Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-22
eRREN-Room AND STAGE NOTES.

Edwin Booths mother is alive, healthy
and eighty.
List recently gave concert at Pesth,
and the audience went into regular Hun
garian rhapsodies over him.
It is not unlikely that Mr.. eye in 1882
will come to this country with Nine. Al
bani. making tour in Italian opera.
Nilsson passed few days with Lord and
Lady Salisbury at Hatfield House, Herts,
and then went to Paris. She was Kissed
at her last appearance in London.
| C. D. Hess is endeaverng to draw En-.
ma Abbott into comic opera. Lotta's sue
cess in whaB is called singing should teach
| her that she can cover ali detects of her
voice by kicking.
Mime. Christine Nilsson is going to Stock
holm, by express invitation Of the King OF
Sweden, to sing at the opera there in the
state performance on the occasion of the
marriage of the Crown Prince with the
Princess Victoria of Baden.
It is said that John E. Owens, the vete-
ran actor, has lost the accumulation of his
| lifetime through unfortunate speculations
in California, and has had to sell his beau
tiful estate near Baltimore to meet his
losses. 'sThat Man from Cataraugus y
must have cost him something.
Buffalo Bill introduces real Indians in his
plays, and they are expected to let him
heroically vanquish them but in Chi
cago performance one of them was drunk,
and refused to sali when the.scout struck
him sham blow. Instead he tried to use
bis tomahawk, and had to be dragged off
the stage.
Lewis Wingfeld III New York has pro.
duced new play, The Spiders Web, Z"
for Geneviavs Ward. In November the
same gentleman produces-also in New
York; play called Love and Liberty, +"
for John AlcCullough; and in February a
piece called Monmouth" for Lawrence
Barrett. TIE two last named will be origi-
nal poetic dramas, each in five acts.
joan Mortimer Murphy, the author of
works of travel end adventure, has COM
pleted an original IRISH drama entitled
"Norah Meeish" It is founded on
historical incidents which occurred in
| 1892, when the Irish troops who fought
against William of Orange fed to
France To serve under the banner Of Louis
! XIV. The scenes are laid both in France
and Ireland, and the dfamatis person e in
Guide names well known in Irish military
annals.
What may now be called, perhaps, the
! DYNAMITE drama has made its appearance
on the stage, being a sort OF highly skil-
lalah- charged anti-Britaunic, Ireland for
the-Irish production, which casts the or
binary Irish drama in the shade. The
first dramatic explosive OF the series
was announced to burst forth in Chicago, in
Charles E. Verner's play, !" Eviction. de-
seribed by James Redpath as that most
effective Land League drama. y ['furf,
Field and Farm.
Charles Halle has accepted the conduct
orship of the Symphony concerts organized
by Messrs. Schulz Curtius in opposition to
the Richter concerts, in London, and we
may therefore, expect next year a battle
ROYAL between the old school and the new.
| Herr Richter's scheme has already been
announced. Charles Halle will bring for
ward as principal works the following
May lst, Beethoven's choral symphony
Mayl2th, Schubert's 9th symphony in C;
Nav 18th, Beethoyen's Pastoral symphony
June SEh, Schumanns Faust; June 18th,
Berlicz's Harold in Italy and June 22d,
Beethovens Mass in d.
! Although Madame Patti has received
! from somebody sort of offer to create the
part of Kundry in the Forthcoming produc.
| ton of Wagner's ssParsifal" at Bayreuth,
/ it is e significant fact that her name is not
mentioned in Germany in connection with
the part. Several leading German operate
artists are spoken of by their friends as
likely to play Kundry. On the other
hand, the Wagnerian performances at
Drnry Lane next season, in witch it is un-
derstood Madame Patti will sing Elsa in
German, will probably draw Ia dica closer
to Bayreuth although it has yet to be
seen how long the imperious little lady and
the equally imperious Herr Wagner will
agree together at rehearsals.
One of the leading novelties of the forth
coming Carl Rosa London season, the re-
vised version of :. Pauline, the Lady of
Lyons" will be produced on tour. The
book has now been reconstructed, the
character of Colonel Damas has been rein
stated, and the last act has been entirely
rewritten. Mr.. Cowen has recast the whole
opera, transforming the part of Claude
| Melnotte, written for Mr.. Santley. into a
tenor role, setting the whole Of the dialogue
as recitatives, recomposing the last act,
and thoroughly revising the orchestration.
Pauline will thus be presented as practi-
cally a new work; and until Mr.. Cowen
can secure an adequate hbretto it viii
probably be the only opera We shall have
from the pen of this popular composer.