Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Notes of Plays and Those
Who Present Them.
GOSSIP OF THE MIMIC WORLD.
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y NJ. Hill q new Btar Is OlaQ1B URINE,
aged 25. She does tragedy better than
Margaret Mather.
A course of study in dramatic art has
been introduced at the University in Ann
Arbor. Bronson Howard praises it.
Lawrence Barrett will return from Ger
many September 1, to begin the rehears-
ais OF Ganel0n. Mr.. Booth will spend
the whole summer at Narragansett Pier.
Frederick Warde, the tragedian, is
negotiating for New York theater in
which to begin his season each fall with
an important Shakespearean production.
The Journal des Dcbats intimates that
Gounod, as we'll as Massenet, is con-
templating tour of this country in
search OF American dollars. Massenet,
Partisan gossips believe, is to receive
1000 for his services.
The dramatic season of 1889 80 will
find four conspicuous manufactured act
resses, all Americans, on the stage of
this country. There are Mrs. James G.
Blaine, Jr., Mrs. James Brown Potter,
Mrs. Leslie Garter, and Mrs. Adelaide
Moore.-IChat Noir.
Adatbert Goldschmidt, who is already
known as composer OF an oratorio en-
titled ''The Seven Deadly Sins," is COM
pleting a trilogy of vast proportions,
which will be called Gaa. Each part
will consist Of three acts and will occupy
three whole evenings in performance.
Christine Nilsson may never sing in
public again. During a recent illness in
Paris she was troubled with deafness and
loss Of memory, from which she has not
yet recovered. The furniture of her
house in London has been moved to
Paris, where she and her husband will
in future make their residence.
Sig. Arditi is indeed man of many
engagements. He has been engaged by
Mr.. Abbey as conductor for the Patti
Tamagno tour in America. He has been
engaged, too, for the promenade con-
certs, beginning August 10, for eight
weeks, after which he will have to con-
duct the operatic tour in the provinces,
which will bring him to November 20,
when the Patti -Tamagno company leave
England for America.
The huge organ for the town hall, sgd
ney, has been completed in London. Its
moet remarkable feature is 64-foot stop.
The lowest note of this stop, expressed
in organ builders language as 100000"
is two octaves below the lowest @ on the
pianoforte, and as it gives only eight vi
bratons in a second it can not be per-
ceived at all. Its effect lies wholly in
the extraordinary richness and power of
its upper harmonics, by which it rein
forces notes given by the higher pipes.
The Wyatt Opera Company is prepar-
ing new piece to be presented some
time later in the season. 1t has been
given the title of The Barriers Bride, al
though that was not the name under
which it originally appeared in Paris. 1t
was played for four weeks with great sue
cess at the Tivoli in San Francisco. The
libretto is bright and the music charac-
terstically French, full of catching airs
and brilliant passages. The work will
be thoroughly rehearsed and probably
put on some time after the company re-
turns from it's tour.
According to statistics recently pub
lished by M. Albert Soubies, the most
popular operas with the Parisians during
the last fifteen years have been Mignon
and Carmen. The former has been per-
formed in Paris 453 times since 1874 and
Carmen 376 times. Next to these stands
lie Pre- aur CLercS 1882 times) and Les
Noces de Jednnette (3l8 times Then
after long interval come Richard C9ur
de Lion (227), La File du Regiment (224)
and lie Chalet (206 times). Farther down,
yet still high up in the long list, are
many operas scarcely known in America
at all
The story has travelled west that lot
OF college boys formed stag theater
party in New London the other evening
and completely filed the first three rows
of orchestra chairs. AS soon as the cur
tain went up they all donned Eiffel tower
bonnets, causing total eclipse of the
stage. Some OF the ladies of the audi
ence felt highly indignant, while others
took the matter good-naturedly and sent
word through the usher that If the collie
gians would terminate their little joke
the ladies would consent to remove their
own bonnets. The boys accepted the
compromise and filed out in body after
tho first act to celebrate what they con-
sidered victory for mems rights. Good
for the college boys, this time if never
before.
The famous prima donna, Nine. Patti
Nicolini, knows herself quite well.
Speaking of her successful career she
modestly says: II am not beautiful, but
pass for pretty, that's one; l am toler-
ably graceful, that's two; l am good
dresser, that's three l have way with
me that is piquant, that's four; 1 like
nv public, and that's five, for my public
like me because 1 like them and never
tire of pleasing them; have good
voice, that's six; l know how to sing
well-my way-that's seven; always
know my music, that gives comfort to
the audience and may count as eight; l
act fairly we'll the roles l sing that's
nine; what more could one want in a
singer"
John II. Hewitt, of Baltimore, Md,
was 88 years of age Thursday. He was
born in this city July IL, 1901, and has
lived in Baltimore for sixty years. He
is called 'The Father of the American
ballad" and has composed over 200
songs. When he was 1S years old he
wrote "The Minstrel's Return from the
War" which was very popular. Crock
Me to Sleep, Mother" was another very
successful song of his. He wrote num-
ber of operas, among them The Siege of
Monterey, The Blind A,tist and The Viv-
andiere His most ambitious musical
composition is the oratorio of Jephtha' 3
Daughter. He is poet, essayist, lawyer,
but he was educated for soldier.-[New
York World. t#.=
Inre KtraIfy's COming Spectacle.
The work of Imre Kiralfy in preparing
or the magnificent open-air spectacle,
Nero, or the Fall of Rome, which is to be