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Show "BLAINE, A TRAGEDY." A Dnma For the Stagr, Which Will Ko4 Bo Enacted In Now York. An American playwriter has been for tome time engaged in the composition of a drama of contemporary life in which the chief character is to be a famous fa-mous American statesman, now decej ed. The title which he has chosen for It is "Blaine, a Tragedy. " It certainly looks like bad taste to dramatize, at least In this generation, the career of the American here named, but the an-thor an-thor maintains that ho can do it inoffensively inof-fensively and in such a way ap to dig nify his subject, as the life of Mr. Blaina was full of dramatio material, and as there wero scenes in it whioh -would be Especially serviceable ator a drama of real life. He says that Shakespeare made use of pertonages -who lived not long before his timo, and oven of some who wero his contemporaries, and no gives tho names of other playwriters who hav used their acqnaintaoufla In their stags compositions. When reuiinded that even tho greatest and most picturesque Americans Amer-icans of past times, from tho days of Washington to those of Lincoln, had never been used successfully for dramatio dramat-io material, as Shakespearo used the kings of England, he replied that this was a thing which would surely yet be dono in this country, as it has been done In other lands, and that, in any ovent, it is his purpose to begin tho undertaking. undertak-ing. "Is there any manager in Now York, " we asked, "who would bring outyoui tragcdyr'?V "I do rA3know, but there is a manager man-ager in ChiK0 who will bring it out If it suits him "Do you not mir that there would ba a storm of poplar reprobation if you should make your chief character re-somblo re-somblo the original?" "If thero be anything of the kind, os if tho work fail to prove attractive, it will bo withdrawr. after tba first or seo ond performance. But thero are in my subject such striking elomentsfor a first class stage drama and for a winning sno that I shall not think of its failure until after it has failed." "Would not tho rolatives of the de ceased statesman object to the work and get out an injunction against its performance?" per-formance?" "If such an objection shall bo raised by any one entitled to speak with an thority, or after that one has bten present pres-ent at a performance of it, il will b discontinued. The man of my title rolt has been a subjeot for painters, sculptors and other artists, and there is no good reason why ho should not be made a subject for dramatio artists." After tho playwriter had expressed tho viows hero reported, The Sun reporter report-er asked a theatrical manager as toJ:he ofr"HTnnswored that ho did not believe a single respectable manager in Now York or anywhere else would bring it ont, and that, if brought out in any American city, i would be a flat failure. fail-ure. Ho believed that tho execution of the playwritor's project would not bs tolerated by tho theater goiag'JormniinJ. Sy. Nov York Swu Churning. Among the Arabs a practico from rime immemorial has prevailed of churning churn-ing by placing the milk in leather skina which were shaken or beaten until the butrer came. Tho Huns did their churning churn-ing by tying a bag of milk to a short lariat, tho other end of which was fastened fas-tened to the saddle. The horse was put it a brisk gallop, and after a round of some miles the churning was consider to bo acoomnlishoo5- |