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Show I. ' ' . . ."XrMMMWHMHH .N'tiv York critic, exhaust their English vocabulary In describing Sarah Hkumia rut's part of Cleopatra. Cleopa-tra. It is marvelous no doubt, since the play was particularly adapted to her, not only as an actress but as a woman. Sarah is Cleopatra personified. person-ified. American actresses have assayed the play but they can never excel iu it as the Hkrnha rot does. It U entirely too oriental and too .cnsuoiis to tit anybody quite so well a. her. The piece will probably havo the same run as "Camille'' bad which was likewise writteu for the I!krnhakit, and which alTords the same opportunity for the display of thoso arts and guiles and poses in which the Frenchwoman is unrivalled. un-rivalled. Hut "Cleopatra" in its new adaptation is unwholesome, and, save for the artistic trappings with which she clothes it, would quickly disappear from the stage. Worse than the coarse indecency perpetrated in the 'Cleuien-ceam 'Cleuien-ceam Case," the subtlo obscenity of "Cleopatra" would taboo it before an American audience. |