The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-01-23

Openings ana SeasonS-T rsoh"ii
Notes.
a few Of the actors in the City Club
Burlesque Company, which was on
board the train wrecked on the "Monon"
road near Charlottesville, Ind, on Mon
day, January llth, were more or less
Rokay, who was killed, was a dancer.
She was a native OF Bavaria and was
about 80 years old. She came TO this
country in 1888. Her first engagement
was with William j. Gilmore's DEVILS
Auction Company. Afterward she was
in one of Kiralfy's companies. Some
time ago she Joined a company that went
TO South America, ana after a disastrous
season returned to New York. Harry Z.
Bryant is known as negro minstrel and
has played at Tony Pastors and other
theaters. Thomas Miaco is familiar as
variety performer and pantomimist. Re
Gently he has become a manager. he
conducted the present company, which
was formed out of the May Howard Bur
lesque Company, of which he was also
manager. Paul Allen is a singer and
dancer, and formerly belonged TO the
combination known as Lester and Alien.
His real name is Paul Keiser and he be-
longs TO Baltimore. His wife, also
member of the company, and also in
jured in the accident. is Ollie Lewis. She
is the daughter of hetel-keeper in Utica,
n. Y.
Manager Henry announces that w. 7.
Carleton's English Opera Company will
play two nights engagement at the
Metropolitan Theater soon. They vii!
open in an elaborate production ofStrauss'
brilliant opera Indigo" which has been
great success everywhere. The opera
is very melodious, the principal themes
that run through 1t being the best known
of Strauss waltzes, ''The Beautiful Blue
Danube and THE Thousand and One
Nights" The story is neat and interest
ing. 1t is the love Of King Indigo OF In
digonia for a pretty girl, Fantasca, who is
in love with Romadour. The opera is
splendidly put on, the costumes, espe-
cially those worn by the women, are the
prettiest seen here in years, and they JUS
tify the claim that Worth specially de-
signed them. There is an air OF cleanliness
about Indigo and an absence of glare
which is refreshing after the variegated
costuming of the farce-comedy comblna-
tons. The chorus is we'll filed with
pretty girls, who appear in several
changes of costume, the most striking
being an Amazon march. The scenery
is all carried by the company and is new
and striking.
Johann Strauss. Sir Arthur Sullivan
and Genee seem all to have turned their
backs on comic opera and gone in for
grand opera with marked lack of sue
cess, and the amusing style inaugurated
by Suppe and Strauss, at the present,
has hardly an adherent in the old world,
says DuRlop'S Stage Ne1Cs. Collier was
about the only one in England able to
carry forward the standard, and he is
dead. Suppe has not been heard of since
Glover" Deinger since Don Caesar"
Millocker since Poor Jonathan" In
France, Audran is said to be at work and
Sc Ia NfOfNY
Serpente, and few others are doing
operettes in the Offenbach vein, but moth
5Eg great, and yet this kind of comic
opera is undoubtedly the most popular.
The young composers of America are,
however, pushing forward-Furst with
1.-The Isle of Champagne" Reginald De
Koven with THE Knickerbockers," and
Gus Kerker and Woodson Morse with
unfinished operas not yet named
The gentlemen interested in the plan to
have the theatrical profession purchase
from Mrs. Harry Edwards the collection
of butterflies and insects gathered by her
husband and present it to the American
Museum Of Natural History, held meet
ing last week at which it was decided to
send out circulars to number of gentle
men, asking for subscriptions, and to
start a fund at once. Fifteen thousand
dollars is needed to purchase the collec-
ton. Harry Edwards had such host of
State ought TO contribute largely and if
possible buy the collection for some pub
lie institution of the Golden West.
Among the special blessings sent in
ChTistmastide to English members of the
Roman Catholic Church by the Pope,
says A. p. Dunlop, was one conveyed to the
eminent critic, Clement Scott. The docu-
ment, signed and sealed at the Vatican,
was forwarded to England in a magnifi-
cent caskeU of lacquer and Damascene
steel. Mr.. Scott who is the son of an An
giican clergyman, joined the Church OF
Rome when quite young man, and
forms one of the little band of LiteratelwS
of distinction who worship at the chapel
in Great Ormond street, London.
Marie Van Zandt gives the following
as the true version of the affair with the
Grand Duke Michael of Russia: 'tHe
wanted to marry me, and in accordance
with Russian laws. asked permission OF
the Emperor. The Emperor said No
as l was a commoner in Russia. The
Grand Duke then tried to persuade me to
become his morganatic wife, but the
prospect of being Grand Duchess could
not have induced me to accep. the offer.
consider myself as good as he is; in fact
] consider any good girl the equal of any
Grand Duke"
Washington Norton opened the Clunie
Opera-house in this city last Monday
is in all respects a strong one. Its per-
sonnet we have already given. The
play His Natural Life'' was run four
nights, and last night "Dr. Jekyll and
Mr.. HYDE was produced. Mr.. Norton
proposes to keep the house open nightly
He has good combination, an excellent
scenic artist, his prices are low, the
plays clean and wholesome and the
management both before and behind the
curtain good.
Salvini the younger, the son of the
lllustrious Tomaso Salvini, is booked to
appear at the Metropolitan Theater at an
early day. He is following steadily in
The footsteps of his great sire. His acting
is fervid, impetuous and picturesque
lie is handsome in person and of Inn
posing presence, much resembling his
father in that, and has a rich and melodi-
Gus voice. His leading lady is Selenf
Felter, a graceful and intelligent actress
Mrs. James Garden is about to put for
ward another clever San Francisco girl
Mile. Rosella La Fable, and promises us
a star of the first degree. The young
lady is q descendant Of the Marquis de
Lafayette, and If she makes as great {
sensation in the world Electrically as
her brilliant ancestor did in military cir
cles she viii pass muster, even in thi:
age of Ego -aheadism.'
DR.. Hamilton Griffin, Mary Anderson
Nayarro's stepfather, is in a very pre-
carious state of health. When he went t.
Louisville some months ago, after hi.
brothers death, he was sick and feeble
man. A long rest trip by water Il
Pittsburg and another rest in New Yorl
improved him considerably, but since hi.
return to England another decline has
set in.
"The Isle of Champagne" by Charlie:
Alfred Byrne and Louis Harrison, must,
by George Furst, is getting ready for it,
nrodnction during the silnfner at the