San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-15
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

Richard Mansfield, the actor, wal
born, 1t is said, In the now much
talked-of Heligoland.
Mrs. Alice Shaw has signed a con
tract to 60 to St. Petersburg anC
whistle for the czar and mobiles
George Panncefort. an English
actor, well known in this country
years ago, is now leading man in q
restaurant In Yokohama.
A life of the late Jennie Lind is
being written by her husband, Otto
Goldschmidt, who married the
Nightingale" in 1852, at the close OF
her memorable American tour.
The invention of two new musical
instruments is announced. One is a
bass fiddle big enough to make a
little catboat-fourteen and half
beam. The artist that plays it must
use stepladder
Miss Sigrid Arnoldson, q young
American soprano, has been singing
at Florence in 1.-THE Barber of Sc
VILE" and no singer has made such
a sensation in Italy since Adelina
PATHS young days, if the italian
newspapers may be believed
Although Mr.. Edwin Booth has so
identified himself in the popular mind
with the part of Hamlet that all
other Hamlets stand or fall by COM
parison with his personation. and al
though he has himself played it some
thousands of times, he has never yet
seen the play as spectator.
1t is reported that the directors of
the new Madison Square Garden, in
New York, have decided to intrust its
supervision and management to Ed
mund c. Stanton, director of the Me-
tropolitan opera house. This would
relieve the establishment from the
serious drawback of an unpopular
management; but the trouble with
the garden is that it is dry" New
Workers must have beer with their
music.
Madeleine Lemaire, who is one of
the most successful and distinguished
of modern French artists, has beauty
as we'll as talent. She is a tall bru-
nette, with charming manners, soft
dark eyes and sweet and intellec-
tual face. When only fifteen years
old she exhibited at the salon por-
trait of her grandfather. 1t would
have taken a prize hal not the jury
thought that 1.-The author of the pic
ture was too young"
A London cable says "Messrs.
Buchanan and Sims will follow the
prevailing fashion in their forthcom-
ing Irish drama at the Adelphi thea
ter and introduce the apparently in
dispensible clerical element. Their
priest, however, will not be of the
Able Dubois brand. On the contra
ry, we shall find him to be vigorous
young man, who had been driven to
take refuge from a hopeless passion
within the pale of the church.
The personnel of the Imperial opera
house in Vienna is a little village
community of itself. 1t consists of
All persons-the director, twenty-one
male solo singers, twelve female solo
singers, chorus director, fifty chorus
men, sixty-seven chorus girls, ten
male solo dancers, sixteen female
solo dancers, twenty-five male chorus
dancers, seventy five ballet girls,
three directors of the orchestra. one
director of the ballet, JOG memb ers of
the orchestra, one stage musical di-
rector and twenty-five stage must
clans.
Margaret Mather, who said nothing
could quite equal her idea of Romeo
and Juliet" with two women playing
the principal parts, has announced
that she has Just secured Miss Jennie
Winston for her partner She began
by offering Sara Bernhardt an en-
gagement and was refused. Then she
tried Miss Bernard Beere in London,
but received no reply to her commu-
nications. After that she approach
ed nearly all of the big and masculine
looking actresses of America until
she finished the legitimate and turn
ed to the light opera and burlesgue
stage. Miss Winston's unique and
rather odd personality attracted Miss
Mather, and the conjunction of the
two in Romeo aud Juliet" will I'M
doubtedly arouse great deal of in
terest.
Says a London cable: A very Curl
Gus addition to Shakespeareans comes
this week from Germany. The Royal
Library at Stuttgart contains hand
some old autograph book supposed to
have been the property of Duke Fred
erick I. of Wurtemberg. 1t has the
signatures of a lot of contemporary
notables, each with a date and motto,
and considerable number of these
are Danish. On one page together
under the date of 1877 are the sigma
lures of Jorgen Rosenkranz and P.
Guldenstern. 1t Is possible not to
believe that Shakespeare knew of the
existence of these two Danish court
iers when he wrote Hamlet" but