Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-27
HUSIc AND The DRAMA.
Lillian RUSSELL AND THE BEAUTIES
OF THE CASINO.
Orchestral Concerts and Pianists-Opera
Boufe-Emma Abbott's Wealth
Art in Stage Settling.

| Rosalind May, the regular New Yor
correspondent of the SUNDAY UNIo,
writes as follows in regard to amusement
at the metropolis:
"That New York and the country a
large can support both German and tia
ian opera is settled beyond question by tn
enthusiasm with which the latter has bee
received, vacant seats during the non-Patt
nights being entirely due to very higl
prices. Patti is the one singer who ca
! I'LL house at scale beginning at 81 pc
seat, but those who came on the off-night
represented throng who would hav
pressed for admittance at German oper
| prices and by their warm welcome to dis
tinguished artists they proved their Low
of genuine song. The season has beel
memorable as affording marked progress il
| music and potent, therefore, in refnin,
effect Any art which can draw ava,
| Americans from absorption in money-get
ting may be set down as successful mis-
sionary effort. Equally encouraging ha
been the support given
ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS AND PIANIsTs.
The celebrated Russian pianist, Vladimir
de Pachman and his wife, Nine Marguer
ite de Pachman, have had fattering re
ception at Chickering Hall, which wa.
| packed to the doors on the occasion O
their three concerts. Nine. de Pachman'.
unusual beauty winning approval before
her skilled fingers touched the instrument
She is an Englishwoman, and to say thai
she nearly approaches as an artist her dis
guished husband, is to accord her high
praise. DR.. Won Bulow has not long de
parted, return engagement of d'Albert
and Sarasate may be expected, while little
Otto Hegner again looms up and is an
nounced for a performance next week. II
is stated on good authority that in the en-.
tire history of that very successful place
of amusement,
THE CASINO,
No presentation has aroused enthusiasm
equal to that now accorded the Grand
Duchess Scenic effect, of course, has
much to do with such happy result, and
Aronson's we'll known liberality in this
line is bringing in rich reward. Chiefest
of all, however, is an array of hand.
some women, with Lillian Russell, the in.
comparable, coming foremost. Neither is
she doll like beauty, for her singing and
acting are vivacious and appropriate, and
no wonder, therefore, that at each por.
formance the house is packed and seats or
dered quite in advance. Despite present
successes, however, signs of a waning sea-
son becomes each week more apparent,
Daly's company have gone elsewhere and
,1looal &c E1laI hr fhot ol,
lar actress, Rosina Vokes. Shenandoah
will next week give place at Proctor's
Theater to Robson in The Henrietta and
delightful Aunt jack at the Madison
Squarge will bid good bye shortly to the
metropolis.
"The small boys soul is full to overflow
ing by the greatest show on earth at One
Hundred and Tenth street and Fifth av.
enue. This is significant sign of up
town advance and the exhibition is an.
nounced by the colossal Barnum as that
which electrified Europe"
EMMA ABBoTT's WEALTH.
Few American songstresses, says New
York paper, can prove the substantial sue.
cess that is the lot of Emma Abbott. She
is an example OF the pluck and persever.
ance of the American girl. At the age ol
eighteen she was soprano in DR.. Chapin's
church in New York, and known to the
communicates as very pleasing singer
She was ambitious to succeed as concert
singer, and an operatic future she had
never believed possible; but, through the
interest of friends, she was induced to GO
to Paris and complete her studies. She
was even at that time the betrothed wife
of Eugene Wetherell. He urged her to
accept the proposition, and she went
abroad and studied with such ardor that
she inside of year had completely lost
her voice through overwork, but by care.
full medical attention she was enabled to
regain her former vocal capabilities, and
returned to this country, where she was in.
troduced to c. D. Hess, and coalition
was formed by Wetherell, Hess and Miss
Abbott to star the latter with the Hess
English Opera Company. Last Saturday
she walked into the Treasury Department
at Washington with an ordinary package
of brown paper, about eighteen inches
thick, carried carelessly in her hand
General Rosecrans had one of the clerks
examine the package and it was found tc
be S135000 in Government four per cent
bonds. Miss Abbott had brought them te
have them registered. This amount rep
resents the partial profits of her stage
career, and it is safe to say that no Other
prima donna can match Miss Abbott il
wealth, with the exception of Adelins
Patti.
STAGE DRESSING.
Said prominent tragedian the othel
day. 81 am not one of those who decry
elaborate stage settings on the ground that
they detract froTa the actors art | know
that the idea is being advanced that peo.
pie, in their admiration of the spectacular
glory of a production, lose sight Of it:
dramatic worth; in other words, they e
to the theater to see the show and Iot tS
see and hear the actors. Now, / believe
that nothing can be further from the rea
truth. l believe that good stage dressing
and good acting should always go together
| am not afraid to put myself and my ar
against the scene painter and the stage
carpenter at any time, and / am frank t.
declare my belief that anyone who is thu:
fearful has no call TO walk the stage at all
"What! Would you have us go back t.
the days of Shakespeare, when the settin.
vi tHC otdSC was iuulCdtCu Ny pidCstTuS, a
"A Street in Venice Tomb of the Capu
ulets,' Roman Forum etc, it being left t.
the imagination of the audience to furnish
the scene? Now, you cannot convince IN,
that the people could appreciate and en-
JOY the plays thus presented as thorough,
as though they had been shown in ade
quate setting. 1t is only begging the ques
ton to say that there is happy medium
that should be followed between this bar
renness and the present elaboration @
scenery. If the stage should be set at all
it should be set as completely and as per
fectly as possible. That work cannot b
overdone, provided it is artistically an,
truthfully done.
81 hold that the finest surroundings ar,
an inspiration to the true actor. / alway
feel the influence that arises from goo,
costumes, good scenery and good accesso
ries, and say what you may, believe tha
/ am able to throw myself more completed
into my part when / am thus encompasse,
than as though were on an empty stag
in bare hall. And l believe-I know
that my audiences feel my acting NOR
under such conditions and are more i'm
| pressed by my individuality.
Examples? There are plenty to sup
port my argument. Do you not thin
that good stage settings would have en-
hanced the success Of the Booth -Modjesk
season? The people have tired of tn
barren stage upon which Mr.. Booth ar
r.