Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-01
ART, MUSIC AND DRAMA.

Mary Anderson's receipts in London are
nearly $40 per week for the house.
"Young Mrs. Winthrop" in its second
week at Philadelphia drew SIS $40 receipts.
Boston has Turkish artist in the per-
son OF c, Ekzergisn, who paints portraits
and genre pictures in oils.
The continued success of " Hazel Kirke "
has warranted the Madison Square man.
agement to book the play for the season
of 1884 So.
Edwin Booths recent engagement in
Boston was the largest ever known in the
Globe Thester; the receipts are over
81. 600 nightly.
The Art Interchange proposes to begin
the issue OF colored plates in addition TO
the usual extra sheet of designs for plaques
and other decorative work.
Antwerp's painter who uses his feet only
is certain NJ. Felu, said to be pupil of
Van Lerius. He signs his pictures, and
adds to his name Cum pedibus pia9:t
Tennyson, the poet, members of the
royal family, the Prime Minister of En-
gland, and other dignitaries were present
on the night of the opening of "Esmer.
aida in London.
The beautiful valley of the Wissahickon,
which forms a continuation of Philadel.
phias park, has a large marble statue of
William Penn, given by John Walsh. The
pedestal bears in mig letters the word "Tol-
Grafton"
A statue OF De Blanc, the inventor of
the manufacture OF soda, is about to be
erected in Issoudundun, his native place
1t is the old story. The world refused
him bread while living; now it gives him
a monument.
Miss Anna De Witt Reed, of New York,
James Reed, of the revolution, for the
State of New Hampshire. 1t will be
placed in Representatives. Hall with the
pictures of other Generals from that State.
They have imported into Chicago an ex-
pert New York usher to do the claque
business. He can run through gamut of
applause by deity molding his hands and
shifting the place of the blow while stimuli
taneously knocking together a. the side of
mis- knees Avalanche.
Dion Boucicault's daughter, who recent.
ly ran away with her husbands partner,
has returned to London. Her paramour,
according to reliable report, first stole her
money and jewels and tnen deserted her in
the most heartless way. 1t Ia believed
that he escaped to Spain. Mrs. Clayton is
now undergoing a purgatorial period ii
London under the supervision OF her hus-
band, who has resumed her support, but
who refuses for the present to let her see
their children or himself Il Exchange.
Clara Louise Kellogg did not think much
of the royalty out OF employment to
be seen at the European watering places.
81 couldn't for the life of me help looking
at them as so many servants looking for
work" she says irreverently. The ex-
Queen Of Naples. sister to the Empress OF
Austria, is tall, lank, ugly-looking crea-
tuIe, who carried fan whether It was hot
or cold wet or dry. She never spoke to
any of the guests at Houlgate, but every
afternoon after dinner went down to the
beach to chat with the bathing house at.
tendants.
A New York critic describes an operate
prima donna as follows The prima
donna of this occasion was Miss Amy
Gordon, a creature of infinite adiposity,
whose voice still retains much of It's youth
full freshness. Fat women do not, as a
rule, look well in male attire, and Miss
Gordon is so fat that the flesh rolls up in
ridges Just above her knees, conveying a
plain suggestion of gsrters. 1t seems TO
| be the peculiar necessity of fleshy prima
donnas to become ponderously kittenish in
ratio to their advancing years. Miss Cor
don has the sportive grace Of walrus."
D. G. French, of Concord, is at work on
a second group for the front of the Boston
postoffice. The figures are fifteen feet
sented by a young man seated, with ham,
mer in one hand and his other arm rest
| ing on an anvil. On his left Depend
ence is represented by a mother who
clasps naked child to her breast. On his
right Fine Arts" is shown as a young
woman standing with a vase against her
thigh. The first group OF . Science Con-
trolling ELECTRICITY and Steam, consists OF
a masronly woman (SCisnce) holding a mag.
net, slender youth, near a globe (Elec.
| tricity) aud man who kneels, chained to
wheel (Steaml.
1t hal often been observed that some Of
these very great tragediaus can never for.
get the "shop" as regards tone and style,
which possibly may arise from long habit,
so that theatrical mannerisms and language
would constantly be introduced into the
commonist matters Of everyday prosy life.
In illustration of this my aunt used to re-
late the following anecdote of Mrs. Sid.
dons One day, while seated in a we'll.
known Diapers in Bond street, busily en-,
gagged with her purchases, my auut-as
! they say in the old ballads" suddenly
became aware of voice of extraordinary
tone and pathos. The speaker was lady
! seated close behind, and with her back
turned to my aunt. With the genuine in
tonation and slow utterance of the deepest
tragedy, the customer demanded of the
bewildered shopman Will-this-gown
-war-sh ?" and on being answered in the
affirmative, and that the color was fast,
rejoined with still greater solemnity, 1.-THE
color, then, fadeth not ? All! It's well. y
80, o." thought my aunt, " the queen OF
tragedy alive !" In moment they were
shaking hands and exchanging greetings,
and in another discussing the respective
merits OF cottons and prints, of which Mrs.
Siddons showed herself keen judge, when
she could lay aside-which was rare in
deed-her dramatic affectation. L London