The record-union., 1891-04-12
music And DRAMA.
Taking Photographs of Actresses
and Others.
How the Little Anacondas Travel Over
Miss Davenport's Anatomy The
Texas Steer''-JefTerson and Flor
ence-Genera1 Stage Notes.

| A New York photographer makes this
complaint about professionals: 81
am tired of explaining to ladies that as
long as they do not look like actresses out
of picture they should not expect to in
one. You will find that the very woman
who would d'sdain to have theatrical
appearance on the street is set on having
1t in n photograph. She wishes to look
dashing, assertiye and passionate, and is
never satisfied when / make her her own
sweet self. Now, 1 cannot pose ordinary
women as / can an actress, for the reason
that they haven't the ability to fall into
the attitude / want. Then, again, they
are usually unable to throw the particu-
lar expression into their faces that they
wish to have there, and this an actress can
do. Above all, lady not the profession
| seldom makes up her face when she is
photographed, or, if she does, it is badly
done. l always touch up woman's face
a bit with crayon if she will allow me,
! but she usually won't. The skillful ac-
treSS makes up i'll a pronounced manner,
her eyes heavily shadowed, and her lips
| made blood red. / can soften where can
not accentuate in finishing picture, and
so when these eXaggerations of the actress
are toned down her eyes merely look
| 1eRi anu DIllidLI, dllu HGr nlOulu clearly
| defined. It's the same way with the men.
An actor knows how to pose, TO begin
with, and as general thing he makes up
ms lace as he invariably does on the
| stage. There is really no use of men and
women in private life hoping to get pho
tographs that will be as striking and sat-
| iStactOry as those of actors and actresses
unless they are willing to take course
Of dramatic training and study the art of
makeup. | am thinking of hanging out
a sign saying that | cannot guarantee to
make the simple village maiden come
out in a photograph like Mrs. Langtry,
or the clerk like Mr.. Barrymore. The
complaints Of these people are wearing
me Out.''
FANNY DAvENPoRT's "AsPS."
| Fanny Davenport the other day was
asked to see the ''asps" she uses in her
| production of CLEOPATRA She brought
| forward small box tightly strapped.
| This she opened and took out some folds
of cotton, when two tiny, snaky heads at
once peeped over the edge of the box.
| Don't be afraid - said Miss Davenport.
! plunging her hand into the box and lift
| ing out the tiny reptiles, which clung to
| her fingers and wrists, lifting their heads
and running out their little red tongues
| ''These aSpS are infant anacondas, and
! the pair cost S50.'' They have come to
! know their mistress and will take milk
|
''can you put these crawling things to
your bosom?" "Oh, / never put them
next to my skin" she replied. 81 slip
the snake between my fleshing and my
gown, and my draperieS being loose and
| flowing there is ample opportunity for
his snakeship to rove. Antony wriggled
up my neck and climbed on my head at
one performance in Philadelphia. Again
he slipped out Of the armhole of my dress
and crawled around my arm down to my
hand. Another time / caught him on my
knee. At first | could not tolerate the
idea of touching the things, but l could
not let Bernhardt be Drawer than my
self.'
FLORENCE AND JEFFERSON.
Joseph Jefferson and w. J. Florence
will close their tour the middle of next
month, when Mr.. Jefferson will go to his
summer residence at BuzZard's Bay. Mr..
Florence will make preparations to
join his wife, who is now in Europe.
Next season will probably be the last in
which Jefferson and Florence will star
together, and it is quite likely that Mr..
and Mrs. Florence will in 1898 make a
tour, presenting their old comedies.
THE BosTONIANS.
The Bostonians appear in Sacramento
! Tuesday night next in "Robin Hood.v
Their success and that of the opera has
been phenomenal. There has really been
nothing short of grand opera that has
won such favor. The success of
the opera in San Francisco surpassed
anything yet on record, and the piece ran
| to the exclusion of almost all the other
operas billed by the Bostonians. The
San Francisco Examiner said of it: "The
opera Is one which any adniring listener
| viii wish TO hear twice. In the audience
! last night there were so many listeners of
that persuasion who preferred to have the
| first and second hearing come together
/ that every important number in the
| opera was repeated at least once. Sew
eral were repeated twice, and one-the
| tinkers' chorus-had four encores. The
music is great Improvement on any,
thing by Reginald de KOven with which
! San Franciscan audiences are familiar.
/ 1t is not altogether free from remin-
| iscences of melodies that were not orig
inal with Mr.. de Koven, but there is
more that is familiar in forms and
rhythms than IN actual melodies, which
| is natural and proper, because it was
necessary to use some of the early English
forms to put the color of the time and
| place into the music and scenery, so to
say" The cast next Tuesday evening
will include the following artists: Ed
win Hof, FL. c. Barnabee, w. II. Mac
| Donald, Eugene Cowles, George F'roth-
| ingham, Peter Lang, Marie Stone, Jessie
| Bartlett Davis, Grace Reals, Josephine
| Bartlett. The boX-sheet opens Monday
morning.
"a TEXAS STEER"
| On the 18th and 18th Hoyt's latest and
| perhaps his best comedy, "a Texas
| Steer" will be played in Sacramento.
! 1t Is, says the Philadelphia Press, worth
| four of "The Senator" seven of 1.-The
Mighty Dollar and eight of For Con-
! gress." 1t is satire on national politics.
| The New York EUening Post said of it:
1T was greeted with roars of laughter
and applause by an audience which filled
the theater to overflowing. In this piece.
| which, like The Midnight Bell, has q
| serious vein running through its comi-
! cality, Hoyt has endeavored to satirize
public life in Washington. He has not
restrained his fancy in the least, and the
| adventures of the. newly-arrived states
/ man and his constituents serve to fur
| n1sh MARTY for prologue and three
acts. The central figure is Maverick
| Brander, raw Congressman from Texas.
and his efforts to accommodate himself to
| his position, and his final DEVELOPMENT
into full-blown, and by no means
scrupulous legislator, constitute the
whole plot"
STAGE NOTES.
! The new Philadelphia Casino opened
| last Monday night.
| Frank /. Frayne left an estate estimated
/ at 500, 600 in value.
! Marie Tempest Will shortly try the role
of Carmen in Boston.
| Detroit is talking of building n new
/ theater to cost $500, ,O00
| Margaret Mather will again visit En-
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