The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-14
Art. Music and the Drama.


ted that the dresscircle public attend IN toilets
in harmony with the pieces represented. In
"Faust," for example, the ladies should come
in white, as Marguerite before her fall, and if
any appear in mauve let the consequence be
on their own heads. In the bijou air the occa-
sion would be suitable for displaying the fam-
ly diamonds.
Mr.. jerome Hopkins has been engaged for
nearly three years on musical settiug of the
Episcopal service on a scale which that liturgy
has never before received. 1t is festival ser
vice for one boy choir, two adult choirs, quar-
tette of solo voices, priest, orchestra, harp and
organ. Mr.. Hopkins's design is to show the
adaptability of the glorious Episcopal liturgy
for dramatic musical treatment.
"Grace Greenwood" in her last ''Notes from
Over the Sea-" to the New York Times, writes:
"We saw Salvini at Drury lane, for the first
time as Othello, and L was impressed as when
1 saw him in New York as the Gladiator, with
his resemblance in person, in his grandiose
style of acting, and his deep, rich, organ-lke
voice, to Edwin Forrest. He is cultivated
and poetic Forrest, with, perhaps more SEN
sitive, ardent, and refined nature; and yet
think the most tragic scenes in "Othello" were
only more powerful in the sense of being more
terrible-crueler, coarser-than Forrest made
them-in his later years at least, Salvini's
murder scene had often heard described, but
was hardly prepared for such an exhibition
of diabolical passion. The horror Of it fol-
lowed me for days The deadly deliberation-
the working up of the act-was terrible. In
stead of killing Desdemona decently and
speedily in her bed, he let's her spring up, come
forward frightened and bewildered, fly about
the stage, trying to escape, and begging for
mercy. 1t was like the fierce play of tiger
with lamb. But when he caught her up,
struggling and shreking, to rush with her be-
hind the curtains of the alcove, the noble
Moor disappeared, and Bill Sykes, in buskins,
baggy blue trousers and yellow flannel night
gown, took his place. There was something
sickeningly horrible in that mystery of murder,
as the shreks gave place to low, smothered
cries; and when, at the knocking of Emilia,
the murderer parted the curtains for a mo-
ment and looked out-the dark, awful face
convulsed with passion, the eyes dstended and
glazing, I almost shrieked at the sight. 1t was
again the tiger disturbed in his feast of blood
1t was glimpse of hell"
laage canvas upon which a picture is we'll out
lined-a passage from the history of California,
when the western coast was taken possession
of by the Spanish. The spot chosen is south of
San Francisco, view full of picturesque beau
ty. a
Herr Eanst Won Banded, the sculptor of sthe
Hermann monument, is thus described by
correspondent of the London News: GAS to
thesmaker Of this monument, you must i'm
agine white-bearded hermit, but without the
hood and gown, standing in the doorway of
hut, as saw him yesterday. A most remark
able life is Ernst Won Bandel's He is now
seventy-fve years old, and has spent the thirty.
seven years of the best part of his life on the
reection of the monument to Hermann the
Cheruscan. He was born at Anspach on the
18th of May, 1900, and is by birth Prussan.
When but nineteen years of age he put on pa
per his idea of monument to Hermann
Forty thousand people it was estimated were
present at the unwilling of the monument. At
the close the Emperor William conferred
the order Of the Crown of the third class upon
Won Banded
Marshall Wood, the sculptor of ''Proser.
pine" Psyche" and other famous statues
which attracted so much attention at the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art during their exhibit
ton last winter is engaged upon a colossal
statue of John Bright, which is to be erected
in the city of Manchester, Eng
The committee appointed to secure the erec-
ton of a monument over the grave of William
Gilmore Sims in Magnolia Cemetery, Charles
ton S. c., have decided to adopt the plan of
hro1 huct opit
similar to that to Humboldt, erected
in Central Park. The estimated cost is $25OO.
Meissonier is still toilng away at the great
battle picture purchased some eighteen months
ago by Sir Richard Wallace, and representing
Napoleon reviewing his troops before the bat
tie of Wagram. There is a group of horses
that cannot be set right, according to the great
artists IDEAS He paints them in the most adj i
mirable fashion, according to all who see them.
but his keen and fastidious taste refuses to be
satisfied, SO he rubs them out again, and tears
his hair and gets into frenzy generally. The
severest of Meissonier's crit les is always Meis-
sonier himself
The statue of Chateaubriand, which was in
augerated on the 4th of, September at Saint
Malo, is thus described The writer is seated
his look turned toward the horizon. At his
feet are some American plants, washed by
breaking wave. The costume is that of the
period I800-1802, the moment when he had
just terminated the Scenic du Chrstianisme''
The mantle by its folds, corrects the inartstic
appearance of the high collared coat and the
tight trousers.
Speaking of ''The Last Supper,'' a cores
pondent says: "My expectations of this paint
ing were by no means realized. L had been
told of its matchless beauty by persons who had
seen it, and the book tells you how travellers
shed tears lost in admiration at its magnif-
cence, that the features were so expressive,
and that the entire work showed the unerring
hand of great master. The picture is painted
on wall about thirty feet long and fifteen
feet high;, iboecupies the centre end of the
chapel, the centre of the picture being over an
old doorway. II may have been in its time
brilliant and attractive work of art, but four
centuries have SO faded its coloring and
dimmed its figures that they can hardly be dis
cerned; the damp and mould have decomposed
the plastering on the walls in places and
blotched the face of the picture and it would
take an artistic eye to discover its beauty or
merit pow. When Napoleon had possession of
Milan the chapel was used as a common stable
for his cavalry horses, and the monks cut a
doorway through the pictures, cutting off the
feet of the principal figure. AS it is to-day 1
am certain there is little left to praise or ad-
mire. Its celebrated author was sixteen of the
best years of his life painting it, and it has
been termed by art critics the greatest picture
of the world; but it has yielded to the corrod-
ing tooth of time and suffered from abuse and
NEGLECT few wears mora q nd Tho .,;o..,..