Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-14
BEHIND THE SCENES.
THE RBGoRp~UNIoN's EPIroME OF
THINGS DRAMATIC.
Musical and Personal to Actors, writers.
Singers and Composers-
News Of ithe Stage.

Char les Reade is writing drama.
Patience has completed its first year
in London.
| A school of dramatic art is to be formed
in London.
Al. Holman, of the Holman Opera
Troupe, is dead.
Barton Hill, the actor, has written
poem on Longfellow.
Henry James, Jr., has turned his atten-
tion to writing plays.
Blind Tom is again on concert tour
in the United States.
M. Delauny, of the Theater Francois,
is about to retire from the stage.
Lawrence Barrett has abandoned the idea
OF coming to San Francisco this season.
Minnie Hauk comes to the United States
next season with new opera company.
A Club modelled after the Garrick Club,
has been formed in Paris by prominent
actors.
Clay NJ. Greene and Alfred Cellier are
to be the ''Gilbert" and "Sullivan OF
new comic opera
Theresa Singer has been singing in
Palermo. She is engaged for next winter
at st. Petersburg.
In Paris the immortal Nozze de Figaro"
has had new triumph. 1t was first pro-
duced May l, 1856.
How old must Madam Anna Bishop be :?
And yet she is giving concerts at the East.
She gave her first concert in 1885,
w. G. Wills has completed for Mr..
Irving q play founded on Faust" in
which Mr.. Irving will play Mephisto.
Miss Helen Dungeon will probably sup
port Mile. Nillson in grand opera next sea-
son, if the latter comes to this country.
Music and Drama, the new and excel.
lent dramatic and music journal, publishes
fine portrait of William Warren, Bos-
toms famous comedian.
Ernest Harvier, speaking Of play.writing,
well says: "One woman placed anywhere
can make trouble enough for drama, but
it takes two for tragedy"
J. ii. Haverly returns to New York on
the second week in August. He will make
the Fourteenth-street Theater, New York,
his permanent headquarters.
Joseph Bradford, author Of Our Bache
lors," played by Crane and Robson, has,
with valuable literary assistance" writ
ten play for Gus Williams.
J. M. Hill has determined to produce the
"House of Mauprat in the autumn.
Chicago is the place selected, and Barton
Hill among the company engaged.
"Save One Little Kiss for Papa is the
title of the latest song. II this remark is
aimed at girl with four steady beaux, the
old mans chances are pretty slim.
Catherine Lewis is going to Sweden.
| IL Ill
caught fire, but she extinguished the flame,
and burnt her hand in consequence.
Mr.. Conway, of the London Haymarket,
is described as being decidedly the hand
soonest actor on the English-speaking stage.
His profile has pure Greek outline.
w. j. Florence has not abandoned his
diplomatic aspirations has merely post
poned them. In company with Mrs. Flor.
ence he waited on President Arthur re-
Gently.
Anton Rubinstein is at present in Ger.
many, experimenting the production in
| different towns CT his last symphony lin G
minor), which is to be played in Boston
next October.
Anna Dickinson will not go to Europe,
although her passage was taken some
months ago. Sne will remain in this couu.
try, playing Hamlet, and will next sea-
son essay Othello."
A parody of Faust " was produced re.
Gently at the Vienna Carl-Theater, under
the title of "Mefeles, oder Margaret
und Faustling." The music is from the
pen of Herr Julius Hcpp.
Miss Julia Gaylord has left the Carl Rosa
troupe. She goes to the south OF Europe
for the benefit of her health and then re-
turns to this country. Miss Packard and
Miss Yorke have also withdrawn.
The Paris concert season, musically
speaking, of great interest, has been inan-
cially failure. The only impressario who
has not lost money heavily is, we under
stand, NJ. Colonne, OF the Chatelet.
A three.act comedy by NJ. Lefebvre. en-
titled Monsieur lie President" is in re-
hearsal at Brussels Gil-Naza will Create"
the principal part Immediately after the
eccentric actor starts for Jerusalem.
Henry Irving has published in London
his play-book of "Romeo and Juliet" 1t
restores the prologue, uses the preliminary
episode Of Roraline, and concludes with
Shakespeares ending of the tragedy.
Anyone reviewing the condition Of the
American theaters to-day, cannot fail to
be impressed with the fact that the He
brew population occupy more than apromi-
nent relation to the public amusements OF
the age.
The Dramatic Magazine Company has
entered upon the second series of the publi-
cation OF the Dramatic Magazine, New
York, Lisle Lester, editor 1t is q very
handsome, newsy and spirited illustrated
monthly publication.
/ In commemoration OF the second cente.
nary of the Theatre Francais all the socie-
taires OF that renowned and classic house
| have received bronze medal, on one side
of which are engraved the names OF the
artists who formed the troupe in 1880.
Among the new plays of the season are
Norma Doom" "An American King"
"White Slave "Fogg's Ferry" $50.
lange," Far from the Maddening Crowd"
"a Checkered Life" AFTER the Opera
"Called to Account, and Zone Woman's
| Life"
| Miss Jessie Pinney, an American lady
| who has been studying for two years in
Germany under Liszt, Frau Schumann,
and at the Berlin Hoch Schule, is highly
spoken Of She returns home in the sum
| mer, and will make her New York debut
next season.
! Great disappointment was felt in London
that Wagner could not in person superin.
tend the production Of his "Cyclus" at
Her Majesty's Theater. He wrote that the
work necessitated by the approaching pro-
duction Of g Parsifal" prevented his visit.
| ing England.
Without advocating the rather offensive
doctrine OF woman's rights, sound argu.
mont may be made in favor of tickets
ing IN theaters by ladies. In many Euro
pean theaters ladies act as ushers, and
! there seems to be no serious reason why
they should not sell tickets. ts.-[Dramatic
Magazine.
M. Won Glaser, who lately took Sarah
Bernhardt around Europe, says that he
intends to visit the United States next
autumn with carefully selected troupe
and orchestra, to give a series of Wagner
concerts. The star OF the company will be
Frau Leoni, the prima donna who hiss made
her mark as the exponent of Wagner at
Berlin.
Ms. Langtry seems to be improving,
according to the English critics. at is no
secret" sayr the Figaro, that her histri-
onIc success is due to the assiduous coach
| ing she received from Mrs. Labouchere,
| who as Henrietta Hodson was 80 distin-
! guished an actress" 1t is owing to this
lady's valuable stage experience that the
Jersey Lily has attained anything more
than sueces de curiosite.
! Probably no other man has done 80 much
| TO popularizs the best in music or is so
/ widely known in and out Of musical circles
as DR.. Eben Touriee, founder and director
OF the New England Conservatory of Music
/ He has SO thrown his life and character
into his work, and that work has been and
is to him so infinitely more important than
self, that biography would be less study
OF the man than of the enterprises he has