Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-29
DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL NEWS.


Emile Melville has captured the Bosto-
mans.
John Powell, husband of Adme. Emily
Soldene, is dead.
Miss Agnes Hallock has resigned from
the Emile Melville Opera Company.
Xavier Scharwenka has been appointed
pianist to the Emperor of Austria.
Sells Brothers, the circus men, are about
to build a tbeater at Topeka, Kansas.
Willie Edouin's new extravaganza,
"Ripples, has met with favor in New Or.
leans.
John s. Clarke begins an engagement Of
eight weeks in New York on the 22d OF
January next.
Director Rosewald, of the Strakosch
Opera Company, has written three.act
opera called Hes a She.
Dramatic Brerities is the title of very
presentable eight-page dramatic paper
which has just made its appearance in San
Francisco.
Offenhach's posthumous work, tiles
Contes d'Hofman," still finds favor in
Paris, and Figaro predicts that it will
reach its l00sh performance.
John T. Raymond's mania for matching
pennies has grown on him to such an ex-
tent that he has had matching" scene
written in Fresh, the American"
Colonel Bob Filkins will leave New York
for San Francisco shortly, where he will
superintend the alterations In Haverly's
new California Theater So, 900 will be
spent on the place in alterations.
The New Messenger Opera House, at
Goldsboro, n. c., will be completed and
opened the first week of December. 1t is
handsome building, 50xll0 feet, with a
seating capacity of nine hundred.
Tennyson's desire to write for the stage
amounts to passion. From his visit to
Stratford- on.Avon he has returned to his
place on the Hampshire Downs, whence he
will go TO occupy winter house in London
The Stockton Theater last week was re-
furnished in honor of Sheridans appear
ance there, and the house programme
printed on satin by the local management
as souvenir of the first presentation of
"King Lear in the Valley City.
English papers state that Mime. Pauline
Lucca has positively refused to leave her
native country for an engagement In Amer
lea, and will take the position of prima
donna of the Vienna Opera House, in the
place Of Miss Minnie Hauk.
Heinrich Botel is the name of new
tenor who has just appeared in Hamburg,
and the lethargle opera-goers of that sleepy
town show symptoms of enthusiasm about
him. Like Wacntel, he was hack driver,
when the director of tine opera in Hamburg
discovered and had him educated music.
ally.
A Boston theater is to have a stage made
in sections on rollers, SO that while one
scene is before the audience another is be-
ing arranged out of sight, thus doing away
with tedious intermissions between acts,
and making it possible to show greater
amount of elaborate scenery than can be
done by the ordinary method.
A hypercritical Marseilles audience
deigned to express its admiration for Sara
Bernhardt's Dona Sol, after more than
cold reception of Dame aux Camellias,
in which actor Angelo was Kissed. Bern
hardt herself was Kissed al Amiens,
whereupon she remarked to the audience,
8. / am not accustomed to play to geese"
Music in social intercourse is q fine
awakener Of sYmpatbies, and fine uniter
of them. A good musical instrument, a
violin, piano-forte, or organ, is often not
less needed to soothe the rnffied spirit of
company than the harp of David was to
calm down the tiend in the turbulent breast
of Saul.
Theatrical society in London il excited
over the fact that, for the first time since
the death of Prince Albert, the Queen has
been to see play. A stage was arranged
in the coach house of the Prince of Wales
at Abergeldie Castle, and the company
playing at Edinburgh brought over to act
"The Colonel" The Queen expressed her
self as much amused by the play.