| Show n W In M ann r NI THE TUE DRAMA as LL CZARS LAND LANDU r U mimi tUU Ul n U The Tho Theater Magazine for tor August contain n a 1 timely and amid Interesting arti article Ir ole cle bv hv Bernard forum on Time The Drama In The Tue author says say In III part hart Russia Hulla hUll hud practically no national drama up UI to a I comparatively recent date datI At time the time line when al nl already ready boasted of oC a I a aLope n aLope Lope do tie Vega France l a II Moliere time the Illusion stage was WIS barren of ot everything except a I tow few childish mystery plays Tho ho first of ot dramatic art url were taken from coin to Poland Mysteries wore were performed In Kief lief Iet by hy the theolog theological ical students who also visited the time boring towns tona hut But lul how little the hue drama suns uan understood oven even In Poland three centuries ago aKO may Iny bo ho gleaned train from this well authenticated Incident During a t sitting of the Polish diet In Warsaw tho the representatives anti and populace were suede I entertained by a it mystery called caled The Thc Passion The Time performance was suns given on ohm 01 the tho open common and the tho nobles looked on 01 Hitting astride their horses hotes When It I caine lame to 10 tho time scone scene where Judas JUlias betray Christ one of ot time the nobles ex IX exclaimed claimed How host could you ou stand and anil sen SM such rascality place laco before your eyes Kill mi the tho kill kihl kil If It I you 01 Ilont dont Ill Il kill hihi ki him And nr without further ado he tie took alum aim and time the unfortunate actor tell fell fatally wounded by an nn arrow arro The Tho birth of ot time the drama proper dates tram from the middle of ot time the eighteenth tl century In Its Is it beginning h tho the stage subsisted either cither on aim translations translation of ot trashy French melodrama or on pa patriotic patriotic native tragedies which eto not much better bett r from n a literary Il Time The Th liberation hot of or the Hussion stag Id m ma from froni Imitating tho the 1 lelh of Nicholas I la In tho the reign such uch as nM Harrows oM of oC Ift n 1 tin 1111 by hi Boris by bv I lorl 1 ThO 9 and later Inter on Oil 01 poet h and rime Wedding i iv Inspector I Is I Incomparable Gogol whose HUt HUs lie Hie Ih on so ci fill fimi of ot tears appeared 10 succession mn elan stage Binge in quick quIrk It to new ness lire Co and v Igor Ju lam rt I n I it t n I Ithe withstanding time the high literary Inri cannot ii n the time plays uhlas mentioned It II I l th ti of or their authors that they tho til hit of tho the Russian national drill li liIn true trim sense Their i n In far b h iii t th In iii number anti and 1 11 arid could tint not therefore hn hr nOl ant i t tIng I 1 Ing Influence on tin tins tho stage lowed up imp 11 by h tIme the whirlpool nf t If Th Tb I 1 11 1 ai bloodcurdling T till did n ii I Yit RussIan of 0 1 until I O when the powerful pOl pin phu WY 0 I V S Alexander tue stage made their appearance on I |
