The record-union., 1892-12-03
music And THE DRAMA.
New York theatrical Managers
Enjoy Thanksgiving.
Crowds at All the Houses-Plays That
are Proving Successful in Gotham
j. X. Emmett Great Favorite-
General Stage Notes.

A. P. Dunlop, writing from New York
under date of November 26th, says:
The present is probably the best week
during the theatrical season, and the
metropolitan playhouses have all done
We'll. But few, at least in Gotham, care
for the ceremonial Thanksgiving Of our
/ fathers, who have taken with them all
their facts and rigid customs and Cbserv-
ahceS. III IS no longer religious day
and its churchly connection has been
snapped aSunder. In fact the Thanks
giving OF Thursday resembles no more
that OF the past than the airy splendor Of
1 the butterfly resembles the dull, worm
like chrysalis from which it has burst
and risen. And still in quite another
way is it worthy Of thanksgiving to the
profession, for on that day the army Of
unemployed find work, in a great many
cases, the first this season. 1t is the one
day OF the year during which two large
audiences may be reasonably counted
/ upon and hundreds OF small companies
ali over the country go in search OF the
/ ripe turkey ana usually pluck it. AS
/ very large number Of actors are still dis
engaged this season, it is to be hoped the
/ turkey snap has been of great service,
and that the little extra money earned by
nearly all professional people may do
some rea! good III tding over a few
weeks, when nearly all the companies
going out will be stirring. Up to date it
has been hard season for a great many
VINO have looked for work in vain, for in
the language Of the poet who shall be
nameless,
Man wants but little here below
And he won't be happy till he gets it,
The metropolis last week was filled
with so much newness that the dra-
matte editor is glad enough that moth
ing more than the usual companies that
swing around the dramatic arch have
come to town. But some Of them have
| been important and all worthy OF notice.
At the Star, r. ). Willard, the best actor
England has sent us for a very long time,
was again seen in The Middleman,' in
which he made his American debut at
Palmer's, and the performance was in
every way superior.
The two New England plays, The
County Fair and The Country Circus
were also brought to town and both are
booked for long runs. At the Casino
| The Fencing Master is doing a rushing
| business, but it is doubtful if it will last
very long. The book is deadly dull, and
the music too reminiscent to bounce it
INTO the great big success its friends claim
for it.
~. K. Emmet also made his reappear-
ance at the Columbus Theater, in Har-
lem, and the clever young actor did what
II seems he has been doing all the season.
filled every seat at every performance
He is certainly the best German dialect
comedian on the stage to-day, and in
1uture will be aI-ls9 to ill any playhouse
IN New York, Whenever it pIeases him to
appear.
"On Tuesday Mrs. Bernard -Beere
changed her play and appeared in 'Ari-
ane,' dramauZation OF Mrs. Campbell
Praed's fiction, The Bond of Wedlock.'
Although morally clouded, it has less
murky atmosphere than Lena Despard.'
"a new and not at all desirable achieve
ment at Roster IL Biai's Music Hall this
week is a Fin de Siocie quartet of indie
cent French women attired in pink and
yellow skins, that hang straight from the
shoulders to little below the knees, and
black stockings. Their immOdest per-
formance begins with violent and un-
graceful series Of steps, reaching climax
in rapid and long succession OF high
! kicks, which make the dancers appear as
a confused mass Of white drapery through
which flash black-stockinged legs. After
a minute or so of such exercise there
comes an interval of milder steps, which
gives the women an opportunity to regain
! their breath. Then follow individual
| efforts in indecorum, which include fire.
quent and arduous straddlings down to
the floor by two OF the women and
somersault by another In all the So
called dancing there is not whit of nov
city OF step nor any appreciable amount
OF grace. These French women are not
satisfied to permit an occasional glimpse
of white ruffles and flounces above their
black stockings as they elevate their feet,
but lift their skirts deliberately. The
sight OF the heaviest member of the quar-
tet turning a somersault from the center
OF the stage directly toward the leader of
the orchestra is refinement itself com
pared with the absolutely laborious in
decency of the dance, which will proba-
bly, be stopped before Biea's razzle-
dazzle celestial wanderer hits old mother
earth."
STAGE NOTES.
Henry Guy Carleton is writing new
play for Charles Frohman.
Colonel J. Allston Brown sails for
Havana November 26th, to remain two
weeks.
'Paix du Foyer" a dramatization of
Guy de Maupassant's novel, is soon to be
produced in Paris.
"a Kentucky Colonel' and Larry the
Lord' have both made successes in New
Orleans this week.
Frederick De Bellville and Frank Nor |
daunt reJolned Charles Frohman's stock |
last week at Philadelphia.
"a Nutmeg Match" is now plavinp in |
New England. 1t will have a first New
York presentation in February.
James Munroe Melville, famous circus
rider twenty years ago, died week ago |
last Thursday at his home in New York. !
Jennie Winston, the comic opera
singer, is about to leave this country. to
take up her permanent abode at Florence. !
Italy.
Baritone Charles Hayden Coffin, of the
Lillian Russell Opera Company, was
married to Adelaide. Deux at Cincinnati
last week.
William Haworth's new play. "a Flag
OF iFueA - Is To he aarlx- ir,l
December by the young multiple-mana-
ger, Walter S. Sanford.
Edmund Z. Prices new sensational
drama in four acts, entitled "A Con-
ditional Pardon" was produced for the
first time on any stage at Port Jervis,
n. Y, November 24th.
Mascagnrs new opera will be called
''Festitia," and not Radcliffe" The
opera is in three acts, and contains the
now Indispensable intermezzo. 1t will
be produced i'll Italy in March.
Harry B. Smith, the author of so many
clever Hbrettos, has a peculiar way Of
saying to each newspaper man he meets
''You are the best friend l have in the
world" Sometimes it works and some
times it doesn't.
Weingartner's new opera, "Genesius."
was produced at the Imperial OPERA
house in Berlin last week with great
success. 1t represented chiefly the
features of Christian martyrdom under
Diocletian, 2SS \. D.
ga Texas Steer has been doing an enor-
nous business all ever the country. and
even by Texans the skit has been re-
ceived with roars Of laughter. Nothing
funnier than the banquet scene, with its
humorous termination, has been seen
anywhere.
Mr.. Irving, while rehearsing Lear.
made him about so wears old Inst 10