Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-09
MUSIC AND The DRAMA.
HOW THE PEOPLE ARE BEING AMUSED
IN NEW YORK CITY.
Campaninps Advice to singers-Marie
Roze-Rubenstein on American Mu-
sicians-ComingA Attractions.

A. P. Dunlop writes as follows in re-
gard to the entertainment of the people
of Gotham at present:
"The novelties of the week are sReck-
less Temple at the Standard, The Plum
ger at the Peoples and The Last Word
at Daly's. Reckless Temple is the work
of Augustus Thomas, the author of
'Editha's Burglar and is written around
Maurice Barrymore, who appears as Edgar
Temple, nicknamed Reckless. The pivot
around which the play circles is Reckless
taking upon himself the odium of crime
of the brother of the woman he loves, but
the hero is not put into situations that
would suit Mr.. Barrymore best. The
idea of the play is unreasonable, and Tenn
pie, instead of being reckless Bohemian,
with plenty of mental as well as physical
manliness, whines and cries about the
stage in a very un-Barrymore-like fashion.
He has, however, the face of Greek god
and the figure of an athlete, which, with
excellent support and magnificent stage
settings, may give the play run. More
over, Mr.. Barrymore is one of the best
liked actors in New York, probably with
more personal friends than any other in
the city, and Manager j. NJ. Hill follows
him closely in popularity. This means a
good deal for long run in the metropo-
lis. where native plays are beginning to be
fashionable. As Mr.. Hill has for the last
seventeen years done all he could for the
American drama, not by talking about it,
but by risking his good money in pro-
ducing them, Reckless Temple if it did
not exactly make great hit, was well
coined as few plays are nowadays by the
entire play-going public of Gotham.
"eThe Plunger' is one of David K. Hig-
gins weird plays, and probably the most
unworthy melodrama placed upon a city
stage this year, and yet it achieved
howling success in the Bowery. Things
run that way on the east side, and Oliver
(Doud) Byron. the plunger. will increase
his fortune with it, and Mr.. Higgins will
i lose his reputation on Il.
"sThe Last Word,' an adaptation by
Augustin DAILY, from the German of Franz
Won Schontau, was produced on Tuesday.
Mr.. Daly's new play is almost an emo
tional drama, with a strong plot of love
and Nihilism and human interest. Prob
ably such plot in a theater devoted al
most entirely to light comedy would not
have succeeded in the hands of the major
ity of Mr.. Days players. But the really
phenomenal acting of Miss Rehan in the
character of a Russian baroness changed
what promised to be disaster into most
| brilliant triumph. In this latest produc-
ton Ada Rehan rose to a hight OF dra-
| matte power that she has never before dis
played The play opened with a ball
room scene, which was the most perfect
| representation of such an event that has
| been seen in New York. The persons on
the stage were dressed and looked like
| ladies and gentlemen; they all talked at
| once in that Historically mirthful tone,
! which obtains between this and the next
waltz, and so natural was the movement
on the stage and the apparent oblivious-
| ness to the audience, that one felt as if he
| stumbled into private house without an
| invitation. The Last Word is sure of a
very long run.
| aAt Dunlevy's Park, Anna Boyd APP
peared on Monday in Fay Templeton's
part in sHendrick Hudson and the
house has been fairly filled during the
week.
"sClaudius Nero has had wonderful
success at Niblo's Garden, and so has
| Charles Frohman's stock company in Men
| and Women at what must now be called
Frohmans Twenty Street Theater.
although news comes of bad business in
many parts of the country, the attendance
at the different playhouses has been very
large in spite of raw and rainy weather,
the first disagreeable nights Of the coming
winter"
| CAMPANINfs ADVICE TO SINGERS.
"My advice to all singers is: Do not i'm
pose upon yourself and you will preserve
your voice" says Campanini, in striking
article "How to Train the Voice." in the
Ladies' Home Journal. "Good health is
necessary to keep a voice in good condi-
ton. Dissipation of any kind is of the
greatest injury to the voice. The vocal
chords are very sensitive and susceptible,
and what affects the physical condition
will sooner or later affect them. What
regime a singer should follow depends upon
the constitution. Some singers can smoke
continuously and not suffer from the ef-
fects. while others have been seriously In
| iured 1t is, therefore, very hard to lay
down any cast-iron rules and say that they
should be followed. What is poison, you
know. for some, is food for others.
"Again must urge young singers to be-
ware of trying to force their voices; 1t Is
dangerous, and means the early loss OF the
voice. The man who builds an organ
| would not think of having some one try to