The record-union., 1891-12-19

ances was assumed by John H. Bunny.
Mr. Lacy had been rehearsing a greatly
revised version (by John A. Stevens) of
"Jack Royal.n
Count De La Miranda, husband of
Chrlst1ne Nilsson, has been appointed
Spanish ambassador to the Court of
sweden and Norway, and thus the great
singer will be an ambassadors wife in
the city IN which she entered a poor girl
with bare feet. Nine Nilsson is to be re-
ceived with special honors.
Manager Charles Burnham of the Star
Theater, New York. has just lost rela-
tive in Boston who left an estate valued at
million dollars. Everyone has been con-
graduating the genial manager and
made him rather sore, as the bulk OF the
estate has been left to charities and the
balance, Sl00,000 to a housekeeper. Mr..
Burnham does not mind the money
given to charity. but objects to the legacy
lett TO the housekeeper and will contest
the will.
chlValry was esteemed the greatest of vir-
tues, man defended his honor by the
sword, and SO it has come down to the
present generation that the romantic
drama. to be correctly interpreted, must
nave It's sword combat. The young ro-
mantle actor, Alexander Salvini, has
organized class in swordsmanship
among the members of his company.
Each day Mr.. Salvini devotes a certain
hour to practice on the stage. Being one
OF the most proficient swordsmen in
America. his pupils are fast learning the
art, that in olden times made men wor-
shipped above princes and monarchs.
Actors are proverbially at a loss how to
pass the summer months-or rather, how
to pass the summer months amid the
| tender environments of board and lodg
ings. The story is told of an actor-one
who is known, too-who made an arrange
ment with landlady to give her in ex-
change for board two seats for the theater
every night in the week. She filed her
part of the contract and he did the same.
For long time that landlady went night
after night to the theater. The actor had
to hustle considerably, but it was a
question of bread and butter, and he was
not vanquished. He was rescued from
his awful position just as it was begin
ming to pail upon him.
A. P. Dunlop says: ''The realistic
drama means the destruction of all good
actors and actresses. Without romance
| there can be no drama. Make the stage
completely realistic, and no actors are re-
| CURED, because any man and woman can
then go on and represent themselves.
Destroy the illusion and you destroy the
profession. The persons who invented
the new style have had to invent new
people to play it. Their own recruits
| from the profession have been those who
| have failed in the legitimate. These facts
are very significant. They show that the
profession is unconsciously conscious that
realism is the death of acting. If the the
ater is to represent men and men lust as
they are, there is no use for the theater,
| because men and women as they are can
| be seen everywhere without charge for
| admission
In "A Trip to Chinatown" cat is used
in the first act. A cat is rather difficult
thing to handle as theatrical property,
and is usually kept under lock and key.
! one night last week as Welland Strong
stood in the wings ready to go on it was
discovered that the cat had escaped, it
couldn't be found anywhere. Harry Con-
| ner, who plays Welland Strong so clev-
erly, was frantic. Nothing could be done.
| He would have to go on without the cat.
| Conner received his cue and rushed for
| ward when Miss Pussy jumped into his
| arms, where she quietly nestled and kept
on purring during the entire scene. The
cat knew her business, and has been added
| to the regular staff of Hoyt and Thomas
She has now the run of Hoyt's Madison
| Square Theater with unlimited quarts of
fresh milk. which stage manager r. A.
Roberts has especially ordered, and which
| he himself feeds her with.
Some one has discovered, says D,tagop's s
| Stage Nes0s, the way of Judging charac-
| ters by the feet, and has gazed upon the
| pedals of the profession for notification.
"A large, amply-formed foot" he says,
indicates breadth of mind and firmness
of purpose" For this he must have
| studied Harry Lee, who has the biggest
feet ION any stage" The authors cheer
! full study of chiropody further sets forth
/ that "a well-formed, neat little ankle in
dicates self-consciousness and vanity"
but does not give the reader the names of
the soubrette who induced him to form
his opinion. Then corns are translated
into bad temper. Probably the author
must have seen Ada Gray. Small, fat
feet mean that their owners are quick,
energetic and given to Irritation. This
goes for Marie Jansen. A long, narrow
foot indicates esthetic tendencies and a
reserved disposition, and stands for
! Georgia Drew Barrymore. Broad-soled
f1at-heeled feet (which are so carefully
! distinguished from the aforementioned
large and amply formed feet'') show a
mean, grasping disposition; and high
instep shows nervous, passionate ma
ture. The first is said to stand for Pau
line Hall, the last for Minnie Seligman.
The French pitch which musical peo-
pie are at present talking so much about
is explained: ''If, in composing piece of
music, write down the note a, meaning
the A in the middle of the pianoforte, no.
| body knows the exact musical sound
want to have played. All that can be
said is that / mean it to be third higher
than the note / write down as f, and a
fourth lower than the note / write as d,
but this is like saying that the Omer is
the tenth part of an ephah, which, how
ever explicit, does not get rid of the ques-
ton of how much an ephah is. In 1858
the French Government appointed a
commission to settle what this A should
indicate. They fixed on the note pro-
duced by 435 vibrations per second; and
that pitch (A-435) is what is called
French pitch. The English did not like
it, and ordained that, whatever the French
might choose to mean by A, the London
Philadelphia Society should mean by it a
note produced by 452 vibrations per sec
ond. 1t was SO set forth in the Queens
regulations and adopted by military
bands, from which center it has spread
over India and the colonies. The Amer
lean eagle treated the British lion as the
British lion had treated the French. 1t
roared six vibrations higher 1t tuned
pianoes up to Ass; and the Theodore
Thomas Orchestra used very nearly this
pitch, that is to say A=456, sacrificing
music to brilliancy."
Make 1t Short.
"If / were a minister's wife," the lady
in the car was talking too loud not to be
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