Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-13
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
GOSSIP GATHERED AT GOTHAM BY
"RosALIND MAY"
Garthorne's Cold Bath-Pretty Pauline
Halls Prattle-Dan Hart's "OId
Yaller Stage Notes.


Halls Prattle-Dan Hart's "oId
Yaller Stage Notes.
Our New York correspondent, Rosalind
May, writes as follows, under date of Octo.
Der 4th: "The average New Yorker cares
little for theatrical entertainments in the
early fall. To pent-up spirits, breath OF
fresh air at the seaside or in the woods,
outrivals anything within four walls, and
the first weeks of the autumn season would
amount to nothing but for strangers who
stop by on their way home from watering
places, or the perennial country merchant
To them, New York theaters are novelties
and they make the most of their time.
Stop-gaps, therefore, have been the rule
with some; with new productions as ex-
ceptional. In this last category, The
Drum Major at the Casino. has t5een uota.
bly, unsuccessful. 1t was unfavofably re-
ceived by the critics, and though consider
ably altered, subsequent patching is a poor
substitute for original merit, and it will
probably be short-lived.
Shenandoah, Bronson Howard's new
play at the Star, has been an enormous
success Though faulty in many respects.
it has so pleased the multitude that hun
dreds have been turned away, and it will
shortly be put on at Proctor's for a long
run.
Cool October witnesses a grand revival.
This week Daly's company re-appeared,
and it is needless to add drew brilliant
house. The old-time favorites were
warmly welcomed and every one prepared
to applaud The Golden Widow an adap-
tation by William DAILY from Sardou.
disappointment, however, sat visibly on
the sea of faces. The effort after comedy
Is for the most part strained, the plot is
meagre, and at the close those present ex-
perienced, what the next days papers en-
phatically announced, that the play
was failure. Mr. DAILY is too competent
manager not TO have something in re-
serve, and the something, an adaptation
from the German, will doubtless bring i'm
provement.
THE Old Homestead ut the Academy
of Music is seen with an enlarged beauty
of scenery, which, from spectacular point
of view alone, must render it a sensation.
1t comes forth fresh as ever, and from pres
ent appearances might continue drawing
indefinitely.
"MR. AND MRS. KENDAL,
Under Frohman's management. are an
nounced at the Fifth-avenue Theater in
A Scrap of Paper and great interest is
manifested in their debut, which will be
one of the seasons events They appear
on the 7th, and three days later Salvini
will be seen at Palmer's, in 'Samson,' a
play written especially for him. WHAT
ever may be the difference of opinion re-
garding this actor, he is certainly to many
a star of the first magnitude, and they are
prepared to worship him. Others in
capable of forming an opinion go to see
him that they may say they have been,
while an intelligent minority, who do not
admire him, attend that they may criticise.
Thus, IN consequence, he draws good
houses; is a safe card in a managers
hands, and may be reckoned upon for a
sensation. The new play, also, will come
in for large share of attention, and his
impersonation of the biblical hero will
prove an edifying study. Sensational
effects are not ignored, and at given mo
ment a scenic temple will be made to fall,
apparently by an effort of strength as in
blindness he leans against pillar.
''ln quite opposite style, the one and
only Dixey will make a bid for popular
favor at the Standard, on the 9TH, in new
play called The Seven Ages Owing per-
haps to these interesting events, the COM
ing of Booth and Modieska is DELAYED
until the l4th, when they will succeed a
summer long Oolah at the Broadway The
ater. Artistic triumphs, as matter of
course, await them, and familiar master
pieces as interpreted by them will take On
new luster.
Musical performances are also inaugu-
rated next week by 4 Festival of Song at
the Metropolitan Opera House, under the
auspices of the Arion Society The princi-
pal soloists will be Emma Juch, Emil
Fischer and Josetiy, but as the striking
feature of the occasion NAV be mentioned
concerted singing by societies from Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, Buffalo, Newark and
Brooklyn, all told numbering $50 voices
They are TO be supported by an orchestra
of eighty pieces and all under the leader
ship of Van Der Stueken."
GARTHoRNE's COLD BATH.
Charles Garthorne, the English comedi-
an who came from London to play the part
of Captain Lucy in Kate Claxton's produc-
ton of 'Bootles' Baby at the Madison
Square Theater last month, is very proud
nf hnS CHI i l., u
it one cool day few weeks ago up at
Larchmont, where Charles A. Stevenson
and Kate Claxon live during the summer.
much to the amusement of a num-
Der of people who saw the exhi-
bition. Garthorne carries rooster
about with him in the third act of the
piece, and of this bird he is particularly
fond, having had him as companion dur
ing the long run of "Bootles' Baby" in
England. He ran up to Larchmont one
day, and when he arrived at Stevenson's
villa he was surprised to see a group of
children chasing rooster over the lawn.
He thought the bird looked like his pet,
and Miss Claxton said it was the same
rooster; that she had sent the stable boy
for him in the morning in order to amuse
the young people.
During the afternoon the party went
sailing on the sound. Garthorne put his
pet into a basket for safe keeping, and
similar basket was filled with sandwiches
to be set aboard the yacht. During the
sail Garthorne became hungry and opened
the lunch hamper. To his surprise a
rooster flew out and foundered overheard.
1t was the wrong basket.
" Great Scottp yelled the comedian,
" cawn't let him drown, don't you know?
Why that bird played with me for three
hundred nights in the old country"
Then swim fer him." suggested Steven
son. This is fine opportunity to show
your ability"
Garthorne, throwing off his coat and
shoes, plunged into the cold water, and five
minutes later the comedian and the rooster
were hauled aboard in very unenviable
condition. The sail was ended and the
party returned home, Garthorne shivering
until his teeth chartered. As they landed
the stable boy appeared and said, apollo
getically:
"Pm awful sorry, Mr. Stevenson, but l
missed the train 10 the city this morning
and did not so to the theater for the
rooster"
Do you mean to say" gasped Gar
thorne - tbis ic MT tba r.oostar which xya