The record-union., 1892-04-23

WOu1Q nave told him that the story was
too American too vast in its outlines,
too high IN its colors, too merely big in
fact.
Yet, there it is, all plain truth, and
what remarkable truth-an unprece-
dented forgery, 81, 500,000: an unprece-
dented sentence (for an offenSe against
life, and woman's unprece-
dented effort to have that sentence set
aside, finally crowned with success
the dramatic, almost theatrical,
rescue from death Of a felIow-convict by
the brother for whom she sought release.
The story has its lesson. The play is
not mere spectacle. The lesson is that
IN the doing and undoing of wrong the
Bldweli family expended enough ability
and energy to stock a good many reign
ing European families for generations.
And with a net result Of precisely nil.
Let the Comedie Humane write itself
and 1t viii outwrite even BaIzac."
STAGE NOTES.
ga Texas Steer'' has so far cleared
S42, 900 this season.
Thomas w. Keene will open.his spring
season at Chester, Pa.
Next season Edward Harrigan will re-
vive four of his popular ''Mulligan"
series.
Isabelle Coe has again made very
brilliant success in "Niobe," this time in
Chicago.
Frank Dupree's opera ''King Kaliko,
is to be brought out at the Broadway
Theater June 9th.
George Alexander wires all the way
from London that he is not to succeed
John Drew in Augustin Daly's company.
Frederic l.. Power, who was with Louis
James last season, has been engaged for
a similar round of characters with Thos.
w. Keene for his spring season.
The first company of English players
that has ever visited the land of the Pha-
raohs, appeared at the Khedvial Theater,
Cairo, last week in Forget Me Not"
A play called "Friends' is to be pro-
duced at the Standard Theater May 9th.
Its original title was ''Out of the Dark
ness" and it was tried at Salt Lake City.
Fred Peel, the well-known ''inciter of
public Interest," has left the lyon Yon-
son" Company and this week joins the
Nellie McHenry Company as advance
agent.
The rehearsals for the Herald prize
plays are on at the Madison Square, con-
Quoted by Louis Mitchell. Among the
first to be produced will be "The ModeP'
and 1.-The Cowboy"
Margaret Mather has filed bill in the
Chicago Circuit Court asking for di-
vorce from her husband. Emil Haber-
korn, leader of the orchestra at the Du-
quesne Theater, Pittsburg.
Lewis Morrison has purchased rural
home four miles from PeekSkill, N V,
on which he is expending $4,000. 1.-The
Home is in the center of seyenty-five
acres, and overlooks the Hudson River.
The play in which John w. Jennings
will shortly star, although monologue
is also play. 1t is in three acts and tells
a pretty story, although Mr.. Jennings
plays all the twelve parts that develop the
plot.
Olea Bull, young Cambridge. Mass.
society lady, and daughter of the famous
will shortly join Julia Mar
loves Company. Miss Bull is personally
tall, slender and graceful, and
is highly educated.
Miss Minnie b. Washburn, the young
Montclair society girl who created quite
a tiutter among her fashionable friends
last fall by joining the w. T. Carleton OPP
era Company, has left Carleton and re-
turned to New York.
Miss Lulu Klein, who has just closed
her tour with 1.-The Stowaway," has so
many engagements for next season that
she does not know which one to accept.
Meanwhile she is writing one-act play
which Manager Jacob Lift will produce
at Milwaukee this summer.
Albert Bruning, Mr. Mantelrs new
leading man, is young actor who is
rapidly coming to the front. Mr.. Brun-
ing was the leading man of the Alsideuz
Theater in Berlin when Edwin Booth ap-
peared there, and played Laertes, Cassie
and Edgar in support of the great ira
gedian.
Mexico seems to have become Mecca
for playwrights' imaginations to gather
titles from. THAT Girl From Mexico''
which, by the way, is an extended rem
dition of an old English farce, is one:
New Mexico" another, and "O'Flynn
in Mexico" is-well, yes, you might call
it another for want of better name.
The name of Eleonora Duse famous
Venetian actress, is in every mouth on
Continental Europe. Her art and her
triumphs are the subject of endless news
paper articles, and she is said not only to
have erected a standard of criticisms, but
to have brought new life, new ideas and
new suggestions to that ever-interesting
topic, the art of acting.
Rubenstein, the great Russo-Jewish
tone master, Is to make tour of America
next season, and is guaranteed $780, 900.
He has been before the public for fifty-
three years, beginning as an infant prod
ICY when only years old. AT IL he was
alone in the world, making his living as
a music teacher; at q he produced his
first opera in st. Petersburg.
Alexander Salvini has had an extra
ordinarily good season. Mr.. Salvini will
be seen in Boston late in the season in
reproduction and revivals of romantic
drama, among which will figure promi-
nently the play from which Mascagni.
the now famous composer, took his
"Cavelleria Rusticana," the original
MSS. of which was presented Mr.. Salyini
by Madame Adefina Patti.
The curtain is down and the lights are
out for good on the opera season of ,92
All the song birds have taken flight to the
other side of the Atlantic, carrying with
them many American greenbacks with
which to line their nests. In the esupple-
mentary season eleven operas were
crowded in the two weeks, and while it
has not been widely exciting, it has prob
ably been profitable to Messrs. Abbey
and Grau.
The modern drama of England, as well
as for Italy, Spain and France, is founded.
not on the so-called miracle plays, as as
serted by one of the big New York dailies
the other day, but on the Latin tragedies.
''Lusus Ebriorum" was translated into
Italian and published in 1472 under the
name of "Catinia, and this is the earliest
printed cOIneuy HI any iHouern language.
A native Italian comedy. 81 Suppositi,';
was first represented in 1901 by Ariosto.
In England limitations of Latin models in
Latin plays were done until it occurred
to head master of Eton (Nichols UdalD
to amuse the boys, and he wrote a play
in English Graph Royster Doyster.1
1534-l54l) which probably is the first
English comedy. 1t was written in
lively rhyming couplets. The first native
tragedy was ''Gordo Due" Q56l). the
story of which. like stking Lear" was
taken from 'Geotfrey of Monmouth's
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