Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-29
years as the husband of George Drew, but
III be hanged if | will be known in New
York as the brother-in-law of anybodyr'
"LISrEN TO MY TALE OF woEn

| IL oe nanSeu IL Will be known IN New
York as the brother-in-law of anybodyp
! LISTEN TO MY TALE OF WOE"
The Washington Post has the following
about the popular song which Charlie
Reed and Miss Yohe sang at the metropo-
| lis short time ago:
There is something strangely fascinating
about the jingle of the fastest popular song.
Listen TO My Tale of Woe" Nobody, we
believe, has accused it of being music;
everybody says it is frivolous; musicians
turn up their noses at it and-hum it. OF
| course there is a reason for this, but we do
| not think the accomplished critic of
| the esteemed Capital set that reason forth
when he said of the song that dts sole
merit is in the clever words, which are
liked IN the memory by very ordinary
musical jingle" This must have been a
| slip OF the pen. The jingle is not ordinary.
Its very reason for existence lies in the
fact that 1t is not ordinary; and the proof
| OF this will come when, after it has been
whistled and footed and sung and PLAYED
until 1t is ordinary, it dies. Nor do we
think, with our friend of 'The Capital"
that the sole merit of the song is in the
| clever words. 1t seems to us the one is to
poetry what the other is to music; and
chANAN NiC llliElt CdLCllGS ana IaSClnateS
many minds that never heard the words.
When Theodore Thomas orchestra PLAYS it
| one does not have to have the words
before him to get pleasure from it. The
music has 4 merit of its own-the merit of
being catchy and nonsensical-and the
words have nothing more. Surely this
much may be said in gravity of the song
which is to-day more widely popular than
any other has been in at least ten or fifteen
years; Of words which for ten years went
round and round and round again, before
they were set to music; of music which is
played, as we are credibly informed, in
Hammertest, Norway, and In Valparaiso,
Chile, In Florence, Italy, and in Hong
Kong, China, where the words were never
heard.
FooTMGHT FLASHES.
Blanche Marsden is seriously indis-
posed.
"The Spiders Web" has made fair
success at Philadelphia.
E. B. PEPPER has become member of
Mrs. George Knights company.
"The Burglar" has made a big hit at
the National Theater, Washington.
Henry E. Dixey is hard at work re-
hearsing The Seven Ages at the Stand
ard Theater.
Wilson Barrett's English company sails
from Liverpool September 18th, he follow
ing October I'd.
Several orchestras. made up of women,
are to be heard at the cafes in the Paris
Exposition Grounds.
Physicians say that it will be two
months before Mrs. James G. Blaine Jr.,
will be able to leave her house.
w. w. Kelly has been compelled by Sc
we're illness to relinquish the management
of the Princess Theater, London.
Maggie Mitchell arrived in New York
on Sunday last. Her new play which she
will produce is called "The Little Witch"
James E. Murdcck, the distinguished
actor and reader, will henceforth live in
Boston, where he will open school of
oratory.
Ralph Delmore has become member Of
the Helen Barry company. He will ap-
pear as the German father in "Love and
Liberty"
Dion Boucicault is writing another Irish
play, IN which Bobby Gaylor will star
next season under the management of w.
A. Brady.
Miss Elaine Ellison, young Southern
beauty, has been engaged by Manager E.
E. Rice, and will make her New York de-
but in The Seven Ages"
"Said Pasha" is filling Schnaider's
Garden at St. Louis nightly. Next week
it will be moved to Cincinnati on its pros
porous tour of the country.
Duncan B. Harrison's "Paymaster' ap-
peared at the Peoples Theater, Chicago,
on Monday to the biggest audience that
popular house has ever had.
Arthur Wallack saws that, as the news
papers have furnished him with wife, he
would be obliged if they will now also fur
nish him with an interesting family.
Max Strakosch, who brought some of
the most brilliant singers to this country
that ever left the other side of the At
lantic, is in the Home for Curabies at
Fordham, n. Y, paralytic.
William A. Brady's dramatization of
Rider Haggard's "She" has been pro-
duced at the Peoples Theater in New
York. The version is said to be by far
the best that has been placed before the
public.
John A. Mackay has made success in
'The Stuffed Dog" at Boston, but the
critics of modern Athens say that "such a
senseless, insane, pointless mass of hodge
podge as The Stuffed Dog has seldom
been seen in any first-class theater."
Hi Henry has telegraphed to everybody
in New York that his star, EStelle Clay
ton, and her new play made great hit at
Buffalo. One hundred thousand dollars
have been wasted in trying to make her a
star, and if Hi Henry has hit il he is to be
congratulated.
"The Stowaway," closed an engagement
of unexampled prosperity, at the new Cal
ifornia Theater, San Francisco, on last
Monday night. People were turned away
nightly for two weeks. The receipts were
! the largest in the history of Handsome"
Harry Mann's magnificent amusement
temple.
Bronson Towards play, Shenandoah"
| was produced for the first time in this city
| in the Star Theater last evening, before a
crowded audience, and received with an
| amount of noisy enthusiasm which was
| good augury of its future prosperity
Dfr. IowSe in the EUening Post, September
10, 1889.
WV. Tillotson's comedy company will
commence its season at the Amphion The
the very amusing farce comedy "Zig-Zag."
There have been many new additions in
the way of music, dances and "business'
since last season, and the company has
been much strengthened.
On Monday La File du Tambour Ma
jor" will be produced at the Casino, New
York, when Miss Pauline Hall will once
more join the forces of this popular house.
Miss Hall has of late been studying hard,
and her voice is better than it ever was.
"The Brigands" go on the road, opening
at Boston, September 10th, for four weeks.
The waters at Aix-les-b -bains have the
approval of Mrs. Langtry, whose gout has
left her entirely. She is in London, look
ing like another woman, and will shortly
begin tour of the provinces, during
which she will produce several new plays,
including Jealous of the Past" her own
version Of Fascination" and trausla-
tion of I" La Marchande de Souviyer," the
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