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Show 8TTLE8 IN AMUSEMENTS. There are faahlona In amua.rn.nta t-l In clothes or plcturea and It la not often wis. to resurrct them. Growth la the dominating feature of axlatence, an evolutionary evo-lutionary process which w ar only beginning be-ginning to comprehend. Yet ther. are courageous souls who ever and anon Insist In-sist on giving ua the amua.rn.nts of a Reneration ago in th. sam. euhllme ex-Ihltlon ex-Ihltlon of unqualified eurcese. The modiste mo-diste might aa well use the fashion plates In volumes of Godey "Lady' Book" for contemporary at vies. Twsnty-flv year ago ailbart and Sullivan's Sul-livan's "Mikado'' took the country by atorm. Audlencea marveled at the gorg.. one splendor of the production, with tta varied color scheme laughed at It. compelling com-pelling wit and aatlr.. while the tuneful melodies rang In the eara for daya and montha. It wea triumph. Thla year th. opera is being produced on a much mow lavish scale. Thoae who heard It a quarter quar-ter of a century ago have rushed with Joyous expectation to hear It again: those I who have only heard of It have flocked to taate of much heralded Jove. All have been interested, but It la likely that most hava been disappointed. Nor I It likely that all could tell why. In truth, the world haa moved on. Th. wit of the early no. rinds no echo of . laughter, for It la either atale or not un- , deretood. Modern stage mechanlca have reduced the scenic aplendor of "The Ml- i ksdo" to a nreflv'a flash. The music is melodious, but ieople now want to hear ( Puccini and Charpentler. This Is no discredit to the opera, nor I Ite most recent progenitor, for they have I reaped their reward. Their eiperieno la j that of many others. People have not yet atopped going to bur a Pattl fare- i well or to listen to Bernhardt s Impersonation Imper-sonation of dardou'a heroines. They do these things from personal or historic reasons, and And euffirtent compensation even from an artistic standpoint. But the oanona of art are changing: our aenslblll. tlea require new Impreeaione and our understanding un-derstanding must be appealed to In the light nf the moot r.cent knowledge. It I. common for us to look back to a period In our own Uvea or even far back Into history and maka comparisons unfrl.nd-ly unfrl.nd-ly to the present. We are genetally mistaken mis-taken n eurh Judgments. Ther. Is no lime tike the present, and we deceive ourselves with vain Illusions when we j believe, or affect to believe, to the con- ' trary. Joseph M. Rogers In Llpplncott a. |