The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-05


-Ristorps "World Earetcett''-Ltth
graphic Pof trait.
Special Correspondence Of the Star.
NEW YORK, March 8, 1915.
Mr.. Barnum says that his Hippodrome
establishment, menagerie, horses, per-
formers and attaches cost him $4,000 a
week; a larger number Of twenty-five
cent stamps than the universal New York
nursery-maids and beaux, children and
mammas-can be coaxed to turn in week
ly, in these times, by all his unparalleled
gifts of storytelling and amusing. New
ertheless, with Rome grit, he doubles his
$4,000 this week--or says he does, which
is exactly the same thing, you know
paying the extra to the winner Of
THE GREATEST PEDESTRIAN MATCH
ever walked on this planet. "Prof." j.
r. Judd, who attempted unsucoessfully
to emulate Edward Payson Weston's
unparalleled "feet" that went 500 miles
inside of 144 hours. at Newark, last tall }
now stumps him to stump it
again, and proposes not only to
emulate but to beat him. The
walker of 115 miles in the first twenty
four hours is to get $1,000; or in other
words Mr.. Barnum bets very confidently
$4,000 that neither of them can do it; and
the one who does the five hundred miles
the other $500. But tor the first prize
Judd is not contending. The two men
are opposites in physique.
p. S.-Barnum won the bet.
Judd is excessively muscular; his
''professorship" being not anything in
the line of learning or even of corn-ex-
tracting, but simply that OF gymnastics.
Nevertheless, time beat him by 131 miles;
he having succumbed at the 369th, while
Weston, light and long-legged, with thin,
soft muscles, went through alter re-
peated failures. overdid his 800 miles in
less than IA hours, and was crowned
king of pedestrians. Judging from the
crowd drawn by this new attraction,
Barnum will make a much better profit
on his extra than on his ordinary
odds; that is, Judd is allowed to win if
he makes 465 miles before Weston makes
the 800.
CLASSICAL MUSIC
has been sustained in New York by the
old-fashioned Philharmonic Society for
more than thirty years past, This socie-
ty undoubtedly includes the best musi-
clans resident in New York, many of
whom could not be induced to itinerate
and play in strange and ill-adapted
places, or the open air. 1t has also the
largest orchestra, one hundred or more
performers. Among the limited class of
persons who really aspire to high esthet-
ic culture, the Philharmonic Society has
done work of vast Importance, and pre-
pared the way for the broader and more
popular success OF
THEODORE THOMAS.
This gentleman is true builder in art,
who progressively raises at once his
orchestra and his audience, out of the
best raw material the public affords, by
consummate tact, an artists enthu-
siasm and the most und0mitable and
persistent enterprise. Having success
fully popularized symphony concerts in
New York and other large cities, he has,
for few seasons past, extended his mis-
sionary enterprise to the minor cities,
regardless of money out of pocket, and
looking only to the future and the broad
collateral effect tor repayment.
In the city Of Newark, for instance,
after one or two seasons, either Of which
would have been enough for a c0ncertist
of narrower aims, he is now giving
symphony series to large and gratltied
audiences under the primitive timber of
the "Rink." An untavorahle place; and
who knows but the impulse may result
in a music hall worthy of that city of
magical growth and of its growing musi-
cal culture?
ADELAIDE RIsTORI,
the great tragic actress of the time Miss
Cushman having hidden the age farewell,
and become OF the past, is also about to
retire from the stage, after triumphal
progress Of the world!-a thing unpre-
cedented in the annals Of the ''stars."
She arrived in this city on Friday
night, from Havana, with her troupe OF
forty-two actors, and her immense cargo
of scenery. stage properties, wardrobes,
and other baggage appurtenant to such
an unprecedented number of travelling
theatrical ladies and gentlemen. AS
everything and every person accessory
to her performances has been made OF
trained in Europe under her own super
and accompanies her wher-
ever she plays, her progress is some-
thing nearly as stupendous as that OF a
first-class circus and menagerie; in fact,
that she itineraries the
world, and not merely one paltry conti-
nent, ii may be called, without eXaggera-
Madame Ristori's New York season of
three weeks at the Lyceum Theater CON-
mences tonight, with an already FORE |
gone jam, seats being nowhere to be had
without an enormous premium, if at all. |
Her farewell tour of the world was CON- |
menced in Paris last June. Since then
she has done South America and the |
West Indies. Next month she will be |
seen in our principal Eastern cities,
alter which westward the star will take |
her way to the setting sun, supposed to
be located in San Francisco, and will
leave with that other luminary in June,
lor Australia, China, Japan and India.
Everybody remembers her immense
in this country at her former
visit, when she netted 100000. She is
rich, ana aule to support in
becoming style a good-for-nothlng Ital-
ian Marquis, to whom she was married
in early life, and whose name of Del
5rillo she honors in her private or sol
,ial capacity. She has been ON the stage
fifty years, having commenced at the age
,f five, and having now reached that OF
iity-fve.
MRS. RoUsBY,
he handsome and clever English actress,
1ow in this country, is to be represented
Is the Lady Elizabeth, ner fayorite char
lcter, in all the elaborate richness Of one
IF those costly costumes that have been
20. much celebrated, on one OF the largest