The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-07-26
The American Singer Beats
the Record in Paint
ing His Face.
DRAMATIC EXPRESSION IN PAINT.
Doings Of the Comic Opera Com
panies Theatrical
Notes


in ''Ivanhoe,'' the comic opera now run
ming successfully in London.
Eugene is New York boy. He is
stepson of ex-Police Justice KiIbreth.
He went half way through the New York
City College and distinguished himself
far more by his singing than his scholar
ship Then he studied law. was called to
the bar, and held down a chair in Wall
Street office for year or two, singing
meanwhile in the old choir Of st.
Stephens r. c. Church on Twenty
eighth street, In the paImy days OF DR..
McGlynn's pastorate He played the
piano, too, to the organ accompaniment.
Oudin is handsome fellow. Only the
ridge which joins his eyebrows above
his nose gives him q somewhat sinister
look at times He has a lovely high BARI
tone voice. and as to method-well, if
anything. he has too much method.
FEARFUL AND WONDERFUL.
The story about his makeup comes from
the Pail Mall Gazette, whose reporter has
been interviewing him about his appear
ance as Brian de Bois Guilbert in Sir
Arthur Sullivan's opera OF "Ivanhoe."
you proceed on some special liness''
inquired the interviewer.
Yes spoke Mr.. Oudin, continuing as
foIlows:-"The Templar is man of ac-
ton. passionate and voluptuous This |
indicate by an almost vertical line in the
hollow under the eye. AS the play goes
OH, and my basef passions more and more
rule me, you will notice that aceentuate
a q mr. fRor inns = 49,
per hand the brain consumes the body,
and grow thin. This indicate by put
ting high light on the bone of the nose
and on the nostrils, which gives them the
appearance of being much thinner BY
the use of high light on the forehead also
convey the impression that the skin is
Tightening over the eyes. A point is to
mark the receding of the eye as ire man
goes inward The browning piece of
my makeup is the wig. and | have had it
made on the model of my own hair-a
most essential point--but slightly balder,
as you will notice Being closely curled
| it gives the necessary severity to my
features 1t is my desire not to build up a
mask, but to accentuate my assumed
emotions. For instance, l give the eye
broWs little supercilious turn by eieYat-
ing them IN the middle, aud to further
accentuate the voluptuous character of
the Tsmplar put some brown madden
under The lower lip to give IL that ami
NAL look which belongs to some baser
natures
Beware. then, gentle reader, of eye
brows that are elevated in the middle. y
and of ssbrown madden under the lower
| lipl2
NEW YORK oPERETTAs.
The Grand Duchess" has but three
weeks longer to run in the Casino. It's
| revival was well timed, and the nightly
array Of crowded houses Is Rladdening
alike to the management and the artists
engaged in the performance. The pro-
ducticn Is pre-eminently the most COM
plete one that has been seen in the line Of
| light opera work, and its many tableauxs
and striking stage pictures challenge a
vast amount OF applause at every perfor-
nance. Before the close of the run q
special midsummer nights festival will
be given to ccmfnemorate the success of
the opera and the farewell performances
of Lillian Russell in the house of her
many triumphs. A garden party win be
| given on the roof. and in the auditorium
| below, the ladies pres emit will be served
with ices and bonbons.
| On Tuesday evening, August IS. the
ssIar and Tartar will cele brate its one
| hundredth performance at Palmer's
Theatre. and preparations are being
made to make the occasion the most
memorable event Of the New York sea-
son. Manager Rosin is daily in receipt of
letters containing suggestions for the
| souvenir in response TO his offer OF SIS for
the most original idea for the same. The
letters are all dated and filed away, and
on August 10 they will be carefully can
vassed aud selection made, immediately
after which the lucky individual whose
idea is accepted will receive a check for
| S25 Digby Ben. after being laid ND with
an attack OF acute tonsilitis for three
days, resumed his inimitable creation Of
| MuleV HaSSau On Wednesday,
Stage Notes
That offensive literary cad, William
Dean HoweIls. thus discourses abo ut the
theatres and the newspapers in the cur
rent issue of Hdrperss Magazillc:-"It is
Interestingly noticeable that of late the
theatre has been somewhat better adj
vised, and at tue moment the newsstand
has begun to topple on the edge of the
pit. the drama has been trying to climb
out of it. The theatre is still very coarse,
very shameless. but we think it has really
some impulses to purge and live clearly,
which ought 10 be encouraged by all VINO
know its vast influence. AS we have
often said, it addresses the weaker intel
Licences. and not the cultivated. except
on rare occasions"
The season OF '91-92 begins August 8,
three weeks earlier than usual IL prom
ises several novelties, but managers are
not at all sanguine as to its success. Last
season was far from being brilliant.
either financially or otherwise. and some
croakers prophesy that the coming one
will be worse. In the metropolis the sea-
sou. however, will be a brilliant one.
The contract Stuart Robson has signed
with Ernst Possart for the season after
next, is fer one hundred performances,
the tour beginning on October OF next
year. 1t is possible that Pessar6 Will
give his great character, Shylock, in
English.
Tomorrow a new theatrical firm-come
by the way to stay will begin rehearsing
their first venture called The Presi-
denf.n The name of the firm is Davis
and Hendricks, and before the season is
ended they will be known ali over the
country. They have lots Of pluck, and
what always talks loudest big bank ac-
count, which they do not handle with
care They are liberal TO degree and
have been getting everything OF the best.
Frank Lane and Frank David are the
Joint stars In THE President
The Broadway Theatre will be en- tirely
given upto comic opera, Francis Wilson
following De Wolf Hopper October 3. in
the Merry Monarch, and should it
weaken, Frank Sanger can call on him for
new play on two weeks notice.
The Garden of the Four Seasons, New
ark. is temporarily wiited. The manager.
Alfred G. Couch. Is among the missing.
With the creditors it is a case OF - Gone,
but not forgotten The hackers OF the
collapsed enterprise are negotiating with