The record-union., 1892-01-30

married on Monday to w. Wallace Black,
the Jobson DOODLE of the Natural Gas''
company.
There is a new wind instrument. the
pedal clarionet." 1t is an octave below
the bass clarionet, and produces the low
est note obtained by any instrument ex-
cept the organ.
u The most popular Partisan cafe chan
teuse, Yoette t3uiebert, is going to Lon
don. She will receive salary which is
double that paid to an actress at the Com
edie Francaise.
Froharn's S great success, ''Mr. Wilkin-
sons NidoWs,n now running at the
baldwin Theatre in San Francisco, will
be seen here on the 18th and 18th of Feb
ruary, with George Drew Barrymore in
the east.
A. P. Dunlop notifies all theatrical
managers that persons who apply at
oox offices for tickets claiming to repre-
sent DunE0p'S Stage NelCS are frauds, and
requests that they be kicked into the
middle of next week.
Harriet Avery Strakosch, the we'll
known prima donna, has been engaged
for the rest of the run of Hoyt's "a
Irlp to Chinatown" and will make her
hrst appearance at the Madison Square
Theater February 1st.
Stuart Robson's Chicago engagement
just ended, has been the most successful
ne has ever played in that city. Last
week he opened in st Louis, and Mana
ger William, Il. Hayden had to hunt for
the ). 4. o. sign before the curtain went
up.
After week in New England, Robert
Mantell will make tour of the South,
extending as far as New Orleans, where
/ he will produce his new play. 1.-The
Louisianian." Mr.. MantelPs season, so
| far, has been the most prosperous he has
/ yet had.
Mr.. Cranes new play For Money" is
4 not exactly the success that was eX-
/ pecteG. New Workers will not accept
/ him as fun maker, and hence before
many weeks he will try another comedy
! from big stock of plays he carries in
his grip.
Young J. K. Emmett has made as good
/ an impression on the theater-goers in
brooklyn as he did a few weeks ago in
! New \ ork. He has, in fact, been thor
/ oughly successful from the moment he
started and is sure to make as much
money as did his father.
Gaspard Maeder, the well-known scenic
artist, died at his residence in New York
! on Monday morning, after five weeks
! illness of chronic catarrh of the stomach.
lie was brother Of Frank Maeder, and
son of Gaspard Maeder, the composer,
anu S1dIt 1SltbI N1dGu6I, one Ol lu6 DeSt
actresses America has produced.
The oldest member of the dramatic
| profession in the whole world died at
Nemours, France, on Wednesday last.
! His name was Chollet. but it has natu-
| rally long since disappeared from the
play-bills, for its owner was born in
| 1893. lie created the part of the 'Postill-
ION de Lonjumeau,' the part afterWard
made celebrated by Wachtel, and he was
also the first representative Of the lead
ing character in Tampa"
t Experience shows that during the ex-
I hibitions held in great cities the theaters
have always lost money. 1t was so in
! Paris, in Vienna. in Australia and in
London, and will, no doubt, be so in Chi
cago. People who come in from the
country to look at the fair will be wan
dering through the Windy City by the
tail end Of Lake Michigan, gaping at the
wonderful slzy-scrapers, rather than give
| up the price for admittance to a theater.
+. A decided musical novelty will be
Poor Jonathan" to be done here in
March by Conried's Comic Opera Com
pany. This opera was the greatest none
ttary success ever achieved at the New
Y orll Casino, famous for its operate sue
cesSeS. The subject of the opera is
/ America. and it is said to be very droll
The music is in the best vein of its COM
! poser, Carl MillOecker, who wrote the
Pscore of The Black Hussar," and 1.-THE
I-Beggar Student
a pleasing incident happened during
Alexander Salvini's engagement in Bal
/ timore, where he played to immense busi-
ness at the Academy against Bernhardt
I the divine, at the Lyceum. After his per-
/ formance of Don Caesar on Monday night,
! in company with Manager Wilkinson, he
/ was driven to the Lyceum, where he ar
rived just before the curtain went mp on
! the last act of LA Tosca' The audience
recognizing him gave him hearty recep-
ton, and he was compelled to rise from
his seat in his box and bow his acznowl-
edgments in response to loud calls fol
Salvini.