI rdity, to people but ii I ha vi death, i thing to ili< in, id he dead than ? I Bill M|| i ml. V I I \\ \HHING TIU. CHRISTMAS PARTY ACROSS THE STREET THE AMERICAN PRODUCTION OF MAETERLINCKS -BLUE BIRD 691 it is rather sad when Gaffer Tyl add?. Wehave no other amusements. The play opens with a scene in a wood-cutters cottage. There are two childrenasleep in their bed. one at the foot and oneat the head. These children are Tyltyl andMytyL They are just waking up: it is Christ-eve. There is no prettier scene in theplay than when these two youngsters in theirnighties tiptoe acr> tloor and look out the window at the Christmas festivitiesin the house of a rich neighbor acros> thestreet. Their conversation is most naturaland is given in the short, terse sentences forwhich Maeterlinck, as well as Ibsen, is con-spicuous. As they are dancing about enter to them the Fairy think that she is their neighbor. MadamBerlingot, but the fain- denies any relation-ship or any likeness to that lady. She in-vites the children to go with her


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