Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-28
mUsIc, ART AND DRAMA,

1t is said that J. H. McVicker proposes
to go on the stage again.
The Charlotte Cushman cottage at New
port is occupied by Lawrence Turnure, of
New York.
Spicer says the man for church sexton
Is the man who has no music in his sole.
New Orleans Picsyune.
OF the twenty-six long works produced
at the London Crystal Palace concerts last
season nine were by English composers.
Baltimore will soon have another pri-
vate art gallery besides that Of Mr.. Wal
tiers. lis being built for John 7. Carrot.
Americans who have paintings on the
line in the Salon this year comprise Bridg-
man, Sargent, Pearce, Knight, Ogden
Wood and Alexandria Harrison.
a bust of Dr. J. NJ. Toner, of Washing.
ton, is to be made by j. Q. Ward for the
Congressional Library, in honor of the gift
from him of large and valuable collection
of medical books.
Owing to a surfeit of musical entertain
ments (inclnding the Handel Festival), the
Cologne Male Chorus did not succeed in
drawing large audiences at their recent
concerts in London.
A one-armed pianist has been playing
out West lately. He has lost his left arm
and, though he played many false notes,
the critics had to admit that his musical
work was all fright"
The number of theater.fires is continu.
ally increasing. Sixty-nine occurred be-
tween 1851 and 1860: ninety-nine occurred
between 1861 and 1870 and ISL occurred
between 1871 and 1880.
Emil Scaris, of Vienna, the greatest liv-
ing bass singer, has been recently delight
ing the Berliners at Kroll's Theater. He
IL now in Bsyreuth, singing the part of
G}afnemanz in Parsifal."
The preacher actually startled the sexton
into opening the windows, when he told
him that the air was so bad in the close
church that it put the organ out of tune
using it to blow with Exchange.
Ignaz Brull's latest opera, Konigin Ma
riette, has been produced in Munich. 1t
Is considered inferior to his "Goldenes
Kreuz," which for time was quite popu.
lar, although it is himsy and unoriginal
work.
The prize offered by the Prague Concor-
dis for the best essay on "Wagners Be-
deutung fur die Rationale Kunst" has been
adjudged to Ludwig Nohl, of Heidelberg.
the biographer of Mozart and editor of Bee
thovens letters.
The Washington Art Club has elected as
officers for the year w. W. Corcoran, donor
of the Coreoran Hall, for President, J. NJ.
March for Secretary, and Andrews, Kauff'
man, Miller and Weyl, and Mrs. Hoxie for
Executive Committee.
Rossini one day received visit from an
unknown person, who said to him q" am
the author Of the Funeral March of Mey.
erbeer" g l should have preferred to
have Meyerbeer make your funeral march, u
replied Rossini. Il Exchange.
E. J. Miles, of dramatic festival fame,
will have negro jubilee in Cincinnati next
March. He will unite all the larger banda
OF minstrels. Thatcher, Primrose and
Vests, Barlow and Wilson's, Csllender's,
the Mastodons, and two or three others,
all together in one great mass.
There will be a second exhibition of art.
lists sketches and studies st the American
Galleries next October under the auspices
of the American Art Association. From
one to three examples of medium size viii
be accepesd from each artist, the frames to
be of narrow oak mofding, not gold.
Dutuit, of Rouen, celebrated collector
of line prints, has just paid S37, $50 for a
proof of Rembrandt's portrait of Petrus
van Toll. Sold before for Sc, 600, this print
was started at the recent sale at 81, 500
and before NJ. Dutuit could secure it il
rose to the unprecedented figure reported.
Manager Ambsrg of the Thalia Theatel
has been in Berlin lately and secured Mil
lockers Beggar Student, which is to be
his first novelty next season. Geistinger
viii return, but otherwise Mr.. Amberg will
avoid stars and endeavor to secure a per,
feet ensemble. With this view he has Sc
cured several members of the former Ger.
mania Theater.
While the great operate war is raging al
to who shall produce "Lucia" and "Tro,
vatore" N the 'grandest style" in New Y orB
next season, it is tsntalizing to read that
the Psrisians have during the last three
months heard twenty live performances o.
Saint-Ssen's new opera, " Henri VIII,
and paid 425, 900 francs, or Il, 900 francs
per night, for the privilege Of hearing it.
Concerning the exhibition of the Society
OF American Artists now being shown il
Boston at the museum, the Journal of tina
city says that on the whole it is the mos
interesting and satisfactory gathering o
pictures by American painters that has We
been brought together. "There is NOR
sincerity and thoughtfulness and less ex
pertinent and vagary in the collection thai
in any of its predecessors, The genera
tone is high.
Elelka Berry, the Hungarian actress VIII
had Just come to America from the Impe
rial Theater, St. Petersburg, is very tall
slender and graceful, with feminine gen
tleness and charm incompatible with th
idea of trained athlete. And yet to swim
six or eight miles is with her pastime
She walks at least ten miles day, swing
clubs, plays with fifty pound dumb-bell
and fences and boxes with skill and effect