Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-24
MUSIC and THE DRAMA.
NOTES OF THE STAGE MAINLY THIS
WEEK.
Movements in Dramatic Circles-Is There
American Drama ?-Barrett
Has q Word to Say.

The old Chestnut-street Theater II
Philadelphia has become a popular
price" house.
Mamie Craddock, who was here with
the A. NJ Palmer company last week, is &
native of Marysville.
'The Siege of Vera Cruz" continues tc
attract visitors to Manhattan Beach by its
beauties as spectacle.
The Alcazar Theater, in San Francisco
has been remodled, the stage enlarged
and the seating capacity of the house aug
mei,ted by $50.
Hoyt's "Brass Monkey" will be pro
| duced in Sacramento November 14th and
18th, and his "a Trip to Chinatown" or
October 24.h and 25th.
Minnie Palmer will sing the title role
of "Olivette" in production of that comic
opera at Hermann's new Gaiety Theater
New York, September lst.
'sPop" Kennedy, the old-time theatrical
man, well known years ago, and familiar
figure in the streets of New York, dice
last week at Coney Island.
Nine. Ala Alfalfa, the great braruro
singer to be starred next season by Signol
de yivo, accompanied by her mother
Nine. Lamballe, is at Congress Hall, Sara
toga Springs.
Miss Laura johnson, a pupil of Her.
mann Vein, has made very favorable i'm
preston in London, by her acting in sew
eral tragic parts. Her future is thought to
be full of promise.
3The Judge" the new farcial play by
Arthur Law recently produced in London,
is most preposterous piece, which de-
pends for success chiefly upon the personal
comicalities of Mr.. Penley.
The new play written by M. Sardou for
the Comedie Francaise is entitled "Ther.
midor," and will be read to the Committee
early in September. The action of the
piece, which is in four acts, takes place
within twelve hours.
Pauline Hall says she does not expect to
find a Venus of Milo in every girl that
applies for position in the chorus, but she
does 'hope to find a certain pulchritudin-
GUS charm that will ornament the stage
and delight the audience"
Miss Annie O'Keefe has been singing
the part of Bul Bul in castles in the Air.
at the Broadway Theater, New York,
since the departure of Miss Marion Man.
old. She has done so well with it that
she will probably be kept in the part dur
ing the road season.
Something new in the line of amuse-
ment is to be given the citizens of Denver
on September 9th. 1t will be a "Cowboy
Tournament" in which $1,000 cash prizes
are offered for skillful horsemanship. The
tournament will probably attract great
deal of interest and be success.
After an absence of several years from
the stage, Rose Watkins will return this
season, TO play character old woman in
"The Clipper" Mrs. Watkins was long
ago favor member of Burton's company
at the old Chambers-street Theater, while
in more recent times she was very popu.
lar star in the South.
Miss Lulu Morrill,, known on the stage
as Helia Archmere, was born and raised
in Sacramento. She was the only grand
daughter of the late jesse Morrill, she is
also niece Of the late Paul Morrill,. She
is now the wife of Fred. D. Lucier, of the
musical Lucier family. She will visit
SACRAMENTO tniS ldil Will AC JUL :
Pathfnders" Company.
The latest Partisan novelty introduced
into the New York market is the ''ballet
barometer 1t consists of the figure Of a
coryphee on thick card, with this in.
scription beneath: "Rose, rain; lilac
changeable; blue, fine weather" The
skirt of the dancer is made of some gauzy
material, saturated with a chemical solu.
ton which is sensible of every change in
the weather.
Herr Gustav Cadelberg, the German ac-
tor and author, and the literary partner oi
Herr Schoenthau, the German playwright
has undertaken the adoption and produc-
tion of Henry Arthur Jones's play
"Judah," for Germany and Austria. With
the exception of the Gilbert-Sullivan
operas, this will be the first instance in
| which a play by an English author has
ever been produced in Austria.
Paris has rendezvous where singers
wishing to be the fashion meet with q
view to engagements. Here the patron
can hear the singer she wants for her
musicale, or can have her evening pro-
eramme made out by the manager, at a
cost of from 125 to $4,000 francs. The
lowest price for singer is % francs. Fol
that young lady will sing two songs, and
the mistress or daughter Of the house ha:
| to accompany her.
Miss Fidella Granquest has been en-
gagged for three years by Messrs. Foster 4
Bertram Of the Boston Ideal Opera Com
pany. She is country woman of Jenny
Lind and Christine Nilsson, and received
! her musical education at the Royal Acad
envy at Stockholm, and her final prepare
tion for opera under the direction of Pro
fessor Arlberg and the patronage of Kine
Oscar. Miss Granquest is now in BostoI
studying the title role in 'Fauvette."
Mrs. Pemberton Hincks, who went t.
Europe month ago, has made quite hi
| in London. She has sung at receptions ol
the Marquis of Aylesbury and before Prin
cess Marie de Teck, in the salon of thu
MARQUIS of Londonderry. at Nine. Naylol
Lelands, at Lady Randolph Churchilis
and in the presence of the Prince ant
| Princess of Wales. A reception was ten
| dered Mrs. Hincks by the Duchess of Man
chester, and Signor Tosti has composed 1
/ waltz for her.
| L he hSu 1lucodf, TIC opCiStso ~ IL
! P. Stephens and Edward Solomon, is no
| remarkable effort, says the New Yorl
Herald. But it is graceful and tuneful, re
fined and often scholarly-in all of which
respects it differs from various effusions thai
have been foisted upon US of late as operetta
! The libretto is weak and the music Is to-
reminiscent to allow of its taking yer,
! high place among even the works of it
kind. But the composers limitations ar
not slavisb, his taste is often delicate, hi
sentiment is pleasing and his harmon.
would not disgrace his models.
Minnie Palmer is to head a comic oper;
company in New York. Messrs. Lock
and Davis closed their negotiations las
week, assuming control of Hermann's New
Gaiety Theater on Broadway for tern
of years. They will open the house il
September, with large comic opera or
ganization, headed by Minnie Palmer rs
Star. The strongest cast possible to secur
will be engaged, and each production viii
be given in style unexcelled in thi
country. 1t has long been Miss Palmer
ambition to attempt something of thi
kind, and something exceptionally goo'
may be expected of her.
London Truth says of Mr.. Days pro
duction of "As You Like It." sIn recen
revivals of this delightful play, with al
our scenery, with all our dresses, with al
our sumptuousness Of detail, with all ou