The record-union., 1891-10-17
music AND THE DRAMA.
New Plays Presented in New York
Last Week.

ssThermidor'' Great Success-Marie
Tempest at the Casino-The Real
ism In ssBlue Jeans',-General Stage
Notes.
A. P. Dunlop, writing from New York
under date of October 10th, says: 'The
principal production of the week has been
Sardou's famous play 'Thermidor,' pro-
duced by Manager Charles Frohman al
the Twenty third street Theater IT is
the great dramatist's latest work, and
many declare it to be the crowning effort
of his wonderful talent. 'Thermidor' is
a fierce arraignment of Jacobin excesses.
The horrors of the worst days of the
French Revolution are spoken of at
length, and for that reason it was not toll
Grated in France. Here there is no such
feeling, and the plot of the play will be
watched rather for the love story run
ming through it, than for its politics.
Manager Frohman's company handled
the playmaster's work splendidly, and
the play achieved a welI-merited sue
cess.
1.-The first public performance of Pietro
Mascagni's 'Cavalleria Rusticina' or
Rustic Chivalry. at the Casino. took
place on Monday evening, and the young
composers work received enthusiastic
Endorsement. 1t is charmingly origi-
nal and accompanied by a depth OF
feeling and certain abandon which
compel first attention and then admira-
ton. Like Moskowski or Saint-Saens'
finer compositions, the beauties in Rustic
Chiyalry' are discarded only after fre-
quent hearing. 1t was preceded by THE
Tyrolean,' comic opera by Carl Zeller,
made chiefly interesting in that it intro
duced Marie Tempest, the clever English
soprano, as a Casino star, for the opera
itself is of the ordinary light German
style, neat and pleasing, but with moth
ing else to recommend it to attention.
AT Manager Dunlevy'S New Park
Theater, Tuxedo was brought out on
Monday. 1t is a combination Of min
strelsy and farce comedy that is sure to
please, at any rae it creates plenty OF
laughter and has brought plenty of dollars
to the box-oftice.
''A poorer play than The Volunteer,
presented at the Harlem Opera-house,
has probably never been seen. 1t stalks
on the bill-boardS as under the personal
direction of Colonel j. II. Haverly, but
as the gallant Colonel has never seen the
play, or given it a second of his personal
direction ne is not to be blamed for the
fiasco, which rests on the shoulders OF
the author-actor, George 7. Ulmer, and
on Manager William l.. Lykens
THE Patrol an American melodra-
ma by Scott Marble, suggested by the
| Tascott-Sneu Chicago tragedy, was
brought to town by Manager Cud Given
and presented at the Peoples Theater.
The scenes of the play show how skill
fully the Chicago police track down a
murderer, and an excellent feature of the
performance is the patrol station, depict
ing the life of the blue-coats when not on
duty. The play is sure to do well in pop
ular-priced houses.
''Long-legged De Wolf Hopper and
dainty Della Fox have vacated the Broad
way with Emperor Wang and The
Merry Monarch in the person OF Francis
Wilson, assembled the throne on Monday
| before over 1000 of his most loyal sub
jects, who admired the wonderful curves
of his lower limbs and laughed at his
jokes just as ii they had not heard them
a hundred times BEFORE"
''BLUE JEANS"
Since the primitive days Of the drama.
centuries ago, when the tour Of q band OF
players meant foot Journeys over treach-
orouS mountain passes, from hamlet to
hamlet, with costumes meager and effects
u1hAO"h NnaL cnaDCGS
have been wrought in stage representa-
tions! What awe any of our modern per-
| feet dramatic offerings would have
aroused in the early centuries. Imagine.
| if possible, the effect on the minds of our
distant forefathers if play of sufficient
| interest and elaboration to enlist the
wrapt attention Of theater- -goers of to-day
were suddenly thrust in their midst. Its
perpetrators would be lucky, indeed, il
! they escaped death at the stake for witch
craft and sorcery. Just what would be
the result of the production at that time
OF one of our realistic plays of to-day is
beyond the range of Imagination. Pict-
ure the effect of the weird grandeur of
the ocean scene in 1.-THE World" the first
of the realistic series, the vivid turnout
fire scene in "The Still Alarm" or the
still greater sensation, the reproduction
of working sawmill in ''Blue Jeans!''
The latter is confessedly the most thrill
lngly realistic bit of intense realism that
excites theatergoers to-day. Nor is
Blue Jeans" in dialogue, characteriza-
tlon and other environments less happy
in conception. Educated even as we are
at present to thrilling innovations, scarce
ly presentation of ''Blue Jeans'' occurs
without a startling effect on some part of
its audience. During the plays phenom-
email New York run dozens of strong-
hearted men and robust women were
ONGIcOulO Will IUS AWFUL horror
OF the strange tragedy about to be en-
acted before their very eyes. What
would have been the result of such a
stage picture in the fifteenth or sixteenth
century? What would have been the
tate OF the player enacting the role of
'Ben Boone?'
STAGE NOTES.
'The Volunteer went to pieces at the
Harlem Opera-hous on Tuesday.
Mathews d Smith have new play in
which Al. Lipman will star, beginning
next April.
The Abraham Lincoln Company have
received two weeks notice and will prob
ably disband.
Gossip about town positively asserts
that Maude Harrison was married to Ed
ward Bell last May.
A new theater is to be built in Chicago.
corner of Dearborn and Jackson streets,
at a cost of 81 zoo, 900.
Patrice, the well-known soubrette has
been married to w. II. Cunning. It oc-
CURED at Akron, Ohio.
Busy Dame Rumor has it that Geral-
dine Ulmer and her new hubby already
talk of getting divorced.
By the death of a cousin, George III.
Jessup, the dramatist, has fallen heir to
considerable estate in Ireland. Some
thing near 100000.
1t is estimated that Roland Reed has
lost $4,000 during the six weeks run of
Sydney RoSenfeld's "The Club Friend,
at the New York Star Theater.
John w. Jennings has made yery
marked hit in "Quack NJ. D.' The play
was written by the late Fred Marsden for
Roland Reed, but he never produced it.
Maude Granger tried her new play
Gabrielle" at Johnston, Pa, last week,