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The Day After the Holiday.
Schnitzer's“ The Reckoning' at the Berkele, Lyceum.
Established:
OTHING is easier then the method!
Seen
of eriticlsm that consists mainly in
I vealling ihe victim selected the Glad¬
Stone of his Assembly distriet or the
Macaulay of his side of the block. Therei
are to-day a half dozen Shakespegres—the
Shakespeare of Norway, the Shakespearel
of Sweden, &c. A new form of erltleismi
Is t0 identify the dramatist as the lbsen off
his conntry, and Arthur Schnitzler has at¬
tracted enough attention apparently to jus¬
tify his being called the lbsen of Ger¬
many.
Last night atthé Berkeley Lyceum The¬
atre Schnitzlere Leibelei“ was per¬
Tormed in English under the title of“The
Reckoning.“The influence of the realists
Is apparent in everg line, but if one were
obliged to cut short eritieism it would re¬
sult in calling Mr. Schnitzier a Viennese
Sudermann instead of a German lbsen. One
can credit the author with endeavoring to#
show all shat his friends claim for him—the
exposure of the evils of little loves, the
loves that are without thought and that
Len
begin withont taking into caleulation what
MIgs. KATHEIINE GIET
theending may be; but on this single in¬
dietment ons can do nochine but convict
informs her apologizes for being late
him of being an essentlally Teutonie per¬
his visit, In that he had to inform the
Prelatives and friends“ first.
son groping vainly at uhe methods of the
repeats the
realists. According to the German erltles,
Relatives and friends,“
glrl. Then she was not considered as be¬
it is a good pieture of Viennese life, but
longing in either class. She was only a
iche eutside world must regard it as a de¬
eldedly indifferent work of art and one not
plapthing, and on her bitter iament the
caleulated sto bolster up the cause of the
curtaln comes down.
realist in the theatre.
Scnitzler mag be all that is claimed for
A couple of goung bloods invite their
him, but last night’s performance would
sweethearts to visit a bachelor apartment,
show him a pretty poor dramatist. There
and tho four are having supper when a
was no characterization, and the Ppetry
husband who has been wronged appears
that is supposed to explain him nardly
and arranges à duel with one of the pair,
filtered through the translation, whllch was
Fritz. The act is taken up with this in¬
ably done hy Miss Colbon.
eident, and is supposed to show Just what
Miss :atherine Grey was the only mem¬
the life of the young devlhof a bachelor is
ber ofetre company that was at all im¬
like. The sccond act shows Fritz on his
pressive. She tried to lift the heroine out
lway to the duel. He really likes the poor
of the slcagh of sentimentalism Into some
girl whose love he has won, and he is sad¬
dened at the thought of being killed forlstrength, and really did more than could
ianother women when he might marrg ihigs be expected. An actor named John Dean
girl without getting into trouble. Niceltook the part of the young indiserlminate
lover. He wwas killed somewhere between
German materlalistie philosophvsthat.
the second and third acts. No one was
In the third act the girl learns that
Fritz has been killed, and tle friend wholvery'sorry.
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