Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-11
STAGE SPLINTER.

Patti gets about So 900 for song. How
much she charges for praisiug pianos, or.
gans and fiddles is not stated.
Esthetic Boston is Aooking to the "Black
Crook, not that they care for the show.
but the ballet girls are 80 superlatively
antique.
If Oscar Wilde comes unscathed through
the ordeal of American hospitality he NAV
well say, with Bunthorne, :" an, not as
bilious as look"
A Philadelphia manager thinks of cover.
ing the ceiling of his theater with an i'm
mense mirror, so that people sitting behind
Gainsborough hats can see the performance
by simply looking up.
American girls who are in Europe study.
ing music are advised by Jenny Lind to
return home where, she says. the instruc-
ton is just as good, and the chances of
getting nice husband much better.
SO Hamlet is to be played in Athens in
Greek. 1t may be that the new transla-
ton will be as good as the French version
of 90 Macbeth. where the witches instead
of "Hail, Macbeth. u exelaim, Comment
vous porter vous, Monsieur Macbeth"
Anna Dickinson has been making in.
quiries about costumes for the part of
Hamlet she intends enactingnext season. A
Western editor, acknowledging her letter,
replies, Yes, 1t is necessary to wear BIZ
furcated garments. Mol You can't get
them on over your head. Try come other
plan.' Poor Anna.
Auna Dickinson has finally made berdebut
in male role. Rochester was the place.
and Hamlet the play. Her conception
and Interpretation of the character occa-
sions conflicting criticisms, but all the ac.
counts of the performance speak enthu-
siastically OF the artistic way in which she
wore closely fitting garments Of light pur-
pie. OF one thing we are assured, the
lady has pair of pedal extremities pecu.
liarly gifted for melancholy roles.
Emma Abbott's new kiss is said to be
lacking in flavor as compared with the kiss
of old. We haven't noticed any difference
as yet, but we will own that we haven't
met Emma for two or three weeks.-[Bos.
ton Globe. The change is easily explained.
It is now one part Mary Anderson, one
part Bernhardt, one part Soldene, and
the remainder Abbott. You see, we don't
object to telling Won the result of careful
investigations. Nothing mean about us.
The Salt Lake City Tribune is respons-
ible for story to the effect that the
audience in attendance at q Joseffy con-
cart became so confused as to his progress
in programme OF classical selections that
the retirement, at the end of the first part,
of lady seated in the front row of the
balcony. who had an air OF knowing all about
the performance, resulted in the general
dismissal OF the audience. Josefy. it is
said, took in the situation at glance,
and, with a grin, retired. He afterward
related the incident at the hotel, and
seemed to think it one of the best jokes
he had encountered in all his travels.
A great many theater-goers have noticed
late years that actresses have acquired
peculiar manner of wearing the fingers
They get the fingers in such shape that the
third finger looks as though it had been
broken, and the doctor had put it on
wrong. The younger class of actress play
the finger act more than the older
class do, and it is not uncommon to
see a variety girl get her hand in such
shape as to make it look as though an old
fashioned clothes pin had been put on the
finger straddle. They hold up the hand
and pose them for people to look at, act
ing as though they expected to mash
a whole audience. The old fashioned
fat, chubby fingers, that are made straight,
are good enough for most people, and
when a girl shows decent-looking hand
with one or two fingers sticking up like
sore thumb, she is fooling away her time
on the average audience. 1t is said some
girls in society practice months at time
to get their fingers to stay crooked; like.
dizzy actresses, but unless they watch the
fingers pretty close they will get back
the way nature arranged them. Affectation
goes too far when it spells hand for girl,
to make it look as though she had been
playing shortstop in a baseball match, and
muffed hot ball. Girls, let NATURES
hand alone, and they will make you all
the "mashes'' you will need in your bust
ness. Milwaukee Sun.