Show faw MODERN DRAMA IN GERMANY esthetic not popular with theater goers of the fatherland german dramatists and the devotees of the modern drama are jealous of their craft and resent the importation of any an foreign article unless it bear the landmark han dmark of isben bjornsen or one or two russian dramatists of the gloomy type for in the german dramatic world there are agrarians who cry german drama for ger many just as there are agrarians in the reichstag who want to exclude american beef sausage and grains they swear loyally by their haupt manu mann halbe and phillippi but the political agrarians have their opponents and the dramatic agrarians ave lave theirs for the assistant stage nia manager nager scene shifter and costume makers are thrown out of jobs the coming season promises an other deluge of the modern drama the kaiser and royalty may digap prove and refrain from favoring the drama with its patronage but the theater going public who contributes to the balance sheet credit page die dic tates and I 1 a command Is away with the esthetic and let us have the filth of the gutter as the kaiser says in good german idiom HONORED BY ILLINOIS MASONS john C hallenbeck chosen grand master of grand council C hallenbeck elected most excellent I 1 grand master of the grand john C hallenbeck council royal and select master ma sons of illinois at the annual session in chicago Is a well known man in the stationery and paper business and a mason who has taken nearly all the degrees and held office in most of the masonic chapters he Is of old colo nial dutch stock and has been a resi resl dent of chicago slice childhood WILL WRITE OF IRELAND marchioness of londonderry has work in contemplation the marchioness of londonderry who Is said to have in contemplation a serious literary work on the irish question Is perhaps better fitted by education inclination and experience tor for the task before her than any mem her of the british nobility her father the earl of shrewsbury and talbot was premier earl of ireland and the young lady theresa helen talbot spent much of her time in that oun ILI 4 try lord londonderry s favorite seat Is mount stewart county down where the family have spent a great part of each year among a large and loyal tenantry and for three years 1888 1886 89 lord londonderry was lord lieutenant of ireland lady lon don derry has always loved her irish home and the irish people she has done much to popularize their laces linens tweeds and poplins and has in n all her wom come to know ireland for lor what she Is so she will be able to write truthfully and with a friendly pen harmless pleasure at the railway stations in russia books are kept in chica passengers may enter any complaint they wish to make that is a good idea it should be adopted by the railroads and the coal trust in this country of course it is not supposed that the complaints would do any good but people like to complain and we don t see why we t have this privilege in the land of the free and the home of the brave when they have it in despotic russia pathfinder aa A J |