Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-11-03
MUSIC, ART AND DRAMA.

A ladies' school for wood carving and
modelling is to be opened in st. Louis.
Mary Anderson's favorite amusement
now is boating on the Thames, and she is
greatly admired in her "killing" boating
costume.
Nine. Minnie Hauk recently received by
cable an offer to appear in twelve perform
ances at the Grand Opera, Rome, in De-
cember. She was compelled to decline,
however, on account of her American con-
cert season.
Before he left for year in France, Wy
att Eaton made a crayon portrait of Mme.
Modjeska, little smaller than life. 1t is
the spirited and admirable likeness of a
face which bafied Csrolus Duran and other
strong painters.
Miss Annie Il. Lord, contralto, has just
returned from Europe, where she has been
pupil for the past three years of Madame
Sainton Dolby. Arrangements have been
perfected for her early appearance in con.
cert under the management of Rock &
Bachert.
Wilhelm has added an orchestral &C.
compartment to his popular romance, and
is at present issuing some other works and
arrangements, among them "In Memoir
lam, dedicated to Vieuxtemps, "Ungher-
euse," based on Liszt's rhapsodies, a pe-
lacca of his own, and an Italian suite after
Paganini.
A Philadelphia bride received among her
wedding presents few days ago dinner
service of hand painted china, two hundred
! -, kloE H.
sips say, 81, 500. 1t took three hand
painters" six months to do the decorative
art business" 1t is to be hoped that the
bride is fully appreciative.
Mrs. Kate Chase, formerly Sprague, is
at Carlsbad, Bohemia. She will winter in
Germany, probably at Munich, and con-
tinue the art studies of her oldest daugh-
ter, Ethel, who inherits her mothers
beauty and the artistic talents of Mrs.
Jessie Chase Hoyt, her aunt, who is one of
the cleverest artists in America in her par.
ticular line, which is sketching for pictorial
journals.
A Vienna correspondent describes o Gu
rious telephone performance he listened to
at the Electric Exhibition A lady singing
at Baden (about twelve miles from Vienns)
was accompanied by man playing the
either at KOrneuburg, about the same dis
tance from Vienna, but on the opposite side
of the Danube. The repetition itself was
very successful, but the peculiar cracking
noise of induction was only too audible,
and greatly interfered with the perform
ance.
Judge Black had one of those tears for
music" that cannot tell one tune from an
other. Once he heard his daughter Becky,
who is fine pianist, play piece that
pleased him and inquired its title. She re-
piled that it was Lucy Neal" and the
Judge ever after declared it to be his fa-
vorite. Whenever Becky would be play
ing for visitors the Judge would say,
"Now, Becky, give us my favorite, Lucy
Neal" and Becky, slyly winking at the
guests, would play "Old Dan Tucker" or
"Old Hundred" As she concluded, the
Judge would tip back in his chair and ex-
/ claim "That's my favorite !" and would
wonder what the people were laughing at.
A writer in the English Magazjne OF
Art sums up this years exhibition in Lon
don That in many ways they have been
a disappointment it would be idle to dis
pute In painting, the one heroic work
they have produced has been Burne Jones
Wheel OF Fortune" and to many of US
that even, for its magisterial qualities, has
seemed unsatisfactory and peculiar. In
| sculpture the honors have been all NJ. Rod
| ms. In landscape the success is Mr.
| Wylie's; in portraiture, in spite of the
brilliant craftsmanship of Mr.. Holl, as of
/ the vulgar and tiresome ambition of Mr..
Herkomer, it is Mr.. Millais'. The record
is not brilliant as yet the roll of fame is
only a trihe fuller than last year. This
winter We may hope for little stir, lit
tie novelty, little enterprise.
The new Lyceum Theater at Edinburgh
has been provided with hydraulic acting
curtain. An exchange speaking of it says
The proscenium opening is over thirty feet
| high by fully twenty-eight feet wide. The
wrought-iron plates, an eighth of an inch
thick, forming a double division, with air
| chambers between of nine inches. The top
of the curtain is riveted to double wrought
| iron girders secured to the head of hydraulic
rams, which are fitted, with their cylin-
ders, on each side of the proscenium open
ing. The supply of water for working the
rams is laid on from the town mains, and
with an expenditure of only eighty.fo
| gallons of water the curtain, which weighs
about six and quarter tons, can be raised
/ or lowered in fifty seconds. The means of
working the, curtain are in the prompter's 8
box, and the prompter, by simply moving
a lever, can drop the curtain, thus form.
ing, with the proscenium wall, solid fire.
proof division of the house, totally separat-
ing the stage from the auditorium, so that
in case of fire an audience would be per-
fectly free from danger.