National Republican., 1881-02-05
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

MCKEE RANKIN and his Dauites are in Phila
delphia.
Miss KATE BArENAS will, it is said shortly retire
from the stage.
Miss SARA JEwErr is said to be co onemp!ating a
trip to California.
join HABBERToN, author of Deacon Crankitt y
| is writing new play.
sAa CoLvIILE has purchased Andrau's latest
opera, 4" La Muscotte.'
THE fair Mary Anderson will, IL is said, soon
marry George Riddle the Harvard College actor.
MAUREL, the successor of Faure, whose pupil he
once was has been engaged at the Paris Opera for
three years.
BEETHoyEN's ballet music of Prometheus is to
be magnilicen:ly given i'll Vienna 10 celebrate the
marriage ofthe crown prince.
THE King of Bavaria has given Wagner about
$4,000, in order to enable the composer TO properly
present his new opera Of" Pereival.'
BOITo'S 'SIefiStofele" has been sue cessfuly pro-
duced at Warsaw, with Nine. Sanger as N1rgheTita
and signor Customary in the title role.
EDWIN BOOTH has presented Michael Connolly,
nov leading the orchestra at the Princess Theatre
with handsome tOrtOiseshel cigar-ease.
AMBROSE THOMAS new opera of f'' The Cadi" was
| given i'll Manchester with great success. This
opera had never before been heard in England.
EDWARD MoLLENHAUE's symphony, The Pas
siOns, which was favorably received in Berlin,
will be performed In New York on Easter Sunday
| The leading members of John McCullough's
company will not visit England with him, but Will
support Mr.. ". E. Sheridan during the remainder
of the season.
MRS. L. UPDEGRoyE, authoress of & Left Hand"
and other plays, will produce new play, entitled
" The Nihiist Sisters" at Woods Museum, Phila-
| delphia, on the 14th instant.
| PAULINE LCCcA has recently been singing in
Ohuntz. where she made her debut twenty-one
years ago She received perfect ovation and
serenade after the performance.
THE programme of the Bayreuth festival is to be
given i'll London next season under the manage
ment OF Herr Neuman. 1t Unexpected that Wagner
| himself will superntend the rehearsal.
THE Emma Abbott English Opera Company have
met with great success III Philadelphia this week
| The operas sung have been: Bohemian Girl"
| "Chimes of Normandy :" Fra Diayolo, "Miguon.'
and " Trovatore."
| JOHN 7. RAYMoND's new play, entitled Fresh.
the American, written for him ny A. c. Gunter,
will be produced at the New York Park Theatre
on Monday night Mr.: Raymond's character is
| Ferdinand Merry Fresh.
DENNAS THOMPSON has been increasing his for
Tner successes in his excellent impersonatiOn in
|
Tnent in Boston, where he nightly greeted with
overAowing houses. 1t is expected that CAele Josh
will visit Washington shortly.
| THE composer, Max Bruch, whose violin music
Wilhelmj plays, was recently married in Berlin
His home viii hereafter be In England as he was
chosen conductor of the Philharmonic Society of
Liverpool, in the place of Sir Julius Benedict, who
retireS to private life on account of old age.
| HANS YoS BCLow has been giving series of
Beethoven concerts in Meiningen. In seven regu-
lar concerts and one extra concert the whole nine
| symphonies of Beethoven were played and the
choral symphony was twice given. All three of
| the Lenore' oyertureS were also given. The best
! of the violin concertos and some vocal pieces of
Beethoven were likewise heard by the fortunate
audience. and Won BulOw played two piano pieces.
| REPORT says that Mckee Rankin has treasure
| in his play by Joaquin Miller The title of it
! is 40" and it is story of pioneer who has
grown up with the country, bat has not kept place
with advancing civilization. He is relic of the
| past i'll the California of to-day. and he is the
centre of incidents which are said TO be novel and
interesting. The piece is five acts and the scenes
are laid OH the plains, in st. Louis, and Virginia
City, b. the Comstock lode There are no red shirts
| or bowie-knives in the play.
| THE following criticism OF Miss Emma Thursby
| written by German for Germans. after her con-
cert before the most exacting of audiences at Leip
zig, will surely be of interest: " In her recent con-
cert Miss Thursby has fully justified to her Leipzig
public the high reputation which she brought
| from Berlin and Vienna. She is no phenomenon
to take us by storm at the first moment, but she is
q thorough artist, for whose extraordinary knOwl-
| edge aud ability in singing we must have all re-
| spect. Her voice is very sympathetic soprano,
affecting and well-sounding up to its highest notes.
A rare perfection is shown in its trills and all
vocal gymnastics Her runs, staecato notes, fori-
ture, &c, came out without effort and in perfect
| technique. All the while her intenation remained
scrupulously pure, her manner of singing free
from afectation, and in the highest degree noble
and modest, like the whole bearing of the lady.
Her pronunciation of the text and rendering of
| the sentiment of German songs is particularly TO
! be commended. In short, Miss Thursby belongs
among the most distinguished artists with which
our age is blessed.
| THE benefit Of the Elks, recently held in Balti-
more, was the most successful ever given in that
| city, One Of the most pleasing features of the en-
| tertainment was the presentation of two medals
one TO Miss Mary Anderson and the other to Mr.. J.
! K. Emmett. The medals were fully two inches i'll
| diameter, and were of solid gold. They were ex-
actly alike i'll every particular save that one bore
| the name of Mary Anderson and the other of J. X
| Emmett. Each was surmounted by an exquisiteiy
wrought elk's head, and the medal was deiicately
suspended from crosspinS, which bore the names
| of persons receiving them. Engraved on the
face of the medal was the inscription: Presented
| by Baltimore Lodge, No !. B. p. Order of Elks,'
and on the other side was the legend In the name
| of Charity, Justice, and BrOtherly Love-" Both
were models ofworkmanship and design, and were
manufactured by Messrs. Geary & Weale Mr.. Dan
| A. Kelly, chairman of the committee of arrange
ments. made both presentations. accompanying
| them with appropriate remarks. The presentation
| to Mr. Emmett took place Immediately after his
| contributions to the entertainment; that to Miss
Anderson between the second and third acts of the
| play. In order that the audience might not be
| diminished by other theatrical attractions, Mr..
John T. Ford and Mr.. BARLEY Campbell kindly
omitted the Opera-House matinee.
How They Got Rich.
"You see that man just crossing the street," re-
marked Chicago man to a New Yorker whom he
was towing around TO see the sights. Well, that
man sold popcorn in sciiy fOrtwenty-twoyears,
and he is worth Sl5OO99' Did he make il selling
popcorn" "Oh, no. He made his pile buying
lake-front lots Pretty the guide called his
attention to man standing in the door of u bank
and added. " That man opened the first Bible house
| west of New York city. Thirty years ago he was
! rat poor. To-day lie runs that bank Did he
make his money selling Bibies?" ''Oh. no. He
bought prairie land and held on TO it, In the
course of ten minutes big building was pointed
| cagO nineteen years ago with only fifty
! cents in his pocket. He opened a night
school and now reveled i'll his wealth. did he