The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-10
Art, Music and the Drama.

A Titan of great beauty is said to have been
found recently in the garnet of thu Moritzhaus
by the new director of the museum at the
Hague 1t was with nearly two hundred other
paintings which had lain there rotting for near
ly half a century.
A paragraph is going the rounds that Mr..
author, $4,000 for Davy Crockett, and has
earned S240 900 upon it since last September.
But Mr.. Mayo changed the dialogue, cut out
one or two characters, worked over the piece
and experimental on it, and even then played
il fer eight months without making enough 10
pay his board bills
Prosper Merimee's Spanish story, Carmen
says the London Athen0unl, has been USED for
libretto by NM. HI. Meilhac and l.. Halevy, IN
four acts, the music by M. Georges Bizet, the
composer of previous operas, the "Pecheur oe
Perles," ia Jolie File de Perth, "DJaml-
leh." and "L'Arlesienne' The work was le'
Gently produced at the Opera Comique, Paris
with success. The original tale is adhered 10
n great measure, and is strange ore lor .ne
Sale Favart. Carmen is young GYPSY girl
not at all faithful in her attachments, ana oi
gu arrelsome disposition, as she proves by stao-
hing one of her comrades. A young Brigadier
who is taking her to prison falls IN love Win
her and let's her escape, breach OF dlsclpiine
for which he is imprisoned, but on his release
turns smuggler, AMI joins the Bohemians III
order to be with Carmen; but ascertalnlng her
nfidelity, he stabs her, during bulfhgn''
The scenery and costumes, of course, afford the
opportunity for a picturesque display. Inc
scene is first in Seville, next in the mountains
and finally, in the square of Cordova. M.
Bizet's score has some strong points, but IL Is
too labored and ambitious. Still great things
are expected from this young composer, and he
received the cross as Chevalier of the Legion OF
Honor on the day Carmen was brought out.
Salyni's performance of Othello before the
London actors is said TO have been received
with demonstrations ofspproval highly latter
ing to the artist, and very rare in England.
Four of the ceilings in the Louvre are to be
newly decorated, under orders from the govern
ment, by four able artists. Duran is to paint
"The Glory of Mary di Medici;" Fleury. 1.-THE
Glory of French Sculpture" Giacomettl, line
Glory of Rubens and of Painting" and Jules
I,efevre, "The Glory of Jacques de Brosses and
of French Architecture"
Clara Morris expresses the opinion that the
original material for the American drama yet
to be is in the humor of the negro and the trag-
ic history of the Indian. "Let, the last OF them
all be killed. she suggests, ''and then relegate
the subject to the region of romance"
Miss Thompson, painter of the "Roll Call,
is to engage on work representing the scene
at high mass at the opening of the new church
dedicated to St. Thomas a. Beckett, in Canter-
bury.
Says Lucy Hamilton Hooper in her Paris let
ter: was recently presented to M. Ernest
Blum, the author of the trinmphantly success
full melodrama of 'Rose Michel" He does
not look at all like the imaginer of dark and
dreadful deeds, being a jolly gentleman, be-
tween thirty and forty years of age, with very
bald head, and very full reddish-brown beard
He occupies prominent position on the Re'
publican newspaper La Rappel, at the head OF
which Victor Hugo regns supreme.
Alma-Tadema has just painted a picture
which some of the London papers and MIR. Con-
way rave over considerably. 1t is called the
Tragedy of an Honest Wife, and does not
relate to the Brooklyn business but to legend
of Chilperic, King of the Franks. The picture
is in three compartments, and. from the de-
scriptons, must be sufficiently tragical through