The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-10-07
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

Mr.. HENRY IEvrSa, the English actor,
offered to come to this country for ST.
500 night, but his terms were not ac-
copied.
THE Graphic says: ''Dolls modelled
after Sara Bernhardt are being imported.
They can also be used for crochet
needles"
Punch says the French marriage law
Is intended to supply dramatists and
novelists with plots and materials for
their work.
AN acquaintance of Mr. Payne's once
informed him that her daughters were
going 10 the theater to see Shakspeare's
Turning Of the .Scre,D."
Miss KELLOGG is making great sue
cess In opera at Vienna. She is the only
cantatrice who, during the past few years
has been allowed to sing in Italian in the
Imperial Opera-house, all others singing
In German.
Mr.. CARLYLE was visited in Scotland
by Mr.. Barley Campbell, the dramatic
writer, and the Hartford Post records
the disappointment of the latter at find
ing the venerable sage engaged in killing
a rat with poker.
MILE BERNHARDr has received from
King Christian, Of Denmark, the order
OF the Danebrog, a red-bordered white
r1bbon, with q gold medal surmounted
by royal crown in diamonds attached
To it. The only other ladies' who have
received this very exceptional honor are
Mines. Trebelli and Nilsson.
ONE of Ole Bulls tricks was, when he
had diminished his tone TO n nearly in
audible piasissino, to continue the atti-
tude, rs il he was playing, but actually
having drawn off the bow entirely from
the violin, holding il in the air and pro-
ducing no tone whatever; while his au-
dience, in raptures at the softness of his
really inaudible sighs, made ear trum-
pets Of their hands and bent forward,
eager to catch the sound which did not
exist. Then the violinist, as if suddenly
awakening from a trance, bowed to the
enraptured audience.
Miss ANNA LOUISE CARY is having
some hew gowns made i'll Paris. Among
them is princess wrapper of light blue
cashmere, finished around the lower
edge in points trimmed with silver braid.
Below the points is a knife plating COW
cred with Valenciennes, and above them
a quilting of the same lace. A purple
morning dress, made with a skirt and
half-fitting sack, is also trimmed with
silver braid, and is quite as pretty as the
wrapper. A brown walking suit, short
dinner dress of two shades of blue, are
among the other gowns which the singer
Is to have for herself, and not for the
dear public, for which her finest gar
ments are designed. Cincinnati Ga
zone.
The Duchess of Connaught, one of
Queen Victoria's daughters-in-law, be-
came, says the London Truth, q great
admirer at Oberapmergau of Joseph
Mayr, who represents the Christ of the
PdssionsEiet. He is more than six feet
high, has large, dark eyes, fine COM
plexion, and long, brown hair, falling
over his shoulders in curls. English
ladies generally throDg his cottage, where
he lets the spare rooms, and sometimes
call at four o'clock in the morning to take
leave of him. He is married to rather o
plain woman, q good housewife, and the
mother Of his four children, who fears,
however, that some English Duchess will
elope with her husband.
You may rely fully upon the reports
that Nine. Patti will visit the United
States In another season or SO; she has
taken advantage of the monetary embar-
rassments Of Mr.. Maurice Strakosch, her
amiable brother-in-law, to buy him off
from the contract signed with him years
ago. This contract gave him absolute
control over her in the United States,
and wns, for many reasons, great
obstacle in her path there, viewed from
her own standpoint. She consulted
lawyers, who held that there was no way
to avoid its obligations save by COM
promise. Accordingly, on the occasion
of his present visit to England, Nine.
Patti arranged it amicably, agreeing to
pay Maurice Strakosch 100, 900 francs
($20,00O). Part of this was paid then
and there; the rest will be handed him
the day the diva sails for the States.
What furor she will create! She will
appear first in concerts, supported, as
goes without saying, Q had almost said
without singingD by that dear Nicolini,
who makes full stop between every
fourth note and is afflicted with an exag-
gerated tremolo in the bargain. It is
proposed TO charge $40 seat for these
concertsl This will do for time, but
not for long, However, can assure you
that to listen to Patti, the queen of song,
to use n much-abused term, is well worth
saving and scraping and going without
other things. / never heard anything
half 80 delicious as her rendering Of
Within a Nile Of Edinboro To,cn
There is only one Patti, and listening to
her, you are almost tempted to declare
there is but one prima donnai London