The record-union., 1891-06-06
MUSIC And THE DRAMA.
Gilmore's Band Concerts in Madi.
son Square Garden.
Seats for Ten Thousand and Plenty of
Room to Walk About Other Metro
politan Amusements-'sThe Limited
Mail.-Rose Coghlan's New Play
Stage Notes.

Stage Notes.
Rosalind May, the regular New York
correspondent of the RECoRD-UNIoN,
writes, under date of May 2Sth, as fol-
lows:
Decoration Day will become musical
jubilee. Gilmore will then inaugurate at
the Madison Square Garden a series of
concerts which, in view of his conductor
ship, are an assured success. The sight
of his genial face, even if on fences, is
welcome, and what then the bodily pres
ence of a man who has thousands of
friends and should not have an enemy.
Great preparations are being made in
view of the opening night, and the spa
cious inclosure will blossom forth like
fairy land. Midsummer concerts at the
Madison Square Garden are treat and Il
moral benefit to the heated and tired
stay homes. They proved so last sea-
son and will be again, though it's true
that Coney Island is still Coney Island.
But even the few miles stretch of travel
may become too much, and one may
forego a sail in view of uncomfortable
time may be lacking, so to have feast of
fat things few blocks away, is veritably
a feast in expectation and reality. The
band is one hundred strong. The best
available singers and solo performers are
engaged, at the head Of whom comes
Campanini; and, altogether, the event just
mentioned viii be notable, the more so,
as the garden seats ten thousand people
with abundant room for those who stand
or walk about.
MOST OF THE THEATERS
Are closed, or about TO be so, and at three,
which will remain open, semi-musical en-
tertainments indicate the summer browse
which is settling over the city. They are
the annual symptoms and must be
borne. All are familiar with those op-
eretta performances that of late years
have brought flavor Of amusement, to-
gether with a stronger flavor OF much to
disgust in the way of horse play. Gilbert
and Sullivan must answer for the legion
Of imitators whom their successes have
called forth, and who, without their ge-
MUS (such as it is), give monstrous in
ventions often in the place of drolleries.
People, however, must, upon occasion,
have somewhere to go, and in view of
this Apollo at the Casino, the Tar
and the Tartar at Palmer's, and Wang
at the Broadway, are expected to run the
season.
"'Apollo' is the pretense for really very
fine scenery, not very bad music and
successive beautiful pictures in the per-
son of Lillian Russell, while the roof gar
den concerts give completion to class
of entertainments which interest New
Workers all the year. De Angels is, as
heretofore, the comic star, but has not so
favorable a part in the High Priest as
formerly in Poor Jonathan The Tar
and the Tartar is likewise an exponent of
much in the spectacular line-the genu-
inc talent Of Digby Bell and Laura Joyce
contribute largely, of course, to the
evenings entertainment, and portions of
thn r1lI1Sia r-np1 in fhnir. cDnoio1 I
style.
THE GARDEN THEATER
Is expected to be made profitable till
tall by Mansfield in Don juan Should
such expectations be fulfilled it will GO
to show how much the average playgoer
will endure. How the actor, who claims
its authorship or compilation, ever
mounted into the region of starship,
must be conundrum to the discrimi-
mating, and the claims of strikingly or
dinary parsonage to the extraordinary is
an extraordinary fact Oft the time The play
is as stupid as play can reasonably be
made, and with the exception of Beatrice
Cameron, the support is weak. Relief is
felt when the curtain finally rolls down,
and in the half somnolent state, resulting
from some hours of dullness, the spec
tator drowsily wonders why Don Juan
could not have found some better-look-
ing women with whom to fall in love-
WEST sIDERs
Go to the Grand Opera House for English
opera, which, though scorned of course
by Wagnerites, or devotees of high-class
Italian opera, brings pleasure to many ev-
eryday people, who lay down their bur-
dens gladly for a.fifty-cent performance,
and go away more than fifty cents worth
the better. English opera will last till
July heats arrive"
''THE LIMITED MAIL"
Elmer E. Vance, author of one of the
greatest dramatic successes since Bouci-
cault gave to the world that phenomen-
ally profitable play, the Colleen Bawn, ~
is still young man, and remarkably
modest for one whom the brightest minds
in the country delight to honor. While a
night operator at the Union Depot, Co.
lumbus, Mr.. Vance conceived the idea OF
writing novel depicting in a truthful
manner the many incidents and episodes
by which he was daily surrounded.
"Nellie Harland, Romance of Rail and
and Wire,' was the result. The little
volume had a large sale, and the critics
were so generous to his maiden effort,
that it was finally decidedly to dramatize
the work, which was done, and it was
christened the Limited Mail.n All this
has happened within two years, and to-
day, instead of sitting in front of the
clicker through the long nights, the roy
alties from the book is said to bring him
an income of several thousand dollars
a year, while from the play he derives no
less than $1,000 a month. After this sea-
son the Limited Mall" Elmer E.
Vance's famous play, will not be seen
except in the largest cities, where the
company can remain week or more, the
scenic and mechanical effects being too
heavy and complicated to warrant per-
formance in what is known to the pro-
fession as lone night stands" A force ot
six stage carpenters, three property
men and electrician is carried by the
company. The play will be presented in
this city on June 10Th and 10th.
ROSE CoGHLAN's NEW PLAY.
Rose Coghlan is preparing for most
elaborate and important production next
season, having secured new play en-
titled "Dorothy's Dilemma" by Leopold
Jordan. The author freely acknowl-
N1IEEV'C DTEnE