Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-01
MUSIC AND DRAMA.

AuItIICd ttliS DlOlitH.
Nine Janisch is said to have the finest
stage diamonds in existence. They are
paste.
Sarah Bernhardt says whatever may be
her sins, she has never denied her ag9-43
in October.
Nine. Schroeder and Herr Schott are to
appear in opera at New York during the
coming season.
The latest American addition to the Eng
lish stage, Marie Jansen, continues to meet
with fiattering success.
f. f. Locke, the well-Nnown comedian,
is engaging company to take the road
early in November in Inshavogue."
Bi-centennial celebrations in honor Of
Sebastian Bach and Handel will be held
in Europe next February and March
Miss Annie Louise Cary was recently
offered $1,000 to sing in single concert in
Boston, but she would not consent to
appear.
Ellen Terry's salary per week during her
American tour with Henry Irving will be
81, $50. Her pay in London was only $3377 )
per week.
Patti, it is said, proposes to celebrate her
twenty-tifth operate anniversary in No
yember by singing in New York Her
debut was made in that city November p,
1859.
The magnificent organ in the Cathedral
at Garden City, Long Island, has 7,03l
pipes, and 115 sounding stops, and is be-
lieved to be the third largest organ in the
world.
Earnest Lewenberg, pupil of Roben-
stein, and one of the brightest stars in the
musical world of Vienna, recently died
from the effects of severe cold which
settled on his lungs, at the age of only IS
years.
The Sacred Harmonic Society in London
propose to give, during the winter, works
of Handel, Bach, Mendelsshon, and among
compositions of the present day the Rose
of Sharon" by Mackenzie. The introduce
ton of classical music at the promenade
concerts in London is said to be quite sue
cessful.
All ladies that wear the cowboy hat to
the theaters this season ought to be charged
for two seats-the one she occupies and
the one at her back that she obscures. 1t
would be blessing If they were to remove
their head-gear entirely, as the poor down
trotten males are compelled to do
[ Freund's Weekly.
Adelna Patti boldly began an aggres-
sivc campaign against those aw-breaking
Welsh towns by appearing at n concert in
Liangwiddy -bangchochiddydab wearing Il
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giganteum odontoglossum roczhi, new
yellow onedium and the sweet-sccnted
pilumna fragans lallygagin.-[ Critic.
An exchange SAYS: "The largest organ
in the world has just been completed by
Walck, of Ludwigsburg, and placed i'll the
cathedral church Of Riga. The instrument
measures thirty-six feet in width, thirty
two feet from back to front, and sixty-tive
feet high. 1t contains 6,S26 pipes, distrib-
uted among ia sounding stops"
The papers at the East are having Il
serious time in irving to grasp in an artistic
way the name Of the musical artist Made
moiselle Georgine Won .Januschowsl.y.
There is nothing at ail difficult about its
pronunciation, but somehow these news
paper choppers down East" don't seem;to
get the thread of the whyality of the
whichness.
Ienatius Donnelly, it is announced, will
shortly publish a book which will startle
tho who are interested in the controversy
regarding the authorship OF . Shakespeare"
1t is said he has found in the works of Sir
Francis Bacon cipher, which, if applied
to Shakespeare's plays, proves beyond
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friends Weekly.
= Rubenstein's opera of the g Demon" has
exceeded its one-hundredth representation
in ST. Petersburg, and in Berlin the COM
poser will shortly conduct ii person the
performance Of Nero" Verdi will do rs
much for the Parisians in conducting tbs.
opera of aida " at the ItaiienS next win
ter The inspiration Of the great composers
baton seems vastly communicative when he
waves it violently over the heads of the
singers, imbuiag them with new life and a
thrill Of his own magnetic presence.
TIE Fow, referring to the Italian opera
troupe recently on this coast and which
appeared in New York on the 2lSt instant,
said in advance of the opening in that
city: The list Of Italian names which
compose this troupe is to the public gen
orally net indicative of superiority of any
sort or the reverse. The Endorsement of
California, which is one of the certificates
of excellence offered to New Workers, is
only half reas,suring." The only wonder
is that the stiltcd " New Workers" would
even mention the Endorsement of Califor-
MIA. Verify, there is yet hope that the
music-dudcs and sharps of New York and
Boston will in due time become aware of
the fact that goodly portion of the Pa
cilic coas; has passed out of the hands of
Spanish musicians and the native Ameri-
cans, and that the foreign missionary work
for the suppression Of cannibalism and
other tracts Of Fiji sayasory on our Pa
ciGc frontier" has already taken a strong
hold upon the manners and customs Of the
benishted people Of California, and which
fact should be half reassurins" to them
that the prospects of our soon being able
TO distinguish an Italian opera from FIJI
dance. is really good.