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Show linen's New Piny. New York Evening Post. Ibsen's latest play, Hedda Gabler, must be a cheerful work. It is described de-scribed as a study In pessimism. The heroine is well born and beautiful, but not malicious, vengeful and selfish. Sho is the wifo of a young histotian of weak character, whom she despises, and has two lovers, one a judge, her husband's creditor, and tho other a literary lit-erary genius, her husband's rival. She does not break her marital vows, but when sho hears that Lovborg, the genius; ge-nius; In his intervals of sobriety, has written a book which is likely to deprive de-prive her husband of a coveted professorship, pro-fessorship, she uses her influence to induce in-duce him to go to a certain bachelor's party where he gets very drunk, loses his precious manuscript and becomes involved in a disgraceful scandal with an actress of a character about which there is no doubt at all. The manuscript manu-script is found by Iledda's husband, who gives it to his wife for safe keeping. keep-ing. That estimable person hides it until she has had an interview with Lovborg. who reproaches her with his ruin and despair, aud then burns it page by page. Lovborg shoots him-seff, him-seff, or is shot, with a pistol once owned by Hedda. and her other lover, the judge, having ascertained this fact, oilers her the choice of yielding to him or going to jail. Soon after this she hears thai Lovborg has left notes from which his book can he rewritten, nnd at the name time she reaches the conclusion con-clusion that she is about to become a mother. Thereupon she shoots herself and ends the drama. |