The record-union., 1892-07-02
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
Announcements for the Coming
Season Here and There.
A California-Born Actor Announced
Big Shows-Bible Story in Circus
Movements of Actors-The Latest
Partisan Playa Satire on High
Life.

L
Chase" has proved success.
Charles Tingay has returned to Ameri-
ca after two years sojourn in England.
John 7. Sullivan, Rose Coghlan's lead
ing man, is managing the pyrotechnic
show at Coney Island.
roland Reed is in great distress. He
mas lost his splendid greyhound Peggy,
and refuses to be comforted.
Ian Sully is to star the coming season
as Justice McDuffil in Alexander Sweets
new play ''Iammany Hall"
| w. j. Scanlan is said to be improving
SO rapidly that hope is entertained that
Ne may soon return to the stage.
| Langtry won, it is said, e20,O 900 on the
ascot races. 1t will be well to take the
story with most liberal discount
Alan Dale's newest novel, conscience
on lce," will be published in Chicago.
and will be on the news-stands soon.
Truth, for stage purposes, is the con-
forming OF action, diction, face, voice,
movement and gesture to an ideal type,
invented by the dramatist and frequently
enhanced by the aetor.-Dunlop.
The serpentine dance, so much talked
OF, and which has made such positive
sensation, was originally produced by
!e Lange hlSlng, III his comedy, Tangled
Up" at the Park Theater, philadelphia,
| last December.
Matte Ferguson; who has been con-
cealng her talent in the Irish Drama"
and "Wilkinson's Widows for several
| seasons, will, it is said, reveal it in all of
Its pristine glory next season in comic
opera or burlesque.
The first American tour of Meryyn
Dallas House on the Marsh" which has
the unbeaten record of six years contin-
uous run III London and Great Britain.
| Will haDIn 4 II a ai Jon
New 4ork, August 18th.
On the 4th instant Sells Brothers, great
circus and menagerie will exhibit in Sac
ramento. The circus procession will fol-
low up the Fourth of July procession-a
novelty in the way of celebrations. But
the Fourth of July Committee is willing,
and there is no friction in the matter.
Next season we are to have plays writ
ten around: "A Steam Pump 1.-The Re-
markable Likeness of Two Very Bad Ac-
tors" The House of Entertainment -
which the Rev. DR.. Parkhurst visited.
The New Fleron Movement" The
White Squadron" 1.-The Deacon Muir
der" ga Case of Audacious Adultery -
and "A Lump of Ice."
On the 9th and 9th instant, at the Metro
polltan Theater, Sacramento, THE
witch" Will be played for the 430th- 81 st
Tunes. 1t IS the second anniversary of the
play, and on those occasions Ciustaye
Frohman Will present every reserved
seat holder with a souvenir witch spoon.
silver, with oXidized handle, and a
cameo OF the witch picture as preserved
in the Town Hall, Salem.
Richard Golden, as Old Jed Prouty. be-
gan an extended engagement at Proctor's
Iheater, New Y Ork, on May 23d. Thouo h
Mr.. Golden celebrated his one thousandth
consecutive 1mpcrsonation of "Old jedi
on the 10th of May at the Hollis-street
Theater, Boston, and has appeared in the
character in the principal cities in the
Union within the past four years, he has
delayed until now his first visit to the
metropolis for heightened stay.
A soubrette, says Dunlop's .Staqe -Neavs.
is never at her best until she is 80, and
none OF them who have made any mark
at all are less. Proof-Lotta, Nellie Nc
Henry, Lena Merville, Alice Harrison.
Maggie Mitchell, George Parker. FaV
Templeton, Laura Burt, Jennie Yea
mans, Katie Emmet, Amy Lee, Loie Full
Ter and Ullie Akerstrom. What is known
as the t1utty-halred, chippy soubrette is
really chorus girl throwing out a great
big bluff.
John Robinson's combined shows
which takes four railroad trains to carry
is en- route to California. A new feature
OF the show is the spectacle of Solomon
and the Queen OF Sheba, which Robinson
says cost him the expenditure of SOC, 600
for wardrobe alone. He has 800 people
in the procession he says. How these
circus people can pile on the big tbinos
however, we have no right to doubt
John T. Robinson, who writes to us that
this representation is ON the SQUARE. This
putting of Biblical tales into the circus
ring is novelty worthy the genius of
Manager Robinson.
Verdi likes Mascagni's 'CavaIleriau
and says: 1--WE older musicians have been
obliged to write internninable grand on
eras, spread over four hours and half.
to Introduce chOruSeS which have moth
ing to do with the story, to elaborate sim
pie situations, and to write lengthy arias
with all sorts of accessories instead of
keeping to brisk dramatic action. And
now we see spring up young composer
with immense talent and great facility of
invention, to give US a serious opera in
one act without all this tra-la-la. and i'm
which the action never halts. | regard il
as a happy innovation, and am not sur
prised that our public have accepted it
with enthusiasm
Fanny Rice, says Dunlop's IStdoe Mems
is having great time in London thronUh
Mrs. Alice Shaw. She has received con
siderable social attention, and in a letter
TO irlend she says: London has proved
the biggest kind of Jolly surprise to me-
From what L had been told about fognv
London before leaving home l did not
anticipate any surprisingly good time
while here, and had made up my mind to
go right TO Paris and spend most of nv
time there, but since my arrival here 7
have met so many nice people. and have
been treated so royalty, that am begin
ming to hate the thought of leaving dear
old London, don't you know, and have
postponed my visit to Paris for two
weeks" Miss Rice adds in postscript
that she has secured descriptive song
which she thinks will create sensation.
A new opera, by a new composer. has
been produced in Milan with a success
equal to "Cavalleria Rusticana." The
composer is young Neapolitan, Leon
Cavallo by name, and he owes his intro
duction to the famous music publisher,
Signor GonZogna. The opera is called
''PPagliacci," and possesses in the first
place strong dramatic interest. 1t is a
two-act tragedy, IN which there is not
superfluous word. The composer is his
own poet, and has written libretto adj
mirably suited to musical treatment.
The familiar theme of love and jealousy
is saved from being commonplace by a
novel situation. n strolling company of
pantomimists enact the comedy of a faith
less wife and jealous husband before a
group of villagers. But, secretly, they
are playing the parts in earnest, and the
comedy merges into and ends in a tragedy.
Charles B. Hanford, in Julius Caesar"
is to star westward the coming season.
Bennett Matlack, protege of E. 1. Da-
venport, is to be his Brutus, and E. h.
Spencer the Cassius of the play Marie
Drouffel will be Portia. Mr.. Hanford is
native of Amador County, in this State.
Early in his youth his parents removed
to Virginia. He entered the Columbian
College, Washington, and on leaving it
studied law, but left the bar for the stage,