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Show H.aion a Kew rtara. I The season of 1900 1901 now at hand, will be remarkable principally becauss of the number of ' book dramas ' that lll be seen on the boards The past two ycara have been more than usual ly fruitful In the matter of successful noreli Theto have been taken by dramatists and adapted and turned Into In-to plays that are bound to be prom Inent featurca of this seaaona the atrlral menu I TJrace Meredith," with aweet May I Mannerlng In the tltlo role, "Itlchard Carrel," with John Drew as the man of many escapadea, David llarura " produced last spring by William II. Crano, 'When Knighthood V.aa In Mower," "Korest tovcrs and perhaps also the same novelist! "To Hare and To HolJ." Hnpklnson t "Caleb Wert " , These aro a few of the atorlei which, . In dramatlted form, will be offered to a captious public, 1 hero will, of conrte, be a few . Shakespearean rerlvala and any nurn-1 ber of new plays from the pens of famous playwrights. Paul rotter, who made $100000 out of "Trilby," has I como over for the produrtlon of his new piece by Charles Krohman, Tim , Murphy, one of the quaintest and most ' subtle of American acton, goea out under the management of Mr KreJ I Merger, In "A Uachclor a Romance," ' Olga Ncthrraole will be seen In a new i play, and to giro the whole list would mean to All many columns with mero announcements Those mentioned, however, giro a barn Idra of the dramatic dra-matic offerings of a season that prom Ifea great things nutwlthatandlng presidential excitement and consequent conse-quent business unrest. Attont (lliieonila. William Archer, In the "London World, la enthusiastic over the literary quality of DAnnLiloa 'Oloconda," j presented In London by Slgnorn Duse. I Ho writes What, then, makes the play a new thlngT Simply the Intenao and vivid genlua that animates every line of lu Never before, within my knowledge, has such magnificent proso been employed In drama It la ns exquisite ex-quisite o.- the prose of Alfred da Mussel Mus-sel or Maeterlinck, nnuat Jueruimt UiSe",rrrietmannercJ and more robust ro-bust In point of smoothness, suppleness supple-ness and sonority, I can compare It with nothing leas than those two Immortal Im-mortal fragments of dramatic prose, Hamlet's advice to the players and his speech to Tlosencranti and Guild- enstern. 'I have of late, hut wherefore I know not," eic. Imagine a whole play written with the llko consummate mastery and style. In tho most logical aa well aa the most tlmpldlr melodious of languages, and you have some Idea of the charm of 1a Oloconda'" a clbveh littxe actress. There are some women on the atage who never seem to attain anything hut prrttlncM Clercrnets they bare not, and no one expects It of thorn They flit from company to company, like the gay butterfly, and seem never to care a whit so long as they are given pretty gowns to wear They haunt the photograph galleries have their pictures taken on the slightest .pro-text, .pro-text, and generally manage to go JANE HOLLY through life In an untroubled and contented con-tented frame of mind leaving tho worry and work also the fame to other foolish folk who Insist on bo coming somebodies It were an un-kindness un-kindness to say that Miss Jane Holly should properly be placed In this list fihe does not herself make any claims to seriousness, however, then why should It bo foisted upon her? Sho It a gay butterfly, Indeed, rejoices on small provocation, worries not of the morrow, decorates the stage with a handsome presence, and all It well A atiakMiarn Tlieater At be dinner given In his honor In London, Sir Henry Irving referral to the demand for a Shakespearean theater thea-ter Heaatd that there 'hod been a'call' for a permanent Bbakospeare theater. The recent Cillers had been renewlm , a cry which hid been hesrd for nearly a century, from tho days of Kembti and Macready John Kemblt being tht, first to give Shakespeare drama U(, Illustration for which Hhaketpcan sighed for a theater whkh shoull show a superior disdain for acener; Scenery as to bo left to the Imtglns tlon, It was to remain In the mind1) eye Horatio' That was Its posltlet In niliabethan times as It was tM custom of men to play women s parts We could be Many things In this rt sourceful age, but we could not be lit eralty Elliabethan " HAS Httl NICHE. Sindol Mlltlken Is a member oh William II Crane'a company, and Is i I SANDOL M1LLIKRN decidedly pretty, petite woman. Sh( la usually cast for the roles of glrli who are mado love to by the Juvenile and, of course, end by marrying him, Thus Miss Mllllken has her niche, an! fills It prettily and well ahaheapearwa llratH sla.tu There waa a largo gathering Stratford on-Avon when Sir W F Trcloar, acting on behalf of the artist) family, presented to tho Shakcapein memorial tho bust of the poet whlcl the lalo William Page, the (amore American artist bad modeled upon the so-called death mask. Concerning thlt mask. Sir W Treloar aald tbat a great sensation was cajsed forty years ago, when the discovery of It, In nn old rag shop In Mayence, by Dr flecker of Hesse Dranutadt, waa announced. Dr. Decker had long been awaro of the existence of the mask and of a par-. .trait, which was also claimed taj, authentic. In the ICeaselstadt famlli,! Count Francis von KessoltUdt died It 1SU, when many of the family posset-j alona were dispersed, and both msii' and painting disappeared from view, until by accident they were recornlied and rescued by Dr necker The dcats I maak acquired a wide notoriety from, the offer made of It to the trustees ot the Drltlsh museum at an exorbitant price, and from the heated controversy which arose between Prof Owen and other authorities aa to Its genuineness The conclusion now generally accept I cd was that, while the mask might very possibly have been made from the cast! ot the poot's features taken Immediate I ly after death, the evidence In Its fa i vor waa purely circumstantial. tloiml'a Iil.n.tlaf W rk. ' An Interesting volume on tho Frrack stage has Just been published by M Oeorges Mouval, the librarian of the Theater Francats, who gives an alpha betlcal list of the aocletatrea from Mo-Here's Mo-Here's tlmo to tho present (1613-1900). Tho book contains, moreover, a series of studies nn Mollere nnd the Com-edlo Com-edlo Frnncals M Momal began lift aa a comedian at tho Odeon He was ongagid by Emlle Perrln to nil bis present post of archivist. Not onlr have tho records of the house been carefully kept by M Mouval, but dur Ing tho past ten yeara ho has published tho Mollerlate, a chronicle devoted entirely en-tirely to the founder of tho Comdle Tho present volume glvea tho nataes and full particulars of service, together with autograph signatures of the I soctctalro. who have figured In the troupe from 1633 A H.il.rn dirt. JUtA Htandl, who Is to appear In several sev-eral of tho Wagnerian characters with tho Metropolitan English grand opera company, Is a Cle eland girl, vbott namo Js Groom Ilefore abe went to Pari. Cleveland people arranged a concert, tendering her the proceeds to aatlst her In paying the cost of study Aa a mark of her appreciation the fashioned her stage namo from that city, taking the second half of tht name ' Cleveland ' and adding to It the letter I much In tho same way that Melhi fashioned her stage name out of Melbourne, the namo of the leadloc city In her natlvo land. An lltd-T Ai.r Dead, Mrs 1'loronce Ollletto-Klett, an old tlmo actreM, died at Ilocheater, Mich, the othor day The deceased, who wat about fifty years of nge, began her career teaching school nnd music, and also writing for tho magazines Sb entered the dramatic profession about thirty years ago and later headed ber own company playing Juliet Caralllt, Parthenla and othor leading role through the United Stales, Canada and ; I-ngland 8jo married George Flett In England and retired Into private life, but continued her literary work |