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Show "BLA.'NE, A TRAGEDY." A D-oimn, For the Stage, Wliicli Will Kt Be Enacted In New York. An American playwritcr has been for omo timo engaged in the composition of a drama of contemporary life in which the chief character is to ba a famous fa-mous American statesman, now deeep 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 maintains that he can do it inof fensively and in such a way br to dig nify his subject, as the life of Mr. Blaine was full of dramatic material, and as there wqro scenes in it which would be especially serviceable 7xa a drama of real life. He says that Shakespeare mane use of personages who lived not long before his timo, and even of some who were his contemporaries, and oio gives the names of other playwriters who have used their acquaintau-wa in their stago compositions. When reminded that oven the greatest and most picturesque Americans Amer-icans of pabt times, from the days of Washington to thoso of Lincoln, hac never been used successfully for dramat-lo dramat-lo material, .as Shakespeare used the kings of England, he replied that this was a thing which would surely yet bs done in this country, as it has been dono In other lands, and that, in any ovent, it is his purposo to begin tho uufiertak-lug. uufiertak-lug. "Is there any manager in Now York, " wo asked, "who would bring oufcyom tragedy?" "I do not know, but there is a man ager in Chicago who will bring it out If it suits him." "Do you not fear that thero would be a storm of popular reprobation if you should make your chtaf character referable re-ferable tho original?" "If there bo anything of tho kind, o? If the work fail to provo attractive, ii will bo withdrawn after tha first or seo ond performance. But thero aro in my subject puch striking elements for a firs class stage drama and for a winning sno that I shall rot think of its failure until after it has failed. " "Would not tho relatives of the da ceased statesman object to tho work and got out an injunction against ita par formance?" "If such an objection shall bo raised by any one entitled to speak with au thonty, or after that one has bteu pres ent at a performance of it, il will 1 discontinued. Tho man of my title rolt has been a subject for painters, sculptors and othor artists, and there is no gooii reason why ho should not be made a subject for dramatic artists. " After the playwriter had expressed the views hero reported, Tho Sun reporter report-er asked a theatrical manager as to the prospects of a drama of the kind spoken of. Ho answered that he did not behove a single respectable manager in New York or anywhere else would bring it out, and that, if brought out in any American city, it would bo a flat fail ure. He believed that tho execution of the playwriter's project would not bf tolerated by tho theater going oomtuuni if. New York Sn, |