The record-union., 1892-04-09
music And THE DRAMA.
How Amusement-Loving People of
New York are Entertained.
Wonderful Run of ssA Trip to China
town''-Gus williams in s.KeppIer's
Fortunes''-News from the Stage
and Stage People All Over the
World

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\. P. Dunlop, writing from New York
under date of April I'd, says:
Adele Sandrock, a German actress of
more than ordinary ability, made her
first appearance in America at the old
Academy of Music on Monday in an un-
wholesome play called Eva The i'm
mense stage interiered with the action Of
the play. and, as no one could hear very
far beyond the orchestra, most of the
ilner pa ssages were entirely Shorn of
their effects. The Fraulein is i tall, well
formed woman, but the poSsessor of no
great physical charms. She is, however,
a good actress and speaks her language
with a purity of vowel sounds and
smoothness that makes it pleasure to
Ii ten to her.
The only other novelty in town this
week is The Circus at the Tia Thea
ter, over which it seems the BOwery has
gone wild. They know good thing
when they see it down there. and The
Circus is cel tainly an astonishingly clever
entertainment. The dramatic frame
work is of course trivial and almost inco-
herent. but the play is genuinely comic.
particularly in the real ring, where the
best successes are achieved. 4 better
circus exhibit could not have been gath
cred. Owing to Lent and the Barnum Cir
Gus, business has been very light at most
of the play houses, the Madison Square,
iermann's and the Bijou excepted.
The great run Of "A Trip to Chinatown
which celebrated its one hundred and
tiitieth performance on Friday, marks
the longest run ever given to farce Gomez
dy in New York. Nellie McHenry in a
Night at the Circus at the Bijou, Clio
RAMA at Hermann's and Frederic Bryton
in Forgiven at the Third Avenue Thea
ter have all done well.'
''KEPPLER's FORTUNES"
Gus Williams new play is called "Kep-
piers Fortunes" 1t follows the career
of Albert keppler, a poor butcher, who
has married woman who desires social
prominence for herself and her two
daughters. The death of Keppler's rich
brother enables her to .gratify her ambi-
ton. When heppler comes into his for
tune everyb body tenders him advice as to
dress and mode of living, which he car
ries out faithfully and which oftentimes
brings him into ridicuIe. Anxious to give
his daughters refinement he engages a
young lady as a companion to them.
This girl he afterWard discovers to be his
brothers grandchild. He has also dis
covered a will bequeathing the fortune to
his grandchild, but had kept it a secret,
thinking that she was dead; but kepp-
ler's honesty gets the best of him, and he
produces the will and relinquiShes his
.
crate circumstances and his butcher shop,
much happier, perhaps, than he was even
in aitiuence. The humor and bright saw
( ings of keppler elicit continuous laugh
Ter. The story OF the play is tersely and
prettily told and the pathos is genuine
and of the kind that has IT'S effect on an
audience. Take keppler out and you
will have pretty little comedy, were his
place supplied with the ordinary stage
father, but with Keppler in and Gus
Williams to play it, it is one continuous
laugh from start to finish. He interpo-
lates a number Of new songs, and also his
burlesque performances on the piano, of
which ne was the originator.
ALL THE COMFORTS OF HoME.u
Gillette's charming play, "AIl the Com
forts OF Home" seems to wear we'll, and
its second production on this coast has
been fully as well received as the first.
y mere trihe in plot, a mere sketch in
construction. but continual uproarious
laugh during the entire four acts. Its
fun is strictly legitimate, arising from no
source but the ingenuity of its writer,
depending solely for effect upon the
clever sayings of It's characters.
STAGE NOTES.
Maurice Barrymore will be Modieska's
leading man next season.
Manager j. J. Levy will not pilot Mar
garet Mather's tour next season.
Sir Arthur Sullivan and w. S. Gilbert
have agreed again to collaborate in comic
opera.
Emile Edwards has been engaged by
Manager David Henderson for All
Baba.''
Cecil Raleigh and General r. Sims of
London are writing an opera for Rudolph
Aronson.
Joseph Jefferson has declined the invi-
tation TO appear at the Vienna Theatrical
Exhibition.
Edmund Stanley has been engaged by
Thomas q. Seabrooke for Byrnes Isle
of Champagne"
Herr Possart will come to this country
next season, the reports to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
The London managers are complaining
OF the "extortiOns'' of playrights and
actors. Poor things!
Frank Peel and A. NJ. Miller, Jr., take
an opera company to Duluth for a sum-
mer season at the Lyceum.
1t is whispered that Leonora Bradley
will be starred next season in an Ameri-
can comedy written for her.
Agnes Booth is suffering from tonsilitis
to such an extent that she has been COM
PEELED to rest for week or So
"Cynthia's Lovers has been rewritten
H..
future will be called 'Spooks.''
William Haworth's new play. not vet
named, will be produced June 9Th at st.
Paul by Jacobs Lifts stock company.
Rumor says that Will Collier and Louise
Allen of the Hoss and Hoss Company
were married in New York last week.
Dora Branscombe, contraltO, has been
engaged for character parts with Pauline
Halls Opera Company for next season.
Hugh Fay, formerly of Barry and Fay.
has returned to New York, having recov-
cred from his long and dangerous illness.
Henry Irving's great production,
Henry NlIl.," at the London Lyceun.
does not draw as strong as was expected.
The run of Nellie McHenry's "a Night
at the Circus at the New York BiIon
Theater is banning out enormously sue
cessiul.
A young Danish composer named Emma
has become famous in Copenhagen by the
production OF an opera called "Hexen,
THE Witch.
Agnes Huntington is speeding across
the continent to California and appearing
in the larger towns on the way, to enor.
nous audiences.
According to Dunlop's Stage Ne,gs.
Marcus II. Mayer is proving himself as
much of blk in New y ork as he is
known to be on this coast.
Blanche Taylor, clever young Amer
lean who has been studying with
Madame Marehesi in Paris, is to make
her appearance soon in London.
Maud Granger is now eastward bound
after the most successful coast trip she
has ever enjoyed. Two new plays will
be aided to her repertory next season.
Connie Gilchrist, the London Gaiety
dancer, pretty well known in New York,
has been engaged 10 Scotch peer-Ork-
h. INC and Is h1nSSnrnnillcr ont