Omaha daily bee., 1885-11-07
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

w. T. Cartons company have made a great
success in San Francisco in "NanOn."
Dark Days will be produced for the first
time in this country ut the Criterion theatrr,
Brooklyn, on Monday week.
Mrs. Scott Siddons has received some very
tempting offers 10 revisit this country next
season and will, i'll all probability, accept.
Johannes Brahms, Germany's greatest liv-
ing composer OF symphonies at he present
period, has just finished his Fourth Sym
phOny.
London Mccormack, who is appearing this
season in joaquin MiiIer's 80, supported by
a young daughter of Mr.. Miller, is sad to be
meeting with much success in the south.
Miss Stella Rees. the western beauty who
makes her appearance next season in the
Legitimate drama, is a Quakeress, and is said
to be possessed Of unusual accomplishments.
Miss Marie Wainwright, who until recently
was MIR, BarrettS principal actress, has been
engaged as leading lady OF Il stock company
that is to play in New Orleans and a few Of
the large southern cities during the winter,
The New York Tribune says that Nine,
Judic sang the music Of Bcttina in The
Mascot better than it had ever previously
been sung in that city. Her love scenes she
also gives with more tenderness and her per-
SOnal adornment in the second act is more
magnificent.
The first of the Gewandhaus concerts In
Leipzig this season was devoted to the COM
pOSitiOnSOt Carl ReineCke, who celebrated
the twenty-ifth anniversary of his position
as director of this famous institution. He
was also sercnadcd by several military bands
and vocal societies.
List has been lately visiting his pupil
Sophie Menter in her chateau In the RyrOl.
He Will spend the winter III Rome. Next
April he will pay a visit TO London, where
his apostle, Mr.. Walter Bache, will arrange
for a great List festival, at which "St. Eliza
beth and other works Of his will be heard
for the nrst time. Subsequently he will visit
Paris, where a series of LISzt concerts will be
given by COlOnne. Nothing would induce
List to appear now as a public performer;
but the promise Of letting him shine AS a
composer usually 'fetches him." as it does
most artists.
Col. Mapleson is pleased to be facetious in
regard to certain plans of the people at the
other house. AprOpOs the New YORK
Tribune credits him with a good story: Have
you seen the account of what those German
opera fellows. are going TO do?" he chuckled.
They are going to give German opera viii, a
double cast. 1t reminds me of Old e.. Il.
Smith, a well-known London manager, who
had Her Maiesty's one year and managed the
Crem0rne and the AlhamDra besides. He
came to me one day and said: 'MaplcSOn, my
thing must be done. Here the duchess of
Kent is on her dcath-bed and people won't
come to the opera. Now, | have a great idea.
You know ! was the lrSt man to play a pan
tonime with two clowns and two pantalOons,
and so on. Well, look at this model And
he showed me a model of his stage divided
INTO Two t!lefS bS, "a harizOntai, platform: Il
am going said he, to e~lectrify the public.
I'm going to do the "IIOvatOre' with two
complete casts at the same time. On top /
shall have Mario and Grisi on one floor and
Tietjens and Trrbelli on the other. One
orchestra vii he for both and we can divide
the chorus, Tley have TO sing IN time,
haven't they? rhere'll be no difficulty about
that, eh?' ne asked. But the cadenceS, | OBJ.
acted. %, hang the cadences, well leave
them out Well, ] managed to persuade him
10 abandon his idea, but / was reminded of it
by those fellows above there with their double
cast"