Show EDMUND le C HANTI G LE ER ERIs Is Its Dress Rehearsal Easily the Leading Sensation of the Hour in Paris A POEM OF LYRIC BEAUTY PrInt More or hont I 11 n of and UI Havoc OC 1101 I Paris Feb deer cleel which had ls Its dress rehearsal at at atthe i the Porte St MartIn theater Is cas easily I I time Ule lending leadIng of oC the ho hour In Paris s papers printed more about tIme the than lien of time the detaIls of time the misery amid I havoc wrought b by time the recent food flood critics 81 that as a poem of I lyric beauty Is sed and amid ninny many pronounce It masterpiece Al All pa pay tributes t to tIme marvelous In Ingenuity wIth which tho ho author depicts the pIn play of human In iii the barnyard romance hut doubt that It wi wilt prye a I dramatic success s The anh critics tear fear that the delIcate French wi wIll be wholly lost In translation GREAT ARTISTIC SUCCESS SS The he dress rehearsal of oC Edmund Bbs Ros at the tho Porte St St StMartin Martin theater last host nl night ht In Iii the he presence or of a remarkable audience comprising the ele elite or of the tho lIterary artistic nn and world of oC Paris al as wel well as other oilier I was an artistic success of the first magnitude time tho exquisite verse being up to the finest tradItions o of poetIc genIus The or of time the frt first act which wa was preceded b by a chaing prologue delivered by Jean preparing the audience for the atmo atmosphere phere of oC th time timepiece piece faIrly set time the theater mad with enthusiasm But Bul the second and third acts which were somewhat somewhat tedious were less favorably reo ved vedIn In time the last act however enthusiasm was revived to the boIling point There Ther were five cals calls aCer after time the curtain ten fell but 3 1 himself did not appear M Quil wh wimp took time the part of oC Chan stepped before the tho curtain arid and simply e lila his thanks WONDERFUl STAGING Time The piece was wonderfully staled staged ad and the plot thrIllIng H r Gultry Mme e Simonne the lien hen pheasant time the blackbird and th time doS dog carried on off the honors The rhe secret cret or of the te many delays delas the I dent to the tho presentation of oC the pia play Is isnow I n now IJ by the changes mae at atthe i the tho End cud orthe plu play Th 5 nier after vainly trIng to ChanU cIcI deer whom she hits has enticed to te the for eat cst to prolong the tho night 36 hours In ha their nuptials betrys betrays him and he re returns returns turns to th the br barnyard ard to his faithful liens hens Time The critics generally consider that the brilliancy or of tIme the vers verse surpasses even if IC that be possible but the artistic note struck Is s so high that the they doubt the play wi will b be a popular ater after curiosity ha has worn orn off of ofU offIt U It Is rumored that 11 iii him himself self wi will pIa play time the role or of ChantIcleer at the benefit to b be given for Cor the food flood sufferers A UNIQUE Chanticleer probably is time the most unique productIon ever pre presente pro on the stage No human char ater actor appears in time the cast Time The dramatIc Ic personae ar arc fowls and ani aai animals mals and as the they are necessarily as large o as time the men and women who enact the parts everything which appers appears upon the stage stase Is upon ullon a Ecale ChantIcleer the her hero Guil Guitry Is fled filled wih wIth about his place in time the world He Imagines lie he Is master ot of time the sun that the tho sun rises at time the end or of night because hoe hM awakened and amid crowe crowed The pIa play dis dispels dispels this Illusion In the het heart or of Cha Chan Chanticleer alone The first act opens with the sun ris ne risIng lag Ing on a barnyard A mountainous manure manur pie pIle Is on one side ot or the stage A tence which seems immense Immens because It Is In proportion n separates the yard from a road beyond boond which is isa Isa a forest back badt ground round To the rIght a a wooden sh slice forgotten by the he farm ors rs wife Is or of time the size It would appear to the lie wIe chicken and a chair completes the scale 11 Its Ic legs which alone are seen being eight yards ars high In time the center o of time the stage with his companions of oC the barnard barnyard grouped him hals time the sun whose rays gid gIld time the scene In n a hymn ful full of the poets lyric mag On the manuro plo pile perch Cs time the blackbird jealous Cl of time the cock and breaking Into his noble sentiments with jibes arid and puns after Tile Jean the manner of oC Cyrano Crano Tle dog Is he time the droll moralIzer or of the piece Cull fails In love with witha witha a beautIful pheasant who is wooed b by a fighting cock cockA A SCENIC GEM TIme second act Is the scenic gem or of time showIng tIme the Ippel upper branches or of a blasted pine In the heart or of a for tor forest est esl time the human himman sIzed birds perched In Inthe time the branches The owl cal calls the roll roB rollof of time the birds s of time tho night each as his Is caled called answering and opening two eyes oes which shIne In the tho of time the stage e green rc m yellow eloW or blood red These TheM birds l do de declaim claim the of oC time the and amI ater after afterward wd ward conspire together to rId them themselves selves ot of their arch Chan Chinn With Ith him gone tle they beleve believe tIme the wi will be forever quenched und amid the they be masters forevermore Iu In time the third act ChantIcleer lern learns I of time the conspiracy of the flight birs bIrds and fights n a duel with hil fals false friend time the cock him hIm despite his gme Steel steel gaffi and redoubtable Ik skIll 1 This Timis Is 19 the of the end for tor Chanticleer Time he treachery of hil lila friend poisons his imis optImism Time The hen pheasant ant the prize of oC the combat offers I time the cn consolation laton or of her love In a fine outburst and then his head un under dol der h r win wing and amid bids him sheep I th time fourth and last act opens chanticleer wooed b h hove loe has OPI I 10 so lon long that the sun hat risen wih out him And I have not crowed lie he crI crIes The dream ot oC his life al nhi hit his belo belief In lila wondrous power crumbles So io Soh h lie wn was not the ruler of oC the sun Run Al Mi the tend tenderness ore t of th the hon hen cannot back the lost lu IllusIon lon ills henl hens do not know I It The bir bIrds or of orthe the night sUI still believe In hIm He has Imas followers ad and bil his enemies a as 0 before fore The Bun still r rises o wen whoa he leer crows r If the dog doubt doubts h lie is 15 1 J r But the iron that ha imas entered Ils lila Joul soul a the death of the glorious ROS ROSTAND AND S STORY Rostand In an explains time story of lila his conception or of I ieee In 1901 lie he said while taking a walk In time the outskirts or of Combo Cambo I wa passing a humble farm rm when r sud suddenly suddenly denly stopped before the It Il wa just nn arm ordinary barnyard contain containIng Ing time tho usual pigeon loto loft wire maure manure pie mile and within the animals lIens duc ducks guine guInea fowl Cowl gee geese tur kes a cat aSleep a do dog wandering abut about In brier brief n it I 1 watched with Interest when whon sud sudden ud udden den In stalked the cok cock lie He entered proudly boldly like Q a ruler wih wIth 11 dis data In his eye ce ad and n a certain movement or of the tho head that produced the irresIstIble impression of n hero He advanced like a buccaneer Ike like 1 a aman man In quest ot of adventure a kIng among his subjects In a Jah hash I saw In this a play I returned to the bryar barnyard many and rapidly the framework o of time tho play was as cn con constructed In my mind |