, 1870-03-16
: PROFESSIONAL" 'WARDRREERg


:: that event, few had made their wsv,
California !; but = popular favorits, Who I
been incky enough TO make a little fortune
>, the valley Of the Sacramento, did not dle,
:. of gping to Botany Bay 10 speud it.. i
II when, ne1ly three years after the Cslifor1
, discovery, news resched San Frsncisoo Ii
the precious metal had also been found
New South Wales, back ruahed the thonaau
| Of australians to the more genial. cline Il
haa deeerted.,. Then came 4 flue season {
i small performers, many Of whom would ney
Lave p 6stn IT. pe5folmsrs st al but for the gte.
THE digger, intoxicated II saddsn}v f7ns1,
4 themselves in the Possession OF i,nmen
wealth, eought refuge from their own ma
mess IN every possible variety Of smn.em
| rec1e1tion, dissipation. This parents OF yDpI
women who had before followed useful occ
pat1ons, discovered that their daughters b.
fins voices; .quiet shopmen, members
serlous families. suddenly Developed An il
able talent for comic singing; f1fth-ra
operA singers, desorters parhaps from 3 Mai
!itiua or bstayian- troupe, we're delighted
dnd themselves shrs u the i1rat N magnitud
No charge WAS made for adn1seipn
the sineing esloons at which thsss peopl
appeared, ths profits. on the drink CO.
ss5sa Ssps By ss . dssss ssss md H. their rsaa
/ could afford to pay his performers anprmnu
salaries. And besides what theT vera nil
BY their enpleseIs, favorites-and everybod
| hts his Or her admirers-w -wonld 1reqasntly q
ceire valuable presents from the iirgera
19r U tnat golden time nuggets were NOR
! good aItists, such as Catherine HAyes, al
MiEka Hause1, the Hungarian yiolinist. T1site,
Austra1ia, and made money; and SOON Don
ular manager vent to Europa, and <atufpe
not only with some good performers, but viii
an iron theatre for them to appear in. From
hot 9fyno Ar7d 4tS] 1un a.
for such adventure.
Il is curious fact that Australia, not Eu
rope, now furnishes to the East its chief sup
piles Of musical, dramatic, and other trav
elh7E troupes, go That SEsre is hardly set
tied Eastern port nor military station, tb1
these wanderers have not visited. Tht
professionals do not confne themselve,
to the highways Of the world, but roam int
~ sorts Of by-pAths, As If they only t14v.
elled for their own amusemeut. instead q
the entertainment Of others. They are found
u Horg Kong and siam; 1t Kurractu aud
Tasmania; trying their voices a the
Tsl Mahal At Agra; drinking ~hiakes
punch By lAsge wood fire or rhe banks
Of the Indus by moonlight; emokinE il
Camoena' garden, 1t Macao; barEtining With
elk workers in Peshawur, shawl dealers ia
LoodindnA. and iFory psfnters in the Chundns
ChnNk at Deihi, enjoyiug the doict far nienI
IN the Sandwich Ialands dining with Spanish
priests at Manlls, znd with SFedenborGians
at Graaf Reinet; contemplating Napoleoa'u
tomb at St. Helena; coujurng for the smuso-
meof or the eothuhastic merchants Of B1tk-
viA dancing what is called the a. 'tnyer.beIt
Jig with the thermometer 1t 100 deereeB; ut
Singapore; trying to preserve their riyacity
by drinking Absinthe among the ea9axes Of
New Caledonia.
There are certain dangers in their rowing,
too-thus: Several years ago, tn Shanghai,
IN n$r1ra ~:
tricks c1ofe to the cemetery, ii the uiddle ok
the cholera sesson, when the man one met ut
breakfast was sometimes under E.oun5 before
dinner. At NagasaA, about the SANG time,
when the reeidents On going to bed wers not
at sn sure rhey would not be murdered
the settlement was vocalist. Two yeara
ago, in the Cape Colony, two OF tha broth
rem, who proyessed to have crossed several
Oceans In their deetra to crafty Cape
audience, ware drowned in crossing one Of
the numerous b1idgeless. rivers in that
Colony and about tbs ZANE time, in the
Orange Ftee Stats, during tbs war between
the Republicans aud The Baautos, IN English
concert company had . rzErox esozpe Of being
bT The Kttfits+ At the Last re-
bellion in Bu1mah, when the British Commits
.iorer and residents retired from Mandelay,
the only EngliehmHu who remained with tho
rebels Was An aetor- A few years before, this
5aine mab. having shot uAtivo whoa be had
discovered intriguing. With his wife, was tried
FOR his life in Bombay, and, being acquitted,
played st Cisuda Melnotte" the sama evening,
IN house crowded to the ceiling.
Perhaps the most curious fate that ever
overlook company paH that which befeu u
small theatrical troupe which arrived ut Hong
Kong, from CAliforniA, In the winter of 1858,
OF an actor, two ACTRESSES, aud d
little female dancer. One Of the actresses
died Of cbolera in Shanghai; the other dod
in cab On har way to the hospital at Ran-
rebels at Annoy, and had bis he.a
cut Of BY his own plrsy on suspicion OF
and Ia petite cerito, as she was
called, was placed in q convent at Moulaoin.
which some people VIII perhaps consider the
Ths lively writer who has CLEANED these
With tho following anecdotes:
TIE ECCENTRIC nAsso.
In China came across another Handerer
xho could NOT eTen play the oboe OF any other
Instrument; big entire stock in trade consisted
u coarse bAsa voice, great assurance and
saHety Of f1pedieDts for inducing frat be-
ief that he had good voice, such as testing !
rg n the fous corners OF it, suggesting the !
erection OF sounding board, etc. But
ae, could never persuade peopla to 60
md hear him a second time This
Tas serious obstacle to his SUCCESS. |
To overcome if, ths eccentric basso, st |
# four concerts, he tickota for the ser;es
,eipC at 4 considerable rai5ncad nr,ce. Rr fh;a |
,lan be genersllr obtained handsoms sum
It starting but thus waa not the only Crafty |
ng reenlt; he never had to exert himself |
H1ce for the money. THo Of three loung- !
rs would d1op in on the second night, to I
Fhom the unfortunate vocalist would grace |
m 6Ft tnff Af,a So
ence Of musical taste among the English
enerally, would conclude By suggesting that
is audience Of three had better come and
ave cigar. 10 the third concert nobody at
vent. mol even the hasso h,msen.
An AcroBs READING II SHANGHAI.
Some SIX years ago young Eagfi=h vocaf-
! Shanghai, where abs had already given
lora than score OF ordinary concerts and
she had at various times ohtsined all the |
PATRONAGE which the settlement afford
q As prete1ts for giving "one more
light, she on TINS occasion secured
1e >gratuitous assistance Of the only
ctor who bad formerly serGed under Mr.
at Corant Garden. Thls gentle
,an promised to give, between the two partB
the concert, readng from the play Of
and, IS be Vas we'll known in the
sttlenent, his appearance on the platform
as greeted with considerable sppisase but
hen the elocutionist, at some length, pre-
iced bis reading With IN abstract Of the his
~ Of France under Louis KILL. the whole
1dienee gave NAY TO laughter, and gradually,
man, retired for refreshment.
DRAWBACKS 10 Mus1c IN cEY1os.
Ceylon is very bad climate for musical In
On entering house in that love-
leland it is common thing to see pixno
anding in saucers Of water. This is to pre-
1ument- But st1l E1eafe8 8nnoyance-at
asst 60 Iar as the performer 1b concelpe"
produced by the excessive lamp
'en ~ Nue ei ntuu Ie1o
NE o. fne ksgs 70 Iela2au ooRn %uen louca-
i 60 la1 [heY give no Eoun1. 10 Qlb7buL !
! accident Of tl1is sort, the action "of the /
nno ia sometimes taken out and plsceQ in ]
q. sny for :, ahcrt -tima .shen fhare Il tn ha