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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 2S 189S
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With wealth of foliage,blooms.snd grasses lash.
The Woods and fields In glorious beauty stand.
But soon will Frost on her radiant presence
frown,
And snatcn her treasures, and, like alchemist
Convert them into germs for antnmn’s ciown,
And oloth of gold, to spread where be may
list.
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BABT'I HOKOICOFB.
Aa Iataraiftlai Cast by a lewTwkPro-
fcmr.
The horoscope of the little daughter
of the President and Mrs. Cleveland is
a very interesting one. She was born
at noon on Saturday, at which time the
third degree of Sagittarius was ris
ing, and Jupiter became the ruling
planet. She will, therefore, be tall,
well formed, rather slender, and very
prepossessing in appearance. She
will have dark or black hair, oval
faoe, fine features, and dark, ruddy
complexion. She will be dignified,
refined, agreeable, and of a cheerful
disposition.
Mercury, the planet influencing the
mind, is located in his own sign Virgo,
in exact conjunction with the moon,
and applying to the sun and Mars.
These indicate abilities of the highest
order. She will be active, witty, in
genious, studious, fond of literature
and music and somewhat reserved;
just, kind, merciful, and disposed to
acts of benevolence; fond of amuse
ments and pleasure. She will not be
without temper, as is shown by the
near proximity of Mercury to the war
like Mars, but will be of a very forgiv
ing nature.
The directions for marriage are not
altogether good, as the sun is in nearly
an exact conjunction with Mars, and
in nearly the same parallel of declina
tion as are Mars and Venus, Venus
also being in orbs of conjunction (evil)
with Saturn.
These all predispose to disappoint
ment and unhappiness, but the pres
ence of the benevolent Jupiter, so near
the cusp of the seventh house (that of
“arriage) tends to modify to a con
siderable degree the evil influences of
the planets before mentioned. She
will marry between 21 and 22. The
husband will be tall, slender, dark
oomplexioned and of a kind and gen
erous disposition.
Her constitution will not be a very
strong one. She is born under a new
moon, which falls in Virgo, and is
amioted by the conjunction of Mars.
Virgo ruled the stomach; consequent-
ly will be liable to accidents,
and will suffer principally with com
plaints of an inflammatory nature;
but according to the ruling of the an
cients, Mars with the sun always gives
strength and stamina; consequently
/ will readily reoover from sickness.
The little girl will live, but her health
"l 0 * 1 *® very * ood until the
fall of 1894, and particularly in the
spring of 1894, when the moon reaches
the body of Mars.
This is the horoscope of Baby Ruth’s
sister, as cast by Professor Leonis, of
this city. It is a part of the literature
inseparably associated with so impor
tant an event in the White House,
and will therefore be read with more
or less interest, and may stimulate the
horoscope industry, which, like every
thing else, has been stringent of late.
St Louis Repnblio.
Mammoth street was a well-known
London street, called by Dickens, from its
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THEATRE-GOERS.
Clever Bab Describes the Enthusi
astic Aristocrat, Artist and
Llterariaa in the
Play House
Copyright, 1893. From Our Regular
Correspondent.)
New York, Sept, 18,1893.
NCE a year, here in
New York, the liter
ary, the artntic and
the fashionable set
meet: it is at the new
plays always. And
that new play is in
variably the one at
which you will hear
the critic, the painter,
or the woman of fash
ion announce that it is
certain to be good, for
it is to be done by “Young Sothern ”
Always they say “Young Sothern;”
not that they have not gotten over
making comparisons between him and
bis father, but because they remember
when they first applauded him, and
they have watched him grow in pub
lie favor as one watches a handsome
boy. The other night when he came
on the stage as gay, gallant Dick
Sheridan, just for one second the au
dience did not know its old favorite
Then it gave him that greeting which
is such a delight to an actor, and, af
ter that, it settled down to watch the
play.
SWEET BETTY LINLEY OF LOXQ AGO
People had thought out all sorts of
things, for people take the trouble to
think out a play that Sothern is going
to appear in, as he is known to be con
scientious, a hard worker, and a great
student. My neighbor had dreamed
of Dick Sheridan when he was the
friend of princes and lords, and when
he was making wonderful speeches
during the Hasting’s trial.
My other neighbor thought of him
as in his sad days, when old age and
poverty came, and when he was forced
to sell the picture of the woman he
adored that he might get bread and
butter.
But I had believed that something
different would come, and it did. The
curtain rose on the Pump Room at
Bath, in the eighteenth century, when
everywhere there was a mixture of
great magnificence, and considerable
discomfort—of superb manners, and
quite a deal of immortality. The la
dies and the gentlemen of that day
came in for their gossip, drank tea or
chocolate. The sedan chairs were
brought to the doors and unloaded
their attractive burdens of brocade
and lace, powdered hair and patches,
perfumes and womankind, and gossip
was all through the air, and every
man was a loveable rake, and every
lady said over her love affairs as she
did her prayers.
Suddenly, one chair more rich, more
covered with gilt than any other, ap
peared ; out of it popped two little
negro pages, and then came the “Fair
Maid of Bath”—“Betty Linley—that
most beautiful one of the family of
Nightingales, at whose feet all the
men fell, from David Garrick down.
Was it a wonder that when his eye
lighted on her, handsome Dick Sheri
dan, just 20 years old, adored by all
the women, quoted by ail the men, be
come convinced that here at last was
the woman, and the only one, he could
ever love,
urs AND DOWNS OF PLAYS.
And this was the story of the play.
The story of young DicK’s love for
sweet Betty, and of his determination
to make his play a success, while it
was as well a picture of how, even in
those days, what was real was the on
ly thing worth listening to, for into
this gay, worthless, gossiping life at
Bath were all the people that after
wards stepped before the curtain when
it went up on‘ The School for Scandal.”
I have been to a good many first nights,
but I do not know of one where my
heart beat as it did when we, the real
audience, sat there looking into the
manager’s room when “The Rival’s”
was being hissed off the stage, and
when the London audience had so
lost its senses that it even hissed its
favorite, David Garrick, wnen he made
an appeal for the young author. There
stood poor Dick Sheridan, believing
that his love was lost, knowing that
his play was a failure, berated by the
manager, with every one against him,
except Dear David Garrick, and yet,
as he threw his head back, and said:
“ ‘The Rivals’ will be talked of when
you fools are all damned,” the audi
ence before him rose with him, and
for a few moments—for we didn’t
know whether we were applauding
Dick Sheridan or Ed Sothern—so
completely had the one been merged
into the other. I think that is the
true art of the actor.
Later on, when he found that his
beautiful Betty Linley was willing to
run away from her home and come to
him in his poverty to be his wite,
when the second night “The Rivals”
was a great success, and managers
were pleading for bis next play, when
his old friend, Tom Matthews, who
was the original of Joseph Surface,
found to be bis worst enemy, then the
curtain dropped on the knowledge
that the greatest comedies ever writ
ten were by the young Irishman,
Richard Brinsley Sheridan; then one
gave a gasp and suddenly concluded
that one nas been seeing a bit of real
life, a book made of history’s pages,
brought forward and put into a fine
binding, and that surely today there
was no reason why we ‘Americans
should be looking for English plays
when we could get good ones like this
at home.
SUPERIORITY OF AMERICAN PLAYS.
A man whose books you have all
read said to me, “Dick Sheridan said
those lines.”
“Yes,” I answered, “but see how
clever the author was to be able to use
those lines in such a way that they
never were out of place, and no mat
ter under what circumstances Sheri
dan might have said them, they never
seemed anything but absolutely the
right words in the right place. I am
very tired of poor English plays—for
several years we have been having
doses of them. Good American actors
lose their opportunities in attempting
to produce them, and trying to make
American audiences think that be
cause Jhe man’s name is well known
on the other side of the water he is
bound to produce something that we
will like here. I believe in getting
for our amusement the good from
everywhere, but when we can get a
play like ‘Sheridan,’ written at home,
1 do not see why managers should go
chasing around the world looking for
off-color French farces and stupid
English ones, simply that they may
have a prestige of having been per
formed in London, or written by some
body who was close to London. To
me London seems to be the proverbial
dog on which the plays are all tried,
and then the bad ones are sent over
here marked ‘London Successes.’ To
come from the sublime to the ridicu
lous, did yon know that song that all
the boys whistled last winter about
Daddy’s objection to buying somebody
a bow-bow. and which was advertised
as a great London success, was never
sung in London until it had made a
hit in America?”
A GOOD PLAY MUST BE TRUE TO LIFE.
But to return to “Sheridan,” I asked
the cleverest man I know why it was
a good play. I always like to ask a
man for my reasons. He said, “It is a
good play because it makes two hours
of life very interesting. It is a good
play because it is well acted. It is a
good play because it is perfectly
mounted, and is the finest picture I
have ever seen ot those tea-cup times
of hood and hoop, or while the patch
was worn.
“It is an historically interesting
play, because it makes you think per
sonally with Mrs. Malaprop, with
Lady Sneerwell, with Joseph and
Charles Surface, with Lady Teazle,
and with all the wits and beaus of the
time. It is a good play because while
there are many bright lines in it,
witty lines, clever lines, there is not
an undesirable line in it, and it has
not for its motive the breaking of the
Seventh Commandment. It is a sweet
story of love and ambition, and it is
one that will bold the boards when
many another play is forgotten.”
Said I: “I think it is a good play
because I like to see the people I read
about come in flesh and blood before
me. It gave me pleasure to see Dick
Sheridan, the genius of 20, put his
arm around his sweetheart of 17, and
refuse to let her earn, with her sweet
voice, one cent of money to support
them, so long as he had life and
strength. It pleased me to see the
days when gentlemen and ladies made
low bows to each other, and were pro
fuse in their thanks and their apolo
gies. I liked the whole framing—the
tea drinking, the courteous greetings
and farewells. Perhaps I even liked
the somewhat extravagant speeches;
but it all seemed like a perfect pic
ture of the Eighteenth century that it
was very much worth one’s while to
see. I liked the way the men were
dressed. I liked the brocades and the
powder, the shoe buckles and the lit
tle blackamoors, and all the dignity
attendant.”
“Why,” queried the man; “why is it
that although you object to-day to a
man being in anything more cheerful
than dead black and white in the even
ing, yet you all love to see him come
on the stage in his satin coat and knee
breeches; in his lace ties and white
gloves, his powdered hair and paste
buckles?”
WE BUSH TOO MUCH NOWADAYS.
“Why? Weil, because in those days
I don’t think he played polo; he did
not get up early in the morning and
rush to the tape to see how stocks
were. Life was not the hurry and
flurry it is now, and his costumes
suited his manners and his era. He
could not say ‘Adzooks!’ to-day; neitfc-
could he cause six bottles of port to
disappear after dinner. His love-
making would sound a little weird,
and yet, certainly he loved just as
well then if not Detter than he does
now. Look at the suffering and sorry
that Betty and her Dick went througn
before he became the great celebrity
that he was. And think how, through
all the years, when ladies plead with
him for his love, when all England
adored him, his heart was true to the
gentle woman who had become his
wife in the days when there was not
full and plenty. You laugh and shake
your head, and remind me that some
times he did stray from her. That
may be, for Dick was young and
handsome, and there were
MANY BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN THE
WORLD,
but he always came back, and when
she died, and she was only 3S years
old then, he mourned lor her as a man
only mourns for the love of his life.”
Again my cynic laughs, but there is
a quaver in the laugh, and I think
even he is willing to confess that but
one love comes in a lifetime.
Sometimes that love is gotten, some
times it is never more than a beautiful
dream; but while there may be many
loves, each one good, yet each one is
different from that perfect love which
fills all of the heart, the brain and the
soul.
It seems to me that that was the love
that young Sothern pictured—I do not
like to say “acted,” for he did better
than that. He took out of the life
that Tom Moore wrote and that ever
so many others have written from, the
Dick Sheridan of 20, and brought him
before us with a heart overflowing
with love for a beautiful, virtuous
girl, and a brain overflowing witu an
ambition that was hound to succeed
If all of England had hissed Sheridan
he would have succeeded, for hissing
to men of his build is only an ineent
ive to success. It breaks down Chat-
terton, ir. kills Keats, but it urges on
the Sheridans and the Byrons, until
their names are written high up on
the temples of fame.
It is curious how just about once a
year this New York first night meets
and is enthusiastic.
It applauded young Sotliern when
for dear love’s sake, he became “The
Highest Bidder;” it applauded and
encouraged again when, for friend
ship’s sake, he introduced us to that
most lovely of characters, “Chumley;’
it wept tears of sympathy and wel
comed back the prodigal when, going
a step higher on the ladder of good
acting, he bowed as “The Maister of
Woodbarrow;” it applauded and ap
preciated the good acting, rejoiced
over the resurrection, and yet did not
so much love the hero in “The Danc
ing Girl;” and it felt that “Letter-
blair,” while it was sweet and pleas
ant, was not strong enough for the
actor; but this year, when at its best
first night,Dick Sheridan bowed and
bowed his thanks to an audience that
had so many times applauded “Tne
Rivals,” it was felt that now indeed
young Sothern had shown what he
could do, and was doing it. It is just
once in a year that we get enthusias
tic, and this is the time. And I think
it is good tUat we are so enthusiastic
over a play that Robert Buchanan
made a failure of, wnich it took some
one at home to write, and which Ed
ward Sothern born in New Orleans,
acted.
BAB BELIEVES IN ENTHUSIASM.
It is srood for us to be enthusiastic.
It starts the best part of us to going.
It takes away those lines on our faces
that mean discontent and substitutes
interest. Enthusiasm, that condition
of mind that provoked tears and
laughter, is a very healthy state.
How would you b8 able to enjoy a
laugh if you had never shed a tear?
How would you be able to adore a
rose if you had never seen a weed?
How would you be able to appreciate
a good picture if you had never seen a
chromo?
How would you be able to love a
sweet if you had never tasted an acid?
How would you be able to admire
the gold and the blue of the heavens
if you had never seen the grays and
blacks?
It is all a questiqn of contrast, my
friend. And that is the reason why I
can be so enthusiastic over the good
actor and the good play, because late
ly I have seen some such poor acting
and some such poor plays., Every
thing is a question of contrast. Then
be a little lenient and contrast with
some one you dislike the writer of
this, so that hy comparison there will
shine like a diamond the name of
Bab.
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