The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-30


comes to this city. He will return to New
York in January to give farewell series OF
Chopin recitals.
Philadelphia has musical prodigy:
Master Arthur Hartman is his name. ana
he is years old. He made lis bow to an
audience recently at St Georges Hal. he
played selection from De Berlot very
skillfuily, and also the Hungarian Hymn
and the ''Kossuth March," with execution
marvellous in one so young.
Among the rising musicians of the day IN
/: England is Mr.. c. Lee Williams. organist OF
Gloucester Cathedral. His bethany Is
eagerly sought for by choral societies, ana
he has been asked to compose a Mag,
nifcat' and g Nunc Dimittis" for voices and
orchestra, to be performed at the festival OF
st. Paul at st. Paufs. London.
A British musical critic catches the Grand
Old Man slipping. The letter written by
Mr.. Gladstone to Nine. Patti, says the
London Figaro, will tend. at any rate. to H.
dictate that the Gallant Old Man is not par
ticulary strong in musicianship. MI.
Gladstone said: "It was rare treat to
hear from your Italian lips the songs OF my
own tongue rendered with delicacy OF
meditation and fiDeneSs of utterance sucn
as no native in my hearing has ever reached
or even approached" What on earth Mr..
Gladstone means by "delicacy of modula-
tion," says Freund's New York Music and
Drama, ''is not clear"
"The Ugly Duckling" will be carried
about the country by Mrs. Leslie Carter,
who denies certain statements in the press
to the effect that she has horses, carriages
and diamonds, and makes great display
withal.
1t is stated that Blanche Roosevelt has had
ner book, =" The Copper King" dramatized
by Sardou and will appear in the new play.
10 Miss RGoSeveltS talents. there was
brief reminiscent testimonial in these eel
umns recently. AS she is Marquise she
will probably appear under her Titled name.
Minnie Palmer and John K. Rogers have
decided on a mutual separation. Their
equally divided. Mr.. Rogers has already
been offered the management Of two attrac-
tons.
sam Edwardes has made 4 distinct hit in
"AIl the Comforts Of Home" The press
singles out his work as the most important
1t IS said that Henry Abbey has received
Mary Andelson's check for $4,000 and has
given her quit claim Mr.. Abbey is IN
London after Bernhardt and French comic
opera company.
Willie Edouin has accepted Burnand's
adaptation of g La Securite des Families.
which he has called the Private Inquiry-"
Mr.. Edouin will produce it at the London
Strand Theater about the holidays. ;,
Mrs: Langtry produced Antony and
Cleopatra" at the London Princess Iheater
on Tuesday with some success. The set
tingS and costumes are said to have cost the
Lily over 5000.
Il. Henry French has taken the manage
ment of Margaret Mather, Arthur Chase re-
| firing on account of il-health. Miss Mather
will produce Joan of Arc - early in Jan
uary.
Tony Hart has been adjudged insane by a
commission appointed to examine him. de
has some $4,000 worth of property. which
will be DISPOSED otto his;interests.
/ Louis Aldrich has had to give up MS tour
of 1.-The Editor nm ncPOunt of llI-healtl.
Miss Alice j. Shaw, the American sill
tieuse, has gone to Russia.
The oxford Music Hall, London, was sold
at auction recently to MIR. Kirk for S135,-
year.
Dolly" two-act comic operaby John
| BanniSier (the music by Herr PeZer), was
sung for the first time on any stage October
| 9th. at Her Majesty Theater. Carlisle, En-
| gland: The librett0 is founded on The
| Country Girl"
Charles w. Couldock and Joe Jefferson.
two stage veterans, hobnobbed and ek-
| changed "reminiscences Oh the closing night
| of the latter's engagement in New York.
| Up to November 22d the fund in aid of the
Ben Baker testimonial portrait had reached
S19l.
| Stuart Robson says that shot was fired
| into the window of his sleeping-car last
week, when he was travelling from Indian,
! apolis to Cincinnati The bullet was found
R0bSoh's locker is no doubt an ad. One
would suppose that Stuart had got beyond
| that.
Marie Burroughs is commended for her
acting in The Middleman."
| A. NJ. Palmer recently bought the original
| painting by Fuseli of the meetngof Ham
Leland the Ghost on the platform at Elsinore,
| from which steel plate WAS made for the
Boydell Shakespeare. The picture is. in
soaiber tints, as become the subject. The
| steel engraving bears the date of September,
| 1896. The picture IS valuable.
Manager Edward j. Abraham has denied
the statement that Florence Roberts has
taken Rosabel Morrison's place in Lewis
| Morrison's company. :" Miss Morrison,
| writes Mi. Abraham, "has not been well fol
several weeks, and her father merely took
measures to have an understudy leady In
| case her Illness incapaeitated her."
1t is reported that. Hermann, the magi
clan, lost $4,000 by the failure Of the NORTH
| River Bankrecently.
The Elks of Piitsburg, November Goth
attended in a body the Wafde-Bowers pro.
duction of Henry VIII, +" and after the per-
Torrance gave Frederick. Warde an elabor.
ate banquet at the Petroleum Exchange.
MI. NJ. b. Curtis who has been ill in New
| York with catarrh of the stomach, is now
convalescent.
The Hunchback of Paros." a tragedy in
blank verse. Is ANNOUNCED for speedy pro-
ductiOn in New York. Two gentlemen are
concerned in the authorship, but their name:
| are kept secret.
w. ii. Crane has recovered from his tenn
pOrary indispoSition and is now playing
Senator Rivers with his usual go"
Maude Harrison intends to invest in Har
lem property. Her brother Duncan invested
in personal property in the shape of "J0hr
L. who recently; while drunk, nearly
broke Dunes back by vicious kick.
'Clemenceau" companies are the rage IL
the East, as the women are all anxious I,
appear as LA, the artists wife. who serve:
as model for her husband in his study o
the nude. Laura Biggar appears in thi
character in the William A. Brady company
and now Nadage Doree proposes to take thu
road in the same role. The New Yorl
Dramatic News considers the last-namet
speculation tough one."