Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-18

81 She never sang or looked so fair,
The people whispered low;
But the real tale of the woman there
Nobody cared to know.
The circus crowd was gay and glad,
Aud loud the whirling ring
Huzzai the rider rode liz mad,
as jocund as q king
Huzza to watch him laugh and leap
They cheered him high and low
But the tears that lay in mis- bosom deep
Nobody cared 10 know.
And we all are players for our day,
On the stage of life We fare,
Each with his little part TO play,
Each with his mask to wear,
And what is real It's vain to ask,
And what is only show;
For what lies hidden behind the mask
Only ourselves may know.
In one week, not long ago. seventy-one
concerts were given in London, of which
eighteen took place on the same evening.
a London paper states that MIR. Maple
son is preparing an enormous American
campaign and a gigantic season for Lon
don.
Fred. Leslie has ended his engagement
at the Comedy Theater, London, after
playing Grip Van Wrinkle" for over 200
nights.
Edmund Yates has dramatized his own
novel, . Broken to Harness." and Kate
Vaughn, the Gaiety dancer, is starring in
it through the English provinces.
Frau Sophie Menter has been elected an
honorary member of the London Philhar-
monte Society. This is the first time this
honor has been bestowed on a woman.
Julia Vaughn, a talented actress, who
was married off the stage few years ago,
has been granted divorce by the New
York Courts, and will now resume the
profession.
Irving viii bring 20 persons to America
with him. These 20 persons include the
actors and actresses, musical director, stage
director, costumer, property man, and Cap
tain of the supers.
Breitkopf & Hartel have Issued the third
edition of Schumann's complete writings
on emusic and Musicians which have
also been we'll translated into English by
Mrs. Ritter, of Poughkeepsie.
The receipts of the first four perform
ances of ParsifaI" at Bayreuth this sum-
mer amounted to 1900 marks, or over
81. 900 night. The total result is not yet
known, but is said to be satisfactory.
The Paris MenestreE states that King
Ludwig, of Bavaria, has dispatched several
architects to Bayreuth in order to ascertain
whether Wagner's theater could not be
transferred to Munich and rebuilt there
Carl Engel, in his History of the Vio-
lin Family" calls attention to the fact
that our present instruments have re-
manned unaltered in construction and out
ward appearance during period Of nearly
400 years.
The ambition of modern French com.
posers, according to the Gegenacart, is to
unite in one work the simplicity of the
older style of melody with the glitter OF
italian ford music, the realism of the
modern recitative, and the grand instru-
mentation of Berlioz and Wagner.
The Vienna Conservatory is making ar
rangements for great Mozart festival for
next autumn. Many great artists will CO.
operate, among them Rubenstein. The
guests will be brought in special trains
from all the large cities. The proceeds are
TO be devoted to the projected Mozart
monument
A writer in the Contemporary ReUiea0
states that in Paris sit is more difficult
for musician to find an opening in the
theater than in the concert room, and
especially at the Grand Opera, which, in
consequence of the excessive luxury of It's
arrangements and the deplorable character
of its public-composed chiefly of passing
strangers and of fashionable subscribers
who know and care nothing about arts
absolutely incapable of progress or ini-
tiative."
Bernhardt has changed all her original
business in Fedora" SO as to escape COM
psrison with Mrs. Bernard Beere, who
was accused of initiating her. This will
make it necessary for Fanny Davenport to
restudy the part. It is rumored that
either Clara Morris or Agnes Booth will
play version of Fedora at the Fifth
Avenue. This will be hard upon Miss
Davenport, who has paid Sardou for the
play, and ought to be allowed to enjoy it
exclusively.
The London Referee records the visit to
Cambria geport, Massachusetts, of William
Calder, an American star, who, it seems,
has been touring the British provinces for
five years. II says: "Mr. Calder has
played "Trip Van Wrinkle" amongst us
more than thousand times, and the best
compliment we can pay him-and it is a
deserved one-is to say that in point of
humor and pathos there is not much to
choose between his rendering of the char
acter and that of Joseph Jefferson"
The most racy and effective parts in the
popular eye of the early period were per.
haps those of the stage demons, to whom
the utmost license, both of costume and
antics, appears to have been conceded, and
whose presence was felt not only on the
stage, but in various practical jokes on one
another or the audience. In an older mys-
stery stage direction bids them "clatter
their cauldrons and stewpans. One may
suppose how the hair of the audience would
stand on end at the sound, and may con.
lecture what a very different set of nerves
it would tickle now. Stage demons with
horns and scaly tails used to appear within
living memory in the last scene of "Don
Giovanni" and ministers of retribution,
but have lately been dropped in order To
keep the ridiculous at respectable dis.
tgnoe As reliefs to the public mind from
the overstrsin of these terrors, comedy and
farce found their fitting place, and flour.
ished as reagents to the terror and pity OF
the " Passion Play. 1.-THE Edinburgh Re-
view.