Show L SHARPS and FLATS Jt It In III II hy h her Hint I I will from the Hinge nt III nu Ill loii n 1 ll f nt lit thu Ihu i m May 11 IB 18 IBn n at 1 von vou 1110 l two 1111 nr IhlO year to n I I f l r li III III y hns t III Iho tho lifter alter temporary I CI II I withdrawal from public UN lit Florence Kni ton one oj o the III stiver nI English prima don cion donnan nan who so effectively CI tho name part In Madam In in Salt Hall lAll together with Krati Imn cl who ho divided honors with Joseph I In III tho lunor role will sill all for COt Germany this week from flom Montreal 1 ont reul Miss MIs Lee LCt Wendell is tho latest w tern playwright Illa to 10 hid bid for metropolitan honors honor Miss lias submitted to 10 JI nI AV O a II alight light opera The Merry lollY Man that wit will probably have ha a production tho coming season This 1 young roun writer was formerly a Do Detroit I troll newspaper newspaperwoman woman but is now no connected with tho publishing house of or Pact Pace Co Cu CoDe De DI Wolf Hopper appeared upp at II the tho Belasco Theater Washington last la t week In Wang UIl and Of hla hl performance the Iho Post d Mr 11 roll role ont one of his hl successes ca JIo IIo Invests It with o II drollery which Is funny Ills song The tall Man With an t el cm Ills HI Han Is and the Uti scenes of or his unconventional wooing oC nr the widow wore w r enthusiastically ap applauded p lie no was WI of course I com to tl recite that oC of tho diamond ICa o at the Bat One OIl of oC till the best criticisms on Sl lome Is I that of if Holmann Strauss Is Js not lIot a Il dramatist and 1111 Sa Ha Salome lome proven this anew Wagners method nl expression which Is II developed out of oC strong 11 ronI elementary feelings Intelligible to all has ha been betHI applied by h Strauss to 10 a drama which calls fo an entirely musical style Tho trouble with Is III that he IaNs ri art of oC deriving d from 1111 triads motives themis which stand for fill nil all eternity as II If II atol by h nature art all Strauss lack more completely than Wagners other othol followers fo 1016 The least thi Iho work W of nr n creative genius Is I bin hi simplicity fill ell Paul II I ns Ihu In composer of The Wizard 11 f Oz 07 now on Oil view VI 11 at the Trout Northern Theater Chi Chicago cago CI O has filtered the of dramatic critics I Ii Ho has hilI 1111 en I charge of III the th dramatic d 1111 In Ic page of or Inel Jl u I nIl new monthly by h Joel Chandler Harris and published In Now York lit III this It may ilia be bo bolI lI that the lIw stories have dually succumbed to lo tho Inevitable they have been dramn and will soon bo h seen on the Ita A play I ln based on such Jeh a 1 theme would manifestly be he Incomplete with without out olt 1111 Mr 1 r has written the th lo for it Mr 11 Harris assisted In n the III dramatisation by hY Otis F W IWi oi of or McClures Magazine and Julian Harris Charles mild made hip hi first m 0 In London as 18 n 1 10 0 purs ago The anniversary of or that thit event nt was lIS the other othel lay day by b a Jubilee concert nt at which the th em eminent baritone made lI a speech pooch In which he h said Aall that he ho has sing ing InA for 1 GO 3 pars and al ilso o emphatically declared that this Mas wa not a I farewell ll concert Lord 1 also made a Il speech In which he h an announced the Ih testimonial tl fund amounted in 10 2000 Among moll the Ih em eminent artists nIU h tin the platform were 11 Mines Suzanne Adams Clain lull and Ada 1111 s John Coati Hon Her b Ii Hc I while Miss Da Fritz I Kreisler III Mr 11 AV H 11 play played ed uti solos in n their respective Instrument ment tn II I and Dr Car In Alberto and 1111 Mr Landon till the il 1 as to IJ conduct the thC Sym H m irth tn Mr 11 was II one of or the th first t l 1 wivi wi at tit n till u were they the veto IO II rn hilt bud courage to o keep IHlI his own nu 11 |