Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-13
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
SOME NOTES ABOUT SINGERS, ACTORS
AND COMPOSERS.
The Opera and the Dramatic Stage
Plays, Players. Play-goers,
and Theaters.

Joseffy is busily studying new works.
Paris is as dead Electrically this summer
as New York, and London dies in August.
Franz Won Dinglestedt, director of the
Imperial Burgtheater, Vienna, has died,
aged &C.
DeVivo promises new sensation in the
form of an Australian prima donna. She
will be welcome
| The rumor that c. Hantan, violinist
without, hands, who plays with his feet,
was dead, is contradicted.
| Milan people wanted to hear Clara Louise
Kellogg. Her mothers illness prevented
her accepting any engagements there.
Theatrical news in San Francisco is bar
rem of interest. There is stdgnatioa in
true dramatic lines-thats the word.
j. S. Clarke has gone back to England.
He never stays in the same country with
Jefferson, Florence and Raymond.
"P" seems to be the favorite letter of
Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan s'Pina-
fore, Pirates" Patience, 50 Princess"
Bernhardt is starring in the English
provinces, and had an afternoon reception
at the Alexander Theater, Liverpool. Same
old game.
| 1t is said Miss Catherine Lewis declined
to appear in. the cast of cinderella at
School" in case Miss Eliza Weathersby
was to take part.
Miss Emma Abbott will have plenty
of contraltos next season. Mrs. Seguir,
Miss Pauline Maurel and Mrs. Barry are
| ~o,orLad nc bov hear, on
Mime Eteika Gerster will begin her next
season in the United States in Boston, ap-
pearing in concert, under the management
of Max Ssrakosch, at Music Hall, Novem-
| Der 10th.
A new four.act comedy, by Erckmann-
Chatrian, entitled Les Rantzau," has been
read to the Committee of the Paris Fran
Gals, and is accepted twill, probably, be
brought out early next season.
John Howson is engaged at the London
Haymarket, which opens on Saturday
next, under the management of c. Francis,
with Counter Devices" a new comedy,
and Gibraltar, a new opera boufe.
Butterfly Fever" has been compare.
tive failure at the London Criterion-as it
was here when Daily and Frank Wood did
it at the Olympic-in spite of the newspa-
per controversy about paying Sardou his
fees.
At concert given at Albert Hall, Lon
don, recently, the Prince of Wales re-
quested that the performance might not
begin until O'Clock in order that he mi ght
have time to eat his dinner before going.
His desire was granted.
Some OF OGenbach's friends have sub
scrlbed for bronze bust of the regretted
composer, which Will be erected in the gar
den of the Pavilion Henry ", at st. Ger
main, at which excellent hostelry he was
in the habit of often spending a lew days
The Hungarian painter, Itchy, sent List
drawing the other day representing the
role OF music in the life of man from the
cradle TO the grave. List wrote his ac-
acknowledgement of the present lllustri-
GUS painter, you have made me a magnifi-
cent present. Music from the cradle to the
grave is a marvellous symphony. l will
try to note it, and / will dedicate the work
to you.
Tony Pastor will sublet his Fourteenth
street Theater, New York 1.-THE former Ger
mania) in September, for the production
of Mrs. r. Everett's Mormon drama,
Ruth, an American Wife )" but when he
returns with his troupe to New York he
will transfer his variety performances to
that house and subiet his old theater to
combinations.
Mapleson has lost Her Majesty's, Lon
don, through neglecting to keep up the in
surance, and Carl Rosa is after it for per.
manent English opera. Mapleson and eye
have formed coalition, by which eye
takes England and Mapleson takes Amer.
lea. But suppose America will not stay
taken? There is an italian troupe coming
from California that means business.-[N.
Y. Spirit.
Patti has gone to Aix-les- Bains for few
weeks. At the end of August, she visits
| Scotland, with a grouse shooting party.
Then she goes to her castle in Wales, until
October 22d, when she sails for America,
ON the Servia. She is overwhelmed with
offers from vocal and instrumental artists
to accompany her to America but old
Franchi is her agent, and knows how to
deal with all applicants.
The receipts realized by the 200 perform
ances of "Divorcons were enormous
935, III francs, or an average of 4,675
francs. The authors share reached the
handsome total OF l22 22l francs so that
NM. Sardou and de Najac net 56, ITO
francs each ($ll, 222) and the success of
the comedy is so little exhausted that we
shall not be surprised if it has another
equally profitable run in store for it in
Paris, to say nothing of its future in the
provinces and Belgium.
Miss Emma Nevada recently sang " La
Sonnambula for seventeen consecutive
representations at Milan, winning en-
thusiastic applause and drawing a crowded
house on each occasion of her appearance.
"What with Miss Nevada at Milan, Miss
Lillian Norton at st. Petersburg, Miss Girls
void at the Grand Opera and Mile. Marie
Van Zandt at the Opera Comique. Ameri-
can musical talent seems to be coming to
the FORE" says the Continental Gazette.
with as decided rush as did American
horsehesh at the Derby the other day."
Gounod is philosopher The composer
of Faust" and the 8. Tribut de Zamcra"
delivered himself in the salon of Madame
de ", a few evenings ago, OF the following
philosophical reflection Social posi-.
tions, he said, care. like the key board of
a piano. You start according to the INTEL
ligence, fortune or rank, that you have,
from such and such note but, the dap
ason once given, the gamut of cares and
pleasures is the same for all. You sing,
laugh, suffer, hope, despair, in ut, In re, IN
mi, or in sol. 1t is scale of sensation
more or less elevated, hut it is scale
analogous to all other scales. Everything
then is relative in the events OF life, except
death, which terminates it.
After two years trial, the chorus school
of the Academy of Music, Philadelphia,
seems to have met with Indifferent success.
In the report at a meeting of the stock
holders, President Philips says: "To
make the chorus singer available for mana
gers, and especially for the production of
new and important operas, his times for
study must be greatly increased, more
constant attendance exacted, and per-
manent school established. These things
will involve very heavily increased out
iay, and the directors must carefully con-
slider the question of enlarging it to
sphere of real usefulness or of suspend1ng
it for the present.
Uncle Sam. Colville has issued pros
pectus in his usual bold, sweeping, exclu-
sive style, claiming the entire dramatic
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