Stage Notables PavTribute to GoodwinAt Funeral Services

Ceremony Conducted by theLambs; De Wolf HopperDelivers Brief Eulogy ;Burial in Roxbury, Maes.

Theatrical folk, the men and women

who had associated with him throughhi* long career on the stage, paid trib¬ut«» yesterday to the memory of Nat C.Crbodwin. comedian, who died Friday,at servie«- i ti the Campbell FuneralChurch, under the r.uspices of theLambs Club.The mourners' pew at the service

tvas occupied by Miss Georgia Gardner,¦who was to have been Mr. Goodwin'swife; the .".¿tor's nge«l oii-rro house-

HIGHLY IMPORTANTUNRESTRICTED SALES

WSÄSt^Sar* $M¡E¡ KfW ÏÛ8K.C1TÏ

ON FREE VIEWBEGINNING TO-MORROWand continuing until the

date of saleTheVery Important Collection

of

Ancieni: Arms,Weapons and Armor

Formed bj the Connoisseur

Mr. Theodore OffermanTo which has been added a num¬

ber of fine specimsrs from severalother important private collections.

THK « HOI.K TO BE SOLD

0» the Afternoons of Friday andSaturday or This Week

Feb'ry 7th and 8th, at 2:30 ©Clock... Illustrated Catalogue with Prefatory

Noie bv Pniieswir Bashfor«! Dean Will BeStailrtl' to Applicants »11 Receipt of On»Hollar.

-ALSO-ON FREE VIEW

BEGINNING TO-MORROWA Collection ofOld and Modern

Paintings«Of Extraordinary Importance

To be Sold b* direction of Executors anilTröster» »f several KatateH ami fur amount

oí a nunilier of Private «»«hit»,.

OLD MASTERSMorillo.Van Dyck (?>).Dirk Hals.VanRavenstyn.Jan Steen.Van «le Velde.DeVa* Coello Campi Mierevelt .. VanGoTen.Bosch.Bol.Pulzone Bronzino.Jastiens.Van Gelder.Va=i Loo .Torque.Nattier.EARLY ENGLISH ARTISTS

Reynolds Raeburn . Beechy Cotes .Dupont.Cotmnn.Lely.Lawrence More-laad.Wheatley.MODERN FOREIGN MASTERS

Corot (2).Daubigny.Diàz -Van Marcke(3).Courbet Harpi^nies (2).Boudin.Monticcl'i (7).Israels Kever (2).DeBock (4).Maris, W. . Henner . Vibert.Bonfuerean.Thaulow (2V.Bosboom.Gri-soa.Jacquet.Dendr Sadler .- Verboeckho-T«a (3).

AMERICAN ARTISTSlar.eis.Wy.nt.Homer Martin Blakelock.Blasbneld (2).Moran, T..Daingerheld.Bogst.Wigs-ins.Bo<*ert.Eaton Rebn. .

Sburtleff.Chase (2).Ridseway Knight (2).THE COMBINE» COLLECTIONS

TO BE SOI i'

On Monday and Tcesday Evenings,February 10th and 11th

IN THE GRAND BALLROOM OF THE PLAZA

Fifth Ave., ."»»til to 59th >t.

(Admission by card, to be had free, of theManager»,

.a l!lu»tratfil Catalogue Maileil on Re-t-eipt of One ¡lollar.

To-morrow (Monday) Afternoonat 2:30 o'Clock

Concluding Session of TheRufus £. Moore Collection

ON FREE ViEW TO-MORROWUNTIL DATE OF SALE

Illustrated Booksand Caricatures

An Extensive and NotableCollection of

ORIGINAL ISSUES OF THEWORKS OF THE THREE CRUIK-SHANKS, ROWLANDSON, GILL-RAY AND OTHER ARTISTS,

Krem the Private Librar*? of

J. BARTON TOWNSEND, Esq.,of PhiladelphiaTO BE Mil ¡»

BV OJKI'KK OF Till; OW'NKK

0« Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs¬day of This Week,

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ON FREE VIEWBeginning Saturday, Feb'ry 8,The Important Collection

Torrneil by the l-uf<-

James Franklin BellMajor-General, U. S. A.

Thii collection includes Rare NorthAmerican Indian baskets and blan¬kets, Philippine arms and weapons,«hand-woven fabric«, including thebut little known death blankets,and other curious objects of per¬sonal and historical interest col¬lected by Major-General Bel) whilein the Far West and the Philippineislands.

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On Friday, February 14thvi tut.

AMERICAN ART GALLERIESat 2:30 o'clock P. M

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keeper, nnd two women friends. The ]Rev. Dr. Nathan Seaglo. pastor of St.¦Stephen'««! Church, conducted the per-vice and the eulogy- was pronounced byDeWolf Hopper, a lifelong fri?nd ofMr. Goodwin. Virtually every mannnd woman of prominent in the theat-rlcal world was present.The funeral oration was brief. Sev¬

eral times Mr. Hopper paused, over¬come with emotion. He said:

"Nat, I come her«? to voice my loveand sorrow. What a wealth of signifi¬cance is conjured up by that name!What talents you possessed! Nat, youwould go so far out of your way to dosomething for me or any friend. Oftenyou were swayed by ovil influence, buteo many times more by the good andthe pure. You occupied a pinnacl«e ofsuccess. For a tirria you weakenedfrom the series of blows rained uponyou, but you rallied and came back.Your whole life was such a wealth ofnobility. The remembrance of yourcomedy, your pathos, your altruismwill live with us forever. We aregrateful to you for the lesson youhave taught us."The Lambs Club Quartet ^ang dur¬

ing the service. Mr. Goodwin's body,will be taken to Roxbury, Mass., thehome of his aged parents, for burial.Miss Cat-drier will accompany it. Thefollowing persons were present:Ceorgia Cordon. Theodore Babcock.

who played many years with Mr. Good¬win; J. Appleton. who for tycn'y-fouryears was his manager; Jack Hazard,Joe Weber. Lillian May Crawford.Adolf Link. John Leffler. Charles deWitt. John Shine. Mr. and Mqs. Will-iam Collier. Malcolm Bradley, EdwardRobbins, D. P. Steele. William Elliott,Colonel Shober, Reed Albce, FrederickCourtney, Joseph W. Frankel, Mrs.Charles Rose, Phil Riley, HerbertBrennon, Daniel Frohman, CharlesDillingham, John Golden, W. H. Thomp-son, Edward Cullen, Miss M. Cullen, ¡H. B. Monroe, Pauline Hall and J. W.Marsh. jMatthew CjOrbett, Rosalind Coughlan,Mr. and Mrs] Fred A. Goodwin, John J.McGraw, of «he New York Giants; Mrs.J. V. Melville, A! and Fred Dix, LauraHurt. R. 'I*. Shaw, Fred Ward. R.11. Burnside, Major W. McCutcheon,Mrs. A. Bradley, Paul Lard, KatherineFlynh, Frank Hatch, George M. Cohen,Colonel William Sheppard, CharlesScott, R. J. Callahan, King Baugot.William Frank. Henry Chesterfield, C.V. Foote, W. Johnson Quinn, ThomasGorman, representing the New YorkPress Club; W. J. Kelly. A. C. Arno'ld.Miss H. Brown, Helen Clarke. R. N.Hackler, Henrv Gingler, Mrs. ShellyHull and Mrs. William Hull. Joseph IHumphrey. Mrs. Seeley, representing;Frank Evans; Mrs. A. ('. Arnold.Francis Ford, Charles Graham. EdwardOwinga Towne, Ben Hendrieks. Mrs.J. W. Williams, Edgar Selwyn, WilliamGrover. Misses M. and J. Spencer andothers.

William Baylis, ExchangeMember for Years, Dies

Princeton Graduate of 1868!Was Well Known in Finan- .

eial CirclesWilliam Baylis, senior member of

the firm of Baylis & Co.. 15 WallStreet, for many years a member ofthe New York Stock Fxchange. diedyesterday at his home. 11 East Sixty-sixth Street, after an illness of fivemonths. He was seventy-one yearsold. jMr. Baylis was born in Brooklyn.the son of Abraham Burtis and De-borah MacDr.nald Baylis, and came of!an old Long Island family. His father |vras a member of the «Stock Exchangefrom 1841 to 1883, and was presidentof that organization in 1862. He at-tended the Brooklyn Polytechnic In-stitute and was graduated from Prince¬ton in 1868. After leaving college heentered the banking house of his .'father, and upon the death of the lat-ter formed the firm of Baylis & Co.with his brother, A. B. Baylis, con-tinuing at the hea<5 of that ihm until«the unie of his death. He was also a;director of the Canton Company, of]Baltimore, and a trustee of the gratu-ity fund- of the New York Stock Ex-change. '¡Mr. Baylis was a member of theUnion, University, Metropolitan andPrinceton clubs and of the St. NicholasSociety, and was a vestryman of St.Matthew's Protestant EpiscopalChinch, of Bedford. WestehesterCounty. , :He leaves a wife, Mrs. Adelaide'Brooks Baylis; a son. William Baylis,jr.. and a, daughter. Miss Adelaide B.Baylis.Funeral services will be held in «St.

Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church,Fifth Avenue and Fifty-third Street,Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.

WALLACE H. ROWEWallace H. Rowe, president of the

Pittsburg Steel Company, died yester¬day in Pittsburgh after an illness ofmore than a year. He had been a fac¬tor in the steel industry since 1886,when he went to Pittsburgh from St.Louis, where he had been associatedwith the wire manufacturing interestsof John W. Gates & Co. Mr.Rowe was identified with a number ofwire manufacturing mergers, includingthat of the American Steel and WireCo., and when that organization wasabsorbed by the United States «SteelCorporation he disposed of his inter¬ests and organized the PittsburghSteel Company.

EBENEZER C. HAY.Ebenezer C. Hay, one of the oldest

of American ironmasters, died Fridayat his homo in Newark, N. J. He waseighty-two years old. Mr. Hay was theson of James B. Hay, who came to thiscountry from Scotland in 1830 and.tarted in the foundry business in asmall way in Newark. Sbenezer suc¬ceeded his father in business, and atthe time <>f bis death was the head ofthe Hay Foundry an«l Iron Works, adirector of the Union National Bankof Newark and interested in manyimportant financial enterprises. He-leaves two sons.

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Francis La Bau, TrafficAid on N. Y. Central, Dies

Had Been Active in RegulatingWar Freight in Iltis

CityFrancis La Bau, traffic assistant to

-Regional Director A. H. Smith, one ofthe most active executives in the mar,-

agement of the railroads of the East-crn region during the last, year, diedyesterday morning at his home ir.Tnrrytown. He was fifty-nine yearsold.Mr. La Hau was born in Rohway, N'.

J., and was eduated at. the NazarethSchool, a Moravian institution at Naz¬areth, Penn. He began his railroadcareer with the Pennsylvania Railroadin Philadelphia, but remained with thatrout] only a, few years, going to theNew York Central and Hudson RiverRailroad, with which system he re-

mained continuously for thirty-sixyears.

Mr. La Bau was recognized as oneof the foremost traffic men in the coun¬try, and in August, 1917, ivas made-traffic manager of the New York Cen¬tral system. In June, 191S, RegionalDirector Smith placed him in charge ofall traffic matters for the Eastern ter¬ritory, and in that capacity he waslargely responsible for the vast workof the Freight Traffic Committee of theNorth Atlantic Ports, which body,through enforcement of the permit ays- ,tern, regulated the heavy war traffic andcleared up the dangerous congestionwtych threatened to block the flow ofsupplies to our army and the Allies.Overwork in the discharge of those

duties made such inroads upon Mr. LaBau's strength that six weeks ago hewent to Florida for a vacation. He re¬turned to his home about a week ngo,apparently much improved in health.He leaves a wife, Mrs. Julia Stanley LaBan, and one daughter.Funeral services will be held Tues-

day morning at 11 o'clock in the First'Dutch Reformed Church of Tarrytown.Interment, will be at Rahway, N. J.

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HARRY W. BRIGHAMHarry Whiting Brigham, an automo-

bile construction expert prominent inBrooklyn athletic circles, died of pneu-monia Thursday at. Camp McClellan,Alabama. He was twenty-eight yearsold.Mr. Brigham was born in Brooklynand received his education in the pub-lie schools of that borough, in the

Pawling Preparatory School and theUniversity of Virginia. He made aîeputation as a runner in his school !and college days and broke a numberof amateur records. jWhen the United States entered thewar Mr. Brigham endeayored to en-list, but was rejected because of a jbronchial trouble. Later he was *c-oepted find was assigned to the 9thField Artillery, going first to CampGordon, Ga., and later to Camp Mc-Clellan, Ala. Prior to his enlistment jhe was connected with the Coll-Strat-ton Company, of this city, as a con-struction expert.

Mr. Brigham leaves a wife, Mrs. !Elizabeth Prentiss Brigham, and his jparents, Air. and Mrs. Henry M. Brig¬ham, of 332 Jefferson Avenue, Brook-tyn. Funeral services will be heldMonday at. Spencerport, X. Y., thehome of his parents.

CHARLES HECKMANCharles . Heckman, an importer andmerchant tailor, at one time prominentas'art amateur actor in Brooklyn, diedFriday of pneumonia at his home in jBay Twenty-fifth Street, Bensonhurst.He was sixty-seven years old.Mr. Heckman was born in Kenne-bunkport, Me., and had lived in Brook¬lyn since ho was a young man. For

more than thirty years he had been inbusiness at 570 Fifth Avenue, Manhat-fan. In 1830 he became a member ofthe Amaranth Society, and for the nextten years appeared in most of the pro¬duction s of Brooklyn's leading trna-leur dramatic organizations. He leaves!a wife, Mrs. Ellen Beckham Heckman.two daughter-- and one son.Funeral services will be condusted a*the residence at 8:30 o'clock this eve-ning. Interment will be in YantirCemetery, Norwich-, Conn.

MRS. CAROLINE T. LINCOLNMrs. Caroline Tyler Li^oln, widowof the late Dr. Rufus P. Lincoln, diedyesterday morning at her home inPlainfield, X. J., of pneumonia. Mrs.Lincoln was born in Pittslield, Mass.,February 15, 1844, the daughter cf theKev. Wellington Hart Tyler and Caro-line E. Carpenter. Her father foi

many years was president of the Pitts-field Institute, a seminary for youngladies. She iva« married in 1869 toDr. Rufus P. Lincoln, a specialist inthroat and lung diseases, and theirhome was at 22 West; Thirtv-firstStreet in this city until the time ofhis death, in !900.Mrs. Lincoln leaves a daughter, Mrs.Frederick Schauff1er, of Pelham Manor,N. Y., and a sister, Miss Anna Tyler.FUNERAL OF J. E. OWENS

Fyneral sen-ices for Joseph EugeneOwens, prominent Brooklyn lawyer andclubman, who died suddenly Wednes¬day night, were held yesterday at St.Francis Xavlor's Church, Carroll Streetand Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn. Inter¬ment was in Calvary Cemetery.The funeral sermt-n was deliveredby Bishop Charles E. McDonnell, apersonal friend of Mr. Owens. Mun-signor D. J. Hlckey was celebrant ofthe mass, with the Rev. J. J. Kennedyas deacon and the Rev. J. Leo Williamsas subedeacon. A number of promi¬nent Roman Catholic clergy-men werein attendance. The honorary pall-bearers were Surrogate Herbert T.! Kctcham, David Porter, E. T. McGuire,Frank Bailey, James P. Judge andi Henry Mott.

FUNERAL OF SHUNZO TAKAKI.Funeral services for Shunzo Takaki,of the silk importing house of Mitsui& Co., who died at St. Luke's HospitalWednesday, were held yesterday at St.Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue andFifty-third Street. The services werej conducted by the R»v. Ernest M. Stires,[ rector of the church, and many Japa-nese prominent in official life were

present. Mr. Takaki was a member ofthe Nippon, Railroad, Aldine and Uni¬versity clubs and the Japan Society.He leaves a wife and four children.

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Miss Nancy Richards isBride of Robert Crane

ïliss Nancy Richards, daughter ofMr. and Mrs. George Richards, wasmarried to Robert Crane, son of Mr.and Mrs. Munroe Crane, of Dover Plains,N. Y. yesterday afternoon at her home,398 Park Avenue. The ceremony wasperformed by the Rev. Dr. William P.Merrill. The bride, wirb was givenaway by her father, was attended byMiss Harriet Richards, a sister, as maide-f honor; Miss Isabel Jamison, ofPittsburgh; Miss Mildred McNeill, ofBrooklyn; Miss Charlotte Boote andMiss Olive Burns, of East Orange.John N. Stone, of Springfield, Mass.,served as best man, and the usherswore Brenton Pomeroy, of Greenwich,Conn.; Philip B. firewater, of Flush¬ing, Long Island; Clifford Mcrrifield,of New York; Beach Barrett, of Bloom-field, N. J., nnd Donald Crane, ofDî-ver Plains, N. Y.

Mi«« Kitty Vondermuhle sçrvitd asflowr «rlrl and George Vondermuhle aspage.

'MostBeautifulN. Y. Woman''Flees From Artists' Praises

The most beautiful women in NewYork City flashed into sight for an

instant on Friday night. Four famousartists, genii of the niágaine cover,found her witbb unerring judgmentamong a crowd of thousands. Theyshowered upon her all the praiseswhich are beauty's due. They movedto place her on a pedestal of honorwhore she should dole, out delight.They declared her the only and right-ful lineal descen'dJÜrVof Aphrodite.And then they discovered that she

whom they had taken for Venus was'i«nlv Cinderella after all.For Miss Edyth Hyde, after a fright-

onpd acceptance of the irolden applecoveted by all feminine New York anda hurried wispering of her name to theawe-ttricken judges, wrapped herselfdurriedly in a while cloak, jumped in:«. taxi and disappeared.

Didn't Lose a SlipperWho is she? What is she ? No¬

body seems to know. Her slipperswere on tight, she did not drop the.apple nor leave the tinest clue behind.If it had not ffeen for the .camera,which caught her a~s she was wonder-ingly inspecting the Gift, of Gods, no

one would have known what face itwafs that launched four blase NewYork artists on such a sea of praise,But she, true to old tradition, hadoverlooked this modern appurtenanceof Prince Charming and so the day was

saved. Here she is for all to look at.and her name is Mrs, Edith Hyde Rob-bins, of 220 West Seventieth Street.

Though: her beauty has been re¬vealed, she is a most mysterious per-son, this Cinderella. It was variouslywhispered abrnt the ballroom the night

i.'fiitthtrd from ycn'.rrda'j's lair edition*

Art

Furnishings of Home of Mrs.Jennie G. Bradley Brin«;

Total of $44,316

The sale of furnishings, ¦embellish¬ment..-; and paintings from the residenceof Mrs. Jennie C. Bradley was con-,eluded yesterday, and brought a totalof §44,316 for theNtwp sessions. Mr.Higbee was a keen bidder when thepaintings were sold. He purchased"Sunset Landscape," by George Inness,for $8,000 (top price of the sale); "TheRaiders," by Schreyer, for $6,000;"Meeting of the Black Waters," byWyant, Tor $5,000; "Holland Land¬scape," by Homer Martin, for $3,500,and a landscape with cattle, by Troyon,for the same price. "ApproachingStorm." by Daingertield, was obtainedby Mr. Reimann for $1,825, and a land¬scape with cattle brought $525. Mr.Higbee also purchased a landscape byH. W. Ranger for $875."Indian Encampment," by Ralph

Blakelock, went to the Rev. Mr. Lucasfor the low sum of $475, and Mr. Man¬ning secured "The Honeymoon," by E.F. Couse, for $400. A Louis XVI carvedand gilt wood reception suite brought$2,000. The sale was conducted by Rob-ert C. Graham, auctioneer.

At the fifth session of the sale of theRufus E. Moore collection, conductedat the American Art Galleries, the high-est price of the afternoon, $750, was

¡paid by Parish Watson for a turquoi.seblue bottle i Cbien-lungi. W. W. Sea¬man, agent, paid $700 for a celadonjardiniere, $410 for a yellowy jar Kang-hSi) and $220 for a cafe-ati-lait cracklejar of the same period. Misa R. II,Lorenz, agent, purchased two mirrorblack vases, for $420 and $400, rcspec-tively, and a dense celadon jardiniere¡(Ming) wont to H. I. Riker for $475.The total for yesterday's session was$11,438, making a total to date of $82.-493.

CLIFFORD J. HARRISClifford J. Harris, for many years an

inspector in the Custom House, NewYork City, died of heart disease yes-terday in the United Hospital, at PortChester, N. Y. He was sixty-five yearsold. He was born in Brooklyn, and hadlived in Port Chester for twentv-sixyears. He leaves a sister, Mrs. RichardWhiting, who is living in France, andan adopted daughter, Mrs. Louise Ç.Franke, of Port Chester,

GEORGE KEESGeorge Kees, for mnny years, a prom¬

inent coal dealer in Brooklyn, died Frlday at the home of his «on, MichaelKofi*. 20!' DCVOO Street, in that bn;

she apéared that she was a lady ofleisure, an actress, an- artist's model,!that she came originally from Mont-:clair, X. J. But none of these thingscould b'e verified, and at Miss Hyde'sorne, where ihe fled to get her beauty!

sleep, the bell of the small apartmentjanglecl agnir. and again, but the doorfailed ià open, and tho beauty kep',herself safe beyond the threshold.

And She's Quite YoungMiss Hyde, it was said yesterday

morning by those revellers who couldbe found after the all-night affair, haslovely brown hair with red tints. Sheis neither tall nor short, nor stout northin. lier eyes are blue, and she hasionj;;. curling eyelashes. And she isunite young.oh, just about twenty-two or so.

It must not be supposed, however,that Miss Hyde's title for first hon-ors went unchallenged. Some of themost beautiful women of the stage andthe artistic sets came to compete forthe golden apple.When Miss Hyde, in a glittering!

''Queen of the Harem" costume, with a

shining ornament atop her fore headand rows of jewels and bears swingingabout her lithe form, appeared she out-shond them all. A gorgeously gownedpage was ordered to bring the Queenof Beauty fruits in profusion. TheApple followed, borne aloft on a greenjade pedestal by a slave. It was mod-estly received by the choice of ¡jrhejudges, and she murmured: "Oh, there'are lots of better looking girls herethan I am." Then she seized her cloakand fled.At the Hotel des Artistes, Where the

pageant, of beauty was held, defeatedbeauties hung drooped after Miss Hydelied. The artist-judges were PonrhynStanlaws, Harrison Fisher. Howard(.'handle!' «àhïisty and E, X. Anderson.

ough. He was seventy years old. Mr.Kees was born in Germany, but hadlived in this country for more thanfifty years. He leaves two sons andtwo daughters. Funeral services willbe held to-morrow morning at St.Nicholas Church, Olive and DevoeStreets, of which he was long a mem¬ber. Interment will be in St. John'sCemetery.

>1i*s McNair EngagedTo Reginald Hutchinson

Mr. and Mrs. William McNair, of 5j, Elast Seventy-ninth Street, have an-

nounced the engagement.of their daugh¬ter. Miss Vera McNair, to Reginald L.Hutchinson, son of Daniel LovettHutchinson, of Philadelphia. .The en-

gagement was announced at a luncheonwhich Mrs. McNair «ave yesterday at

, her home for her daughter. Miss Mc-Nair was introduced to society last sea-son. She is a nince of Howard, Irvingand George T. Brokaw and a grand¬daughter of the late Isaac Brokaw.

Mr. Hutchinson recently was mus¬tered out of service, after serving as anensign in the naval aviation force. Hegraduated from Yale in 1918 He. is.amember of the Racquet Club and makesiiis home in this city.The wedding probably will take placein Easter week.

Rcprirtied from iieiterdau'n lale editions

OperaFrench Novelty SuccessfullyProduced by Chicago Com¬

pany at Lexington

By H. E. KrehbielCircumstances forbid that we should

inquire as curiously as we might bedisposed to do into the opera "LeChemineau,"' which received its firstperformance in New York from the Chi¬cago Opera Company at the LexingtonTheatre last night. There is interest¬ing enough matter in the work to oc-"*cupy serious attention, but little time,and we are not quite sure that all theminutes which might be conscriptedvould yield adequate results.We could not hear all of the opwra,

but only enough to gain a few generalimpressions the record cf which maysuffice to convey as much of an idea-ofwhat the work is like as the time-harassed reader of a daily newspaper'¦a likely to want in such a case. Werethe work one of profound interest,artistically more careful and delibér¬ate, consideration might be a duly."Le Chemineau" was new to the

audience as an opera. As a drama itwas doubtless familiar to many ofthose who saw and heard it in itschanged form last night. Jean Riche-pin wrote it for the theatre, and it was

produced a decade or more« ago as an

English play in London by Sir HerbertTree under the title "Ragged Robin,"and Otis Skinner Drought it forwardin New York as "The Harvester."As a play, we make no doubt, it

was more interesting than it was lastnight, or is likely ever to be as anopera; for its story is slight and whenclogged, as it necessarily is by music,its dialogue, its dramatic value and Hssignificance become attenuate whenspread over four acts. Music of anextremely high order would be neces¬sary to atone for the loss of poeticalthought and possible symbolism, andsuch music M. Leroux has not given it,though his tonal investiture hasenough charm to challenge respect, ifnot admiration.The action of the Metropolitan com¬

pany in launching "La Reine Fiam-mette," by tlTe same composer, afterkeeping it on the stocks for ten yearsnaturally provoked comparison, which,to judge by the comment heard inthe lobbies, was greatly to the disad¬vantage of tli£ opera performed at theBroadway house; but here again we arenot in a position to venture an opinion.It is enough that "Le Chemineau," byreason of its book, its score and par¬ticularly by its performances, morethan justified its production. It wouldhave done that had so obvious anddirect a challenge been offered in theproduction at this singular juncture of."La Reine Fiammette."Why MM. Richepin and Lerouxshould have undertaken to celebrateLe Chemineau, who is called only bythat name, we cannot quite conceive.He is a roadster, a tramp, obviously of

a romantic and poetic disposition, butif he possesses any of the attributesof Locke's beloved vagabond it is diffi¬cult to disco;.n them. He delights innature and tne work of harvesters, but,like a walking delegate, he does nowork himself, but talks about the workof others. He seduces a peasant girland abandons her simply to follow thecall of the road.

After twenty years' absence from thescene of the play he returns to findthat the woman whom he deserted hasmarried an honest and confiding oldman. He helps the pair out of troubleand promotes the marriage of a good-for-nothinjj'son whom the husband con¬siders his own child. The old man,dying in ignorance, begs him to con¬tinue his geodness to the woman whohad been his mistress by marrying her;but this he refuses to do.The lure of the road calls him out

again, and he deserts the woman a«¿ceond time, while the sounds of carolsand the bells calling to Christmas massmingle with the words of the simple-minded peasant. An effective com-

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mingling of dramatic material, this, es¬pecially for operatic treatment, but itscarcely evokes the sympathy which adiamatie hero ought to excite tojustify a play of evr;n pastoral low life.

Queerly enough at this juncture of;--the world's affair's, the story awakenedmemories of an earlier opera, in whichthe call of the road led to- the forget-fulness of duty and love and the do-:sertioh of wife and child. Sixteenyears ago Mr. Paderewski, now apuissant figure in the political affairs ofthe world,- brought out his "Manru" atthe Metropolitan Opera House. Butthe hero of the present Polish PrimeMinister'» opera was impelled by theurge infused in the black blood of the,gypsy by the tradition of ages. M. «

Richepin s tramp has no racial pro-pensity to explain his conduct.However, "Le Chemineau" has a !

story which can be told in music, whichhas voices for its appeals to natureand tones for characteristic illumina¬tion. And this music M. Leroux has

k found for it in large measure. Hisscore is fluent, like the scores of Mas¬senet, not turgid like those of Février,with which we have lately made a re-sumed acquaintance. His melodiesfloat on the orchestral flood; they areits surface, not its undercurrent.There is much apt characterisation

and rapidity of flow sufficient to en¬able the actors to achieve dramatic ef¬fects, as they did so triumphantly inthe second act last night that the callsbefore the curtain Were many andgenuinely enthusiastic.The triumphs ( real triumphs of sing¬ing and acting they were-not of the

Garden variety) were quite evenlyshared by Mesdames Yvonne Gall.Myrna Sharlow and Maria Claessensand Messrs. Maguenat. Baklanoff andDua, and we are sorry that we havenot time to point out some of the ex¬cellences of the performances of eachof them and of the conducting of M.Hasselmans. .

Cfrlo Hacl.eft Wins TriumphAt Hif- Metropolitan Debut

By Grenville Vernon -

"The Barber of Seville" was sung atthe Metropolitan Opera House lastnight, for the first time this season.With one exception the cast was onewhich has Bung the old opera manytimes before. Giuseppe De Luca wasthe Figaro, and both vocally and his-triónically was as admirable as ever.Mme. Frieda Hempel was the Rosina,which on the histrionic side is a partfor whicn nature never intended her.«She knows how to sing the music, buther high tones were wofully deficientand the coloratura passages went forlittle. Perhaps she was afflicted witha cold. Pompilio Malatesta played Dr.Bartolo with all the unction and ab¬surd seriousness of a true Italianbuffo, and José Mardones, while notexhausting the comic possibilities ofBasilio, ,sang the music superbly. Butthe real triumph of the evening waswon by a new singer, the Almaviva.

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maviva is aristocratic in bearing and incharm. His voice is light but it isfirm in* texture, entirely without thebleating quality usually the sign of atenorc cli grazia, and of ample carryingpower.

His use of his voice is superb. Hisskill in florid embroidery, his powerof spinning out a tone to a silkenthread, his delicacy in phrasing, hismastery of tone color, all proclaimedhim a true master of bel canto. In aday of slipshod singing this youngAmerican comes to us like a preciousgift from a bygone age.The audience at once recognized his

abilities, and the applause after histwo airs in the first act was of thekind usually given only to Caruso.

All in all, it was an admin-ble per¬formance of the old work- -and ho-.vthe music lasts! When sung as Mr.Hackett, Mr. Do Luca and Mr. Mar-dones sang it, with the orchestra play-inp; with the spontaneity and thelightness it showed under SignerPapi's baton, it is as fresh as if ilhad been written the day before yes¬terday. Perhaps, after all, Rossini li¬the music of the future!

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