| Show ESTHETIC RUSSELL Tl1 Delearteau Critic Chats k About > Famous People H J1 EDtQrt1ln tR n n n of sTananschc f Bia atskj t Oulda ialuna and Otfor 1 Actors hAri A pompous chubby gentleman with Imparted hair combed forward and slightly banged ovor the forehead dressed in a doublebreasted sack coat of light shade and trousers of the same pattern was pointed out as Edmund Russell the Delsartian art critic His manners though never obtrusive > are such that they attract attention and when the stocky built aesthetic walks into tho Knutsford dming hall all eye follow him and the ladies in particular discover man that interests them and they set about to find out all about the stranger with a distinguished air A HEBALD reporter was also of the curious set and awaited on Mr Russell in Ins room When in repose his face is impressive im-pressive and Were it not for his prety blue eyes and handsome banged hair ho would be set down as an ordinary mortal bat the moment he begins to speak > > the entire face is lighted jip with intelligence and there is at once noticed polish and brilliancy u1 will show you my album said Mr Russell and he turned over the pages chatting and calling up back reminiscences of the men and women he had met as he thought would interest THE HEISALD readers When he came to the picture of Robert Browning he paused remark that it was Browning at 70 brilliant and full of animation a man of wonderful vitality and a face BO expressive that itmade other people peo-ple feel dyspeptic Like all threat men he bad a childlike desire to learn and made a charming listener J K Emmett was the most graceful I man I ever met said tho Delsartean exponent ex-ponent filling up with enthusiasm It was perfectly delightful to see him turnaround turn-around or pick up a child The greatest grace he observed his not noticeable because in its highest it is always subordinate sub-ordinate to purpose Salvina has retired from the stage and I is now living in his Florence home which is a little place It may not be known to many that the great actor has a son on the Italian stage and still a younger son is a c sculptor Salvina has the finest motion of way big fat old man He has the grace of the lion and the panther animal grace of motion to a very high degree e Bernhardt a pupil of Delsarte is tho most graceful woman on the stage but Madame Janauschek can express a lar higher order of being Kestoris greatest power is In her facial czpression Her hands are not as good asher as-her face and her feet are poorer than her hands Alexander Salvma begins the other way Mi greatest expression lies in his feet When I visited at Florence he asked me what thought of his acting I replied Very talented especiBlly in the legs The children all laughedP Salvina after ponderIng pond-erIng awhile loeked up and said thats g BO Theatre goers who have seen Janauschok only in the later years will smile to know that pictures of her taken la her youthful days andiu the characters of some of Schil lers tragedies reveal a very beautiful woman with raven hair and glorious eyes and not unlike the Empress Carlotta Janausohek Mr Russell considers the greatest living actress The only woman who can portray the heroic the dignified where a modern actress achieves but the broken and crushed The first actress whom Ludwig the mad king of Bavaria evor saw was Janausohek Who knows but that his insanity was the wild joy of liberated inclination after the imprisonment imprison-ment of a lifetime His parents never allowed him to visit a theatre and the poor i little chrysalis with his pentup longings used to steal away and secretly construct i tiny models of a stage and its belongings t When he came into his kingdom he made It a stage and he remained the royal audience until the curtain fell on the tragedy his own death Ludwigs collection of pictures t of the German tragedienne included her entire repertoire Another picture was that of the Syrian Bishpp Gregorius a man of powerful mentality men-tality and a representative of the Christian church without change from the hands of I The apostles He was feature at all London Lon-don garden parties where he always wore the flowing robe of dark stuff and bands of fur the robe of his office One of the unities of this mane faith that proves his descent from Christs twelve is that if he indorses a check for his salary it calls for just 540 and he never says a word about I pew rent The fact of Mme Blavatsky the occult priestess who Is supposed to be dead tho c she never died 11 is one of the most powerful power-ful and attractive in the collection She was 8 woman of enormous proportions but bad good taste refrain from a tailormade dress She was always clad in the seamless seam-less garment of the Bile and always looked graceful and majestio in her flowing flow-ing robes Mme Blavatsky Mr Russell says never in his presence laid claim to any supernatural powers She was a woman who knew thoroughly the deep underlying mysteries of all religions was an oriental philosopher and neither a cabinet medium nor a mysterious humbug H ir home was in London but she was of Russia where aho has several unoles it i court and her mother is still a well known woman in Russian literature notwithstanding notwith-standing the fact that she died when twenty years of age THE YELLOW BOBH Off BDDDHA One of the best photos in the album Is that of Sir Edwin Arnold He is the most Interesting of men and in his English home has a collection of foreign travel wonderful c wonder-ful in its rarity and originality A precious pre-cious reminder of hIs Light of Asia is the yellow rode of Buddha which the poet now uses as a oouch cover In his library It is composed of little squares of yellow cloth all sewed together This is a con ventionalization of an ancient custom I Whenever a burial took place the mourners mourn-ers woul rend their garments in token of grief and scatter the pieces over tho grave F The holy men were compelled to clothe I themselves by gatheringup these remnants I and sewing them together for a robe The I reproach of King Suddhodana to Buddha will be remfemljred when ri i he chIded him for coming In yellow remnants clad to i sweet Yasodhra who met him in cloth of gold To preserve the ancient and holy tradition the modern mantle of the Indian Buddhists is made by putting together little 1 lit-tle bits cut from the same piece of cloth Ouida who is a good deal better looking I woman than she io credited with being lives at Florence She is intensely disagreeable dis-agreeable and of course Is not liked Mr Russell calls her demeanor > that of a t naughty child BEKLLETS LOVE ron THE STAGE J Two beautiful faces are those of Sir t Percy and Lady Shelley In that of Sire Sir-e Psroy traces of his r are poet father > > but so modernized as to seem a little like a beautiful beauti-ful poem rendered into practical prose 1 Sir Percy lived in aristocratic poverty for twentyfive years and then came into the f title and estates The passion of his life I CM always been the stage Ho never failed to attend the theatre three times a week while in London This love of tho g stage was undoubtedly inheritance from L his fatker only that the sons genius was for the mechanics part of It i Shelleys powerful tragedy The Cenci7t which he wrote for the beautiful Miss 111 ONeil of Covent Garden theatre and which she refused because of its nature was never produced during the poets lifetime life-time nor until a few years since when it I was given by the Shelley society of London j in the private theatre of Sir Percy and behind closed doors Sir Percys theatre was one of the first outlays of i Ma new fortune He designed it himself wrote the play composed the music for the orchestra painted the scenery scen-ery and played the leading roles showing BO great genius except as stage manager Lord and La3y Shelley have devoted one room to sojivemr and memories of the poet Heraare all the pictures of him extant ex-tant his books everything of precious memory and from the cUing swing silver oengere holding fresh flowers daily In t stead of burning incense JjJLMPBRTI AND HIS BEAXTTIFOI WIFE Mr Russell spent a summer with Lam a peril at his villa by the lake Como He I j i 5 0 > haa a wonderful voice and was the greatest great-est Italian teacher He was then approaching approach-ing the dividing line over which he has since glided and used to wander through the grounds leaning upon his wife whose portrait snows a beautiful woman many years his junior with mervelous golden hair and flesh tones liKe a Venus rising from the se Of Alma Tademos house Mr Russell describes de-scribes the famous studio and the wonderful wonder-ful piano inlaid and carved andhavlng painted onits Cover under glass the names of all the celebrated artists who have ever played upon it or sung to it The picture of Whistler shows a man with some suggestions about him ot our own Mark Twain He has much of his humor only In Whistler it takes the form of wit One lock of white hair that stands erect In a mass of black has won for him the sobriquet of White Crested James A marvelous study in blue of Whistlers is the famous peacock dining room of LP lands house He spent one 3 dar in the decorating of it for which he received 20000 Felix Mocholles painter and musician has the greatest studio in London and his receptions are the most charming in artistic ar-tistic circles Gladstone with whom he dined Mr Russell fqund looked worn but not old had a face that lighted up with every feeling Like Browning he had the simplicity and frankness a great nature the candor of a child in acquiring new knowledge The strong face of Carl Formes with its powerful outlines and long haira face somewhat Indian In typedrew from Mr Russell the assertion that he considered tno famous German singer tho greatest man and the greatest mind he had ever known Other artists like Salvini you realized were great only when you saw them act but with Formes you felt his greatness the moment you saw him and heard him speak His conversation and personality were awe inspiring < A charming face is that of a sweet old lady Mrs Sterling formerly of Henry Irvings company but now retired and the original Adrienne Lecouvreur in English Oscar Wilde the Amorican Oscar thinks took too much advantage of the ridicule accorded him in this country but ho fully agrees with others that the high priest of aestheticism has redeemed all his follies by his literary achievement Performance is the test of all n en Oscar Wilde has won his spurs and is entitled to keep them Other famous people whose faces looked from the album were Lord Lytton Owen Meredith who was greater as the artist than the man Sir Frederick Leighton tho elder Garciaa brother of Mahoran and all friends of Delsarte Annie Besant > > Frances Hodgson Burnett and Walter Crane LECTURES ARRANGED ron I Mr Russell has arranged for a series of lectures which will commence at the conservatory con-servatory of music on Monday eveniag next The subject of the first will be Personal Culture the second Dress and tho third House Decoration |
