The record-union., 1891-01-18
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
DUNLOP'S REVIEW OF THEATRE.
GALS IN THE METROPOLIS.
Fannie Kemble's Performance OF julia,
in ''The Hunchback"-Ready to
Hiss-Stage Notes.

IL ulu service on the road last season. AS
spectacle it fills every requirement. The
costumes were rich, the scenic effects
massive and elaborate, and the stage pict-
ures strikingly brilliant. No American
tragedian has worked harder to secure
novelties than Lawrence Barrett, and
none deserves more credit, but his refine
ment and poetic appreciation have not re-
ceived the substantial recognition so es-
sential to theatrical longevity, and while
'Ganelon' must be praised for its excel
lent verse and effective construction, it
cannot become popular success. Mr..
Barrett has secured nearly three months
time at the Broadway, during which he
promises to produce several novelties,
ending his run with the production of
tragedies, in which Edwin Booth will be
seen. Hermann's pretty little theater,
having mlraculously escaped the confia-
grafton that destroyed the Fifth Avenue,
was again opened on Monday. The pro-
fessor is certainly very lucky man, for
had his little theater been DESTROYED he
would indeed have been very badly
! burned. AS it is, the fire has proved a
splendid advertisement to him, and he
knows just how to take advantage of it.
Richard Mansfield ON the same evening
opened at the Garden Theater for four
four weeks run with Beau Bruinmel,'
DIR. Bill having been removed to the
Grand Opera House for a week, after
which it takes the road. That oddly
amusing actress, Rosina Vokes, brought
Sidney Grundy's Silver Shield to the
Madison Square on Tuesday. She is the
most ladylike rowdy on the stage to-day,
and has been drawing crowds of ultra
fashionable people"
THEY WERE READY TO HISS.
Fanny Kemble's performance of Julia
in Knowles play of ''The Hunchback" is
| said to have drawn more tears than any
stage representation since John Kemble
and Mrs. Siddons appeared in '.The
Stranger" Fanny's father, Charles
| Clifford, and James Sheridan Knowles,
the author, the Master Walter. There is
a capital story about the first perform
ance. In the boxes with Mrs. Kemble
were Knowles two daughters, unsophis-
ticated country girls, who had not been in
| o theater half a dozen times in their lives.
| They had heard their father, however,
talk of plays being Missed, and thought it
was necessary part of the performance.
| So, after listening for some time to the
enthusiastic plaudits that followed every
scene, one OF them innocently inquired of
their chaperone, "When win the kissing
begin ?" Charles Kemble said Of
Knowles performance that ''the only
gentleman who did not understand the
author was the gentleman who played
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STAGE NOTES.
Shenandoah" has again made big
! hit at Chicago.
Philadelphia did not take kindly to
Mrs. Leslie Carter.
Pearl Eytinge has secured a divorce
| from DR.. Joseph w. Yard.
Mckee Rankin's 'The Canuck', Com
pany is doing well in the Northwest.
Minnie Seligman is to create the lead
ing part in ''rhe Power of the Press"
Henrick Ibsen's new play ''Rosmers-
holm" is soon to be produced in London.
Marion Elmore and Lena Mervile
have made great hits in ''Yon Yonson."
Nat Goodwin will produce 1.-THE Nomi-
nee'' at the Bijou Opera House January
26th.
Mrs. Leslie Carter has decided to make
her first appearance in Chicago as "Frou
| F'rou.'
Gossip has it that Den Thompson will
retire from the stage at the end of this
season.
Minnie Palmer's season in "a Miser's
! WHIP viii begin January 10Th, at New
ark, n. j.
Robert L. Downing has engaged Miss
Helen Tracy for Agnes Sorrel in ''The
Saracen.n
Effie Ellsler intends to revive ''Hazel
Kirke," with G. w. Couldock as Dun
! stan Kirke.
In the Leslie Carter Company Raymond
1 Holmes seems to be the only one that has
made success.
Edith Murila has taken Carrie Tutien's
part in ship Ahoy' and made a very
| decided success.
Miss Nellie McHenry has taken ''Chain
/ Lightning" to Virginia, and is doing a
large businesiAit ith it.
| sHThn S1r9c iS nr0vir1~ ,ir draw.
ing-card, and will be a big nloney-win-
ner for Robert l.. Downing.
Helen Dauvray is at the Hotel Metro
pole, London, blown there by Sydney
Rosenfeld's ''Whirlwind.
| Stuart Robson is playing "The Hem
rietta" at Philadelphia, to the capacity of
| the Chestnut street Theatcr.
.'Niobe," new play by Harry Paulton,
will be produced at the Philadelphia
Walnut-street Theater, May 1lth.
w. III. Gillette is at Hot Springs, N. c.,
| improving in health. He is working on
a new play for Charles Frohman.
Nat Goodwin is nightly turning people
away from the Boston fremont Theater,
with Richardson and Yardley's ''The
Nominee"
| 7. Henry French has gone to London.
| 1t is to be hoped that he will remain
there. We have no use for the snob in
! this country.
The new Fifth-avenue Theater, New
| York, is to be fire-proof and will en-
brace a part of the old Gilsey homestead
on Twenty-eighth street.
Bernhardt will arrive during the first
/ week of February. She was to have ap-
peared at the Fifth Avenue, but will
probably go to Palmer's. After her
American tour she goes to Australia.
| Next season Robert T.. Downing will
send ITALY Ho'' on the road under the
management of Josh Z. Ogden. The
play was written by Joaquin Miller, and
is considered his best. 1t will be done in
| first-class style.
Xaver Scharwenka, the pianist, is the
founder and director of the Berlin Con-
| servatory of Music from which many
brilliant American students have gradu-
ated during the past decade. He is a ma
His photograph shows him to be young
and strikingly handsome.
A story is running through the
inner circles of theatrical criticdom to the
| effect that Manager Conried wrote letter
| to James Gordon Bennett, bitterly COM
| planning of Dramatic Editor MeltZer's
| criticism of "Poor Jonathan" Mr.. Ben
| nett answered the letter by cabling the
| order to raise Mr.. Meltzer's salary S35
| per week.
Theaters are said by the superstitiously-
! inclined professionals to burn by threes.
Lifts Minneapolis Bijou made the sec
| ond, and for week before the Fifth Ave-
nue. was destroyed the old fellows were
| scanning the newspapers for the third
| When it came they seemed extremely
happy, particularly as Mr.. Miner himself
is said to have broken big mirror the
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