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Show AMUSE VCNTS. The cngatj-.'amut of the Home Dramatic Dram-atic club opened !h s afternoon w.th f "Tl'rt 'tVeu'M of Sin,1' and continues to-I to-I uij. lit and .'.iumlsy and Tuesday 1 1 its. I )u Wednesday uly;lit Fanny I V.-ou- ; pot opens ioT en---:igeaieut i:i "Cieo- ! patra." I flurin-r he !?.st rnjflmnit, in Nciv j : York, Mis.s Dpvi r.:'firt was R'kcd -io wbji tus.M'ct the pifc of Sar.lou fol i ?Mv -"ti-p l' 4i' 1 O ' o d I S h a k - i pnai-'.'. Iu r m ) 1 y I ii p ii I' t aid that it w a 8 known t li a t N. h a k 9-poai'f, 9-poai'f, in hie "An-tony "An-tony Ku i lid-loweiitlie lid-loweiitlie Btory of h i b t o ry and tradition, tra-dition, and that 8 a rd o u has done the same, though selecting dill'erenl episodes. The only real incident inci-dent that he has borrowed from Kng-land's Kng-land's greatest dramatist is that of the roefcsengur scene. There is very little real similarity be-tweon be-tweon the "Cleopatra" of Sardou and the "Antony and Cleopatra" of Shaks-peare. Shaks-peare. In Shakspeare's "Antony and Cleopatra," Antony and Cleopatra open the lirst seeue togethr. In Sanlous play Cleopatra comes to meet Antony in her barge with grandeur and display. After Cleopatra Appears, radiant in her beauty, tnere is a beautiful scene between be-tween her aud Autony. Inch by inch, the strons.' warrior yields to her charms. W ith this tuo first act ends. Jn Shakespt are's play the two are supposed to have met aud become f&s cinatiid with ench other oefore the first scene opens. The second scene shuws the lovers in the palace of Kamcscs and the departure of Aui.ony to grapple, with his foes. In this scene the asp is brought in by the slave commissioned to obtain it, instead of later, as Shaks-peare Shaks-peare has it. The th'rd act is located on the terrace of Memphis, and Is tilled with Cleopatra's reception of the messenger who brings tidings of An- i thony's marriage to Octavia. i The fourth act is not Siitkspearean. In it Cleopatra is brought by stealth into Antony's palace at Actitim, and, concealing herself behind the curtains of the nuptial eou'-h ot Antony and Octavia, Oc-tavia, hears her adored triumvir make fond love to his new wife and denounce his late paramour. Octavia gone, sue casts her spell again upon her tradiu or. The fifth scene is the tern pio of lsis. Antony is in a iurv at Cleopatra's retreat re-treat and his own scattered fieet, and is only moliilied when at the invocation of the tieyptian "sorceress'' a tearful tempest is railed forth to destroy tae pursuing fleet of Ocfavius Caesar. The storm fails (d its purpose and n followed fol-lowed by a denouement diil'eiing from that of Shakspeare. In her p:-.i-ace at Alexandria Cleopatra leave Antony asleep and prepares to meet the conquering t'acsir herself, instructing Ivcphrou lo covertly dispatch dis-patch him with a cimeicr vwioushe gives the signal. As a signal is given a cry arrests Kephron's arm. Antony, stabbed to the heart in his chamber by Cn-.sar's minions, staggers out and dies amid an utter auan.toiiiiiant of caivust.s of Cleopatra. Then the "str.r eyed" Egyptian has her crown and .-.cepti-r brought, places the tr-p in tin; In stance a gonuino breathing suake--itj her bosom and no rejoins her l.swr. "Cleopatra" will be given ednesdny and Thursday night and S.ar.r.Ur matinee. "Fedora ' Friday might aud "La Tosca" Saturday iic.iit. |