| Show IN INVENTOR YEN Of MARIONETTES i IS HONORED Centenary of the he jF Father r of of Punch ch and ana Judy S Show w. w B t M May 11 l The The memory of f t et who years year ago ngo V tHe he stage e one tes which ch r a as the Punch and fudy udY show J has ban h s b b n honored by tho the eople of Lyons In Di who inaugurated a a. o u to 9 Mour M ur ot i in that c city ty Che b celebration wa was an elaborate affair af f- f fair ir speeches bein being made b by a 2 c deputy b bS jn mayor of ot Lyons ns who pointed o out t bat hat was born borit in Lyons in 7 9 and d. d by i a p physician of the dis die The feature of th the celebration however was a discourse in pantomime ly v Jean ol which proved to too o Ii 1 a small wooden figure deftly from behind the scones scenes be it Punch and Judy Juay show bow ii in ranee rance as the show and the thees reet es ee French spectacles les this kind par ay aT be bo seen cen throughout the summer rummer In Ii a tho the gardens the tho Avenue leu fie k Champs Ely sees in Paris Pari fashion Ai Attends tt Boxing Boring dt Hatches hes es 1 Two Tw social Locial o ial fads have marked tho the season which is ii I brought ht to a aie ose ie with th the Grand Prix running race Longchamps in the c early part ol of ins une ne The first rat has haa been tho the grow growing Dg of fashionable people to attend atten I exhibitions bi e and the th second d has bas hasten basten ten ten cu renewed d interest in ilL fancy dress IUS le w which leh held such h an important la lace eln in the court life lifo of ot early curly France Prance One Ono of tho thom m most st ori of there there- the re- re b m masked d balls baU wag tho the lIun Bu Hungarian garian arian riven iven by Yc Madame de i in her tb th the Avenue du Bole Bois de do ulo n All the appeared in national costume The received h her r guests aiu ib in hi a superb uD ar 1 dreas dren reu with a mantle rich neb 7 embroidered with fur and nd a headrest head head- res rest reu sparkling with diamonds Her auchter wore a picturesque Hunga Hunga- a an ap n peasant Ant c costume The iThe men men wore woi beth Venetian cloaks k over o evening I with mth kO knee kuc a breeches and au silk Arnon Amon the guests ets who ap- ap eared ared in IIi sumptuous fancy dresses ere cre ret the e J Infanta f ntA Eudalia fu alia Princess of ot B Belgium 1 um the Grand Paul of Russia the tho Russian Em Em- 8 Or and Madame the and th tho Baroness on El Q choen and th Princes Murat lie be music was wa provided by hy a real gypsy band in black uni uni- and a feature of the ball was a mazurka m danced by ten l Dl 3 led b by Don Luis the son of the Eudalia E Amo Among th the most t interesting boo books s the library of tho the MO lato Henri oUMa t to b bo sold by auction soona soon a slender volume bound in hi faded ivet which h ou one belon belonged cd to the un un- Marie e. e A Antoinette tte n Tt It is called l Th- Th r of Trench rAllies and n 3 t o. o r of of no addre 60 M r a certain J Johann k h to toc too c o Es at mt t the th time timo ol of oft t r marriage with t the dauphin of once once- afterward Louis XVI I Tho The l l' i t admitted d mi are ara but niC io ro b ta as a a u souvenir the litI lit lit- J j it I i f C B Was fond food of or I how bow ho be picked it up by chance at the Ham Fair among a lot Jot of junK and paid oaid a few cents cent for it Another lot which is likely t to yield a 8 bi high b price price is isa 18 is isa A copy of the Dictionary of the tho French Academy of or 1694 The work I is in ja two volumes lums hound bound und in in old bId Morocco Morocco Mo Mo- roc rocco o leather bearing on the tha c ers co covers ners the tho i arms arms of f M Mademoiselle Mademoiselle- dc do Mo 6 stained in hi gold cold Declare Drama Decadent A Fre French 1 h literary review rc addressed to a nu number of well known writers the follo following ill questions First O What is IB is your opinion on on thc the prevalent taste o oi 0 modern society for the ef Dc Docs Docs' s sit it Indicate advance or decadence Does the play develop p the same same farm ties tie i as os the tho book Which in your opinion ion ia tS' the most listening to fo a a. dramatic performance or reading a n book A number of ot interesting replies were fere ree received ived Only two writers Paul and Mazel saw in hi tho pR passion sion for the play a a a serious evidence c of in intellectual in- in development de The great majority majority ma ma- jorty ro P un firmly against the drama and arid the tho modern craze for then then- tte oin The the taste for lor drama writes Maurice e Barres which is no now be becoming omin something between a a vaudeville vaude vaude- yule ville and a cinematograph indic indicates a 3 tendency to tako tak the thc lino of l least ef of- I fort bit Proof of ot Laziness Bone Bo nl also nho o considers it Zt- as at a proof of laziness but b ho in addition s sees sees es in it a manifestation ml of sociability ty People Pc pl ho lio thinks go o to th the thO theatre theatre thea thea- tre not so 80 mu much h to enjoy enjo themselves as RS asto asto to provIde themselves with topics of con conversation tion M. M believes beHoves the thereal thereal thereal real drama to tobe be extinct and th that t nowadays nowadays now now- adas the P purely spectacular element on the stage In this ho lie is atone at aton atone on one with S Sar ar r Pel dan who holds that there ar are only ei eight bt real dramatists three e Greek one English two French and two German Vinc Vinent t dIndy the eminent composer er prefer oven ven for music reading to representation Edmond Pilon also alo declares for th the book Dook which ho declare par paradoxically do h cal cally eally alone can ensure immortality for fOT the true thC true drama The passion 0 of Racine h ho S says II u the race of Marivaux Marl Mari vaux the ir irony lY of dc do B Banville th tb the languor lau lan SUtor anor of de Ie t are arc much more apparent ap ap- ap- ap parent and appreciable le in tho the calm and thoughtful atmosphere of the study t than an before beor the glare Iare of the chande chande- her lier and ande the tho flashing of the spotlight bt |
