Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-04
THE STAGE.
Paragraphs about the stage and People !
of the Stage

Sarah Bernhardt had no little difficulty
to persuade Makart to paint her portrait
during her visit to Vienna. He said that
there was not enough of her to paint.
Miss Marie Oster, of Cincinnati, who has
been student of the Paris Conservatoire
during the past three years, has made her
debut there with the most gratifying sue.
cess.
Edwin Booth has cent check for 81, 900
to the family of poor Sam. Percy. He
Emperors and Bernhardt, and is himself
again.
1t is not necessary to go to the theater
to learn whether star is good actor or
not. If he acts and poses when off the
stage save your money, or.he is not worth
seeing.
Lydia Thompson reached theiage OF dis
erection four decades since, but not until
lately has she worn long clothes. She is
playing leading parts in society dramas in
| London.
Wilkie Collins has completed new play
| not dramatization of one of his novels,
but new story, presenting new characters
and is trying to find an actress who can
act " to create the principal part.
John 7. Raymond is matching, at New
| Orleans, after his 81 200 houses. He calls
"heads or tails" by telegraph with his
| friends in various parts of the country.
Bat the best match he ever made was at
the Continental Hotel, philadelphia. about
| year ago.
Days 'Divorce has at last been pro.
duced at Edinburgh by Linda D.etz. The
critics condemn it as crude and the dia-
| logue as weak. The reason it has not been
played in England before is because An
thony Trollope holds the copyright of his
novels, and /" He Knew He Was Right"
Bernhard while here lost no opportunity
of praising the American women, but ROW
that she is far away with no possibility of
returning. she says they have not good
taste. That may be, Sally, but they have
enough good taste to get husband before
embarking in the business Of raising
family.
A Boston correspondent writes that he
has abandoned going to the theater alto
gether When he wants an evenings en-
joyment he hangs his wife's new rem
brandt" beaver hat on the gas bracket,
sits behind it aud looks at it intently.
would by going to the theater, and saves
the price of ticket.
"The Lady of Lyons is now published
in London for one penny complete, with
stage directions and instructions for cos
tunes. The play was originally issued in
pamphlet form at the price of four shillings
and sixpense, and has, we believe, never
hitherto been sold for less than shilling.
The cause of cheapness is the recent ex-
piration of the copyright.
Augustus Berry, who was to have played
the border ruffian in an amateur theatrical
performance to be given at Bloomingdale,
n. j., killed himself while rehearsing his
part one day recently. After using his
pistol effectively through the different acts
of the play he was to commit suicide.
When the final act came he pulled the
trigger OF his pistol and, the revolver being
loaded, blew off the top of his head.
The London Olympic appears 20 be a
| singularly Inflated theater, both for itself
and for those who take it in hand. II was
| TO have reopened lately under the direction
of Vincent Amcott, who intended to pro-
duce an original play of his own and the
| day was fixed for the rehearsal. The men,
bers of the company waited on the stage
for some time, when it was made known
| that Mr.. Amcott had died suddenly that
morning of disease of the heart, superin-
duced by excitement.
The London Polytechnic has declined
aud fallen; in little while Baker street
| will know Madame Tussaud's no more.
The exhibition is to occupy new premises
in the Marylebone Road What specta-
IL h. H. Al q
! ures, with their faded, sallow compilations,
and their fixed, staring, and very CLASSY
eyes, pass away from Baker street in a
grand procession, Indisn-fie fashion? 1t
should be a moonlight night. The scene
will be rarely impressive.
Wagner is as hard upon the scere. paint.
airs and property.men as upon the singers
and musicians. For his new opera, par
sifal," he has ordered floor of marble,
which must reflect like mirror. els that
impossible :" he asked Brandt, the Berlin
machinist. Nothing is impossible" re-
piled Brandt, and took the contract In
the same opera there is to be garden of
fairy flowers which spring up from the
stage and in few moments fade, shrivel
and die. This is odd but it is not opera
Some theaters are very short. lived. The
new house in Northumberland avenue
London, of which M. Marius was but yes
terday appointed manager, may be now
fairly described as stillborn. This is not
simply the case of an unfinished window
in Aladdin's tower" remaining unfinished.
The incomplete edifce, before an audience
has been assembled within its walls. or
even rehearsal held upon its stage, is to
undergo demolition. The site of the Ave
nue. Theater is peremptorily required for
the extension of the Southeastern Railway
at Charing Cross.
An American gentleman, who has just
returned from Europe, while In Baireuth
called on List, who was visiting Wagner,
and expressed his regrets before leaving
that he had never had the opportunity of
hearing the great master play. Liszt re-
piled that for the past fifteen years he had
been an invalid, but in his prime, when he
thought he could play, the critics called
him "a FOUNDER and hammer smasher,
and now that he had retired and could no
longer play, these same critics said
"Have you heard Liszt?" "No!"
"Then you have never heard any piano
playing
The theater lately burned down at
DOOOhuOiiii 10 aSScitSu, IhouSu oPchSu
in 1882, to have been the Oldest in Eu-
rope. 1t was there that Gustavus Ill
was assassinated by Count Ankarstrom at
masked ball. His fellow-cons pirators
raised cry of fire, with view to his
escape in the confusion But the au-
thorities locked the doors, and everyone
had to sign before quitting the house.
Ankarstrom signed and left, apparently
with light heart. A knife of peculiar
make, identified as his by cutler, led to
his guilt being discovered.
There is talk of a new operate star.
Madame de Morton, once distinguished
member of London society, has determined
to go on the operate stage. Three years
ago she married very rich man, with
| houses in London, Paris and Rome. He
died lately and left her penniless. She
has fine voice and a grand presence, and
against the wishes of all her friends she
| has determined to become one of the queens
of song In Paris she has been winning
golden opinions for her singing in private;
her salon is crowded. Next season she
goes to London to try her fate, and, later
on, has promised to visit this country. If
the reports of her wonderful talents which
reach us are correct, the established favor.