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New York Academy of Music is to be painted
"a light blue with a cloud design, go as to rep
resent the sky, with the chandelier as it's
lumlnary.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg and her concert
company have reached Winnipeg, whence they
intend to proceed TO Washington Territo,y
and British Columbia.
Signor Perupini recently sang before the
Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlbor-
ough House. He will arrive in New York
early in October, having been engaged by
Rudolph ArOnson to assume the principal
tenor role in the opera comique "Pfngsten in
Florenz."
A paper piano has been manufactured at
Paris. The material for the case was COM
pressed and took a perfect pol sh. and the
tone of the instrument, though not loud. was
very sweet-a soft, full, quasi. continuous
sound, resembling somewhat that of the
organ.
The new Paris opera houIe has fallen into
disfavor. The corridors are dark and low.
the salon ia too far Fl ON the boxes to be con.
ven'ently used as o promenade, the facilities
for isplsylng toilets arc bad and the acoustic
qualities are miserable. Nothing except the
grand staircase seems to bs considered tolera-
It is said that the two Wild West shows of
Buffalo Bill and DR.. Carer will shortly meet
aud have a real fight, in which Buffalo Bills
Indians will putsue DR.. Carver's stage coach
and DIR. Carver's cowboys will lasso Buffalo
Bills greasers. Feeling between the two
shows is high.
Mary Auderf On's tour throughout the Eng
lish provinces was very unsatisfactory, the
businefs she did havir G been exceedingly fee
BILE. The shops are still filled with her pic
lures, and she is to te eeen in all the favorIte
attitudes in nearly every prominent window
from Regent street to Charing Gross.
Great thirgs are said of Mile. Fierenp, q
native of Flanders, who has carried eff the
first prize in the singing competition at the
years old; has a Roman profile and blonde
hair. Her voice is compared by an enthusi-
astic admirer to that of Pauline Viardot.
Miss Emma Thursby is on the point of re
appearing in the concert room. She will de-
part upon a concert tour, commsDclng IN st,
John, New Brunswick, in early September,
andin due couIseis to be heard no nearer home
than the British provinces. Miss Thursby
has placed herself under the guidance Of Mr.,
Max Strakosch.
To be a leading actress, rs the phrase now
goep, is not ouly to be familiar with the priu.
cipal female roles of great plays, and to be
able to give the lines their full and true mean
ing; 1t implies also the pOsst ssion of q costly
wardrobe, the maintaining Of an establish
ment more os less elegant, q wide acqlaln-
lance with leading managers, critics and pre-
fessIonal people generally, and q suave and
agreeable manner by which all there thipgs
may be rendered available.
Patti holds her own among the people of
London. Upon q recent appearance as
Margherita in Faust the st. James said of
her: There is no other character In the whole
operate report ry which has been filled by
singers If such diverse gifts and requirements
as Tltiens and Nilsson Patti, LUcca and
Albani. III now it be asked which of the in.
Vulnerable Margheritai who have appeared
on the operate stages of London must be re
garded as the best, most pers MS will certainly
reply, Nine, Adelina Patti; while il any
question were to be raised as to who is the
most perfect Ma gheIits at the present mo-
ment, the dame of Patti would be pronounced
without one dissentient voice. S Q sings the
Jewel song, with its appropri lily dazzling
ornamentatlon, rs b illiantly as ever, and the
scene OF the prison with more dramatic force
than ever since, come twenty years ago, she
first assumed the part. Nine. Patti has lost
nothing and has gained much Even as a
singer che has improved; not, indeed, in the
art of vocalization, for that was impossible;
but as regards her voice, which is richer and
more capable of expressing emotion than In
former days, when it's lightness and bright
moss were it's most noteworthy characterization