New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-16
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

Mile Daram, of the Paris stage, is about to retire
to private life
Mr.. j. G. Williamson has bought the play of
"Hazel Kirke" for production in Australia where
he is great favorite.
Mr.. George Clarke win appear at the Windsor
Iheatre, October 8, in Mr.. Gaylers Irish drama of
- The Connie Soogah"
The engagement at the Fifth Avenue Theatre of
the Com ev-Barton Opera Company, beginning next
Monday is TO last two weeks and 1t will be devoted
exclusively 10 the comic opera OF " Nine Favart."
The once celebrated French clown Auriol, has
just died in Paris, aged seventy-fve. He was
nected, in old times, with the FrancOni Circus and
he was wonderfully expert in his business.
Mrs. Chanfrau appeared at the Boston Theatre
last Saturday afternoon, in Mr.. G. w. Tayleur's
drama on the subject of I" East Lynne" good YER
sion, and was several times called before the cur
lam by the cordial applause OF large audience
The autumn season at the Madison Square Theatre
will begin early in October 1t is officially stated
that the profits made at this house during the past
summer, with the play OF The Professor" have
exceeded $4,000.
Mr.. Bandmann has of lato been acting on the
other side of the world He finished an engagement
at Dunedin, New Zealand, August Con which
occasion in farewell speech, he expressed the hope
that when far away his audiences might OCCASION
ally bestow fleeting thought upon him." He adj
ded that lit might be for wears or possibly for
ever" Mr.. Bandmann has been acting in Shylock,
Legardere, Romeo, IdgO, Benedick, TOHchstOne and
Beau
Diet, who has appea ed POytid blanche de Neuers,
Juliet, DesdemORd' Beatrice, RoSdtiad. etc.
We noticed some time ago an admirable setting
by Mr.. Dudley Buck, for male chorus and tenor
solo. of The Nun of Nldaros," from Longfellow's
"Saga of King Olaf" The same composer has now
published, through Schirmer, companion-piece
from the same poem, arranged for male chorus and
baritone and tenor solos, with accompaniment
of piano obJHgdo and reed organ and string quintet
ad Hbitum. The passage chosen for illustration in
this instance is King OlaFs Christmas" striking
and forcible number which appears to have inspired
the musician with correspondingy vigorous ideas.
The principal theme Is very effectively delivered at
the outset in canon form, nd returns in the same
mode of treatment at the close and the work is dis
tingushed by a happy combination of unity of
sentiment with animation of movement and variety
of dramatic expression The mel dy is elegant
and fluent; the instrumental parts are full of Char
acter and suggestion Mr.. Buck is an accomplished
master of the art of writing for the voice and we
mas viii even surpass the popularity of its prede-
cesS0r
Mr. Bronson Towards new, play, entitled "BarOn
Rudolph" written for Mr.. and Mrs. George S.
Knight, and originally produced by them in Eng
land, is being presented this week, at the Grand
Opera House. The following is an outline of its
plot; The drama opens in New York, where we
are introduced to Rudolph Wicgand a young Ger
man nobemaD who has fallen from the high estate
enjoyed by those of his rank, half of his fortune
having evapOrated in reckless extravaganza, and
the remainder having vanished through the knavery
OF former felow-student at Heidelberg, one Whit
scorth Laurence a citizen of New-York. Rudolph
has married Rkoda, o girl poor in worldly wealth
but rich in personal attractions and he is now
struggling to support himself, wife and child by
tolling as foundryman. Capital and labor engage
In strife and in the campaign of idleness which en-
sues hero and those dependent ON
him are reduced to the verge of starvation
WhitWOrh Laurence, who entertains a passion for
RhOdd sees his advantage, and induces the wife to
desert her husband with the purpose of obtaining
divorce through the easy medium of American law
md ultimately to ally herself TO him. Distracted and
bowed down by grief, Rudolph degenerates into an
outcast aud a tramp Sixteen years elapse, and the
deserted husband accidentally meets mis- wife his
daughter NOW grown TO womanhood) and his old
enemy. The latter has become involved in financial
embarrassments leading to his exposure, shame and
suicide. In the meantime Radoiph has inherited es-
tates in Europe. and agents OF his family have
successfully traced him. In the last act lie is re-
stored 70 fortune and family and the conventional
Felicity follows. The drama is assisted in interest
by sub-lncidents, Rad0tpRs daughter having her
own little love story, ana Mrs. Nellie Dashtcood a
coqnettsh. fun-oving widow playing hide and seek
with the hearts OF General Metcaite, and Judge
NeTgbOnes" until she falls into the happy arms of
the latter